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" Each week, we&amp;#039;ll take a deeper look at one character or group of characters from Game of Thrones who play a prominent role in the most recent episode. Book fans have been clamoring for three seasons to see the Tully family&amp;#039;s male members. Now, at last, Brynden &amp;#039;the Blackfish&amp;#039; Tully has been brought from the printed page to the small screen. In the onslaught of a new location, three new characters, (one of whom was dead on arrival), and two scenes of Edmure first missing the shot to give his father a proper burial, then getting chewed out for not following orders, you probably caught yourself wondering just who these people are. &amp;#039;People have been calling me Blackfish for so long that no one remembers it isn&amp;#039;t my real name.&amp;#039; is a great line, but not if you haven&amp;#039;t taken the time to tell your viewers what his name is. What kind of a name is the Blackfish? As Hoster Tully said, it&amp;#039;s an old joke that was never that funny to begin with. Hoster wanted his brother to marry. Brynden refuses to obey his brother and liege lord, and abandons Riverrun. When Hoster declared him the black sheep of the family, Brynden pointed out that the sigil of House Tully is a fish. Book fans know that Brynden was the captain of the guards at the Eyrie, the home of Catelyn&amp;#039;s sister Lysa, after leaving Riverrun. When she refused to help Cat in the coming war, he left her service and returned to Riverrun. Making an uneasy peace with his brother, the experienced and capable Brynden makes an expert commander, having earned his knighthood while fighting alongside Barristan the Bold in the War of the Ninepenny Kings long before the books begin. He&amp;#039;s also a fighter that Jaime Lannister respects, which is no small praise coming from one of the best swordsmen in the country. And now that his brother has been properly sent off, the Blackfish can take the field again and show the Lannisters just what a river can do over time. Thomas Fichtenmayer is the author of a Tumblr obsessed with the characters of the Game of Thrones, especially Stannis Baratheon. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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