- “What wife would do the things I've done for you? What wife would trust you the way I trusted you? When you gave me those drops and told me to pour them into Jon's wine. My husband's wine. And you told me to write a letter to Cat telling her it was the Lannisters...”
- ―Lysa Arryn
Lysa Arryn, née Tully, is a supporting antagonist in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. She is the youngest daughter of Lord Hoster Tully and Lady Minisa Whent. She is the younger sister of Catelyn and the older sister of Edmure. She was married to Lord Jon Arryn during Robert's Rebellion. After her husband's death she was the Lady Regent of the Vale of Arryn, ruling on behalf of her young son Robert Arryn (Robin in the TV series). She pursued a policy of isolationism since the death of Jon Arryn.
She was portrayed by Kate Dickie, who also played General Dox in Loki.
Background[]
Lysa was born into House Tully and was the second child of Lord Hoster Tully. She had an older sister, Catelyn, and a younger brother, Edmure. Petyr Baelish was fostered with the Tullys and Lysa grew up with him.
Lysa married Jon Arryn during Robert's Rebellion.
Before the series Lysa poisoned her own husband, Jon Arryn, at the behest of Lord Petyr Baelish. She later sent a letter to her sister Catelyn Stark, claiming that Jon had been poisoned by the House Lannister, thus kickstarting the civil war between houses Stark, Lannister and the Baratheon.
Personality[]
Lysa is fiercely protective of Sweetrobin and goes through great lengths to keep him by her side, fleeing from court when the King offered for Robert to be fostered by Lord Tywin Lannister, and threatening her own sister with execution upon the suggestion that Robert could be fostered at Winterfell amongst his cousins. This also resulted in Robin/ Robert's lack of empathy for others. when Catelyn arrives at the Eyrie, she soon finds out that the shy girl Lysa was has grown to be a "proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and above all inconstant" woman, whose policies vary with her moods, and her moods change hourly. When Sansa meets Lysa in the third novel, she soon reaches the same conclusions about her aunt.
Lysa was obsessively in love with Petyr Baelish since her childhood as well, which influenced her desire to please him to the point of killing her husband.
According to Tyrion Lannister, her niece's ex-husband, Lysa was mentally unstable. While he was right, Tyrion had a hatred of her and her sister for unlawfully imprisoning him for Catelyn believing he tried to kill her son, Bran.
