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| “ | In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. Mark that well, Alayne. It's a lesson that Cersei Lannister still has yet to learn. | „ |
| ~ Littlefinger to "Alayne Stone". |
Lord Petyr Baelish, also known as Littlefinger, is one of the main antagonists of the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series.
He served on The Small Council as the Master of Coins for the Seven Kingdoms. Overall, Baelish can be the considered the one responsible for starting the events of the story, as he was behind the warring of the Starks, Baratheons, and Lannisters.
History[]
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His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Despite coming from a very minor and impoverished noble house, it doesn't give him any sympathy points, at all, because by the time story starts, he is already rich, owns several different businesses, and even a member of the Small Council.
- He seems to have a tragedy;
- Of being a low-ranking high-born who was brutally wounded fighting for a girl who didn't love him, rejected by the girl he had feelings for, date-raped by Lysa at least once whilst he was delirious from pain medication causing him to mistake her for Catelyn, essentially thrown out and ejected, to the point of imagining Winterfell in his dreams as a dark and foreboding place.
- Whilst this is indeed quite awful, he has, amongst other things; ravaged an entire continent of people who had nothing to do with it; sold women and young girls - notably Jeyne Poole - into sexual slavery to be repeatedly raped and even provides boys for the paedophiliac Ser Lyn Corbray, which are just a few of the atrocities we are given insight to, making his tragedy and any sympathy exceedingly and thoroughly subverted.
- Stannis, recalling Janos Slynt's corruption and how several witnesses died, remembered how Robert dismissed the matter which Stannis cites as being Littlefinger's influence.
- Stannis, which Ser Barristan independently concurs with, notes that alongside Varys, Littlefinger was responsible for causing corruption to flourish throughout the court.
- He convinces Lysa Arryn to poison her husband John Arryn.
- He persuades Lysa Arryn to send a letter to her sister Catelyn saying the Lannisters poisoned her husband to increase tensions between the Starks and Lannisters.
- He's lying to Catelyn that the dagger the killer attacked Bran with belongs to Tyrion Lannister. After Catelyn captures Tyrion, his father Tywin attacks the Riverlands in retaliation and kills thousands of villagers. This further escalates the poor relations between the Starks and Lannisters.
- Although it's very likely that the person who was sent to murder Bran with the expensive dagger is actually sent by Joffrey Baratheon, he capitalises on this by admitting to Catelyn that the dagger used to belong to him, but then lies that he lost it to Tyrion in a bet.
- He instructed Lysa Arryn to execute Tyrion Lannister on false charges even though they both know he hasn't tried to kill Bran to escalate the tensions between the Houses even more.
- He pretends to be friends with Ned Stark and does everything in his power to make Ned aware that Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen are actually children of Queen Cersei Lannister and her brother and don't belong to Robert Baratheon.
- This causes Ned to try and arrest Cersei. Littlefinger pretends to help Ned by bribing the City Watch, but instead he pays them to fight on Cersei's side and he puts a knife to Ned's neck which leads to Ned's arrest and Ned's execution as well as the deaths of many Stark loyalists who were killed by the City Watch.
- He does all this just to create tensions between Stark and Lannister and to devastate the Seven Kingdoms with a civil war which is why hundreds of thousands of people died, giving him one of the biggest kill counts in the novel series.
- Because of his actions, the Starks wrongly think that the Lannisters had poisoned Jon Arryn, they wrongly think that the Lannisters were the ones who sent the man with the dagger to kill Bran which causes Catelyn to arrest Tyrion and try to execute him which in turn causes Tywin Lannister to invade the Riverlands and because of Littlefinger's actions, Ned Stark becomes a Hand to Robert Baratheon and gets executed while most of his men are killed which causes Robb Stark to declare war on House Lannister.
- He writes a letter to Lysa Arryn where he tells her that she should keep her entire army inside the Vale and not help her nephew Robb Stark, even after the latter asks her for help. As a result, the Starks lose the war against the Lannisters and some of them are slaughtered, just as Littlefinger had predicted.
- He conspires with Olenna Tyrell to poison Joffrey, although at first, it seems like a redeeming quality, he only does it to further his ambitions and he doesn't need Joffrey anymore.
- He hired Dontos Hollard to assist in Joffrey's murder and rescue Sansa Stark from King's Landing, and then killed him to ensure his silence.
- He makes sure that Tyrion (beside Sansa) is framed for Joffrey’s murder and sentenced to death.
- After marrying Lysa Arryn, he manipulates her and pretends to love her, when in fact, he only married her to gain control of the Vale. As soon as he's offered a chance, he pushes her down the Moon's Door and she dies.
- Although Lysa's murder isn't truly heinous owing to her own murderous and twisted nature, and collaborating to cause the War of the Five Kings, he did this to seize power (as well as possibly revenge his own rape) as opposed to moral standards.
- He takes 12-year-old Jeyne Poole to forcibly turn her into a prostitute into one of his brothels, where the working staff whips her, also allowing his clients to rape her. He later offers to Tywin Lannister that he should present her as Arya Stark and give her to the Boltons to marry Ramsay which makes the two of them indirectly responsible for the torture and abuse Ramsay puts her through. It's implied that he allows the staffs of his brothels to treat the rest of his prostitutes in a similar manner.
- He frames an innocent singer, Marillion, for killing Lysa, then has the gaoler Mord blind him, rip off several of his fingers, and they later execute him.
- When he wants to win over one of the lords of Vale, knowing Ser Lyn Corbray a pedophile, he plans to offer him little boys for sex in exchange of Lyn's collaboration to spy on his political rivals.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He seemingly loves Catelyn, and later Sansa Stark to some extent.
- But his love is an unhealthy obsession and it is not very deep, as well as it being a perverted projection of his twisted feelings for Lady Catelyn, so it's a minor prevention.
Trivia[]
- His TV version is Pure Evil because his care for Sansa (and by extension Catelyn) is completely subverted when he sold Sansa to Ramsay Bolton and had her raped.
External Links[]
- Petyr Baelish on the Villains Wiki
- Petyr Baelish on the ASOIAF Wiki
- Petyr Baelish at Wikipedia
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 Near Pure Evils
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