Game of Thrones – The Story of Tysha

Game of Thrones – The Story of Tysha

It was interesting doing Tyrion telling his story of his first wife, Tysha, to Bronn. It’s completely different than it is in the show. In the show, it’s part of a sort of truth or dare game that he’s playing with Shae and Bronn in his tent before the Battle of the Green Fork. In the book, it’s in the Vale after they left the Eyrie and before they met the clans.

I had a choice of two compositions for this. The first was a profile of a moody Tyrion looking into the fire. The other had Bronn in the foreground listening to Tyrion tell his story. I went with the latter, mainly because I’ve drawn Tyrion lots of times and I wanted to get the hang of my take on Bronn. The first half of this chapter consists of the two “bonding” and this scene is the closest thing to sympathy we ever see from Bronn.

The only challenges here was trying to remember if Tyrion still had his shadowcat cloak. I decided it was in the gear that was returned to them in the previous chapter. After that the only problem was I forgot the split lip Bronn received fighting, Ser Vardis Egan. I’ll pretend I hid it in the shadowing.