we admired the man so much, but when you look at him with a calm mind, you accept that he is a shortsighted person. he admits it himself, of course, but there is nothing he can do. he shouldn't even have accepted robert baratheon's kingsguard, but he went ahead and faced ned stark in front of the son of a bitch joffrey. even though he saw the king's sealed instruction.
of course, what happened, they threw you out like a napkin afterwards, barristan. you yourself barely saved your ass while you were escaping from king's landing, as he told himself. you survived but what happened happened to ned stark. ugh.
the knight in the tv series game of thrones, whose mastery in combat is described by jaime lannister as "he was an artist, a painter who only used the color red".
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jaime describes how, when he was 16, he briefly acted as a gunman for barristan selmy for someone else. we see how he admired barristan selmy's "art" at the time.
barristan selmy
barristan selmy
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artist described by jorah mormont as "the greatest warrior the seven kingdoms have ever seen".
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barristan selmy
game of thrones character, which can be presented as a graduation thesis on what knighthood is and what it is not.
barristan selmy
we admired the man so much, but when you look at him with a calm mind, you accept that he is a shortsighted person. he admits it himself, of course, but there is nothing he can do. he shouldn't even have accepted robert baratheon's kingsguard, but he went ahead and faced ned stark in front of the son of a bitch joffrey. even though he saw the king's sealed instruction.
of course, what happened, they threw you out like a napkin afterwards, barristan. you yourself barely saved your ass while you were escaping from king's landing, as he told himself. you survived but what happened happened to ned stark. ugh.
barristan selmy
the knight in the tv series game of thrones, whose mastery in combat is described by jaime lannister as "he was an artist, a painter who only used the color red".
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jaime describes how, when he was 16, he briefly acted as a gunman for barristan selmy for someone else. we see how he admired barristan selmy's "art" at the time.
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