10 Game Of Thrones Fates Worse Than Death
2. Give The Man A Hand
No-one is exempt from a horrid experience in Game Of Thrones - not even the Kingslayer himself, Jaime Lannister. Handsome, charming and in love with his sister Cersei, the elder son of Tywin Lannister is soon promoted to Lord Commander of the Kingsguard following the death of King Robert Baratheon.
As an expert swordsman, Jaime relies chiefly on his right hand in combat, and it is this appendage that is so cruelly removed early in season three. Having already spent a year as a muddy captive of the Starks, the Kingslayer is weak by the time he is captured by Roose Bolten's errant lackey, Locke. Annoyed by Jaime's constant attempts at buying favour, Locke pretends to release him before suddenly chopping off his sword hand with a carving knife.
Taunted and bullied all the way back to Harrenhal, Jaime frequently hopes for death to end the abyss he has fallen into, and despite surviving this ordeal, those fabled sword skills never return.