Ryman Frey

Before war reached his house, Ryman had already tested himself in the lists. At the tourney held in Lannisport to celebrate King Robert's victory over the Greyjoys, he was beaten by the man who went on to win the whole event, Ser Jorah Mormont.

When Catelyn Stark arrives at the Twins to treat with her grandfather, Lord Walder, Ryman is already there, a fixture of the castle.

Soon after he takes up arms and joins the host Robb Stark leads west, far from his own family's lands.

Ser Stevron's death leaves Ryman as the new heir to the Twins. When word arrives that King Robb Stark has married Jeyne Westerling, insulting House Frey in the process, he gathers his men and marches them home early.

Back at the Twins, it is Ryman who greets the king when he arrives for the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully to one of Walder Frey's daughters. At the feast he sits beside Catelyn Tully and drinks heavily. When the slaughter of the guests begins, it is his blade that kills Dacey Mormont.

As soon as the massacre ends, he gathers two thousand spears and marches to join Ser Daven Lannister and Ser Forley Prester before the walls of Riverrun.

As Lord Walder's heir, Ryman is left in command of the Frey forces besieging Riverrun, but he leaves the decisions to his son while he spends his time drinking and keeping company with the camp's prostitutes. He even gives one of them the crown that once belonged to King Robb.

His conduct finally exhausts Ser Jaime Lannister's patience, and Jaime relieves him of command, sending him back to the Twins. On the road, the Brotherhood without Banners, now led by a vengeful Lady Stoneheart, captures him near Stoney Sept and hangs him.

He is described as a heavy, broad-faced man given to excess at the table and the bottle; some blame his stomach troubles on his diet, others simply on his vices. Unlike his father, Lord Walder never groomed him to rule or to uphold the family name, and his uncle Merrett Frey calls him stubborn and greedy.