| “ | Any King who must say I am the king is no true king. | „ |
| ~ Tywin talking with Joffrey |
Tywin Lannister is a fictional character and one of the main antagonists in book A Song Of Fire and Ice as well as it's TV adaptation, Game Of Throne.
He served as one of the secondary antagonists in Seasons 1 and 2, the main antagonist in Seasons 3 and 4, and appears as a corpse in the Season 5 premiere.
The calculating and ruthless patriarch of House Lannister, Tywin is the most powerful man in Westeros who despises his son Tyrion for being deformed and for accidentally causing the death of his wife during her birth.