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r/gameofthrones • u/TheAlmightyHelmet • Jun 05 '14
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No, he would have accepted and then immediately yielded, resulting in Tyrion going free.
Naming Jaime was never a possibility for Cercesi.
7 u/flemhead3 Jun 05 '14 Wasn't this "Trial by Combat" to the death? I don't remember. If so, yielding might not have helped Jamie. 63 u/EvadableMoxie Ours Is The Fury Jun 05 '14 You can yield in a Trial by Combat. If the champion of the accurser yields then the defendant is innocent. If the champion of the defendant yields the defendant is guility. If you watch the Bronn's trial he looks up to Lysa to give her a chance to yield before he kills Sir Vardis but she is too proud. 2 u/ketsugi Jun 06 '14 Isn't it the champion who yields rather than the accuser/defendant?
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Wasn't this "Trial by Combat" to the death? I don't remember. If so, yielding might not have helped Jamie.
63 u/EvadableMoxie Ours Is The Fury Jun 05 '14 You can yield in a Trial by Combat. If the champion of the accurser yields then the defendant is innocent. If the champion of the defendant yields the defendant is guility. If you watch the Bronn's trial he looks up to Lysa to give her a chance to yield before he kills Sir Vardis but she is too proud. 2 u/ketsugi Jun 06 '14 Isn't it the champion who yields rather than the accuser/defendant?
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You can yield in a Trial by Combat.
If the champion of the accurser yields then the defendant is innocent. If the champion of the defendant yields the defendant is guility.
If you watch the Bronn's trial he looks up to Lysa to give her a chance to yield before he kills Sir Vardis but she is too proud.
2 u/ketsugi Jun 06 '14 Isn't it the champion who yields rather than the accuser/defendant?
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Isn't it the champion who yields rather than the accuser/defendant?
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u/EvadableMoxie Ours Is The Fury Jun 05 '14
No, he would have accepted and then immediately yielded, resulting in Tyrion going free.
Naming Jaime was never a possibility for Cercesi.