Heir to a poor tower on the smallest of the Fingers, fostered as a boy at Riverrun in Lord Hoster Tully's hall alongside the daughters Catelyn and Lysa. He took the mocking name Littlefinger there for his small stature and his smaller seat, fell hopelessly in love with Catelyn, and was cut nearly in half by Brandon Stark in a duel he had no chance to win. He came up from the wound a colder man: King Robert raised him to Master of Coin on Lysa Arryn's quiet recommendation, and within a few short years he was the architect of a war he had begun by whispering to friends on both sides.
