Spare me the “bad writing comment”. Invoking that as reason, while perhaps accurate, would be obvious, played out, and no fun at all.
Let’s presume for a moment that there is a reason Tyrion would be left out of the book in the final scene. What would it be?
It was a call back to when they wrote about the battle of blackwater bay and said Tywin saved the city. Men of larger stature always get credit for his work. Pretty similar to how it happens in real life.
shareOn the flip side, the things he believes are his biggest mistakes, history doesn't really find them significant.
shareBad writing. Sorry, but there is no other answer. What kind of history book could completely leave out any mention of
- a man whose kidnapping started the War of the Five Kings
- a man who served as Hand, second in power only to the monarch, to 2 kings and 1 queen
- a man who was married to the Queen of the North
- a man who was convicted of murdering King Joffrey
- a man who murdered Tywin Lannister, the most powerful man in Westeros?
It's pure and utter nonsense served up for a cheap laugh.
Agreed. Nobody leaves kingslayers out of history books!
And he would go down in history as the official killer of King Joffrey. Tyrion and Jamie were the only ones who were sure of his innocence, and Jamie doesnt seem to have told many people, and nobody would believe Tyrion.
Yeah. I thought the same. It's utterly absurd for many reasons that he wouldn't be in it, even if they tried to avoid giving him credit for anything.
shareArchmaester Ebrose was in love with Tyrion. He tried to avoid it, but every time he mentioned him, he couldn’t help but writing such things as "the wonderful Tyrion Lannister" or "the beautiful imp".
So in the end to avoid that people realize he is secretly gay, he didn’t mention him at all.
I think it was meant to be a (bad) joke. Tyrion has always had an ego on him and so to leave him right out of the book is kind of funny, especially as he has always been a main character throughout the show.
shareTyrion was left out because he was mostly a behind-the-scenes adviser. They always get left out.
shareHe's also a kingslayer(at least they believe he is), kinslayer/handslayer, hand of the queen to the crazy bitch that roasted hundreds of thousands, and somehow still got pardoned and once again became Hand of the king.
None of that was worth a footnote?