Reducing casualties, giving soldiers proper protection, and winning splendid victories could all be accomplished together.
Ser Barristan Selmy thoroughly approved of his approach. Those cruel knights were not true knights; true knighthood included compassion and care for the weak.
"Wrap it up." Gendry then removed his golden cloak. Saturated with blood, it had turned dark red. He had Anguy wrap Amory's head in it. Dirt covered much of the head, and a frightened expression remained on its face.
Amory Lorch was a short, fat man with a pale, piglike face and small, piglike eyes.
Amory was cruel and narrow-minded, one of Tywin's two mad dogs-the Mountain and Amory. Infanticide, and now the brutal plundering of Riverlands estates. During the fall of King's Landing, Amory had personally murdered Rhaegar's three-year-old daughter, Princess Rhaenys. Before a dozen or so House Lannister soldiers, he had dragged the screaming girl out from beneath her father Rhaegar's bed and stabbed her dozens of times until she died.
"Such a cruel man met a cruel death himself," Jason Mallister remarked.
"Tywin keeps so many mad dogs because he is a cruel man himself," Ser Barristan Selmy remarked as well.
The other lords of Westeros possessed at least some humanity. Tywin alone despised the common people and was cold and merciless, a sort of rational evil.
"A pity the Kingslayer escaped." Gendry considered it. The Mountain had fallen first, followed by Ser Jaime and Amory. Clearly, the future kept changing, like a tree constantly putting out new branches.
Gendry suddenly thought of the Kingslayer's proud face and his golden hair. Perhaps fate would still leave the fulfillment of the prophecy of killing his sister to the Kingslayer?
"It was already a great victory, a glorious victory," Lord Yohn said.
"Indeed. Beautifully done." Jason Mallister nodded as well.