Initially a skilled and dangerous sellsword , who comes to prominence when he champions for Tyrion Lannister in his trial by combat at the Eyrie , Bronn subsequently enters Tyrion's service as his personal bodyguard, assassin, and enforcer. His fortunes continue to gradually rise during his service in King's Landing , briefly serving as Commander of the City Watch.
He is then rewarded with a knighthood for the vital role he performed during the Battle of the Blackwater , taking on the formal name " Ser Bronn of the Blackwater. During the Last War , Bronn initially assists the Lannisters. Bronn is a sellsword: a highly trained, extremely lethal, and a feared mercenary soldier whose service as a warrior is for hire. Not much is known about his past or family, except that he had a younger brother, whom Bronn describes as "a real pest.
At age 5, his nose was accidentally broken when his mother hit him with an iron poker, which she had meant for his younger brother. His nose was broken a second time at age 9, during a scrap with a few older boys and they won. It was also broken a third time, but the details are unknown.
Bronn has also mentioned that he first found out that men void their bowels when they die when he was only 5 years old. During a drinking game with Tyrion and Shae , Bronn claims that he killed a woman before he was 12 years old, though it was in self-defense as she was attacking him with an axe. Bronn also confirmed Tyrion's claim that Bronn has been beyond the Wall. When asked why he was there, he bluntly answers that it was "work.
Bronn is staying at the Inn at the Crossroads when Tyrion arrives. He volunteers to give up his room to Tyrion in return for gold. Catelyn and Rodrik Cassel take Tyrion prisoner before he can fulfill the promise.
