Game of thrones : How Powerful is Little Finger

Lord Baelish

As the kingdom's Master of Coin, Little finger finds ways to balance the books, even when spending surpasses the income.    

Lord Petyr Baelish is a character whose influence in this series has caused various conflicts and war. He is a kind of a villain that everyone loves to hate.

He always has a plan whether he was betraying Ned Stark, scheming to murder a monarch, killing someone who passionately loves him, or making creepy moves on a girl way too young for him.

He always moves ahead of everyone else, keeps his enemies guessing, and always seeming to hold the upper hand.

He has various hidden secrets of his own and today we will look into the commonly unknown things about Littlefinger that many fans are unaware of.

• 1.House Baelish 

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  House Baelish has a very short history. They don’t have a huge castle or grand swath of land to call home. Their seat of power is a minuscule tower which Petyr himself dubbed the “Drearfort,” because he despises its insignificance.

Drearfort is located on the eastern shore of Westeros just above the Vale of Arryn. There is a collection of four narrow, extended peninsulas called the Fingers. The Drearfort is located on the very smallest of the Fingers, on a tiny piece of land. 

Drearfort

This is how Petyr acquired the nickname of ‘Littlefinger.’

He is the only remaining member of House Baelish, with no siblings or other family members to speak of.

• 2.  He picked  his own Sigil 

House Baelish



The traditional sigil of House Baelish is the head of the Titan of Braavos. He instead created a new crest that he seems to prefer and brandishes proudly — a Mockingbird. This symbol is usually seen over a green background as well, but not always. Why did he choose a Mockingbird? It’s never been fully explained.

                3.He always has minty fresh breath 

Petyr Baelish

It has never been mentioned on screen but according to the books, Littlefinger’s breath always smells fresh. Back from his childhood, Baelish has made a habit of chewing on mint leaves.

Two different characters — Catelyn and Sansa — take note of this in point-of-view chapters in two of Martin’s novels.

It seems like a minor, insignificant detail, but it reinforces the duplicitous nature of Littlefinger’s character. Everything about him is friendly, approachable, and helpful, on the surface. But it’s just a mask, a ruse to hide his real motives.  

•   4.His family is not native to Westeros

Braavos

Baelish family line is not native to Westeros. They are immigrants from Essos. Baelish Grandfather was born in Braavos, that is why House Baelish original sigil was the Braavosi Titan. His grandfather was a sellsword there.

The original Baelish pulled up stakes and moved to Westeros after being hired by House Corbray. Presumably, he swore fealty to House Corbray and gave up his sellsword ways, because history reports nothing further from him outside of his service to Lord Corbray.

House Corbray, incidentally, is a poor house located in the Vale that’s loyal to House Arryn.

• 5. In a short period of time, he gained a lot of power

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Littlefinger never lost contact with Lysa despite their distance from one another, and he used her to manipulate her eventual husband, Hand of the King Jon Arryn. At her urging, Arryn appointed Petyr to a position in the city of Gulltown, where he was finally able to show his true talents. During his brief time in Gulltown, he increased the city’s profits to ten times their previous amounts.

Due both to his financial skills and the strings he pulled through Lysa, Baelish was soon brought to King’s Landing, where his greatest ambitions awaited. Just three short years after his arrival there, he was appointed to the king’s Small Council and made Master of Coin — two positions he was still holding when the events of both the books and the TV series began.

• 6.His power surpasses most of his rivals 

Petyr Baelish gained a lot of Power in the short period of time. For Petyr Baelish everything is about power. Or rather, acquiring as much of it as he can. He is the same boy who was rejected as a teenager and now he became a man who has the power to affect everyone in Westeros.

His first big win came after the Battle of Blackwater Bay. Littlefinger was instrumental in securing the alliance between House Lannister and House Tyrell via the engagement of Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell. So after the battle was won, Joffrey rewarded Baelish by giving him the strategically significant castle known as Harrenhall. This officially elevated him from “low-born” status to a Lord. He was also named Lord Paramount of the Trident, a large area named after a nearby river.

Later, Petyr married Lysa Arryn; not for love, of course, but for the acquisition of further power. Lysa named him Lord Protector of the Vale, effectively giving him the keys to the Eyrie and command of the Vale’s sizable army. With Lysa no longer needed, he murdered her by shoving her through the Eyrie’s moon door.

• 7.How he manipulates Sansa

Winterfell

Little finger has a dream to sit on the Iron throne with Sansa on his side. He sees his love Catelyn Stark in Sansa's eyes. Little finger helped her escape Kings Landing. It was due to little finger that Starks won the battle of bastards. By the end of season 7, he will try to make Sansa having the control of the north, not John snow.