While there is a woman named Tansy in the text—the proprietress of the Peach (III: 330, 331)—it seems very unlikely that she was the person Lord Hoster was referring too. For one thing, his cries were rather anguished, and for another is that a revelation that he slept with her seems to have no…
The only members of the house to have been mentioned are Lord Antario Jast and his sons by Lady Lanna of House Lannister, daughter of Lord Tywin’s cousin Ser Damion.
He saw his mother sitting alone in a cabin, looking at a bloodstained knife on a table in front of her, as the rowers pulled at their oars and Ser Rodrik leaned across a rail, shaking and heaving. A storm was gathering ahead of them, a vast dark roaring lashed by lightning, but somehow they could…
If Ned had taken the black...
... it would have been a different novel