Well your repeated use of the term evil, which is in itself extremely limiting, does make the argument difficult to carry out. Remember this not the WHEEL OF TIME where evil is a sort of taint that seeps into people from a supernatural origin. There are only people, morality and motivations, and no-one's motivation is to be evil for the sake of it.

Jaime and Cersei tried to kill Bran (well Jaime did, Cersei was against it) because they feared he would expose them and the two of them and their three children would die horribly as a result. The protection of Joffrey, Tommen and Myrcella is Cersei's primary motivation offsetting everything else, and although she takes it to pathological extremes, it isn't the case of her being 'evil' for the sake of it.

Jaime's evil acts in the books in fact are a lot harder to define. He killed Eddard's guards (in battle, although outnumbered) to send a warning message to Eddard's wife for taking his brother hostage. He killed Aerys to save King's Landing from being blown sky high. As already mentioned, he did try to murder Bran but then his fate and the fate of his sister and his children was on the line. That doesn't offset the evil of the act, but does at least rationalize it by his own standards (and his crime was, if not forgiven, at least commuted by Bran's mother when she released him from Riverrun). The other people Jaime killed in the books (Karstark's sons, for example) were in warfare and battle.

Plus later on, Jaime did repent his actions and swore a new oath to uphold the honour of the Kingsguard and his former promise to Cat, which against the odds he has fulfilled so far (by taking Riverrun without bloodshed and sparing the castle garrison and survivors).



Fair point that Theon's actions can be considered evil (the two children were the children of the miller Theon passed earlier on in his hunt for the children). However, Theon did know that Bran and Rickon were hiding in the crypts. He just chose not to pursue them down there. Does that act redeem his evil elsewhere (probably not, although his acts in ADWD will be interesting to observe based on this)? Probably not. Your point here is a good one.



At this stage Arya believes Bran and Rickon to be dead and knows that Sansa is a captive or missing. That leaves her as the senior-most Stark still at liberty as far as she knows, and the punishment of a deserter from the Night's Watch falls on her (as it fell on Ned to execute Gared in the prologue to the first book).

By modern standards, no, you wouldn't pursue and execute a traitor in a foreign nation without some sort of extradition process (unless you're Russian, of course, and think you can get away with it). But, as should have been made clear, the books are not set in a modern setting.

The Faceless Men are certainly a murderous and ruthless organisation, despite their shapeshifting friendly-seeming old men tutors. They did claim to cause the Doom as well because of the actions of the slave overseers, an event that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents, if not millions including the Bleeding Years that followed, across two continents. Certainly they are not good people, despite their religious justifications.



But using your 'evil acts' citation, Littlefinger caused the War of the Five Kings almost single-handed (of course, Illyrio and Varys were going to trigger a war as well, but not until a year or two later), orchestrated Joffrey's death which has now ultimately triggered a renewal of the conflict and (possibly inadvertantly) set the scenes for a massive religious conflageration. In terms of deaths caused in the books, Littlefinger probably outstrips almost everyone else combined. His only challenger may be Daenerys, for the war and death she has brought to Slaver's Bay.