Lysaro Rogare’s Trial and Death by Flogging

Lysaro Rogare’s capture and return to Lys began the final sequence of his downfall: after his flight from the city failed, neither his remaining guards nor his brother’s intervention could secure his escape from the consequences of the bank’s collapse.

Capture and Return to Lys

Lysaro was captured at Volon Therys on the Rhoyne while waiting for a boat to carry him across the river. His Unsullied guards remained loyal and died protecting him. He had taken one hundred with him when he fled Lys, but had been forced to sell most along the way; only twenty remained when the fighting at the docks surrounded them.

Sent downriver to Volantis, Lysaro was offered by the Triarchs to his brother Drako for a price. Drako declined and proposed that the Volantenes sell Lysaro back to Lys instead. The proposal was accepted, and Lysaro was returned to the city chained to an oar aboard a Volantene slave ship.

Trial and Failed Bribery

At his trial, Lysaro was asked what he had done with the gold he had stolen. He laughed and pointed out a dozen magisters in the assembly, declaring that he had used the money to bribe them. The admission did not save him: the men he identified joined the others in condemning him, and kept the bribes. The episode exposed the limits of his influence in Lys; the gold had bought favors, but not protection once the city’s authorities judged him.

Sentence and Aftermath

Lysaro was sentenced to be chained to a pillar before the Temple of Trade, where those he had despoiled could flog him, with each person’s share of lashes determined by the scale of their losses. His sister Lysara and brother Fredo were among those who took part, while other Lyseni wagered on when he would die. Lysaro died during the seventh hour of the first day of the punishment. His bones remained chained to the pillar for three years, until his brother Moredo removed them and buried them in the family crypt.

Lysene Justice and Its Contrast

The punishment also sets Lysene justice against the response in the Seven Kingdoms. The collapse of the Rogare Bank had impoverished both great lords and humble tradesmen in Westeros, and many there would have welcomed a similarly severe fate for Lysaro’s brothers. Yet no proof showed that they had known of his crimes or profited from them. In Lys, by contrast, the losses attributed to Lysaro were made the measure of his sentence: those he had despoiled were permitted to punish him, and his remains stayed exposed at the Temple of Trade for three years. The episode presents retribution as both public accounting and spectacle, while its comparison with Westeros underscores that the harshness of a judgment did not itself establish the guilt of the wider family.