Varys personality type: INFJ

In season three Varys tells Tyrion the story of how he became a eunuch. A sorcerer bought him as a boy, cut him, and burned the pieces in a fire, and a voice seemed to answer from the flames. Varys spent the next decades building a network of spies until he found that sorcerer again. At the end of the scene he opens a crate, and the sorcerer is inside it. That is Varys: patient, quiet, and always holding something you did not know he had.

Information is his armor. Varys is a 5 with a 6 wing, and Fives feel safe when they know more than everyone else. He has turned knowing more into an empire of little birds, children who hear everything in King’s Landing. He keeps his own life almost empty. No family, no lover, no visible desires.

The 6 wing explains his constant question about whom to serve. He jumps from Robert to Daenerys and finally toward Jon, always looking for the ruler who will keep ordinary people safe.

He is an INFJ who reads long patterns in history and people. He backs a Targaryen restoration years before it seems plausible, and his famous riddle for Tyrion, about who really holds power, is pure intuition: power exists wherever people believe it does. He is gentle and persuasive too. He visits Ned in the black cells and talks him into a false confession by appealing to Sansa’s life. His reasoning stays private and precise.

The physical world is where he is vulnerable. Varys hates violence, avoids the battlefield and distrusts magic. He survives by staying out of it, and it is the physical world that finally gets him, in the form of dragonfire.

His ending is quietly brave. Convinced that Daenerys is becoming dangerous, he writes letters about Jon’s claim, knowing it could kill him. When she sentences him, he does not beg. He tells Tyrion he hopes he is wrong, and he faces Drogon without running.

Some fans type Varys as a One, because he talks about serving the people so often. The moral streak is real. I keep Five because his method is detachment and information, and he never once tries to be the one in charge.