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HOUSE STARK

The Starks trace their descent from Brandon the Builder and the ancient Kings of Winter. For thousands of years, they ruled from Winterfell as Kings in the North, until Torrhen Stark, the King Who Knelt, chose to swear fealty to Aegon the Dragon rather than give battle. Their blazon is a grey direwolf on an ice-white field. The Stark words are Winter Is Coming.

EDDARD STARK, Lord of Winterfell, Warden of the North,

— his wife, LADY CATELYN, of House Tully,

— their children:

— ROBB, the heir to Winterfell, fourteen years of age,

— SANSA, the eldest daughter, eleven,

— ARYA, the younger daughter, a girl of nine,

— BRANDON, called Bran, seven,

— RICKON, a boy of three,

— his bastard son, JON SNOW, a boy of fourteen,

— his ward, THEON GREYJOY, heir to the Iron Islands,

— his siblings:

— [BRANDON], his elder brother, murdered by the command of Aerys II Targaryen,

— [LYANNA], his younger sister, died in the mountains of Dorne,

— BENJEN, his younger brother, a man of the Night’s Watch,

— his household:

— MAESTER LUWIN, counselor, healer, and tutor,

— VAYON POOLE, steward of Winterfell,

— JEYNE, his daughter, Sansa’s closest friend,

— JORY CASSEL, captain, of the guard,

— HALLIS MOLLEN, DESMOND, JACKS, PORTHER, QUENT, ALYN, TOMARD, VARLY, HEWARD, CAYN, WYL, guardsmen,

— SER RODRIK CASSEL, master-at-arms, Jory’s uncle,

— BETH, his young daughter,

— SEPTA MORDANE, tutor to Lord Eddard’s daughters,

— SEPTON CHAYLE, keeper of the castle sept and library,

— HULLEN, master of horse,

— his son, HARWIN, a guardsman,

— JOSETH, a stableman and horse trainer,

— FARLEN, kennelmaster,

— OLD NAN, storyteller, once a wet nurse,

— HODOR, her great-grandson, a simpleminded stableboy,

— GAGE, the cook,

— MIKKEN, smith and armorer,

— his principal lords bannermen:

— SER HELMAN TALLHART,

— RICKARD KARSTARK, Lord of Karhold,

— ROOSE BOLTON, Lord of the Dreadfort,

— JON UMBER, called the Greatjon,

— GALBART and ROBETT GLOVER,

— WYMAN MANDERLY, Lord of White Harbor,

— MAEGE MORMONT, the Lady of Bear Island.

The principal houses sworn to Winterfell are Karstark, Umber, Flint, Mormont, Hornwood, Cerwyn, Reed, Manderly, Glover, Tallhart, Bolton.