Robb Stark
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Robb Stark is Eddard Stark's eldest legitimate child, and the heir to Winterfell. He bears great responsibility with scant complaint, and shares his father's devotion to honor and justice. He is frequently accompanied by his direwolf is Grey Wind.
[edit] Appearance
Robb's appearance favors his Tully side, with a stocky build, blue eyes, and thick auburn hair.
[edit] History
When Eddard became the Hand of the King, Robb remained at Winterfell to rule in his father's stead. Upon Eddard's execution, Robb was declared King in the North by his father's bannermen. The armies of the north and the riverlands rallied to his cause. Robb won many great battles against the Lannister armies, but confessed himself to have botched the non-martial aspects of the war.
His downfall was triggered by failure to fulfill one of his mother's pacts that cemented his tenuous reign. As part of an alliance with House Frey, she pledged to Lord Walder Frey that Robb would marry one of the women of his house.
After a hard fought battle against House Lannister, Robb learned that his brothers had apparently been killed by his one-time friend Theon Greyjoy. Jeyne Westerling, daughter of a minor House serving House Lannister, visited him in his room and tried to comfort him. Full of conflicting emotions, Robb deflowered her that night, and felt honor-bound to marry her when he realized what he'd done. Robb quietly wed Jeyne before they left the Westerlings' home, naming her his queen and taking her brothers into his service: her older brother, Ser Reynald, joined his honor guard and her smaller one, a boy named Rollam, became Robb's own squire. The controversial marriage incited the rage of House Frey; Robb offered an apology to Lord Frey for breaking his pledge, and believed the matter resolved. As a portent of things to come, Jeyne's fear of Grey Wind led Robb to keep the wolf outdoors and at a distance, a decision that Lord Frey played to his own advantages and was, inadvertently, an indirect role in Rob's death.
Lord Frey's claims of forgiveness eventually proved false, for when Robb attended his uncle's wedding to a Frey, he, Grey Wind, his mother, and many of his men were murdered by Frey soldiers. House Bolton threw off the allegiance to Robb when Roose Bolton personally slew the young king. Because of the bloodshed, this event became known as the Red Wedding. The incident outraged Robb Stark's surviving loyal bannermen, and sullied the honor of House Frey, even though they had planned the murder with House Lannister and House Bolton.
Shortly before Robb was murdered, he officially designated an heir, believing his siblings to be dead. It was not revealed who this heir was, though he had suggested Jon Snow to his mother.
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