Editing North (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Tomasz Jedruszek Winerfell.jpg|thumb|500px|Lords of Winter by Tomasz Jedruszek © Fantasy Flight Games]]
King [[Robert I Baratheon]] travels from [[King's Landing]] to [[Winterfell]] to offer the position of [[Hand of the King]] to his old friend, Lord [[Eddard Stark]], which the [[Warden of the North]] reluctantly accepts.{{Ref|AGOT|3}}{{Ref|AGOT|6}}

When Eddard is later imprisoned in the [[Red Keep]] after the death of Robert, his heir, [[Robb Stark]], calls the northern banners to Winterfell and marches south to rescue Eddard{{Ref|AGOT|53}} with a strength of nearly twenty thousand{{Ref|AGOT|55}}{{Ref|ADWD|20}} close to the start of autumn.{{Ref|ACOK|prologue}} [[House Karstark]] contributes at least two thousand three hundred men, mostly infantry.{{Ref|AGOT|53}} [[House Manderly]] provides at least fifteen hundred,{{Ref|AGOT|55}} but it is not their full strength.{{Ref|ADWD|29}} [[House Dustin]] sends a minimal amount.{{Ref|ADWD|41}} Of the four thousand armored lances who come to Winterfell, only three or four hundred are [[knight]]s.{{Ref|AGOT|53}}

Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] refers to the north as "the winterlands" when speaking with [[Vale mountain clans]]men.{{ref|AGOT|56}} Robb is victorious over [[House Lannister]] forces in the [[battle in the Whispering Wood|Whispering Wood]]{{ref|AGOT|63}} and the [[Battle of the Camps]],{{ref|AGOT|69}} but Lord [[Roose Bolton]] is defeated by Tywin on the [[battle on the Green Fork|Green Fork]].{{ref|AGOT|62}} After hearing that King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]] ordered the execution of Eddard, the assembled [[northmen|northern]] and [[rivermen|river lords]] in [[Riverrun]] reject the sovereignty of the [[Iron Throne]] and proclaim Robb to be [[King in the North]].{{Ref|AGOT|71}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Tomasz Jedruszek King Robb's Host.png|thumb|King [[Robb Stark]]'s Host by Tomasz Jedruszek © Fantasy Flight Games]]
With Robb campaigning south of the [[Neck]], his younger brother [[Bran Stark|Bran]] remains as the Stark in Winterfell. Bran hosts various bannermen at Winterfell's [[harvest feast]] in {{Date|299}}.{{Ref|ACOK|16}}{{Ref|ACOK|21}} Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]], the castellan of Winterfell, allows [[House Manderly]] to begin construction of a fleet with the aid of [[House Umber]].{{Ref|ACOK|16}}

[[Ramsay Snow]], the Bastard of [[Roose Bolton|Bolton]], abducts the widowed Lady [[Donella Hornwood]] and claims the lands of the [[House Hornwood|Hornwoods]]. After hearing that Ramsay starved Donella, the Manderlys skirmish with the [[House Bolton|Boltons]] in the [[Hornwood (forest)|Hornwood]].{{Ref|ACOK|28}}{{Ref|ACOK|35}}

The [[Iron Islands]] also declare their independence from the [[Iron Throne]] during the [[War of the Five Kings]].{{Ref|ACOK|24}} With most of the northern soldiers fighting alongside Robb in the south,{{Ref|ACOK|11}} [[Balon Greyjoy]], [[Lord of the Iron Islands]], claims the north and sends the [[ironborn]] to raid the [[harrying of the Stony Shore|Stony Shore]] and capture [[taking of Deepwood Motte|Deepwood Motte]], [[capture of Torrhen's Square|Torrhen's Square]], and [[fall of Moat Cailin|Moat Cailin]]. [[Theon Greyjoy]] captures [[Capture of Winterfell|Winterfell]],{{Ref|ACOK|46}} but Rodrik Cassel assembles near two thousand men to retake the castle from the ironborn. Rodrik's loyalists are betrayed by Ramsay Snow and six hundred Boltons from the [[Dreadfort]] in a [[battle at Winterfell]], however. The northern capital is then [[Sack of Winterfell|sacked]] by Ramsay and the Boltons.{{Ref|ACOK|66}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Bran Stark flees with [[Hodor]], [[Meera Reed]], and [[Jojen Reed]] from Winterfell. They travel through the [[northern mountains]] and the [[Gift]] to the [[Nightfort]].{{Ref|ASOS|56}}

Balon Greyjoy, the self-declared [[King of the Isles and the North]], falls to his death at [[Pyke]].{{Ref|ASOS|45}}

Robb Stark, King in the North and [[King of the Trident]], intends to march north from the [[riverlands]] to expel the ironborn.{{Ref|ASOS|45}} However, he is [[Red Wedding|betrayed and murdered]] at the [[Twins]] by his bannermen, Lords [[Walder Frey]] and [[Roose Bolton]],{{Ref|ASOS|51}} who have their forces slaughter most of the northmen in the south.{{Ref|ASOS|52}} In return for his services to [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]], Roose is named the new [[Warden of the North]] for the Iron Throne.{{Ref|ASOS|72}}

King [[Stannis Baratheon]] sails from [[Dragonstone (island)|Dragonstone]] to the [[Wall]] to aid the [[Night's Watch]] in defeating the [[wildling]] army of [[Mance Rayder]], [[King-beyond-the-Wall]], in the [[battle beneath the Wall]].{{Ref|ASOS|73}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
While south of the Neck, Roose attempts to consolidate control over the north.{{Ref|AFFC|17}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:TB March on Winterfell.png|thumb|350px|[[Stannis Baratheon]]'s forces [[march on Winterfell]], by Tiziano Baracchi © Fantasy Flight Games]]
In {{Date|300}}, Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] has completed some forty-six warships.{{Ref|ADWD|15}}{{Ref|ADWD|29}}<ref group="N">Davos sees twenty-three ships in the harbor (''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'', [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 16|Davos II]]), but according to Lord Wyman, there are "as many more" hidden up the White Knife (''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'', [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 29|Davos IV]])</ref> Wyman secretly tasks [[Davos Seaworth]] with bringing [[Rickon Stark]] back from [[Skagos]].{{Ref|ADWD|29}}

The [[House Ryswell|Ryswells]] and [[House Dustin|Dustins]] defeat the [[ironborn]] at the [[Fever River]].{{Ref|ADWD|15}} [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]] uses [[Theon Greyjoy]] to resolve the [[siege of Moat Cailin]] and thereby allow Lord [[Roose Bolton]] to march north with his Frey allies.{{Ref|ADWD|20}}{{Ref|ADWD|37}} From the roughly twenty thousand northmen who marched south with [[Robb Stark]] at the start of war, only one in five returns north, most of them men from [[House Bolton]].{{Ref|ADWD|20}}

Roose has a tenuous grasp over the north, considering only the Ryswells and Dustins to be loyal allies because of marriage ties. The [[House Cerwyn|Cerwyns]], [[House Tallhart|Tallharts]], [[House Umber|Umbers]], and [[House Manderly|Manderlys]] are reluctant supporters or are outright plotting against Roose.{{Ref|ADWD|32}} Ramsay marries "[[Arya Stark]]", who is actually [[Jeyne Poole]], at [[Winterfell]] in order to claim the ancient capital of the north.{{Ref|ADWD|37}}

Rather than attacking the [[Dreadfort]], [[Stannis Baratheon]] is convinced by [[Jon Snow]], [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], to travel west from [[Castle Black]] to the [[northern mountains]]. The [[northern mountain clans|mountain clans]] field him three and a half thousand men,<ref group="N">Stannis Baratheon had come north with no more than fifteen hundred men ([[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 19|''A Dance with Dragons'', Davos III]]), and has five thousand men after the mountain clans join him ([[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 35|''A Dance with Dragons'', Jon VII]]).</ref> and Stannis [[fight by Deepwood Motte|liberates Deepwood Moote]] for the [[House Glover|Glovers]].{{Ref|ADWD|26}} The king marches through the [[wolfswood]] to take Winterfell from Roose. Stannis's [[march on Winterfell]] is slowed, however, by strong blizzards{{Ref|ADWD|62}} which also hamper Roose.{{Ref|ADWD|46}}

After receiving [[Bastard Letter|an inflammatory letter]] from Ramsay, Jon asks for volunteers from the [[free folk]] to help him march south toward Winterfell to confront the Bastard of Bolton. Jon is betrayed in the [[mutiny at Castle Black]], however.{{Ref|ADWD|69}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
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At the [[crofters' village]], Stannis discovers that the [[House Karstark|Karstarks]] planned to betray him for Roose.<ref name=TheonI/>