Editing North (section)

===''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}}