Editing Ice (section)

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===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Ned_&_Ice.jpg|thumb|[[Eddard Stark]] cleaning Ice in the [[godswood of Winterfell]], by Michael Komarck ©]]
Lord [[Eddard Stark]] uses Ice to execute [[Gared]], a deserter from the [[Night's Watch]], at a [[holdfast in the hills]].{{ref|AGOT|1}} Ned then cleans the blade with a swatch of oiled leather in the [[godswood of Winterfell]].{{Ref|AGOT|2}}

After Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]] is attacked by [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria]], the [[direwolf]] of [[Arya Stark]], Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] insists that a direwolf be killed. Since Nymeria has gone missing, King [[Robert I Baratheon]] approves of Ser [[Ilyn Payne]], the [[King's Justice]], killing [[Lady]], the direwolf of [[Sansa Stark]]. Eddard instead volunteers to kill his daughter's direwolf with Ice, and he orders [[Jory Cassel]] to have men bring Lady's bones to [[Winterfell]] to be buried.{{ref|AGOT|16}}

[[Jeor Mormont]], [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], gifts [[Jon Snow]] with [[Longclaw]], a Valyrian steel sword which reminds the youth of Ice.{{ref|AGOT|60}}

After Eddard is arrested for treason in [[King's Landing]], Ilyn wears Ice in a scabbard on his back.{{ref|AGOT|65}} Joffrey, now king after Robert's death, orders Ilyn to behead Ned at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]. A screaming Sansa is present in the royal retinue, but in the assembled crowd [[Yoren]] prevents her sister Arya from witnessing the beheading.{{Ref|AGOT|65}} While imprisoned in the [[Red Keep]], Sansa has a nightmare of Ilyn coming to behead her with Ice.{{ref|AGOT|67}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
When [[Gendry]] refers to the [[red comet]] as the Red Sword, Arya thinks of Ice and her father's blood.{{ref|ACOK|1}}

Eddard's heir [[Robb Stark|Robb]], now the [[King in the North]], sends Ser [[Cleos Frey]] as an envoy during the [[War of the Five Kings]]. Robb has Cleos ask for the return of Ice, but [[Tyrion Lannister]], the acting [[Hand of the King]], informs Cleos that the greatsword will only be returned when Robb makes peace with the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|ACOK|25}}

During the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Sansa is scared when she sees Ilyn in the [[Queen's Ballroom]] of [[Maegor's Holdfast]] with the highborn women of the capital.{{ref|ACOK|57}} Queen Cersei claims the knight is there for protection,{{ref|ACOK|57}} but she later reveals she wants Ilyn to execute Sansa and herself if [[Stannis Baratheon]] is victorious in the battle.{{ref|ACOK|60}} Cersei has Ilyn execute three servants who attempt to flee the castle. When he returns, Sansa notices blood drying on Ice, as Ilyn has not yet cleaned the blade.{{ref|ACOK|60}} Stannis is defeated and forced to retreat.{{ref|ACOK|62}} When Joffrey receives prisoners in the throne room after the battle, the king orders Ilyn to behead a [[House Florent|Florent]] bastard who remains loyal to Stannis.{{ref|ACOK|65}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] takes Ice from Ilyn and has [[Tobho Mott]] re-forge the greatsword into two Valyrian steel [[longsword]]s.{{ref|ASOS|32}} When Tyrion sees Ilyn with [[Ilyn Payne's greatsword|a new silver greatsword]] in [[Purple wedding|King Joffrey's wedding]], he regrets not having sent Ice back to Robb,{{ref|ASOS|60}} who was killed in the [[Red Wedding]].{{ref|ASOS|51}}

King Joffrey receives one of the new longswords from his grandfather Tywin as a [[Purple Wedding|wedding gift]] and names it [[Widow's Wail]].{{ref|ASOS|59}} Tywin gives the other new blade to his elder son, Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], but Jaime rejects the gift. Jaime instead gives the sword to [[Brienne of Tarth]] and, sending her to find the missing Sansa, asks her to call the sword [[Oathkeeper]].{{ref|ASOS|72}}