Editing Ice (section)

===''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}}