Editing Yoren (section)

===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Yorens Task by chrzan666.jpg|thumb|350px|Yoren's Task, by Piotr Chrzanowski © Fantasy Flight Games]]
At a wooden [[holdfast]] at the edge of the [[wolfswood]], Yoren joins the party led by [[Benjen Stark]] that is heading north to the [[Wall]], with [[Tyrion Lannister]] and [[Jon Snow]] also coming along. Yoren brings two young rapists from the [[Fingers]] as recruits for the [[Night's Watch]]. Yoren's ragged appearance as well as his charges serve as a rude awakening to Jon, who might have thought that the Watch just consisted of noble men like his uncle Benjen.{{Ref|AGOT|13}}

Yoren returns south, arriving at [[Winterfell]] in the company of four black brothers and Tyrion, the latter receiving a cold welcome from [[Robb Stark]]. Yoren is present when Tyrion hands over his plans for building a saddle that can carry the crippled [[Bran Stark]]. As Yoren is senior among the Night's Watch men, he is seated with Robb and [[Maester]] [[Luwin]] for dinner that night. Yoren refers to Jon as the bane of Ser [[Alliser Thorne]], and he angers Robb by stating that the missing Benjen is probably dead.{{Ref|AGOT|24}} 

Yoren is present when [[Catelyn Stark]] arrests Tyrion at the [[crossroads inn]], and afterwards he continues to [[King's Landing]] to inform her husband, Lord [[Eddard Stark]], the new [[Hand of the King]].{{Ref|AGOT|32}} Yoren remains in the capital to gather more recruits. No [[knight]]s volunteer for the Watch, so Eddard gives Yoren his pick of the king's dungeons.{{ref|AGOT|44}} At some point, Yoren is approached by [[Varys|a man]] who gives him gold to take [[Gendry|a boy]] with him to the Wall, and after Eddard's imprisonment Yoren is told to be ready to take Eddard to the Wall.{{Ref|ACOK|1}}

Yoren is present at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] when Eddard publicly confesses to [[treason]], and he recognizes Eddard's daughter [[Arya Stark|Arya]] in the crowd. When King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]] unexpectedly orders Lord Stark to be beheaded by Ser [[Ilyn Payne]], Yoren grabs Arya and prevents her from seeing her father's execution. Calling her "boy", Yoren drags Arya away.{{Ref|AGOT|65}}