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Arya Stark is the youngest daughter and third born child of Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn Tully. She has five siblings: brothers Robb, Bran and Rickon, sister Sansa, and half-brother Jon Snow. Like her siblings, she took the care of a direwolf-pup: Nymeria.

At the age of nine, Arya moved with her father and sister to King's Landing. Training under Syrio Forel to learn swordsmanship, Arya owns her own blade, Needle. When her father is arrested, she flees the Lannisters, using all her training had taught her. Arya escapes King's Landing and starts the journey north, hoping to reach the rest of her family at Winterfell. The Riverlands, which she needs to cross first, are heavily involved in war, and Arya finds herself captured several times.

Having witnessed the execution of her father, and later witnessing the harsh situations in the war-torn Riverlands, Arya's fierce personality leads to her making a "death list", which she calls a prayer. She always ends the prayer with the sentence Valar Morghulis. Read more...