Robb

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Robb Stark (罗柏) 250
Alias(es)	The Young Wolf; the Wolf King 193 266 383
Gender	Male
Age	Thirteen during his ceasefire negotiations in King’s Landing 250 266
Affiliation	House Stark; the North; subsequently the Targaryen-ruled Iron Throne 268 384
Occupation/Role	Duke of Winterfell, Warden of the North, and commander of northern forces; formerly King in the North 193 384 401 461
Family	Son of Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully; brother of Sansa, Arya, Bran, and Rickon; maternal cousin of Jon Snow, whom he grew up regarding as his half-brother 116 195 401
Status	Alive and preparing to lead northern forces against the Others; recovering from a frostbitten shoulder wound sustained in Winterfell’s crypts 425 435 461 463

History

Winterfell and Eddard’s death

Robb grows up at Winterfell alongside his siblings, Jon Snow, and Theon Greyjoy. When Eddard prepares to become Hand of the King, he decides that Robb should remain behind to learn how to rule the North 116 117.

After Eddard’s execution, Robb calls the northern banners. Thousands gather at Moat Cailin to avenge his father 131. By the early campaign to relieve Riverrun, Robb has become King in the North. With the Lannisters controlling the available crossings, he initially proposes storming the Twins. Roose Bolton instead presents Walder Frey’s offer: passage across the Green Fork and Frey allegiance in exchange for Robb marrying a Frey daughter. Robb accepts the pact despite Catelyn’s objections 462.

Westerlands campaign

Robb’s army wins repeated victories in the Westerlands over two months, including battles against superior numbers. He intends to draw Tywin Lannister away from Harrenhal and ambush his main force, but Edmure Tully’s failure to dislodge Tywin stalls the plan 193 194.

The Targaryen return forces Robb to reconsider the war. Reports credit Viserys with ten dragons, control of Dragonstone and Driftmark, and an army of roughly fifty thousand. Robb chooses temporary neutrality while continuing his campaign against Tywin. He also hopes to capture Westerlands nobles who can be exchanged for Sansa and Arya, and privately accepts that submission may be necessary to secure his sisters’ release 193 195.

During the capture of the Crag, Robb is wounded and treated by Jeyne Westerling. They fall in love but initially conceal their relationship because of his Frey betrothal. Jeyne later becomes pregnant, and Robb promises to marry her 195 252. His broken marriage pact costs him Frey troops and support, worsening the army’s supply problems 250 462.

Journey to King’s Landing

Viserys offers ceasefire negotiations and reports that both Stark sisters are safe. Sansa’s own letter helps convince Robb to attend personally. With provisions dwindling, troops exhausted, and winter approaching, he decides that protecting the North outweighs preserving his crown 250 268.

Before leaving, Robb appoints Rickard Karstark to command the army, with Greatjon Umber and the Blackfish assisting. He also orders trusted allies to watch Roose Bolton and act if Bolton makes a suspicious move 253.

Robb’s party is attacked on the journey by apparent trained assassins disguised as bandits, suffering deaths and injuries. He reaches King’s Landing exhausted, with his left arm bandaged, but maintains a composed public bearing. The sight of Cersei and Joffrey’s severed heads offers no restoration of what his family has lost 266 267.

Truce and fealty

Robb initially appears before Viserys as King in the North and does not kneel. He negotiates protections for northern self-government before accepting the Iron Throne’s authority 267 268.

Issue	Robb’s request	Outcome
Northern laws and faith	No interference from the Iron Throne	Viserys agrees 267.
Southern military service	Permanent exemption, with supplies provided instead	Viserys grants a five-year exemption from providing troops, not a permanent one 267.
Sansa and Arya	Permission to return north	Viserys states that they are guests, not hostages, and may leave whenever they wish 268.
Taxes	Five years of relief	Robb accepts a two-year concession; he later describes it as two years without taxes 268 283.
Allegiance	Peace on terms protecting the North	Robb kneels and pledges House Stark’s loyalty to Targaryen rule 268.

Viserys also confirms the danger posed by the Others and explains Benjen Stark’s half-undead condition. Robb accepts the need to reinforce the Night’s Watch and cooperate against the coming Long Night 268.

Reunited with Sansa and Arya, Robb is relieved but remains preoccupied with the attack on his party. He suspects Roose Bolton intended to prolong the northern war and weaken House Stark; Viserys neither confirms nor resolves that suspicion 269. Both sisters ultimately choose to remain in King’s Landing 271 283.

Return and reconstruction

Viserys provides a hundred-man escort for Robb’s return. At the northern camp outside the Crag, Robb begins explaining the settlement and preparing the army’s withdrawal. The tax and troop concessions, together with the approaching harvest, support his argument for ending the campaign 283.

Back at Winterfell, Robb faces demands for food, compensation, coastal defense, and supplies for the Night’s Watch. He has at least doubled the castle’s guard strength since the war, but reconstruction leaves him dependent on wealthy northern houses. Roose becomes increasingly evasive, while Wyman Manderly requires compromises in exchange for White Harbor’s support 383 384 385.

Robb respectfully welcomes Viserys to Winterfell and thanks him for destroying Victarion Greyjoy’s fleet and arranging Free Folk settlement in the Gift. His gratitude remains mixed with unease over Targaryen power 387. In private, he admits that the North has exhausted its grain reserves and cannot send more food to the Wall. Viserys promises southern troops and supplies, rejecting Robb’s tentative suggestion of capturing a wight to prove the threat 392.

Jon’s parentage and the crypt crisis

While guiding Viserys through the Stark crypts, Robb learns that Lyanna went south willingly with Rhaegar Targaryen and that Jon is their son. He comes to understand Eddard’s secrecy as the fulfillment of a promise to protect Lyanna’s child. Robb agrees to preserve Jon’s identity until the threat of the Others has passed 400 401.

The revelation also changes Robb’s succession plans. Although he had considered Jon his preferred heir and did not object to his supposed illegitimacy, he decides that Jon’s Targaryen parentage prevents him from inheriting House Stark. Robb considers sending his family south for safety, possibly after Jeyne gives birth 405.

Deeper in the crypts, Robb encounters Benjen fully transformed into an Other. A powerful female Other subsequently attacks him, leaving his shoulder pierced and half his body frozen. Viserys blocks a further strike with Blackfyre and orders soldiers to remove Robb, despite his desire to remain and defend his family’s honor 416 418 425.

After escaping, Robb sends a warning to Rhaenys, believing that she and Meleys may be the only available force capable of confronting the danger below Winterfell. He explains his decision to Viserys while suffering severe frostbite 426.

Mobilization for the Wall

Robb sends orders throughout the North to muster fighting men and provisions for the Wall. His forces begin contributing before the other houses, and he prepares to lead Stark soldiers north personally. He hopes the campaign will both defend the North and consolidate its unity 436 452 453 461.

Ramsay Bolton attempts to undermine Robb’s confidence in Jon through an anonymous accusation of collaboration with the Boltons. Robb dismisses the allegation without investigating it and writes to warn Jon that someone may be targeting him. His reply is too late to reach Jon before the Bolton contingent leaves the Dreadfort 461 462.

Appearance

• Build: Described as a sturdy young man when Robert visits Winterfell 116.
• Eyes: Gray; his gaze is repeatedly described as composed and watchful 250 266 267.
• War-worn features: At thirteen, his exhaustion makes him look older than his years. Later, he develops dark stubble and pronounced shadows beneath his eyes 266 384.
• Clothing: Wears black clothes during his royal audience and a thick, dark gray fur coat in Winterfell’s crypts 267 399.
• Injuries: Arrives in King’s Landing with a bandaged left arm; later suffers a bloodied shoulder wound and severe frostbite from an ice sword 266 425.

Personality

Robb’s initial campaign is driven by grief and vengeance, but responsibility increasingly shapes his decisions. He distinguishes the Lannisters’ responsibility for Eddard’s death from older Targaryen grievances and accepts negotiation when continued war threatens the North’s survival 131 195 252.

He remains deeply attached to his family. His sisters’ danger troubles his dreams, and his confidence in Jon survives political pressure and deliberate attempts to discredit him. Nevertheless, sympathy for Catelyn leads him to abandon a plan to recall Jon to Winterfell and give him important governing duties 195 452 461.

Robb measures himself against Eddard’s honor while questioning whether honor alone can preserve a house. He regrets breaking the Frey marriage pact for personal desire, yet increasingly sees compromise and ruthlessness as possible necessities. His reluctance to retreat from the crypts shows that Stark honor still has a powerful hold on him 390 418.

His judgment of Viserys is cautious rather than absolute: he recognizes the king’s strength but reserves judgment on whether he will be a good ruler. Over time, Robb finds Viserys’s calculated conduct more understandable than Aerys’s madness, without ceasing to fear him 271 390.

Abilities & Skills

Military Command

Robb earns his bannermen’s confidence through battlefield success and organized leadership.

• Wins multiple Westerlands battles, including victories against superior numbers 193 194.
• Plans to lure Tywin into an ambush by threatening his homeland 193.
• Delegates army command and coordinates surveillance of potentially disloyal allies 253.
• Strengthens Winterfell’s defenses and organizes northern recruitment for the Wall 383 436 461.
• His plans remain vulnerable to allied failures, shortages, and the overwhelming advantage of dragons 193 250.

Diplomacy and Governance

• Secures protections for northern laws and faith while negotiating renewed allegiance 267 268.
• Obtains temporary tax and military concessions for a war-depleted North 267 268 283.
• Bargains with White Harbor for financial and logistical support 385.
• Plans to persuade northern lords to accept Free Folk settlement 271.
• Recognizes when continued fighting is economically and militarily unsustainable 250 252 392.

Martial Training and Limits

• Practices swordsmanship with Jon while growing up at Winterfell 401.
• Carries an ordinary longsword rather than a Valyrian steel weapon 399.
• Cannot withstand the female Other’s ice magic and must be rescued and evacuated 418.

Equipment & Items

• Ordinary longsword — Carried at Winterfell; by his evacuation from the crypts, Robb is gripping only the remaining piece of its hilt 399 418.
• Direwolf badge — Worn on his chest and touched while declaring the northern mobilization 436.
• Campaign map — Retained in his study after the war, still bearing routes and plans from his southward campaign 390.
• Ice — House Stark’s ancestral Valyrian steel greatsword is not in Robb’s possession; it remains in Viserys’s treasury during the crypt expedition 399.

Relationships

• Eddard Stark — Father and moral example. Robb begins the war to avenge him, later reassessing his ideals and understanding his protection of Jon 131 390 401.
• Catelyn Tully — Mother and close companion through the campaign and negotiations. Her grief influences his decisions, particularly Jon’s exclusion from Winterfell’s government 250 266 452.
• Jon Snow — Trusted childhood companion and biological cousin. Jon reports on the Boltons for him; Robb protects his parentage and rejects accusations against his loyalty 384 401 461 462.
• Sansa and Arya Stark — Younger sisters whose safety is central to Robb’s peace negotiations. He accepts their decision to remain in King’s Landing 195 268 271.
• Bran and Rickon Stark — Younger brothers whom Robb considers essential to House Stark’s survival if the North falls 405.
• Jeyne Westerling — Lover and mother of his unborn child. Their relationship begins after she treats his wound at the Crag; his commitment to her damages the Frey alliance 195 252 390.
• Brynden Tully, the Blackfish — Great-uncle, scout, and trusted military adviser. Supports negotiation while repeatedly warning Robb against unnecessary personal risk 193 195 250.
• Theon Greyjoy — Winterfell companion who travels to the Iron Islands seeking Balon’s allegiance to Robb 116 193.
• Dacey Mormont — Personal guard who accompanies him to King’s Landing 253 267.
• Benjen Stark — Uncle whose testimony helps Robb believe in the Others. Robb is devastated by seeing his complete transformation 250 416.
• Viserys Targaryen — Former adversary turned sovereign and military ally. Robb’s growing trust is not fully reciprocated: Viserys privately considers replacing him with a more manageable Stark ruler 268 401 426.
• Roose Bolton — Vassal whom Robb increasingly distrusts. Roose publicly answers his summons while privately hoping northern losses will create an opening for Bolton power 253 384 459 463.
• House Frey — Former military ally alienated by Robb’s broken marriage pact. Its withdrawal worsens his army’s position, while Walder continues seeking leverage against House Stark 250 285 462.

Notable Quotes

“If he can truly safeguard the North's interests and guarantee Sansa and Arya's safety, I'm willing to bend the knee to the Targaryens.” 250

“I will protect Jon's secret, and I will protect the North.” 401