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The Lord of House Stark with their ancestral sword , Ice.

Ice is the ancestral greatsword of House Stark. The two-handed sword is made of Valyrian steel. Ice is a greatsword as wide across as a man's hand and six feet long. The name "Ice" is a legacy from the Age of Heroes and predates the current sword. About four hundred years before King Robert I Baratheon's reign, the Valyrian steel greatsword was spell-forged in Valyria and acquired by House Stark, who named it after that legacy.

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GAME OF THRONES 1.07 You Win or You Die

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the winds of winter, theon i

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GAME OF THRONES 7.07, The Dragon & the Wolf

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ned and sansa’s chapters are such peak reading experiences because they’re both so repressed and unable/unwillingly to face their trauma to the point that they almost become unreliable narrators. they can only engage with their grief through metaphors and dreams and flashbacks, so the reader has to actively read between the lines and focus on what they’re not saying, who or what they refuse to think about (even though they really should be, seriously why aren’t they thinking about this person right now? why wouldn’t that memory come to mind? what are they trying to hide from ??). you have to put on your therapist hat and work through their various coping mechanisms and peel back the layers of their brains in order to dig into their subconscious and truly grasp their states of mind. like their chapters are basically mind games because ned and sansa spend so much of their internal monologues trying to squeeze their trauma into socially-acceptable narratives, but their experiences don’t fit into any stories, nobody wants to hear a song like theirs, and how can they talk about something if there are no stories or songs or myths to give them the words? so they just don’t talk or think about it at all, they try to push it down, to kill it, to bury it, but they can’t! it’s all right there on the page whether they know it or not, and the great challenge/joy of reading their chapters is trying to puzzle it all out for yourself.

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The Starks and their grey eyes

BRANDON:

And her betrothed looked at her with the cool grey eyes of a Stark and promised to spare the boy who loved her. — AGOT, Catelyn VII

EDDARD:

(..) and in those empty hollows she found no trace of her lord's dark grey eyes, eyes that could be soft as a fog or hard as stone.

— ACOK, Catelyn V

He remembered Eddard Stark, riding the length of Aerys's throne room wrapped in silence. Only his eyes had spoken; a lord's eyes, cold and grey and full of judgment.

— ASOS, Jaime VI

JON:

Jon, he'd said, but Jon was gone. It was Lord Snow who faced him now, grey eyes as hard as ice.

— AFFC, Samwell I

He looked at her face for a long moment with those cold grey eyes of his.

— ADWD, Melissandre I

ARYA:

(..) He will take your sad grey eyes that have seen so much (...)

— AFFC, Arya II

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“Yet when the jousting began, the day belonged to Rhaegar Targaryen. The crown prince wore the armor he would die in: gleaming black plate with the three-headed dragon of his House wrought in rubies on the breast. A plume of scarlet silk streamed behind him when he rode, and it seemed no lance could touch him. Brandon fell to him…” —A Game of Thrones

Rhaegar Targaryen defeats Brandon Stark at the Tourney at Harrenhal by Mark Smylie

created for the 10th anniversary of The World of Ice & Fire