Although this page is based on canonical information, the actual name of this subject is pure conjecture.
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- "I was at Whispering Wood. I saw him. They dragged him out of the woods and threw him down before the king."
- ―The Stark soldier about Jaime Lannister.
A Stark soldier is a soldier sworn to House Stark.
Biography[]
Background[]
He is fighting for House Stark in the Riverlands during the War of the Five Kings.[1]
Game of Thrones: Season 2[]
Brienne is escorting Jaime from Riverrun to King's Landing to exchange him for the daughters of Catelyn. She stops when she sees the bodies of three women hanging in a tree. One of them has a sign around her neck saying they lay with lions. Jaime mentions that they were probably tavern girls who had relations with Lannister soldiers. Jaime confronts Brienne with the charge that this atrocity was committed by her side. She reminds him that she doesn't fight for the Starks, she has given fealty to Lady Catelyn.[1]
When they hear the three Northern soldiers coming, Jaime says to free his hands, but Brienne ignores him. The Stark soldier is accompanying Tom and another man. Brienne tells the men that she is transporting a criminal to Riverrun for justice. Jaime adopts a lower class accent and says he stole a pig. When the three realize that Brienne is a woman, they laugh hysterically at her. Brienne asked if the dead women were given quick deaths. The leader of the three bluntly says that two of them were.[1]
At this point, the Stark soldier recognizes Jaime, having seen him at the Battle of Whispering Wood, and the leader challenges Brienne and Jaime to simultaneously say what Jaime's name is. She kills him and his companions, giving two of them quick deaths. She then cuts down and buries the hanging women.[1]
In the books[]
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Brienne, Jaime and Cleos Frey do not run into any Stark soldiers after they escape from Riverrun. They do see the women hanging in the tree with the same sign, near smouldering remains of a large building, at the lands of House Bracken. Cleos recalls spending a night at that inn with his escorts on the way back to Riverrun. They presume the women were killed by Northmen, as the sign reveals, though it is uncertain by whose order; Jaime and Cleos guess it could have been Jonos Bracken, Marq Piper, Beric Dondarrion or Roose Bolton.
Brienne pulls the boat over, climbs the tree, and begins to cut the bodies down. However, when she gets high enough, she sees the mast of the boat from Riverrun that is pursuing them, so she leaves the women unburied and they flee.
Appearances[]
- – "Valar Morghulis"
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Game of Thrones: Season 2, Episode 10: "Valar Morghulis" (2012).
Notes[]
- ↑ In "Winter Is Coming," which takes place in 298 AC, Sansa Stark tells Cersei Lannister that she is 13 years old and Bran Stark tells Jaime Lannister that he is 10 years old. Arya Stark was born between Sansa and Bran, making her either 11 or 12 in Season 1. The rest of the Stark children have been aged up by 2 years from their book ages, so it can be assumed that she is 11 in Season 1. Arya is 18 in Season 8 according to HBO, which means at least 7 years occur in the span of the series; therefore, each season of Game of Thrones must roughly correspond to a year in-universe, placing the events of Season 2 in 299 AC.