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| “ | She wants her son alive, or the men who killed him dead. She wants to feed the crows, like they did at the Red Wedding. Freys and Boltons, aye. We'll give her those, as many as she likes. All she asks from you is Jaime Lannister. | „ |
| ~ Lem revealing Stoneheart's motivation to Brienne. |
Lady Stoneheart is a major antagonist in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series by George R. R. Martin.
She is a revived Lady Catelyn Stark (née Tully), possessing none of the empathetic or forgiving qualities Catelyn Stark had in her first life. Because Catelyn's throat was brutally slit when she was murdered, Lady Stoneheart can barely speak. She is merciless in her quest for revenge, slaughtering anybody who has any association with those who were responsible for the "Red Wedding," in which she and her son Robb were betrayed and murdered. She can be considered the archenemy of Jaime Lannister.
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Biography[]
Catelyn's Background[]
Catelyn Tully was the eldest daughter of Lord Hoster Tully and Lady Minisa Whent. She was the elder sister of Lysa and Edmure.
She lived in Riverrun during her childhood and also traveled outside the castle with her family. Her mother died giving birth to a fourth son, who also died shortly after, like two other sons before him. During her childhood, Catelyn used to wait for her father to return alive at Riverrun after fighting his wars. Hoster Tully took part in the War of the Ninepenny Kings against House Blackfyre and its allies, where he befriended Petyr Baelish's father. Hoster and Baelish agreed to have the latter's son fostered at Riverrun. Thus, Catelyn, Lysa, and Edmure befriended Hoster's ward, Petyr, who eventually fell in love with Catelyn and desired to marry her, but Catelyn never shared his feelings, seeing him as nothing more than a brother. When they were children, Catelyn and Lysa played at kissing with Baelish, who also tried to use his tongue. Catelyn and Lysa also liked to play pranks on Petyr sometimes. Catelyn's uncle, Brynden "Blackfish" Tully, never wanted to marry Bethany Redwyne or any other woman for unknown reasons. This led to years of nasty quarrels and fights. A very long feud that ended only after Robert's Rebellion, when Brynden left Riverrun to serve Jon Arryn at the Vale, as Knight of the Bloody Gate.
At some point in or prior to 282 AC, Catelyn was betrothed to Brandon Stark, heir of Lord Rickard Stark, to strengthen the ties of friendship between House Tully and House Stark. When Catelyn was around 16 or 17, Brandon came to Riverrun in 282 AC to meet his future bride, and there the scarcely 15-year-old Petyr challenged him to a duel for her hand. Baelish was weak, and Brandon easily won. He wanted to kill Petyr, but Catelyn begged him to spare his life. After the duel, she never comforted Petyr, who had sex with her sister Lysa for the second time. Petyr also never forgave Edmure for his "betrayal" (Edmure squired for Brandon during the duel). Shortly after the duel, Lord Hoster sent Petyr back to the Fingers and later forced Lysa to abort the child Petyr had fathered on her with Moon Tea. Catelyn was idolized by Lysa for her betrothal to Brandon Stark, and she hoped to one day marry a man as noble and handsome as him.
Catelyn's betrothal ended shortly after Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen disappeared with Lyanna Stark, and Lord Rickard Stark and his heir Brandon were imprisoned by Mad King Aerys II Targaryen. Later, Rickard and Brandon were both killed by King Aerys, setting off Robert's Rebellion. Catelyn's father allied himself with the rebels and called his banners. However, some riverlords remained loyal to the Iron Throne and House Targaryen, like houses Darry and Mooton, while Lord Walder Frey never answered Hoster's call until it was sure that Robert Baratheon was going to win the war.
During the rebellion, Lord Hoster married Catelyn to Brandon's younger brother, Lord Eddard Stark, while Lysa had to marry Lord Jon Arryn. Shortly after the dual wedding, in which Jon Arryn and Ned married the Tully sisters, Ned and the rebels left Riverrun to continue fighting the war. Meanwhile, Catelyn, who had conceived on her wedding night with Ned, gives birth to a son, Robb, in Riverrun. She waits for Ned and Hoster to return home.
After Robert's Rebellion and the defeat of House Targaryen, Eddard returned to Riverrun and met his son, Robb. Ned also came back from war with an infant child named Jon after his foster father, Jon Arryn, but added in the surname Snow. Ned claimed Jon as his illegitimate son but refused to identify Jon's mother. The first thing about this that hurt Catelyn's feelings and made her feel rejected was that Eddard brought Jon to Winterfell at once and set him up in the castle before she and Robb arrived at Winterfell. This and Ned's act of faithlessness were and would continue to be a source of friction between her and her husband, but they otherwise had a happy marriage, and Catelyn saw that Ned was actually a man of honor. She understood that a man has his needs, especially during times of war, but resented that Ned brought his illegitimate son to Winterfell and raised him alongside their trueborn son. So Catelyn tried to raise Robb and Jon together when she moved to Winterfell. Robb and Jon, being of similar age, were raised and parented together, primarily by Ned, as per custom in Westeros. Growing up with a close, loving relationship as brothers, Robb and Jon were educated and mentored side-by-side, and they grew up to be good-hearted boys with a strong sense of morality, compassion, and duty. Ned would prove to be a good father who loved his children, and while Catelyn was a loving mother devoted to Robb (and later, her other children), she was never able to bring herself to love her husband's son. Nonetheless, while Catelyn let her disdain for Jon be known, she did not abuse him and did not interfere with the close relationships between Jon and her children.
As Catelyn heard rumors that Jon Snow's mother is the beautiful Lady Ashara Dayne, she worked up the courage to confront Ned on this. Her husband's response was the only one that frightened Catelyn. In a cold rage, Ned tells her, "Never ask me about Jon. He is my blood, and that is all you need to know. And now I will learn where you heard that name, my lady." Catelyn was forced to obey, and she revealed that it was whispered that Jon Snow's mother is Ashara Dayne. As a result, Ned silenced all talks of Ashara, and her name was not spoken in Winterfell again. Observing Ned's love and protectiveness of Jon, Catelyn believed that Ned must have loved Jon's mother fiercely, fearing Ned loved this mystery woman more than her. She heard rumors that Jon's mother was the beautiful Ashara Dayne, who killed herself after the death of her brother, Ser Arthur Dayne. Ever since, Catelyn was consumed with jealousy over Ned's mysterious lover, and her resentment for Jon deepened. As Jon grew, so did Catelyn's coldness toward him, as she was troubled that Jon had inherited the Stark look from Ned, while her own trueborn sons inherited the Tully look from her. Of Catelyn's children, only Arya inherited the Stark look. A few years after the rebellion, Ned left Winterfell to fight with King Robert I against King Balon Greyjoy. After that, he returned with another boy, ten-year-old Theon Greyjoy, the last living son of Balon, captive, and ward of Eddard.
Catelyn Stark did not leave Winterfell for fourteen years. Her husband rarely left his land. When Robb and Jon were three years old, Catelyn and Ned had a daughter named Sansa, followed by Arya two years later, then Bran, and lastly Rickon, the youngest child. Ned also had a sept built-in Winterfell with a section of the Seven (Chayle) for Catelyn's religion. Catelyn's sister Lysa came to visit Winterfell a few times, where she met Catelyn's children, Robb, Sansa, and a very young Arya. In the years prior to the main story, Lysa and Catelyn did not see one another again due to Lysa having to stay with her new and only living son, Robert "Sweetrobin" Arryn, named after King Robert, at King's Landing. The birth of Sweetrobin changed Catelyn's sister. Hoster and Edmure could never visit Winterfell, but they would always write to Catelyn and her family.
A Storm of Swords[]
The Red Wedding[]
During the wedding feast for her brother Edmure and his betrothed Roslin Frey, Catelyn remarks to herself how joyless the wedding is. She watches as her son Robb dances with several of the Frey maids while her brother Edmure dotes on his betrothed, Roslin, whose eyes are red from crying. Catelyn becomes warier when she learns that Olyvar, Perwyn, and Alesander Frey, Robb's friends, are not in attendance at the wedding. Catelyn sees Merrett Frey trying to drink the Greatjon Umber under the table, and finally, Lord Walder Frey calls for the bedding. Robb does not participate as the Greatjon carries a weeping Roslin to the bedchamber. None of the other northerners and rivermen seem to notice anything wrong, but Catelyn experiences increasing anxiety. She is horrified when the musicians start to play "The Rains of Castamere," the song of the Lannisters' victory in the Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion. The musicians are revealed to be sellswords and knights, and the song is a signal for the two twin castles and the camps outside. Most of Robb's men are too drunk to fight. Things grow more ominous in the hall: Dacey Mormont asks Edwyn Frey for a dance, but he violently pushes her away. Angry, Catelyn grabs Edwyn and feels the rings of chain mail beneath his clothes. Suddenly, she realizes what has been happening, from the friendly Freys missing from the wedding to Roslin Frey crying all throughout the celebration.
The musicians are also crossbowmen. The wedding turns into a bloody slaughter. Robb is wounded by crossbow bolts, and the Frey and Bolton men turn on Robb's men. Outside, the tents are collapsed and set aflame. In the main hall, Catelyn sees Smalljon Umber protecting himself from the bolts. Robin Flint is surrounded and killed by Freys with daggers, and Ser Wendel Manderly is felled by a quarrel through the mouth. Smalljon bludgeons Ser Raymund Frey across the face with a leg of mutton, but when he reaches for his swordbelt, a crossbow bolt drives him to his knees. Lucas Blackwood is cut down by Ser Hosteen Frey. One of the Vances is hamstrung by Black Walder as he wrestles with Ser Harys Haigh. Crossbows take Donnel Locke, Owen Norrey, and half a dozen more. Young Ser Benfrey Frey seizes Dacey Mormont by the arm, who smashes him in the face with a wine flagon. She runs for the door, but Ser Ryman Frey comes through with Frey men-at-arms and sinks his axe into Dacey's stomach. Northmen begin pouring through the other door, and Catelyn believes they are there to rescue them for half a heartbeat until one of them decapitates Smalljon. It is revealed that these Northmen are treacherous bannermen who have betrayed Robb and House Stark; they are from House Bolton and the vengeful House Karstark.
Roose Bolton kills Robb Stark, and Catelyn claws her face and screams after killing Aegon Frey, with Raymund Frey approaching to slit her throat.
Desperate, Catelyn sees a dagger and takes it to kill Lord Walder, until she sees that Robb is still alive, with three arrows in his body. Walder Frey watches with amusement and greed as he orders the music to stop. He laughs at the wounded Robb when Catelyn grabs the halfwit Aegon "Jinglebell" Frey as a hostage. In an effort to save her son, Catelyn cries and begs Walder to trade Robb for Jinglebell, a son for a son. Walder simply replies that Jinglebell is just a grandson and was never much use. Roose Bolton appears and thrusts his longsword through Robb's heart after saying, "Jaime Lannister sends his regards," humiliating Catelyn, who had trusted the knight. Catelyn doesn't recognize the man who killed Robb, but she keeps her promise and cuts Jinglebell's throat. Having just witnessed the murder of her firstborn son, Catelyn screams as she claws her own face with her nails in madness. She immediately descends into insanity and despair, having lost her wits, and comes to believe that aside from Ned and Robb, Arya, Bran, and Rickon are also dead, and Sansa will probably die soon after giving Tyrion Lannister an heir. Walder meant to keep Catelyn as a hostage along with her brother Edmure in order to force the river lords to bend the knee to King Joffrey, but with her dangerous madness, Raymund Frey appears, grabs Catelyn by her hair, and cuts her throat.
No definitive count of the massacre is known; most of the northmen are killed, while House Frey loses only approximately fifty men in the camps. The Freys kill Robb's direwolf, Grey Wind, who was locked because he has been aggressive with the Freys ever since Robb and his army arrived at the Twins. Outside, Ser Garse Goodbrook and Ser Tytos Frey are killed by Sandor Clegane, who saves Arya Stark from captivity or possible death. Ser Benfrey Frey dies of a wound.
After the battle, the Freys hack and mutilate Robb's body, cutting off his head along with that of Grey Wind. In a mockery of Robb's relationship with his direwolf, the Freys sew Grey Wind's head onto Robb's decapitated body and place his bronze crown atop the direwolf's head. Catelyn's naked body is later thrown into the river in a mockery of the funeral customs of House Tully. After Lord Edmure consummated his marriage with Roslin, he's thrown into the dungeons, while Roslin herself has fallen in love with him. Ser Ryman Frey takes Robb's crown and later gives it to his whore, who is named the Queen of Whores.
Resurrection and Beric Dondarrion's Death[]
| “ | Her cloak and collar hid the gash his brother’s blade had made, but her face was even worse than he remembered. The flesh had gone pudding soft in the water and turned the color of curdled milk. Half her hair was gone and the rest had turned as white and brittle as a crone’s. Beneath her ravaged scalp, her face was shredded skin and black blood where she had raked herself with her nails. But her eyes were the most terrible thing. Her eyes saw him, and they hated. | „ |
| ~ Merrett Frey sees Stoneheart. |
After Catelyn's death, her body was thrown in the river and found by Arya's direwolf Nymeria three days later, who pulled it out of the cold water. Not long after, the Brotherhood without Banners found the corpse. Harwin, the former Master of Horse at Winterfell, begs Thoros to revive her, but he says she has been dead for too long. Catelyn is then resurrected by Beric Dondarrion, who gives his life for hers through the last kiss of R'hllor. Thus, Beric's unnatural life ends for good.
Catelyn's decomposed body emerges as a vengeful undead person known as Lady Stoneheart and she assumes leadership of the Brotherhood. Ever since her revival, she has lost all of her humanity, now being a cold-hearted, ruthless and paranoid person consumed with a deep hatred for anyone she thinks has betrayed and murdered her and her son, Robb. Aided by the less honorable members of the Brotherhood without Banners, she began a ruthless campaign in hunting down and hanging anyone she considers a Lannister collaborator.
Similarly to her daughter Arya, Lady Stoneheart's victims also includes innocent people who had nothing to do with the Red Wedding or hadn't done anything wrong to the Starks or the Tullys, as to Lady Stoneheart and the now-corrupt Brotherhood, they consider their victims' connection with the Freys, Boltons, or Lannisters, or any party serving the Iron Throne in general as a "crime", even if can be very remote, though they didn't care at all with no remorse, shame or guilt. As she had heard Roose Bolton tell Robb that "Jaime Lannister sends his regards", Lady Stoneheart falsely believed that Jaime had a hand in the Red Wedding and this led her to also develop a bitter hatred of him, and killing Jaime is what she greatly wished to do.
While under her leadership, the Brotherhood without Banners fell low to the point where they are no longer seen as different from any outlaw gang, and they even violated the Guest Right, as ever since the Red Wedding, it is no longer of importance anymore and that it no longer matters to them. Because of what the Brotherhood had become, this caused many members to abandon the Brotherhood and go rogue, though Thoros of Myr continued to remain, despite his disapproval of the outlaw band's current status.
The Brotherhood without Banners captures one of Walder Frey's great-grandsons, Petyr Frey, and demands a hundred golden dragons. One of Walder Frey's sons, Merrett Frey, goes to Oldstones to deliver the ransom. However, by the time he arrived, it was too late, as Petyr had already been hanged. Merrett is told that the same fate awaits him, despite his attempts to justify the Red Wedding. He claims he only drank at the wedding, that Beric always gives a man a trial, and that they have no witnesses. However, Stoneheart reveals herself and claims he was part of the Red Wedding, at which Merrett is hanged.
A Feast for Crows[]
| “ | The Freys slashed her throat from ear to ear. When we found her by the river she was three days dead. Harwin begged me to give her the kiss of life, but it had been too long. I would not do it, so Lord Beric put his lips to hers instead, and the flame of life passed from him to her. And... she rose. May the Lord of Light protect us. She rose. | „ |
| ~ Thoros to Brienne of Tarth. |
The Freys search for the Brotherhood, but despite the efforts of Black Walder Frey, they cannot find them. Lady Stoneheart appears as the main antagonist in Brienne of Tarth's POV storyline.
Under the leadership of Lady Stoneheart, the Brotherhood has fallen low, and now it is no different than any outlaw gang. As a result, many of the original members (among them Edric Dayne and Anguy) abandoned the Brotherhood.
A cloaked and hooded woman is spoken of in the vicinity of Fairmarket and Hag's Mire. There are also tales from the people of the riverlands of a woman called Stoneheart leading a band of outlaws different from Beric's Brotherhood. According to one story, this woman was hanged by Freys but revived by her lover Beric, and now the two lovers cannot die.
Members of the Brotherhood, including Lem and Gendry, come upon a small party led by Brienne of Tarth, who informs them she is searching for Sansa Stark at the behest of Jaime Lannister. After killing Rorge and Biter at the Crossroads Inn, the group of outlaws brings Brienne, Podrick Payne, and Ser Hyle Hunt to the hollow hill to meet their new leader. Thoros of Myr reveals to Brienne that Beric's old Brotherhood has been broken.
Brienne is horrified when the leading hooded woman reveals herself to be Catelyn Stark, or at least what remains of her. Lady Stoneheart is almost impossible to understand and uses her former guardsman of Winterfell, Harwin, as her interpreter. When the other members of the Brotherhood presented Brienne's sword, Oathkeeper, to Lady Stoneheart, the latter stated that it should be named "Oathbreaker," as she falsely believed that Brienne had betrayed her, as Oathkeeper is a Lannister sword forged from her late husband's greatsword, Ice.
In addition, the Brotherhood without Banners believed that Brienne was serving the Lannisters due to the fact that she also carried the royal seal of King Tommen I Baratheon and for deliriously calling out for Jaime Lannister many times as she recovered. Though Brienne insisted that she is still faithful to her promise made in the past and that Jaime is a changed man, Lady Stoneheart refused to have any of it and gave her an ultimatum; she demanded that she prove her loyalty by taking up her sword and killing Jaime Lannister or be hanged along with Pod and Hyle.
When Brienne refused, as it was not her choice, "the thing that had once been Catelyn Stark" gave out the order to hang Brienne, Pod, and Hyle. As they are dying from suffocation, Brienne screams out a word, which according to a semi-canon source is 'sword'.
It is implied that Stoneheart hanged Walder Frey's grandson, Ser Ryman Frey, heir to the Twins, along with his whore and the three Knights and 12 men-at-arms accompanying him. Ryman had Robb's crown at Riverrun and gave it to his whore, but later Stoneheart is shown to possess it when she meets Brienne and her friends.
A Dance with Dragons[]
When Jaime is reported to have disappeared in the Riverlands for weeks, this is a sign that he has been lured by Brienne into Lady Stoneheart's death trap.
The Winds of Winter[]
Lady Stoneheart will make a return. According to author George R. R. Martin, she will play an important role, but what she will be involved in remains unknown as of now. In addition, Martin states that he continues to write her as she has an important part in The Winds of Winter.
Theories and TV series[]
In the TV series' Game of Thrones sixth and seventh seasons, Arya Stark somehow entered the Twins without being noticed and managed to kill Lord Walder, Black Walder, and Lame Lothar. Later, she killed all male family members of House Frey during a great feast at the Twins, though no male children were seen during the event, and it is unknown if Freys who live out of the Twins (Frey squires and knights under other lords, septons, and maesters) were invited as well. This differs from the book version, where Arya actually wants only the names of the guilty Frey members because she doesn't want to kill innocents for the sins of the other relatives (though in the TV version, all those poisoned Freys seem to be the guilty ones). She also personally knew the boy and her former betrothed, Elmar Frey. Arya's storyline in the novels is not just a revenge plot; it also focuses on the drama of her losing her identity, past, and family in the hopes of getting revenge and, by doing so, ending up recruited to the Faceless Men. In the books, Arya is afraid to become heartless due to her temper, or just a tool without any identity and many faces, and tries to hold onto her past identity, hiding her sword Needle when instructed to discard all her belongings.
Lady Stoneheart is different from her daughter: a corpse full of hatred and lust for vengeance without any worries about consequences or the future. She is a mistake of Beric Dondarrion, who chose to bring her back instead of letting her rest. Stoneheart is perfectly capable of killing every Frey she can find without listening to reason. It doesn't matter how old the person is, if they were even involved with the Red Wedding, or whether they ever harmed Starks or Tullys; being called "Frey," "Lannister," or "Bolton" is the only reason she needs to kill them. Apart from that, Lady Stoneheart kills everyone who just happens to work for the Freys and the Lannisters, from knights and squires to mere men-at-arms and smallfolk workers with their families. Stoneheart was alright with killing Podrick Payne, who's a boy of 12, because he was Tyrion's squire, and Ser Hyle Hunt, because he is one of Randyll Tarly's household knights (Randyll caught and hanged twenty of the outlaws, so they pay him back by killing one of his knights). Stoneheart accuses Brienne of being a traitorous Lannister dog with a sword (Oathkeeper) made from her husband's own stolen steel. Stoneheart never forgot Roose Bolton's last words to her son Robb: "Jaime Lannister sends his regards." Right now, in order to save her 2 friends, Brienne is forced to lure Jaime into a trap for the Brotherhood so that Lady Stoneheart can hang him.
Notable Victims[]
- Aegon Frey - Throat "sawed" in retaliation for Robb’s death.
- Petyr Frey - Ordered; hanged by her outlaw subordinates.
- Merrett Frey - Ordered; hanged by her outlaw subordinates.
- Ser Ryman Frey - Ordered; hanged by her outlaw subordinates.
- Queen o' Whores - Possibly; ordered; hanged by her outlaw subordinates.
Quotes[]
| “ | Harwin: She asked the name of this blade of yours. Brienne: Oathkeeper. Stoneheart: [inaudible words] Harwin: No, she says. Call it Oathbreaker, she says. It was made for treachery and murder. She names it False Friend. Like you. |
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| ~ Stoneheart confronts Brienne Tarth over her allegiance to Jaime Lannister and the Iron Throne. |
Trivia[]
- Although she is actually Catelyn revived, the conditions of her corpse after staying in a river for too long resulted in turning her into a conscious, furious undead. The more a person is revived, the more they turn into a walking corpse. George R.R. Martin explained that he made Lady Stoneheart to show that war can entirely change a person.
- Like her predecessor, Beric Dondarrion, Catelyn was resurrected through the Last Kiss, a religious rite practiced by the red priests of R'hllor in which they fill their mouths with fire and breathe flame into the deceased, as they believe that fire cleanses and is a bright gift, then see if their god brings the deceased back to life.
- The corpses are by no means fully restored to life, and they retain the lethal wounds and the appearance they had as corpses. Beric, who was resurrected 7 times, became more and more corpse-like and kept losing parts of his memories and mind after each resurrection, slowly dying. Apparently, the Last Kiss is only performed between believers of the Lord of Light, and Beric had to give his own life for Catelyn's because she was never a follower of R'hllor.
- George R. R. Martin described corpses resurrected through the Last Kiss as wights from fire, in contrast to the wights of ice that are raised by the Others. This makes Catelyn a wight of fire, and she acts as a vengeful revenant.
- Thoros initially refused to perform the Last Kiss on Catelyn's body, as he was too afraid of daring to do so because Catelyn was already dead for over 3 days and left in a river as a whitened corpse. Thoros did not even expect the body to rise after remaining a corpse for so long.
- The corpses are by no means fully restored to life, and they retain the lethal wounds and the appearance they had as corpses. Beric, who was resurrected 7 times, became more and more corpse-like and kept losing parts of his memories and mind after each resurrection, slowly dying. Apparently, the Last Kiss is only performed between believers of the Lord of Light, and Beric had to give his own life for Catelyn's because she was never a follower of R'hllor.
- Like many other characters and storylines, Lady Stoneheart has been omitted from the TV series adaptation of Game of Thrones, which disappointed many fans. George R.R. Martin even argued against the decision of directors David Benioff and D. B. Weiss to remove the character, as he considered it "the first major diversion of the show from the books".
- Catelyn Stark's character was always quite controversial among fans: on the one hand she was a devoted mother, and a loving wife to Ned Stark, as well as kind and proud, she felt empathy for men like Ser Rodrik Cassel, and her late father Hoster Tully, when one of them was injured or suffering from illness. She felt horrible about the sack of Winterfell, thinking with grief about friends and residents like Maester Luwin and the commoners like Old Nan. She also acted as a trusted advisor to Robb, and tried to make the Baratheon brothers, Stannis and Renly, make peace. Finally she was cordial and kind to Brienne; but on the other hand she also made rash decisions that put many innocent people in danger, although Catelyn seemed to care little since they were peasants. Overall she looked down on smallfolk in general, thinking of the refugees admitted inside Riverrun by her brother as "useless". She also thought very poorly of her younger brother, Edmure, even if she loved him much, considering him as a softhead on more than one occasion and underestimating him as a warrior.
- What fans of A Song of Ice and Fire more hate of Catelyn is the treatment (much worse in the novels than in the show) that she gives to her stepson, Jon Snow, for being Ned's supposed bastard (she once wished that he had fallen from the tower instead of his son, Bran, outright telling Jon "it should have been you"). Unlike her television counterpart, Catelyn is unapologetic about her hatred for Jon Snow and never felt bad about it, because she believes that Ned always deeply loved his alleged lover, due to how defensive and hostile he became when she tried to ask him about Jon's mother.
- Other fans harshly criticize some of Catelyn's rash and unwise decisions, such as abducting Tyrion Lannister in public and ignoring her husband's wishes to avoid outright hostilities, undermining the King's authority and resulting in House Lannister attacking House Tully by invading the Riverlands (even executing the innkeep Masha Heddle), starting to disrupting the King's peace and beginning to destabilize the realm. This caused countless deaths and even atrocities such as the burning of Stone Hedge, the sack of the Harrentown and much more. Because of this, Catelyn is considered a main instigator of the War of the Five Kings for taking initiative.
External Links[]
- Catelyn Stark on the Heroes Wiki
- Lady Stoneheart on the A Song of Ice and Fire Wiki.
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