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Ned Stark
A Vocal of Water ice and Fire character Game of Thrones graphic symbol
Sean Bean as Ned Stark
First appearance	Literature: A Game of Thrones (1996) Tv: "Winter Is Coming" (2011)
Last appearance	Literature: A Game of Thrones (1996) Television: "The Dragon and the Wolf" (2017)
Created by	George R. R. Martin
Adapted by	D. B. Weiss & David Benioff (Game of Thrones)
Portrayed by	Sean Edible bean Sebastian Croft (Kid) Robert Aramayo (Adolescent)
In-universe information
Allonym	The Tranquility Wolf
Gender	Male person
Title	Lord of Winterfell Warden of the North Mitt of the Male monarch Lord Regent of the Vii Kingdoms Protector of the Realm Television: Lord Paramount of the North
Family unit	House Stark
Spouse	Catelyn Tully
Children	Robb Stark Sansa Stark Arya Stark Bran Stark Rickon Stark Theon Greyjoy (ward/foster son) Novels: Jon Snow
Relatives	Rickard Stark (father) Lyarra Stark (mother) Brandon Stark (brother) Lyanna Stark (sister) Benjen Stark (blood brother) Television receiver: Jon Snow (nephew/adoptive son)
Origin	Winterfell

Eddard Stark is a fictional grapheme in the 1996 fantasy novel A Game of Thrones past George R. R. Martin, and Game of Thrones, HBO'south adaptation of Martin'south A Vocal of Ice and Burn series. In the storyline, Ned is the lord of Winterfell, an aboriginal fortress in the Due north of the fictional continent of Westeros. Though the character is established equally the main grapheme in the novel and the commencement flavor of the TV adaptation, a plot twist involving Ned at the end of the novel and the cease of the first season shocked both readers of the book and viewers of the TV series.^{[1] [ii]}

Ned is portrayed by Sean Bean in the first season of Game of Thrones,^{[3] [iv]} every bit a child by Sebastian Croft in the sixth season and as a young adult by Robert Aramayo in the sixth and seventh seasons. Bean was nominated for a Saturn Honour for Best Actor on Television and a Scream Award for Best Fantasy Actor for the role. He and the residue of the cast were nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2011.

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Description [edit]

In A Game of Thrones (1996), Ned Stark is introduced equally the virtuous and honorable patriarch of House Stark and the father of six children. The moral compass of the story, he is content to remain far from courtly intrigues^[5] and is unwavering in his view of loyalty and honor.^[6] His family proper noun, Stark, serves as an indication of his resistance to moral compromise, but his boundaries are increasingly tested over the course of the novel.^[6] Finding himself a key player in the escalating political intrigue of Rex's Landing, Ned struggles every bit his own sense of accolade draws him into corrupt goings-on at court.^{[5] [6]} As the story progresses, he begins to encounter the importance of moral and practical compromises to reach a just terminate, and is ultimately forced to cull betwixt the safety of his family and doing what is right.^[vii]

Sean Edible bean said of the character, "He's a practiced man trying to practise his best in the middle of this abuse, he'south a fish out of water, he'southward used to existence up n in Winterfell where people are pretty directly and businesslike, and he comes down to a identify where people are playing games and backstabbing ... he's a principled human who tries to concur things together. This is a journey that he makes where ultimately his loyalty causes his downfall."^[8]

Development and overview [edit]

Publishers Weekly noted in 1996 that, despite the honest Ned Stark'due south intervention in courtroom politics, "no amount of heroism or adept intentions tin keep the realm nether control."^[9] From his very starting time introduction, Ned is portrayed equally a noble hero and set upward to be the heart of the story. With fifteen chapters devoted to his point of view, more than any single graphic symbol in the novel, he is presented every bit a primary grapheme in the series, and the main storyline of A Game of Thrones, the drama in King'due south Landing, is told entirely from his perspective. In the London Review of Books, John Lanchester writes that everything about Ned is designed to gain audience sympathy, from his strong sense of honor and moral compass to his compassion towards his wife and children.^[10] Readers are led to believe that Ned will exist the principal character of the series, but ultimately he is, from a literary perspective, a classic decoy protagonist. Later struggling to keep himself and the kingdom on a moral path for the entire novel, the merely option that remains to salve his family is to put bated his accolade; he does and so, merely is betrayed anyway.^{[vii] [eleven]} Calling Ned'due south execution "shocking", The New York Times noted in 2011 that the novel was "famous for dispatching a thoroughly admirable major character with whom readers have been identifying for most of the book".^[1] In an interview for Entertainment Weekly, author George R. R. Martin commented on this misdirection:

I knew it most from the start. Not the first day, simply very soon. I've said in many interviews that I similar my fiction to be unpredictable. I like at that place to be considerable suspense. I killed Ned in the beginning book and it shocked a lot of people. I killed Ned because everybody thinks he's the hero and that, sure, he'due south going to get into trouble, but then he'll somehow go out of it.^[12]

David Benioff, executive producer and writer of the HBO adaptation, told Entertainment Weekly that when he read the novel:

I was in daze. From your training in seeing then many movies and reading books, you know your hero is going to be saved ... Someone has something planned, considering they're non really going to chop off his head—correct upwardly until the moment when they chopped off his head. I was shocked, and then admiring of George's ruthlessness. Information technology's a tough thing to build up a character and brand somebody as memorable and impressive as Ned and then get rid of him. But at the same fourth dimension it leads to a story that is so much more suspenseful considering you truly take no idea what is going to happen and who is going to survive.^[xiii]

In a review of the Game of Thrones Idiot box episode "Baelor", James Poniewozik wrote in Fourth dimension that "the execution of Eddard Stark is crucial to the story and its themes and everything that follows, but it'southward likewise a meta-bulletin to the reader: don't take anything for granted here".^[11] James Hibberd of Entertainment Weekly stated that tricking the audition into thinking Ned is the hero and and so killing him makes the series' story better.^[7] Writing that "the large twist here isn't that Ned Stark dies, but who the truthful protagonists of Game of Thrones are", Hibberd pointed out that the serial' focus proves to be the "new generation" of leaders, in item the Stark children only too Daenerys and even Tyrion.^[14] He noted:

Ned Stark doesn't die in vain ... It takes the Stark kids—who are all too young to face these responsibilities—and thrusts them into a struggle where they're forced to quickly grow equally characters. Martin busts many cliches in his writing, simply this move is traditional Heroes Journeying stuff if y'all consider the kids to be the true protagonists of this story—only by sacrificing the fatherly mentor figure can our heroes come into their own.^[14]

Storylines [edit]

Coat of artillery of Firm Stark

Groundwork [edit]

As established in A Game of Thrones, Eddard "Ned" Stark is the 2d son of Rickard Stark, the Lord of Winterfell. Years before the events of the novel, the repose and shy young Ned is fostered in the Vale past Jon Arryn. During this fourth dimension Ned becomes shut friends with Robert Baratheon, heir to the Stormlands and another ward of Arryn'due south. Robert is somewhen betrothed to Ned's sister Lyanna, but before he can marry her, Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen absconds with Lyanna. Ned'southward male parent and older blood brother Brandon get to Rex Aerys II Targaryen and need that Lyanna be freed; the then-called "Mad King" executes both Rickard and Brandon, convinced that the Starks seek to usurp him. Ned, Robert, and Arryn then rise in revolt, securing the support of House Tully with Ned marrying Brandon'southward betrothed Catelyn Tully. Ned leaves for war the very side by side morning.

At the decisive Battle of the Trident, Robert manages to impale Prince Rhaegar and scatter the Targaryen army. Robert is injured in the battle, so Ned takes command and marches on the capital. In King's Landing, Ned finds that Business firm Lannister has — through treachery — already sacked the metropolis, and murdered Aerys and the royal family. Disgusted by the dishonorable massacre, Ned departs to lift the siege of the Baratheon stronghold Storm'southward End, and after attempts to rescue Lyanna just finds her dying; her last words are "Promise me Ned." Ned returns to Winterfell with his bastard son Jon Snow in tow; meanwhile Catelyn has delivered their son and Ned's heir, Robb, conceived on their nuptials night.

Six years after the cease of Robert'southward Rebellion, Balon Greyjoy, the Lord of the Iron Islands, declares independence from the Fe Throne. Ned aids King Robert in putting down "Greyjoy's Rebellion". Balon surrenders, and his sole surviving heir, Theon, is taken back to Winterfell equally Stark's ward and earnest. Ned rules the North for nine more than years before the events of the novel.

A Game of Thrones [edit]

As A Game of Thrones begins, Catelyn informs Ned that his mentor Jon Arryn had died, and that King Robert intends to offer Ned Jon'southward one-time position as Hand of the King. Content to be far from court intrigue, Ned is reluctant to accept the offer until he receives a letter of the alphabet from Arryn's widow, who believes that her husband had been poisoned by the Lannisters. Ned afterwards agrees to the engagement to protect Robert. He and so travels southward to Male monarch'south Landing with his daughters Sansa and Arya. Catelyn afterwards comes to the capital in surreptitious, under the protection of her childhood friend Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, to tell Ned of an assassination attempt on their young son Bran. Ned's longstanding mistrust of the Lannisters is further fueled past Littlefinger's confirmation that the dagger used by the would-be assassin once belonged to Tyrion Lannister. Increasingly disgusted by the political intrigues at court, Ned finally resigns his position when Robert insists on having Aerys' only surviving child, the young Daenerys Targaryen, assassinated in exile. Meanwhile, Catelyn has taken Tyrion hostage at the Eyrie, and in retaliation Jaime Lannister attacks and seriously injures Ned in the street earlier he and his daughters can depart Rex'south Landing. Visiting a wounded Ned, Robert reappoints him as Mitt.

Ned eventually concludes that all of Robert's heirs with his wife Cersei are illegitimate, the product of her incest with her twin brother Jaime. Further, Ned suspects that Arryn had been poisoned to conceal the truth. Ned confronts Cersei with his discovery and gives her the take chances to escape with her children into exile. Before Ned can tell the king, Robert is fatally wounded while hunting and names Ned Protector of the Realm, to office as regent until his "son" Joffrey comes of historic period. Ned alters Robert's will, replacing Joffrey's proper name with "my rightful heir" to brand the succession cryptic. With the palace in chaos, Ned rebuffs multiple offers to increase his own power, instead opting to crown Robert's brother, Stannis Baratheon, as king. Cersei, however, outmaneuvers Ned, and the duplicitous Littlefinger has the metropolis picket arrest Ned instead of Cersei. With all of his entourage slaughtered, Sansa a hostage and Arya escaped but alone, Ned is charged with treason. A deal is struck in which Ned will be spared and sent into exile if he declares Joffrey the rightful king. Fearing for his daughters, Ned makes a public confession of his "treason". The sadistic Joffrey, however, has Ned executed anyway for his own amusement.

Later novels [edit]

Ned'south arrest pits the Stark and Lannister forces confronting each other, and his execution causes a civil war subsequently chosen the War of the Five Kings. Tyrion Lannister eventually returns Ned's bones to his widow Catelyn, simply it is not confirmed whether they ever arrived at Winterfell. He is mentioned in a flashback forth with his friend Robert Baratheon in the follow-up novel A Clash of Kings.

Family tree of House Stark [edit]

v t e Descendants of Rickard Stark
Rickard [a] Lyarra[b] Brandon[a] Catelyn Tully[c] Eddard [a] Lyanna[a] [d] Benjen[a] Robb [c] Jeyne Westerling[e] Sansa[c] Tyrion Lannister[f] Arya[c] Brandon[c] Rickon[c] Jon Snow[c] [d]
Notes: ^ a b c d e Martin, George R. R. (1996). "Chapter four: Eddard". A Game of Thrones. pp. 36–45. ISBN978-0-553-89784-5. ^ Martin, George R. R.; García Jr., Elio M.; Antonsson, Linda (2014). "Appendix: Stark Lineage". The World of Ice & Burn. ISBN978-0-553-80544-4. ^ a b c d eastward f g Martin. "Appendix: House Stark". A Game of Thrones. pp. 785–786. ^ a b In the TV series Game of Thrones, Jon is revealed to be the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna. ^ Martin, George R. R. (2000). "Chapter fourteen: Catelyn". A Storm of Swords. pp. 192–193. ISBN978-0-553-89787-half-dozen. ^ Martin, George R. R. (2000). "Chapter 28: Sansa". A Storm of Swords. pp. 382–393. ISBN978-0-553-89787-half dozen.

Television receiver adaptation [edit]

In January 2007 HBO secured the rights to arrange Martin'due south series for tv.^{[15] [16]} When the pilot went into production in 2009, ane of the offset casting announcements was Sean Edible bean as the "lead" Eddard Stark.^{[17] [eighteen]} As the show premiered in 2011, the Los Angeles Times called Bean's Ned "the strong and brooding headliner of the series".^[5]

As in the source novel, Ned is beheaded in the 9th episode of flavor i, "Baelor".^[19] Though praising the character's demise for its function in propelling the story, James Hibberd of Amusement Weekly subsequently noted that:

This is probably the offset fourth dimension a U.S. drama series has ever killed off its main character in the offset season as function of its master creative plan … it's just … not done. You don't bandage a star, put him on bus stops and magazine ads marketing the bear witness, get viewers all invested in his story, and and then dump him nine episodes subsequently just because information technology arguably makes the story a flake more interesting.^[14]

Hibberd echoed the show's producers' statement that "the move lays down a dramatic precedent for the show: Nobody is safe".^[14] He called it a "risky" move that would probably lose the show viewers who had tuned in for Bean, but would hopefully attract others impressed by the boldness of it.^[20] Executive producer and writer D. B. Weiss told Entertainment Weekly in 2011 that when he and Benioff pitched the serial to HBO, the fact that "principal grapheme" Ned was slated to die "was a selling indicate for them".^[13] Noting that the network has killed off characters in other successful serial, he said that this sense of jeopardy "completely ups the dues for any moment when a grapheme is in a dire situation if you lot know another character didn't survive a similar situation".^[13] HBO programming president Sue Naegle concurred, saying that Ned'southward death made the bear witness creatively more than attractive, adding that "The book series was filled with unexpected twists and turns. I loved this idea nosotros'd bring together the group of characters, then once you started to believe all the tropes of heroes, you pull the carpet out from under them. It'southward the opposite of feeling manipulated".^[two] Noting that the story and world of the serial is bigger than whatsoever i character, Naegle said, "Sean brings a behemothic following, but Thrones is not but nearly the promise you're going to run across one of your favorite actors week in and week out. The star is the story".^[two] Bean noted that Ned'south expiry "was every bit much a surprise to me as anyone" and called information technology "a very courageous motion for a television company".^[viii]

The image of Edible bean as Ned Stark sitting in the Iron Throne is featured on the covers of the 2011 Season i DVD and Blu-ray Disc sets, released in March 2012.^{[21] [22]}

The character makes a return in the sixth season, under a recurring capacity, via flashback visions of his youth and childhood seen by Bran and the Three-Eyed Raven using Greensight.

Storylines [edit]

Flavor one [edit]

In season 1, King Robert Baratheon travels to Winterfell and asks his old friend and closest ally Eddard "Ned" Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, to presume the position of Hand of the Rex after the sudden death of their mentor, Jon Arryn. Not interested in politics or the intrigues of the court, Ned accepts out of duty, likewise as to discover how Arryn died. Ned travels to King'south Landing with his daughters Arya and Sansa, the latter of which is betrothed to Robert's eldest son, Prince Joffrey. Meanwhile, Ned's wife Catelyn has Tyrion Lannister captured, assertive he was responsible for sending an assassin to kill Bran and that the Lannisters also killed Jon Arryn. Ned and Robert soon detect themselves at odds regarding Daenerys Targaryen, and Ned steps downward equally Mitt in defiance against Robert's wishes to have her killed. Soon after, Ned and his guards are attacked past Tyrion's brother Jaime Lannister; Ned is injured and his men are murdered. Robert reappoints Ned every bit Hand and commands him to have Catelyn release Tyrion and make peace with the Lannisters. While Robert departs for a boar hunt, Ned discovers that Tywin Lannister and his forces are laying siege to the Riverlands, the homeland of his wife's house, the Tullys. He demands Tywin present himself in Male monarch'southward Landing and sends a force to bring his bannermen to justice.

Robert is killed just as Ned discovers that his three children past Cersei were actually fathered by the queen's twin, Jaime. Before Ned is able to neutralize Cersei and place Robert's brother Stannis on the throne, he is betrayed by Littlefinger, and the queen has him imprisoned for treason. Ned's eldest son Robb calls in his father's banners and marches an army s in an try to rescue his begetter. Ned makes a public confession to salvage his daughters from Cersei'southward wrath, only Joffrey has Ned beheaded anyhow.^[23]

Seasons six and seven [edit]

In the flavour 6 episode "Home", Bran sees a vision of Ned (Sebastian Croft) as a child with his sister and brother, Lyanna and Benjen.^[24] In the following episode, "Oathbreaker", Bran witnesses the boxing between a young Ned (Robert Aramayo) and the knight Ser Arthur Dayne at the Tower of Joy.^[25] In the episode "The Door", Bran watches Ned bid Benjen and his father, Rickard, farewell as he departs for his fosterage at the Vale. In the post-obit episode, "Blood of My Blood", Bran briefly glimpses Ned's hand amongst someone's claret, revealed in the season finale, "The Winds of Winter", every bit belonging to Lyanna (Aisling Franciosi), dying of childbirth in the tower. She makes him swear to protect her son - Jon Snow. Bran revisits this moment in the season 7 finale, "The Dragon and the Wolf", where Lyanna whispers Jon's truthful name to Ned - Aegon Targaryen.^{[26] [27] [28]}

Recognition and awards [edit]

Bean was nominated for a Saturn Honour for Best Role player on Boob tube,^[29] a Scream Honor for Best Fantasy Player,^[30] and an EWwy Laurels for All-time Thespian, Drama for the part.^[31] IGN named Ned its Best TV Hero of 2011,^[32] and Bean won the Portal Award for Best Actor.^[33]

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