Greyjoy Rebellion - Robb Stark

Greyjoy Rebellion -
Robb Stark

Premise[]

Robb Stark tells the story ofhis father leading the finalassault onPyke that brought an end toBalon Greyjoy'sinsurrection.^[3]

Narration[]

Robb Stark:"Dark wings, dark words."I was only a boy when theraven came to call my father, LordEddard Stark, to another war.

Balon Greyjoy had raised theIron Islands in revolt andburned theLannister fleet at anchor. KingRobert Baratheon again needed his old friend.

My mother,Catelyn, was not happy to lose her lord husband to Robert again. Six years before, he had left her to avenge hisfather andbrother against theMad King.

But now he had sons and daughters of his own, and, unspoken, another son who was not hers from the last time he went to war. My brother,Jon Snow.

But she knew that in marrying my father, she had married theNorth. We hold our honor and duty as dear as our own gods. When the time came, my father marched south to restore peace and order to the realm.

My father always told me the Iron Islands were a strange and dangerous place. Its people, theIronborn, keep neither theOld Gods nor theSeven and despise all honest toil.

Their ancestors ravaged the western shores, raping andslaving and putting it to the torch, and their songs still ring through the halls of the Ironborn while everywhere else they're whispered to wayward children at bedtime.

Perhaps Lord Balon thoughtWesteros had not healed from thewar against the Mad King and was as fragmented and suspicious as the ancient kingdoms his forbears had terrorized.

Robert's navy corrected him atFair Isle when theysmashed the proudIron Fleet. Robert and my father corrected him atPyke when theypulled down his towers and breached his walls.

My father never liked to speak of his battles, but, from other men, I learned what transpired.

Thoros ofMyr was first through the breach with his flaming sword. Not far behind him wasJorah Mormont ofBear Island, my father's bannerman who earned theknighthood he would later shame, and lords from every corner of theSeven Kingdoms.

All day through every passage of the castle, they fought side by side. My father with our ancestral swordIce and King Robert with his warhammer against a horde of ax-wielding Ironborn. In the end, Lord Balon bent the knee.

King Robert generously allowed Lord Balon to retain his title and castle. The price of peace was custom. The only son of Balon's to survive his foolish rebellion would be taken as a hostage against future treasons.

My father even volunteered to foster the boy himself, I suspect to makeTheon Greyjoy a different man than his father, who would bring honor and duty to the Iron Islands when he returned as heir.

So my mother's silent fear came true, and my father returned with another child. Theon ate with us, played with us, and fought with us.

Once, the great bond between my father and Robert Baratheon united the realm against the Mad King and brought him to justice for his crimes.

Now,another monster sits on theIron Throne, and another debt of blood is owedmy family. Theon is my murdered father's ward; I am my murdered father's son.

Like my father and Robert, boundin blood if notby blood, we are brothers.

Appearances[]

Individuals[]

• Robb Stark
• LordEddard Stark
• KingBalon Greyjoy
• KingRobert Baratheon
• LadyCatelyn Stark
• SeptaMordane
• Sansa Stark
• Jon Snow
• KingAerys II Targaryen(mentioned)
• Thoros ofMyr
• SerJorah Mormont
• Theon Greyjoy
• Arya Stark
• KingJoffrey Baratheon(mentioned indirectly)

Houses[]

• House Stark
• House Greyjoy
• House Lannister
• House Baratheon
• House Mormont

Locations[]

• TheNorth
  • Winterfell
• Lannisport
• Iron Islands
  • Fair Isle
  • Pyke
• Myr(mentioned)
• Bear Island(mentioned)

Events[]

• Greyjoy Rebellion
  • Raid on Lannisport
  • Sea battle off Fair Isle
  • Siege of Pyke
• Robert's Rebellion(mentioned)

Cultures[]

• Ironborn

Religions[]

• Old Gods(mentioned)
• Faith of the Seven(mentioned)

Miscellaneous[]

• Raven
• Knighthood
• Ice
• Iron Fleet

Cast[]

• Richard Madden asRobb Stark

Behind the scenes[]

• This is the first of four shorts on theGreyjoy Rebellion.
• All three narrators (Robb,Theon, andStannis) state that the Greyjoy Rebellion occurred six years after Robert's Rebellion. While this is true in the books, it is not true in the TV continuity. The TV series added an extra two years after Robert's Rebellion so that it occurred seventeen years before the narrative begins, instead of fifteen years before as in the books. This was done in order to age-upDaenerys Targaryen, due to censorship and production reasons (other younger characters such as the Stark and Baratheon children were also aged-up to correspond to Daenerys). In the books, theGreyjoy Rebellion occurred six years after Robert's Rebellion and thus nine years before the narrative begins. The TV series has consistently stated that the Greyjoy Rebellion was also nine years before, probably in order to keep Theon's time with the Starks the same. King Robert mentions that it was nine years ago in Season 1, as does Balon Greyjoy at the very start of Season 2 (just as it was about to become ten years).
  • The Greyjoy Rebellion was therefore established to have occurredeight years after Robert's Rebellion in the TV continuity. ThisHistories & Lore short's statements that it was six years later is therefore a mistake and non-canon, because it contradicts multiple on-screen statements in the live-action TV series' episodes.

Gallery[]

Greyjoy Rebellion - Robb Stark

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