Be found by within the pack competed marathons dogs rested Only death can pay for life. Loving a Shadow: Even years after her death, is still with Lyanna Stark It's heavily implied that the reason he never got over her it's because he never got to live the reality of marriage with her, not to mention that had he ever got her back like he wished, their marriage would be ruined anyway since there would be Rhaegar's ghost always between them, much like Lyanna's own ghost has been always between and Cersei. And as things turned sour with Cersei, he keeps pining for a woman he actually never knew intimately. This is lampshaded by when has a quarrel with Cersei: The woman tried to forbid me to fight the melee. She's sulking the castle now, her. Your sister would never have shamed me like that. You never new Lyanna as I did, You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath. She would have told you that you have no business the melee. Mysterious Parent: 's mother is officially unknown. Catelyn, and even Cersei, believe 's mother was the late Ashara Dayne. When presses for her identity, tightly tells him that her name was Wylla and refuses to say anything more. addition, after brings baby home with him to raise alongside his trueborn children at Winterfell and acknowledges as his Catelyn observes 's protectiveness of hears rumors of who 's mother may be and asks for the truth of 's mother. This leads to the time ever scared the out of her when he replies is and that is This and Nice Job Breaking It, Herod!: Zig-Zagged. The maegi Mirri Maz Duur magically kills Daenerys Stormborn's unborn utero, both for revenge against the father and because the unborn child is prophesied to be the Stallion That Mounts the World, unstoppable city-smashing warlord. While it doesn't exactly turn out well for Mirri the end, she DOES successfully prevent the boy from being born and fulfilling whatever his Super Special Destiny was supposed to be. However, Mirri's actions wind up resulting the rebirth of dragons into the world, and Daenerys's march toward Westeros. Nightmare Sequence: has recurring dreams about the death of his sister Lyanna and of the mysterious promise that he made to her. Later on, after being thrown the dungeon, he has a particularly creepy nightmare of the late mocking him for putting Honor Before Reason and endangering his family, only 's face begins to crack and then shatters, revealing a horrifyingly surreal image of Littlefinger. Not Different: Lysa and Cersei. Cersei is quickly shown to be a bitter, petty, paranoid tyrant who assumes anyone who isn't a fawning Yes- is out to get her, smothers and spoils her eldest rotten, and inflicts swift Disproportionate Retribution on anyone she perceives as wronged her family any way. Once Catlyn gets to the Eyrie, she quickly learns that her sister Lysa has become petty and paranoid, constantly believes that anyone who gives advice she doesn't want to hear is against her, has spoiled and smothered her much he still breast-feeds at age and leads such a blatant Kangaroo Court against a merely of killing her husband that even his accuser, Cat, thinks it unjust. Oh, and Lysa and her enjoy carrying out executions as much as Cersei and Joffrey do. Sadistic Choice: Either Robb Stark kills his own direwolf or Bran will die. Sansa being asked what happened between Joffrey and Arya at the when you think about it. She's essentially being asked to either side with her fiance or her sister She claims to not remember what happened, maybe to Take The Third Option. The Scapegoat: Cersei demands to have Sansa's wolf put down place of Arya's wolf, and Sansa chooses to blame Arya instead of the who ordered the unjust slaughter. -Shocked Veteran: The Rebellion's effects are visible 's POV, particularly when the deaths of Rhaegar's family and Lyanna are concerned. 's recurring nightmares and obsessive flashbacks mostly concerning Lyanna, the Tower of and the Sack of 's Landing, his avoidance tendency towards anything that would recall those events which strongly suggest he suffers from PTSD. Along with his Honor Before Reason, it has a strong influence on his his decision-making, as he tries hard to avoid every possible bloodshed and subconsciously avoid having to re-experience the traumatic days that shaped him. Strong Family Resemblance: 's bastard offspring all show a strong resemblance to him both physically and being headstrong. This proves to the missing piece of the puzzle for 's research, as his supposedly offspring all take heavily after their mother, despite the fact that all other documented cases Baratheon genes are clearly dominant over Lannister ones. This leads directly to question the real parentage of Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen. Sweet and Sour Grapes: A minor example the discovery of the direwolf pups the first chapter. persuades his father that they're omen as there's one for each of his children, which only works because he's discounted himself from the count his siblings can have a direwolf each. Bran notices this and finds it very moving while also moved, asks if he doesn't want a pup too but omits himself from the count