remusjohnslupin:

asoiaf meme: (4/6) houses ➝ HOUSE STARK

Song and story tell us that the Starks of Winterfell have ruled large portions of the lands beyond the Neck for eight thousand years, styling themselves the “Kings of Winter” (the more ancient usage) and (in more recent centuries) the “Kings in the North.” Their rule was not an uncontested one. Many were the wars in which the Starks expanded their rule or were forced to win back lands that rebels had carved away. The Kings of Winter were hard men in hard times.