![]() ![]() Eddard fails to mollify Sansa by buying her a doll as she had outgrown dolls. Īrriving in King's Landing, Sansa's enmity towards Arya and her father continues. Eddard, furious with Robert for agreeing to this, carries out the execution himself, to Sansa's anguish. Sansa and Arya are horrified Lady will be killed and protest. ![]() Cersei orders that Arya's direwolf be executed for harming Joffrey, but when the direwolf cannot be found, she suggests that Sansa's own direwolf Lady be substituted for Nymeria. Arya tells her to tell the truth, but to Arya's fury, Sansa is worried about upsetting her betrothal with Joffrey, so she says that it happened too fast for her to know. Sansa is taken before Robert and his retainers and asked to corroborate Joffrey's claim, that he was the victim of an unprovoked attack. Arya and Mycah flee and Joffrey cries before snapping at Sansa to get him help. Arya strikes Joffrey, and when the prince threatens her with his sword, Arya's direwolf, Nymeria, intervenes and bites Joffrey's arm. ![]() They find Arya practicing her swordsmanship with Mycah, a butcher's son, and Joffrey starts to hurt him for acting above his station and striking a girl of noble blood. Īt the Inn at the Crossroads beside the Kingsroad, Joffrey offers to walk Sansa along the riverbank after the disquieting experience of meeting Ser Ilyn Payne, the king's headsman. Eddard takes the office of Hand and decides to take his daughters with him to the capital. She longs for the excitement of the capital and begs her parents to agree to the match until they do so. Sansa, who is very taken with the handsome young prince, thinks this is a splendid notion. Robert also offers to betroth his son Joffrey to Sansa. King Robert Baratheon visits Winterfell to offer Sansa's father the position of Hand of the King. When her brothers find an orphaned litter of direwolf pups, Sansa adopts the gentlest one and names her Lady. Sansa and her family await the Baratheon entourage. Sansa is given praise by Septa Mordane after exceeding in her sewing abilities, in contrast to her sister Arya, who finds this tedious and difficult. She is often seen in contrast with her sister Arya, who has neither her looks nor her accomplishments in feminine activities and comportment. She has inherited her mother's Tully coloring, and Lady Catelyn thought Sansa will be even more beautiful than she was when she was younger. When she was young she dreamed of being a queen like Cersei Lannister, and that just like in the epic songs she would meet her knight in shining armor. Sansa enjoys proper "lady-like" pursuits and is good at sewing, embroidering, poetry, singing, dancing, literature, etiquette, history, and music. ![]() She has an older brother, Robb, two younger brothers, Bran and Rickon, a younger sister, Arya, and a " bastard half-brother" Jon Snow, with whom she had a distant relationship due to her mother's influence (which, like her mother, Sansa later regretted). Sansa Stark is the eldest daughter and second child of Lady Catelyn and Lord Eddard Stark, the Warden of the North. Following the Battle of King's Landing and Daenerys's subsequent assassination, Sansa declares the North an independent kingdom and is later crowned Queen in the North.Ī young Sansa being tutored by Septa Mordane. Along with the support of the Free Folk, the knights of the Vale, and certain Northern houses, the two of them retake Winterfell from Ramsay Bolton, and Sansa becomes the Lady of Winterfell, whilst Jon is declared King in the North.ĭispleased at Jon for abdicating his title in favor of House Targaryen, she finds enmity with Queen Daenerys, who refuses to accept Northern independence in her restoration and quest for the Iron Throne. After escaping from Winterfell with the help of her father's former ward, Theon Greyjoy, and her sworn-sword, Brienne of Tarth, Sansa reunites with Jon at Castle Black. Under the (sometimes unwitting) tutelage of Cersei Lannister, Margaery Tyrell, and Petyr Baelish, Sansa becomes well-versed in politics and court intrigue, but suffers all the same.Įven after escaping the capital and returning to her childhood home of Winterfell, she endures further hardship at the hands of House Bolton. Initially betrothed to Prince Joffrey Baratheon, the heir to the Iron Throne, Sansa travels to King's Landing in preparation for her nuptials, but essentially becomes a hostage of House Lannister following the execution of her father on trumped-up charges of treason. Queen Sansa Stark is the eldest daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and his wife, Lady Catelyn, sister of Robb, Arya, Bran, and Rickon Stark, and "half-sister" of Jon Snow though truthfully is his cousin. I will always be a Stark." ―Sansa to Lyanna Mormont " I did what I had to do to survive, my lady. ![]()
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