History Characters / GameOfThronesOtherNorthernHouses

* RevengeBeforeReason: He tries to convince the Boltons that they should kill Jon Snow because he still represent a Stark threat looming over their domain and because he wants to avenge his father, never mind that in his position as Lord Commander to the Night's Watch requires him to forsake any lands and titles and also trying to target the Night's Watch would quickly earns the enmity of all other Northern houses. Roose refuses to pursue this idea [[spoiler which leads to Harald becoming an accomplice by inaction to Roose's murder, letting Ramsay killing him so he can take his place and go through their plan to march into Castle Black]].

Another son of Lord Rickard, and the new Lord of Karhold and head of House Karstark.

* AdaptationalVillain: He dies in the Red Wedding in the books, trying to save Robb's life. In the show, he's an ally of Ramsay Bolton.

* TheDragon: To Roose Bolton, as he refuses to serve the Starks after his father was executed by Robb. [[spoiler: When he Roose is executed by his son Ramsay, he switches allegiance to him straight away when he chastise Maester Wolkan for not referring to Ramsay as Lord]].

The new Lord of Karhold and head of House Karstark.

* CompositeCharacter: Possibly a condensation of two characters from the books - Rickard's eldest son Harrion (the one of Rickard's three sons who lived in the novels) and Rickard's uncle Arnolf, who becomes the new ruler of the House.

* CanonForeigner

%%* LargeHam

* PutOnABus: Doesn't appear in Season 2, neither those he appear in Season 3, either. Justified via a Season 2 DVD extra: Robb sent him to liberate the Riverlands while he pushed into the Westerlands.

* {{Badass}}

* SparedByAdaptation

->''Played By:''' Creator/IainGlen

->''Played By:''' Iain Glen

Son of Jeor Mormont. Fled his lordship in disgrace after selling slaves, leaving Bear Island to his aunt Maege. See Characters/GameOfThronesHouseTargaryen.

The former Lord of Bear Island, later Lord Commander of the Nights Watch. See Characters/GameOfThronesNightsWatch

->''Played By:''' Iain Glen]]

! Other Stark Bannermen

[[folder:Galbart Glover]]
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->'''Played By:''' Mark Coney

-->''"Renly is not right!"''

Master of Deepwood Motte and head of House Glover.
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* BadassBeard: He is chosen to command Robb's vanguard over The Greatjon.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He hasn't been seen or mentioned since the end of the first season.

* KilledOffScreen: Heavily implied to be dead in 'The House of Black and White' when it is revealed that her daughter Lyanna Mormont is the current lady of Bear Island.
** Lyanna may be the ''acting'' "Lady of Bear Island", just as Bran Stark was "Lord of Winterfell" in Season 2 while Robb Stark was away on campaign. Maege didn't die on the novels because she was sent on a mission to House Reed in the Neck to prepare for a push to retake Moat Cailin - but whether she's alive or dead in the TV continuity is anyone's guess.

[[folder:Ser Wendel Manderly]]
->'''Played By:''' Oddie Braddell

A son of Lord Wyman Manderly, who accompanies Robb to the war.
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* DemotedToExtra: He only appears in one episode and has no lines. The only way the audience would know he was an important Northerner without knowing his backstory in the books would be because he's positioned very close to Robb Stark and Roose Bolton during Edmure's wedding, the camera kind of lingers on him whenever he's onscreen and that he's wearing a big House Manderly trident-armed merman sigil brooch.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Not for himself, of course, since he dies in the same episode in which he's introduced, but his appearance could count as this for House Manderly, who play a large role in one of the later books in the series and would be hard to adapt out.
%%* SpearCarrier
%%* RedShirt
%%* WeHardlyKnewYe

[[folder:House Forrester]]

A Northern house directly surbordinate to Glover. They are famous for their trademark Ironwood; lumber that is hard to burn, and burns ''blue'' when it does.

''See [[Characters/TelltalesGameOfThronesHouseForrester Telltale Game of Thrones: House Forrester]]''

Another vassal house sworn to the Starks. Their lands are to the far north of the Stark territories, just south of the Wall. Their stronghold is a castle called Last Hearth.

A noble house from the Neck, the narrow peninsula of marshlands that separates the North from the Riverlands, and the southernmost vassals of House Stark. The inhabitants of the Neck are known as Crannogmen, because they live on crannogs (manmade islands) in the swamps.

->'''Rickard Karstark:''' ''"We are kin. Stark and Karstark."''

Another powerful house sworn to the Starks. Their seat is Karhold, close to the east coast of the North. [[labelnote:From the books...]]House Karstark originated as a cadet branch of House Stark about a thousand years prior. Their lands were a reward for defeating a rebel house -- widely believed, but unconfirmed, to be the Boltons.[[/labelnote]]

''Possibly'' a condensation of Lord Rickard's son Harrion (the one of Rickard's three sons who lived in the novels) and Rickard's uncle Arnolf, who becomes the new ruler of the House while Harrion remains a prisoner of the Lannisters.

! Other Stark Bannermen

Lord of Last Hearth and head of House Umber. A powerful lord in the North and one of Robb's chief subordinates in the War of the Five Kings, though he spends most of it [[PutOnABus offscreen]].

* BadassBeard: He probably has the most epic beard in the series thus far. Looks almost like an old photo of grim and bearded American frontiersmen.

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* [[IllGirl Ill Boy:]] He gets noticeably pale, weaker and clammier as he and Meera journey north of the Wall with Bran, and his seizures become more prolific as well.

* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Books]]: Her name.

* GenreSavvy: Despite his propension for LargeHam boistering.
-->'''Greatjon''': Expect nothing of Walder Frey and you'll never be surprised.
** And when Catelyn says that Lord Walder would never harm her:
---> '''Greatjon''': Unless there was a profit in it.
*** Indeed, Walder Frey murders her, her son and most of their bannermen in Season 3.

* KilledOffScreen: Heavily implied to be dead in 'The House of Black and White' when it is revealed that Lyanna Mormont is the current lady of Bear Island.

%% Do not add the crocodile sigil, its completely fanmade

->'''Played By''': N/A

->''"I saw you die tonight. I saw your body burn. I saw the snow fall, and bury your bones."''

* CreepyChild: He appears to be this at first. Subverted when it turns out that he's actually a nice kid.
** He can invoke this to threatening effect though, like when he intimidates Karl Tanner right as he's about to rape his sister Meera.

->'''Rickard Karstark''': ''"We are kin. Stark and Karstark."''

->''"It's treason to free your enemies. In war, you kill your enemies. Did your father not teach you that, boy?"''

* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa: Karstark has reached his elderly years, but it hasn't stopped him from being a badass.
** BadassBeard: He probably has the most epic beard in the series thus far. Looks almost like an old photo of grim and bearded American frontiersmen.
** BadassBoast: By the Old Gods, he's got some awesome ones at that.

** ColonelBadass: Along with Roose Bolton, he's one of Robb's principal subordinates.

** JerkassHasAPoint: When it comes to military matters, Karstark has the right of it at least as often as Robb.
* GrumpyOldMan: His responses when Robb asks him about possible lodging for Ser Alton show that he is a rather irritable man. Justified, as the North has recently lost Winterfell, which calls into question Robb's worthiness as King in the North.
** He was right about Robb marrying Talisa costing him the war. The Freys weren't too happy about it.
* OffWithHisHead: By Robb himself.
* OldSoldier: He's a capable general in Robb's army. And he fought against the Mad King. [[labelnote:From the books...]]He also killed Ser Stafford Lannister at the Battle of Oxcross. (the battle in episode 4)[[/labelnote]]
* PapaWolf: Comes within ''inches'' of striking Catelyn because she refuses to let him kill Jaime for killing his son, who was guarding the cell Jaime was in.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He wants to execute Jaime even though he's a valuable hostage and he's aware of it.
** RevengeByProxy: Murders Willem and Martyn Lannister, two unarmed teenage hostages.
* TragicVillain: The deaths of his sons and the subsequent lack of retribution (including Catelyn freeing Torrhen's killer) drive him mad.

* WouldHurtAChild: He brutally murders two young children for the crime of being Lannisters.

->'''Played By''': Clive Mantle

->''"For thirty years I've been makin' corpses out of men, boy! I'm the man you want leadin' the vanguard."''

* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard
** BadassBoast: Propense to them.
** BadassGrandpa
** ColonelBadass

-->'''Robb''': My lord father taught me it was death to bare steel against your liege lord. Doubtless, the Greatjon only meant to cut my meat for me.
-->'''Greatjon''': Your MEAT... is [[LargeHam BLOODY TOUGH]]! (round of laughter from all the lords as he [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction holds his direwolf-chewed hand]])

* LargeHam

* PutOnABus: Doesn't appear in Season 2, neither those he appear in Season 3, either.
** Justified via a Season 2 DVD extra: Robb sent him to liberate the Riverlands while he pushed into the Westerlands.

->'''Played By''': Mark Coney

->''"Renly is not right!"''

->'''Played By''': N/A

* BadassGrandma

* LadyOfWar
* KneelBeforeFrodo

->'''Played By''': Oddie Braddell

*** [[spoiler:Indeed, Walder Frey murders her, her son and most of their bannermen in Season 3.]]

* SparedByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Non-fatal variation. In the books he was at the Red Wedding and is eventually captured by Freys men and held captive, to keep House Umber in line, but in the series he's ([[PutOnABus presumably]]) still at the Riverlands waging war.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: Not for himself, of course, since [[spoiler: he dies in the same episode in which he's introduced]], but his appearance could count as this for House Manderly, who play a large role in one of the later books in the series and would be hard to adapt out.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:When the Wights attack, Jojen is stabbed multiple times in the chest and subsequently mercy killed by Meera.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Is mortally wounded by Wights, and mercy killed by Meera when they reach the Three Eyed Raven's tree.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Three-Eyed Raven tells Bran how Jojen's entire journey with Bran to the cave was this, considering Jojen was very weak and that he fully expected and accepted death when they reached it.]]

* TheObiWan: He teaches Bran much about being a warg [[spoiler:and dies when Bran reaches his destiny.]]

* SlasherSmile: Gives an awesome one to Karl, [[spoiler:when he tells him that he's seen his future and his very imminent death.]]

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Gives one to her brother Jojen, when he falls against wights while trying to get them to the Three-Eyed Raven's cave.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: In season 4. She has to deal with Jojen's increasingly bad health, getting captured by the Night's Watch mutineers and [[NearRapeExperience almost gang-raped]], and then [[spoiler:she's forced to kill her beloved younger brother, who's been mortally wounded.]]

[[folder:Lord Galbart Glover]]