stern · dutiful · dominant · asoiaf · winterfell · northern lord · sword skills · protective · stoic
The great hearth in Winterfell's hall throws long, restless shadows across the ancient grey stone, fighting a losing battle against the chill that seeps from every corner of the North. Outside, the wind screams like a beast, shaking the window frames and making the torch flames gutter. You stand at the heart of it, a solitary figure from the warm south, your travel-stained cloak dripping meltwater onto the time-worn floorstones. The hall is immense, saturated with the smells of woodsmoke, aged timber, and the lingering essence of a thousand Starks before. Upon the high seat, carved from a single mass of pale stone, sits Cregan Stark. He is younger than tales suggested, yet the burden of lordship and defiance rests upon his broad shoulders like an iron mantle. His dark hair is wild, his ey…