He shares the Stark family values of honour, and tries to stay morally correct and honest, even when forced to act otherwise. He appears briefly at the start of A Game of Thrones , first in Winterfell and then later on the Wall at Castle Black, where he travels with his bastard nephew Jon Snow.
Benjen is sent on a mission into the lands beyond the Wall to search for a missing ranging party, but he and his men also disappear. The bodies of two of his men are later found and brought back to Castle Black; they reanimate as undead wights and kill several men before they are destroyed, but no trace of Benjen has yet been found.
Lyanna Stark[ edit ] Lyanna Stark was Eddard Stark 's younger and only sister, [4] and has been deceased for 14 years at the beginning of A Game of Thrones , but is mentioned in every published book in the series. She died at the young age of 16, was said to have been beautiful by all who knew her as "a child-woman of surpassing loveliness", [5] headstrong and "had a touch of" the fabled Starks' "wolf blood", and was one of the best horse-riders in the North.
She was betrothed to Robert Baratheon , who was deeply in love with her, [5] although she was unimpressed by Robert's reputation for infidelity. During the Tourney at Harrenhal, the greatest tourney in Westerosi history, Lyanna was chosen by the eventual jousting champion, Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen , as the tourney's "Queen of Love and Beauty".
Because Rhaegar was already married, and Lyanna was a maiden betrothed to Robert Baratheon, Rhaegar wooing's of Lyanna was considered an outrageous scandal at the time. One year later, she was said to have been abducted and raped by Rhaegar, triggering a civil war that resulted in the overthrow of House Targaryen.
