Arya Stark

Arya Stark, also known as Arry, Lanny and Mercy, is one of the main characters from the Game of Thrones series.
== Charactah Account ==
The second daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark and their third child. In contrast to her older sister Sansa, Arya is tomboyish, independent, naive as a child and is particularly close to her bastard half-brother Jon Snow. After being smuggled out of King's Landing following her father's execution, she travels Westeros as a fugitive, contemplating with her own eyes the terrible consequences of the War of the Five Kings.
After concluding that all her family members are dead or missing, Arya travels to Braavos to train with the Faceless Men. She has a list of names of people she's resolved to kill for wronging her and her family, and her experiences harden her into a young but determined killer who slowly but surely begins to cross those names off, carving a bloody swathe through House Stark's enemies.
== Appearance ==
=== Literature ===
* A Clash of Kings
* A Dance with Dragons
* A Feast for Crows
* A Game of Thrones
* A Storm of Swords
* The Winds of Winter
=== TV Series ===
* Game of Thrones
* Game of Thrones Season 2
* Game of Thrones Season 3
* Game of Thrones Season 4
* Game of Thrones Season 5
* Game of Thrones Season 6
* Game of Thrones Season 7
* Game of Thrones Season 8
=== Video Games ===
* Game of Thrones Winter is Coming
* MultiVersus
* Reigns: Game of Thrones
== Trivia ==
* In the novels, Arya is left-handed. Maisie Williams is right-handed, but plays Arya as left-handed to be true to the books, including learning how to fight with a sword in her left hand. Maisie's mother discovered that Arya is left-handed while reading the books, and urged her to play Arya left-handed, for fear that if she didn't, hardcore fans of the books would be outraged and instantly reject her performance.
* When Arya goes blind in the Season 5 finale, continuing into Season 6, the clouded look in her eyes is not a CGI effect at all: Maisie Williams actually wore large, 16 millimeter-wide contact lenses, hand-painted so they were murky. They did not simply give her eyes the appearance of being blind, but cannot be seen through. Thus when Arya is wildly turning around unable to see her surroundings, Williams truly couldn't see anything, and thus gave a genuine performance of being blinded.
* Williams stated in an April 2016 interview that Arya was not given a choice between using a CGI effect or the blinding-contacts: the production team told her to use the blinding-contacts from the start. She went on to explain that the true blindness contacts were only used in closeups or when she was standing still (such as the Season 5 finale). Otherwise, when she had to stumble around while "blind" in Season 6, she switched to contacts which had tiny pinprick holes in the center so she could still see, so she wouldn't harm herself or others (some of her scenes involved fighting with a stick while "blind"). The times when she is moving around and wearing the alternate contacts she can actually see through were then simply filmed in wide-shots so the camera wouldn't pick up the difference - but then she would switch back to the full-blindness contact lenses again for closeups and dialogue-heavy shots without much motion in them.
* Kristina Baskett was a stunt double for Maisie Williams in the role of Arya Stark.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Arya Stark at Wiki of Westeros
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