Torrhen Karstark

## Lord of Karhold

Rickard Karstark

Konrad Snow

Evelyn Karstark

Roslyn Karstark

**Torrhen Karstark** is the icy Lord of Karhold. Intense and distrusting of others, Torrhen has a reputation as a ferocious warrior and a man with a mind for war.

## Appearance

Torrhen is a brutish, broad and blustering man of great stature and bulk. His meaty hands and beady eyes convey the man that Torrhen is - cold as the Winter's Sun from which he believes himself to be birthed from. When in a rage, Torrhen's angry head swells up and turns red like a ripe tomato. He smashes his fists and makes demands of all who come before him. Torrhen wears an impressive beard and a scraggly mane of dark hair, as do his sons and daughters. Across his shoulder is a mangled scar he earned in the War of the Four Daughters.

## History

**364 AC:** Torrhen is born the eldest son of Eddard Karstark and his wife. As a baby, he never stops wailing.

**366 AC:** Torrhen's brother Rodrik is born, and is the same as his elder brother.

**369 AC:** Torrhen's next brother - Brandon - is born.

**370 AC:** Torrhen begins studying with the maester of Karhold, but has trouble picking up letters.

**371 AC:** The final Karstark brother, Rickard, is born. Torrhen is extremely protective of his younger brother, attacking any who dare to provoke him.

**372 AC:** Torrhen is constantly able to defeat his brothers in their boyish brawls. Even when the sons of the castle peasants join in their fights, and Torrhen always bests his young foes.

**379 AC:** Torrhen attends his sister's wedding to Rickard Stark - the soon to be Lord of Winterfell. Rickard gets drunk and begins to brawl with another Northman, and as usual, Torrhen jumps in to protect his kin, nearly beating the man to death.

**380 AC:** Torrhen is among the first Northmen to volunteer to *serve his five* when Lord Torrhen Stark institutes the new law.

**381 AC:** His time in the watch is marked by a change in discipline for Torrhen. He learns early on that not all problems can be solved with violence. Torrhen is named to the rangers, and posted to the garrison at Deep Lake. His years as a man of the watch harden him to battle.

**385 AC:** Torrhen emerges from the watch as a man. He's grown into a talented warrior, become event more violent, and bears a new reputation as a skilled leader. By now his brother Rodrik has also began his term.

**387 AC:** Torrhen weds Lyanna Flint in a small ceremony. Torrhen finds his wife boring, but does his duty as a husband.

**388 AC:** His firstborn son, Donnor, is born. Torrhen takes a liking to the boy instantly. The birth is a near perfect recreation of his own, with the boy screaming as he had.

**391 AC:** His son Karlon is born on the same day that his father Eddard dies. Torrhen takes a liking to the boy despite the ill omens. Torrhen has any man who decree's his son cursed put to death. Torrhen is named the new Lord of karhold.

**392 AC:** His brother Rodrik father's a bastard, Konrad Snow. Torrhen agrees to take the boy under his wing, and treat him no differently than he would another member of his house, although he comes to despise his brother for dishonouring the Karstark name.

**395 AC:** His daughter Evelyn is born.

**397 AC:** His daughter Alys is born.

**399 AC:** His daughter Roslyn is born.

**406 AC:** His brother Brandon is killed on a ranging near Castle Black.

**409 AC:** Torrhen mocks the Southron lords as he hears of a new war being declared on the free cities.

**410 AC:** As the war grows more violent, Torrhen petitions Lord Stark to send their armies to join the fighting. He tells the lord that "He wants blood.. and it is blood that he shall have!"

**411 AC:** Torrhen and his best men are among those chosen to begin the assault on Braavos, and Torrhen fights with no regard for his own safety. His son Donnor is offered a knighthood after the fighting, but Torrhen and his bastard nephew Konrad Snow shame him into refusing it. Torrhen distinguishes himself in most of the battles of this year and the next.

**412 AC:** Torrhen continues the push south with the Northern host, gaining a reputation as one of the North's best captains.

**413 AC:** At the battle of the bones, Torrhen witnesses his brother Rickard fall to a volantene spear. In a bid to save him, Torrhen hurls himself into the fray and begins to cut a path towards his wounded kinsman. As he is nearing his fallen brother, an axe catches him in the shoulder. Torrhen lets out a bellowing roar like the day he was born, and crumples to the ground, passing out from blood loss. When he comes to, he finds that they've escaped the encirclement. His son Karlon had managed to pull him out in the daring breakthrough. His arm will be saved too. Torrhen is overjoyed, and cackles with boisterous delight.

**414 AC:** Karlon is slain by a stray arrow as the Braavosi retreat from the battle of River's Bridge. Torrhen receives word that the Crown has surrendered, but refuses to let the Karstark banners be dipped. Even as he is borne on a litter towards the ship that will take him home, he raises his banner with his good arm in defiance of the surrender.

**415 AC:** His return home is a painful one. Those his arm is saved, Torrhen can not swing a sword as he once could. Any movement with his right arm is painful. The Lord grows more and more angry at the world, curing the gods for abandoning him! Torrhen begins to lose the discipline he gained in the watch, and becomes more explosive in his temper than ever before. Even drink becomes a uninteresting to Torrhen, and he drinks not to get drunk, but to simply to fill time. His son Donnor takes leave to visist White Harbour.

**417 AC:** Donnor washes up upon the banks of the Last River, between Karhold and the Dreadfort.. with a knife in his back. Torrhen takes his nephew, one of his girls and a cadre of guards, and sets off for Winterfell to seek answers... and vengeance!

## Possessions

### Trinkets

* A massive bearskin cloak that envelops his whole body, making his great bulk look even bulkier.

## Connections

* Rickard Stark - Lord of Winterfell; his brother-In-law.

## Rumours

* Supposedly unable to wield a sword as he once did.

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