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| Character_name = [[File:House_Stark.PNG|50px|left]] '''Rickon Stark''' [[File:House_Stark.PNG|50px|right]]
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| Character_name = [[File:House_Stark.svg|50px|left]] Rickon Stark [[File:House_Stark.svg|50px|right]]
| image          = [[File:Rickon Stark.jpg|250px]]
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| image          = [[File:Rickon Stark.jpg|300px]]
| image_caption  = Rickon and [[Shaggydog]], Art by Amoka©
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| image_caption  = Rickon and [[Shaggydog]], Art by Amok©
 
| Alias          =
 
| Alias          =
| Title          = Prince of Winterfell<br>Heir to Winterfell
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| Title          = [[Prince]]{{Ref|ACOK|69}}
 
| Allegiance    = [[House Stark]]
 
| Allegiance    = [[House Stark]]
 
| Race          =
 
| Race          =
 
| Culture        = [[Northmen]]
 
| Culture        = [[Northmen]]
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| Father        = [[Eddard Stark]]
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| Mother        = [[Catelyn Tully]]
 
| Spouse        =
 
| Spouse        =
| Place_of_Birth = [[Winterfell]]
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| Place_of_Birth = [[Winterfell]]{{Ref|AWOIAF| Rickon Stark}}
| Date_of_Birth  = {{Date|295}}
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| Date_of_Birth  = {{Date|295}} <small>(age 4)</small><ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Rickon Stark|Rickon Stark]] calculation.''</ref>
 
| Place_of_Death =
 
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| Date_of_Death  =
 
| Date_of_Death  =
| Books          = [[A Game of Thrones]] (Appears)<br>[[A Clash of Kings]] (Appears)<br>[[A Storm of Swords]] (Mentioned<br>[[A Feast for Crows]] (Mentioned)<br>[[A Dance with Dragons]] (Mentioned)
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| Books          = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appears)<br>''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appears)<br>''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (mentioned)<br>''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (mentioned)<br>''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (mentioned)<br>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'' (mentioned)
 
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| Played_by      = [[List of actors of the televised series#Art Parkinson,Rickon Stark|Art Parkinson ]]
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| Played_by      = [[w:Art Parkinson|Art Parkinson]]
| TV_series      = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
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| TV_series      = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 6|Season 6]]}}
{{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 4|Season 4]]}}
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{{See homonyms | Rickon Stark (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Mark Evans Rickon Stark.jpg|350px|thumb|Rickon and [[Shaggydog]] - by Mark Evans. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
 
  
'''Rickon Stark''' is [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]] and [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]]'s youngest child, only three years old when the series begins. Rickon is a naturally aggressive and strong-willed child, but his youth makes it difficult for him to cope with the terrible changes that come to his family and life.  He is usually accompanied by his [[direwolf]], [[Shaggydog]]. In the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]] Rickon is played by Art Parkinson.<ref name=HBO/>
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'''Rickon Stark''' is [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]] and [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]]'s youngest child, only three years old when the series begins. Rickon is a naturally aggressive and strong-willed child, but his youth makes it difficult for him to cope with the terrible changes that come to his family and life.  He is usually accompanied by his [[direwolf]], [[Shaggydog]]. In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' Rickon is played by [[w:Art Parkinson|Art Parkinson]].<ref name=HBO/>
  
 
==Appearance and Character==
 
==Appearance and Character==
Rickon is very young, he has bright eyes and favors his mother in appearance.{{Ref|aGoT|19}} After his mother traveled south Rickon refused to have his hair cut. As a result he has long, unruly hair.{{Ref|aGoT|7}} His youth makes it difficult for him to cope with the terrible changes that are brought upon his life and family by war, which are reflected in his [[direwolf]] companion named [[Shaggydog]].
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{{See also|:Category:Images of Rickon Stark|l1=Images of Rickon Stark}}
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Rickon favors his mother [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]] in appearance, having the bright blue eyes, auburn hair, and easy smile of a [[House Tully|Tully]].{{Ref|AGOT|7}}{{Ref|AGOT|14}}{{Ref|AGOT|19}}
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Young Rickon is playful but temperamental and stubborn.{{Ref|AGOT|24}}{{Ref|ACOK|35}} He has a breathless laughter{{Ref|ADWD|69}} and fiercely tries to be like his older brothers.{{Ref|ACOK|55}} Rickon's family often thinks of him as a baby.{{Ref|AGOT|22}}{{Ref|ACOK|18}}{{Ref|ASOS|40}}
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Rickon wears an ermine mantle.{{Ref|ACOK|21}} His bedchamber is half a turn below Bran's in a tower at [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|ACOK|50}}
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
Born at Winterfell in 295 AL, Rickon is the third son and fifth child of [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]]' and [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]], head of [[House Stark]]; and younger brother to [[Robb Stark]], the [[King in the North]]. Rickon has two older sisters, [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark|Arya]], another older brother [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and a [[bastard]] half-brother, [[Jon Snow]].
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Born at Winterfell in {{Date|295}}, Rickon is the third son and youngest child of [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]] and [[Eddard Stark]], [[Lord of Winterfell]]. [[Maester]] [[Luwin]] helped deliver the child.{{Ref|AGOT|6}} Rickon's brothers are [[Robb Stark|Robb]] and [[Bran Stark|Bran]], while his sisters are [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark|Arya]]. Rickon also has a [[bastard]] half-brother, [[Jon Snow]], from whom Rickon begs for sweets.{{Ref|AGOT|19}}
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==Recent Events==
 
==Recent Events==
 
===''A Game of Thrones''===
 
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Rickon adopts one of the [[Direwolf]]s found by the Starks and names it [[Shaggydog]].{{ref|agot|8}} After his father departs from Winterfell and his mother lingers grief stricken at Bran's bedside, he follows Robb around, crying.{{ref|agot|14}} When he learns that Robb is leaving too, he becomes very upset and is later found in the crypts, where he attacks two men with Shaggydog and an iron sword taken from one of the tombs. When Robb departs, he refuses to bid farewell.{{ref|agot|53}} Shortly after [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]]'s death in [[King's Landing]], both [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and Rickon share a vision of their father's spirit in the crypts.{{Ref|aGoT|19}}
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[[File: Chris Casciano Rickon Stark.JPG|thumb|Rickon and [[Shaggydog]] in the [[crypts of Winterfell]], by Chris Casciano © Fantasy Flight Games]]
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Lord [[Eddard Stark]] allows his children to adopt a litter of [[direwolves]] found by [[Jon Snow]].{{Ref|AGOT|1}} Rickon is initially afraid of his pup,{{Ref|AGOT|2}} which he eventually names [[Shaggydog]].{{Ref|agot|8}} When King [[Robert I Baratheon]] visits [[Winterfell]], Jon prods his half brother on when Rickon stops during the procession.{{Ref|AGOT|5}}
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When he departs for [[King's Landing]] to serve Robert as [[Hand of the King]], Eddard leaves his youngest son at Winterfell with the boy's mother, [[Catelyn Stark]], and eldest brother, [[Robb Stark|Robb]].{{Ref|AGOT|6}} [[Bran Stark]] was supposed to join his sisters, [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark|Arya]], with Eddard in the capital, but Rickon's older brother becomes comatose after falling from the [[First Keep]].{{Ref|AGOT|8}}
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A grief-stricken Catelyn lingers at Bran's bedside, so Rickon follows Robb around, crying. After Bran wakes from his coma, Catelyn departs Winterfell to inform Eddard of the [[catspaw]] assassin, leaving Robb to rule the castle.{{Ref|AGOT|14}} Rickon enjoys running with Shaggydog, [[Grey Wind]], and [[Summer]]—the direwolves of Robb and Bran—in the castle's yard.{{Ref|AGOT|24}} Rickon becomes upset whenever Robb departs Winterfell to address matters in the [[north]].{{Ref|AGOT|24}} Rickon calls Shaggy back to him when the direwolves threaten [[Tyrion Lannister]].{{Ref|AGOT|24}}
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Having learned that Robb is marching south to rescue their father from imprisonment in King's Landing, an upset Rickon hides in the [[crypt of Winterfell]]. Rickon slashes at Robb's men with a rusty sword and Shaggydog wounds [[Gage]] and [[Mikken]]. Rickon cries even more when Shaggy is chained in [[Farlen]]'s kennel, and the boy refuses to bid farewell when Robb departs Winterfell.{{Ref|AGOT|53}}
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Bran has a dream of Eddard in the crypt, so [[Osha]] and [[Maester]] [[Luwin]] bring the boy to the vaults so he can see that his father's tomb is empty. Shaggydog jumps out of the shadows and wounds Luwin, however, and Summer begins fighting with Shaggy. Four-year-old Rickon, who had freed Shaggy from the kennel, explains that he had also dreamed that Eddard would be coming home. Rickon accompanies the group to Luwin's tower, and the maester shows [[obsidian]] arrowheads to the boys. Rickon cries when a [[raven]] then arrives at the tower bringing word that Eddard has been executed by order of King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]] in the capital.{{Ref|AGOT|66}}
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After the [[Battle of the Camps]], Robb is proclaimed [[King in the North]] at [[Riverrun]] by [[northmen]] and [[rivermen]].{{Ref|AGOT|71}}
  
 
===''A Clash of Kings''===
 
===''A Clash of Kings''===
As the turmoil of [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]]'s death shakes his family, Rickon becomes largely unsupervised as his eldest brother and mother leave to [[War of the Five Kings|war]], while his sisters are held captive at [[King's Landing]]. Alone with his crippled brother, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], at [[Winterfell]], Rickon develops an unruly, often violent temper. His fear and rage are reflected in his [[direwolf]], [[Shaggydog]], who turns largely feral and attacks several people before being restrained. Several times, Bran's direwolf, [[Summer]] is forced to fight Shaggydog into submission. Rickon becomes friends with [[Walder Frey (Big)|Big Walder]] and [[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder Frey]] when they come to live at [[Winterfell]] as wards. {{Ref|aCoK|21}}  
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[[File:Mark Evans Rickon Stark.jpg|350px|thumb|Rickon and [[Shaggydog]], by Mark Evans © Fantasy Flight Games]]
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Rickon is initially upset when [[Walder Frey (son of Jammos)|Big Walder]] and [[Walder Frey (son of Merrett)|Little Walder Frey]] arrive at Winterfell as wards according to the alliance between Houses [[House Stark|Stark]] and [[House Frey|Frey]].{{Ref|ACOK|4}} When Little Walder knocks the boy into a pool while playing [[lord of the crossing]], Shaggy leaps at the guest. Rickon then becomes friends with the Frey cousins, playing other games like [[monsters and maidens]], [[rats and cats]], and [[come-into-my-castle]]. Bran is angered when his brother shows the crypt of Winterfell to their guests.{{Ref|ACOK|4}} Rickon sits near the Freys during the [[harvest feast]].{{Ref|ACOK|21}}
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With his mother Catelyn away in the south, Rickon refuses to have his hair cut and instead bites a girl who tries to cut his long, unruly hair.{{Ref|ACOK|21}} Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]], the [[castellan]] of Winterfell, confines the direwolves in the [[godswood of Winterfell]] after Shaggy bit Little Walder.{{Ref|ACOK|4}} Maester Luwin discounts the dreams which Bran and Rickon experienced before Winterfell was informed of Lord Eddard's death,{{Ref|ACOK|28}} while [[Jojen Reed]] explains he has had [[green dreams]] of the Stark brothers in the crypt{{Ref|ACOK|35}} and also of the boys being flayed by [[Ramsay Snow|Reek]].{{Ref|ACOK|35}}
  
Rickon became a hostage of [[Theon Greyjoy]] when Theon [[Battle of Winterfell|takes Winterfell]] and later manages to escape and hide in the crypts bellow the castle with his brother Bran, [[Hodor]], the [[Reed]] siblings, and the [[wildling]] woman [[Osha]].{{Ref|aCoK|46}}  
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Rickon became a hostage of [[Theon Greyjoy]] after the [[capture of Winterfell]] by [[ironborn]]. [[Meera Reed]] protects Rickon when [[Stygg]] kills Mikken.{{Ref|ACOK|46}}  After Osha, [[Hodor]], the direwolves, and the Reed and Stark siblings vanish from the castle, Theon and Reek hunt for them in the [[wolfswood]] to no avail.{{Ref|ACOK|50}} The hunters instead kill two miller's boys at the [[Acorn Water]], with Reek flaying the children and Theon presenting their tarred heads to Winterfell as those of the missing Starks.{{Ref|ACOK|56}}
  
After Winterfell is sacked and burned by [[Ramsay Snow]], the group emerges to find Winterfell in ruins and a mortally wounded [[Maester]] [[Luwin]], who tells them that Bran and Rickon need to be separated and taken into hiding. Osha agrees to look after Rickon and takes him and Shaggydog to parts unknown.{{Ref|aCoK|69}}
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During the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], [[Sansa Stark]] sings for her siblings.{{Ref|ACOK|57}} [[Arya Stark]] becomes teary-eyed at [[Harrenhal]] after learning of her brothers' fate.{{Ref|ACOK|64}}
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Rickon and his companions have secretly hid from Theon in the crypts, however, and they survive the [[sack of Winterfell]] by Reek, who is actually [[Ramsay Snow]].{{Ref|ACOK|66}}{{Ref|ACOK|69}} The group emerges to find Winterfell in ruins and a mortally wounded Maester [[Luwin]], who tells them that Bran and Rickon need to be separated and taken into hiding. Osha agrees to look after Rickon, taking the prince and Shaggydog to parts unknown.{{Ref|ACOK|69}}
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===''A Storm of Swords''===
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Traveling north toward the [[Wall]], [[Bran Stark]] wonders if [[Osha]] took his brother to [[White Harbor]] or the [[Last Hearth]].{{Ref|ASOS|24}}
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[[Robb Stark]], the [[King in the North]], sleeps with [[Jeyne Westerling]] at the [[Crag]] after having been informed of his brothers' supposed deaths. Robb then marries Jeyne, breaking his promise to marry a daughter of Lord [[Walder Frey]].{{Ref|ASOS|14}} Believing that Bran and Rickon are dead, [[Catelyn Stark]] frees Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] from captivity at [[Riverrun]] and tasks him with retrieving [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark|Arya]] from [[King's Landing]].{{Ref|ASOS|1}}{{Ref|ASOS|2}} After Lord [[Hoster Tully]] dies at Riverrun, Catelyn thinks her father will be awaited in the afterlife by his grandsons, Bran and Rickon.{{Ref|ASOS|35}} Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] informs [[Jon Snow]] of his brothers' murders when the youth returns to [[Castle Black]] after the [[great ranging]].{{Ref|ASOS|48}}
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Sansa, expecting to marry [[Willas Tyrell]], hopes to one day name sons after Rickon, Bran, and Eddard.{{Ref|ASOS|16}} Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] forces her to marry [[Tyrion Lannister]],{{Ref|ASOS|19}}{{Ref|ASOS|28}} however, so that [[House Lannister]] can one day claim Winterfell.{{Ref|ASOS|35}} To prevent that possibility, King Robb names his half brother Jon as his heir.{{Ref|ASOS|45}}{{Ref|AWOIAF| Robb Stark}} Robb and Catelyn are then murdered by [[House Frey|Freys]] and [[House Bolton|Boltons]] in the [[Red Wedding]], however.{{Ref|ASOS|51}}
  
 
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
 
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Most of [[Westeros]] believes him dead, but [[Wyman Manderly]] and [[Robett Glover]] learn from [[Wex Pyke]], a survivor of the [[Sack of Winterfell|Sack]] of [[Winterfell]], that Rickon Stark is alive. Wex tells them - via writing since he cannot speak - that Rickon and [[Osha|a woman]] fled to the island of [[Skagos]].
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Most of [[Westeros]] believes Rickon dead, but Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] and [[Robett Glover]] learn from [[Wex Pyke]], Theon's onetime squire and a survivor of the sack of Winterfell, that the boy is alive. Wex tells them—via writing and chalk drawings since he cannot speak—that Ramsay killed Rodrik Cassel, not Theon, in the [[battle at Winterfell]], and that Wex followed a boy, a woman, and a direwolf after they left the castle.{{Ref|ADWD|29}} Wex learned that Osha was taking Rickon to [[Skagos]].{{Ref|AWOIAF| Wex Pyke}}
  
When [[Davos Seaworth]] attempts to convince Lord Manderly to take up Stannis's cause Manderly brings Wex into their meeting and explains to Davos what Wex witnessed. Manderly then tells him that in order to take Stannis as king Davos must meet his terms.  [[Wyman Manderly|Manderly]] informs Davos,
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When Lord [[Davos Seaworth]] attempts to convince Lord Manderly to take up [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s cause, Wyman brings Wex into their meeting in the [[New Castle]] and explains to Davos what Wex witnessed. Wyman explains that in order for [[House Manderly]] to take Stannis as king, Davos must use his smuggling skills to retrieve Rickon, the heir of [[House Stark]] with Robb dead and Bran's fate unknown, from Skagos.{{Ref|ADWD|29}}
  
{{Quote|[[Roose Bolton]] has Lord Eddard's daughter.  To thwart him [[White Harbour]] must have [[Ned]]'s son ... and [[Shaggydog|the direwolf]]. The wolf will prove the boy is who we say he is, should the [[Dreadfort]] attempt to deny him. That is my price, Lord Davos. Smuggle me back my liege lord, and I will take [[Stannis Baratheon]] as my king.}}  
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Ramsay, who is now [[Lord of Winterfell]],{{Ref|ADWD|37}} intends to kill Bran and Rickon with [[Bastard's girls|his hounds]] if the Stark boys reappear.{{Ref|ADWD|20}}
  
When Davos asks where Rickon is Wex throws his dagger onto a sheepskin map adorning the wall.  To Davos's horror it strikes Skagos.  
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===''The Winds of Winter''===
Davos is left with no choice but to head to the infamous island to retrieve Rickon Stark. {{Ref|aDwD|29}}
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{{Warning/twow}}
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[[Northmen]] in Stannis's army at the [[crofters' village]] want the king to execute Theon for having killed supposedly Bran and Rickon. Theon, who has been tortured by Ramsay, incoherently tries to explain his actions to his sister, [[Asha Greyjoy]].<ref>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon I]]</ref>
  
 
==Quotes by Rickon==
 
==Quotes by Rickon==
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[[File: Rickon Stark.PNG|thumb|[[w:Art Parkinson|Art Parkinson]] as Rickon in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'']]
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{{Quote|'''Rickon''': You let [[Eddard Stark|my father]] be. You let him be.<br>
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'''Bran''': Rickon. Father's not [[crypt of Winterfell|here]].<br>
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'''Rickon''': Yes he is. I saw him. I saw him last night.{{Ref|AGOT|66}}|Rickon to [[Luwin]] and [[Bran Stark]]}}
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{{Quote|Are we going [[Winterfell|home]]? I want my horse. And I want applecakes and butter and honey, and [[Shaggydog|Shaggy]]. Are we going where Shaggydog is?{{Ref|ACOK|69}}|Rickon to [[Bran Stark]]}}
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==Quotes about Rickon==
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{{Quote|Rickon needs you. He's only three, he doesn't understand what's happening. He thinks everyone has deserted him, so he follows me around all day, clutching my leg and crying. I don't know what to do with him.{{Ref|AGOT|14}}|[[Robb Stark]] to [[Catelyn Stark]]}}
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{{Quote|His baby brother had been wild as a winter storm since he learned [[Robb Stark|Robb]] was riding off to [[War of the Five Kings|war]], weeping and angry by turns.{{Ref|AGOT|53}}|thoughts of [[Bran Stark]]}}
  
{{Quote|[[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] is sitting in [[Robb Stark|Robb]]'s chair.{{Ref|acok|46}}}}
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{{Quote|Though he knew Lord [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]] was dead, sometimes Rickon forgot ... willfully, Bran suspected. His little brother was stubborn as only a boy of four can be.{{Ref|ACOK|35}}|thoughts of [[Bran Stark]]}}
  
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{{Quote|'''Brienne''': I ... there are no words, my lady. My good lady. Your sons, they ... they're with [[Faith of the Seven|the gods]] now.<br>'''Catelyn''': Are they? What god would let this happen? Rickon was only a baby. How could he deserve such a death?{{Ref|ACOK|55}}|[[Brienne of Tarth]] and [[Catelyn Stark]]}}
  
{{Quote|Are we going [[Winterfell|home]]? I want my horse. And I want applecakes and butter and honey, and [[Shaggydog|Shaggy]]. Are we going where Shaggydog is?{{Ref|acok|69}}}}
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{{Quote|[[Roose Bolton]] has Lord Eddard's [[Arya Stark|daughter]]. To thwart him [[White Harbor]] must have [[Eddard Stark|Ned's]] son ... and [[Shaggydog|the direwolf]]. The wolf will prove the boy is who we say he is, should the [[Dreadfort]] attempt to deny him. That is my price, Lord Davos. Smuggle me back my liege lord, and I will take [[Stannis Baratheon]] as my king.{{Ref|ADWD|29}}|[[Wyman Manderly]] to [[Davos Seaworth]]}}
  
 
==Family==
 
==Family==
 
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==References and Notes==
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Rickon and Shaggydog, Art by Amok©

Title Prince[1]
Allegiance House Stark
Culture Northmen
Born In 295 AC (age 4)[2]Winterfell[3]
Father Eddard Stark
Mother Catelyn Tully
Books

Played by Art Parkinson
TV series Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 6

Rickon Stark is Eddard and Catelyn's youngest child, only three years old when the series begins. Rickon is a naturally aggressive and strong-willed child, but his youth makes it difficult for him to cope with the terrible changes that come to his family and life. He is usually accompanied by his direwolf, Shaggydog. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones Rickon is played by Art Parkinson.[4]

Appearance and Character

Rickon favors his mother Catelyn in appearance, having the bright blue eyes, auburn hair, and easy smile of a Tully.[5][6][7]

Young Rickon is playful but temperamental and stubborn.[8][9] He has a breathless laughter[10] and fiercely tries to be like his older brothers.[11] Rickon's family often thinks of him as a baby.[12][13][14]

Rickon wears an ermine mantle.[15] His bedchamber is half a turn below Bran's in a tower at Winterfell.[16]

History

Born at Winterfell in 295 AC, Rickon is the third son and youngest child of Catelyn and Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell. Maester Luwin helped deliver the child.[17] Rickon's brothers are Robb and Bran, while his sisters are Sansa and Arya. Rickon also has a bastard half-brother, Jon Snow, from whom Rickon begs for sweets.[7]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Rickon and Shaggydog in the crypts of Winterfell, by Chris Casciano © Fantasy Flight Games

Lord Eddard Stark allows his children to adopt a litter of direwolves found by Jon Snow.[18] Rickon is initially afraid of his pup,[19] which he eventually names Shaggydog.[20] When King Robert I Baratheon visits Winterfell, Jon prods his half brother on when Rickon stops during the procession.[21]

When he departs for King's Landing to serve Robert as Hand of the King, Eddard leaves his youngest son at Winterfell with the boy's mother, Catelyn Stark, and eldest brother, Robb.[17] Bran Stark was supposed to join his sisters, Sansa and Arya, with Eddard in the capital, but Rickon's older brother becomes comatose after falling from the First Keep.[20]

A grief-stricken Catelyn lingers at Bran's bedside, so Rickon follows Robb around, crying. After Bran wakes from his coma, Catelyn departs Winterfell to inform Eddard of the catspaw assassin, leaving Robb to rule the castle.[6] Rickon enjoys running with Shaggydog, Grey Wind, and Summer—the direwolves of Robb and Bran—in the castle's yard.[8] Rickon becomes upset whenever Robb departs Winterfell to address matters in the north.[8] Rickon calls Shaggy back to him when the direwolves threaten Tyrion Lannister.[8]

Having learned that Robb is marching south to rescue their father from imprisonment in King's Landing, an upset Rickon hides in the crypt of Winterfell. Rickon slashes at Robb's men with a rusty sword and Shaggydog wounds Gage and Mikken. Rickon cries even more when Shaggy is chained in Farlen's kennel, and the boy refuses to bid farewell when Robb departs Winterfell.[22]

Bran has a dream of Eddard in the crypt, so Osha and Maester Luwin bring the boy to the vaults so he can see that his father's tomb is empty. Shaggydog jumps out of the shadows and wounds Luwin, however, and Summer begins fighting with Shaggy. Four-year-old Rickon, who had freed Shaggy from the kennel, explains that he had also dreamed that Eddard would be coming home. Rickon accompanies the group to Luwin's tower, and the maester shows obsidian arrowheads to the boys. Rickon cries when a raven then arrives at the tower bringing word that Eddard has been executed by order of King Joffrey I Baratheon in the capital.[23]

After the Battle of the Camps, Robb is proclaimed King in the North at Riverrun by northmen and rivermen.[24]

A Clash of Kings

Rickon and Shaggydog, by Mark Evans © Fantasy Flight Games

Rickon is initially upset when Big Walder and Little Walder Frey arrive at Winterfell as wards according to the alliance between Houses Stark and Frey.[25] When Little Walder knocks the boy into a pool while playing lord of the crossing, Shaggy leaps at the guest. Rickon then becomes friends with the Frey cousins, playing other games like monsters and maidens, rats and cats, and come-into-my-castle. Bran is angered when his brother shows the crypt of Winterfell to their guests.[25] Rickon sits near the Freys during the harvest feast.[15]

With his mother Catelyn away in the south, Rickon refuses to have his hair cut and instead bites a girl who tries to cut his long, unruly hair.[15] Ser Rodrik Cassel, the castellan of Winterfell, confines the direwolves in the godswood of Winterfell after Shaggy bit Little Walder.[25] Maester Luwin discounts the dreams which Bran and Rickon experienced before Winterfell was informed of Lord Eddard's death,[26] while Jojen Reed explains he has had green dreams of the Stark brothers in the crypt[9] and also of the boys being flayed by Reek.[9]

Rickon became a hostage of Theon Greyjoy after the capture of Winterfell by ironborn. Meera Reed protects Rickon when Stygg kills Mikken.[27] After Osha, Hodor, the direwolves, and the Reed and Stark siblings vanish from the castle, Theon and Reek hunt for them in the wolfswood to no avail.[16] The hunters instead kill two miller's boys at the Acorn Water, with Reek flaying the children and Theon presenting their tarred heads to Winterfell as those of the missing Starks.[28]

During the Battle of the Blackwater, Sansa Stark sings for her siblings.[29] Arya Stark becomes teary-eyed at Harrenhal after learning of her brothers' fate.[30]

Rickon and his companions have secretly hid from Theon in the crypts, however, and they survive the sack of Winterfell by Reek, who is actually Ramsay Snow.[31][1] The group emerges to find Winterfell in ruins and a mortally wounded Maester Luwin, who tells them that Bran and Rickon need to be separated and taken into hiding. Osha agrees to look after Rickon, taking the prince and Shaggydog to parts unknown.[1]

A Storm of Swords

Traveling north toward the Wall, Bran Stark wonders if Osha took his brother to White Harbor or the Last Hearth.[32]

Robb Stark, the King in the North, sleeps with Jeyne Westerling at the Crag after having been informed of his brothers' supposed deaths. Robb then marries Jeyne, breaking his promise to marry a daughter of Lord Walder Frey.[33] Believing that Bran and Rickon are dead, Catelyn Stark frees Ser Jaime Lannister from captivity at Riverrun and tasks him with retrieving Sansa and Arya from King's Landing.[34][35] After Lord Hoster Tully dies at Riverrun, Catelyn thinks her father will be awaited in the afterlife by his grandsons, Bran and Rickon.[36] Maester Aemon informs Jon Snow of his brothers' murders when the youth returns to Castle Black after the great ranging.[37]

Sansa, expecting to marry Willas Tyrell, hopes to one day name sons after Rickon, Bran, and Eddard.[38] Lord Tywin Lannister forces her to marry Tyrion Lannister,[39][40] however, so that House Lannister can one day claim Winterfell.[36] To prevent that possibility, King Robb names his half brother Jon as his heir.[41][42] Robb and Catelyn are then murdered by Freys and Boltons in the Red Wedding, however.[43]

A Dance with Dragons

Most of Westeros believes Rickon dead, but Lord Wyman Manderly and Robett Glover learn from Wex Pyke, Theon's onetime squire and a survivor of the sack of Winterfell, that the boy is alive. Wex tells them—via writing and chalk drawings since he cannot speak—that Ramsay killed Rodrik Cassel, not Theon, in the battle at Winterfell, and that Wex followed a boy, a woman, and a direwolf after they left the castle.[44] Wex learned that Osha was taking Rickon to Skagos.[45]

When Lord Davos Seaworth attempts to convince Lord Manderly to take up Stannis Baratheon's cause, Wyman brings Wex into their meeting in the New Castle and explains to Davos what Wex witnessed. Wyman explains that in order for House Manderly to take Stannis as king, Davos must use his smuggling skills to retrieve Rickon, the heir of House Stark with Robb dead and Bran's fate unknown, from Skagos.[44]

Ramsay, who is now Lord of Winterfell,[46] intends to kill Bran and Rickon with his hounds if the Stark boys reappear.[47]

The Winds of Winter

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Northmen in Stannis's army at the crofters' village want the king to execute Theon for having killed supposedly Bran and Rickon. Theon, who has been tortured by Ramsay, incoherently tries to explain his actions to his sister, Asha Greyjoy.[48]

Quotes by Rickon

Rickon: You let my father be. You let him be.

Bran: Rickon. Father's not here.

Rickon: Yes he is. I saw him. I saw him last night.[23]

—Rickon to Luwin and Bran Stark

Are we going home? I want my horse. And I want applecakes and butter and honey, and Shaggy. Are we going where Shaggydog is?[1]

—Rickon to Bran Stark

Quotes about Rickon

Rickon needs you. He's only three, he doesn't understand what's happening. He thinks everyone has deserted him, so he follows me around all day, clutching my leg and crying. I don't know what to do with him.[6]

His baby brother had been wild as a winter storm since he learned Robb was riding off to war, weeping and angry by turns.[22]

—thoughts of Bran Stark

Though he knew Lord Eddard was dead, sometimes Rickon forgot ... willfully, Bran suspected. His little brother was stubborn as only a boy of four can be.[9]

—thoughts of Bran Stark

Brienne: I ... there are no words, my lady. My good lady. Your sons, they ... they're with the gods now.
Catelyn: Are they? What god would let this happen? Rickon was only a baby. How could he deserve such a death?[11]

Roose Bolton has Lord Eddard's daughter. To thwart him White Harbor must have Ned's son ... and the direwolf. The wolf will prove the boy is who we say he is, should the Dreadfort attempt to deny him. That is my price, Lord Davos. Smuggle me back my liege lord, and I will take Stannis Baratheon as my king.[44]

Family

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Beron
 
Lorra
Royce
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Donnor
 
Lyanne
Glover
 
 
Willam
 
Melantha
Blackwood
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Artos
 
Lysara
Karstark
 
Berena
 
Alysanne
 
Errold
 
Rodrik
 
Arya
Flint
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brandon
 
Edwyle
 
Marna
Locke
 
Jocelyn
 
Benedict
Royce
 
Brandon
 
Benjen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Harrold
Rogers
 
Branda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Issue
 
 
 
Issue
 
Issue
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rickard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lyarra
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brandon
 
Catelyn
Tully
 
Eddard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown
woman
 
Lyanna
 
Benjen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jeyne
Westerling
 
Robb
 
Sansa
 
Tyrion
Lannister
 
Arya
 
Brandon
 
Rickon
 
Jon
Snow
 
 
 


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 69, Bran VII.
  2. See the Rickon Stark calculation.
  3. George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Rickon Stark.
  4. HBO:Game of Thrones: Cast and Crew
  5. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 7, Arya I.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 14, Catelyn III.
  7. 7.0 7.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 19, Jon III.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 24, Bran IV.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 35, Bran V.
  10. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 69, Jon XIII.
  11. 11.0 11.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 55, Catelyn VII.
  12. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 22, Arya II.
  13. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 18, Sansa II.
  14. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 40, Bran III.
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 21, Bran III.
  16. 16.0 16.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 50, Theon IV.
  17. 17.0 17.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 6, Catelyn II.
  18. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 1, Bran I.
  19. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
  20. 20.0 20.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 8, Bran II.
  21. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 5, Jon I.
  22. 22.0 22.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 53, Bran VI.
  23. 23.0 23.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 66, Bran VII.
  24. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 71, Catelyn XI.
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 4, Bran I.
  26. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 28, Bran IV.
  27. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 46, Bran VI.
  28. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 56, Theon V.
  29. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
  30. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 64, Arya X.
  31. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 66, Theon VI.
  32. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 24, Bran II.
  33. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II.
  34. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 1, Jaime I.
  35. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
  36. 36.0 36.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV.
  37. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
  38. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 16, Sansa II.
  39. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 19, Tyrion III.
  40. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
  41. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 45, Catelyn V.
  42. George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Robb Stark.
  43. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 51, Catelyn VII.
  44. 44.0 44.1 44.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 29, Davos IV.
  45. George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Wex Pyke.
  46. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 37, The Prince of Winterfell.
  47. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 20, Reek II.
  48. The Winds of Winter, Theon I