Theon Stark

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Theon Stark
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Alias Hungry Wolf
Title King in the North
Allegiance House Stark
Culture Northmen
Books

Theon Stark, known as the Hungry Wolf, was a King in the North and head of House Stark.[1]

Appearance

He was thin, with long hair and a skinny beard. King Theon earned his nickname, the 'Hungry Wolf', from the constant state of war the North was in during his reign and his own gaunt appearance.[2]

History

Andals made landings in the North just as they did the south, but where ever they put ashore the Starks or their bannermen fell upon them and drove them back into the sea. King Theon turned back the greatest of these threats, making common cause with the Boltons to smash the Andal warlord Argos Sevenstar at the Battle of the Weeping Water. In the aftermath of his victory King Theon raised his own fleet and crossed the narrow sea to the shores of Andalos, with Argos's corpse lashed to the prow of his flagship. There he took a bloody vengeance, burning scores of villages, capturing three tower houses and a fortified sept putting thousands to the sword in the process. The heads of the slain the Hungry Wolf claimed as prizes, carrying them back to Westeros and planting them on spikes along his own coasts as a warning to other would be conquerors.[3]

Later in his reign he himself conquered the Three Sisters and landed an army on the Fingers. Also fought ironborn in the west, driving them from Cape Kraken and Bear Island, put down a rebellion in the Rills and joined the Night's Watch in an incursion beyond the Wall that broke the power of the wildlings for a generation.[3]

The Hungry Wolf also had wars forced upon him when longships from the Iron Islands descended on his western coasts beneath the banners of Harrag Hoare, King of the Iron Islands. For a time the Stony Shore did fealty to Harrag and his ironmen, swathes of the wolfswood nothing but ashes, and Bear Island a base for reaving, ruled by Harrag's son Ravos the Raper. Theon slew Ravos with his own hand, and expelled the ironmen from his shores.[3]

References and Notes

  1. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 69, Bran VII.
  2. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 66, Bran VII.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Kings of Winter.