1. Rickon Stark
(World of Westeros/People)

... him into an intractable and stubborn child alongside an intractable and savage direwolf. It would be easy to dismiss the youngest of the Starks as being of no importance, but this would be a mistake. When ...

2. Sansa Stark
(World of Westeros/People)

... prove the ultimate revelation for Sansa, it is the death of Lady, her direwolf pup. The chain of events that starts with Sansa and Joffrey’s picnic ends in disaster for all involved. Joffrey loses his ...

3. Robb Stark
(World of Westeros/People)

... natural tendency to jump in first and think later. It is no surprise that Robb discovers the dying direwolf and her pups. He is a mover and shaker and he makes things happen. Small wonder he names his ...

4. The Stark Direwolves
(World of Westeros/People)

... had taught him. A direwolf had a bigger head and longer legs in proportion to its body, and its snout and jaw were markedly leaner and more pronounced. There was something gaunt and terrible about them ...

5. Ghost, Jon's Direwolf
(World of Westeros/People)

... of Thrones Jon Snow’s direwolf Ghost matures faster than his siblings. Like Jon, he is the first to leave the safety of Winterfell and venture into the outside world. On the Wall, the wolf is his closest ...

6. Grey Wind, Robb's Direwolf
(World of Westeros/People)

... things ... sense things ....” — Robb Stark to Bran Stark, A Game of Thrones Grey Wind was first of the direwolf pups found by Robb Stark, and the pup bonded immediately with the boy. Robb named him Grey ...

7. Lady, Sansa's Direwolf
(World of Westeros/People)

He left the room with his eyes burning and his daughter’s wails echoing in his ears, and found the direwolf pup where they chained her. Ned sat beside her for a while. “Lady,” he said, tasting the name. ...

8. Nymeria, Arya's Direwolf
(World of Westeros/People)

... who had led her people across the narrow sea. — A Game of Thrones Since Arya is the most adventuresome spirit of the Stark children, she names her own direwolf for an ancient heroine, Nymeria. She is ...

9. Shaggydog, Rickon's Direwolf
(World of Westeros/People)

... tell which of the direwolves is the youngest, the almost-supernatural pairing of Stark to direwolf suggests that Shaggydog, given to Rickon, was the lastborn. Unlike the others of the litter, Shaggydog’s ...

10. Summer, Bran's Direwolf
(World of Westeros/People)

... as his proxy, playing and enjoying the freedom that Bran cannot. Of all the pairings of direwolf and Stark, the union of Bran and Summer is the deepest. As Bran’s prophetic dreams begin to affect him and ...

11. Jon Umber, Greatjon
(World of Westeros/People)

... threaten the young lordling. In return, Robb’s direwolf, Grey Wind, bit off two of Jon’s fingers. Instead of being angry, the Greatjon was impressed at the show of force and renewed his loyalty to Winterfell, ...

12. Jon Snow
(World of Westeros/People)

... of the direwolf pup he names Ghost — an albino pup that had crawled away from his littermates — is symbolic of Jon’s place within his own family, and the precarious nature of his own situation. Jon has ...

13. Beastiary
(World of Westeros/Miscellaneous)

... the east) Fabled Animals Basilisk (of Yi Ti) Bear, Snow Direwolf** (much larger and stronger than regular wolves reaching the size of a pony when fully grown, almost never seen south of the Wall) Dragons ...

14. Eddard Stark, Ned
(World of Westeros/People)

... all that happens is that neither talk and neither budge. Eddard never guesses, or refuses to see, the tension this causes in his home. The sigil of House Stark is the direwolf, a beast of power. Alongside ...

15. House Umber
(Houses of Westeros/Minor Houses)

... the roaring giant of the Umbers has long flown beside the Stark direwolf. The Umbers stood with the host that defeated Gendel and Gorne, the brother Kings-beyond-the-Wall, some 3,000 years ago. More ...

16. House Reed
(Houses of Westeros/Minor Houses)

... and Robb after Eddard's death. While at Winterfell, Jojen recognized Bran's ability to enter his direwolf's mind, and helped him gain the discipline to use the power properly. When he learned of Bran's ...

17. House Stark
(Houses of Westeros/Great Houses)

Winter Is Coming House Stark is the most influential and notable power in the North. From their stronghold at Winterfell, the Starks guard the old ways against the dishonourable and fractious houses of ...