Olyvar Frey
One of Lord Walder's younger sons, who serves for a time as squire to Robb Stark and thinks well of the young wolf.
A soul of House Frey, born at The Twins.
The fuller tale
How it ends for them
By the showÔÇÖs ledger he dies as anonymously as he lived: one cup among dozens raised when ÔÇ£Lord WalderÔÇØ toasts the men of House Frey, and one body among dozens on the floor when the wine does its work ÔÇö the familyÔÇÖs guilt collected wholesale, without an audit of the innocent. The books tell it otherwise: Olyvar Frey lives, absent from his familyÔÇÖs crime by his familyÔÇÖs own arrangement, which makes the showÔÇÖs indiscriminate justice, in his one small case, no justice at all. Alive in the published books.
Their chapters, book by book
Where the page and the screen part
The page and screen agree on the outline of the loyal squire, but only the books underline his absence from the massacre ÔÇö a quiet exoneration Martin plants a full book in advance. The show never resolves him at all on screen, and this archiveÔÇÖs show chronology sweeps him into the TwinsÔÇÖ final reckoning with the rest of the male line; the books, pointedly, keep his hands clean and his heart on record: the one Frey who mourned the Young Wolf.
Their journey
Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.