Robb Stark
The Stark heir, a boy of fifteen with a direwolf named Grey Wind and his father's sense of duty. Fostered his half-brother Jon and his father's ward Theon like brothers.
A soul of House Stark, born at Winterfell.
The fuller tale
Season One
In Winter Is Coming ÔÇö The heir who stays home when the pack splits. In The Pointy End ÔÇö "Then it will be swords for the North." The banners answer. In Baelor ÔÇö Trades two thousand men for a Kingslayer. In Fire and Blood ÔÇö "The King in the North!" ÔÇö swords in the firelight at Riverrun.
Where they stand. Winterfell, Moat Cailin and Riverrun.
Season Two
In The North Remembers ÔÇö Three victories, no crown recognized. In Garden of Bones ÔÇö Wins every battle; meets a field nurse named Talisa among the wounded. In Valar Morghulis ÔÇö Marries for love; the toll on the bridge goes unpaid.
Season Three
In Kissed by Fire ÔÇö Justice cost him the Karstarks; only one bridge can save the campaign. In The Climb ÔÇö The Freys will have their wedding after all. Edmure pays the toll. In The Bear and the Maiden Fair ÔÇö A son on the way and one wedding between him and home. Melisandre leeches king's blood from Gendry over three names: Robb Stark. Balon Greyjoy. Joffrey Baratheon.
In The Rains of Castamere ÔÇö "Mother." The last word of the King in the North.
How it ends for them
On the screen. Murdered at the Red Wedding (S3┬ÀE9)
The Young Wolf broke a marriage pact with Walder Frey, and the old man's revenge was a wedding. Under guest right, with the doors barred, Roose Bolton drove the blade home: 'The Lannisters send their regards.'
On the page. Murdered at the Red Wedding (ASOS, ch. 52)
The Young Wolf came to the Twins to mend a broken marriage pact and died under guest right with the Rains of Castamere playing ÔÇö quarrels from the galleries, Roose Bolton's blade, and Grey Wind's death howling in the yards.
The Red Wedding was Walder Frey's revenge dressed as a reconciliation: Edmure Tully would marry a Frey girl in Robb's place, the slight forgiven, the alliance mended. Robb came to the Twins under guest right, ate the bread and salt, and watched the bedding carried out ÔÇö and then the doors were barred, the musicians in the gallery produced crossbows, and the Rains of Castamere played. Quarrels took him; his men were cut down around the tables; and Roose Bolton delivered the last thrust himself, with a line the North has never stopped repeating ÔÇö the Lannisters send their regards. In the books the words are 'Jaime Lannister sends his regards,' and the boy king dies rising from the table with a quarrel already in him.
The desecration afterward was the point. The Freys hacked the head from Grey Wind ÔÇö who died raging in the kennels, feathered with bolts ÔÇö and sewed it onto Robb's body, parading the wolf-headed king to mock everything the North had crowned. Catelyn died moments after her son; Talisa, in the show, before him, the knives finding her belly first. The massacre broke the northern cause in an evening ÔÇö and bought its authors a curse with compound interest, paid out over the rest of the tale by a daughter of the man they'd killed two books earlier.
Their chapters, book by book
A Storm of Swords 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
Robb has no point-of-view chapters in the books ÔÇö he is seen almost entirely through Catelyn, a boy-king glimpsed by a worried mother ÔÇö and the show's decision to follow him directly is its single biggest structural change to his story. It needed a bride who could share scenes, so Jeyne Westerling of the Crag, a westerlands girl wed in haste and left behind at Riverrun, became Talisa of Volantis, a battlefield surgeon who marries him on screen and follows the army. Book Robb is also younger ÔÇö fourteen when the war starts ÔÇö and his queen never comes within a hundred leagues of the Twins.
The other divergence is the will. Book Robb, knowing Sansa is a Lannister hostage and believing Bran and Rickon dead, legitimizes an heir in front of witnesses ÔÇö most readers assume Jon ÔÇö and sends Maege Mormont and Galbart Glover toward Greywater Watch with copies. The show discards the entire thread and routes the North's future through Sansa and Jon's politics instead. It is the clearest case in the whole adaptation of a book plotline still loaded and waiting while the show simply walked around it.
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.