Robin Arryn
The little Lord of the Vale, a sickly, coddled boy still at his mother's breast, fond of watching bad men fly out the Moon Door.
A soul of House Arryn, born at The Eyrie.
The fuller tale
How it ends for them
The chronicle records no death for this soul ÔÇö they are living when the tale leaves them, or their ending is a page the maesters have yet to turn.
Their chapters, book by book
Where the page and the screen part
The show gives Robin an arc ÔÇö coddled wreck to fostered lordling to poised young council-voter ÔÇö while the books hold him at the edge of a knife. There his fits are managed with sweetsleep, a drug that kills by accumulation; his named heir, Harrold Hardyng, is being groomed and married forward by Littlefinger with unmistakable intent; and his one protector of consequence is a girl called Alayne Stone whose real name he never learns. The book reader is invited to doubt the boy will see manhood; the show viewer watches him outlive the man who was measuring his coffin.
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.