Stories from the Citadel
What if Arya Stark's direwolf had finished the job and killed Joffrey Baratheon?
44 min · Published 14 September 2026 · Watch on YouTube ↗
A direwolf loosened her jaws, and the Seven Kingdoms burned for it. What if she hadn't? Nine months old, half-grown, and already bigger than any hound in the king's kennels. She closed on a boy's sword arm at the ruby ford, she felt the bone give, and then a girl called her off and she obeyed — and every war that followed was built on that one second of obedience. The prince lived. The butcher's boy did not. And a wolf walked away from the only throat in Westeros that was worth taking. What if Arya Stark's direwolf had finished the job and killed Joffrey Baratheon? Let's explore this alternate timeline together, in the video. The king's party crawls south out of Winterfell four thousand…
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