Stories from the Citadel
What if Ned Stark told Robert the truth about Jon at Winterfell?
36 min · Published 19 August 2026 · Watch on YouTube ↗
What if Ned Stark told Robert the truth about Jon at Winterfell? Let's explore this alternate timeline together, in the video. The king comes north in the year 298 with a dead man's chain in his baggage and a dead woman in his heart. Jon Arryn is barely cold in his grave, and Robert Baratheon has crossed half a kingdom to lay the Handship at Ned Stark's feet, but before there can be talk of offices or betrothals, the king demands to be taken down into the dark, past the stone kings with their rusting iron swords, down to the last three tombs where Rickard Stark sits in judgment forever, flanked by Brandon and by Lyanna. Robert stares at the statue of the girl he was to marry and says the…
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