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Teachers & SchoolsA great dad and a terrible politician, Eddard Stark is the head of the Stark family, one of the...
Catelyn Stark is Mama Direwolf. She was born Catelyn Tully (rival family alert!) but became a...
Jon Snow kind of gets the short end of the stick in this book. He is Eddard Stark's illegitimate...
Daenerys Targaryen is the youngest survivor of the Targaryen family, the royal family that ruled...
Khal Drogo is the leader (khal) of a very big army/tribe (khalasar). He marries Daenerys, makes...
Tyrion Lannister is the misshapen dwarf son of Tywin Lannister and the younger brother to Cersei...
Bran Stark is the fourth child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark; brother to Robb, Sansa, Arya, and...
Sansa is the oldest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark; Sansa is younger than Robb Stark but...
Arya is the middle child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark; she's younger than Robb and Sansa (and also...
Robb is the oldest son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark; he's about the same age as Jon Snow and older...
Cersei and Jaime Lannister are twins…and lovers. Yeah. They are Tywin Lannister's children...
Robert Baratheon is king of the Seven Kingdoms after the Targaryens are kicked out (which Robert...
Petyr Baelish is King Robert Baratheon's master of coin. Petyr was actually fostered with the...
Varys is the spymaster (coolest title ever) for King Robert, so he gets reports from all over the...
Jorah Mormont is an exile from the Seven Kingdoms for a crime he most definitely did commit. He's...
Sweet name, right? These guys are clearly dude-ish. The Night's Watch is the military order that...
Talk about betrayal. Mirri Maz Duur is a priest and healer who is taken as servant/slave by Khal...
Sandor Clegane is a warrior who is sworn to protect and serve Joffrey. He does so, but he also...
The Tully clan doesn't play a major role in this book, but since Catelyn Stark was once Catelyn...
Tywin is the father of Jaime, Cersei, and Tyrion Lannister. He's the head of House Lannister and...
Lysa Arryn was originally Lysa Tully and get this: she wasn't always crazy. She and Catelyn used...
Walder Frey believes that the person who dies with the most sons wins. That's the only possible...
King Robert and later King Joffrey Baratheon both have courts, which means that they have people...
The Kingsguard is a group of elite knights who are meant to protect the king of the Seven...
Since this is pretty much a Stark book – so much of it is told from the POV of the Starks...
The Stark bannermen are those noble lords of the north that follow the Starks; in this case, the...
When Gregor Clegane raids the Riverlands – well, he's not waving a flag, but we all know...
The Mountain Clans are tribes of people who live outside of the whole social system of the Seven...
Clearly, we cannot start this section without referencing Lost. And if you have no idea what we...
Some of these characters are mentioned in other groups; but just in case this question comes up,...
Masha Heddle is a pretty minor character in this book: she's just the owner of the Old Crossroads...