The King of Winter

by GM12

Winterfell was a happy home until the King arrived wanting Ned Stark as his hand. Harlon Stark is the second son of Ned Stark. His life changes when his father is arrested for treason. One of his sister's is imprisoned, the other can't be found, and his brother calls for war. Watch as he grows from a young man loyal to his family to a king preparing for the greatest threat of all.

1. Chapter 1

The King of Winter

Robb: 18

Harlon: 17

Sansa: 15

Arya: 11

Bran: 9

Rickon: 6

Name: Harlon Stark (OC)

Titles: the Wild Wolf, the Wandering Wolf, the Black Wolf, the King in the North, the King of winter, Harlon the Second, the King who retook Winterfell, the North's King, and the People's King

Age: 17

Sex: Male

Appearance: Harlon has the same Stark-like features as Jon. He is graceful, quick, and has a lean-build. He looks a lot like Jon with dark, brown hair and grey eyes.

Personality: A lot of times, Harlon is compared to Lyanna Stark by Eddard Stark because their character and personality are so alike. He is also closest to Arya because they both love adventure. He loves to fight and ride wanting to be the best swordfighter in the kingdom. He also reads a lot as he knows a good commander/lord needs to be able to make strategies on the fly, lead his own men, and fight.

He is polite, kind, sarcastic, but deadly to his enemies. He doesn't judge others based on what their parents did and is more open minded and understanding. He is also a little flirty and loves to tease his brothers when they are with women. In a fight, he mocks and scoffed at his opponents in an attempt to get them angry and make mistakes. He is very laid back, honest, and enjoys joking around.

He is also an honorable man like his father. He fights for the innocent and his family. He hates the killing of children and women. He believes in getting to know his father's bannerman and their heirs to the point where he visits each of them at some point. He learns to be independent because he hopes to one day travel around to places like Dorne, the Vale, the rest of the North, and Essos.

Background: Harlon was born as the second son of Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully, twin of Robb Stark. At a young age, Harlon has shown that he has a fascination for knowledge for any kind. He is as sly as a fox and loves to prank people. He is also cunning. At the age of five, he was already starting training by the master-of-arms at Winterfell and was able to create a new fighting style three years later. At age 10, he is a master archer to the point where he can shoot a target 100 feet away.

As the second son, he new that he would not inherit Winterfell, so he asked his father to rebuild Moat Cailin before he traveled so that by the time he returned, he could take his place as its lord. He believes to protect his siblings that he needs to be the strongest and fastest. He needs the North strong for when Robb takes over. For this to happen, he needed allies who Robb could call upon in case of war. To do this, at age 14, he decides to travel with a company of 20 men around Westeros to gain more experience fighting bandits. He traveled around the North, meeting the future heirs and gathering more people in his group which he now called the Wolf's Renegade, which grew to 100 people. He also petitioned his father to start building his own fleet because they would need them if the Iron Born ever attacked the North again and to reconstruct Moat Cailin and Harrendal.

After finishing traveling to the North and learning all the fighting styles he could, he decided to travel to Dorne and HighGarden to mend relations between House Martell and House Tyrell and to offer new trade deals. There, he offered the heads of Gregar Clegane and Armory Loche for the murders and Elia Martell, Rhaenys Targaryen, and Aegon Targeryen, should the opportunity ever arise to kill them. He also got to know the Sand Snakes, bastard daughters of Oberyn Martell rather well. When he was leaving to go back home, he offered to Obara, Nymeria, Tyene, and Obella to join his Wolf's Renegade to protect the North from bandits. By then, his Wolf's Renegade had grown to 700 people from various villages joining him. Oberyn agreed as long as he gets letters from them, he gets to visit them and that Harlon takes care of them.

By the time he returns, he is 19, and Jon Arryn had just died. Canon started.

Good Traits: Honorable, Honest, Loyal, Understanding, Loves his people and his group, Always has a plan for combat, Stands up for bastards like Jon, quick witted, stealthy and agile, flexible, easily amused, good strategist.

Bad Traits: Sarcastic a lot, quick to anger, lives to fight and travel instead of wanting to rule Winterfell, unable to see that even jest (jokes) can hurt people, sometimes to forgiving to enemies and too trusting, can be seen as condescending and patronizing

Fears: Failure, disappointing his parents, losing the people he loves

Likes: Climbing (taught Bran to climb), training in different weapons, travelling, reading, being surrounded by nature, creating new fighting styles to be unpredictable, playing the flute

Dislikes: Politics, the Lannisters for what they did during the Rebellion, liars, betrayers, oath breakers, lords who don't come to their liege lord's banners when called upon, people who kill/rape innocents, women, and children, power (because power corrupts).

Occupation: Leader of the Wolf's Renegades. Heir to Moat Cailin

Animal: Silver direwolf named Argent. A black horse he had gotten since his 14th nameday, from his uncle Brynden Tully, named Bane, a snow leopard he had found as a pup back in Dorne before he left and taken care of named Balerion.

Sword: Sword name Wolf's Bite reforged from the Dayne's ancestral sword Dawn as the Daynes were killed during Robert's Rebellion given to Harlon by Oberyn Martell as a sign of friendship between House Martell and House Stark.