Winter Roses: The Lyanna Stark Appreciation, Conjecture, Discussion and Theories Thread.

• Lyanna Stark was the younger sister of Brandon, and Eddard, but older than Benjen Stark.
• Lyanna was betrothed to Lord Robert Baratheon.
• Lyanna is described as intelligent, tomboyish and wilful, but also beautiful.
• Ned says that Arya reminds him of Lyanna, both in looks and personality.
• She considered it unlikely that Robert would give up his philandering ways for her.
• She met Rhaegar Targaryen at a great tourney and he became enamored of her, crowning her the Queen of Love and Beauty after he won the tournament, snubbing his own wife.
• She was taken from her home, willing or unwillingly, by Rhaegar which in turn started Robert's rebellion.
• At the end of the war she was found in The Tower of Joy by Ned and six companions guarded by three members of the Kingsguard, only Ned and Holland Reed survived the battle.
• Ned remembers Lyanna dying in "a bed of blood."
• Her last act was making Ned promise her something but what this promise is is unknown.

He was walking through the crypts beneath Winterfell, as he had walked a thousand times before. The Kings of Winter watched him pass with eyes of ice, and the direwolves at their feet turned their great stone heads and snarled. Last of all, he came to the tomb where his father slept, with Brandon and Lyanna beside him. “Promise me, Ned, ” Lyanna’s statue whispered. She wore a garland of pale blue roses, and her eyes wept blood. - Game of Thrones

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