Martin said before going into why he felt he needed to kill off Ned Stark followed by his eldest son. Everybody is going to expect that. So immediately [killing Robb] became the next thing I had to do. So the entire book was done and there was still that one chapter left. Then I wrote it. It was like murdering two of your children. While Richard Madden, who played Robb Stark, hadn't read "A Storm of Sword", he claimed about a thousand people spoiled just enough of his final scene that he ended up Googling his fate.
Michelle Fairley Catelyn Stark , on the other hand, had read the books so she knew precisely what was coming. I met somebody who read it on the plane and they were so heartbroken they left the book on the plane.
For an actor to be given that part to play you want to grab it and go straight into it. Robb's wife in the books was an entirely different character.
But to simplify the story for audiences, she was chosen as Robb's primary love-interest and the person that caused him to break his vow to Walder Frey Part of this was because of how the scene needed to take its time to lull viewers into a state of calm before dropping the ax on their heads. According to David Nutter, the most important part of the scene was the element of surprise. Given that it appears as though Walder Frey had forgiven Robb for breaking his vow, all seemed well.
And they were partying at a wedding, after all With the closing of the door, the musicians playing "The Rains of Castamere" and the reveal that Lord Bolton is wearing armour under his clothes, the audience is finally told that something really bad is about to go down. All of the violence was made to look so surreal that the actors had to do very little acting. They too were caught up in it all. At this moment, Roose Bolton gives Catelyn a knowing look and glances towards his left arm.
Her eyes follow his gaze and she sees a bit of chain mail peeking out from his sleeve. She then lifts up his sleeve which reveals the chain mail he is wearing underneath. Roose smiles ominously and Catelyn realizes that they have been led into a trap: she slaps Roose across the face and then shouts to warn Robb, but it is too late.
At Walder Frey's signal, Lothar Frey approaches Talisa Stark from behind and begins to repeatedly stab her in the abdomen with a dagger, killing her unborn child instantly and causing her to quickly succumb to her wounds. The musicians hired for the wedding reveal themselves to be assassins , brandishing crossbows and firing at Robb and the Northern guests gathered in the main hall. After the first volley, the Northern guests are attacked in the main hall by armed Frey and Bolton men, while the crossbowmen continue to pick off survivors.
Outside of the keep, Frey and Bolton men turn on the other Northern soldiers in the camps, who had been heavily drinking during the celebrations, taking them completely by surprise. Four Frey crossbowmen approach Grey Wind , Robb's direwolf , who has been forbidden from entering the castle to prevent him from defending Robb during the massacre, and fatally shoot him with crossbows as he is trapped inside a pen.
Arya , who has snuck into the courtyard in the hopes of reuniting with her mother, witnesses the direwolf's killing while hiding behind some nearby barrels.
While battling the Freys, Rodrik Forrester is crushed under a horse. Robb, wounded with several crossbow bolts, crawls towards Talisa and embraces her, devastated over the loss of his beloved wife and unborn child. Lord Walder, seeing that Robb has survived the initial onslaught, raises a hand to halt the carnage and watches Robb's suffering with cruel amusement.
Catelyn, who had taken refuge under her table, notices that Walder Frey's eighth wife, Joyeuse Frey , is hiding beneath Walder's table and rushes forward, dragging her out and putting a table knife to her throat. She beseeches Walder to end the slaughter and allow Robb to leave. She offers herself as a hostage in exchange for Robb's life, desperately screaming at Robb to walk out while he can but he is too shocked over Talisa's death and instead poignantly looks at her corpse.
When Robb fails to respond, she turns back to Walder and promises that they will not retaliate if he is allowed to live, swearing an oath. Walder fires back that she already swore an oath to him that Robb would marry his daughter.
In a last plea of desperation, she swears on her honor as a Tully and a Stark that if Robb is not allowed to leave the chamber, she will slit his wife's throat. Walder weighs the options in his head before glibly responding "I'll find another.
Robb then somehow finds the strength to drag himself back onto his feet, and weakly calls out "Mother! As Catelyn looks into Robb's eyes, Roose Bolton steps in front of Robb and tells him "the Lannisters send their regards", stabbing him through the heart. Robb is killed instantly and shares a final, lifeless look to his mother before he dies next to his wife. True to her word, Catelyn slits Joyeuse's throat and lets out a wail of grief, believing all of her sons to be dead.
Walder is shows little concern over his wife's death or the ongoing massacre, nonchalantly sipping his wine. Catelyn then becomes catatonic, silently staring at Robb's corpse in shock and utter despair, not reacting as her own throat is slit nearly to the bone from behind by Black Walder. Afterward, as the massacre of the Stark army encamped outside the Twins raged on, observed by Lord Bolton from the battlements, the Freys horrifically desecrate Robb's corpse by decapitating it and skewering the head of his dead direwolf in its place.
They then parade it around the keep atop a horse, a final insult to the King in the North. Even the defenseless soldiers are given no mercy, most of them are not even granted a quick death; some are burnt alive in their tents, one is carried away with his legs ripped off, and several are hanged from trees. Catelyn's corpse is also desecrated although we do not see this happen in the TV version : in cruel mockery of traditional House Tully funeral customs, which involve cremating a body on a burning boat set adrift in the Trident River, the Freys unceremoniously fling Lady Catelyn's corpse naked from the battlements of the Twins, throwing it into the river to rot as if it were merely trash.
Gregor is too badly wounded to continue and thus gives Gared the Forrester greatsword to return to Ironrath. He tells Gared to tell his uncle that 'The North Grove must never be lost' before two Freys approach Gregor as Gared retreats in the forest with the greatsword.
Gregor stays to fight off the two Freys but is quickly slain. Not only was Robb himself killed in the betrayal, but the entire Northern army that Robb led to southern Westeros was also destroyed; save only for those forces of House Karstark , which had earlier abandoned Robb to return home after he executed Rickard Karstark , and the forces of House Bolton and their bannermen which turned on the other Northern Houses.
For his part in the betrayal, Lord Frey was granted the castle of Riverrun and promised Lannister protection from any northern retaliation. Lord Walder had his men capture Edmure out of his marriage bed alive, as Riverrun had not yet fallen to Lannister forces and Lord Edmure was a valuable hostage to hopefully negotiate its surrender in the near future.
Roose Bolton, for his part in the Red Wedding, is awarded the title of Warden of the North , drastically elevating his House's stature.
Surviving Stark bannermen also suffer from the loss; House Forrester finds itself under the submission of House Whitehill , their long-standing enemy and Bolton bannermen. The War of the Five Kings continues, however, as Balon Greyjoy still fights for the Iron Islands ' independence and to hold on to his conquest in the North , while Stannis continues to dispute Joffrey's right to the Iron Throne.
Brynden Tully had been present for the wedding but incidentally, he had left the keep to relieve himself on a tree outside before the massacre in the main hall began. He then managed to fight his way out of the assault on the camps and slip away from the Twins during the confusion of the night-time ambush. Roose Bolton ruefully notes to Lord Walder the next day that he had escaped.
Lord Walder is dismissive and says he won't get far, but Bolton is clearly concerned that the Blackfish will manage to reach the safety of Riverrun before he can be found. The Blackfish is killed during the siege. Greatjon Umber , one of the most powerful and loyal bannermen of House Stark, is not present at the Twins for the wedding, which made him one of the few bannermen of House Stark that wasn't killed during the massacre.
His son, Smalljon , defects to the Boltons. After her training with the Faceless Men , Arya goes to the Twins and assassinates Walder Frey and his sons Black Walder and Lothar , for their roles in the Red Wedding and the deaths of her mother, brother, and pregnant sister-in-law.
The massacre, which violated the ancient law of guest right, earned the perpetrators the unending loathing of many in the Seven Kingdoms , particularly in the North. A farmer in the Riverlands , upon learning of the events, states that Lord Walder Frey would be punished by the gods both old and new for it. Ironically, the conspirators' victory became their own downfall. Whatever pacts Tywin had with the North fell apart after his death; Houses Bolton and Frey ultimately meet their ends after the Battle of the Bastards and the Assassinations at the Twins.
Lord Randyll Tarly later expresses his disgust with the dishonor of the Red Wedding, when contemplating whether to bend the knee to House Lannister. Michelle Fairley had not read the A Song of Ice and Fire novels before working on the show, but was told almost immediately after filming of the first season began by other actors who had that she would die in the Red Wedding. Martin revealed that he was hoping to play one of the casualties at the Twins, but his schedule prevented him.
He also felt that his presence would distract viewers from such a powerful scene. To begin with, most of Robb's leading bannermen, prominent members of other major Houses from the North, are killed in the betrayal. Many of these were secondary or tertiary recurring characters such as Dacey Mormont, Lucas Blackwood, and Wendel Manderly, who had become regular fixtures in chapters focusing on the Stark storyline, but could not realistically have all been fit into the limited running time of the TV series.
Almost every major noble House in the North loses at least one immediate family member in the massacre. Thus, the impact of the massacre is even deeper in the book narrative, since many established characters besides Robb and Catelyn are also killed.
Theon Greyjoy unwittingly serves as a catalyst of the Red Wedding: while lying injured at the Crag , Robb is devastated to hear from Ser Rodrik Cassel about the alleged murder of his brothers ; Jeyne Westerling Talisa's analogous character in the novels "comforts" him at bed; the next morning, Robb feels honor-bound to marry her, thus breaching the pact with the Freys.
Later it is revealed the Westerlings except Jeyne's brother Raynald have collaborated with the Lannisters. As author George R. Martin has repeatedly said, he refused to plot out the books down to the slightest detail before he began, and if writers can be categorized into "architects" who plan out everything in advance, or "gardeners" who assemble a general plan for where things are planted but then lets them grow on their own, Martin definitely considers himself a gardener. Even so, he did establish a general outline which planned out the largest plot points and most important character deaths before the first novel was even published.
Like the execution of Ned Stark at the end of the first novel, Martin always planned that Robb Stark and his entire army would be killed at the Red Wedding, as it was one of the most pivotal events in the entire storyline, concluding the Stark-Lannister war while setting new plotlines into motion. Greatjon Umber was present at the Red Wedding in the books, but Clive Mantle , who played him in Season 1, was unable to reappear for Season 2 or Season 3.
Greatjon does not die at the Red Wedding, but is taken prisoner. Several Freys enter into drinking contests with Greatjon to try to incapacitate him when the fighting started, but he drinks them all under the table, and is still able to put up a significant fight. It takes eight men to subdue Greatjon, and even so he manages to kill one assailant, seriously wound two more, and bite half the ear off another. However, Greatjon's son Smalljon Umber is decapitated by Bolton men. The Greatjon is the only head of a noble House from the North present in the Twins at the time, which is why the Lannisters wanted him taken alive as a valuable political hostage.
Robb had sent the three to treat with the crannogmen of House Reed to coordinate their plan to retake Moat Cailin from the ironborn and carry a letter naming Robb's heir - as Jeyne Westerling is not known to be pregnant at the time.
Lord Jason left the party to reinforce his home castle at Seagard. Nearly all of the Stark bannermen at the wedding were slain. It is unknown if any of the other guests were taken alive too. Another feature that was removed was that the Freys set up three tents for the Northmen. When the signal is given the tents collapse and are set alight.
Brynden Tully is not present for the wedding in the books, since Robb had him stay behind at Riverrun to command their rearguard and hold the line of the Red Fork, creating for him the title "Warden of the Southern Marches. It is probable that the TV producers didn't want the audience to suspect that the Freys would betray Robb, which would be unlikely if the entire Stark-Tully family was present.
In the books, Robb leaves Brynden and his queen at Riverrun because he is worried that the Freys will exact vengeance for breaking his betrothal, but if this had happened in the TV series it may have made their intentions too obvious. Even so, when Robb actually arrived at the Twins, his fears disappeared when Walder Frey formally extended guest right to him, as no lord ever breaks such a sacred tradition, thus the Freys' betrayal was still a surprise.
Talisa is the first to die in the episode, but her book counterpart Jeyne Westerling is also not present at the Red Wedding, having been left behind at the safety of Riverrun with Brynden. Further, Jeyne is not pregnant in the novels; her mother Sybell Spicer makes sure of that presumably by giving her daughter Moon tea. This is one of the fantasy stereotypes that George R.
Martin himself set out to deconstruct with the series, i. The TV series wanted to make it clear with the Red Wedding that Robb isn't going to live to avenge his father, nor is Robb's child going to live to avenge him. As Madden said, "I think it was important for her to die because it's a full stop to that train, the story of that army. I think if there was anything left I think it's more tragic that there's nothing left over from it.
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