Arya Stark is a fictional character in American author George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy novel series and its HBO television adaptation Game of Thrones, where she was portrayed by English actress Maisie Williams. She is a prominent point-of-view character in the novels with the third most viewpoint chapters and is the only character to have a viewpoint chapter in every published book of the series, with her chapters having various alternative titles such as "Cat of the Canals", "The Blind Girl", "The Ugly Little Girl" and "Mercy" from the fourth book onwards.
Arya Stark is a fictional character in American author George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy novel series and its HBO television adaptation Game of Thrones, where she was portrayed by English actress Maisie Williams. She is a prominent point-of-view character in the novels with the third most viewpoint chapters and is the only character to have a viewpoint chapter in every published book of the series, with her chapters having various alternative titles such as "Cat of the Canals", "The Blind Girl", "The Ugly Little Girl" and "Mercy" from the fourth book onwards.
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Arya Stark is a fictional character in American author George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy novel series and its HBO television adaptation Game of Thrones, where she was portrayed by English actress Maisie Williams. She is a prominent point-of-view character in the novels with the third most viewpoint chapters (behind Tyrion Lannister and Jon Snow) and is the only character to have a viewpoint chapter in every published book of the series, with her chapters having various alternative titles such as "Cat of the Canals", "The Blind Girl", "The Ugly Little Girl" and "Mercy" from the fourth book onwards.
Introduced in 1996's A Game of Thrones, Arya is the third child and youngest daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and his wife Lady Catelyn Stark. She is tomboyish, headstrong, feisty, independent, disdains traditional female pursuits, and is often mistaken for a boy. She wields a castle-forged steel smallsword named "Needle" forged by Mikken, the blacksmith of Winterfell, as a parting gift from her half-brother Jon Snow, and is trained in the Braavosi style of sword fighting by Syrio Forel.
Character
Arya Stark was born 289 years after the conquest of Westeros by King Aegon I Targaryen as the third child and youngest daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn Stark of Winterfell, the ruling liege of the North. She is nine years old at the start of the book series. (She is 11 years old in season 1 of the HBO television show.) She has five siblings: an older brother named Robb, an older sister named Sansa, two younger brothers, Bran and Rickon, and an older illegitimate half-brother, Jon Snow. Through her mother, she is also a first cousin to Robert Arryn, the lord paramount of the Vale of Arryn; she is also the niece of Edmure Tully, the lord paramount of the Riverlands.
A Game of Thrones
Arya adopts one of the direwolf cubs that her brothers Robb and Jon discover in the wild, naming her "Nymeria" after a legendary Rhoynish warrior queen. She travels with her father, Eddard, to King's Landing when he is made Hand of the King. Before she leaves, her half-brother, Jon, has a Braavosi-style smallsword made for her as a parting gift, which she names "Needle" after her least favorite ladylike activity, needlepoint.
While taking a walk together, Prince Joffrey Baratheon and her sister, Sansa, happen upon Arya and her friend Mycah, the low-born butcher's son, sparring in the woods with broomsticks. Arya defends Mycah from Joffrey's torments, and her direwolf, Nymeria, helps Arya fight off Joffrey, wounding his arm in the process. Knowing that Nymeria will likely be killed in retribution, Arya chases her wolf away. Sansa's direwolf, Lady, is killed in Nymeria's stead, and Mycah is hunted down and killed by Sandor Clegane ("the Hound"), Joffrey's bodyguard.
In King's Landing, her father discovers Arya's possession of Needle, but instead of confiscating it, he arranges for sword-fighting lessons under the Braavosi swordmaster Syrio Forel, who teaches her the style of fighting known as "water dancing". After her father's arrest, Syrio is killed protecting Arya, and she narrowly escapes capture. In her escape, she makes her first kill: a stable hand who was going to turn her in to the queen, Cersei Lannister. She later witnesses the public execution of her father before falling under the protection of the Night's Watch recruiter Yoren, albeit with a false identity.
A Clash of Kings
Arya escapes King's Landing with Yoren and his party of recruits, pretending to be a boy named Arry; on the road, she clashes with the other Night's Watch child-recruits Lommy, Gendry, and Hot Pie, but eventually befriends them. On the way, the party is attacked by Amory Lorch when Yoren refuses to yield Gendry, who is actually a bastard son of the late King Robert Baratheon, to House Lannister guardsmen. The Night's Watch convoy is overrun and massacred, but Arya and the other children escape through a tunnel. Befor
Arya is left-handed and talented in sums and housekeeping. In contrast to her sister, Sansa, who is praised for favoring activities traditionally befitting a noblewoman, Arya is a tomboy who shows no interest in dancing, singing, and sewing; rather, she revels in outdoor activities and exploring and is an excellent horserider. She is described as "wolf-blooded", blunt, impulsive, and "always difficult to tame" by her mother; has proven to be a constant source of headaches for her household tutor, Septa Mordane; and is given the nickname "Arya Underfoot" by the guards of Winterfell. Socially an outcast among her peer group of young noblewomen, she is particularly close to her bastard half-brother Jon, who encourages her and gives her a smallsword as a parting gift upon his leaving for the Night's Watch. The sword, which Arya names "Needle" after her dreaded embroidery lessons, is well suited to her slender build and favoring the Braavosi "Water Dance" (fencing) style of swordplay, which emphasizes speed and agility with quick thrusting attacks. Throughout her travels, Arya displays great resourcefulness and cunning and also becomes increasingly ruthless.
Arya is the only one out of her full-siblings to inherit the Stark features of a lean, athletic physique, brown hair, grey eyes, and long face (for which she was teased as "Horseface" by Sansa's lady's companions) and is said to resemble her late aunt Lyanna Stark in both looks and temperament. At the start of the novel series, she is prepubescent, generally regarded as messy and plain-looking, and often mistaken for a boy; there are multiple instances in the books, however, in she is compared favorably to the famously beautiful Lyanna. She is frequently catching the eyes of men—to the point of sexual harassment—when her body starts to develop later in the series. She is also a powerful skin-changer, developing on her own instinct the ability to telepathically control her direwolf, Nymeria, across entire continents while sleeping, as well as forming a psychic bond with a feral cat in Braavos.
