7 Huge Mistakes Made By Game Of Thrones Characters

5. Robb Going Back On His Word

Ah, the folly of young love! We€™ve all been there before. Nothing else matters in the world because someone has stolen your heat. But hey, this is Westeros; pull your head out of the clouds, Robb! This is Walder Frey we€™re talking about! Robb needs Frey€™s permission in order to cross the Green Fork river and move his army south and the only way the curmudgeon (and that€™s the nicest way to describe this slimy SOB) that is Lord Frey will allow this is for Robb to agree to marry one of Frey€™s many daughters. Robb reluctantly says yes, but soon finds himself deeply in love with young Talisa (or Jeyne in the books), marrying her not long after. The thing that€™s hardest to take is that he knows he€™s breaking his word with a man that everyone around him, his mother most of all, has told him cannot be trusted. But honour comes as second nature to a Stark, so Robb returns to Frey to admit his wrongs and ask for forgiveness. Of course, the fact that he now needs Frey€™s army more than ever plays a big part in it as well. To make amends, Robb€™s uncle will marry one of the Frey girls and everything will be right as rain. Unless it€™s the Rains of Castamere we€™re talking about. In that case, you end up with a dead wife, dead mother, a decimated army, and your head detached from your shoulders. Maybe the core lesson here is simple: listen to your mother.