Chapter 95

Among the Seven Kingdoms…

The North had House Bolton as its second great power. That much went without saying.

If not for the marriage alliance between the two houses, and if Lord Eddard and Domeric had not gone to King’s Landing, shifting the internal conflict outward, then House Bolton, whose strength had risen sharply, and House Stark would probably already have beaten each other’s brains out over the seat of Warden of the North.