Jaime Lannister, commanding a relatively large army of 8,000 men, has been sent by King Tommen to negotiate an end to the stalemate-but despite his best efforts, he can't get the Blackfish to budge an inch. There is one old face who refuses to let the horrors of the Red Wedding recede into history: Robb's uncle, Brynden "Blackfish" Tully, who has retaken Riverrun from the Freys. "I served House Stark once, but House Stark is dead," he laments-and given the recent track record for both Stark loyalists and the Starks themselves, who could blame him? While House Glover's strongest men were off serving Robb, he complains, the Ironborn infiltrated the weakened castle, imprisoning or killing its residents without a single Stark soldier arriving to give aid. The North remembers, sure, and that can mean loyalty-but it also extends to remembering the mistakes that have enabled a psychopath like Ramsay Bolton to grab so much power. That specific and personal decision had vast consequences that extended far beyond the Starks, with most of the major houses losing their strongest men in the crossfire. But in reality, there's just as much resentment aimed at Robb himself, who made himself vulnerable to that kind of betrayal when he broke his promise to marry a Frey. You might assume that the Northern lords would be eager to seek revenge on the Boltons, who treasonously led Robb Stark and his army into the Red Wedding in the first place.
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