The Kingsroad
Not to be confused with The Kingsroad (to the north) · The Kingsroad (to the south) · The Kingsroad (to the southwest).
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The Kingsroad runs from King's Landing to Winterfell and on to the Wall. It's the route the royal court takes when it travels between the capital and the North, and the one taken by anyone bound for the Night's Watch.
Inns stand along its length where travelers stop to rest. In one of them, during the first journey the series shows along this road, an incident between the children of two houses ends up affecting the entire royal retinue.
Journey South and to the Wall
When Eddard Stark leaves Winterfell to take up the post of Hand of the King, his daughters Sansa and Arya go south with him, toward King's Landing. Along the same road, but in the opposite direction, Jon Snow travels with his uncle Benjen toward the Wall. Tyrion Lannister joins them, wanting to see «the edge of the world» for himself.
Before each heads off toward their destination, Jon gives Arya a sword as a parting gift. It's the last time the siblings speak before their paths, quite literally, split.
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Nymeria Incident
The royal retinue stops to rest at an inn along the road. While they wait, Prince Joffrey and Sansa come across Arya practicing swordplay with a butcher's son. Joffrey draws his sword to «teach the boy a lesson» and ends up bitten on the arm by Nymeria, Arya's direwolf, after Arya herself strikes him.
Back with King Robert, Joffrey gives a different account of what happened. Cersei demands the wolf responsible be killed, and since Nymeria has fled, Sansa's wolf pays for it instead simply by being nearby. Eddard, to spare anyone else the task, decides to do it himself.
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On the map
What we are not sure about
PositionWe worked it out
The position was inferred from the label on the base map rather than from a symbol of its own: it marks the area, not the point.
Books and show
Where they differ
- Show only: Journey South and to the Wall, Nymeria Incident