Standout characters besides Arya include Queen Cersei, so lacking in morals that she becomes almost pitiable the queen's brother, the relentlessly ingenious dwarf Tyrion Lannister and Arya's brother, Prince Brandon, crippled except when he runs with the wolves in his dreams. In between, her actions map the further course of a truly epic fantasy set in a world bedecked with 8000 years of history, beset by an imminent winter that will last 10 years and bedazzled by swords and spells wielded to devastating effect by the scrupulous and unscrupulous alike. It ends with the princess, now known as Weasel, having led the liberation of the accursed castle of Harrenhal. The second novel of Martin's titanic Song of Ice and Fire saga (A Game of Thrones, 1996) begins with Princess Arya Stark fleeing her dead father's capital of King's Landing, disguised as a boy.
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