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I reckon she will make an excellent Stoneheart if it indeed comes to that...

after all he becomes king of the north at 15

She looks too grim

I understand why they did it and i don't mind it too much but the only exception i have is Robb. I felt his struggle was more moving because he was so very young when he was forced to fight a war and become a man.

In the end he died so young with so much potential left. The fact that he was so very young made his story so many times more sad and i feel like that will be lost in the TV-series to a certain degree.

15-16 is way too young to lead an army but 20ish seems a lot more "normal" for most people. In reality 20 is ofcourse insanely young for such a thing but from a TV/Movie perspective where a lot of fantasy characters are teens, it's considered normal.

Eddard cheated on his wife when she was pregnant, meaning Robb should be a small bit older.

You don't know for sure if it's Eddards bastard and if it's not that means Jon could be anything from older to younger then Robb, but ofcourse by a small margin.

The books had them at essentially the same age.

I read that they will kill a character in the first season that lives on till book 3(yeah Martin advised against it but let them roll with it nonetheless). I speculate Catelyn Stark which would isolate Robb way stronger than he is in the books and thus make it less "normal". Why her? Because she actually plays only a role in Robbs Plot and of course in wittnissing Renly Baratheons Death. Clegane would be another possibility but that would rather be irrelevant in almost every regard and frankly makes no sense.

Truth be told i wouldn't mind if they killed Catelyn off in the first season. I don't dig zombie-cate all that much anyway.

From a story perspective things might get more strange at that point. An upside would be that Brienne of Tarth would be nearly completly written out of the show, something that i would not mind one bit. She is an intresting side-char, a women in a mans world and an ugly one at that, not the warrior princess that is the cliche. She just doesn't work for extended periods like in her PoV chapters imo.

Downside would be that the children are orphaned much sooner then before. Cate is dead at the end of the 3rd book i believe and at that point the children stop trying to go home. Jon remains at the wall, Robb has died, Brann is traveling away from winterfell, Sansa goes with Littlefinger and Arya goes across the sea.

To me it feels like when both their parents were dead they had little reason to go back because there wasn't really a home left for them. If Cate dies in the first season their desire to go home might be less understandable. In the books it's children that want to go back to their mother but if their mother dies early on then it ain't as compelling imo.

Kind of intresting that a character is gonna die that lived that long, keeps even the book audience on edge. Catelyn does seem like the most likely to die if they had to kill a char that lives from 1-3. Her story is not as needed without a PoV system. It would also trim down the magic aspect of the show, something i think HBO doesn't mind too much.

Then again things get complicated. Zombie-cate sends Brienne to kill Jaime (that's how i believe her chapter ends, others might feel that she gets hanged) so depending on the succes of that event it could leave the shows diverging a lot in later seasons. But like i said if Catelyn goes out then Brienne will probably be left out aswell.

Martin also said that the character who dies early is male. Your theory would require an even more massive break from the novels than you seem to suspect... :p

I think the character that dies soon is Beric Dondarrion- They probably didn't want to spend much on a good actor for him, so he dies when the war erupts instead of leading the rogue Baratheon Loyalists, which is left for Thoros of Myr