These are the first direwolves to be seen so far south in hundreds of years. When Eddard travels south to King's Landing to serve as Hand of the King, he brings his daughters Sansa and Arya along with their pet direwolves, Lady and Nymeria. Theon mockingly points out that this one belongs to Jon.
Just as the party leaves, Jon finds a sixth pup, an albino runt of the litter. Eddard agrees that his children can have the pups, but only if they raise them themselves with no help from the servants. Eddard advocates killing the pups out of mercy, but Jon convinces his "father" that this is an omen: the direwolf is the symbol of House Stark, and Eddard has five trueborn children. By the reign of King Robert Baratheon, no direwolf had been sighted south of the Wall - even in the Stark lands of the North - in over 200 years.Įddard Stark and his sons Robb and Bran, his "bastard" son Jon Snow and his ward Theon Greyjoy find a dead female direwolf it died after giving birth, and her five pups huddle by the corpse for warmth. The wildlings who live beyond the Wall claim that direwolves can be found in greater numbers in the Haunted Forest to the north of the Wall. There have been confirmed sightings north of the Wall by the Night's Watch who guard it.
There may have been larger direwolf populations in the North in past millennia, but centuries of human encroachment on their territory have pushed their range back to the furthest north. There are some rumors of them living in the Wolfswood near Winterfell, but these are unconfirmed. Inhabitants of the North acknowledge that they are a real animal, but they are very rarely encountered there. Direwolves are held to be near-mythical in most of the south of Westeros.
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