When the signal is given the tents collapse and are set alight. Brynden Tully is not present for the wedding in the books, since Robb had him stay behind at Riverrun to command their rearguard and hold the line of the Red Fork, creating for him the title "Warden of the Southern Marches.
It is probable that the TV producers didn't want the audience to suspect that the Freys would betray Robb, which would be unlikely if the entire Stark-Tully family was present. In the books, Robb leaves Brynden and his queen at Riverrun because he is worried that the Freys will exact vengeance for breaking his betrothal, but if this had happened in the TV series it may have made their intentions too obvious.
Even so, when Robb actually arrived at the Twins, his fears disappeared when Walder Frey formally extended guest right to him, as no lord ever breaks such a sacred tradition, thus the Freys' betrayal was still a surprise. Talisa is the first to die in the episode, but her book counterpart Jeyne Westerling is also not present at the Red Wedding, having been left behind at the safety of Riverrun with Brynden.
Further, Jeyne is not pregnant in the novels; her mother Sybell Spicer makes sure of that presumably by giving her daughter Moon tea. This is one of the fantasy stereotypes that George R. Martin himself set out to deconstruct with the series, i. The TV series wanted to make it clear with the Red Wedding that Robb isn't going to live to avenge his father, nor is Robb's child going to live to avenge him.
As Madden said, "I think it was important for her to die because it's a full stop to that train, the story of that army. I think if there was anything left I think it's more tragic that there's nothing left over from it.
There's no possibility that Talisa's in hiding, and she's going to have a baby, and one day that baby will take over as King in the North.
I think there's something tragic about it all being cut short instantly. Catelyn does not slit the throat of Walder Frey's young wife Joyeuse Erenford in the books. Aegon is the court fool at the Twins, derisively made to wear a jester's hat filled with bells, hence his nickname. The other Freys cruelly enjoy watching the fool caper and prance about. In their confrontation, Catelyn says she'll trade a son for a son, but Walder points out that Jinglebell is only a grandson and has never been of much use.
While this does keep the already large number of characters down, it omits the revelation of Walder's hypocrisy: for all of his protestations that he values family above all else, in truth he would casually sacrifice a grandson without regret. The manner of Catelyn's death is also slightly different: in the books, Catelyn is so consumed by grief at the sight of Robb's death that she claws at her face, raking her fingernails across her cheeks until she has carved out long strips of flesh and is bleeding profusely.
She becomes so hysterical out of a mixture of shock and grief that she goes half-mad and starts laughing uncontrollably, as the blood from her devastated face "tickles", mingling with her tears, until ultimately the horrified Freys who had planned to take her hostage put her out of her misery by slitting her throat. The TV series's version just has Catelyn stare vacantly in utter, silent despair, not even reacting as Black Walder slits her throat.
Another change is that in the books Catelyn is killed by Raymund Frey, a relatively minor character who is the eleventh son of Lord Walder Frey, his sixth son by his third wife.
Her body is dumped into the Green Fork ; several days afterwards she is found by the Brotherhood Without Banners and resurrected, becoming the monstrous Lady Stoneheart also omitted from the show.
The Frey musicians do not stop playing The Rains of Castamere during the massacre. It was the signal used to Frey and Bolton men throughout the Twins and in the camps outside to begin the attack, thus the slaughter in the main hall began soon after they started playing. Catelyn and many other Northerners instantly realize something is wrong when they start playing "the Lannister song", as opposed to in the TV series where Catelyn sits worried and confused when the Frey musicians start playing it.
The musicians continue to play the song loudly as fighting breaks out in the main hall, in order to signal men further away in the camps. Additionally, in the show Talisa comments on how talented the musicians are: in the books they are noticeably terrible, probably because the musicians are actually crossbowmen in disguise. The plan loosely came about after the Battle of the Blackwater , when it became obvious that the Lannisters were winning the war. Tywin never met Roose and Walder in person, but conducted the negotiations through secret letters sent by messenger raven: quite probably, the letters he was nonchalantly writing earlier in Season 3 of the TV series were implied to be these very messages.
In terms of the TV series, this means that Roose was secretly plotting to kill Robb during all of his earlier scenes in Season 3, even those between Roose and Robb himself: he was simply feigning loyalty the entire time.
Lame Lothar is the steward of the Twins and in charge of managing the castle. While Walder himself made the general decision to betray the Starks, Lame Lothar planned out the practical details of the betrayal, assigning specific tasks to each group of Frey soldiers.
Just as the music starts playing, Catelyn grabs Edwyn Frey one of Lord Walder's great-grandsons by the arm and notices he is wearing chainmail underneath his outer clothing. She realizes this means the Freys are about to attack them, and she slaps him. This was changed to Roose Bolton in the TV version. Grey Wind is let loose during the massacre by Ser Raynald Westerling, Jeyne Westerling's older brother, who did not take part in the scheme.
According to Merrett Frey, the direwolf kills four wolfhounds and rips the kennelmaster's arm off before being brought down by crossbow fire; Raynald's brave attempt to save Grey Wind presumably costs his life, as he is shot by two arrows, jumps into the river, and his body is never found. In the TV version, Grey Wind is mercilessly shot while inside his pen and incapable of fighting back at all, unable to do anything but growl.
Another minor change is that while Arya did arrive at the Twins as the Red Wedding was taking place, the betrayal began slightly before she arrived and fighting was already breaking out in the camps. Arya thus never got close enough to personally witness the death of Grey Wind or her brother's mutilated corpse. In both versions, however, Arya still wants to rush into the castle to try to save her family, but the Hound knocks her unconscious to prevent her from trying - saving her life in the process, as he realized any attempt to intervene at this point was suicidal.
In the books, he rides her down on horseback and hits her in the back of the head with the blunt end of a longaxe. The chapter ends with Arya being hit with the axe, and Arya's survival is not revealed to the reader until much later in the book. Another change is that Roose Bolton says "The Lannisters send their regards" in the TV version, but in the books he says " Jaime Lannister sends his regards", referring to Jaime's parting words to Roose at Harrenhal.
This change was possibly because the TV producers did not want to give the false impression that Jaime was somehow involved with the Red Wedding, which he was not. The perpetrator casualties were relatively minor: Jinglebell was killed by Catelyn; one assailant was killed by the Greatjon; the Hound killed three; according to Merrett Frey, fifty Freys were killed at the camps. As a side-effect of the Red Wedding, although no other house has repeated the breaking of the right, it has left a more lasting stain on the ancient guest right, with safety and security in a strange castle no longer being considered guaranteed.
By the point the books reached, only one of the three masterminds of the Red Wedding - Tywin - has been killed. He changed into a beast before our eyes and tore out the throat of my cousin Jinglebell, a harmless simpleton. He would have slain my lord father too, if Wendel had not put himself in the way. Jared continues to lie, claiming brazenly that Robb murdered Wendel " And many more. Mine own son Tytos was amongst them, and my daughter's husband.
The mark of the beast was on them all. Wargs birth other wargs with a bite, it is well-known. It was all my brothers and I could do to put them down before they slew us all. Later, in private, Lord Manderly assures Davos he does not believe the Freys' lies: "They do not expect the north to believe their lies, not truly, but they think we must pretend to believe or die. His wife, to prevent her -- or more importantly, her son -- from trying to take up the throne.
Improve this answer. KutuluMike KutuluMike k 23 23 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. What does being a psychopath have anything to do with it? There are orders of magnitudes more psychopaths in the world who aren't murders than those that are.
No one is questioning why Frey killed Robb; the question is why he killed everyone so excessively violently — KutuluMike. Actually, Robb's army was also slaughtered at the feast. I don't think they even took prisoners. Why were they so excessively violent? Well, to quote: "The essence of war is violence.
Moderation in war is imbecility" izquotes. MichaelEdenfield The term you are looking for is possibly "sociopath". Psychopaths do not have feelings, and Frey has plenty of those.
This is way off topic, but clinically there is no definition of either psychopath or sociopath. Most psychologists consider the terms interchangeable. They describe someone who has no empathy or remorse and is highly antisocial. They do not imply that the person has no feelings at all. Show 3 more comments. Roose is: cautious, intelligent, ruthless, and easily capable of unspeakable cruelty. In essence, Walder Frey and Roose Bolton have followed suit.
And you know what they say: " Imitation is the sincerest [form] of flattery " The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior Community Bot 1. Add a comment. System Down System Down In the book The wife wasn't there and may not have been pregnant.
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