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| name = Benjen Stark<br />
| title = First Ranger of the Night's Watch<br />
| house = [[House Stark]]<br />
| race = First Men<br />
| culture = Northmen<br />
| status = Unknown (missing)<br />
| region = The [[Wall]]<br />
| born = Winterfell<br />
| died =<br />
| fate = Vanished beyond the Wall while ranging<br />
| quote = ''"You don't know what you're giving up."''<br />
}}<br />
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'''Benjen Stark''' is the younger brother of Lord [[Eddard Stark]] and First Ranger of the [[Night's Watch]]. A respected and capable man of the Watch, he disappeared beyond the [[Wall]] early in the events of ''A Game of Thrones'', and his fate remains one of the lingering mysteries of the series.<br />
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== Night's Watch ==<br />
Benjen took the black as a young man and rose to become First Ranger, the officer who leads the Watch's expeditions into the wild lands beyond the Wall. He is stationed at [[Castle Black]] and is well known and well liked among his brothers. It was Benjen who, on a visit to [[Winterfell]], helped inspire his nephew [[Jon Snow]] to join the Watch, though he later warned the boy of the hardships he would face.<br />
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== Disappearance ==<br />
Shortly after Jon arrived at the Wall, Benjen led a ranging party north to investigate troubling reports of vanished wildlings and stirring dangers in the haunted forest. He did not return. Some of his men were later found dead, their bodies rising as wights, deepening the dread that something ancient was waking beyond the Wall.<br />
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== Mystery ==<br />
Benjen's fate is unresolved in the novels. His disappearance is one of the early signs of the gathering threat of the [[Others]] and the coming of a second [[Long Night]].<br />
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''Screen note: in HBO's'' Game of Thrones, ''a figure connected to Benjen reappears as "Coldhands," aiding Stark children north of the Wall.''<br />
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