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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''House Bolton''' of the Dreadfort is a powerful and ancient noble House of the [[North]], sworn (in name) to [[House Stark]]. Their sigil is a flayed man, red on pink, and their words -- spoken seldom and never lightly -- are '''"Our Blades Are Sharp."''' They rule from the [[Dreadfort]], a grim and forbidding castle on the [[Weeping Water]], said to hold the salted skins of the Stark kings of old.<br />
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The Boltons descend from the [[First Men]] and once ruled the lands east of the [[White Knife]] as the Red Kings, rivals to the Kings of Winter for thousands of years. They are infamous above all for the old practice of [[flaying]] their enemies alive, a custom outlawed by the Starks but never wholly forgotten by the lords of the Dreadfort.<br />
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== History ==<br />
For all their professed loyalty, the Boltons never forgot that they were once kings, and that it was the Starks who subdued them. That buried resentment surfaced in the [[War of the Five Kings]]. [[Roose Bolton]], lord of the Dreadfort, marched south under [[Robb Stark]]'s banner -- and then turned his cloak. In conspiracy with [[House Frey]] and [[House Lannister]], Roose helped engineer the [[Red Wedding]], where Robb Stark and his host were betrayed and butchered. For this treachery the Lannisters named Roose Warden of the North.<br />
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His bastard son, [[Ramsay Bolton|Ramsay Snow]], legitimized as Ramsay Bolton, is a sadist who delights in flaying and the hunt, and who broke the captured [[Theon Greyjoy]] into the cringing creature called Reek.<br />
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== Notable Members ==<br />
* [[Roose Bolton]], Lord of the Dreadfort, the new Warden of the North<br />
* [[Ramsay Bolton]], his cruel bastard son, legitimized<br />
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== Significance ==<br />
The Boltons' betrayal at the Red Wedding shatters the Stark cause and hands them dominion over the North -- a rule built on treason and terror that the northern lords neither forgive nor truly accept. The flayed man supplants the direwolf at [[Winterfell]], but only by the leave of the Lannisters and the loyalty of no one.<br />
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