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Tormund Giantsbane is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. Introduced in 2000's A Storm of Swords , he is a renowned wildling leader and chief lieutenant of Mance Rayder , the King-Beyond-The-Wall.
Tormund Giantsbane and Beric Dondarrion lead their party into House Umber's seat of Last Hearth, where they find young Lord Ned Umber dead and impaled to a wall. Tormund declares that they must reach Winterfell before the Night King. Ned reanimates as a wight, and Beric burns him with his flaming sword.
After Jon is assassinated in a mutiny, Tormund is present when the Lady Melisandre resurrects him, and forms part of the army Jon uses to reclaim Winterfell from House Bolton. Tormund is then stationed at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, and goes beyond the Wall with Jon to capture a wight and prove the existence of White Walkers to Queen Cersei Lannister.
Sansa discovers Theon is at Winterfell, and Ramsay forces him to apologize to her for supposedly killing her younger brothers. At the Wall, Tormund Giantsbane agrees to an alliance with the Night's Watch in return for the Wildlings to settle south of the Wall. Jon and Tormund travel to Hardhome to persuade the Wildlings.
At Winterfell, Littlefinger, knowing Arya is spying on him, lures her into finding the letter that Sansa was forced to write as a hostage in King's Landing. Jon, Jorah, and Gendry take the Hound, Thoros, Beric, Tormund and a group of the Free Folk from Eastwatch North beyond the Wall to capture a wight.
Jon survives a trampling, but the Stark forces appear doomed. Suddenly a horn sounds in the distance, as the Knights of the Vale arrive led by Littlefinger and Sansa. They smash the Bolton army, bringing victory to the Starks, while Tormund kills Smalljon in the chaos. Ramsay retreats to Winterfell and orders the gates closed.
In 2013–2019, Hivju had the role of Tormund Giantsbane in American fantasy series Game of Thrones by HBO. His first appearance was in the first episode of the third season, "Valar Dohaeris". In 2013, he also appeared in M. Night Shyamalan's science fiction film After Earth from the same year.
In A Game of Thrones (1996), Ned Stark is introduced as the virtuous and honorable patriarch of House Stark of Winterfell, the lord paramount and warden family of the North.He is happily married to Lady Catelyn Tully and is father to five trueborn children Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, Rickon and a bastard son Jon Snow, as well as guardian to a ward boy Theon Greyjoy.