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Who did lyanna stark really love?


Julio Bonilla

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I dont know if this has been already clarified in the books though, since i've just started reading aSOIAF a couple weeks ago. ( i'm about to finish the first book.) but for what i've seen , it makes you think that Lyanna was just Reaghar's meaningless obsession.


so i don't know, it's all about Robert's perception anyway.


did Lyanna loved Robert/Reaghar?


Hello, it's my very first thread by the way!

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Should really read the books before asking this question but:



It's pretty clear that while Lyanna was okay with marrying Robert she had no illusions about his character as a skirt chaser. So I do not think that she ever loved him.



Lyanna was a bit of a teenager not much older then Sansa at the end of Dance, so could she have been in "love" with Rheaghar or at least infatuated regardless of his true feelings.


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Julio, welcome to the boards. May you have nice and pleasant time here :cheers:



I am firm believer that she had feelings for Rhaegar, the kind she never felt for Robert. I don't distinguish much what Sansa felt for Joffrey from what Lyanna felt for Rhaegar, but Lyanna was lucky not to fall for a sociopath.


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Only the next two books will tell us for certain.



What we can infer from what is between the lines....Lyanna loved her brothers greatly but she was a wild spirit (wolf blood). My guess is Rhaegar found out she was the KoLT and they instantly liked each other. Later, she approached Rhaegar in some fashion regarding her betrothal to Robert...much like how Alys Karstark fled to Jon Snow about her situation. Slightly different but similar enough to make you wonder.



So I truly think there was admiration and affection between Rhaegar & Lyanna...and it may have evolved into Love...but we won't know until the next book...or the last book.


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Well that Lyanna and Rhaegar were in love is speculation, but educated speculation so to say. We don't know for sure yet. Only that she was disdainful of her engagement of Robert, even though she understood it was her duty. The whole "kidnap and rape" story does seem to be revisionist history by Robert among others. Ned definitely never contributed to that.


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I think no one can tell you exactly who she loved because the books haven't yet told us that. Neither what Rhaegar's feelings for her were.

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Well...she definitely loved Ned. I bet she liked Benjen and Brandon quite a bit too.

(this is quite difficult without spoilers, my good ser)

I'm sure she liked her father and mother too.

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I'm of the opinion that she may of loved Rhaegar at first, or at least was infatuated with him, but fell out of love with him when shit started hitting the fan. She didn't love Robert, but she probably didn't hate him either; he just wasn't the guy she wanted to spend her life with.


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