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[Fassbender]

In a series filled with so many deaths it is hard to choose the one that hit you the hardest, but i have to say i was absolutely crushed by the death of Jory Cassel, all that loyalty and ability lost in one fell swoop, it is also one of the first major deaths in the books and i was shocked how easily characters could be killed of by GRRM. What do you think ?.

[Gurkhal]

Lady's death made me feel bad. The rest of them I was pretty cool with.

[Crown]

Where do I start?

[The Frostfangs]

Maester Aemon

[Winter's Knight]

I was extremely upset at Oberyn's death. So much awesome, gone.

[Ser Thomas Derpingham]

King Joffrey.

(I'm kidding, guys, calm down.)

Lord Eddard Plantagenet Stark, Lord Protector of Westeros, Hand of the King, Warden of the North.

While most viewers were merely frustrated that the main character had died, I relieved teenage trauma that I experienced when Ned died on those pages.  I was nearly as devastated as if my own father had died.  

Few stories move me like that.  I would, at risk of being crucified by literary buffs, put George next to Orwell, just because 1984 mentally crushed me the way A Game Of Thrones did.  

I'm sorry, but few deaths after that in the series ruined me like that.  Joffrey's death, ironically, was mildly upsetting to me, only because of my childhood trauma with suffocation.

I have been traumatized frequently in my young life, as you may have noticed.

[Nagisa Furukawa]

The little kid in A Clash of Kings who gets his face crushed in by a mace.

[Ser Flowers]

I was pretty upset over Khal Drogo's death. I was beginning to think he was this amazing bad ass after pouring a pot of molten gold on a man's head and then he up and dies from some scratch!?!?!?!

[Evamitchelle]

If I had to choose only one it would be Catelyn's. Reappearing as Lady Stoneheart kinda makes it worse in my opinion.

[brando6]

I was upset that the Old Bear, got killed by his own men, after escaping the ww

[fassreiter]

I knew before I started reading ADWD that Mance Rayder was probably going to die, but still, that cowardly scene left me completely devastated. And to think that maybe I have to go through all of that (or worse) again with TWOW...

[Dacie]

IF Jon is dead, then him.

Otherwise, Maester Aemon and Oberyn.

[AryaMiles]

This if my first post. I mean I've been reading the forum for a couple months now but I recently decided to write as well.

The death that really got me even though i didn't read about it is the conclusive end of Beric Dondarrion. Although we all had it coming since he was losing a bit of himself every time I still felt that his sacrifice was a noble one and was happy that the one he used it on was Catelyn, or Lady Stoneheart now. I really hope that before Catelyn dies can eradicate the Frey lineage (those that had to do with the Red Wedding) from the face of the earth, or at least from the face of Westeros.

But I was kinda hoping that Berric would continue a bit more to lay waste on Lannisters. When the Mountain died though I knew that his reason for staying alive had perished as well. Still his death was the one that shocked me the most.

Eddard Stark's death didn't shock me as much as his betrayal from Petyr did. When he was betrayed I kinda knew that one way or another Cercei wouldn't allow him to live knowing what he knew.

And the death that made me a little bit happy was Joffrey's. I know it is bad to be happy that someone died but I really really hated that brat. Although I kinda wished it was Arya that was going to do the honors.

The death of Jon Snow doesn't count as I remain skeptical about it. I would hate it if he is truly dead and would even consider stop reading the rest of the series (just joking I couldn't stop until Arya kills Cercei and eats her guts with a bit of garlic)

[Blisscraft]

I agree with Crown.  So much tragedy.

[Alex Baratheon]

" Egg? I dreamed I was old. " Maester Aemon's death always gets to me.

But, if George kills Stannis... I don't even want to think about it.

[Ojji]

Any animal death :v

[Rinso]

The most fresh memory is when I read ADWD and got to Ramsay's letter at the end where he bragged how he had defeated and killed Stannis. I was completely and utterly shocked and dismayed, to be honest. Not so much because of Stannis' death itself, but because he would be taken down by such a caricature like Ramsay Snow. It felt almost like George was flipping me off. But then I read the letter again and saw what an obvious and clumsy lie it was and had a total "whew!" moment.

It was similair with the Hound and the Mountain in AFFC.

Of the real deaths... gee, I don't know where to start but the regular "Ned" or "Robb and Catelyn" ones don't strike me very hard, to be honest.
Tyrion killing Shae and Tywin was gut-wrenching and very powerful.
Lysa's death is also pretty horrible, not because I gave a damn about her, but because imagining how awful she must have felt in her final few seconds after Littlefinger's big revelation ("Only Cat.") is really heart-rending.
The deaths of Rickard and Brandon Stark are so incredibly awful in their injustice that they get me more angry rather than upset.

And of course all the nameless and unimportant victims of the war and the game of thrones - the two namess miller boys, the butcher's boy Mycah, little Weasel who just wandered off on her own, Lommy Greenhands, the thousands victims of Dany's "liberation" of Slaver's Bay and so on and on, and on.

[The_Gallows_Knight]

Oberyn, just when he was about to absolve Tyrion of a crimehe didd't commit and give that fucker Gregor what he deserved.

[genegirl]

The Red Wedding is the most tragic for me.

[Lady Hodor]

MYCAH! Five books later and I still have not forgiven the Hound.