Kings in the North vs. Kings of Winter
I didn't understand the difference, so I finally did a search on the two titles, "King in the North" and "King of Winter."
Based on a few of uses of the phrase "King in the North" I had noticed before doing the search, I expected to find that "King in the North" was an incorrect title, and might explain why Robb's reign didn't last long - he never set foot in the north after being crowned, he had been born at Riverrun and just didn't qualify as a true King of the area north of the neck, in
This is good. This is very good.
A few thoughts or observations.
Other Starks are interred in the tombs, but don't have their own statues and swords and direwolves. Maybe you were already taking that into consideration. I think we hear about this in a Bran POV. Granted, he may be foreshadowing his own likely claim to be the new LOW / KitN, but I think he mentions that his siblings' bones would be there, too.
It seems as if the swords in the tombs were specifically made as what arc