Game Of Thrones' Big Robb Stark Change Made The Red Wedding Even Worse

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Game of Thrones' most shocking moment is undoubtedly season 3’s Red Wedding, which was made even more gruesome than the books due to a significant change made to the character of Robb Stark’s wife. In Game of Thrones’ episode “The Rains of Castamere,” Robb and Catelyn Stark attend the wedding of Edmure Tully to Walder Frey’s daughter, which only occurred because Robb broke his marriage pact with the Freys in order to marry Talisa Maegyr (Oona Chaplin). At the event, later labeled the "Red Wedding," Robb, Catelyn, numerous Stark allies, and Talisa were brutally murdered at the hands of the Freys and Roose Bolton.

While HBO’s Game of Thrones took multiple liberties in adapting George R.R. Martin’s books, one of the most controversial changes occurred in season 2 with King Robb Stark’s soon-to-be wife Talisa Maegyr. In the books, Robb had married young Jeyne Westerling, the daughter of an impoverished nobleman whose house served the Lannisters. After sleeping with her during an expedition to the Westerlands, he primarily married Jeyne to preserve her honor. In the show, however, Jeyne was changed to a new character named Talisa, a healer and noblewoman from Volantis. Robb's marriage to Talisa gave him a new motive by having Robb break his oath to the Freys due to love instead of duty, with Talisa becoming pregnant with his child before Game of Thrones’ shocking Red Wedding.

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The Red Wedding in Game of Thrones is very similar to that of the books, though the massacre was made far more brutal due to this change from Jeyne to Talisa. In the books, Jeyne never went to the Red Wedding with Robb because they didn’t want to offend the Freys, plus she was also never