Character from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
Ned's fierce, wild sister whose beauty and willfulness triggered Robert's Rebellion — she chose Rhaegar Targaryen over a political marriage, and died giving birth to the secret that could reshape Westeros.
Lyanna exists primarily through other people's memories of her, each one revealing more about the rememberer than the remembered. Robert loved an idealized version of her. Ned mourns the real one. She was willful, brave, and uninterested in being a political token — qualities that Robert never understood and Rhaegar apparently did. Her choice to go with Rhaegar was an act of agency in a world that grants women almost none, and it burned the realm to the ground.
Dark hair and grey eyes with a wild, unconventional beauty that inspired obsession in Robert Baratheon and love in Rhaegar Targaryen. Slender and athletic — she was a skilled rider who is rumored to have jousted as the mystery Knight of the Laughing Tree. Her beauty was Northern: stark, fierce, unwilling to be ornamental.
Also known as: Lyanna, Lyanna Stark, The She-Wolf