"And it is no one's burden but my own, to have placed you in such a position," Ned replies, offering Robb a stern, fatherly look. "I should not have left Winterfell behind to fall upon your shoulders." For as much as he tried to spare his eldest son from the same duties that had befallen him after the murders of his father and brother, for as much as he tried to provide them all with the best lives, the best upbringings he could have managed, there is a gnawing guilt at the core of him that carries the weight of the fact that he failed.

"A boy left to play at war is no one's fault but his father's."