Originally Posted By: BAM_233

i really need to get the first book read, so i can move onto the second book...just a guess is stannis the brother of the ex king robert?


You got it. Stannis is as he sees it, the rightful King. He takes an exceedingly dim view of any other claimants, whether they be the secessionist "King in the North" Robb Stark, Stannis' own younger brother Renly, Joffrey, or other people yet to be introduced.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.