Stannis-the character doing the voice over-is the dead king's middle brother. He is a thoroughly humorless man who insists upon doing everything by the book. Like Ned Stark he has immense respect for the law but he lacks Ned's kinder side or any sense of mercy. He's also much more practical. It will be interesting to see how he's portrayed in Season 2. In the books he occasionally gets privately peeved at why people don't like him more but he doesn't let it stop him from doing what he sees as necessary. He's possibly the most stubborn character in the whole series.
"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.
