<P> Rickon Stark is Lord Eddard and Lady Catelyn's youngest child, naturally aggressive and strong - willed . His black dire wolf Shaggydog shares these qualities also . When Theon Greyjoy captures Winterfell in Season 2, Rickon hides in the crypts . After Theon can't seem to find where Rickon and Bran are, he then kills two farm boys to pass their bodies off as the Stark boys . After Winterfell is sacked and burned, he, Bran, Hodor, the Wildling woman Osha and the direwolves travel through the North . In Season 3 before they reach the Wall, Rickon, his direwolf and Osha split up from the rest of the group heading to Last Hearth, the seathouse of the Umbers . </P> <P> Following Lord Greatjon Umber's death, Rickon and Osha are betrayed by his heir Smalljon and handed over to the new Warden of the North, Ramsay Bolton, in order to secure an alliance with the Boltons against the wildlings Jon Snow has let through the Wall . To prove Rickon's identity, Smalljon kills Shaggydog and presents his head to Ramsay . Ramsay kills Osha and locks Rickon in the dungeons, sending a letter to Jon at Castle Black demanding the return of Sansa Stark (his wife) and threatening to kill Rickon if Jon does not comply . In retaliation Jon gathers an army of Stark loyalists and marches on Winterfell, now occupied by House Bolton . </P> <P> As the armies prepare for battle outside Winterfell, Ramsay brings out Rickon and orders him to run to Jon as one of his sadistic "games", shooting arrows at Rickon in order to lure Jon into the open . Jon charges out to save Rickon, but Rickon is shot through the heart and dies almost instantly . In the aftermath of the ensuing battle, Rickon's body is recovered and Jon buries him in the crypt, alongside Ned's remains . </P> <P> Because many Northern noble houses were plotting against the Boltons in the books, the show's decision to have them betray Rickon led to fan theories that the direwolf head Smalljon Umber showed to Ramsay was fake and that the Umbers would turn on the Boltons . Parkinson dispelled the rumours, saying that the direwolf head was intended to be real . Rickon's death scene referenced his first appearance in the series pilot, where he laughs at a poor archery shot before handing off arrows to the archer and running to stand by the target . </P>

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