Robb and Talisa Stark

Robb Stark who has been proclaimed King of the North meets Talisa Maegyr a battle field healer after the Battle of Oxcross, in Season 2. Despite the fact that he has entered a marriage contract with House Frey, Robb comes to love her.

Season 1
Robb Stark, learning of the arrest of his father, has called up his bannermen and is marching them south into the Riverlands in order to confront the army of the Lannister forces. He must cross the bridge over the Trident. This is controlled by Walder Frey who demands an alliance between their houses before he will risk the wrath of the Lannisters. Lady Catelyn Stark handles the negotiations. Robb must marry a daughter or granddaughter of Walder Frey.

Garden of Bones
In the aftermath of the Battle of Oxcross Robb Stark is Walking through the carnage with his Roose Bolton, when he sees a battlefield healer struggling with a Wounded Lannister soldier. His foot is infected and he must have is amputated. Robb comes over and helps hold him down. When the man has been loaded onto a cart, Talisa questions Robb about why this war needs to be fought. The man was only a fisherman who was conscripted into the Lannister army, what conflict would Robb have with him? Will getting revenge on the Joffrey bring his father back. And who will be king afterward? Rob has trouble answering these questions. As she is riding away on another cart with her box of medical supplies, Robb comments that the man was lucky that Talisa was here. Talisa retorts that he was Unlucky that Robb was.

Talisa is talking to Robb when his mother returns from her trip to see Renly at Storm's End. Robb introduces them. Talisa in response to Catelyn's query responds that her name is Maegry and that she is from Volantis. Talisa excuses herself and Catelyn watches Robb looking at Talisa depart. Robbsays that he has missed his mother and Catelyn smiles saying that she can see he has been pining. She reminds him that he is betrothed and not free to follow his heart. Robb acknowledges that.

After a meeting of his bannerman, Robb finds Talisa at the doorway to his tent. She looks tired and disheveled and wears her healing apron. She tells him that she heard that he he is going off the accept the surrender of the Crag and wonders if he will procure medical supplies from the castle Maester for her. Robb agrees, but as she starts to make him a list, he asks her to come with him. She would be much more able to get what she needs than he will.

On their way back from the Crag, Robb and Talisa are walking together, their horses being lead behind them. Talisa asks him about the girl he is to marry. Is she pretty, what is her name? Robb does not know as they have never met. He says that he supposes that her last name is Frey. He and Talisa laugh as she wishes the two of them happiness together. Robb begins to talk bout his father and the lessons of leadership he received. Talisa wishes that she could have met him and Robb assures her that his father would have liked her. A man interrupts their talk as he rides up to tell Robb that Jaime Lannister has escaped.

Later, Talisa comes to Robb's tent to comfort him. His has had to arrest his mother for freeing Ser Jaime and Lord Rickard Karstark is furious. Robb questions her about her past and this time she responds, telling him why she became a healer. It was after she witnessed the near drowning of her br when she was a child. The little bo life was saved by a slave from a fishing boat who revived him at risk to himself. Talisa tells Robb that after that She determined to do good with her life and not just be a frivolous noble, and to never again live in a place where slavery was legal. Touched by her bravery, Robb announces that he doesn't want to marry the Frey girl, and Talisa caught up in the moment says that she doesn't want him to. They fall into each others arms, pull off each others clothes and lower themselves to the ground.

Robb talks to his mother about Talisa. Catelyn reminds Robb that Walder Frey is a dangerous man to cross. She implores Robb that the arranged marriage is the best course and love is a possibility. She and Eddard Stark were strangers when they married and yet came to love passionately. However, Robb in the flush of first love won't listen. Besides, after her freeing of Jaime, his mother is not justified in being the voice of reason rather than recklessness.

Robb and Talisa marry. Sharing their vows secretly, in a private ceremony before a Septon. They commit themselves to each other.