Arya Stark, the youngest daughter of House Stark, is a fictional headstrong and independent heroine within George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series and the adapted television series Game of Thrones. Uninterested in the traditional roles of women within the medieval world of Westeros, Arya Stark instead pursues a path that leads her to learn to fight, survive, and eventually become an assassin as one of the Faceless Men.