Ben Stark is Ned and Lyanna’s brother, Rickard’s son, and Jon Snow, Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, and Rickon’s uncle. He is a ranger on the Night’s Watch. He leads a party of rangers to search for Will and Waymar after they go missing only for him and his party to go missing as well. The bodies of two of the men in his party are found and brought back to Castle Black, where they reanimate as Others. At the end of the novel, Commander Mormont tells Jon Snow that he plans to go beyond the Wall to find Ben or Ben’s body and determine what happened to him.