Timeline for How could the cruel House Bolton be a banner man or ally of the honorable House Stark?

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Mar 30, 2015 at 2:49	history	edited	Möoz	CC BY-SA 3.0	Updated answer.
Mar 26, 2015 at 19:49	comment	added	System Down		It's also worth noting that the Boltons had long renounced their practice of flaying their enemies, at least in public. AFAIK, it was Ramsay Bolton nee Snow who brought back the practice, not Lord Roose Bolton.
Mar 26, 2015 at 13:55	comment	added	Himarm		its easy to torture, flay, kill people in your own castle, and then put up a nice public face. I doubt the Starks regularly went and inspected "thoroughly" every castle, fort, or subjects property, as that would probably be considered very rude, and boltons where one of the starts stronger allies in numbers. essentially, do whatever the hell you want, just send me men on occasion for wars and everythings cool.
Mar 26, 2015 at 11:21	comment	added	Royal Canadian Bandit		+1. Also, the Starks are traditionally honourable, in that they won't break their sworn word. That is not the same as being nice. Many of the Kings of Winter are described as merciless warriors. In ASOIAF, we see a particularly "good" generation of Starks (Ned/Robb) and particularly "bad" Boltons (Roose/Ramsay), but historically the difference in temperament might not have been so (ahem) stark. Ned in particular was shaped by his upbringing with Jon Arryn, and may have been less cruel than his ancestors.
Mar 26, 2015 at 2:09	history	edited	Möoz	CC BY-SA 3.0	Updated answer.
Mar 26, 2015 at 2:04	history	edited	Möoz	CC BY-SA 3.0	Updated answer.
Mar 26, 2015 at 1:57	history	edited	Möoz	CC BY-SA 3.0	Updated answer.
Mar 26, 2015 at 1:48	history	answered	Möoz	CC BY-SA 3.0