Ramsay Bolton is Roose Bolton’s bastard son. Years ago, Roose discovered that a miller had wed without his permission. He had the miller hanged and raped his wife. Ramsay was born shortly afterwards, and his mother brought him to the Dreadfort, his father’s castle, for Roose to acknowledge as his son. Roose very nearly killed both Ramsay and his mother, but relented upon realizing that the child was indeed his.

Ramsay is Roose’s only living child following the death of his brother Domeric, as well as the only possible heir to House Bolotn until the birth of a child by Roose’s new wife, Walda Frey. Ramsay Kills his father, Walda, and her newborn son– naming himself Lord Bolton and Warden of the North.

Ramsay keeps a pack of hounds, which he employs for hunting. All of his hounds are female, and are each named victims he’s hunted down.