After the Red Wedding, he tried to keep his family alive and safe from the Boltons and the Whitehills. After his younger brother Ryon had been taken hostage by the Whitehills, he thought the hostilities would finally end. But no, the surrounding villages and his men were regularly terrorized by Whitehill and Bolton men, attempting to provoke him into making a mistake. His other brother, Ethan, had even been flayed alive by Ramsay Snow.