Hrmm the people with it being about the Stark's redemption is who do we have left...Bran who at the end of the last book was becoming a tree (which will make him more powerful but only in a very specific way..still wonder if the death he witnessed as a tree was somehow important) Alya who is becoming a hired killer and John who is on the wall...I guess you could count their mother though she is undead really...oh well there is Sansa hmm she could be part of a redemption I guess as queen of the vale but the guy she has controlling her really is the closest we have to evil. I mean he did basically start this whole thing simply for his own advancement. The spider at least did seem to be looking out for the small folk to some extent...I don't know if this is going to be their redemption not much to work with. Are we completely away from parallels with the war of the roses...can that bit of history tell us anything?