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Neds death happened fairly early in the show when they were still laying out plotlines and so on so it wasn't a massive shock to see one of those stories meet an untimely ending. Robb's story on the other hand was a product of that Ned killing and felt like something they were building to for a long time - it really seemed like he was going to be eventually facing off with the others battling for the iron throne and we didn't know that much about the other contenders for it at the time of Ned's death. That's why Rob dying will always feel like the more major storyline for me