Stark's Objective Card in the Feast For Crows expansion is a bit dicey…. "Winterfell and 5 castles or strongholds"

Is Winterfell included in that count of 5?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I interpreted it as counting Winterfell -- so Winterfell and 4 other castles and strongholds.

I also interpreted it as including Winterfell, for the follow reasons;

1. The two objectives are completely seperate, as in the case of the other Houses. Holding Lannisport is unrelated to holding King's Landing, holding Dragonstone is unrelated to holding King's Landing, and holding the Eyrie is unrelated to having more available power tokens than any other player. By this logic, holding Winterfell and controlling 5 areas with castles and strongholds are completely seperate objectives. If this is true, then Winterfell is not a factor any which way in the 5 areas, and therefore counts as one.

2. It doesn't say "5 OTHER/ADDITIONAL areas." If it somehow specified a distinction from Winterfell then obviously you wouldn't count it, but as Winterfell is not mentioned I see no reason to assume it does not count as one of the five.

3. Lannister and Arryn have good odds of meeting their objective in turn 1, and while more difficult it is certainly plausible that Baratheon could as well. If Stark really needed to net 6 total areas with castles and strongholds then it would be impossible based on the position of their forces and available march orders for them to achieve this goal. Stark is already at a disadvantage by being 4th on King's Court, I cannot imagine they would put Stark at an even further disadvantage by not permitting them to claim their once per turn in turn 1 like other houses have the option of doing.