He leads the defence of the castle against a wildling attack (during which Ygritte is killed), hosts Stannis Baratheon and Lady Melisandre, and is elected as the new Lord Commander following his bravery in battle. In a fit of drunken rage, he threatens Drogo to give him his army now or he will kill his unborn son. But as they journey, it becomes evident that Viserys does not have leadership skills to reclaim the throne and his arrogance and disrespect for the Dothraki does not win him any hearts. A narcissist, he is arrogant and self-centered, caring only about himself and looking down on others, especially his sister Daenerys. Jorah Mormont (portrayed by Iain Glen) is an exiled knight in the service of Daenerys Targaryen and the son of Jeor Mormont of the Night’s Watch.
With the War of Five Kings effectively concluded by their deaths, Stannis sails to Braavos in an attempt to secure funding from the Iron Bank. After Renly is killed by a demon bearing Stannis’ face, Lady Brienne, head of Renly’s kingsguard, promises to one day take revenge on Stannis. Melisandre convinces Stannis to kill his brother Renly Baratheon with a shadow demon and claim half of Renly’s army for his own.
She reunites with her brother Jon Snow at Castle Black and, with Littlefinger’s army, helps him reclaim Winterfell. He also sends his mother Catelyn to deal with Stannis Baratheon and Renly Baratheon, both of whom are fighting to be the rightful king. Daenerys, having lost many close friends and two of her dragons during the war against the White Walkers, discovers that the population support Jon’s claim to the throne over hers. Despite victory over the Army of the Dead, and despite Jon insisting he will not press his claim to the throne, the news weakens their relationship. Jon is then revealed to be Aegon Targaryen, the legitimate son of Daenerys’ brother Rhaegar and Ned Stark’s sister Lyanna, making him the heir to the Iron Throne and Daenerys’ nephew.
Margaery Tyrell
Bronn later accompanies Jaime to Riverrun, where the Lannister army retake the castle from the Tullys, and he also forms part of the force that seizes Highgarden from the Tyrells. His death ignites Maester Aemon’s call for the lords of Westeros to aid the Night’s Watch, which convinces Stannis Baratheon the time is ripe to fight the onslaught of the White Walkers. Jon marches south to take Winterfell from the Boltons with a wildling army and successfully reclaims the castle.
Viserys Targaryen
Shae attempts to kill Tyrion with a knife, but he strangles her to death both in self-defense and out of anger for her betrayal. After Tyrion is freed by Jaime, he finds Shae sleeping in Tywin’s bed, making him realise the horrible truth. Shae, however, does not leave King’s Landing and resurfaces at Tyrion’s trial for murdering Joffrey, where she falsely claims that both Tyrion and Sansa were responsible for Joffrey’s death. After serving under three kings, Varys flees to Essos with Tyrion Lannister following the latter’s murder of his father Tywin. Instead of carrying out Cersei’s orders, however, Bronn uses the threat of death as leverage over Jaime and Tyrion, securing himself a seat on Bran the Broken’s small council as Lord of the Reach. Before Bronn can marry Lollys, however, he reunites with Jaime, who has been tasked with travelling to Dorne to retrieve Myrcella Baratheon from the Martells, who threaten revenge for their prince’s death.
Stannis Baratheon
A grieving Drogon then proceeds to melt the Iron Throne with dragonfire, before taking Daenerys into his claws and flying away from the Red Keep, to the east. Upon her arrival in Westeros, she meets with Jon Snow, the King in the North, who convinces her to defeat the White Walkers before pressing her claim to the throne. She later liberates the slaves along Slaver’s Bay, ruling over the city of Meereen with her Unsullied army, and eventually defeating the slave masters with her dragons. With her youngest son Tommen now on the throne and married to Margaery, she seeks the help of the Faith Militant and their leader the High Sparrow to regain control. With her son Joffrey on the throne, she becomes one of his closest advisers and battles with his eventual wife Margaery Tyrell for his affections. Catelyn is killed, along with Robb and Talisa and many Stark loyalists, at the Red Wedding, when Walder Frey – supported by the Boltons and the Lannisters – turns on the Starks for breaking the marriage pact.
- Ned’s sacrifice is not in vain, since his notifying Stannis of the truth of Joffrey’s parentage sets in motion Stannis’ claim to the throne, and ensuring the illegitimacy being made known to all of Westeros.
- A grieving Drogon then proceeds to melt the Iron Throne with dragonfire, before taking Daenerys into his claws and flying away from the Red Keep, to the east.
- On the road, however, Brienne and Jaime are captured by soldiers working for House Bolton, and Jaime’s sword hand is severed.
- Jaime is captured by Robb Stark’s army and held prisoner until he is released by Catelyn Stark and escorted back to King’s Landing by Brienne of Tarth.
- When Mole’s Town is attacked by wildlings, Gilly returns to Castle Black and survives the attack by Mance Rayder’s wildling army.
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Stannis’ army attacks King’s Landing in an attempt to seize the throne but is repelled at the city’s walls after a long battle. He joins Jon’s wildling army in the Battle of the Bastards, helping to reclaim the castle for the Starks. Before the events of the series, he earned his knighthood by smuggling food to the besieged Stannis Baratheon and his army.
When the Night King breaks through the Wall and attacks Winterfell, Davos, along with the returning Melisandre, forms part of the army that defeats him. When Jon Snow is assassinated in a mutiny for making a pact with the wildlings, Davos is the first person to find his body. Before knighting him, however, Stannis removed the last joints from four fingers on his right hand as punishment for his years of smuggling. Davos Seaworth (portrayed by Liam Cunningham) is a former smuggler and knight in the service of Stannis Baratheon. Bran (now the Three-Eyed Raven), however, uncovers his treachery, reveals the litany of crimes he committed against the Starks, and Sansa then sentences Petyr to death. Petyr returns to the Vale and commands the Knights of the Vale to join his cause to reclaim Winterfell from the Boltons.
Roose Bolton
- Jon marches south to take Winterfell from the Boltons with a wildling army and successfully reclaims the castle.
- If a third season happens and adapts “The Mystery Knight,” HBO will be in a Game of Thrones situation if it wants a fourth season, with no prewritten material to bring to the screen.
- While investigating the reason for the death of Jon Arryn, he discovers that all three of Robert’s children with Queen Cersei were fathered by Cersei’s twin brother Jaime.
- Will 2026 be the year the A Song of Ice and Fire faithful finally receive The Winds of Winter, the sequel George R.R. Martin has been working on for well over a decade?
After the Faith Militant gain control of the capital, Jaime is relieved of his Kingsguard duties and told to reclaim Riverrun with the Lannister army. Jaime is captured by Robb Stark’s army and held prisoner until he is released by Catelyn Stark and escorted back to King’s Landing by Brienne of Tarth. Ned’s sacrifice is not in vain, since his notifying Stannis of the truth of Joffrey’s parentage sets in motion Stannis’ claim to the throne, and ensuring the illegitimacy being made known to all of Westeros. Ned is convinced by Varys that if he goes to his death honorably, as he is prepared to do, his daughters will not suffer for it.
Stannis becomes a challenger for the Iron Throne after his nephew Joffrey Baratheon becomes king, becoming one of five in the War of Five Kings. Sam survives the attack by White Walkers on Winterfell, and stays at the castle with a newly pregnant Gilly. They return to Castle Black, reuniting with Jon Snow, and survive the attack by Mance Rayder’s wildling army. When the trio are attacked by a White Walker while trekking through the wilderness, Sam uses dragonglass daggers (found at the Fist) to kill it.
Tyrion Lannister
Stannis does not live long enough to hear of Balon Greyjoy’s death at the hands of his younger brother Euron, completing the list of those Melisandre cursed with blood magic. After the battle, he is discovered in a nearby forest by Lady Brienne, who avenges her long-deceased king by executing Stannis. He then travels further north to Castle Black, and inadvertently ends the conflict between Mance Rayder’s wildling army and the Night’s Watch.
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While investigating the reason for the death of Jon Arryn, he discovers that all three of Robert’s children with Queen Cersei were fathered by Cersei’s twin brother Jaime. As the show opens, Ned has been content to remain in the north, but after the death of Lord Jon Arryn, he is convinced that it is his duty to accept the position of Hand of the King. Ned Stark (portrayed by Sean Bean as an adult, Sebastian Croft as a child, and Robert Aramayo as a young adult) is the Hand of the King after Lord Jon Arryn’s death. Russian artist Andrew Tarusov loves working in a vintage “pinup girl” style.
Brienne swears to take revenge on Stannis Baratheon, who created the shadow demon that killed her king. After Jon is assassinated in a mutiny, Tormund is present when the Lady Melisandre resurrects him, and forms part of the army Jon uses to reclaim Winterfell from House Bolton. Tormund takes a liking to Jon Snow after he joins them and even gives him advice over his relationship with Ygritte. Years later, Davos, now in Jon Snow’s service, returns to the capital and finds Gendry working as a smith once more. Melisandre takes Gendry to Dragonstone and uses his king’s blood to turn the War of Five Kings in the favour of Gendry’s uncle, Stannis Baratheon.
The Knights of the Vale then assist Jon Snow’s wildling army against the Boltons, and Winterfell is returned to Stark hands. Lysa discovers this information and tries to have Sansa killed, only for Petyr to push her through the castle’s moon door to her death instead. After she is widowed following Khal Drogo’s death, he remains with her and becomes the first knight of her Queensguard. In exchange for an army, Viserys marries her to the powerful Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo, who gifts her three petrified dragon eggs.
To protect them, he sacrifices his honor and publicly declares that he was plotting to steal the throne and that Joffrey is the true king. A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms premieres on HBO on January 18. There are currently three novellas in the series, the first of which has been adapted into the first season of A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms, scheduled to premiere on HBO on January 18. If a third season happens and adapts “The Mystery Knight,” HBO will be in a Game of Thrones situation if it wants a fourth season, with no prewritten material to bring to the screen.
The first, “The Hedge Knight,” is adapted for season one of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and the already greenlit season two will presumably adapt the second, “The Sworn Sword.” It’s something he’s touched on in the past, and no doubt fans of the stories, following the very tall knight Dunk and his scrappy little squire, Egg, would love to read more. Season three of House of the Dragon is coming in a few months—and even sooner, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which premieres January 18 and adapts Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas. Will 2026 be the year the A Song of Ice and Fire faithful finally receive The Winds of Winter, the sequel George R.R. Martin has been working on for well over a decade? He then takes his army east and is outside King’s Landing when Daenerys and Cersei meet in the Dragonpit. The night before Grey Worm admits to Missandei that now he has her to love, he has begun to know what fear is.
After Jaime is killed when Daenerys Targaryen destroys King’s Landing, Brienne journeys south and is named head of Bran the Broken’s kingsguard. She returns to Winterfell after Sansa and Jon reclaim the castle anyway, and is present when Sansa and Arya reunite at the fortress, technically fulfilling her oath to Catelyn Stark. Brienne is sent to Riverrun to request that Brynden Tully’s army assist Sansa and Jon in reclaiming Winterfell. On the road, however, Brienne and Jaime are captured by soldiers working for House Bolton, and Jaime’s sword hand is severed.
After King Robert’s death and Eddard Stark’s execution, arrangements are made for Gendry to travel to Castle Black with Arya (disguised as “Arry”) and other Night’s Watch recruits. In season 3, Talisa reveals that she is pregnant, although she and her unborn child are stabbed to death by Lothar Frey in the Red Wedding Massacre, the first in the hall to be attacked. Talisa Stark (portrayed by Oona Chaplin) is a healer working on the battlefields of the War of the Five Kings. After Joffrey’s murder Tyrion is falsely accused, and after a failed gambit through trial by combat Tywin sentences his son to death. During the War of Five Kings, Tywin briefly stays at Harrenhal, a castle and prison controlled by the Lannisters. Cersei Lannister gives power to King’s Landing faith militant group, the Sparrows, to challenge the Tyrells’ influence in the capital following the death of Tywin Lannister.
