Reaching the Nightfort , Bran recalls all the horror tales he’s heard about this castle, such as the stories of the Rat Cook , Mad Axe , and the Night's King . Before it was abandoned by the Watch some two hundred years before, the Nightfort had once been the greatest castle along the Wall. However, Meera and Jojen Reed are unafraid of the ancient castle. They sleep that night in the kitchens, near a seemingly bottomless well. Deep in the night, Bran is woken by footsteps coming from the well. H...
Jun 27, 2025•41 min
Reaching the Nightfort , Bran recalls all the horror tales he’s heard about this castle, such as the stories of the Rat Cook , Mad Axe , and the Night's King . Before it was abandoned by the Watch some two hundred years before, the Nightfort had once been the greatest castle along the Wall. However, Meera and Jojen Reed are unafraid of the ancient castle. They sleep that night in the kitchens, near a seemingly bottomless well. Deep in the night, Bran is woken by footsteps coming from the well. H...
Jun 23, 2025•44 min
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Jun 20, 2025•45 min
Donal Noye and Jon have done the best they could to fortify Castle Black from the impending attack of Styr and his raiders. The castles along the Wall were designed defenseless, as the Night's Watch was not meant to be able to repel a force from the South. Castle Black was meant specifically to be protected from wildlings by the Wall itself. When Styr , the Magnar of the Thenns , and his men attack, many of the defenders die, while Jon and Satin fire arrows from one of the roofs. At one point, J...
May 25, 2025•42 min
Salladhor Saan tells King Stannis Baratheon of the Red Wedding , how the Freys sewed the head of Robb Stark 's direwolf, Grey Wind , on the king's shoulders and nailed a crown on its head. Catelyn Stark was slain and thrown naked into the river. Queen Selyse and Axell Florent declare that it was the hand of R'hllor that killed the usurpers, but Stannis knows it was Lord Walder Frey 's handiwork. When Stannis wants to send word that he will pardon any ironman or northman who swears fealty, Melisa...
May 19, 2025•37 min
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May 16, 2025•24 min
Tyrion and Sansa spend a joyless meal together, with both not talking much. Sansa takes a joke Tyrion makes about the quality of the food as him criticizing her, but he assures her that it's not her fault and that he has more serious matters to worry about. Besides Joffrey , Cersei and his father , what bothers him most are the 300 Dornishmen visiting for the King's wedding. He has settled them in a cornerfort of the Red Keep , as far away from the Tyrells as possible, yet there has already been...
May 09, 2025•52 min
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Apr 26, 2025•33 min
Arya and Sandor try to reach the castle . Arya notices that the gate is opened and armed riders are beginning to come out from the castle toward the pavilions where the Stark host is celebrating the wedding. She hears a wolf howling and music she faintly recognizes. The pavilions that the Stark host are celebrating in have been rigged to collapse. The riders from the castle attack the northmen, collapsing the pavilions and setting them on fire. Arya and The Hound are spotted by the Frey men and ...
Apr 18, 2025•34 min
Catelyn listens to the continuous pounding noise of the drums the musicians in the hall are playing. She is seated between Ryman Frey and Roose Bolton during the wedding feast. She remarks to herself how joyless the wedding is, and watches as Robb dances with several of the Frey maids and Edmure dotes on his soon to be wife, Roslin . Catelyn becomes more wary when she learns that Olyvar , Perwyn , and Alesander Frey are all not in attendance at the wedding. She notices Merrett Frey trying to dri...
Apr 12, 2025•54 min
Sandor and Arya arrive at the Twins where Sandor hopes to ransom Arya to her family . To get there The Hound had robbed a farmer of his wagon and casks to disguise themselves as simple farmers who have come to bring pork to the feast. The castle is closed so they are sent to the pavilions instead where the common soldiers are. Arya recognizes a few coats of arms but there is nobody she knows. The soldiers drink to the health of Queen Jeyne whose name is unfamiliar to Arya. As Sandor wants to ran...
Apr 04, 2025•41 min
Robb's host approaches the Twins in the rain. Robb rides at the head with Catelyn , Edmure beside him, and Ser Raynald bearing his banner. Catelyn cautions Robb again about offending Lord Walder Frey , and advises him to ask for food and wine as soon as they arrive to secure the guest right . They are met by a contingent headed by Ser Ryman Frey , Lord Frey's grandson, and three of Ryman's sons: Edwyn , Black Walder , and Petyr Pimple . When they come near, Grey Wind begins to growl and leaps fo...
Mar 14, 2025•51 min
Gared , Will , and Ser Waymar Royce , three rangers from the Night's Watch , are tracking a band of wildling raiders in the haunted forest . Will has reported on wildlings that he found, claiming they are all dead. Gared, an older man who has been in the Night's Watch for decades, is uneasy, and insists that they turn back to the Wall ; they have eight or nine days of travel ahead of them, which can turn into a fortnight if it snows. Waymar, a noble-born youth of eighteen, however, has the comma...
Mar 01, 2025•35 min
Jon Snow reaches Mole's Town and warns the populace to evacuate. At Castle Black , Jon learns that Jarman Buckwell and his men have returned with tidings of Mance Rayder ’s army. He discovers that the wildlings have been feinting all along the Wall , and groups of black brothers have been dispersed to counter them. Maester Aemon also tells him that Jeor Mormont was betrayed and killed, and that only twelve men made it back from Craster's Keep , including Giant , Grenn , Dywen , Sweet Donnel Hill...
Feb 20, 2025•46 min
Arya attempts to kill the Hound at night while the man is asleep, but he awakens and takes the rock from her hands. They reach Lord Harroway's Town , but find it flooded. Sandor promises to pay some ferrymen to take them across the Trident , but gives them only the parchment Lord Beric had given him promising reimbursement after the war. Arya tells Sandor that she had once been captured by his brother , and the Hound finds it amusing that Gregor never knew who he had caught. Clegane says, "I’ll ...
Feb 14, 2025•48 min
Sam and Gilly have reached what appears to be Whitetree . When Sam studies the carved face of the Heart Tree for a moment, he admits to himself that it is not the face he and his brothers saw when they started out on the ranging. Nor does he remember its red eyes weeping blood (sap). Sam prays earnestly to the old gods to protect them. He and Gilly camp in one of the wildling huts for the night, but Sam is woken by shapes moving within. The corpse of Small Paul comes after Sam, and he tries to s...
Feb 08, 2025•39 min
Traveling in the rain to the Twins for the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey , Catelyn recalls Robb sending Ser Rolph Spicer to deliver Martyn Lannister to the Golden Tooth in an exchange of captives, with Robett Glover put on a ship at Duskendale as part of the agreement. Robb left his wife Jeyne at Riverrun , and only Ser Raynald Westerling travels with them. Robb has brought 3,500 men with him, those who have been with him since the battle in the Whispering Wood , and who will foll...
Jan 24, 2025•48 min
Roose Bolton has left Harrenhal to the Goat , but before marching for the Twins he told Jaime to give his warm regards to his father . Jaime responds, "So long as you give mine to Robb Stark ." Jaime is now traveling for King's Landing under the protection of Steelshanks Walton and a host of Dreadfort men. Qyburn tells him that Lord Selwyn has promised Vargo Hoat 300 gold dragons for the safe return of his daughter , but the goat wants more as he still believes there are sapphires in Evenfall Ha...
Jan 16, 2025•41 min
Gendry mentions that Master Mott considered Thoros a false priest, and Thoros agrees. He was sent to the Seven Kingdoms to bring word of R'hllor , but he spent his time eating and whoring. King Robert was fond of him, and many enjoyed the sight of his flaming sword in melees. Lord Beric silences Thoros by saying, "Fire consumes. It consumes, and when it is done there is nothing left. Nothing." The outlaws reach High Heart again, and the ancient dwarf woman calls Beric the Lord of Corpses, for th...
Jan 08, 2025•56 min
Daenerys and her army of Unsullied reach Yunkai , to find the city guarded by a huge force including two sellsword companies. She knows that open battle will cost her many lives, even though her commanders feel she will win easily. Daenerys tells her men to invite the two sellsword Captains, as well as the Yunkish leader. The first to arrive are the three Captains of the Stormcrows , who spurn her offer to join her, although she notices Daario Naharis smile at her as they leave. The Captain of t...
Dec 20, 2024•54 min
Jon is with the Magnar ’s men nearing a village alongside a lake. He realizes that he must somehow escape and reach Castle Black before the raiders do, in order to warn them. The Thenns captured an old man camped in one of the ruined houses, and Styr commands Jon to kill the man. Jon balks, but Ygritte slits the man’s throat with her dagger. As Styr begins to command his men in the Old Tongue, a crash of thunder sounds, and suddenly a direwolf is attacking the Thenns. Jon mistakes the wolf for G...
Dec 14, 2024•50 min
Bran and the others reach a small, deserted village on a lake. There is a holdfast tower on an island in the middle of the lake, and Bran tells them that Good Queen Alysanne once stayed there. Brandon's Gift is a strip of land south of the Wall to a distance of 25 leagues which was once given to the Night's Watch to support them. The New Gift , given to the Watch by Queen Alysanne and her husband King Jaehaerys I , doubled that distance. Bran tells them there is a secret walkway just beneath the...
Dec 02, 2024•45 min
Arya Stark watches as Lord Beric Dondarrion and Thoros of Myr seem to be everywhere at once, both with flaming swords in hand. After the battle , the brotherhood hang several Mummers, including Septon Utt , for their crimes. Arya is upset that Beric let Sandor Clegane free after taking all his gold. That night at the septry's brewhouse, Beric speaks with Arya and asks Thoros, "How many times have you brought me back now?" Thoros claims it is R'hllor who has restored his life six times, but the s...
Nov 26, 2024•40 min
Tyrion has been sent to greet the three hundred Dornishmen with a small retinue. However, he is shocked when he finds that the Dornishmen are being led by Prince Oberyn Martell and not his brother, Prince Doran . The Red Viper of Dorne has an infamous reputation for using poisoned weapons in battle. The man fought in the Free Cities and even formed his own sellsword company, he studied at the Citadel for a time, and most importantly, he crippled Willas Tyrell in a tourney. Though this was years ...
Nov 20, 2024•26 min
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Nov 17, 2024•26 min
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Nov 09, 2024•36 min
Jaime and Brienne are in the bathhouse in Harrenhal , washing themselves before meeting Roose Bolton . Jaime feels dizzy in the hot bath, and begins to tell Brienne his story despite his own misgivings about revealing the tale. Jaime says, " Aerys would have bathed in wildfire if he’d dared. The Targaryens were all mad for fire." After the Battle of the Bells , Aerys realized that Robert Baratheon was no mere outlaw , and that the Targaryens faced their greatest threat since the Blackfyre Preten...
Nov 02, 2024•59 min
Axell Florent brings Davos Seaworth before King Stannis Baratheon , taking the torch with him to leave his brother Alester alone in the darkness of the cells. Axell tells Davos in private that he has seen Stannis's victory in the flames, and if Davos does not help him become Hand , he will see the Onion Knight killed. Stannis proclaims that Alester will die for treason, and he has Axell tell Davos of his plan to invade Claw Isle . Davos calls the plan a folly, and Stannis dismisses the enraged A...
Oct 25, 2024•52 min
Hoster Tully has finally passed away, and his family and bannermen are gathered for the funeral. Lame Lothar Frey and Walder Rivers have come to Riverrun to negotiate a meeting between Robb and Lord Walder Frey that will hopefully restore the alliance. The Lord of Riverrun is placed on a funeral pyre boat launched by Robb, Tytos Blackwood , Jonos Bracken , Jason Mallister , Marq Piper , Karyl Vance and Lothar Frey. Lothar is invited to take the place that would be Desmond Grell 's as a gesture o...
Oct 12, 2024•55 min
Arya and Gendry are blindfolded until they reach the hollow hill , the secret base of the forgotten fellowship . Sandor Clegane is brought bound before Thoros of Myr , and Arya cannot believe how different the red priest looks. The Hound is to be judged by Beric Dondarrion and hanged if found guilty. Thoros is a changed man, no longer a fat priest with a fake flaming sword, saying, "I am not the false priest you knew. The Lord of Light has woken in my soul. Many powers long asleep are waking, an...
Oct 03, 2024•48 min
