Varys questions Melisandre about her previous service to the ill-fated King Stannis Baratheon. While Daenerys initially does not believe that she could be the Prince, Missandei reassures her that the High Valyrian word for "prince" or "princess" is gender-neutral. When pressed, Melisandre tells Daenerys she believes her to be one potential candidate to be the Prince That Was Promised, before identifying the other; Jon Snow, the King in the North , who has united the North and the wildlings.
Tyrion vouches for Jon and convinces Daenerys that he will make a good ally, since they have a common enemy - the Lannisters. Daenerys accepts Tyrion's advice, and tells him to extend an invitation for Jon to attend her at Dragonstone — where Jon must "bend the knee.
Jon and Davos arrive at Dragonstone. On the cliffs overlooking the beach, Varys confronts Melisandre about her reluctance to see the King in the North. Melisandre says that now that she has "brought ice and fire together". In the throne room, Missandei introduces Daenerys's many titles while Davos introduces Jon simply as King in the North. Daenerys thanks Jon for traveling so far, but insists that he is a mere Lord. Davos begs to differ, but Daenerys responds there has been no King in the North ever since Torrhen Stark bent the knee to Aegon the Conqueror , failing to acknowledge that Jon's "half-brother" Robb Stark was declared king after "their" father's execution , and adds that an oath lasts for perpetuity.
Daenerys then reiterates her demand for Jon to bend the knee, but he refuses. When Daenerys accuses him of breaking faith with House Targaryen , Jon still unaware that the Mad King was his true paternal grandfather reminds Daenerys that any fealty House Stark owed House Targaryen ended when her father brutally executed Rickard and Brandon Stark.
Daenerys acknowledges her father was an evil man and apologizes for his actions on behalf of House Targaryen. She also stresses that children should not be judged for the crimes of their parents. She then urges Jon to renew the historic allegiance between their two great houses. Jon agrees with Daenerys's view that children should not be blamed for the crimes of their parents but argues that he is not beholden to his ancestors' oaths.
When an irritated Daenerys questions why he came, Jon tells her that he has come for her help, and insists she will need his. Daenerys reminds him that she has three dragons and Dothraki who have pledged themselves to her. Getting to the point of his trip, Jon likens the fighting between the Great Houses to children squabbling over a game. He points out that the Army of the Dead is their true enemy and that if they don't band together against this threat, every person in Westeros will die before winter's end.
Daenerys is skeptical but Tyrion vouches for Jon. Jon insists from his own experiences that the White Walkers and the Night King are a serious threat; if they breach the Wall while the rest of Westeros battles it out for the Iron Throne, then they are all dead. Daenerys asks if Jon knew that his alleged father's best friend had sent assassins to kill her as a baby, unaware that Eddard had opposed King Robert Baratheon 's assassination plot. Daenerys recounts that she was targeted by assassins, enslaved, raped, and defiled but that her faith in herself rather than the gods kept her going.
Daenerys talks about the miracle of her dragons' hatching and the Dothraki crossing the Narrow Sea. When Daenerys reiterates that she is destined to rule the Seven Kingdoms , Jon retorts that she will be ruling over a graveyard if the Night King, who Jon reiterates is their true enemy, is not defeated. Tyrion says they cannot split their forces to fight the White Walkers when, from Daenerys's perspective, Cersei is the greater threat. Davos then speaks up for his liege lord and tells Daenerys that Jon won the support of both the wildlings and the northerners and has fought the White Walkers.
Davos also hints that Jon came back from the dead, though Jon silences him before Davos can give away too much. Davos says that it doesn't matter who bends the knee, as if the Walkers and their undead legions are victorious, no one will be left alive to claim the Iron Throne. Tyrion doesn't see the point of Jon's refusal to submit, urging Jon to bend the knee, assuring him that once Cersei is overthrown and Daenerys crowned Queen, the Targaryen forces can aid the northerners in fighting back the undead; Jon refuses as by the time Cersei is defeated, the Walkers may have already gotten past the Wall and begun their assault on the Seven Kingdoms.
Jon also disputes Daenerys's claims to Queenship, citing her claim to the Iron Throne rests upon her descent from a man his Stark relatives helped overthrow. Daenerys responds that he is in open rebellion since he has declared himself King in the North. Daenerys then receives a message from Varys. Daenerys orders Missandei to give Jon and his followers' food and lodging. When Jon asks if he is a prisoner, she says not yet.
Later, Jon and Tyrion discuss his predicament. Jon is unhappy that he is being kept on the island, preventing him from going back home while the White Walkers and the Night King still pose a threat. Tyrion says he trusts the word of Jeor Mormont and Jon.
Jon asks Tyrion how he can convince people about the existence of things which they don't believe exist. Jon wants to help his people and is frustrated with the deadlock. Tyrion encourages Jon not to give up. When Jon remarks that he is a fool for going south, Tyrion reassures him that Daenerys is not her father and has protected people from "monsters," just as Jon does, and this is why Daenerys has come to Westeros.
Tyrion tells Jon that many of the people she has saved are on this island and suggests Jon speak with them. Tyrion asks if there is something he can do to help Jon. After learning about the dragonglass beneath Dragonstone , Tyrion speaks with Daenerys about Jon's request to access the material. Daenerys is preoccupied with the loss of two allies. Tyrion convinces Daenerys to let Jon have the dragon glass in order to court his allegiance. He tells her to give him something so that they can focus on Casterly Rock.
Daenerys accepts her Hand 's advice. While Daenerys is watching over her dragons, she is joined by Jon. Daenerys tells Jon that she named her dragons Rhaegal and Viserion after her late brothers Rhaegar and Viserys Targaryen and tells Jon that she understands he has lost two brothers himself. When Jon nods at this, Daenerys explains that people had thought dragons were extinct but they exist again and perhaps they should be re-examining what they know.
Jon realizes that Tyrion has been petitioning her as well as him. Daenerys tells Jon she is determined to remove Cersei and Jon says he knows she is. When she says she hasn't changed her mind about the North belonging to the Iron Throne, Jon says he hasn't changed his mind either.
After a tense moment, Daenerys relents and allows Jon to mine the dragon glass, saying she'll provide what he needs. Jon calls to Daenerys to show her the dragonglass cave.
Jon guides Daenerys deeper into the cave, which has paintings of the Children of the Forest and the Long Night on the walls, as he tells Daenerys about them. They seem to affect Daenerys in some way. She tells him that she will fight for him when he bends the knee. Jon tells Daenerys that the Northerners won't accept a southern ruler after all they've suffered, but Daenerys argues they will accept her if their king does, asking Jon if his desire to protect his people is more valuable than his pride.
After they exit the cave, Daenerys learns the news about what happened in Casterly Rock and Highgarden , which leads her to ask for counsel from Jon. Davos notes that Jon has been developing an attraction to Daenerys. Jon overcomes his fear and reaches out his hand to pet Drogon, which the dragon allows. Daenerys is visibly amazed by this, considering Drogon's usually aggressive personality, especially towards unfamiliar people.
She dismounts, at which point Drogon flies off, and claims that the "gorgeous beasts" Jon sees are her children. Daenerys informs Jon of her victory over the Lannisters and they discuss leadership. Daenerys later has a small war council, which Jon attends.
Jon learns that his younger siblings Arya and Bran Stark are alive and in Winterfell. Daenerys is happy for Jon. Jon wants to go home, concerned because this same message also informs him that the Night King is close. Daenerys notes that Jon says he doesn't have enough men to fight the Army of the Dead and Jon asks her again to join him. However, Daenerys is worried that Cersei will take advantage and march in if she turns her focus to the Army of the Dead.
The council talks of capturing a wight beyond the Wall and bringing it to King's Landing to convince Cersei the Army of the Dead is real and come to a truce with her. When Jon volunteers to lead the raid, Daenerys is jolted and says she didn't allow him to leave but Jon insists he must lead the raid and asks her to trust in him as it's their best chance to protect all their people.
When Jon leaves, Daenerys tells him that she's grown used to him. When Tyrion notices that they all fell in love with her, Daenerys replies that Jon is not in love with her; Tyrion sarcastically says he supposes he isn't, and the way he stares at her is only to pursue a military alliance.
Daenerys brushes it off, claiming that Jon is too "little" for her. Meanwhile, Jon finds himself surrounded by the Army of the Dead and sends Gendry back to Eastwatch to send a raven to Daenerys asking for help. Daenerys doesn't hesitate and immediately flies her dragons beyond the Wall, ignoring Tyrion's objections, coming to his rescue. Mounting Drogon, Daenerys manages to shatter the Army of the Dead by setting some of them aflame and making way for Jon and his companions to escape on dragon's back.
However, wights start approaching them and while all the others climb, Jon stays behind to fight the wights off. At that point, the Night King hurls an ice spear at Viserion, killing him. Devastated, Daenerys can only stare in horror as the dragon smashes into the surface of a frozen lake and sinks beneath the water, while an enraged Jon briefly contemplates charging at the Night King, but as the monster pulls out another spear to attack again, Jon urges Daenerys to flee.
While Jon retreats and fights off more wights, a pack of them knock Jon into the waters of the lake. A reluctant Daenerys, and the rest of Jon's party, are forced to flee, Drogon narrowly evading a second spear hurled by the Night King.
Jon reemerges from the lake and narrowly manages to escape the wights only due to the sacrifice of his uncle, Benjen Stark. It was more like Tyrion was presenting his plan and others came on board rather than a back-and-forth discussion among rulers. So in this exchange, Dany has pretty much two lines while Tyrion lays out the steps with significantly more dialogue.
Or will she think about what Lady Oleanna had to say to her about Tyrion? You know why? I ignored them. The lords of Westeros are sheep.
Are you a sheep? Be a dragon. He departs with Daenerys's body as a grieved Jon watches. Some weeks later, the high lords and ladies of Westeros gather in the Dragonpit of King's Landing. Tyrion proposes that the gathered nobles choose a king, formally beginning the Great Council of AC. Bran is chosen as the new king. Bran names Tyrion his Hand of the King to rectify his past mistakes. Tyrion delivers the news to Jon, who confides that killing Daenerys does not feel right.
His identity as a Targaryen is kept secret. Jon meets with Sansa , Arya , and Bran one last time, bidding them farewell on a dock in Blackwater Bay.
Sansa tells Jon that she wishes there was another way and asks for Jon's forgiveness. Jon hesitates but replies that she made the North independent and is a good choice as its representative. They hug. When Jon invites Arya to see him at Castle Black, Arya tells Jon, Sansa, and Bran that she intends to sail west of Westeros to discover what lies beyond the charted maps. She and Jon share a good-bye hug as well. Jon bends the knee to Bran and apologizes for not being by his side when he needed him, but Bran responds that Jon was exactly where he needed to be.
Jon then boards the ship sailing to Castle Black. Grey Worm and the Unsullied board another fleet, leaving Westeros and sailing for the Isle of Naath , fulfilling Grey Worm's promise to his late lover Missandei to protect her people from slavers and other threats. As Hand of the King once more, Tyrion reforms the small council. Jon reaches the Wall as a brother of the Night's Watch once again.
There, he reunites with his other brothers as well as Tormund and his direwolf Ghost. Daenerys's war for Westeros left much of the Seven Kingdoms devastated. Dorne and the Reach descended into chaos for a brief period of time, while countless people were killed by Daenerys's dragons, including Lannister and Tarly soldiers at the Battle of the Goldroad and innocent civilians at the Battle of King's Landing.
This wide-scale death and destruction led to Daenerys's assassination and the legal extinction of House Targaryen, though the Targaryen bloodline continues to live on in Jon as the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. While the war destabilized and weakened the realm, the fallout from the conflict allowed the remaining leaders of Westeros to peacefully negotiate a resolution, preventing any further civil war for the time being. The Iron Throne was permanently destroyed, and Tyrion declared that the King was to be chosen from Great Councils rather than through bloodline and inheritance.
Daenerys's followers left Westeros without any further bloodshed, while Sansa's request for the independence of the North was granted. Upon this, the Seven Kingdoms are reorganized into the Six Kingdoms. This smooth transition of power allows the Westerosi to rebuild their country and introduces the idea of election based on merit at a larger scale in Westeros.
In some ways, this fulfills the legacies of Daenerys, Tyrion, Jon, and Varys with her desires to "break the wheel" that allowed the few, powerful noblemen to prey on the many smallfolk. Daenerys Targaryen claims the Iron Throne on the basis that she is the head of House Targaryen and the rightful heir to the throne, which was initially forged by her ancestor Aegon the Conqueror some three hundred years ago.
Rather than immediately divert her attention to Westeros, however, Daenerys instead first launched a campaign to liberate the enslaved populace of Slaver's Bay from the slave masters. Her war to free the slaves ultimately concludes in a victory, and slavery is abolished across the region and its three cities. Leaving the newly-named Bay of Dragons under the guard of her sellsword company, the Second Sons, Daenerys then forges an alliance with House Tyrell , Dorne , and part of House Greyjoy.
Daenerys personally commands a legion of Unsullied heavy infantry just under 8, strong and hordes of Dothraki light cavalry just under , , giving her easily the largest army in the entire conflict. House Tyrell and the Dornish, who act in alliance with her and her advisers directly, can field further ground troops from both the Tyrell army and the Dornish militias and provide naval support in the form of the Tyrell-aligned Redwyne Fleet.
Her greatest military asset is her three dragons, making Daenerys the only person in the entire known world capable of launching an aerial assault on her enemies. However, Daenerys has suffered a series of defeats, between the assault on the Targaryen fleet, the fall of Casterly Rock and the sack of Highgarden.
This results in Daenerys losing many of her Westerosi allies, as well as the detachment of her fleet that transported her Unsullied troops to Casterly Rock, who have taken moderate casualties and are stranded at Casterly Rock.
Impatient with the cautious plans that Tyrion had advised her to follow, but still unwilling to harm civilians by burning cities, Daenerys forms a plan of her own and wins a decisive field victory at the Battle of the Goldroad. Following the battle, the surviving Westerosi soldiers bend the knee to Daenerys, increasing her forces.
In the aftermath, she reluctantly agrees to negotiate an armistice with House Lannister in order to keep her gains while dealing with the oncoming threat of the army of the dead. Later, Jon eventually bends the knee to Daenerys and they fall in love; by extension, she is also allied with the Vale of Arryn, which has pledged to support the Starks in the Great War. Her claim to the Salt Throne is supported by her younger brother Theon, but their uncle Euron wins the Salt Throne at a kingsmoot.
Yara currently seeks to avenge her father's death at the hands of Euron and to retake the Salt Throne. As per the terms of their alliance, Yara will be recognized as queen of a sovereign Kingdom of the Iron Islands should Daenerys successfully become the queen, provided the ironborn honor Daenerys's terms and give up all raping, reaving and pillaging.
Being a queen herself, Yara is the highest-ranking of Daenerys's allies. She commands a major portion of the Iron Fleet, which serves as the backbone of the Targaryen allied navy which itself consists of the Redwyne Fleet, a Dornish fleet, and the Targaryen Royal Fleet.
However, with her capture at Euron's hand and the almost complete annihilation of her fleet during the assault on the Targaryen fleet, it is likely that the majority of her faction has been wiped out, save for her brother. Cersei claims the Iron Throne as successor to her son Tommen I , and is also the current occupant of the throne.
The Iron Throne was previously usurped by House Baratheon. However, the dynasty finally collapsed upon Tommen's suicide. With no one to oppose her, Cersei ascended to the Iron Throne, beginning a new Lannister dynasty. The Lannisters had already amassed great power and influence over the Iron Throne during the Baratheon dynasty. Cersei now seeks to preserve the Lannister dynasty and continue to sit atop the Iron Throne. Cersei's military forces consist mostly of the well-equipped armies of House Lannister, reinforced constantly with fresh recruits from the Westerlands.
Originally 60, men strong at the start of the War of the Five Kings, this army has been severely reduced by the war and post-war conflicts, leaving her with only around 10, men at the start of the invasion, much of which was then decimated by Daenerys's crushing victory at the Battle of the Goldroad. This leaves Cersei with only the City Watch of King's Landing , the remains of the Lannister Army, and what surviving troops she can conscript from the depleted Westerlands and its vassals.
House Frey , the Lannisters' most loyal ally since the Red Wedding , has been all but eliminated by Arya, with apparent the death of all Frey heirs, leaving House Frey powerless, and a power vacuum in the Riverlands. The Wardens of the North, House Bolton has gone extinct after the Battle of the Bastards , although ties between House Bolton and House Lannister were seemingly fractured when Ramsay Bolton married Sansa, undermining the plans of the Lannisters in the region.
House Arryn , rulers of the Vale who remained neutral during the War of the Five Kings, pledged its forces to the Northern cause. Their surviving bannermen as well as some Lannister bannermen bent the knee to Daenerys. Having accepted a marriage agreement from Euron, Cersei acquires over 1, Greyjoy ships to serve as her royal fleet. Using the gold plundered from Highgarden, and immediately after making an armistice with Daenerys, Cersei secretly orders Euron to sail to Essos and ferry over the Golden Company, putting 18, mercenary infantry and 2, cavalry, at her disposal.
While she is still badly outnumbered, Cersei intends to use the Golden Company to mop up the remains of whoever wins the Great War — either the Targaryen-North alliance or the army of the dead — and finally reign unopposed. This devious move, however, has cost her Jaime, her greatest supporter and commander of her forces, as he leaves King's Landing to honor his oath to fight the army of the dead. Currently, although none of the southern kingdoms has the strength to fight her except the Vale of Arryn and possibly Dorne , she only occupies the Crownlands, the Westerlands, and fragments of the Riverlands and Stormlands.
However, with the conclusion of the Great War resulting in a victory for the living, Cersei is in a much better position, as not only has the entire army of the dead been eradicated, but the forces of House Targaryen and Stark have suffered severe losses as a result. Euron Greyjoy sits the Salt Throne of the Kingdom of the Iron Islands after winning over the ironborn lords and captains at a kingsmoot, promising to conquer all of Westeros for the ironborn with the dragons of Daenerys.
Knowing Euron to be a dangerous man, Yara and Theon lead an active resistance faction against him, seeking to install Yara on the Salt Throne as Queen of the Iron Islands. Yara and Theon beat their uncle Euron to Meereen , where they form a pact with the Dragon Queen, who agrees to help them defeat Euron and take back the Iron Islands. Euron seeks the deaths of his niece and nephew so that they cannot challenge his reign. Euron commands the freshly rebuilt Iron Fleet, crewed by Houses loyal to him.
The new fleet is visually impressive and apparently more than a match for any other fleet in the world; he proves his prowess when he strikes a first blow against the Targaryen alliance, destroying the majority of his niece's fleet and captures Yara, as well as Ellaria and Tyene Sand, essentially stripping Daenerys of two of her Westerosi allies.
He then ambushes the remainder of the Targaryen fleet at the Fall of Casterly Rock, destroying the armada and stranding the Unsullied. However, Euron's position has been substantially weakened with Theon's liberation of Yara, who has sailed back to the undefended Iron Islands with her remaining men to take them back from Euron, thus possibly costing Euron his seat.
However, he still has a numerical superiority over Yara's remaining forces, and with Theon's death in the Great War, now has one less threat to his rule.
Though not a formal combatant, the coronation of Jon as King in the North will likely interfere with Daenerys's military campaign given that she seeks the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, and the North and the Vale were both under the dominion of the Iron Throne, being two of the seven kingdoms.
The Starks have eradicated House Bolton and reclaimed Winterfell under the leadership of Jon, who has now been named the new King in the North in defiance of the Iron Throne. Unbeknownst to all, including Jon himself, however, is the truth of Jon's parentage: he is actually the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen, King Aerys II Targaryen's eldest son who was slain by Robert Baratheon , with Eddard's sister, Lyanna Stark, who died giving birth to Jon at the Tower of Joy in Dorne, thus making him Daenerys's nephew by blood and giving him a stronger claim to the Iron Throne than Daenerys.
However, Jon is much more concerned with preparing the defense against the White Walkers in the impending Great War than taking part in any of the strife still gripping the South. Shortly after her arrival, Daenerys is informed of Jon and his status as King in the North by Melisandre.
Though intrigued by Jon's efforts and achievements, she summons Jon to Dragonstone to meet her and "bend the knee". Jon accepts her invitation, but refuses to bend the knee.
He asks for Daenerys's help against the Night King as it is a threat to all of humanity. Daenerys declares Jon to be in open rebellion against her and keeps him on Dragonstone.
After hearing of her army's casualties at the hands of Euron, Jaime, and Randyll Tarly, Daenerys acknowledges that she may need Jon's help after all, and allows him to mine the dragonglass as a good faith gesture.
In the process, Jon discovers cave paintings left behind by the Children of the Forest and the First Men, who fought alongside each other against the White Walkers despite their differences, and implores Daenerys to do the same lest they all die. Daenerys acknowledges the threat and promises to fight for the North if Jon bends the knee, which Jon remains reluctant to do. Around the same time, an attraction grows between Jon and Daenerys, and eventually they fall in love.
Jon pledges allegiance to Daenerys as his queen, assuring her his people will accept her once they see her personality. Following his public declaration to Daenerys during the parley with Cersei, Jon signs his letters as Warden of the North.
Jon has the re-conscripted forces of the North at his disposal as well as the armies of the Vale of Arryn, which have been left intact during the War of the Five Kings. He is also in alliance with the free folk better known throughout the Seven Kingdoms as "wildlings", who currently occupy the Wall alongside what remains of the Night's Watch. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the plot is far behind the point the show has reached: the battles of Meereen and Winterfell have not begun yet; many characters, who were killed off in the show, are still alive and active Stannis, the Tyrells, Ser Barristan Selmy, etc.
Moreover, a new contender has recently appeared in the last published novel - Daenerys's presumed-dead nephew Aegon Targaryen , the son of Rhaegar and Elia who has the strongest claim to the Iron Throne since the marriage of Rhaegar and Elia has never been annulled - it is an invention of the TV show , with a significant military force that can seriously affect the balance of forces in Westeros.
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