![]() ![]() Dany and Jon agreed to join forces, which means the North inherited an A-team of advisors: Tyrion Lannister, the cleverest man in Westeros Varys, the witty eunuch spymaster with a heart of gold Missandei, the liberated slave who’s one of Dany’s sharpest political minds Grey Worm, commander of the Unsullied super-troopers and Melisandre, a.k.a. The wight they captured proved to the world that the army of the dead is real. And when Daenerys swept in for a last-ditch rescue with her three dragons, the Night King took down the one named Viserion and resurrected it as his own zombified ultimate weapon.īut the good guys got what they needed. Benjen Stark, Jon’s long-lost undead uncle, died (again) while defending his nephew. Thoros perished, permanently reducing Jon’s Magnificent Seven to six. ![]() The battle beyond the Wall was not without casualties, however. (He was saved from a lethal greyscale infection by future maester/Jon’s best friend Samwell Tarly … who, we should note, doesn’t know Daenerys burned his father and brother to death when they refused to bend the knee with the Lannister army.) Together these men held off an army of zombies and captured one to use as evidence of the threat. First, Jon assembled a crack support team: Sandor “The Hound” Clegane, repenting for a life of brutality Lord Beric Dondarrion and Thoros of Myr, the unkillable leader of the Brotherhood guerilla force and the Red Priest who resurrected him Gendry, last surviving bastard son of King Robert Baratheon Tormund Giantsbane, leader of the Wildlings and Jorah Mormont, Dany’s number-one loyalist. Eventually, he even wins her heart.Ī lot went on in the interim, however. And, naturally, her dragons, her legions of Dothraki and Unsullied warriors and her vast caches of dragonglass (the volcanic stone that can kill a White Walker like kryptonite) located beneath her castle. Journeying to the island fortress of Dragonstone to arrange a treaty with Daenerys Targaryen, he voluntarily gave up his crown and bent the knee in order to win her support. (He also, of course, came back from the dead at one point, which doesn’t hurt.) The ex-Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch was proclaimed monarch by his followers - in particular, his canny advisor Ser Davos Seaworth - after helping to defeat the forces of House Bolton during the Battle of the Bastards in Season Six. Let’s start with Jon Snow, the once and former King in the North. Don’t worry: Our Game of Thrones cheat sheet will catch you up quickly, so that when the beginning of the endgame begins on April 14th, you’ll know exactly where everyone stands - or flies. We realize it can be hard to keep track of all of the show’s numerous story strands, especially after seven dense seasons filled with formed (and broken) alliances, numerous deaths and various players being moved all around the show’s geographical chess board. After six years of Starks, Lannisters, Targaryens, Baratheons, Boltons, Freys, Greyjoys, Tyrells and Martells tearing each other apart, the time came at last for the disparate nobles of the Seven Kingdoms to come together and make a last stand against an apocalyptic army of White Walkers and walking-dead wights. Indeed, if there’s a single takeaway from GoT‘s Season Seven, it was this: Houses divided cannot stand. Our Cover Story: Growing Up Game of Thrones (Three words: zombie ice dragon.) We know it’s a matter of logistics and visual-effects production that has kept the series from returning for over a full year, but let’s be honest: Didn’t it feel like everyone involved just needed a breather? We swear it by the old gods and the new: The last time we stepped foot in Westeros back in August of 2017, Game of Thrones had just finished its most ambitious and high-fantasy-epic season to date. ![]()
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