Recaps

Suleiman expanded his rebellion through military victories, religious fervor, and rewards for commoners and lowborn followers while chaos spread across the realm. As his forces prepared for the fight over King’s Landing, Tywin remained near death and the West Riverlands planned an ambush against Patrick Morrison.

• Robert Baratheon accepted Gyles Rosby’s proposal to summon Suleiman to Pyke and ordered him to appear before his king.
• Suleiman captured the Vance commanders and their family members, compelled the Vances to support House Targaryen, and ordered Patrick Morrison to secure their army.
• Jon Arryn was killed by the crowd in King’s Landing, while Suleiman ordered military preparations and told Beggar Bana he would establish a theocracy or flee across the Narrow Sea if he failed.
• Suleiman defeated the Westerlands, raised a Poor Fellows army, and extended charters and tax relief to Crownlands towns while Oberyn Martell’s forces attacked Blackhaven.
• Suleiman rewarded rebels and lowborn followers with lands and titles, appointed Salladhor Saan to build a royal fleet, and ordered villagers to defend castles and settlements against the Usurper’s army.
• Varys and Illyrio decided to end their performance early, and Jon Connington brought the blue-haired boy to the Golden Company and ordered them to prepare to return to Westeros.
• Villagers killed Willis Chelsted and his family, and Suleiman made Carl the new Lady of House Chelsted, inspiring Poor Fellows to seek power through violence.
• Tyrion captured Septon Anthony, learned Tywin was unconscious and near death, and left after telling his father he would inherit Casterly Rock.
• Suleiman granted Patrick Morrison and Alwood Halton control over their military districts, while Adrian Setiga warned that Suleiman’s reforms threatened the nobility.
• Blackfish Brynden Tully rejected Lannister aid and ordered Moller Smallwood to lure Patrick Morrison’s army into an ambush.

Suleiman rallied the Riverlands against the Vale, Stannis, and the Westerlands while using political maneuvering and brutal traps to survive their attacks. He left the story victorious over the Westerlands, with Tyrion captured and the surviving enemy soldiers surrendering.

• Roslyn refused to flee to King's Landing and organized civilians to defend Lord Suleiman’s lands as Vale raiders and Mountain Clan Wildlings ravaged the Riverlands.
• Patrick Morrison’s army suffered repeated defeats, but Suleiman’s men rescued him and he rallied surviving knights and soldiers to continue fighting.
• Suleiman took control of King's Landing, ordered mass executions, and began evacuating civilians while preparing a wildfire trap for Stannis’s assault.
• Vale forces desecrated Riverlands graves, provoking widespread resistance, while Karak rallied Harrenhal’s commoners to defend the region alongside Suleiman.
• Suleiman sent Tam to hold Harford City and led Riverlands forces against the Westerlands, while Stannis’s army entered King's Landing through the Mud Gate and was devastated by wildfire.
• Suleiman’s forces ambushed Tyrion Lannister’s advancing army, captured Adam Marbrand, and gradually broke the Westerlands’ formation in battle.
• Suleiman led heavy cavalry into the Westerlands’ right flank, wounded and captured Tyrion, and drove the enemy army against the river.
• Suleiman ordered the Riverlands soldiers to sound the surrender call, and the surviving Westerlands troops laid down their weapons.

Suleiman crushed the Vale and West Riverlands forces, secured Riverrun, and began reshaping the Riverlands under his rule. As rivals plotted and sought alliances, Robert Baratheon declined Suleiman’s challenge and chose to regroup.

• Suleiman rallied the Riverlands army, released Tyrion Lannister, and revealed that Tysha was heading for the Free Cities.
• Tam’s defenders held Harford City until Wildfire destroyed the city and devastated the Vale army, allowing Suleiman’s forces to rout the survivors.
• Brynden Tully died by the Trident, and Edmure Tully was captured and executed after Patrick Morrison’s men opened Riverrun’s gates.
• Suleiman pardoned surrendered soldiers, transferred authority across the Riverlands, and ordered reforms that replaced the lord-vassal hierarchy with direct administration.
• Suleiman spared the commoner prisoners for a year of labor, funded sanctuaries across the Riverlands, and ordered Morton Waynwood and the captured Vale nobles executed.
• The Reach and Dorne weighed their response to Suleiman, while Varys revealed assassination plots and the Ragged Prince sailed toward the Vale with mercenaries.
• Tywin Lannister ordered Tyrion to rebuild the Westerlands, Doran Martell considered Suleiman’s intentions, and Braavos weighed a pact with him.
• Renly Baratheon fled Dragonstone with Melisandre, while Robert Baratheon accepted Eddard Stark’s advice not to meet Suleiman in battle yet.