Recaps

Viserys secured House Tully’s submission and tried to force Balon Greyjoy to end the Ironborn raids, but Balon chose war and sent fleets against the North and the Reach. As the attacks spread, Viserys spent time with Roslin and the Stark sisters in King’s Landing, where Arya continued her sword training.

• Viserys kept Edmure Tully in King’s Landing as a Small Council member and demanded that House Tully cede lands east of Riverrun to House Darry, which Edmure accepted.
• Viserys ordered Balon Greyjoy to end the raids and submit, but Balon rejected the demand and prepared the Iron Fleet for war.
• Balon sent Victarion toward the North and Asha toward the Reach, while Viserys ordered coastal defenses strengthened and House Redwyne to patrol the waters.
• Victarion’s raids devastated northern villages, and his attack on Deepwood Motte was driven back when Robett Glover struck his forces from behind.
• Asha captured five House Hightower merchant ships but retreated north when House Redwyne warships approached.
• Viserys welcomed Roslin into the Red Keep, where she studied court etiquette, House Targaryen’s history, and High Valyrian with Daenerys.
• Viserys reassured Sansa about Arya and later trained Arya himself, disarming her and correcting her swordsmanship as she vowed to grow strong enough to protect her loved ones.

Viserys led the dragons and the Arbor Fleet in a devastating assault that destroyed Pyke and the Ironborn’s strongholds, killing Balon and leaving Theon to die. The Dragon Horde then flew north to confront the growing Wildling and Ironborn threat near the Shadow Tower.

• Viserys left King's Landing with Rhaenys and the dragons, promising Daenerys he would take her to the Wall when he returned.
• King Ghidorah and the other dragons attacked Pyke while the Arbor Fleet blockaded the Iron Islands, destroying the Ironborn ships and killing Balon Greyjoy.
• Theon refused to flee Pyke, warned Asha not to return, and leaped from a cliff into the sea after the dragons destroyed the castle.
• Viserys ordered the destruction of the Grey King's Hall and the remaining Ironborn castles, while a strange shadow fled beneath the sea.
• Viserys and Rhaenys departed for the Wall as Horas Redwyne's fleet began taking control of the Iron Islands and capturing or killing the survivors.
• The Dragon Horde flew over burned northern villages and Deepwood Motte before continuing north toward the Wall.
• Ser Dennis Mallister learned that nearly a thousand Ironborn were hiding on the eastern coast and at least ten thousand Wildlings had gathered across from the Shadow Tower, and he prepared his undermanned garrison for a possible attack.

Viserys used his dragons to destroy Victarion Greyjoy’s fleet and force the Free Folk to accept passage south, then reached Castle Black and warned the Night’s Watch about the Others. After visiting Maester Aemon, he encountered Ygritte in the King’s Tower.

• Dennis Mallister prepared Shadow Tower’s defenses as Viserys’s dragons crossed the Wall and destroyed Victarion Greyjoy and the Ironborn fleet.
• Viserys offered the Free Folk safe passage south, but Styr rejected his authority and attacked, so King Ghidorah killed Styr and crushed the camp’s resistance.
• The surviving Free Folk knelt to Viserys and agreed to settle in the Gift under the Night’s Watch’s arrangements.
• Viserys and Rhaenys stayed at Shadow Tower, where they shared an intimate night before the Free Folk began their journey south.
• Viserys and Rhaenys arrived at Castle Black, where Jeor Mormont welcomed them and heard how Viserys had dealt with Victarion and the Free Folk.
• Viserys warned Mormont that the Others were gathering, then visited Maester Aemon and asked him to come south, but Aemon refused because of his oath.
• Viserys settled with Rhaenys in the King’s Tower and found Ygritte waiting in the corridor, where she said she had not gone back beyond the Wall.

Viserys took Ygritte south and brought the Dragon Horde to Winterfell, where he pressed Robb to prepare the North for the Others. In the Stark crypt, Viserys revealed that Jon Snow was Rhaegar and Lyanna’s child.

• Viserys promised Ygritte he would take her south, and Rhaenys accepted her place in their journey before the three left Castle Black with the dragons.
• Viserys arrived at Winterfell, told Robb that Victarion Greyjoy was dead, and warned him that surrendered Ironborn would be sent to mine dragonglass while the rest would be killed.
• Viserys told Robb the North had to help defend the Wall, arranged southern troops and grain, and explained how dragonfire, wildfire, Valyrian steel, and dragonglass could harm the Others.
• Robb showed Viserys that Benjen was hidden in Winterfell’s crypts, and Viserys asked to see him the next morning.
• Jeyne Poole asked Viserys to take her away from a marriage arranged by her family, and he agreed to bring her south with him.
• Robb led Viserys into the Stark crypt, where Viserys said Lyanna had willingly gone south with Rhaegar and borne him a child.
• Viserys revealed that Rhaegar and Lyanna’s child had grown up beside Robb in Winterfell, and Robb realized he meant Jon Snow.