Recaps

Viserys and Robb uncovered an ancient chamber beneath Winterfell, where Benjen became an Other and Viserys discovered the imprisoned Winter Queen. After learning the Cold God’s history and the danger posed by the buried Others, Viserys resealed her coffin and left with Ygritte as Robb prepared to secure the Crypt.

• Robb learned Jon’s true parentage and agreed to keep it secret, then helped Viserys and Benjen excavate the sealed lower levels of Winterfell’s Crypt.
• The excavation revealed a hidden Masons’ Passage and a massive ironwood door, which Viserys burned open after Ygritte connected its keyhole to the legendary Horn of Winter.
• Viserys and the others entered a chamber of empty Stark coffins and opened a dark stone coffin, releasing freezing air and revealing a female Other.
• Benjen touched the female Other and transformed, then attacked the group until Viserys beheaded him with Blackfyre and protected Robb from her next strike.
• The female Other identified herself as Lyanna Stark, the Winter Queen, and explained how the Cold God and the Children of the Forest had created Others and two Stark-blooded Night’s Kings.
• The Winter Queen warned that many Stark remains beneath Winterfell had transformed and that the Cold God’s influence could be slowed if the Wall stood, so Viserys kept his promise and resealed her in the coffin.
• Viserys and Ygritte emerged from the Crypt to find Robb waiting with soldiers, and Robb accepted Viserys’s decision to keep the Winter Queen alive while preparing to secure the passage.

After sealing the threat beneath Winterfell, Viserys returned south to prepare the realm for the Others and recruit Sandor Clegane. He left the court mobilizing troops and weapons while seeking to secure Jaime Lannister and supplies for the Wall.

• Robb told Viserys that he had sent for Rhaenys, and she arrived at Winterfell on Meleys as Viserys faced the danger beneath the Crypt.
• Viserys recounted Lyanna the Winter Queen’s warning about the Cold God and the Others, then ordered Robb to reseal the Crypt and keep its secrets while he prepared to return to King’s Landing.
• Rhaenys privately saw a vision of the Night’s King pointing toward her and the dead marching south, but chose not to tell Viserys.
• Viserys, Rhaenys, Ygritte, and Jeyne flew south, and Viserys encountered Sandor Clegane among the Mountain Clans and recruited him to gather fighters for the war against the Others.
• Viserys returned to King’s Landing, where Daenerys briefed him on the realm’s affairs and the court welcomed him back.
• Viserys granted the Reach a three-year tax exemption in return for provisions and ordered the southern houses to send at least half their forces to defend the Wall.
• Viserys sent Duke Arthur to the Golden Tooth to bring Jaime Lannister back alive if possible and ordered catapults and dragonglass weapons shipped to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.

Viserys prepared the kingdoms for war against the Others while Jon traveled with Ramsay and Bolton troops toward Winterfell. Meanwhile, Asha attacked the Arbor Fleet to seize its plunder and avenge the Ironborn, leaving the battle centered on Oliver Redwyne’s flagship, the Greenstone.

• Viserys summoned the lords of the Seven Kingdoms to send troops and supplies to the Wall, and agreed to let Daenerys accompany him beyond it.
• Roose Bolton agreed to send two thousand men north, and Jon joined Ramsay in leading them toward Winterfell while Ramsay secretly intercepted Jon’s letters and tried to undermine his ties to Robb.
• Roose considered Walda Frey’s invitation and decided that any son she bore him would be raised at the Twins, while keeping Ramsay under threat if he endangered the child.
• Rhaenys asked Viserys for more attention and recognition as his queen, and Viserys embraced his life with her as truly his own.
• Asha learned that Viserys’s dragons had destroyed the Iron Islands and resolved to reclaim Pyke, then chose to attack Oliver Redwyne’s fleet for its plunder and supplies.
• Asha’s longships surrounded the Arbor Fleet, broke into its formation, and attacked its cargo ships while Oliver tried to escape toward the Shield Islands.
• Asha led her crew aboard an Arbor galley, then brought the Daughter of the Sea Monster alongside the Greenstone and boarded Oliver’s flagship with Cole following her.

After Asha Greyjoy devastated the Arbor Fleet, Viserys prepared to travel to the Reach while House Tyrell moved against Ironborn sympathizers. As the royal household gathered for a hunt and arranged its duties, Viserys learned that a growing rebel force threatened his Riverlands supply route.

• Asha Greyjoy’s Ironborn defeated the Arbor Fleet, killed Oliver Redwyne, and withdrew with captured ships and supplies while Asha vowed revenge on Viserys.
• Willas brought news of the attack to Olenna and Margaery, who planned to blockade western harbors, watch the Reach coast, and uncover the Ironborn’s contacts.
• Margaery secretly invited Viserys to Highgarden and offered supplies for his northern army, and Viserys agreed to bring Daenerys, her dragons, and King Ghidorah to the Reach.
• Viserys arranged for Rhaenys to oversee affairs in King’s Landing, sparred with Arya, and spent time with Sansa, Daenerys, Roslin, Ygritte, and the others before his departure.
• Viserys and the royal household attended a Small Council meeting to assign responsibilities, and Rhaenys reported that she had sent for news about Arthur at the Golden Tooth.
• Varys gave Viserys a report that Lord Lion, rumored to be Martyn Lannister, had gathered nearly five hundred rebels in abandoned mines and seized grain bound for Darry.
• Arthur sought the rebel force’s location so he could seal the mine entrances, while Varys said his Little Birds were searching for Jaime Lannister.