Recaps

Lynn used his foreknowledge and fighting skill to survive at Winterfell, earn Ned Stark’s trust, and save Bran from Jaime and Cersei. Ned prepared to go south with Lynn while Cersei questioned Lynn about Bran’s fall.

• Lynn stopped Ned Stark’s execution by warning that the White Walkers had awakened, then proved his foreknowledge when the party found a dead direwolf and six pups.
• Lynn warned Maester Luwin and Ned that Jon Arryn had been murdered and Ned would be summoned as Hand, then earned Ned’s confidence by helping Robb’s party defeat bandits.
• Lynn taught Arya swordsmanship and spoke with Jon about the Night’s Watch as Robert Baratheon arrived at Winterfell and demanded that Ned become Hand.
• Benjen confirmed Lynn had found White Walkers, and Ned accepted Lynn as an ally, freed him from the Night’s Watch, and appointed him a personal guard for the journey south.
• Lynn advised Ned to distrust Baelish, weaken the Gold Cloaks, protect Robert from hunting, and return north if Robert died, while Ned resolved to investigate Jon Arryn’s murder.
• Lynn watched for Bran near the First Keep as Jaime and Cersei met in the tower, then caught Bran after Jaime pushed him from the window and injured his own back to conceal the rescue.
• Catelyn promised to repay Lynn for saving Bran, Jaime questioned him about the tower, and Cersei later offered him gold or a position while probing his account of the fall.
• Arya thanked Lynn with a kiss on the cheek, and a horn announced the hunting party’s return.

Lynn escorted Jon and Arya to Castle Black, where he fought to remain a sworn brother and led a campaign against the Wildlings. After finding signs of wights and an awakened threat beyond the Wall, he returned to Castle Black and demanded that the dead rangers be burned.

• Lynn and Ned trapped the assassin who came for Bran, and Ned gave Lynn the Valyrian steel dagger before sending him north with Jon and Arya.
• On the Kingsroad, Lynn rescued a captured merchant caravan, executed the bandits, and met Yoren’s Night’s Watch recruits.
• Lynn revealed the story of Tysha to Tyrion, then arrived at Castle Black, where Mormont refused to release him from his vows but allowed him to accompany Ned to King’s Landing as a Watch member.
• Lynn defeated the Night’s Watch challengers and Alliser Thorne, then prepared to lead men against Wildlings near the Wall.
• Lynn led a raid in the Haunted Forest, killed Ragnar, and routed the Wildlings, then found dragonglass and a map marked with a red eye in Ragnar’s tent.
• Lynn discovered blue-eyed corpses and warned his men they were wights, then returned toward Castle Black after finding a battlefield strewn with dead horses and drag marks.
• At Castle Black, Lynn saw Othell and Jaffer Flowers dead on sledges and demanded that the bodies be burned before they were brought inside.

Lynn saved Jeor Mormont from a wight, won Longclaw, and led an expedition beyond the Wall where he found a living dragon egg and defeated a White Walker. Back at Castle Black, Mormont raised Lynn to equal standing with himself, and Lynn confronted Ser Thorne over an attempted assassination.

• Lynn warned Jeor Mormont that Othell and Jaffer Flowers might rise as wights, and his guards prepared fire to destroy them.
• Othell rose and attacked Mormont, but Lynn, Jon Snow, and Ghost stopped the wight, and Lynn killed it with a Valyrian steel dagger.
• Jaffer Flowers also rose, but Torrhen and his soldiers burned him, convincing the Night's Watch that Lynn's warnings were true.
• Mormont appointed Lynn to lead an expedition beyond the Wall, gave him Longclaw, and sent him with 150 men to investigate the Skin Map's marked location.
• Lynn's force found Benjen Stark wounded near a carved dragonglass altar, then entered a hidden cavern where Lynn awakened a petrified dragon egg and survived the icy will within it.
• Lynn's power awakened life in the dragon egg, and he defeated a White Walker with Longclaw and Ice Magic before returning to Castle Black.
• Lynn revealed the living dragon egg, and Mormont declared him the Night's Watch's future and equal in standing to the Lord Commander.
• Lynn accused Ser Thorne of arranging his murder, and Pyp and Grenn testified that Thorne had recruited them to kill Lynn.

Lynn executed Alliser Thorne, helped bring Winter into the world, and struck a wary bargain with Bloodraven before heading south to build influence against the coming Long Night. In King's Landing and Pentos, Lynn pursued his plans while Daenerys found the courage to resist Viserys and imagined a future of her own.

• Lynn exposed Alliser Thorne's betrayal, sentenced him to death, and beheaded him with Longclaw.
• Maester Aemon sacrificed himself to hatch the Dragon Egg, and Lynn named the three-headed dragon Winter and learned to command it in Valyrian.
• Lynn rejected Bloodraven's schemes but accepted his aid and new powers, while Bloodraven demanded that Lynn unite Westeros against the Cold Gods.
• Lynn took Winter and his men to Winterfell, where Robb agreed to hide the dragon before Lynn departed for King's Landing.
• Lynn helped Ned discover that Cersei's children were Jaime's, then gained Robert's approval to enter the Hand's Tourney by promising to kill Viserys.
• Lynn entered Daenerys's body and left her a prophecy naming a northern prince who rode a Three-Headed Ice Dragon as her true king.
• Daenerys rejected Khal Drogo by appearing too fearful to be his Khaleesi, then defended herself from Viserys with a knife and resolved to live for herself and the prince in the west.