Recaps

Lynn defeated the Three-Eyed Raven, gained control of a vast undead army, and made House Tyrell bargain for his favor. In King’s Landing, Joffrey ousted Tywin and Sansa helped turn the king against the Tyrells, while Lynn prepared to draw Renly and Stannis into the growing turmoil.

• Lynn exposed Ramsay’s false control of the Winter Wights, had him executed, and sent Ned to take the Dreadfort.
• Lynn defeated the Three-Eyed Raven, took his magical knowledge, killed him, and turned the approaching wights against the Night’s King.
• The Night’s King gave Lynn the Weirwood Godbow and control of the dead in the Lands of Always Winter, and Lynn established a base at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
• Lynn demanded House Tyrell’s full commitment, and Margaery agreed to secure his favor before learning how his food-preservation operation worked.
• Lynn offered to preserve Highgarden’s food in exchange for grain, iron, and craftsmen, and Margaery sailed south with his terms.
• Varys stoked Joffrey’s resentment, and Joffrey forced Tywin from power after confronting him over Cersei’s proposed marriage to Loras.
• Sansa encouraged Joffrey to punish House Tyrell with double taxes, while Olenna ordered the family to comply and offer Lynn its wealth and granaries.
• Lynn reinforced Dragon’s Landing Castle with vines, expanded its crops, inspected new weapons, and resolved to involve Renly and Stannis.

Lynn secured the North’s loyalty with food and undead labor, then became Hand of the King and tightened his control over Joffrey and Cersei. As he manipulated the conflict between Joffrey and the Baratheons, Melisandre prepared to sacrifice Shireen to win Stannis the throne.

• Lynn arrived at Winterfell with the Army of the Dead, delivered food for the long winter, and won the Northern lords’ loyalty by promising undead laborers.
• Lynn left Ned to oversee the North and went to King’s Landing to serve as Joffrey’s Hand, where he turned Joffrey against Pycelle and exposed the plot to kill Robert.
• Joffrey killed Pycelle and tried to strangle Cersei after she revealed that Jaime was his father, but Lynn stopped him and made him send Cersei away from the Red Keep.
• Lynn drew Cersei under his control and returned her to Joffrey as a meek ally, while Joffrey mistook her submission and Lynn’s influence for support of his rule.
• After Joffrey arranged Tommen’s supposed death, Lynn revealed that the boy was alive and made Cersei help provoke Joffrey into war with Stannis and Renly.
• Lynn seized control of Joffrey’s body, humiliated him, and forced him to pursue the war while Joffrey realized he had become Lynn’s puppet.
• Joffrey summoned Stannis and Renly to submit, and Melisandre promised Stannis victory if he gave up a shadow, while Lynn appeared to her as the Lord of Light and hinted that the true king was in King’s Landing.
• Melisandre demanded Shireen as a sacrifice, and Stannis agreed as Davos pleaded for her life, and Melisandre began her ritual and said the Lord of Light needed flames.

Melisandre left Stannis and gave Lynn her powers, while Stannis used fire and force to claim King's Landing. The arc ended with Stannis enthroned and turning his attention toward Lynn and Joffrey.

• Melisandre created a shadow assassin from Stannis and Selyse, and it killed Renly at Storm’s End, forcing Brienne to flee while Stannis prepared to march.
• Melisandre went to Lynn, who took her ruby, killed and resurrected her, then received her powers and restored her immortality.
• Melisandre learned that the Cold Gods had deceived her, while Stannis claimed to be the Lord of Light’s chosen emissary and gathered soldiers to his cause.
• Stannis threatened Loras to secure the Reach, prompting Margaery to escape Highgarden with Brienne’s help and seek Lynn’s protection.
• Lynn evacuated the royal party and King's Landing’s wealth, flew Cersei and the other women to Winterfell, and left for Essos with Melisandre.
• The High Sparrow seized King's Landing and rallied the Faith Militant against Stannis, but Stannis’s fire-wielding knights broke the city’s defenses and forced its people to surrender.
• Stannis had the High Sparrow tortured, claimed the Iron Throne, and declared that Lynn and Joffrey would be his next targets.

Lynn conquered Slaver’s Bay, freed its slaves, and returned to Westeros with Daenerys and a vast army. He was proclaimed King in the North, then began building a new order and rebuilding the Kingsguard with living warriors and wights.

• Stannis’s purge of worshippers of the Seven escalated into a massacre, driving Davos to resign and prompting southern nobles to submit to Stannis.
• Lynn led Daenerys, Tyrion, and Jorah to defeat the slave armies of Yunkai and Meereen, using the Unsullied, Winter, magic, and wights to break their forces.
• Lynn freed the slaves, executed Yunkai’s Wise Masters, abolished slavery, and established new laws before learning that the Dothraki were approaching Meereen.
• After Meereen’s slaves opened the gates, Lynn appointed Grey Worm to command Slaver’s Bay and returned to Westeros with Daenerys and Tyrion.
• At Winterfell, Ned gave up the title of King in the North, and Joffrey formally recognized Lynn as the independent King in the North before the northern lords.
• Lynn treated a wounded boy with clean instruments and stitches, then knighted Brienne and began rebuilding the Kingsguard.
• Lynn recruited Brienne, Jaime, and Sandor for the Kingsguard, gave them white cloaks, and revealed that twenty wights would serve alongside them.