Chapter Summaries

After losing King's Landing, Stannis was told that sacrificing Shireen could awaken Dragonstone's stone dragons and win him the throne. He ordered her burned despite his anguish, and as she died, the volcano rumbled and a stone dragon's eye began to glow.

• Stannis returned to Dragonstone after his defeat, and the Red Priestess claimed the Lord of Light had revealed that victory lay beneath the island.
• The Red Priestess showed Stannis a vision of stone dragons defeating Lynn and Winter, then said that awakening them required king's blood.
• Stannis rejected the demand to sacrifice Shireen and threatened the Red Priestess, but nightmares and his ambitions tormented him.
• Stannis visited Shireen at night, embraced her, and wept as she comforted him.
• The next day, Stannis allowed the Red Priestess and her knights to bind Shireen to a pyre and burn her alive.
• As Shireen screamed in the flames, Dragonstone shook, Dragonmont erupted with smoke, and a stone dragon's eye lit with scarlet light.

Lynn realized that Shireen’s sacrifice had sent king’s blood to hidden gods, leading him to suspect they were harvesting Westeros’s royal bloodlines and forcing him to change his plans. As the stone dragons awakened on Dragonstone, Lynn ordered his allies to stabilize the Reach and prepare for further moves.

• Lynn used Greensight to witness Stannis sacrificing Shireen on Dragonstone and saw the energy from her death flow into him and a presence beneath the island.
• Lynn concluded that the gods were harvesting royal bloodlines through wars and sacrifices, and decided he must keep potential kings alive and under control.
• Lynn ordered Olenna to settle the Reach with Margaery, sent Loras to prepare an army at Highgarden, and tasked Davos with stabilizing King's Landing and contacting the Iron Bank.
• Margaery told Lynn she believed in him rather than the gods, and Lynn resolved to protect her from becoming a sacrifice.
• As Shireen died, Dragonmont erupted and three dragons made of obsidian and lava emerged from the crater.

Lynn used Dragonbinder to turn two of Stannis’s stone dragons against the third, shifting the battle at Harrenhal in Winter’s favor. Stannis’s mount was left under a combined assault, while Lynn watched the stone dragons become weapons he could command.

• Stannis rode three obsidian stone dragons from Dragonstone to attack Lynn’s wight army outside Harrenhal, destroying thousands of wights with lava and claws.
• Lynn sent Winter to fight the stone dragons, but the three-on-one battle left Winter wounded and struggling.
• Lynn brought out Dragonbinder and sacrificed one blood warlock, briefly disrupting Stannis’s control of his mount.
• Lynn sacrificed the second blood warlock and sounded Dragonbinder again, taking control of the two smaller stone dragons.
• The two stone dragons turned on Stannis’s mount and joined Winter, whose combined attacks cracked the mount’s obsidian body.

Lynn defeated Stannis when the stone dragon carrying him was destroyed, then stopped him from taking his own life. He ordered Stannis imprisoned and the two remaining stone dragons secured, determined to keep the last Baratheon royal alive and out of the hands of the gods.

• Winter and the two stone dragons overwhelmed Stannis's mount, which shattered and sent him crashing to the ground outside Harrenhal.
• After the Lord of Light fell silent, Stannis regained his reason and remembered murdering Renly, his wife, and Shireen for power.
• Stannis tried to kill himself with a shard of obsidian, but Lynn knocked it away and ordered Loras to bind him.
• Lynn explained that Stannis had to stay alive because he was the last of House Baratheon's royal blood and might otherwise be harvested by the gods.
• Lynn gave Dragonbinder to Davos and ordered him to secure the two stone dragons.
• Lynn ordered Stannis placed in the dungeon, fed enough to survive, and kept from both abuse and death.

Lynn used Flame Resurrection to restore Shireen’s soul and transform the stone dragon into a living ice-blue dragon. After reuniting with his daughter, Stannis renounced his claim to the Seven Kingdoms and recognized Lynn as Westeros’s lawful ruler.

• Lynn entered the stone dragon’s soul to find Shireen, resisted the Lord of Light’s attack, and used Flame Resurrection to reshape her into a living dragon.
• Shireen awoke with her memories and consciousness restored as the Lord of Light’s imprint was erased.
• Lynn brought Stannis to see Shireen, and she recognized him as her father and showed him affection.
• Stannis embraced Shireen, then knelt before Lynn, renounced his claim to the throne, and declared Lynn the only lawful ruler of Westeros.

After Stannis formally surrendered his claim, Lynn received the lords’ allegiance and ordered Stannis exiled to the Wall. Shireen worried that she could no longer live as a human, and Lynn promised to seek a way to restore her body.

• Stannis sent letters across Westeros renouncing the Iron Throne and urging his supporters to submit to Lynn, while lords and envoys gathered at Harrenhal to swear loyalty.
• Lynn set his coronation for a month later and ordered Davos to bring Stannis from the dungeon.
• Lynn exiled Stannis to the Wall, allowing him to take Shireen if she wished to go, and Stannis accepted the decision.
• Shireen asked Lynn whether she could become human again and explained that she missed talking and reading with her father.
• Lynn promised Shireen he would seek a way to restore her human body when his magic had advanced further.

Stannis and Davos parted on the docks as Stannis prepared to sail for Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. In Braavos, Theon reached the black door and delivered Lynn’s token to a mysterious man who could speak with death.

• Stannis accepted warm clothes and provisions from Davos before leaving for Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
• Stannis apologized to Davos for taking his fingers, and the two old friends embraced.
• Davos said he would join Stannis at the Wall after Lynn finished his campaign in Essos.
• Theon arrived at a black door in Braavos with an Unsullied guard and knocked while holding a gold coin bearing the Three-Headed Great Dragon.
• A mysterious man received Theon in a stone chamber, accepted the token, and put it away.

Theon sought to become a Faceless Man, but Jaqen warned him that the order was divided over whether Lynn threatened the world. Theon chose to stay, entering the temple’s dark passage to begin the process of becoming no one.

• Theon asked Jaqen to make him a Faceless Man so he could forget his past, and Jaqen said he would have to forget Lynn.
• Jaqen explained that many Faceless Men viewed Lynn’s dragon, magic, and growing empire as a threat like ancient Valyria, while others favored honoring the pact and serving him.
• Jaqen gave Theon the choice to leave and tell Lynn what he had learned or stay and forget his king and his name.
• Theon decided that Lynn had sent him to infiltrate the Faceless Men and chose to stay.
• Jaqen declared that Theon was no longer Theon Greyjoy and led him toward a spring whose water was meant to wash away his memories.

Theon Greyjoy began training among the Faceless Men and discovered a dragon egg and a Blood Magic scroll that he planned to steal for Lynn. In King's Landing, Lynn used Joffrey's blood to hatch a golden dragon, leaving Joffrey to realize he was being kept alive like livestock.

• Theon drank from the House of Black and White's pool, accepted that he had no name, and began quietly serving the Faceless Men.
• Theon overheard Faceless Men discuss killing Lynn because his power threatened the balance of the world.
• Theon found a black-and-red dragon egg and a human-skin scroll containing a Blood Magic legacy, then secretly resolved to get them to Lynn.
• Lynn had Joffrey's blood drawn and poured it over a milky-white dragon egg, which hatched into a golden dragon that bonded with him.
• Joffrey woke to a bowl of chicken soup and realized Lynn was fattening him up so he could keep drawing his blood.

Lynn was crowned king of Westeros and appointed Sansa, Arya, Margaery, and Daenerys to rule its regions. After Theon returned with a dragon egg and a Blood Magic scroll, Lynn learned that the Long Night was still coming and turned his attention to the threat ahead.

• Lynn was crowned King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men as dragons circled above the Red Keep.
• Lynn named Sansa and Arya Wardens of the North, Margaery Warden of the South and Lord of Highgarden, and Daenerys Queen of Dragonstone and Warden of the East.
• Lynn studied ancient texts about the Long Night and learned from Theon that some Faceless Men wanted him dead.
• Theon gave Lynn a black dragon egg and a forbidden Blood Magic scroll before disappearing into the night.
• Lynn saw an ominous blue star and declared that the game was over as the Long Night approached.