Chapter Summaries

Lynn led Jon and Ygritte into the Frostfangs, where the Three-Eyed Raven guided them to a cavern inhabited by the Children of the Forest. There, Leaf revealed that they had been waiting for Lynn, and he finally met Brynden, the Greenseer.

• Lynn ordered Jon, Ygritte, and the other Rangers to keep the Night's King's visit and the horn secret, then led them toward the Frostfangs.
• Ygritte guided the party across the mountains, and two days later they encountered the Three-Eyed Raven on an ice field.
• The Three-Eyed Raven led Lynn, Jon, and Ygritte through a forest of weirwoods to a cavern, while the other Rangers stayed outside.
• Lynn, Jon, and Ygritte entered the cavern and met Leaf and the Children of the Forest beneath an enormous weirwood.
• Leaf called Lynn the last skinchanger and led him to Brynden, who welcomed Lynn after a long wait.

Lynn encountered the Three-Eyed Raven and learned that the Children of the Forest could teach him Nature Magic and Harmonic Magic in exchange for finding the Raven a new body. After experiencing their song, Lynn agreed to seek a vessel but refused to use anyone with a wolf spirit.

• The Three-Eyed Raven explained that the Weirwood protected the cavern with Nature Magic, and Leaf identified the Children of the Forest as the last singers who practiced Harmonic Magic.
• The Three-Eyed Raven asked Lynn to find him a new body with greensight, and offered to teach him Nature Magic and Harmonic Magic in return.
• Jon realized Bran Stark might fit the vessel's requirements and objected, while Lynn ruled out anyone with a wolf spirit and demanded to learn the magic first.
• The Three-Eyed Raven let Leaf and the Children of the Forest demonstrate their song, which soothed Jon and Ygritte and strengthened Lynn's mental power.
• The Three-Eyed Raven told Lynn that the power of life could be his if he brought the requested person to the cavern.

The Three-Eyed Raven explained the dangers of Lynn’s coercive use of Skinchanging and taught him to sense and gently influence another soul instead. Lynn tried the method on Ygritte, reached a vulnerable memory within her, and persuaded her to lower her bow.

• The Three-Eyed Raven warned Lynn that forcing his way into human souls could provoke lethal resistance, and explained that Petyr Baelish’s fear had made him unusually vulnerable.
• The Three-Eyed Raven demonstrated how to sense Ygritte’s resistance without overpowering her, and told Lynn that proper Skinchanging relied on communication and resonance.
• Lynn gently touched Ygritte’s soul and found a memory of her childhood loss and her longing for warmth and safety.
• Lynn evoked Ygritte’s memory of resting against him in the cave and asked her to put down her bow; she obeyed as Jon watched in disbelief.

Lynn used Skinchanging on Ygritte before leading his party to Mance Rayder, whose help he needed. They reached the vast Wildling camp, where Lynn used ice magic to force the scouts to take them to the King Beyond the Wall, who agreed to receive them.

• Lynn left the Three-Eyed Raven and Leaf with Ygritte and told them he would keep his promise after meeting Mance Rayder.
• Ygritte repeatedly asked Lynn to use his mental power on her again, and he briefly took control of her before letting her go.
• Lynn's party reached the Frostfangs and saw a camp containing at least a hundred thousand Wildlings, giants, and mammoths.
• Wildling scouts surrounded the party and accused Ygritte of treachery, but Lynn froze their leader's horse in place with ice magic.
• The scouts escorted Lynn and his companions through the camp to Mance Rayder's tent, where Mance invited them inside.

Lynn offered Mance Rayder an alliance against the White Walkers, promising the Wildlings land and food if they fought beside the living. Tormund demanded a fistfight to prove Lynn’s worth, and Lynn left the tent stunned after knocking him down with one blow.

• Lynn told Mance Rayder that the Night’s Watch and the Wildlings should cooperate against the dead, and Ygritte vouched for Lynn and his dragon.
• Lynn offered the Wildlings land and food in return for fighting alongside the North, but Tormund and the other chieftains rejected his proposal.
• Mance said the Wildlings would need to see proof before they trusted Lynn, and Tormund challenged him to a fight.
• Tormund promised to serve Lynn if he lost, while Lynn accepted the challenge and asked what he would gain if he won.
• Lynn struck Tormund in the chest and sent him crashing into a tent pole, leaving the Wildlings speechless.

Lynn defeated Tormund and all the Wildling chieftains with his frost armor and greatswords, then won Tormund’s allegiance. Mance Rayder accepted Lynn’s strength and asked how he planned to persuade the Night’s Watch to open the gates.

• Tormund was knocked down by Lynn’s single punch, and the Bone King ordered the Wildling chieftains to attack him together.
• Lynn summoned frost armor and greatswords, defeated the chieftains without killing them, and shattered the Bone King’s axe.
• Tormund recovered, offered Lynn ale, and pledged to follow him.
• Mance Rayder acknowledged Lynn’s strength and asked how they should deal with the Night’s Watch and whether Lynn could persuade them to open the gates.

Lynn secured the Free Folk’s agreement to settle in the Gift and defend the Wall, then brokered a Night’s Watch alliance against the Night’s King. The fragile peace held at Castle Black, where Myrcella arrived and Winter’s appearance terrified the gathered wildlings.

• Lynn offered the Free Folk land in the Gift in exchange for guarding the Wall and swearing allegiance to him and the living, and Tormund and the other chieftains agreed.
• Lynn led Mance Rayder, Tormund, Ygritte, and the wildling chieftains back to Castle Black, where Ygritte asked if she could find him after he returned from Essos, and he told her to rebuild her people’s homes first.
• Lynn stopped a confrontation in Castle Black’s courtyard and declared that the Night’s Watch and Free Folk must unite against the Night’s King.
• Jeor Mormont agreed to an alliance and ordered the Night’s Watch to lower their weapons, while Mance Rayder did the same for the Free Folk.
• Myrcella hurried into the courtyard, and Winter descended, overwhelming the wildlings with fear.

Lynn subdued the Wildlings with Winter’s arrival, brought them and the Night’s Watch into an uneasy alliance, and became the 998th Lord Commander. As the Free Folk began settling in the Gift, he ordered a city built to prepare for the coming Long Night.

• Winter landed in Castle Black’s courtyard, and Lynn calmed the dragon while Tormund asked to borrow it for a ride.
• Lynn ordered the Wildlings and Night’s Watch to respect one another and declared that the Free Folk would begin settling in the Gift.
• Mormont stepped down and named Lynn the 998th Lord Commander, with Benjen supporting the decision.
• The next morning, Lynn watched the Free Folk pass through the Wall and announced his plan to recruit Northern craftsmen to build stone houses and a city in the Gift.

Lynn organized the Free Folk in the Gift and accepted Mance Rayder’s surrender of the title King Beyond the Wall. The Free Folk acclaimed Lynn as their new king.

• Lynn assigned the Free Folk tribes places in the Gift and told Jon Snow he had arranged for craftsmen from White Harbor to help build stone settlements.
• Mance Rayder praised Lynn’s leadership and surrendered his authority as King Beyond the Wall to him.
• Tormund told the gathered Free Folk that Lynn had defeated their chiefs, spared them, and promised them land, food, and stone houses.
• Mance declared Lynn the Free Folk’s new king, and the crowd roared their approval as Lynn raised Longclaw.

Lynn used his skinchanging ability to prompt Sansa to move her gold dragons to the Iron Bank, solving the Free Folk’s funding problem, and prepared to leave for Essos. He left Ygritte in charge of Princess Myrcella’s education and protection before flying east on Winter.

• Lynn reassured Jon that food and money would be available, then tasked him with gathering blessed plants and rapidly building stone houses for the Free Folk.
• Lynn planted the idea in Sansa’s mind to deposit her gold dragons with the Iron Bank, while he saw Arya sitting quietly in her room.
• Lynn refused Ygritte’s request to accompany him and entrusted her with caring for Princess Myrcella and hiring teachers for her.
• Lynn promised Ygritte he would return, then flew east toward Essos on Winter the next morning.
• Ygritte began Myrcella’s etiquette lessons and threatened to shoot her in the arse with an arrow if she failed to learn.

Lynn left the Wall and arrived in Pentos to seek Illyrio Mopatis’s wealth and connections, while Ygritte arranged lessons for Myrcella and awkwardly tried to learn southern manners herself. The chapter ended with Illyrio’s mansion gates opening as Lynn approached.

• Ygritte tried to encourage Myrcella to learn archery, then asked Jon to find a teacher for Myrcella and herself.
• Jon sent a raven to White Harbor, and Septa Elena arrived at Castle Black to teach Myrcella noble history and heraldry.
• Ygritte challenged Septa Elena’s lessons and demanded practical wilderness training, while Myrcella realized Ygritte was trying to impress Ser Lynn.
• Lynn flew across the Narrow Sea on Winter and landed outside Pentos, intending to use Illyrio Mopatis’s wealth and connections.
• Lynn disguised himself as a wealthy eastern merchant and approached Illyrio Mopatis’s mansion, whose gates opened before he announced himself.

Lynn met Illyrio Mopatis, Viserys Targaryen, and Daenerys Targaryen in Pentos, where Daenerys recognized him from her prophecy. Lynn offered Viserys an army and gold, then revealed his Three-Headed Ice Dragon, leaving Daenerys convinced that her prophesied king had come for her.

• Lynn told Illyrio he wanted his connections, fleet, and the two true dragons in his home.
• Viserys introduced himself to Lynn, and Daenerys arrived and recognized him from the prophecy branded in her soul.
• Lynn offered Viserys an army and countless gold dragons to help him reclaim the Iron Throne.
• Lynn whistled for his Three-Headed Ice Dragon, which flew over Pentos and sent the city into panic.
• Viserys stared in terror and ecstasy at the dragon, while Daenerys wept and believed Lynn was her prophesied prince and king.

Lynn used Winter’s appearance to persuade Viserys and Illyrio to support a Targaryen restoration with their wealth in exchange for an army of Free Folk. He offered to marry Daenerys, and Viserys immediately agreed.

• Winter roared over Pentos, terrifying its people and convincing Viserys that Lynn had a dragon.
• Lynn told Viserys he needed an army and offered him a hundred thousand Free Folk, whom Lynn claimed as their new King Beyond the Wall.
• Viserys eagerly accepted the offer, while Illyrio considered the cost of supplying the army.
• Lynn persuaded Illyrio that funding the campaign could make him a powerful ally of the restored Targaryens.
• Lynn proposed marrying Daenerys to strengthen the alliance, and Viserys agreed at once.

Lynn asked Daenerys whether she wanted to marry him, and she chose him for herself rather than for her Targaryen name or her brother’s ambitions. Viserys saw them together and began plotting to claim Lynn’s dragon for himself.

• Viserys agreed to give Daenerys to Lynn in exchange for his support and warned her to please Lynn.
• Lynn asked Daenerys whether she truly wanted to marry him, and she accepted, kissing him and telling him about her dreams of an ice dragon.
• Daenerys asked whether Lynn wanted her rather than an alliance, and Lynn said he was marrying her, not her name, while condemning Viserys for trading her away.
• Viserys found Daenerys in Lynn’s arms and grew jealous, then decided that Lynn was an enemy because he wanted to claim the dragon for himself.

Lynn and Daenerys married in Pentos, where Illyrio gave them three supposedly petrified dragon eggs. That night, Daenerys and Lynn warmed one egg by the hearth, and it began to glow and beat as though alive.

• Lynn reassured Daenerys before they married in a modest ceremony at Illyrio's manse.
• Viserys celebrated the marriage and drunkenly boasted about taking revenge on Robert Baratheon and the Kingslayer.
• Illyrio presented Daenerys and Lynn with three dragon eggs, and Daenerys sensed a pulse inside the black-and-red egg.
• Daenerys told Lynn the egg was speaking to her and said it felt cold.
• Lynn guided Daenerys toward the hearth with the egg, and it glowed without burning her hand.
• Lynn channeled Ice Magic into the three eggs as the black-and-red egg began to beat.

Lynn set out to conquer the Dothraki and build an army, keeping the Dragon Eggs and their planned sacrifices in mind. He, Daenerys, and Viserys sailed from Pentos toward Khal Drogo’s khalasar, while Viserys secretly planned to seize power for himself.

• Daenerys felt a Dragon Egg's heartbeat as Lynn used frost magic on the eggs and resolved to seek the sacrifices needed to hatch them.
• Viserys tried to take the Dragon Eggs, but Lynn stopped him, asserted ownership, and ordered him to join the expedition to recruit an army.
• Lynn told Illyrio he would defeat Khal Drogo and absorb his khalasar, and Illyrio agreed to provide three ships and supplies.
• Lynn, Daenerys, Viserys, and the Dragon Eggs departed Pentos aboard Illyrio's ships for the Dothraki Sea.
• Viserys imagined commanding the Dothraki and secretly planned to reclaim the Dragon Eggs and power from Lynn.

Lynn and Daenerys sailed toward Volantis, growing closer as Daenerys spoke of the Free Cities and her past. After Viserys drunkenly tried to assert control over Daenerys and command Winter, Lynn used Ice Magic to intimidate him, leaving Viserys humiliated and plotting revenge.

• Daenerys asked Lynn whether the slaves of Volantis longed for freedom and wondered if she had a home with him; Lynn promised that the North would be her home.
• Winter approached Daenerys affectionately, and she patted the dragon before Lynn sent it back into the sky.
• Viserys interrupted Lynn and Daenerys, ordered her away, and lunged at her after she showed him no fear.
• Lynn froze Viserys in place, then warned him to remember his place and demonstrated his Ice Magic on the ship's railing.
• Viserys tried to command Winter with “Dracarys,” but the dragon ignored him and blew freezing air over him.
• In his cabin, Viserys failed to open Lynn-sealed chest holding the Dragon Eggs and vowed to kill Lynn and take Daenerys, the dragon, and the Iron Throne.

Lynn brought Daenerys and Viserys to Astapor, where Daenerys witnessed the cruelty used to create the Unsullied. He told her he had come to break the slaves’ chains, and Ser Jorah Mormont requested an audience.

• Lynn led the party through Astapor, where slave traders and the Road of Pride exposed the city’s brutality.
• At the Plaza of Punishment, a Good Master forced an Unsullied boy to kill an infant, horrifying Daenerys and unsettling Viserys.
• Lynn took possession of a wealthy estate and placed Viserys under house arrest.
• Daenerys pleaded with Lynn not to make her a slave owner, and he said he intended to free the slaves.
• A slave informed Lynn that Ser Jorah Mormont had arrived and requested an audience.

Lynn confronted Jorah Mormont with his past and offered him a chance to regain his honor, return home, and reclaim Longclaw. Jorah swore allegiance to Lynn, who sent him to negotiate with Kraznys mo Nakloz to buy every Unsullied in Astapor.

• Jorah Mormont arrived and recognized Longclaw at Lynn's waist as the ancestral sword of House Mormont.
• Lynn exposed Jorah's crimes and exile, then told him Jeor Mormont missed him and offered him a path to pardon and return home.
• Jorah pledged his sword, life, and loyalty to Lynn, who assured him that Jeor was safe and might still be alive when Jorah returned.
• Lynn ordered Jorah to contact Kraznys mo Nakloz and offer to buy all the Unsullied in Astapor.

Lynn spared a slave girl after she accidentally broke a Valyrian vase, earning the slaves’ respect and leaving Daenerys moved by his kindness. Jorah returned with Kraznys mo Nakloz’s offer to sell all the Unsullied for six hundred thousand Gold Dragons, and Lynn suspected Kraznys wanted more than money.

• Viserys demanded that Lynn use his dragon to seize Astapor’s Unsullied, but Lynn argued that a king needed a loyal army rather than slaves ruled by fear.
• A frightened slave girl dropped a jug and shattered a valuable Valyrian vase, prompting Viserys to order Lynn to kill her.
• Lynn gave the girl a Dragon Gold Coin, time off, and permission to return the next day, while telling Viserys that a life deserved more respect than an object.
• The slaves in the hall knelt to honor Lynn, and word of his kindness spread through the manor, giving them hope.
• Jorah reported that Kraznys mo Nakloz offered to sell all the Unsullied, including those in training, for six hundred thousand Gold Dragons.
• Lynn recognized that Kraznys’s enormous price was likely meant to obtain something other than gold.