Recaps

Gary built alliances and organized the North while confronting threats from the Riverlands and the royal court. The arc left him recovering from an assassination attempt as he prepared Arya, Bran, and Brienne for a journey south.

• Gary showed Margaery and Daenerys the future of the Purple Wedding, where Margaery reunited with Olenna, who urged Gary to consolidate his lands before pursuing the Iron Throne.
• Sandor reached Riverrun, learned that Sansa had never arrived, and brought Edmure’s report of Catelyn’s return from the dead back to Gary.
• Gary welcomed Tyrion, appointed him Hand of the King, and began forming a council and plans to secure financing, mercenaries, and intelligence for the coming war.
• Gary appointed Bran Master of Whisperers and Arya a general, then ordered Winterfell’s leaders to settle the huge wave of refugees arriving from the west.
• Bran identified Catelyn’s necklace, and Gary sent Melisandre to investigate the wights at Riverrun while directing Arya and Bran toward the Crownlands to search for Sansa.
• Gary exposed Lady Sybell’s role in betraying Robb and dissolved his marriage to Jeyne, while sparing Jeyne and her children and sending the Westerlings to Riverrun.
• Brienne withdrew her accusation against Gary after learning that Catelyn had become a wight, then joined Arya and Bran on their journey south.
• An assassin poisoned Gary with the Strangler, but he healed himself and used his faith-sensing magic to expose and capture the disguised maid.

The Seven attacked Winterfell for the Primal Stone, but Gu Lulu destroyed the Crone and Gary led the survivors south. The arc ended with Gary’s army ambushing Jaime Lannister’s forces at Riverrun.

• Melisandre fought the Crone on the road north, survived her attacks, and warned Gary that the Seven were targeting him and the Primal Stone.
• Euron Greyjoy captured Sansa at Highgarden and used her blood to attack Bran, Arya, and Rickon, killing Rickon before Garlan drove him off.
• The Crone’s Mud Giants attacked Winterfell, wounded the dragons, and pushed the defenders toward the Main Castle as the White Harbor cavalry suffered possession and heavy losses.
• The Crone possessed Margaery and demanded the Primal Stone, but Gu Lulu appeared, destroyed her, and caused the Mud Giants to collapse.
• Gary sent the White Harbor troops home and marched south with sixteen thousand men, twenty giant cavalrymen, and three dragons.
• At Riverrun, northern cavalry and infantry ambushed Jaime Lannister’s army while Daenerys’s dragons burned its siege weapons and Gary’s giant cavalry routed its horsemen.

Gary secured Pyke, brought the Vale and Randyll Tarly into the Northern Alliance, and prepared to infiltrate King's Landing while the Iron Bank and Pentos became new fronts in the struggle. The arc left Gu Li and his companions entering the guarded capital, with the whereabouts of a twenty-thousand-strong Westerlands army still unknown.

• Jaime's army escaped the Northern ambush, but Gary's forces captured Jaime, and Gary ordered the advance toward King's Landing despite the challenges posed by prisoners and supply lines.
• Gary captured Pyke and made Asha Countess of the Iron Islands, while Tyrion pressured the Vale to pledge allegiance and Yohn Royce helped bring Robert Arryn and the Vale army into the Northern camp.
• Tyrion questioned Jaime about Cersei and urged him to protect Tommen and Myrcella, while Arianne chose to seek an alliance with Luke Stark.
• Margaery negotiated with Randyll Tarly, who agreed to bring twenty-four thousand troops north in exchange for House Tarly ruling the Stormlands, while Gary punished Dickon for insulting her.
• Gary and Tyrion prepared for Cersei's defenses and possible wildfire, placed Barristan in command, and entered King's Landing in disguise with Melisandre, Little Deer, and Tyrion.
• Davos secured an Iron Bank loan for the North, while Tysha defeated the Dothraki threat outside Pentos and cracked down on merchants who had conspired against her.
• Margaery and Daenerys received Arianne and Quentyn, but Arianne left without committing Dorne's troops after demanding Arya's betrothal to Quentyn.
• Gu Li reunited with Arya and learned that Cersei had imprisoned Mace Tyrell, then led his companions into King's Landing as the northern army prepared to surround the city.

Gu Li uncovered and contained Cersei's wildfire, then seized King's Landing with ice wolves and Bingling while searching for Tommen and confronting Varys. The arc ended with Dorne weighing its choices, the Crone taking over the High Sparrow, and Gu Li entering Varys's dream to extract information.

• Robert Arryn died after drinking poisoned tea, and Margaery ordered Quentyn Martell and the dwarf jester placed under guard when evidence implicated them both.
• Tycho Nestoris offered Aegon VI loans and a dragon egg in exchange for control of Westerlands gold mines, while Gu Li rejected Tyrion's proposed contract and demanded Jaime's loyalty.
• Gu Li and Tyrion discovered Cersei's wildfire orders beneath the Alchemists' Guild, contained an explosion, and moved more than ten thousand jars beneath the Great Sept of Baelor.
• Margaery persuaded the Vale lords to capture Duskendale and remain there, while Jaime failed to persuade Cersei to surrender and Tommen disappeared.
• Gu Li led ice wolves into the Red Keep, captured Cersei, and learned that Robert Strong was the reanimated Gregor Clegane, whom Sandor killed and burned.
• Bingling burned hundreds of Gold Cloaks, Jaime secured the rest's surrender, and Gu Li confined Cersei to the Maidenvault as Qyburn escaped and the northern army captured Rosby.
• Melisandre returned with Varys and an impostor posing as Tommen, and Varys revealed that the real Tommen had gone west to meet Ser Kevan Lannister.
• Arianne Martell and Tyene Sand proposed an alliance with the North, but Gu Li rejected their marriage proposals and demanded proof of Dorne's loyalty.
• Gu Li ordered a search for the Sparrows' leader as the Crone took control of the High Sparrow, while Tyene decided to deliver Dorne's secret letter to the King in the North.
• Gu Li refused Varys's bargain for information, knocked him unconscious, and entered a dream where Varys woke in a mass grave.