Chapter Summaries

Garlan escaped the Arbor with the Redwyne twins after the Ironborn destroyed their fleet and a gigantic sea monster threatened the island. He brought Euron Greyjoy to Highgarden, where Willas planned to ask the North for help from Drogon, while Euron secretly anticipated catching Sansa Stark.

• Garlan stopped the Redwyne twins from attacking Euron and persuaded them to flee the Arbor, arguing that a dragon could kill the sea monster.
• Garlan led more than two hundred Redwyne soldiers and the twins through a tunnel, then sailed with ten ships toward the Shield Islands.
• Willas besieged the Shield Islands, where only four hundred Ironborn remained after Drogon burned most of their garrison.
• Garlan told Willas that the Redwyne Fleet had been destroyed and the Arbor and Oldtown had fallen, prompting Willas to have Sansa write to the North about borrowing Drogon.
• Garlan and the Redwyne twins escorted Euron to Highgarden, where Euron secretly anticipated catching Sansa Stark.

Garlan persuaded Sansa to request aid against the Ironborn, while Euron escaped Highgarden’s dungeon using a monstrous squid and broke into Sansa’s room. He wounded Sansa and revealed that he planned to use her blood to kill another Stark.

• Garlan explained the Reach’s danger to Sansa, who finally wrote a letter requesting aid.
• Euron summoned a squid from his mouth, dissolved into black liquid, and used the creature to kill the twenty guards in the dungeon.
• Euron retrieved his key and escaped the dungeon with the squid.
• Sansa woke to find Highgarden on alert and armed herself with Garlan’s Valyrian steel curved sword.
• Euron tricked Sansa into opening her door, knocked her down, and captured her.
• Euron cut Sansa’s wrist and said he wanted to use her blood to kill another Stark.

Garlan prayed to the Warrior of the Seven and received a blessing to fight the Black Squid guarding Sansa, while Euron used shadowbinding magic to target House Stark. The chapter ended with Bran sensing Euron’s magical intrusion at the stone house outside King’s Landing.

• Garlan learned that Euron had escaped the dungeon and that a Black Monster had taken Sansa hostage in the Main Castle.
• Garlan and the Redwyne Twins found the Black Squid guarding Sansa’s room, where Euron was draining her blood, and Garlan ordered the soldiers to attack it with fire.
• After Garlan heard a voice urging him to pray, he prayed to the Warrior of the Seven and received a holy blessing.
• Garlan charged the Black Squid as Euron drank enough of Sansa’s blood to use shadowbinding magic against the Master of the Blood’s relatives.
• Euron’s consciousness reached the stone house outside King’s Landing, where Bran sensed someone spying on him before the presence vanished.

Euron failed to find Luke Stark and attacked Bran and Arya, but green energy protected them, so he targeted Rickon instead. Rickon and Shaggydog died, while Garlan drove Euron from Highgarden at the cost of severe aging, and Euron escaped.

• Euron searched for Luke Stark through Bran, Arya, and Rickon, then concluded Luke had no Stark blood and attacked Bran and Arya when his search failed.
• Green energy repelled Euron's attacks on Bran and Arya, and Bran realized that Sansa and Rickon were in danger.
• Euron killed Rickon and Shaggydog with a constricting attack, and Osha accused Barristan and Davos of breaking their promises before Davos explained that a wizard was behind it.
• At Highgarden, Garlan killed the giant squid attacking him and sent Sansa to the maester for treatment.
• Garlan struck Euron, severing part of his hand, but Euron escaped through the window as black liquid and claimed his life was bound to the Drowned God.
• Garlan's strength faded, and he was left exhausted and aged by decades.

Gary returned to Winterfell with the mortally wounded Melisandre and fought to remove the black energy from her chest while preparing for an attack by the Seven. As the city was sealed and the White Harbor cavalry confined to camp, a possessed rider escaped and killed a Winterfell soldier on his way toward the city.

• Gary and Little Deer found Melisandre near the Barrowlands, and she warned Gary that the Seven were after him and the Primal Stone.
• Melisandre collapsed when her potion wore off, and Gary used healing magic to restore her body but could not close the wound in her chest.
• Gary returned to Winterfell, where he ordered Barristan and Davos to report to Tyrion and devoted himself to treating Melisandre.
• Gary told Daenerys and Margaery to secure Winterfell against the Seven, and Margaery informed him that Rickon had died.
• Margaery ordered the five hundred White Harbor cavalrymen to remain in camp because they worshipped the Seven.
• A possessed White Harbor cavalryman attacked his comrades, rode toward Winterfell, and killed the soldier who had delivered the order.

The Crone used the Seven’s power to send Mud Giants against Winterfell, while Daenerys and the defenders fought to hold the city. Daenerys wounded Rhaegal and returned toward Winterfell, where she spotted cavalry slipping inside despite Tyrion’s orders.

• The Crone summoned Mud Giants that smashed through Winterfell’s north gate, and Mag the Mighty led the giant cavalry against them.
• Tyrion ordered Barristan to keep the White Harbor cavalry outside the city and Davos to support the giants at the Main Castle.
• Daenerys attacked the Mud Giants with Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion, but the Crone transferred to another body and the giants wounded all three dragons, breaking Rhaegal’s wing.
• Barristan brought more than four thousand men to fight the Mud Giants outside Winterfell, and Daenerys entrusted the injured Rhaegal and Viserion to him before flying back on Drogon.
• Daenerys spotted a small cavalry squad breaking away from the main force and charging into Winterfell.

Mud Giants overwhelmed the defenders outside Winterfell, and a possessed White Harbor cavalryman took Margaery hostage while demanding the Primal Stone. Daenerys and Little Deer killed him, then sent Margaery and Tyrion upstairs to safety as the battle continued.

• The Giants Heavy Cavalry and Winterfell's remaining soldiers failed to hold back the Mud Giants, while Davos lay gravely injured and unconscious.
• House Manderly cavalry arrived against Margaery's orders, and their captain died from the strain of divine power.
• Sangjay appeared possessed, seized Margaery, and demanded that she lead him to the Primal Stone.
• Daenerys arrived on Drogon, stopped him from attacking near Margaery, and confronted Sangjay while planning to burn him.
• Daenerys called for help, and Little Deer sprang out, disarmed Sangjay, and bit through his neck.
• Little Deer told Margaery and Tyrion to go upstairs to the King in the North, and Margaery warned that the Seven would appear among the cavalry again.

Daenerys, Little Deer, and the White Harbor cavalrymen fought the Crone, who sought the Primal Stone and a way into the Main Castle. After the cavalrymen stopped her possession at the cost of their lives, Gary sealed the castle in ice, leaving Daenerys and Little Deer to guard the only open entrance.

• Little Deer warned the White Harbor cavalrymen that the Seven had declared war on their Supreme God, and the Crone admitted she wanted the Primal Stone.
• Daenerys avoided the Crone’s mud magic by standing on stone, while a cavalryman killed the possessed man and ended the Mud Giants’ movements.
• The cavalrymen killed themselves to prevent the Crone from possessing them again, but one survived; Little Deer and Daenerys guarded the castle entrance.
• Maester Jaqen refused the Crone’s demand to find the Primal Stone and then left after Daenerys barred him from entering the Main Castle.
• The Crone sent mud figures against Daenerys and Little Deer, but Gary covered the Main Castle in ice, blocking every entrance except the ground-floor doorway.
• The Crone summoned more mud figures and resumed her assault on the stairs, where Daenerys and Little Deer held their ground.

Gary struggled to protect Margaery and Melisandre when the Crone possessed Margaery and demanded the Primal Stone. Gu Lulu, a self-proclaimed goddess of war, drove the Crone away, and Gary left to find Daenerys and Little Deer.

• Gary restored Melisandre's breathing and heartbeat, then headed downstairs to find Daenerys and Little Deer as the Crone arrived seeking the Primal Stone.
• The Crone possessed Margaery and threatened to keep using her body unless Gary handed over the Primal Stone.
• A white light emerged from Margaery, and Gu Lulu appeared, seized the Crone, and drove her through the wall.
• Gu Lulu introduced herself as the goddess who presided over war and destroyed the Crone with a punch, causing the Mud Giants to collapse into mud.
• Gu Lulu told Gary to develop the Primal Stone's abilities and protect Margaery before vanishing, and Gary went downstairs to find Daenerys and Little Deer.

Gary led the northern armies to the Riverlands to break Jaime Lannister’s siege of Riverrun and avenge the Seven’s attack on Winterfell. As the battle began, the northern forces surrounded Jaime’s army, while Gary and the dragons devastated its troops and equipment.

• The Seven argued over whether to seize the Primal Stone, while the Stranger warned that it had fused with the visitor from another world and that taking it by force would bring retaliation.
• After Winterfell’s losses, Gary sent White Harbor’s troops home to defend the North’s ports and chokepoints, then marched south with sixteen thousand men, twenty giant cavalrymen, and three dragons.
• A month later, Jaime Lannister’s thirty thousand soldiers attacked Riverrun, where Brynden Tully rallied fewer than a thousand defenders to hold the walls.
• Four thousand northern cavalry appeared behind Jaime’s army, while twelve thousand northern infantry emerged from ambush on both flanks; Jaqen and the Ice Warriors had earlier killed the Lannister scouts.
• Daenerys directed the dragons as they burned Lannister catapults and archers, while Gary charged on an ice-armored mammoth and shot down Westerlands cavalrymen.
• Gary and the giant cavalry overwhelmed the Lannister cavalry, whose weapons could not pierce the giants’ Valyrian steel armor.

The Northern Alliance defeated the Westerlands and Riverlands forces at Riverrun, though Jaime Lannister escaped capture by the main army after Little Deer seized him. Gary considered the heavy casualties and learned from Tyrion that the captured Riverlands and Westerlands soldiers could not simply be added to his forces as he continued his campaign for the Iron Throne.

• Jaime led the Westerlands alliance through the Northern infantry toward the southwest, while Gary’s forces pursued and Melisandre prepared an ambush along the River Road.
• Melisandre failed to ignite the firewood and lamp oil, so Little Deer attacked Jaime, bit off his left hand, and dragged him toward the roadside as Podrick and the Northern soldiers set the ambush alight.
• The Westerlands alliance fled by another mountain path, while Gary’s troops arrived too late to stop its escape; Little Deer survived after Gary healed her wounds, and the Northern Alliance captured Jaime.
• Tyrion reported that the Northern Alliance had killed over ten thousand enemy troops, captured two thousand Westerlands soldiers and three thousand Riverlands soldiers, and suffered more than two thousand deaths.
• Gary ordered the army to expand and continue toward King’s Landing, but Tyrion explained that the Riverlands prisoners would need to guard their homeland and the Westerlands prisoners would likely desert.

Gary rejected the plan to conquer the Westerlands first and divided his forces to secure the Vale, feint at Casterly Rock, and attack the Iron Islands. After learning the Ironborn had taken the Arbor and Oldtown, he agreed to help Asha reclaim the islands before she sailed south to support Highgarden.

• Tyrion and Davos urged Gary to take the Westerlands before the Crownlands, but Gary insisted on attacking the Crownlands directly and ordered Tyrion to seek House Arryn's allegiance.
• Little Deer delivered Bran's letter, revealing that the Ironborn had captured the Arbor and Oldtown and destroyed the Redwyne Fleet; Mace Tyrell was sending Loras and ten thousand soldiers back to the Reach.
• Asha asked Gary for soldiers and dragons to retake the Iron Islands, but Gary refused to lend her the dragons and assigned Jon Umber to lead the feint against Casterly Rock.
• Gary ordered Tyrion to take ten thousand troops, dragons, and giants to the Eyrie and told him to kill Littlefinger if the opportunity arose.
• Gary announced that he would lead two thousand soldiers across the sea to attack the Iron Islands, using an ice cocoon to help Asha land; Asha agreed to sail south afterward to support Highgarden.

Jaqen tried to ease Melisandre’s doubts about the Supreme God, while Gary accepted Barristan’s conversion and made him the first knight of the Supreme God Faith. Gary then suspected Sansa in Highgarden of using shadowbinding to kill Rickon and planned to seek confirmation.

• Jaqen told Melisandre that he had once doubted his faith and revealed that he had spared a noble girl destined to die, later making her a priestess.
• Jaqen cited a Divine Revelation from the Many-Faced God claiming the Supreme God was the world’s oldest god, and Melisandre resumed her prayers with renewed relief.
• Barristan asked Gary whether his reservations came from Barristan’s faith, then offered to follow the Supreme God after losing faith in the Seven.
• Gary accepted Barristan’s oath, and the Primal Stone’s power rejuvenated him as Gary appointed him the first knight of the Supreme God Faith.
• Gary gave Barristan Rickon’s Valyrian steel sword and suspected Sansa in Highgarden was behind Rickon’s death through shadowbinding.

Gary conquered Pyke and helped Asha secure rule of the Iron Islands, then Tyrion led an army to the Vale and forced entry into the Eyrie with the threat of dragons. The chapter ended with Tyrion and Barristan meeting the young Duke Robert Arryn, who mocked Tyrion.

• Gary broke through Pyke's eastern wall with ice fists and captured the castle with two thousand Soldiers of the North.
• Gary and Asha visited the Seven Islands, where Asha became Countess of the Iron Islands and swore fealty to the King in the North.
• Gary left five hundred soldiers to garrison Pyke and sailed back with fifteen hundred troops.
• Tyrion and Barristan reached the Bloody Gate with twenty Giant Heavy Armor Warriors, and Tyrion demanded the Vale declare its allegiance.
• After three Dragons flew toward the Eyrie, Donal Waynwood let Tyrion's party enter the Vale and reported their threats.
• Petyr Baelish brought Tyrion and Barristan to Duke Robert Arryn, who laughed at Tyrion and asked if he could ride a pig.

Tyrion demanded the Vale swear fealty to Luke Stark and threatened the lords with dragons and giants if they refused. Baelish urged them to consider joining the North, and the lords debated the war’s prospects without reaching a decision.

• Tyrion asked Robert Arryn and the Vale lords to pledge allegiance to Luke Stark and warned that dragons could bring the Vale to heel if they refused.
• Tyrion threatened the assembled lords with the dragons and Valyrian steel-clad giants, while the Vale soldiers drew their swords.
• Baelish offered to announce the Vale’s decision and asked Tyrion to bring Daenerys inside, surprising the lords with news of her presence.
• The Vale lords debated whether the North could defeat the larger Lion-Flower Alliance Army, and Barristan reminded Tyrion of Gary’s order concerning Baelish.
• Baelish cited the Ironborn attacks and Luke’s victory over Jaime Lannister, then argued that dragons would grow and help the North win.

Tyrion negotiated the Vale’s fealty and troops while rejecting Baelish’s attempt to secure a marriage alliance for Robert Arryn. Baelish left the northern camp plotting to undermine the North and Vale alliance by threatening Robert Arryn’s life.

• The Vale lords offered twenty thousand infantry and five thousand cavalry in return for a marriage between Daenerys and Robert Arryn, but Baelish proposed Arya instead and Tyrion refused to promise a betrothal.
• Tyrion demanded the Vale swear fealty to Luke and send troops, giving Robert Arryn ten days to appear or the North would attack the Bloody Gate; Baelish accepted, despite Yohn Royce’s objection.
• Ten days later, Robert Arryn and Baelish arrived at the northern camp, while the Vale lords mustered nearly twenty thousand troops near the Bloody Gate.
• Tyrion warned Baelish that Luke might kill him for betraying Eddard and arranged for Yohn Royce to look after Robert Arryn, so Baelish left camp with his trusted men.
• On the road to the Eyrie, Baelish learned that the queen mother had burned his letter and said he would use Robert Arryn’s life to weaken the alliance between the North and the Vale.

Gary negotiated with Robert Arryn and Yohn Royce for the Vale’s allegiance, refusing to marry Arya to Robert and offering Yohn a Small Council seat instead. The Vale’s support was arranged through Yohn, while Gary continued planning to deal with Baelish later.

• Tyrion told Gary that Robert Arryn had arrived with the Vale’s army and urged him to receive the young duke; Gary ordered Baelish watched but not assassinated yet.
• Gary told Yohn Royce that Arya would not marry Robert and offered Yohn a Small Council seat until Robert came of age.
• Robert Arryn demanded that Tyrion become his personal fool and perform pig-riding jousts in exchange for the Vale’s allegiance.
• Gary assigned Yohn to correct Robert’s habits and persuade the Vale lords, then gave him a Valyrian steel dagger as a token of trust.
• Yohn led Robert away and promised to find him other fools, while Robert continued demanding to see Tyrion joust on a pig.

Tyrion freed Jaime and spoke with him about Cersei, their family, and the North's plans to attack the Crownlands. He revealed that the Vale would join the campaign, then asked Jaime what he thought the northern lords intended to do with him.

• Tyrion freed Jaime from the stake and, with Podrick's help, took him outside to relieve himself before returning him to the tent.
• Jaime asked Tyrion about his gilded hand, and Tyrion let slip that they would reach King's Landing before warning him to remain a prisoner.
• Tyrion and Jaime discussed Cersei's suspicions, her relationship with other men, and Jaime's continued loyalty to her.
• Podrick fed Jaime, and Tyrion told him that dragons and the Vale's troops would support the North's advance on the Crownlands.
• Tyrion asked Jaime what he thought the northern lords wanted to do with him.

Tyrion urged Jaime to stay alive and reveal Tommen and Myrcella's parentage so they could be spared, but Jaime did not trust Luke Stark or answer him. Meanwhile, Arianne Martell's party learned that Luke Stark was in the Riverlands and decided to change course to meet him sooner.

• Jaime asked Tyrion to protect Tommen and Myrcella, but Tyrion said their royal claims made their safety difficult.
• Tyrion advised Jaime to live and reveal the children's parentage, promising to seek Luke Stark's mercy for them, but Jaime remained silent.
• Tyene Sand learned in Tarth that the North had conquered the Riverlands, defeated Jaime's army, and captured him alive.
• Arianne chose to let the Martells' identities be exposed and pursue an alliance with Luke Stark, despite Tyene's warning about Kevan Lannister.

Gary planned the North and Vale armies’ campaign through the Crownlands while Davos sought an Iron Bank loan in Pentos. After meeting the bank’s envoy, Naho Dimittis, Davos faced questions about Pentos’s ties to the North and its White Dragon.

• Gary assigned Maidenpool to his own forces, Duskendale to the Vale lords, and Rosby as a later target on the march toward King's Landing.
• Tysha received Gary’s letter and told Davos that the Iron Bank’s fleet would leave for King's Landing in three days.
• Tysha sent Martina and Louise to escort Davos to the harbor, where he met the Iron Bank envoy, Naho Dimittis.
• Naho asked Davos about Pentos’s White Dragon, Tysha’s ice magic, and the rumors that Pentos was subordinate to the North.
• Davos denied that Pentos was a dependency of the North, warning himself that an open alliance could provoke the other Free Cities.