Chapter Summaries

Gary and Teresa stole Aolixilade’s body from the Temple of Light, prompting R'hllor to vow to find Nawija before she grew stronger. In King’s Landing, pregnant Margaery faced Aegon VI’s invasion after her army was destroyed, just as Daenerys and a little girl appeared before the court.

• Gary explained that the temple murals were sealed treasures and that breaking one would alert R'hllor, then chose to take Aolixilade’s body.
• Gary broke the seal, and he, Teresa, and their three companions used spatial transport to escape with Aolixilade’s body.
• R'hllor returned to the temple, recognized Nawija’s and the Primal Stone’s power, and vowed to find Nawija.
• Maester Jaqen confirmed that Margaery was pregnant, and she chose to remain in King’s Landing while leaving routine governance to the Small Council.
• Aegon VI invaded the Crownlands, and his forces routed Loras Tyrell’s forty thousand troops with the aid of Red Priests and a flying fire snake.
• Daenerys and a little girl appeared before Margaery, Bran, and Willas, and the girl took the king’s seat and asked for reports.

Margaery confronted Gary in search of Luke and discovered she was pregnant. In the Lands of Always Winter, Bingling, Teresa, and Melisandre defeated Aolixilade, and Bingling absorbed her soul before falling asleep.

• Margaery demanded that Gary return her husband, and Gary noticed that she was pregnant.
• After failing to find Nawija, Aolixilade faced Bingling, Teresa, and Melisandre, who arrived through a spatial rift.
• Bingling restored the dragons’ sealed memories and sent them south to support Gary at King’s Landing.
• Teresa and Melisandre restrained Aolixilade while Bingling attacked her, and the fight continued for seven days and nights.
• Bingling killed Aolixilade’s dragon body, then absorbed her fleeing soul after revealing that Aolixilade’s body had already been assimilated.
• Bingling fell into a deep sleep, while Teresa and Melisandre ran toward the Haunted Forest to find her.

Gary arrived at Casterly Rock to destroy the Seven’s septs and draw out the Seven, while Bingling continued devouring Aolixilade’s soul in the Haunted Forest. After Tyrion’s orders sparked uprisings across the Westerlands, Gary confronted the statues in Casterly Rock’s sept.

• A shadowy figure tried to take the Primal Stone from the sleeping Aolixilade, but fled when Melisandre and Teresa approached Bingling.
• The Holy Fire Tribunal, the Giants Cavalry, and forty-one dragons drove the Dothraki, the Golden Company, and the monks back, while the captured soldiers and commanders were rescued.
• Gary teleported to Casterly Rock and revealed himself to Tyrion as Supreme God Gary.
• Gary ordered Tyrion to demolish every sept of the Seven in the Westerlands within a week, and Tyrion sent ravens with the command.
• Ten days later, reports of destroyed septs and uprisings reached Casterly Rock as Tyrion dispatched troops to suppress the Faithful of the Seven.
• Gary entered the sept at Casterly Rock and called on the Seven to come out of hiding.

Gary killed the Father, the Mother, and the Smith at the Sept, then absorbed their divine energy. R'hllor realized the Father had lost his authority and rode south to confront Nawija, while Melisandre and Teresa moved Bingling toward the coast.

• Gary sealed the Sept, killed the Smith with Dragonfire, and used Aolixilade's powers against the Father and the Mother.
• Gary killed the Father and the Mother, shattered their statues, and absorbed the energy of all three Seven.
• R'hllor passed through the Haunted Forest without noticing Melisandre and Teresa, who then decided to move Bingling east toward the coast.
• R'hllor found signs of Aolixilade and Primal Stone Energy in the Lands of Always Winter, but turned back to seek Aolixilade and learn what had happened.
• R'hllor sensed that the Father had lost his authority, realized Nawija had devoured him, and rode south to face Nawija.

Gary prepared for war against R'hllor, ordered his allies to attack her followers, and entered Bingling’s consciousness to help her defeat Aolixilade. After Aolixilade dissolved into Bingling, Gary sent Teresa, Melisandre, and Bingling to destroy the Red God Temples while he kept R'hllor occupied.

• Gary told Tyrion that the Seven were dead and ordered the deaths of anyone who still clung to them.
• Gary said goodbye to Margaery and instructed Daenerys to target the Red Priests in the Stormlands while he fought R'hllor.
• Gary arrived on Skane Island, learned that R'hllor had gone north, and entered Bingling’s consciousness to check on her battle with Aolixilade.
• Gary used lightning to bring down the Black Dragon, and Aolixilade urged him to defeat R'hllor before dissolving into Bingling.
• Gary ordered Bingling, Teresa, and Melisandre to destroy every Red God Temple in Essos while he kept R'hllor occupied.

Gary attacked R'hllor at the Temple of Light after claiming the Golden Armor, while Daenerys led forty Dragons to Storm's End and defeated its Red Priests. After the castle surrendered and its nobles tried to seize her when the Dragons departed, Daenerys killed the rebels with white lightning.

• Gary donned the Golden Armor, struck R'hllor with Dragonfire and lightning, then began fighting her outside the Temple of Light.
• Daenerys led forty Dragons into the Stormlands as local lords surrendered and joined the Iron Throne's forces.
• Daenerys battered Storm's End with lightning after its walls repelled the Dragons' fire, then ordered the Dragons and joined the fight against the Red Priests.
• The Dragons and Daenerys slaughtered the Red Priests, and the castle's commanders surrendered while handing over Aegon VI.
• After Bingling summoned the Dragons away, Storm's End's nobles tried to seize Daenerys, but she killed those who rose against her with white lightning.

Margaery was abducted and delivered to Euron as a bargaining chip against Luke Stark, while forty dragons attacked Red God Temples across Essos. The temple attacks sparked a human coalition, bringing the three goddesses into battle and starting a war between humans and gods.

• A dark figure abducted Margaery from her guarded bedchamber in the Red Keep and carried her to Euron in Oldtown.
• Euron ordered the maesters to cast a hundred cannons to prepare for Luke Stark's dragons, threatening them when they resisted.
• The dark figure revealed itself as the Many-Faced God, warned Euron that Margaery was a god carrying another god, and named her their most important bargaining chip.
• Euron sent Margaery to the dungeon under strict guard after the Many-Faced God departed.
• The forty dragons destroyed Red God Temples across the Nine Free Cities and continued deeper into Essos, while cities organized forces to resist them.
• The three goddesses appeared on the battlefield against the human coalition, formally beginning a war between humans and gods.

Daenerys investigated Margaery’s abduction and concluded that the Many-Faced God had likely taken her to Oldtown, while she left Tysha in charge of King’s Landing and set out to rescue her. At the Temple of Light, Gary and R'hllor continued their evenly matched battle as R'hllor revealed her borrowed body would soon collapse and insisted that she and Gary had already become one.

• Daenerys learned that a faceless shadow had abducted Margaery and discovered that Maester Jaqen had left King's Landing over a month earlier.
• Tysha reasoned that the Many-Faced God and Margaery were probably in Oldtown, where the Drowned God was also present, and urged Daenerys to hurry there.
• Daenerys left Tysha to govern King's Landing and went alone to find Margaery, while Tysha warned her not to act rashly.
• Gary and R'hllor fought for eight days and eight nights, matching each other's attacks as Gary wondered why R'hllor's strength fluctuated with his own.
• R'hllor revealed that her human body could not sustain her consciousness and divine power for long, then declared that she and Gary had already become one as his ice swords tore into her.

Gary fought R'hllor after she revealed she had marked his soul and intended to send him home, but he dragged her into the spatial rift with him. They emerged on the beach where Gary had found the green stone, leaving him wondering if he had returned to his own world while R'hllor lamented her lost power.

• R'hllor revealed she had taken control of Gary through Nawija and began reclaiming Nawija's divine power.
• Gary trapped R'hllor in his dream, but she drained her power back and used a mark on his soul to open a rift home.
• As the rift pulled Gary in, he bound R'hllor's ankle and dragged her through it with him.
• The turbulence of space and time rapidly eroded R'hllor's divine power while Gary escaped most of its effects.
• Gary and R'hllor appeared on a beach where Gary had once found the green stone, and R'hllor complained that nearly all her accumulated power was gone.

Gary and R'hllor arrived in the modern world and agreed to work together to find Nawija, with R'hllor promising to send Gary and his family to Westeros afterward. Gary discovered he could not reach his parents, and he and R'hllor set off to exchange gold for money.

• R'hllor created a body for Gary, and he agreed to help her find Nawija in exchange for her sending him and his family to Westeros.
• Gary used a passerby's phone to call his own number and his parents, but found his number had been reassigned and their numbers suspended.
• Gary realized he had no money, so he led R'hllor to the beach, where she gathered gold from the sand and ocean into a lump.
• After Gary cooled the hot gold, he and R'hllor headed toward the busy shopping streets to cash it in.
• R'hllor admired the modern city and questioned why Gary wanted to return to Westeros, and Gary argued that gods had desires just as mortals did.

Gary and R'hllor traveled to Gary's hometown, where he discovered that his family had sold their homes and gone abroad while he was unconscious. The chapter left them learning from distant relatives that Gary's parents, uncle, and aunt had moved to New York City.

• Gary exchanged R'hllor's gold for cash and bought clothes, phones, and a used car.
• Gary and R'hllor drove for more than thirty hours toward his hometown, then waited until the middle of the night to leave the expressway without attracting traffic police.
• Gary found strangers living in his parents' former house and learned that his parents had sold it to pay his medical bills.
• Gary discovered that his uncle and aunt had also sold their home and that their family had sold its supermarket.
• Gary used R'hllor's power to make distant relatives reveal that his family had gone to New York City and give him a phone number.

Gary and R'hllor flew across the ocean toward New York, but R'hllor attacked the helicopters and fighter jets that pursued them after they reached Country A. Gary abandoned her during the fight, survived his fall through Healing Magic, and fled into the city while R'hllor remained under attack.

• R'hllor transformed into a Dragon and carried Gary out of Huaguo, evading the government’s fighter jets by reaching international waters.
• During the six-day flight, Gary secretly planned to grow stronger and prepare for a confrontation with R'hllor and Nawija.
• After reaching JJS, R'hllor destroyed a television helicopter and ignored Gary’s warning that the military would respond.
• F-22 fighters intercepted R'hllor, and she attacked one with Dragonfire before the others strafed her with their cannons.
• Gary jumped from R'hllor’s back, activated Healing Magic before hitting the ground, and reassembled after landing in an alley.
• Gary discarded his broken phone, took the backpack of cash, and ran away as R'hllor roared amid the attack.

Gary persuaded Liu Bin to drive him from JJS toward New York City, while a wounded red-haired girl searched for him and learned his destination from the restaurant owner’s memories. After killing the owner and two police officers, she drove away in a police car.

• Gary convinced a Chinatown restaurant owner to have Liu Bin drive him to New York City in exchange for his remaining Huaguo yuan.
• Liu Bin told Gary that a dragon had attacked JJS, brought down two planes, and vanished after the military shot it down.
• Liu Bin stopped at a motel for the night, but Gary chose to wait in the car while Liu Bin went out.
• A red-haired girl arrived at the restaurant and magically controlled the owner while asking about Gary and Luke Stark.
• The girl killed the owner and read his memories, discovering that Gary was headed to New York City.
• The girl killed two responding police officers, then took their car and drove away.

After Liu Bin learned that R'hllor had killed his uncle while searching for Gary, Gary revealed his immortality and convinced Liu Bin to keep driving toward New York so he could gather believers and become a god. Meanwhile, R'hllor fought Country A's forces near JJS, and her apparent death unleashed a towering flame giant that was struck by a hypersonic missile.

• Liu Bin learned that an assassin named R'hllor had killed his uncle while looking for Gary, and he aimed his handgun at Gary.
• Gary seized Liu Bin's gun, shot himself in the head, and healed before explaining that he and R'hllor were gods; he persuaded Liu Bin to keep driving and stop at churches so Gary could gain believers' faith.
• R'hllor killed four soldiers near JJS and knocked down an attack helicopter with a rock, prompting Country A's forces to authorize lethal fire.
• An attack helicopter's guns tore R'hllor apart and killed or wounded nearby civilians, but a hundred-meter flame giant rose from the ground and destroyed the helicopter, troops, civilians, and drones around it.
• A hypersonic missile struck the flame giant, and a mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

In Salt Lake City, Gary claimed to be God and demonstrated his healing powers to a church congregation. After he healed boxer Nello Dahl, the video spread online, leaving Gary considering whether to heal more celebrities to draw attention.

• Gary entered a church with Liu Bin, claimed to be God, and let the worshippers beat him before showing them his injuries rapidly heal.
• Gary told the congregation he could cure illnesses and resurrect people who had died within five hours.
• Boxer Nello Dahl challenged Gary to heal the injuries that had forced him to retire, and the priest confirmed Dahl's charitable donations to local churches.
• Gary transferred vitality to Dahl while producing a dazzling light, and Dahl discovered that his arm and ankle injuries had healed.
• Dahl uploaded a video announcing his recovery and plans to return to boxing, and news of Gary spread through Salt Lake City.
• Gary considered healing more celebrities to increase publicity.

Gary built a vast following by performing miracles in Salt Lake City, while R'hllor fled to New York City and confronted Nawija in an attempt to reclaim her divine power. The two goddesses began a covert clash as Gary continued gaining strength elsewhere.

• R'hllor abandoned her physical body, possessed a truck driver, and fled east.
• Gary healed numerous people on live television, drawing followers whose faith strengthened him beyond his previous power.
• Gary blessed Liu Bin with temporary protection from death and warned him to resist offers from influential people.
• R'hllor traveled to New York City to devour Nawija before confronting Gary.
• Nawija sensed R'hllor in New York City, flew to Cui'enbao Park, and challenged her intentions.
• R'hllor and Nawija faced off beside the lake, whose water froze and boiled during their covert contest.

Gary stopped R'hllor from absorbing Nawija, killed her, and helped Nawija recover before opening a rift to Westeros. He left Nawija in charge of his religion and family while he traveled back to Westeros.

• Nawija fought R'hllor as her divine power drained away, but R'hllor melted her ice constructs and weakened her further.
• Gary arrived by helicopter and sealed R'hllor in a bubble with his divine power.
• Gary crushed R'hllor into grains of divine power, then gave those grains to Nawija to restore her vitality.
• Nawija explained how the Divine Body could guide Gary back to Westeros, and Gary opened a spacetime rift after leaving a divine-power marker behind.
• Nawija agreed to join Gary's Divine Kingdom as the God of Honesty and look after his family.
• Gary stored most of his divine power in churches around the world and flew through the rift toward Westeros.

Gary killed the Stranger after the Stranger tried to seize the Divine Body. Meanwhile, Daenerys went to the Arbor to find Margaery and discovered that Euron had assembled thirteen gods of the Many-Faced God to capture her.

• The Stranger tried to take possession of the Divine Body, but Gary seized and killed him, absorbing his divine power.
• Daenerys searched Oldtown for Margaery, and Euron lured her to an abandoned vineyard on the Arbor.
• Euron offered Daenerys to the assembled gods in exchange for letting him keep Margaery.
• The thirteen gods introduced themselves as the Many-Faced God, an organization of Essosi gods led in part by the Stranger.
• The Horse God demanded that Daenerys surrender her Crown, but she refused and challenged the gods to take it.

After learning that Margaery had been abducted, Teresa, Bingling, and Melisandre decided to return to Westeros. On the Arbor, Daenerys and Margaery were cornered by Euron and the other gods, while Gary arrived with the women and forty-one dragons to confront them.

• Melisandre told Teresa and Bingling that Daenerys suspected the Stranger had abducted Margaery, and the three women agreed to suspend their purge and return to Westeros for three days.
• Euron freed Margaery from his squid double and threatened her while Daenerys fought thirteen enemy gods on the burning Arbor.
• The Shadowcat rescued Margaery from Euron but was killed by the giant squid, and Daenerys was badly wounded while trying to protect her.
• Euron and the horse-headed man argued over who would claim Margaery and Daenerys, then learned that the Stranger had died.
• Gary sensed that Daenerys's mark was on the Arbor, and Teresa, Bingling, Melisandre, and forty-one dragons joined him above Oldtown.
• Gary told the women to accompany him to the Arbor and finish off the remnants of the Old Gods.

Gary defeated the gods on the Arbor, killed the Drowned God, and set out to eliminate the remaining gods. Five years later, Jon Stark arrived in King's Landing and learned from Tyrion Lannister that King Luke Stark had not summoned him.

• Gary rescued the wounded Daenerys and Margaery as his Divine Weapons destroyed the gods and caused the Arbor to sink.
• Gary sent Bingling and the other women to King's Landing, warning them that Margaery was about to give birth.
• Gary froze the Drowned God in the sea, wounded him, and killed him with a sword strike.
• After absorbing the Drowned God's divine power, Gary traveled to Essos to hunt the gods who had avoided the war.
• Five years later, Jon Stark arrived in King's Landing and met Tyrion Lannister, who revealed that he, not King Luke Stark, had summoned Jon.