Chapter Summaries

Redd considered the possibility of breeding more Titan Dragons while King Jaehaerys returned to King's Landing and intervened in the succession struggle to support Viserys. His efforts deepened the rifts with Alysanne and Rhaenys, and he went to speak with Rhaenys alone.

• Redd imagined asking King Ghidorah to produce more offspring, and King Ghidorah sensed danger without knowing why.
• Ellard met Corlys, left frustrated by another empty promise, and agreed to persuade Redd to support Laenor.
• Corlys told Rhaenys about his arrangements with Ellard and Redd, and their argument nearly turned into a sword fight.
• King Jaehaerys returned secretly to King's Landing and sent Otto Hightower to secure the great houses' support for Viserys.
• Queen Alysanne rejected Jaehaerys's justification for excluding Rhaenys and Laenor from the succession, and Jaehaerys went to Rhaenys alone.

Jaehaerys tried to contain the succession dispute by urging Rhaenys to restrain Corlys, while Redd prepared to use the Great Council to secure his position. The council convened with Redd and King Ghidorah drawing attention, and Redd ignored attempts by the Kingsguard to stop them.

• Jaehaerys met privately with Rhaenys and urged her to keep Corlys from escalating the conflict, citing the threat from Redd.
• Rhaenys agreed to try to restrain Corlys while maintaining her support for him, and both she and Jaehaerys left their conversation uneasy.
• After learning the Great Council would meet the next day, Redd gathered intelligence through Ellard and reconsidered his strategy.
• Jaehaerys worried that Redd could gain House Stark's support and hoped Viserys would appease them.
• At the Great Council, Redd arrived with King Ghidorah, ignored objections from the lords and Kingsguard, and made Ellard uneasy by defying the king's guards.

As the Great Council began, Redd drew noble scrutiny while Corlys tried to win support for Laenor. The seating revealed that Viserys had more backing, leaving Corlys furious at Jaehaerys’s political maneuvering and Redd doubtful Laenor could still win.

• Ellard investigated Redd’s background and considered how to use his influence at the Great Council.
• Nobles questioned Redd about his ties to House Targaryen, while Redd recognized their curiosity and chose to tread carefully.
• Corlys introduced Laenor to Redd, whose casual treatment of the boy embarrassed Corlys and showed he could not easily be swayed.
• Jaehaerys arrived, and the nobles took seats that revealed stronger support for Viserys than for Laenor.
• Corlys realized Jaehaerys had manipulated the support behind the scenes and resolved to reconsider his strategy.
• Ellard asked Redd whether Laenor still had a chance, and Redd said only abnormal circumstances could make victory possible.

After Viserys became the sole heir to the Iron Throne, Redd looked for a way to turn Corlys and Rhaenys's anger into civil war. He offered Ellard the chance to hatch a dragon for House Stark, leaving Ellard stunned and tempted by the prospect.

• Corlys lost the succession struggle as Viserys became the overwhelming choice, and Corlys felt guilty that he had failed Laenor.
• King Jaehaerys proposed barring women and their male descendants from inheriting the Iron Throne, deepening Rhaenys's and Corlys's grievances.
• Redd considered how to use their anger to start a civil war, but decided to approach Ellard first with an offer.
• Redd took Ellard to a tavern and proposed cooperation in return for helping him achieve his ambitions in the North.
• Redd offered to help hatch a dragon for House Stark, and Ellard spilled his liquor in shock before asking whether Redd could really do it.

Redd forced Ellard to accept a Dragon Egg and support Corlys and Rhaenys in starting a civil war within House Targaryen. Ellard left with the egg, fearful of Redd and uncertain whether he could fulfill the demand.

• Redd offered Ellard dragons in exchange for House Stark’s support and loyalty, but Ellard initially refused.
• After Redd raised the offer to five dragons, Ellard agreed to help but rejected swearing allegiance and asked whether Redd wanted a civil war.
• Redd confirmed he wanted a brutal conflict involving as many nobles as possible, and King Ghidorah blocked Ellard from leaving.
• Redd threatened Ellard into cooperating, then gave him a Dragon Egg as a deposit and ordered him to support Corlys and Rhaenys in starting a civil war.
• Ellard accepted the egg and left without being stopped by King Ghidorah, increasingly wary of Redd.

After Ellard agreed to encourage Corlys and Rhaenys to rebel, Corlys approached Redd with a marriage proposal to bind their interests. Redd refused to marry into Corlys's family, and Rhaenys then asked whether he was interested in her or Laena.

• Ellard decided to follow Redd's plan and sound out Corlys about rebelling against King Jaehaerys.
• Redd fed the three dragons and began fitting a specially made saddle onto Ehm.
• Corlys asked Redd to marry Laena, and Redd agreed before learning that Corlys expected him to marry into the family.
• Redd firmly rejected Corlys's demand, and Corlys kicked over the saddle before leaving in anger.
• Rhaenys asked Redd what Corlys had proposed, then asked whether Redd had other thoughts about her or Laena.
• Redd said that Rhaenys had more charm than her daughter because Laena had not yet developed.

Redd refused Rhaenys and Viserys’s attempts to involve him in House Targaryen’s plans, while Queen Alysanne’s death ended Corlys and Rhaenys’s hopes of taking the Iron Throne. Redd left King’s Landing for Maidenpool, where his arrival on dragonback terrified the city.

• Rhaenys asked Redd why he wanted to stay in Westeros, and he said he needed magical energy and asked whether she would give him Dragonstone.
• Viserys tried to propose a marriage between Redd and Rhaenyra, but Redd rejected him and climbed onto Black Dragon Ehm.
• Queen Alysanne died, and Ellard returned Redd’s dragon egg as Corlys and Rhaenys lost hope of challenging Viserys.
• Corlys resigned as Master of Ships and returned to Driftmark, while Redd left King’s Landing with his three dragons.
• King Jaehaerys warned Viserys not to let Redd gain power or the support of lords, especially in Dorne.
• Redd flew to Maidenpool on his great dragon, frightening the city’s inhabitants.

Redd seized Maidenpool after Earl Mooton refused to surrender it, using his three dragons to destroy the defenses and crush resistance. Vyris and Manfryd Mooton submitted, and Redd left them in charge of governing the town under his authority.

• Earl Mooton told Redd that the Maidenpool offered by King Jaehaerys was the old city, then refused to give up the town.
• Redd ordered his three dragons to attack, killing Earl Mooton, destroying the gates and walls, and devastating Maidenpool.
• Vyris and Manfryd learned of the defeat and decided House Mooton had to submit to Redd to survive.
• Vyris gave Redd a detailed account of Maidenpool's harbor, trade, and resources.
• Redd chose to keep House Mooton in power and ordered Vyris and Manfryd to govern Maidenpool for him, threatening them against betrayal.

Redd consolidated his control over Maidenpool before riding north to Winterfell to collect on Ellard’s agreement. As Ellard prepared to receive him, he worried about Redd’s power and the king’s willingness to use him.

• Redd recruited loyal landless knights and formed a fifteen-man elite unit while leaving Vyris in charge of Maidenpool under surveillance and threat.
• After Redd departed, Vyris secretly sought Vaeserys’s help in turning King Jaehaerys against Redd, and Vaeserys considered petitioning the king to act.
• King Jaehaerys reacted bitterly to House Mooton’s fate but had Viserys prepare a letter of condolence, while accepting that his plan to have the Mootons watch Redd had failed.
• Redd rode his dragon north to Winterfell, intending to make Ellard honor their agreement.
• Ellard ordered a lavish welcome and waited with Benjen and the guards, uneasy after hearing of Earl Mooton’s death and the king’s muted response.

Redd visited Ellard at his castle, received the promised books and maps, but failed to persuade him to join his proposal. He flew north toward the Lands of Always Winter and, after consulting the maps, camped with his dragons in the Wolfswood.

• Redd arrived at Ellard's castle on his dragon, and Ellard welcomed him and hosted him in the hall.
• Ellard gave Redd the materials he had promised about the Lands of Always Winter, then dismissed the servants and guards so they could speak privately.
• Redd asked Ellard to accept his proposal, but Ellard refused to risk House Stark in what he called a reckless gamble, so Redd departed.
• Redd flew north with his three dragons, enduring the bitter cold as he studied Ellard's maps and books about the lands beyond the Wall.
• Redd realized he had reached the Wolfswood as night fell and landed there to camp, while King Ghidorah raced around excitedly.

King Ghidorah attacked the Direwolf pack and defeated its Wolf King, who revealed himself as the skinchanger Xiyuan. Xiyuan told Redd that the Seer wanted to meet him, and Redd demanded to know where the Seer was before following Xiyuan.

• King Ghidorah flew at the Direwolf pack and slaughtered the fleeing wolves after defeating the Wolf King.
• The Wolf King scratched “Spare me” into the ground, then offered Redd “friendship” in exchange for his life.
• Redd recognized that the Wolf King was a skinchanger, and the Wolf King transformed into a humanoid creature named Xiyuan.
• Xiyuan told Redd that the Seer wanted to meet him because he was curious about him.
• Redd angrily asked where the Seer was, and Xiyuan pointed the way and led him onward.

Redd met the Greenseer at the weirwood and demanded to be taught magic, but the Greenseer refused. After King Ghidorah killed Xiyuan, Redd cut down the weirwood and left, while a snow bear later gathered Xiyuan’s remains.

• Redd touched the weirwood and spoke with the Greenseer, who said Redd’s arrival had changed Westeros’s prophecies.
• Redd demanded magic and threatened Xiyuan, then pressed the Greenseer to teach him how to steal magical energy from the gods.
• The Greenseer refused to teach Redd, warning that he needed proper guidance, so Redd ordered King Ghidorah to kill Xiyuan.
• The Greenseer warned Redd that the gods were watching before vanishing, and Redd cut down the weirwood and left with the wolf carcasses stored in his system.
• A snow bear emerged after Redd left and gathered Xiyuan’s remains.

Redd crossed the Wall and searched Thenn Valley for White Walkers and wights, but found only Thenn settlements and rumors of mysteriously vanishing corpses. After learning about the disappearances, he left with a plan to draw out the White Walkers, only to be ambushed by five Thenns demanding his belongings.

• Redd flew north with his dragons, overcame their fear of the ice magic, and crossed the Wall.
• Redd searched the Fist of the First Men and Thenn Valley, finding Wildlings and Thenn settlements but no White Walkers or wights.
• Redd questioned the Thenns, and an elder told him that human corpses had long been disappearing without leaving bones behind.
• Redd planned to wait near fresh corpses to lure out the White Walkers, but five Thenns surrounded him and demanded his gear.
• Redd stayed calm and assessed the five men as they threatened him.

Redd used the five Thenns he killed as bait to attract White Walkers, waiting with his dragons until the corpses rose as Wights. He tracked them with King Ghidorah through the night, then watched them bury themselves in the snow at dawn, with no sign of other Wights or anything unusual nearby.

• Redd killed five Thenns, stored their bodies, and arranged them on an open stretch of snow as bait.
• Redd waited seven nights with his dragons, then used his mental link with King Ghidorah to learn that the bodies had crawled free and headed northwest.
• Redd rode King Ghidorah after the five corpses while leaving Black Dragon Ehm and Red Dragon Aegon behind.
• Redd recognized the walking corpses as the five Thenns he had killed, their sword wounds still visible.
• At dawn, the Wights buried themselves in the snow and became motionless, while Redd found no other Wights or unusual structures in the area.

Redd followed a growing horde of wights into the Lands of Always Winter, where he discovered an immense army guarded by White Walkers and the Night's King. Rather than risk attacking the army directly, he ambushed smaller groups of wights with his dragons and found they yielded valuable energy points.

• Redd followed five wights into the Frostfangs as more wights joined them, and their numbers grew to over a hundred.
• After more than half a month, Redd and King Ghidorah reached the Lands of Always Winter and saw a vast wight army spread across an ice field.
• Redd spotted White Walkers patrolling the army's perimeter and decided against charging the horde, choosing instead to test their response by attacking wights on the route from the Frostfangs.
• Redd ambushed several dozen approaching wights with dragonfire from two of his dragons, burning them to ashes.
• Redd saw his energy points rise and learned that every three wights provided one energy point.

Redd and his dragons ambushed a column of Wights, killed their White Walker commander, and claimed his Ice Spear before fleeing a larger horde into the mountains. As Redd slept, the Night's King entered his dream and confronted him.

• Redd ordered Aegon and Ehm to attack a column of Wights while he and King Ghidorah ambushed its White Walker commander.
• King Ghidorah killed the White Walker with a Gravity Beam, and Redd took the Ice Spear from its body.
• After Aegon and Ehm destroyed most of the Wights, Redd spotted a great horde of White Walkers and rode King Ghidorah into the mountains to escape.
• Redd studied the Ice Spear, checked that he had 3,751 Energy Points, and fell asleep on King Ghidorah's back.
• The Night's King entered Redd's dream, where Redd saw him approaching and realized he was facing the leader of the White Walkers and Wights.

After waking from a dream of the Night's King, Redd had King Ghidorah destroy the Ice Spear and discovered he could see mysterious white threads connecting dragons and wights. He began studying the threads, suspecting they carried energy from the Night's King to his army and might offer a way to weaken them.

• Redd forced himself awake from a dream of the Night's King and resolved to destroy the Ice Spear.
• Redd failed to break the Ice Spear himself, so King Ghidorah chewed it up and swallowed it; Redd checked its status and found it was fine.
• Redd spent the rest of the night awake, then slept until noon and considered whether to ride a dragon into the wight hordes.
• The Night's King left the seven-cornered altar with White Walkers to search for Redd, but the destroyed spear prevented him from sensing Redd's exact location.
• While feeding the dragons, Redd saw white threads connecting him to them and then observed similar threads running through the wights, which he deduced carried energy from the Night's King.
• Redd returned to his tent and began examining one of the white threads, hoping to find a way to weaken the Night's King and his army.

Redd practiced sensing and controlling magical energy and the white threads before the Night's King led Wights up the lone peak. As the dragons attacked, the Night's King threw an Ice Spear at Aegon, but King Ghidorah caught it in his jaws.

• Redd struggled to control the magical energy and white threads, gradually learning to sense their flow despite the mental exhaustion.
• King Ghidorah alerted Redd that Wights were climbing the lone peak, and Redd spotted the Night's King among them.
• Redd ordered King Ghidorah to watch for the Mystic Ice Spear, then mounted Ehm as the three dragons flew down and burned the Wights.
• The Night's King noticed the dead Wights' magical energy was disappearing and blamed Redd, then prepared to attack the dragons.
• The Night's King hurled an Ice Spear at Aegon, but one of King Ghidorah's heads caught it before it struck.

Redd ordered his three dragons to attack the Night's King before he could complete a powerful spell, but their combined dragonfire and lightning failed to kill him. The Night's King answered by bringing down enormous sheets of snow that forced the dragons to the ground.

• King Ghidorah crunched up the Night's King's spear of arcane ice, while the Night's King began preparing a deadlier attack.
• Redd noticed ice forming on Black Dragon Ehm's and Red Dragon Aegon's wings and ordered all three dragons to strike the Night's King.
• The dragons blasted the Night's King's position with dragonfire and golden lightning, destroying nearby Wights and White Walkers and melting the ice and snow.
• Redd saw that the Night's King had survived with only cracked armor and ordered the dragons to pull up and gain altitude.
• The Night's King darkened the sky and sent enormous masses of snow crashing down, forcing the three dragons to the ground.

Redd fought the Night's King while trying to free the dragons from the snow and ice, then used magic to wound and defeat him. The Night's King fled, and as Redd was surrounded by White Walkers and Wights, a familiar golden figure arrived.

• The Night's King compacted the snow into ice to trap Redd and the dragons, but King Ghidorah used golden lightning to help Redd break free.
• Redd attacked the Night's King to buy the dragons time, but the Ice Sword shattered his weapon and ordinary blades barely hurt the Night's King.
• Redd infused a greatsword with magic and used it to injure the Night's King, eventually severing his sword-wielding right hand.
• The Night's King fled, leaving his severed arm and Ice Sword behind, and ordered the White Walkers and Wights to stop Redd.
• Redd fought the surging Wights until a familiar golden figure arrived.