Chapter Summaries

Redd pursued the Night's King into the Lands of Always Winter but found an enormous Seven-Cornered Mystic Ice Altar blocked by a barrier that only stopped living beings. He returned to the Frostfangs to rest and planned to seek a Greenseer, while a Greenseer in the Three-Eyed Raven's cave sensed a major event approaching.

• Redd and the dragons fought the Wights from the air, but the Night's King escaped and remained out of sight.
• Redd followed the Wights into the Lands of Always Winter and discovered the Seven-Cornered Mystic Ice Altar.
• Redd tested the invisible barrier and found that Dragonfire, lightning, and a thrown sword passed through, but he could not enter.
• Redd retreated with the dragons to the Twin Bloodfang Mountains and resolved to seek help from the Children of the Forest's Greenseers.
• A Greenseer in the Three-Eyed Raven's cave sensed an imminent major event.

The Greenseer warned the Red Priestess that Redd was near the Lands of Always Winter, then risked searching for him to prevent the Cold God from taking him and the dragons. While Redd recovered in the Frostfangs and learned basic magic, the Greenseer found him, and Redd revealed he could see his spiritual consciousness.

• The Greenseer told the Red Priestess that Redd was at the northwestern end of the Frostfangs and that he could not reach him there, so she decided to try herself.
• The Greenseer returned to the Haunted Forest, then risked sending his consciousness into the Lands of Always Winter to find Redd.
• Redd treated the dragons’ injuries and spent five days studying magic and training until he could conjure a small flame, though he remained unsure how to increase his magical reserves.
• The Greenseer found Redd and confirmed that he and the dragons were safe from the Night’s King.
• Redd saw the Greenseer’s spiritual consciousness without a weirwood, and the Greenseer asked how he had awakened his magical power.

The Greenseer warned Redd that his dragon had angered gods opposed to the Cold God, then explained that the Seven-Cornered Mystic Ice Altar connected to the Cold God's divine realm and required a ritual and sacrifice. Redd asked how to strengthen his magic, and the Greenseer refused to explain how to steal divine power, leaving him to find the way himself.

• The Greenseer told Redd that someone wanted him to leave the Lands of Always Winter because his dragon had displeased gods opposed to the Cold God.
• Redd asked about the Seven-Cornered Mystic Ice Altar, and the Greenseer revealed that it bridged their world and the Cold God's divine realm and required a special ritual and sacrifice.
• The Greenseer warned Redd to use his dragon carefully, while Redd asked how to build magical power and strengthen his spells.
• The Greenseer said magical power required firm faith and stronger spells required drawing on the authority of the gods.
• Redd asked how to steal the gods' magical power, but the Greenseer said he could not provide the method and told him that divine power and authority came from faith.

Redd moved onto the frozen plains to avoid the Night's King and began trying to seize the Cold God's power, but the altar's barrier blocked his way. He discovered that the Night's King's severed arm could raise the dead as wights, and the Night's King took control of them and turned them against him.

• Redd let the Greenseer leave after promising not to harm him unless provoked, then packed his tent and moved to the frozen plains.
• Redd searched for wights but found that the Night's King had hidden his army, so he waited for new wights to arrive.
• Redd watched the wights pass through the barrier surrounding the Seven-Cornered Mystic Ice Altar and failed to find a way around it.
• Redd began studying how to steal the Cold God's power, using the Night's King's severed arm to sense the god's incomplete death divinity.
• Redd returned to Thenn Valley and used the severed arm to raise several dead Wildlings as wights.
• The Night's King sensed Redd using his power, seized control of the new wights, and ordered them to attack him.

Redd exploited the Night's King's severed arm and his own Ice Magic to turn battlefields into sources of Energy Points, escalating his attacks until he destroyed an entire Wildling tribe. He left to seek more tribes, unaware that Ice Magic was eroding his emotions and drawing him toward darkness.

• Redd used the Night's King's severed arm to resurrect dead Wildlings as Wights, then had his dragons burn them, earning the name "messenger of death."
• Redd discovered that killing and resurrecting the dead earned him more Energy Points, learned Ice Magic, and began raising Wights under his own control.
• Redd sent his Wights to attack a Wildling tribe, then used the Night's King's arm to raise the fallen as more Wights, turning the battle into a cycle that devastated the tribe.
• Redd ordered Black Dragon Ehm and Red Dragon Aegon to burn the Wights and the ruined tribe to ashes.
• Redd left in search of more Wildling tribes as Ice Magic quietly dulled his emotions and changed his regard for life.

Redd’s growing power and slaughter alarmed the Greenseer, who sought the Red Priestess’s help to free him from the cold god’s influence. The Red Priestess tracked Redd down with a ruby intended to strengthen his fire magic, and confronted him as he led his forces toward another Wildling tribe.

• Redd’s magic and Energy Points surged as he resurrected more Wights and destroyed Wildling tribes, spreading fear among the remaining tribes.
• The Greenseer realized the cold god’s power was corrupting Redd and feared he would become another Night’s King, so he went to find the Red Priestess.
• After hearing the Greenseer’s warning, the Red Priestess placed a ruby in a brazier and planned to use its fire magic to counter the cold god’s influence in Redd.
• The Red Priestess and the Greenseer traveled toward Redd, while Ehm and Aegon sensed his troubling changes and King Ghidorah relished the slaughter.
• The Red Priestess found Redd leading dragons and Wights toward another Wildling tribe, and Redd chose to hear what she had to say.

Melisandre gave Redd a ruby meant to shield him from the Cold God's magic, but its fire awakened a suspiciously familiar power in him. Redd paid 500 Energy Points to remove the Cold God's influence, discovered two new abilities, and pressed Melisandre for an answer about the Lord of Light's power over magma and volcanoes.

• Melisandre introduced herself as a priestess of R'hllor and gave Redd a ruby that she said could protect him from the Cold God's magic.
• The ruby's heat reminded Redd of the scorching sensation he had felt after leaving the Valyria Ruins, and he crushed the gem in anger as its flame spread across his hand.
• Redd sensed that the Cold God's influence was affecting his mind, checked his status panel, and paid 500 Energy Points to heal the condition.
• After regaining his composure, Redd discovered that he had gained the powers Resurrection of the Dead and Ice and Fire Control.
• Redd asked Melisandre whether the Lord of Light could control underground magma and volcanic eruptions, and she replied that the god's power could change everything in the world.

Redd killed Melisandre after suspecting the Lord of Light had tried to kill him, then forced the Greenseer to explain the feud between the Lord of Light and the Cold God. He learned that the gods had agreed to settle their conflict through chosen representatives, leaving him caught in their struggle.

• Redd suspected the Lord of Light had attacked him and decided to kill Melisandre to test his instincts.
• Redd's three dragons burned Melisandre to ashes before she could explain herself.
• Redd summoned the Greenseer and demanded everything he knew about the Cold God and the Lord of Light.
• The Greenseer explained that the Red God had damaged the Cold God's godhead, and that other gods had mediated a compromise in which their representatives would struggle on their behalf.
• The Greenseer said the Cold God sought to destroy most life and restore his lost authority, while the Red God had failed in an attempt to raise a demigod to replace him.

After learning more about the war between the Cold God and the Red God, Redd destroyed the Wights, fashioned the Night's King's severed arm into an Ice Spear, and traveled with his dragons to a remote peak. He spent 10,000 energy points to implant the Titan Bloodline into the Red Dragon Aegon, who transformed into a Titan Demon Dragon and ended the chapter unconscious.

• Redd sent the Greenseer away, then burned the Wights and noticed that his magic had increased.
• Redd froze the Night's King's severed arm into an Ice Spear and checked his energy points, finding he had 12,571.
• Redd flew with the Red Dragon Aegon to a solitary peak near the Fist of the First Men and set up camp.
• Redd spent 10,000 energy points to implant the Titan Bloodline into the Red Dragon Aegon, whose body reshaped amid intense heat and pain.
• After about an hour, Aegon collapsed unconscious, and Redd's system panel identified him as a 160-meter Titan Demon Dragon.

Redd kept vigil over Aegon after the successful Titan Bloodline implantation and studied magic while he waited for the dragon to awaken. In Asshai, a woman emerged from flames and used her blood to reveal an image of Redd reading in his tent.

• Redd examined Aegon's transformed body and confirmed that the dragon's scales had become exceptionally strong.
• Redd waited through the night, but Aegon remained unconscious.
• Redd studied magic books and discovered that most of their instructions were fraudulent, useless, or impractical.
• In Asshai, a naked copper-haired woman emerged from a golden brazier in the Many-Faced God Temple.
• The woman cut her finger and dripped blood into the flames, which showed her an image of Redd reading in his tent.

A mysterious observer watched Redd before he sensed eyes on him and searched his surroundings, while the slaughter of Wildling tribes led Roros Borrelly to fear a White Walker attack and ready the Night's Watch. Unaware of the alarm he had caused, Redd studied Valyrian magic on a mountaintop and learned how blood and fire magic drew on divine and earthly power as he waited for the dragon to awaken.

• A woman watched Redd in a vision, extinguished the flames, and anticipated meeting him again.
• Redd sensed someone watching him in his tent, searched outside, and returned to his books when he found no one.
• The surviving Wildling tribes hid in fear after more than a dozen tribes vanished, and the Haunted Forest grew quiet.
• Roros Borrelly concluded that White Walkers might have destroyed the missing tribes and ordered the Night's Watch to prepare for battle and search the forest.
• Redd continued waiting for the dragon on a mountaintop and mastered the magical books he had taken from the Valyria Ruins.
• Redd learned that Valyrian blood and fire magic developed from fire magic and the use of dragons, and that the Valyrians drew power from underground fire veins.

Redd considered whether the Red God had manipulated the rise and destruction of Valyria, then reflected on the limits of his own dragon bloodline. Aegon awakened, and Redd helped him adjust to his body and begin flying.

• Redd suspected the Red God had cultivated the Valyrians as a weapon against the Cold God, then spared House Targaryen to oppose the Night's King.
• Redd considered how dragon bloodline purity and magical power determined access to the Valyrians' inherited knowledge.
• Aegon roared from outside the tent, and Redd rushed out to find the newly awakened dragon struggling to stand with his wings spread.
• Redd mentally guided Aegon to fold his wings and stabilize himself, with Ehm helping watch over him.
• Redd carefully guided Aegon through his first flight, where Aegon initially struggled to balance and steer with his new foreclaws.

Aegon mastered a faster flying posture, and Redd planned to use Wights to attack the Wildlings while blaming the Night's King. His first test against a Thenn tribe failed to break its defenses, which were reinforced by the Night's Watch and dragonglass weapons.

• Aegon perfected his flight and returned to the mountaintop, while Ehm landed tired and sought comfort from Redd.
• Redd fed his companions and decided to resume their mission the next day, using Wights in a frontal assault and dragons to secretly handle the cleanup.
• Redd planned to blame the massacre on the Night's King, who remained unaware of the scheme while recovering on his icy throne.
• Redd turned more than a hundred Direwolves into Wights and sent them to attack the Thenns' sentries to test the tribe's strength.
• The Thenns and nearby Night's Watch members, armed with dragonglass, killed the Direwolves and repelled the assault with few casualties.

Redd raised an army of revived beasts and used it to attack a Wildling tribe, then turned the resulting deaths into a trap for more Wildlings and Night's Watch men. As hundreds of corpses rapidly became Wights and a new battle began, Redd watched from hiding and decided to use the Night King's power again for more Energy Points.

• Redd had King Ghidorah kill a Snow Bear, revived it as a Wight, and spent two days gathering a hundred Snow Bears and three Woolly Mammoths.
• Redd led his Wights and giant beasts against the Cannibal Tribe, killing many Wildlings and Night's Watch men while allowing some Wildlings to escape and spread news of the attack.
• Redd left the battlefield's corpses to transform naturally, but by the following evening hundreds had risen as Wights.
• Redd lured other Wildlings and Night's Watch men to the battlefield, where they clashed with the newly risen Wights as he watched from hiding and gained Energy Points from the deaths.
• Redd decided to draw on the Night King's power again, unwilling to miss the chance to gain more Energy Points.

Redd exploited the Night's King's power to create wights while the Night's Watch prepared to defend the Wall. As King Jaehaerys's health failed, he passed House Targaryen's legacy and the Dragon Dreams to Viserys, who became king and called his first council.

• Redd used the Night's King's power to overwhelm a force of Wildlings and Night's Watchmen, then discovered he could skim power from the magic used to raise wights.
• The Night's Watch and Wildlings joined forces against the wights, but the Lord Commander decided to stop aiding the Wildlings and defend the Wall instead.
• The Lord Commander sent word of the wights to King Jaehaerys, whose condition worsened after he received the news.
• King Jaehaerys gave Viserys the Ice and Fire Blade and told him of Daenys's and Aegon's Dragon Dreams.
• Viserys accepted the crown and called his first council as king.

Vaeserys sent Daemon and Rhaenys to the Wall and ordered Ellard to send Winterfell’s troops, while Redd confronted the Cold God among the resurrected Wights. The Cold God revealed that the Red God had placed part of her death authority inside Redd, then offered to resurrect him as her servant in exchange for helping destroy the world.

• Vaeserys ordered Daemon and Rhaenys to fly to the Wall and warned Daemon to beware of Redd and his dragons.
• Ellard received pleas for reinforcements from the Night's Watch and Vaeserys, prepared to send troops, and wondered whether Redd’s map of the Lands of Always Winter was connected to the White Walkers.
• Redd saw the Cold God teleport in front of him, and King Ghidorah, Aegon, and Ehm moved to protect him.
• The Cold God told Redd that the Red God had placed part of her death authority inside him so she could kill him and reclaim it.
• The Cold God offered to resurrect Redd as her divine servant and promised to rank him above the Night's King if he helped destroy the world.
• Redd asked whether his death was negotiable, and the Cold God questioned why he resisted dying and gaining near-eternal life.

Redd and the three dragons fought the Cold God long enough to escape with the Ice Spear and give Ehm and Aegon time to flee. The Cold God remained behind and performed a mysterious incantation as her enormous shell of ice and snow began to break apart.

• Redd challenged the Cold God, who warned that the opposing ice and fire magic in his body would eventually kill him.
• The Cold God attacked with freezing magic, but King Ghidorah and the two other dragons countered with a Gravity Beam and dragonfire.
• Redd judged the Cold God’s cracked icy barrier and chose to retreat rather than continue fighting her.
• Redd took the Ice Spear and escaped on King Ghidorah while Ehm and Aegon flew away; King Ghidorah’s next Gravity Beam struck the Cold God’s growing snow vortex but could not break through it.
• The Cold God recited a mysterious incantation inside the snowball, which expanded into a huge shell before suddenly cracking apart.

Redd and the three dragons fought the pursuing Cold God and his ice dragon in an aerial battle, damaging the dragon and cracking the Cold God’s armor. The Cold God remained unshaken as Redd and King Ghidorah launched a final combined attack.

• An ice dragon burst from its eggshell and pursued Redd, who realized The Wall was still far away and ordered the dragons to prepare for battle.
• The ice dragon attacked with freezing breath, but King Ghidorah dodged and blasted through its right wing with a Gravity Beam.
• Redd ordered Aegon and Ehm to target the Cold God while King Ghidorah struck him with electricity, cracking his ice armor.
• The ice dragon expanded and summoned ice storms, but King Ghidorah pierced through them as Redd threw his enchanted longsword toward the Cold God.
• Aegon and Ehm pinned down the ice dragon, leaving the Cold God exposed, and Redd dove at him with King Ghidorah as his burning sword followed the Gravity Beam.

The Cold God repelled Redd’s ranged attacks and fought King Ghidorah at close quarters, but the clash escalated when she enlarged her ice dragon to battle Aegon and Ehm. Redd ordered King Ghidorah to unleash golden lightning, cracking the ice dragon and putting the Cold God’s hold on the fight at risk.

• The Cold God blocked Redd’s Gravity Beam with an ice wall, caught his fire-enchanted longsword, and shattered it after freezing it.
• Redd sent King Ghidorah to attack the Cold God at close range, but she fought back with Mystic Ice Spears and spikes that knocked him away.
• King Ghidorah struck the Cold God with his tail, but she used the ice dragon to catch herself and enlarged it to more than three hundred meters long.
• The ice dragon battled Aegon and Ehm in the sky, wounding Aegon and shrugging off Ehm’s dragon breath.
• Redd ordered King Ghidorah to strike the ice dragon with golden lightning, and the attack spread cracks across its body as the Cold God feared it might shatter.

The Cold God revived the Wights despite the strain on her borrowed body, surrounding Redd and the dragons with overwhelming reinforcements. With escape cut off, Redd had King Ghidorah charge the Cold God and unleash a close-range Gravity Beam, whose golden lightning engulfed her and the Ice Dragon’s tail.

• The Cold God chose to revive the Wights, and countless creatures emerged from beneath the snow to attack the dragons and advance toward the Wall.
• Redd realized the Wights were the Cold God’s reinforcements, while Ehm and Aegon were nearing their limits and the enemy kept him from escaping.
• Redd ordered King Ghidorah to charge the Cold God, and King Ghidorah endured her Ice Spears to get within striking distance.
• King Ghidorah fired his Gravity Beam at close range, engulfing the Cold God and the Ice Dragon’s tail in golden lightning.