Recaps

Aermir developed his magic and combat skills at Winterfell, bonded with several animals, and began earning the respect of the Stark household. After finding a bandit attack on the road, he hunted down the attackers and confronted their surviving leader, but his new transformation overwhelmed his control.

• Li died saving Emily, then accepted the God of Order’s task and reincarnated as Aermir with practical boons.
• Aermir tested his druid magic, trained with Robb and Jon, and earned Eddard Stark’s support as he pursued swordsmanship and other studies.
• Aermir bonded with Bo and Erebus, survived a fight with hostile squires, and endured confinement while secretly training his magic and familiars.
• Aermir became Rodrik Cassel’s squire, defeated Wayland Flint, and earned permission from Eddard to hunt beyond Winterfell.
• Aermir formed a mana core, learned new spells, hunted with his familiars, and bonded with an icicle snake he named Im.
• Aermir tried to heal the sick puppy Berus with a powerful spell, recovered from the attempt, and later defeated Wayland in a rematch.
• Six months later, Aermir detected people dying near the road to Deepwood Motte and found the aftermath of a bandit attack.
• Aermir killed many of the bandits with magic, arrows, fire, and his birds, then pursued their leaders as Berus’s bond and Primaferus transformed him.

Aermir tested his combat skills, journeyed beyond the Wall to seek animal companions, and fought off a Wildling band tracking Erebus. He reached the Woer Tribe and used a healing ritual to treat its sick, leaving Chief Woer willing to seek his help.

• Aermir survived repeated fights against bandits in Infinite Training, learned to control its settings, and later used the weirwood network to travel between trees before leaving Winterfell with his familiars.
• Aermir convinced Eddard and Ser Rodrik to test him against twenty young knights in the Wolfswood, where he used magic, archery, and the terrain to defeat them.
• Aermir traveled north to the Wall, discovered its runes and arcane power, then crossed beyond it and searched for animal companions in the bitter cold.
• Aermir failed to bond with an adult Shadowcat but found a wolf cub and bonded with a Shadowcat cub, naming her Sith.
• Gornard Tresky tracked Aermir through Erebus, and Aermir ambushed the Wildling band, killing several before questioning Gornard about Direwolves.
• Aermir named the wolf cub Lika and reached House Wull, where he sparred with Chief Woer and impressed him with his bow and fighting skills.
• Emre returned to the Woer Tribe disguised as Druid Emre, offered to treat its fever-stricken people, and performed a healing ritual that helped fifty patients.
• Emre asked for another sheep and three days to conduct the next ritual, while Chief Woer decided that enlisting his help was better than opposing him.

Emre, known as Aermir and Drasil, used his magic and growing reputation to aid the North, clashed with Catelyn and Lord Stark, and was knighted as the Green Knight. When the Ironborn invasion began, he fought their raiders along the coast and helped plan the defense of Deepwood Motte, where Glover’s leadership threatened to complicate the response.

• Emre performed a sacrifice that restored the mountain settlement’s fields, then traveled among the tribes healing people and helping them survive.
• In Last Hearth, Emre exposed a man claiming to be the Druid because the impostor accepted payment, then continued aiding smallfolk as Aermir and escaped Lord Bolton’s soldiers.
• Aermir defeated bandits, escorted Harik and Caygan toward Winterfell, and discovered Ironborn stealing timber along the coast, prompting him to warn Eddard Stark of a possible rebellion.
• At Winterfell, Aermir defended Jon and the Old Gods against Catelyn and Septa Mordane, endured twenty lashes, and later argued with Eddard over his treatment and the threat from the Ironborn.
• Eddard hosted King Robert at Winterfell, and Aermir won the tournament melee before refusing knighthood from Robert and accepting Lord Stark’s ceremony beneath a weirwood as the Green Knight.
• After scouts confirmed the Ironborn threat, Eddard organized defenses while Aermir protected his magical secret with an Unbreakable Vow and led forces to scout and fight the invading fleet.
• Aermir and his companions ambushed Ironborn raiders along the coast, but the invaders continued toward Deepwood Motte after defeating the Flints and raiding Saltspear.
• At Deepwood Motte, Aermir confronted Lord Glover over his demands and authority, then secured two hundred and fifty men for a plan that avoided relying on Glover’s troops.

Aermir and Emre used their magic and familiars to defend the North and its allies from the Ironborn, though Lika died saving Aermir. The arc ended with Aermir at the royal gathering, where Joffrey’s demands led to a violent confrontation involving Red Rain and Sith.

• Aermir revealed that he was a warg and sent Jory and Hallis back to warn Glover, while Bo uncovered a plot to open Deepwood Motte’s west gate for the Ironborn.
• Jory recognized Daryn Tawney’s feint, and Aermir’s force helped the Stark defenders trap the Ironborn inside the west gate and defeat their assault.
• Aermir pursued the Ironborn to Bear Island, where Donnel Drumm wounded Lika and nearly killed Aermir before Lika tackled him and died, and Aermir unleashed hellfire and burned Donnel to ash.
• Aermir mourned Lika, strengthened his magic, and bonded with the bear cub Artio as Emre healed wounded soldiers on Bear Island and revealed to Caygan that he was Ser Drasil.
• Emre and his familiars helped Jason Mallister defeat Rodrik Greyjoy at Seagard, and Aermir later arrived before Robert and the lords on Sith to explain how the North had repelled the Ironborn.
• Aermir refused to return Red Rain until after the war, learned to buff more people, and bonded with rats to gather information at Casterly Rock.
• Joffrey demanded that Aermir demonstrate his magic and then claimed Sith, after a Lannister knight threatened him, Aermir cut off the knight’s arm with Red Rain, and Sith killed another knight who charged her.