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Game of Thrones is about to reach its epic conclusion

but if you're not one of those people who spent the better part of the last decade

Constantly rewatching the series for clues. You need a last-second reminder to catch you up or you know

Nothing, including what that references is. It's time to cram all of Game of Thrones into one handy video

Well, not all all sorry Mirri Maz Duur fans and hot pie enthusiasts some stuff had to get cut away

And yes, this is a long video

But hey

We're about to cram 7 season

67 episodes and a mythology denser than the hardback version of a Storm of Swords into less than an hour.

I have memorized every damn city, town, lake, forest and mountain

cause a break

Before we dive into all the quote-unquote present-day action, let's do a little bit of Game of Thrones

101 the entire show is largely set on a continent named Westeros

Which is divided into several parts collectively referred to as the Seven Kingdoms the weather strange in Westeros summers last months or even years

But are followed by harsh winters which bring darkness and misery. At the northern edge of Westeros is the wall a giant well.. wall

built to keep out all manner of supernatural creatures

primarily the thought to be extinct White Walkers who can reanimate corpses to become undead White's

Also living north of the wall are a group of uncivilized folk called

Wildlings down south is King's Landing

Seat of power for the Seven Kingdoms and home to the royal family of Westeros. For centuries a family called the Targaryen rule the land

Largely because they were able to conquer the kingdoms and keep power

using

dragons, kind of like How to Train Your Dragon

But the realistic version of what people would do with destructive fire lizards. Over the years though

The Dragons slowly disappeared and so did the Targaryen power the last Targaryen ruler was Ares

Second also known as the mad king, who over the course of his reign lost his mind and became a

Radical tyrant who liked to burn people alive. The Targaryen dynasty came crashing down when Rhaegar Targaryen

Eris's son kidnapped a woman named Leon a stark of Winterfell

sistered Eddard Stark and betrothed of Robert Baratheon

Robert declared war on the Targaryen and killed Rhaegar in battle Liyana also died during the conflict

robert's rebellion ended with Mad King Aerys dead at the hand of Jaime Lannister his own Kingsguard and

Robert on the throne as king of Westeros. The remaining Targaryens were hunted down and killed save for viserys and danerys

Two of Eris's children who fled east across the sea Robert was power married to Cersei Lannister

daughter of the richest family in Westeros and

Eddard returned home to Winterfell to rule as warden of the north and things are relatively quiet, which is where the show Game of Thrones

really begins

Ok enough backstory. What? The series kicks off north of the wall were three members of the Nights Watch

sworn protectors of Westeros from everything beyond the wall have a run-in with a supernatural white Walker

A bit further south in Winterfell we meet the rest of the stark family

Eddard Ned Stark who we know his wife Catelyn and their five children

Robb

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Sansa Arya, bran and Rickon. There's also Ned's bastard, son

Jon Snow not to stop an Theon Greyjoy the eldest living son of Lord

Balin Greyjoy of the Iron Islands Theon was taken as a hostage during his father's failed uprising

Against Westeros and has been raised by Ned as his ward. Each of the stark children also have their own pets

abnormally large

wolves called dire wolves Ned's mentor

Jon Arryn known as the hand of the king pretty much royal chief of staff has died under semi questionable circumstances

King Robert decides the job should be Ned Stark's and he travels to Winterfell along with his wife Cersei Lannister

Circe's brother Jaime Lannister the Kingslayer and their brother the hard-drinking

prostitute loving dwarf Tyrion Lannister to make the arrangements

Once in Winterfell Robert convinces Ned to take the gig by promising to marry his son Joffrey

Next in line to the throne to Ned's daughter Sansa also loyalty Brotherhood blah blah blah anyway

Unfortunately young bran stark who loves climbing Winterfell Towers spots

Jaime and Cersei doing a little bit of incest. Bran is troubled

But he's even more troubled when Jaime pushes him off the tower to keep their secret; "The things I do for love"

Paralyzing him. Ned, Arya and Sansa head south to King's Landing, while John heads north to join the Nights Watch

John quickly proves himself a strong fighter and befriends the heavyset and cowardly Samwell Tarly, "I`m a coward"

Lord Commander of the Nights Watch Junior Mormont takes a shine to Jon and make some his personal steward

Along with giving of his family's heirloom sword made of highly prized and rare

Valyrian steel back at Winterfell recovering brand Stark is attacked by a stranger armed with a dagger

Catelyn comes to believe the Lannisters are involved and heads to King's Landing to tell Ned

"I know they did it, Ned. The Lannisters, in my bones I know it"

Ned's already got his hands full dealing with a difficult King and the other members of King Robert's small Council they include

Petyr Baelish aka Littlefinger the master of coin. "I have hoped to meet you for some time, lord Stark". The long-serving grand maester Pycelle

"How many years has it been?"

Robert's younger brother Renly Baratheon and Lord Varys a eunuch who runs the Kings spy network

There are also all sorts of other colorful characters

Including Joffrey's bodyguard the Hound real names Sandor Clegane and his even more ferocious and massive brother named Gregor Clegane

Aka the mountain they changed actors later. We'll keep you updated

We also meet sir Loras Tyrell the knight of the flowers who's actually Renly Baratheon secret lover

Scandal Catelyn arises in the capital where she meets up with her childhood friend Littlefinger

How did you know I was coming to King's Landing?

He tells her that the dagger she found used to be his I lost this dagger to whom

Tyrion Lannister Ned meanwhile discovers that King Robert has a number of bastard children stashed around the city including

Gendry a local blacksmith's apprentice. "Find anything?"

"King Roberts bastard son". On her way back to Winterfell from the capital Catelyn runs into Tyrion and has him arrested for what she believes is

the attempted murder of her son. They head to Catelyn sister Lysa Aaron's castle known as the Eyrie and then all

Seven hells break loose Tyrion demands a trial by combat

And a wily knight named Bran volunteers to be his champion

"You have that right"

Bronwen's the fight and they leave. Ned is attacked in the street by Jamie who then flees King's Landing

While recovering, Ned figures out the secret that Jon Arryn had discovered and that presumably got him killed

Cercei`s children are not actually Robert Baratheon`s

But were fathered by her brother Jamie. " Joffrey Baratheon." It's the blonde hair

That's the clue. It sounds like something King

Robert would be furious about if he weren't mortally wounded during a hunt my fault

He names Ned his regent and protector of the realm before he dies, but Cersei straight-up ignores this and declares that her son

Joffrey is the new king. I wish to be crowned within the fortnight

Roberts brother Renly declares himself the king of Westeros. Give me a hundred swords

You'll come on but Ned suggests that Renly's older brother Stannis would rightfully be the next in line Stannis is your older brother

Ned refuses to swear loyalty to Joffrey and is arrested "Your son has no claim to the throne"

Renly and Loras flee the capital and start assembling an army and Cersei in the small council manipulates Sansa into writing to Robb and

Asking him to bend the knee to Joffrey

"Little dove, you must write to lady Catelyn

And your brother the eldest what's his name?"

Hoping to save his family Ned makes a false confession and says Joffrey is the real true king

"I come before you to confess my treason," but Joffrey has him killed anyway, "bring me his head"

Arya in disguise heads north to the wall along with Robert's bastard Gendry robb stark

Assembles an army loyal to the Starks from across the north who all agree that they should declare independence from the Lannisters and King's Landing

Entirely, why shouldn't we rule ourselves again?

They declare Robb the king in the north and begin a war for independence and revenge

Robb proves himself a natural leader winning multiple battles against the Lannisters and capturing Jaime to use as a

hostage in order to win these victories Robb agrees to marry the daughter of a crusty old lord named

Walder Frey, he has a number he thinks will be

Suitable in exchange for his armies passage over the bridge that his house controls

remember this Tywin Lannister patriarch of the Lannister family is none too happy with what's going on and

Begrudgingly since Tyrion to King's Landing to serve as hand of the king and get things in order and that's pretty much it for season

Oh, wait, that's right. There's a whole other continent in this show. Yep

We're going east to Essos where we meet the two surviving children of the Mad King

viserys and danerys targaryen

You can retake what he sees as his family's rightful throne in Westeros

Viserys has arranged for his sister to marry the horse Lord Aquaman

Aka called Drogo who commands an army of horse warriors named the Dothraki we go home

With an army Daenerys is not happy about this but doesn't really get a say in the matter as a wedding gift

She receives three apparently petrified dragon eggs from the mysterious eastern land of a shine serving istan

Eris's new advisor and protector is Jorah Mormont a soap your father for many years

Got to be good

I hope to always serve the rightful king

Jorah is also secretly spying on the Targaryen on behalf of Lord Varys and tips off King Robert that Daenerys is pregnant with a potential

Targaryen heir

Viserys is unhappy that Daenerys is the one getting the royal treatment and

Threatens to kill her if Drogo doesn't take his army west now to recapture the Iron Throne. I want the crown

He promised me so call Drogo kills him with boiling gold

Daenerys takes it pretty well. He's new trapping Jorah prevents an assassination attempt from Robert on Daenerys

Which sells Drogo on the idea of invading Westeros?

But during a fight Drogo is wounded and dies Daenerys and Jorah are abandoned by most of the Dothraki

Huffing us was the throw

Was foul and Daenerys loses her, baby

The boy did not have however after walking into Drogo's funeral pyre with the dragon eggs

Daenerys emerges unharmed with three living baby dragons and that is the end of season one. It gets quicker from here

We promise I just introduced like 50 people

Most of the second season is taken up with the war of the five kings in which a bunch of different Westerosi families

Go to war over control of the Iron Throne

We can hopefully get through this pretty quickly because as of right now all of these Kings are either definitely dead or very likely dead

The first King to drop is Renly Baratheon

Murdered by a shadow demon conjured by his older brother Stannis a grim man

Who's also very grim Stannis is able to do this with the help of the red woman?

Melisandre a priestess for the Lord of Light a God who gives visions to his followers and fire require

Sacrifices with fire lights the swords of his warriors on fire. He's big into fire. I have seen the pass to victory

Stannis is right-hand, man. Is Davos Seaworth a former smuggler?

Who's not sure about this whole fire priestess thing Brienne of Tarth Renly's loyal Kingsguard is blamed for his death

But flees his camp alongside Catelyn Stark who would come to see about a potential Renly Robb alliance

eventually Brienne swears fealty to Catelyn who asked her to take Jaime Lannister back to King's Landing and

Exchange him for Arya and Sansa killing. Jaime Lannister would not buy life for your children

But returning him to King's Landing may buy life for mine

Ridley's now widowed Margaery Tyrell is you know kind of sad but really wants to keep climbing up that social ladder

Do you want to be a queen? No, I

Want to be the queen Robb Stark meanwhile falls in love with a nurse named to Lysa?

Remember that promise to marry one of Walder Frey's daughters

Yet that's out the window much like bran

back in King's Landing Tyrion

Finally returns from his travels along with a woman named Shay who long story short is a prostitute

Tyrion falls in love with whom he also ultimately kills with his bare hands. That is a whole other video

Anyway as hand of the king Tyrion gets to work and formulates an alliance with the Martell family of Dorne

I'm brokering an alliance with house Martell of Dorne by sending Circe's daughter Myrcella away to be married to one of their princes

Tyrion also discovers

There's a stockpile of wildfire which is kind of like magical supercharged napalm in the capital substance

So hot it melts wood stone even steel

Eventually Stannis and his fleet attack King's Landing come with me and take this city

And what comes to be known as the Battle of the Blackwater

Tyrion and bran destroys Stannis's fleet with wildfire

But the army keeps on coming The Hound frightened of all these flames

Abandons his position and leaves King's Landing the city

The king Tyrion and the Lannister soldiers manage to protect the castle

But not before Tyrion is brutally scarred in the battle

The rest of Stannis's Force is wiped out when Tywin Lannister arrives along with an additional

Army, courtesy of Marjorie's family the powerful House Tyrell. The battle is over

We have won Stannis retreats back to Dragonstone to be grim where Melisandre convinces him to keep fighting

Tyrion is relieved of his power

You are no longer a hand of the king and the hand of the king position now goes to Tywin himself

Thank you your grace and by way of saying thanks for the army Margaery

Tyrell is now betrothed to Joffrey and Sansa is no longer in line to be married to the king

Okay

let's head up north to Winterfell where brand has been having strange dreams about a three-eyed raven and

Seeing through the eyes of his direwolf summer more on that later in

Need of more soldiers Robb Stark dispatches Theon back to the Iron Islands and his home of Pike to get his father Balon

Greyjoy to join his cause I brought you a proposal from Bob stock

But Balin refuses and once instead to attack the north while the Starks and their allies are focused on fighting the Lannisters

Theon flips allegiances and leads a band of Raiders from house Greyjoy to take control of Winterfell

Thank you

Your castle bran and Rickon escape with former wildling OSHA and Starks servant slash chauffeurs slash

Mononym Hodor and head north to the wall to meet up with Jon Snow

Roose Bolton of the dreadfort one of Rob's most powerful allies offers to send his bastard son Ramsay to retake Winterfell

Fionna hosts with his cousin Theon's men turn on him

Abandoned Winterfell, which is then burned and gives Theon over to the Bolton army

Even further north several members of the Nights Watch go searching for the missing ranger Benjen stark

Who's Ned Stark's brother at an ancient?

Landmark called the fist of the first men. They find a cache of weapons made of a substance called dragon glass

These will be very important later

Jon Snow gets separated from the other Rangers meets up with a Wilding named Ygritte and becomes a spy for the Nights Watch

embedded with the army of Mance Rayder the

King-beyond-the-wall. Oh, let's not forget. Arya while travelling north out of King's Landing and toward the wall

She meets up with a man named Jacques and Hegar who's being held prisoner and then that's the first

Make a friend

Yeah

he always talks funny like that the Lannisters catch up with the party kill arias friend take her sword needle and

Take the entire group to the Lannister held Harrenhal in the process. Arya saves jack ins life

Jaqen, appreciative of arias help agrees to kill three people for her as a mate good man persistence

My nose tree and he ultimately helps arya and Guidry escaped Harrenhal and go into friends with through the gate at midnight

Jock and offers to take Arya with him to the free city of Braavos and teach her to be an assassin like him

But Arya doesn't want to abandon her family

So he gives her an iron coin that she can use later to find him and as jaqen H'ghar leaves he reveals that he can

Magically change his appearance. He doesn't even need one of those Mission Impossible masks. That's it

That's a real time-saver on the other side of the world

Daenerys abandoned by Drogo's men and near-death finds her way to the city of Qarth a wealthy merchant and a warlock their plot to steal

Our dragons, but she takes them out

And manages to get away with enough valuables to buy a ship. Yeah, that's pretty much Daenerys in season two a

Lot of season three takes place way up north and Castle black and beyond so let's start with the Nights Watch

Jon Snow makes it to the wildling camp and meets tormund Giantsbane and king-beyond-the-wall mance rayder

He convinces them that he's sincere about joining their cause we'll need to find you a new cloak man sins torment

Jon Ygritte and some others on a perilous mission to climb over the wall and then wait to attack Castle black from the other side

Where they're less defended on their way to the wall Jon and Ygritte fall in love and do it in a cave

But once they're over the wall, Jon refuses to kill an old man who helps supply the Nights Watch with horses

So the wildlings figure out that he's not really on their side after all they try to kill him even Ygritte

But he escapes on the other side of the wall sam falls in love with a woman named Kelly at the worst air B&B in

Westeros Craster's keep the other Nights Watch brothers grow tired of Craster's lack of hospitality

And kill him Commander Mormont dies in the scuffle and Sam and Gilly run away on their way back to the wall Sam

manages to kill a white Walker with a dagger made of dragonglass

They eventually make it back to Castle black and warn everyone that the White Walkers have returned

meanwhile

bran

Stark and his company meet up with two teens from house Reed Jojen and Meera

The reeds want to take brand north to find the three-eyed raven from his dreams

Jojen tells bran that he's a warg meaning he can see through the eyes of animals and control them. You can get inside his head

Here his eyes and bran has the sight

Allowing him to see things that are happening far away things that haven't happened yet or thinks it happened in the past

Bran sends his brother and OSHA away and decides to venture beyond the wall to find the Raven

Arya Stark is still on the run with ginjury when they cross paths with a group calling themselves the Brotherhood without banners

It's run by beric Dondarrion

The knight who was sent way back in season one by Ned Stark to track down the mountain

beric

Dondarrion is now loyal to no house and is in league with another priest for the Lord of Light a drunk named Thoris of me

purely by coincidence

The Brotherhood also has the hound captive and they put him on trial for murder. I sentence you to trial by combat

So he and beric Dondarrion have a sword fight the hound wins killing barrack in the process

But Thoreau Springs him back to life using the Lord of Lights magic. So the Hound decides to take off

Melisandre then locates the group and takes ginjury so she can sacrifice him and his Baratheon Kings blood to the Lord of Light to aid

Stannis's cause arya takes the chance to run away from the Brotherhood but is captured by the Hound

Who's been waiting for her and plans to take her back to her family for a ransom?

Theon meanwhile is being tortured for fun by Roose Bolton's sadistic cruel bastard Ramsay snow

This torture includes cutting off Theon spike broken by his captors Theon now agrees to be Ramsay's pet with a new name

Reek and speaking of house Bolton one of their bannermen a guy named locke intercepts, Jaime and Brienne lay man of house

Bolton and takes them captive. He chops off Jaime's right hand as a show of strength

Once they arrive at Harrenhal Castle Jaime's injury is treated by a disgraced former maester named Qyburn

Who lost his position for conducting illegal and questionable experiments on people?

Roose Bolton agrees to send Jaime to King's Landing where he promises Brienne that he will have the stark daughters released as Catelyn Stark wished

Stannis Baratheon spends this entire season in his castle at Dragonstone

Grimly brooding about his loss at the Blackwater when ser Davos finds out about MELAS on just plan to sacrifice ginjury

He frees the boy and tells him to head for King's Landing in a rowboat a trip that will take at least a couple of

Seasons and Kings Landing Joffrey is now enjoying his engagement to Margaery Tyrell

Which is really both to step up and to step down for her Sansa tells Olenna Tyrell the powerful matriarch of the wealthy Tyrell family

The truth about King Joffrey. He's

but the wedding plans continue

anyway

Tywin Lannister decides to lock up the whole damn realm and orders that Tyrion be married to Sansa to secure the north and

Cersei be married to Loras Tyrell to secure the south neither

one of them is happy with this arrangement and finally in Westeros this robb stark and his are

They're starting to lose the war through attrition and a loss of morale don't have enough to make a difference

Have you lost faith in our cause to secure the men he needs to keep fighting. He has to make good with the man

He double-crossed Walder Frey. I've come to make my apologies my lord

They come to an agreement

Catlins brother and mere Tully will marry Walters daughter Roslyn and the phrase will receive Harrenhal as further compensation

On route to Edmund yours wedding to Lisa reveals to rob that she's pregnant

But their happiness is short-lived

Because as it turns out Roose Bolton and Jaime Lannister were up to something in their time together at Harrenhal. Tell Robb Stark

I'm sorry, I couldn't make his uncle's wedding

the Lannisters send their regards

Immediately after the wedding ceremony and Rob's public apology to Walder Frey. He's betrayed by both the phrase and Bolton's

their regards to Lisa Robb and Catelyn are all

murdered along with most of their soldiers and even Rob's

Direwolf gray wind for his participation in what comes to be known as the red wedding Roose Bolton becomes warden of the north

Friend of the Lannisters and architect of the most shocking moment in Game of Thrones history

So far and finally we go east to Essos Daenerys uses the money

she stole from Qarth to travel to the slave city of a

stupor she promises to trade one of her dragons in exchange for a slave army known as the

Unsullied but the dragon has different ideas and burns the Army's owner alive

Daenerys frees the slaves and now has the unsullied as a willing private army led by the soldier grey worm

She also recruits a formerly enslaved translator missin day to join the cause

Daenerys and the unsullied now advanced to a city called un KY intending to free the slaves there as well

See Daenerys mission is kind of shifted from just conquering Westeros to also ridding the world of slavery because she have to dream big

Um KY is protected by a mercenary group called the second son's but one of them

Daario naharis is so impressed by Daenerys Beauty that he turns on his leaders kills the men who were sent to assassinate

Daenerys and brings the second sons into her army. They changed actors later

We'll keep you updated sir. Jorah Daario and grey worm go on a daring raid to secure. Um, KY

After which the city's freed slaves embrace Daenerys as Misa meaning mother

As

Season 4 begins we turn our attention back to King's Landing. We're planning for King Joffrey's wedding to Margaery

Tyrell is deep under way among the guests is Prince Oberyn Martell of Dorne

brother of King Aerys the second wife Elia

He wants revenge against the Lannisters in the mountain for the rape and murder of his sister and the murders of most of her children

In the aftermath of Robert's rebellion at Joffrey's wedding. He drinks some poisoned wine and dies

But usually the death of a child is a tragedy, but you know what I'll give this one a pass

Cersei assumes Tyrion and his wife Sansa must have been behind it

Orders them both arrested Sansa manages to get away and out of King's Landing with some help from

Littlefinger who was working with the mastermind of Joffrey's murder

Marjorie's grandmother Lady Olenna

You don't think I'd let you marry that beast deal

Littlefinger vows to keep Sansa safe and takes her with him to the Vale where he marries her aunt Lysa Arryn and a season 1

Mystery is solved as we discovered that Littlefinger told Lysa to kill her husband Jon Arryn

So they could be together and then send a letter to the Starks blaming it on the Lannisters

Those tops and told me to pour them into Jon's

So in a way Littlefinger is really the mastermind behind almost

Everything that's happened in Westeros so far

Anyway, now that he's power married with a firm grip on the veil lies the air in the served her purpose

So Littlefinger pushes her out of the moon door

Back in King's Landing Jaime who has a new golden hand tasks Brienne with finding Sansa

ISchool by all the calls that if told us well life admits on the job

He gives Brienne Oathkeeper a Valyrian steel sword Tywin created by melting down Ned Stark's sword ice

He also sends Tyrians and experienced Squire Podrick along with her with Joffrey dead. His younger, brother

Tommen is crowned the new king with Marjorie as his eager new queen and waiting when we marry I become yours

This is also where we meet Tommen's cats, sir pounce a key season four character Tyrion is put on trial

But he knows it's rigged against him. You will not speak unless called upon so he goes with what worked for him last time

I demand a trial by combat

Oberyn Martell joins team Tyrion, there will be your champion with the mountain representing the prosecution

Approaching Oberyn also known as the red Viper initially has the upper hand

But the mountain grabs him and smashes his head in his hands like a grape

The mountain is horribly wounded in the fight but maester Qyburn believes he could be saved

approaches move

out of options

Jamie breaks tearing out of prison and arranges with Lord Varys to sneak him onto a ship bound for Essos

But before he leaves tearing goes to his father's bedroom and kills him on the John with a crossbow

Blunt, but to the point Ari and the Hound managed to avoid any trouble back during the red wedding Massacre at the twins

So they head to the Vale but are turned away after hearing about Lysa Erin's death video and died three days ago

Brienne and Podrick run across both of them on the road you a knight

Which leads to a knock-down drag-out fight between Brienne and the Hound over who wants to protect Arya more The Hound is badly wounded

and

Asks Arya to kill him but she refuses Arya then goes on the run and makes it to a port where she uses the iron

Coin that jock and Hegar gave her to book passage across the sea to Braavos

Extremely far to the north at the very top of the world

We get our first real look at the show's main undead nemesis the night king

able to turn innocent babies into White Walkers a

Bit south of there bran and his group arrive at a tree. He's seen in his visions where they're attacked by White's

Jojen Reed is killed but bran Meera and Hodor managed to make it into a nearby cave where they are protected by ancient

Creatures known as the children of the forest bran meets the three-eyed Raven who isn't Max von Sydow yet

But soon will be I've been watching you

All of you just a bit south of there

Jon Snow returns to Castle black

Which is good because mance rayder's army Sage's a massive assault just as Jon warned them

They would yeah, they have Giants. It's the North

During the battle Ygritte seems to get the drop on Jon

But she's killed by a boy named Ali eventually. The Nights Watch is successful at holding the invasion off

But Mance's army is still pretty big and plans to come back when out here to conquer

We are here to hide behind your wall that is until Stannis Baratheon shows up with a newly aquired army

courtesy of a loan from the iron bank of Braavos

Who has switched their allegiance from the Lannisters to the real Baratheon's Stannis routes the wildling forces and takes Mance Rayder prisoner

Finally far to the east and Eris and her armies arrive in the final slave City Marine

After liberating Marine Daenerys finds out just how difficult it is to keep the peace and prevent the return of slavery in three cities

So she agrees to delay her trip to Westeros. It appears my liberation of slavers Bay and getting his plan

She also discovers that sir Jorah Mormont had been serving as a Baratheon spy, he'd be treating me

And banishes him from marine and all other slave cities for life, sir, Jorah is sad

Season 5 opens with a flashback showing a young Cersei and her friend visiting a witch in the woods near Casterly Rock

Future

The witch tells her that one day she'll be Queen and will have three children

But they will all die during her lifetime and she'll be replaced by a younger and more beautiful Queen

So she's got that going for it, which is nice

Jumping forward to the present at least part of the prophecy comes true with the marriage of Tommen and Margaery

Sarah sees been demoted to Queen Mother but is still trying to run the capital herself and head off the increasingly powerful Tyrells

This includes forming an alliance with a religious group on the rise in King's Landing called the sparrows and their leader the high Sparrow

Initially this works up pretty well for Cersei as the high Sparrow has both sir Loras and

Margaery Tyrell arrested but then Cersei loses control of the group and ends up arrested herself on charges including

Incest and the murder of King Robert, so it's pretty serious as punishment

Cersei is forced to confess her sins and walk naked through the streets of King's Landing while this lady yells shame at her

There is one bright spot though when her walk is over Qyburn introduces her to the newly resurrected

mountain a silent 8 foot tall zombie in gold armor who lives to do her bidding meet

Jaime Lannister is not around for any of this because he's off in Dorne

Electrifly's after getting a threatening message from oberyn's lover ilaria

Jamie takes Bronn with him to rescue his daughter Myrcella

Don't forget a few seasons ago Tyrion sent Marcella to Dorne to be married Prince Doran of Dorne

Agrees to send Myrcella back to King's Landing if the alliance between the Iron Throne and Dorne is to continue

That engagement must stand as they leave for the return trip. However ilaria goes rogue and poisons Marcella to death

That's two Baratheon child poisonings in a row

Across the sea Arya arrives in Braavos to learn the ways of the many-faced God from Jackie and Hagar and his lovely assistant

Jockin tells us she has to become no.1 and she pretends to know what that means. Who are you then?

No one

Eventually Arya runs into her old. Enemy Meryn Trant the Kingsguard who killed her teacher Syrio Forel and starts crossing more names off her list

Meanwhile Tyrion and Varys arrive overseas and the former master whispers

Convinces his new traveling companion to go meet with Daenerys

I believe men of talent have a part to play in the war to come

Tyrion eventually makes his way to Daenerys with surgery who has kidnapped him as a peace offering

Daenerys agrees to take on Tyrion as an advisor, but once more censured Jorah away

Tyrion is won over by Daenerys has plans to not just up in the way Westeros works, but break the system all together

I'm not going to stop the wheel

I'm going to break the wheel but things are falling apart in Mereen the city's

Experiencing an uprising by former slavers calling themselves the sons of the harpy hoping to keep the peace. She agrees to reopen the fighting pits

Gladiator like arenas where men fight for sport the sons of the harpy staged a revolt and begins slaughtering everyone

Daenerys is about to be killed when she's saved by drogon her biggest and let's face it

Favorite dragon who flies away with her on his back surgery

Mormont who keeps turning up like a bad penny and new Daario go to look for dragon headed north

We're going to find her. That's what I have to go while Tyrion stays behind to run things in marine

We the viewers see that she's eventually set down and then immediately taken prisoner by another group of dis Rocky

Good job Shogun way to help

Things are also going sideways in Westeros where Littlefinger has arranged for Sansa to marry Ramsay, Bolton

Making her a powerful figure in the north. Stop being a bystander

Jaime so funny

Ramsay is of course a horrible person and

Brutalizes his new wife while continuing to traumatize Theon slash reek eventually both of them decide

they've had enough and escaped the castle together at the wall Jon's elected the new Lord Commander of the Nights Watch becoming the

990 8th man to hold the title, but who's counting among?

His first actions is to seek an alliance with the wildlings

Offering to give them land south of the wall in exchange for help fighting the White Walkers make peace

to save your people

This does not go over well with a lot of his brothers who still think of the free folk as their enemy. It's loaded villages

Jon is also losing allies quickly as Sam leaves for old town with Gilly where he's gonna study to become a maester

Jon tormund and some other brothers and

wildlings travelled north of the wall to the

wildling

settlement at hardhome in an attempt to keep a huge group of wildlings from becoming part of the night king's army the White Walkers don't

Care if a mountains free folk or crow, we're all the same to them meat for their army

but while they're there

They're attacked by White Walkers and whites

John discovers for himself that dragonglass and Valyrian steel can both take out white walkers, but it's a rout nonetheless

The battle ends with John and some wildlings escaping but the night king resurrecting all of the dead to serve in his army

So it's kind of a mixed bag

Stannis plans to begin his conquest of Westeros by attacking the Bolton's at Winterfell

But Ramsay gets the drop on him and burns most of his supplies and siege weapons

so Stannis does the only thing he could think of he allows Melisandre to sacrifice his daughter Shireen to the Lord of Light, but whoops

Stannis's army is still

decimated by the Bolton's forces

After his devastating loss Brienne finds him and executes him to avenge the death of Renly

I was there when he was mounted by shadow to the old face. At least we're pretty sure that's what happened

It's off screen

but we do know that Davos and Melisandre survived and returned to Castle black where John's brothers are so upset at his alliance with the

Wildlings they stab him to death

Lavash yeah even Olly this kid is a monster. Oh, yeah, and there's no brand this season

He's busy in a tree studying for his Raven midterms

Thankfully John's not dead for too long

Season six opens with wildlings and brothers sympathetic to John putting down the insurgency and retaking control of Castle black then

Melisandre who we find out actually looks hundreds of years old and uses magic to appear young and beautiful

Praise to the Lord of Light and brings John back from the dead

John then hangs the traitors who led the revolt against him and leaves the Nights Watch by what she's ended

Having fulfilled his oath to serve until his death gotta love those technicalities

meanwhile

Brienne and Podrick meet up with the freshly escaped Theon and Sansa

Theon takes off to return to his family and the Iron Islands they will keep you safe for the night

While the rest of them head for Castle black as Winterfell is still held by the Bolton's well to be specific held by Ramsay

Bolton who's the new Lord Bolton after murdering his father

Along with dad's new wife and their baby boy Ramsay is so evil guys just really really bad news

Reunited with his sister Sansa John begins amassing an army to retake Winterfell

Including many of the minor northern houses and this actual minor Lyanna Mormont. Yeah. Just want my allegiance

You want my fighting ring Littlefinger who de facto controls the Eyrie due to his outsized influence on young Robin Arryn

offers the Knights of the Vale to help

This isn't directly plot connected, but you should also know that tormund kind of has a thing for Brienne

Okay, it's time for the so called battle of the bastards Ramsay kicks it off by killing a captive Rickon stark with an arrow

Serpentine kid always got to run serpentine

This causes Jon to make some possibly unwise tactical decisions, but just when all seems lost

Sansa Littlefinger and the Knights of the Vale show up and they retake Winterfell

Sansa feeds Ramsay to his own dogs for revenge

Yeah, get him also. No Davos discovers the truth about what happened to princess Shireen. I loved that girl

Like she was my own and demands that Jon allowed to execute, Melisandre

Jon sends her away instead and tells her never to return to the north

Meanwhile, the other lords of the north pledged themselves to Jon Snow the king in the newel

Yeah, that's how you pledged yourself north of the wall

We meet back up with bran who's been training to look into the past with the three-eyed Raven

Who's now in his final form as Max von Sydow?

Bran sees a few important visions including the creation of the first white Walker. I mean listen was a different time

Okay

people were less sensitive about turning humans into frost monsters and in yet another

Vision bran sees the night king who becomes aware of his presence

This alerts the white walkers to the location of the cave, which is then attacked by the knight king's army

mirrors instructions in the present to hold the door for her and brand

Combined with brands time travel awarding powers end up being the origin story for why Hodor compulsively repeats the phrase

Hodor

But anyway Hodor dies very soon

This is also our maximum seed ow, and summer the direwolf meet their untimely ends or if you're a white Walker

They're perfectly timed ends

outside of the cave Meera and bran are about to be killed by whites when they're saved by a

disfigured Benjen stark remember him from season one

He takes Meera and bran back toward the wall

And this is where brand touches a weirwood tree and has yet another vision

But this is an important one the true story behind Jon Snow

We see that Ned Stark discovered his sister Lyanna giving birth to a son by Rhaegar Targaryen

before dying

Knowing that King Robert would kill this baby if he found it Ned claims it as his own bastard child naming him. Jon Snow

So Jon is of noble blood

He's half stark and half Targaryen and I bet you didn't see that coming unless you were on the Internet ever before this aired

Okay, let's head south for the odds and ends by the time Theon returns to the Iron Islands. He let you go

His uncle Euron has also come back and killed his father bail on

Euron has crowned the new king and vows to marry Daenerys Targaryen and use her dragons to claim control of Westeros

I wasn't born to be king. I

Paid the iron price in the aftermath Theon and Yara flee but yeren vows to build a new fleet and go after them

meanwhile

Sam Gilly and newborn baby Sam stop at the end

Starly home on their way to the citadel for Sam's Meister training and this isn't really important except to note that

Sam's dad is a dick and Sam steals

The family's Valyrian steel sword hearts bein as payback

Once they arrived in old town dozens of white Ravens are released signaling the official start of the long winter

Across the seeds an heiress is taken to Vice doth rack where she immediately burns the entire Dothraki leadership alive

Daenerys declares herself the new leader of the Dothraki and heads home to marine where she quickly puts down the revolt against her

Just in time to receive a visit from the Greyjoy's sublimes run sisters defeat Eidos took the iron islands

He asked you to give them back they provide her with a fleet of ships

Which she graciously accepts and uses to set sail for Westeros before departing for her homeland

She also names Tyrion her hand of the Queen

Meanwhile, Aria continues her faceless man training which is like 98% stick fighting, but eventually her strong wills lead

Jaqen to give his lovely assistant permission to kill her

But the assistant loses and she's killed jack and tells arya that she's ready to join the faceless kids club finally a good

But she says she's tired of being no-one and intends to go back to being Arya Stark of Winterfell

This news causes jock into I don't know. It's smart kinda it's not his face. He's still feeling it out back in Westeros

She gets her red wedding revenge posing as a servant in the Frey household and feeding Walder Frey a pie

Containing his two sons and then executing him also back in Westeros

We find out that the Hound is still alive doing a lay lotv Incredible Hulk kind of thing

Eventually, he teams up with Thoris of mere and beric Dondarrion. It helps them execute some rogue members of the Brotherhood without banners

Meanwhile back in King's Landing Cersei has had it with both the high Sparrow and the Tyrells

So she and Qyburn do the natural thing and detonate

wildfire under the great Sept Deering lorises trial this explosion kills everyone inside including the high Sparrow and

Every Tyrell not played by Dame Diana Rigg while Cersei relishes her victory

Tommen seeing that his queen is dead

His city is partially destroyed commits suicide and all of Circe's children died

Just as the wits foretold and sorry

I've always just wanted to say just as the witch foretold in the aftermath of the violence. Cersei is crowned the new queen

Oh and over in Dorne ilaria sand and the red Vipers daughters. The sand snakes assassinate Prince, Doran and declare war

Freakin Dorne. Am I right?

Okay, here we are the second to last season and the last season for this cram it we're almost at the end and honestly this

Is further into the story than george RR martin ever made it so give yourselves a hand

Aria is all set to go to King's Landing and kill Cersei

But when she finds out that her family has retaken Winterfell, she heads there instead in the woods

She sees Nymeria her old direwolf, but the animals got native and prefers running wild and living with the pack

You know

It's like a metaphor in

Old town Sam does a lot of reading and meets up with Jorah Mormont who's now infected with a deadly disease called

Greyscale Sam cures Jorah and Jorah heads back to Daenerys to serve his queen. She takes him back because the guy just won't quit

Daenerys arrives in Westeros with her armies and her dragons and everybody else at Dragonstone

Which is empty since Stannis Baratheon abandoned it for his failed campaign in the North there

She's visited by Melisandre who suggests Sam meeting with Jon Snow and I'm stand before you and tell you the things that happen to him

Tyrion seconds the motion so they extend an invitation

Jon Snow decides to go against sonses advice and leaves her in charge as warden of the north in his stead

After he leaves Mira and bran make it back from their travels

But bran has been changed seemingly forever by his powers and has emotionally disconnected almost completely

I could never be Lord of anything

He barely even reacts when Mira tells him she's leaving to go back home

Man evil. No, I don't that's cold

I mean obviously because it's the north but it also lacks feeling around this time. Arya also returns to Winterfell and hugs everyone

Littlefinger is also hanging around the castle and generally being a creep he tries to drive a wedge between

Arya and Sansa for his own benefit

She could want she could want me dead, but it doesn't work

they turn the tables on him and put him on trial the

Conflict between the Starks and the Lannisters it was you who started it. Do you deny it and Sansa finds him guilty?

Thank you for all your many lessons Lord Baelish. I will never forget them

alright

It takes care of the execution herself with his own Valyrian steel dagger the stark girls coming this fall to ADC

John arrives at Dragonstone and is reunited with Tyrion Lannister who he hasn't seen since they hung out at the wall all the way back

In season one remember that I just started talking crazy

It's been a long road

Melisandre says that she is now going to return to volantis in the east but she does predict that both

She and Varys are destined to die in

Westeros you gotta wonder if that's gonna you know

Pay off later on even though Jon struggles to convince Daenerys of the white Walker threat

She lets him start mining for dragonglass below the castle anyway

He's also able to bond pretty easily with drogon who perhaps senses his Targaryen ancestor, you know what I'm getting out of myself

Let's go to King's Landing where the Lannisters are doing what they do best

paying their debts Jaime Lannister

Randyll Tarly Sam's dad the jerk and Bronn lead a force that takes the Tyrells Castle Highgarden

Olenna Tyrell

Is there and Jaime allows her to drink poison for a quick?

Merciful death right before she goes she confesses to him that it was her who ordered the hit on Joffrey

Cersei takes the news. Well, she died screaming see the Lannisters plan to use the money

They're looting from the Tyrells to pay off their debts to the iron bank

Once those are taken care of the bank will back the Lannisters and hiring the golden company the largest

mercenary force in the world to retain their power but

Daenerys her dragons and the Dothraki

Attacked the wagon train as it moves the loot from Highgarden back to King's Landing

both bran and Jaime's survived the attack somehow

Sam's dad and brother Randall and dick and Tarly are captured by Denari and after refusing to bend the knee burned by her dragons

Tyrians not crazy about this strategy don't beheading entire

Speaking of Tyrion. He has Davos sneak him into King's Landing. Hoping to make some kind of peace accord with Jaime

You can ask yourself, ultimately their unsuccessful, but Davos does manage to find Gendry while he's there

Remember Gendry from that boat. He's back in an entirely different boat

Jamie tells Cersei that he met secretly with Tyrion and about the army of the Dead but she already knows all this

Dragon dragon queen. She also tells him that she's pregnant who uses his father

Yeah back at Dragonstone

Jon decides the only way to prove to everyone that the White Walkers are really really for real and he's super super

Serial about this is to go beyond the wall get a white and bring it back to show everyone

I'm the only one who is fooled

The only one here, who knows?

Going along for the ride are a renewed and invigorated Sir Jorah forgiving his trespasses

Plus torment and some other wildlings Gendry Thoris and barrack and their new friend the Hound

During the harsh journey Thoros is mauled to death by an undead bear

But the snow aside squad does manage to bag itself a white in doing so they discover that killing a white Walker

Also destroys all of the white serving them which is good to know

They get pinned down and have ginjury run back to Eastwatch on his own for help. You're the Fosters

No, no, and I'm not sure how the timing works on this one, but Daenerys flies up with her dragons to save everyone

But the night king manages to take out Vissarion with an iced javelin

With some help from Benjen Stark John and his group managed to get away

But benjin sadly is killed in the fighting again, I guess geez, this guy has more lives than a cat even worse for Humanity's sake

Viserion comes back to life as an undead ice dragon. That's gonna leave a mark

Daenerys now fully convinced of the threat of the White Walkers vows that she and John will destroy the night King together

It's also pretty obvious to everyone watching that these two have feelings for one another

Which is gonna be super weird in just a couple more minutes

Okay, almost there

So just about every living major character from the show thus far

Formally and officially meets up in King's Landing to talk about the white Walker situation

Tyrion reconnects with bran and Podrick it's good to see you again

Yeah, you too Brienne and King's Landing at santa's request makes her peace with the Hound

I'm Sammy trying to protect her and it's all very nice

present surprise in an unpleasant situation

Until they show everybody the white you're on just straight-up freaks out and leaves immediately for the Iron Islands

This is the only thing I've ever seen so terrified when Cersei finds out Jon has already declared for the Targaryen

She leaves the meeting the Dead will come with first. Enjoy dealing with me

We will deal with whatever is left of you Tyrion tries to reason with her. I would not care

And figures out that she's pregnant. But once he leaves Cersei reveals the full scope of her plans to Jaime

She's really in league with Joran who's off with his fleet pickin up the golden company once everyone else has exhausted themselves

Fighting the dead she's going to use her forces to wipe out whoever's left and stay in power

Jaime thinks this is crazy and dishonourable and crazy dishonourable

So he takes off leaving King's Landing just as the first snow begins to fall

Theon remember Theon pledges his allegiance to Jon then returns to the Iron Islands fights

This guy hard enough to prove himself and raises an army to save his sister yarr from the clutches of his uncle Euron. Yeah

Daenerys and John set sail together for Winterfell and totally like get it on along the way

Tyrion gets wise to what they're up to and seems

Concerned or perturbed he seems conserved and this may be why

Sam and Gilly have stumbled on some very telling clues about Jon's real identity and head to Winterfell

These clues and brands greensight are all our heroes need to put together the truth

Jon isn't really my father Phil Rhaegar Targaryen had his first marriage to Elia Martell annulled by the High Septon

So that he could marry Lyanna stark making their baby. Jon Snow a

legitimate highborn lord named

Which also makes Jon?

Daenerys his nephew. Ha you've been thrown these two

They just got thrown and as if that's not enough in the season's final scene

Eastwatch-by-the-sea is attacked by the night king riding an undead Viserion ice dragon together

They take out a big chunk of the wall as beric Dondarrion and tormund Giantsbane look on in horror and the White Walkers

begin to cross into Westeros

So that's pretty much everything

You need to know from all seven seasons of Game of Thrones and roughly the same time. You need to watch one episode

We've been here for some time and if we could get george RR martin to work at this pace

Maybe we wouldn't have to wonder if the show and the books are gonna end the same way

Thanks for watching. And now our cram has ended. Oh, oh or how about this? This cram was dark and full of terrors

Alright one more a cram astir always pays their debts. Ok. I'm clearly delirious. So it's time to go. See you next time