Game of Thrones Season One Ultimate Unofficial Guide: The Game of Thrones Season 1

when he twists the truth about being attacked by Arya’s wolf without any care of what will happen to everyone involved. As a result, Sansa’s wolf and the butcher’s son are killed. When his mother tends to his wound and is asking him questions about how he will rule, we see that he intends to be a cruel tyrant, much like the Mad King Aerys. Knowing he is the result of incest implies that he might have a strain of madness that will become apparent when he is given power. He does not possess the ability to consider the consequences for his actions and only wants to be feared by everyone. Despite Sansa’s pleas and his mother’s advice to show Ned mercy, he still has Ned beheaded as an example of what happens to traitors. He does not stop to think that this action will bring war upon the kingdom. He thinks the crown makes him untouchable. Viewers can only hope his reign does not last long.

Episode 10: Fire and Blood
    We pick up right where we had left with Ned’s head rolling and the sword dripping blood. Yoren immediately gets Arya out of the crowd and out of sight. He begins to cut her hair short and keeps calling her boy. She protests, but then realizes who Yoren is and that he is only protecting her. She ends up as the orphan boy Arry in the group of recruits being taken to The Wall. Some of the bigger boys bully her, but Robert’s first bastard son, Gendry, comes to her aid. He says his master got tired of him and let him go so he is choosing a life at The Wall because there is nowhere else for him.
    At The Wall, Jon attempts to desert at night, but his new brothers of the Night’s Watch stop him and change his mind. The next morning, the leaders of The Watchmen gather a force to go beyond The Wall to search for Benjen and signs of awakened terrors. Jon is asked to ride with the troop, getting the responsibility and honor he originally wanted.
    We find Bran dreaming again about the crow and the crypt. The Wildling servant girl carries him into the crypt to reassure him that his father is not there as in the dream. He tells her the story of what happened to his aunt, Lyanna, and how Robert started a war to get her back after Rhaegar Targaryen kidnapped her. Suddenly a direwolf comes at them and Bran’s little brother, Rickon, comes out of the shadows. We learn that he and Bran have been having the same dream and Rickon insists that it is true. As they exit the crypt and the servant girl attempts to calm them down, they are intercepted with the news of Ned’s death.
    Cat and Robb receive the news about Ned and they both grieve and plot revenge. That night Robb announces his attack plans to the banner leaders and is declared King in the North by his bannermen. Theon swears his allegiance to Robb.
    In King’s Landing, Joffrey orders a bard’s tongue cut out after being insulted by a humorous song about him that the bard was playing in taverns. He then takes Sansa and makes her stare at her father’s head on a stake, along with others she knew. Somewhere in all this, it is revealed to us that Cersei has a naked Lancell in her private chambers. He is difficult to identify at first without the silly squire outfit he donned while serving Robert. We also encounter Maester Pycelle in his private chambers talking away to Ros, the red-haired prostitute, about his 67 years of service to the various kings. We learn that Aerys, the Mad King, had dreams of fire and blood that drove him mad. After Ros leaves, the old man gets up off the bed, stretches, and cracks some joints, nimble as can be. He dresses and then assumes his bent stature again just before leaving his room. In the throne room, Baelish and Varys exchange polite insults and question each other’s motives before being interrupted by Joffrey. At the Lannister battle camp, Tywin considers his war options now that peace is out of the question due to Joffrey’s actions. He names Tyrion Hand of the King in his place and sends him to King’s Landing to try to straighten out his sister and nephew.
    Daenerys awakens to discover that her son is dead, her husband is comatose, and the priestess had ulterior motives and had intended them harm. Her baby is described as having been deformed and scaled. Without hope that Drogo will wake up, Daenerys smothers him with a pillow. Before lighting Drogo’s funeral pyre, Daenerys frees the slaves and welcomes them to stay as equals. She has the dragon eggs placed on the platform with Drogo. Jorah expresses his fear that