Game Of Thrones Recap (season 1-7) Before Season 8 Starts

• Members of the Night’s Watch encounter a White Walker, a supernatural being thought to be a mythical creature, in the forest.
• Robert Baratheon, the King of Westeros, visits his friend and confident Ned Stark, the Warden of the North, to invite him to serve at his side as Hand of the King after the sudden death of Jon Arryn. Ned’s two daughters Sansa and Arya travel with him to King’s Landing.
• Cersei Lannister (Robert’s wife) and her family are said to be behind the death of Jon Arryn. Ned’s son Bran sees Cersei and her brother Jaime in bed together. Jaime pushes Bran from the window tower which leaves him paralyzed.
•  Queen Cersei’s dwarf brother Tyrion accompanies Ned’s bastard son Jon Snow to the Night’s Watch to investigate the White Walker sighting. Jon Snow stays with the Night’s Watch and when Tyrion returns, Catelyn Stark (Ned’s wife) arrests him because she thinks he’s responsible for Bran’s fall. She imprisons him at her sister’s castle in the Vale but he is released after he enlists Bronn to fight for him and wins his trial by combat.
• The king is fatally wounded in a suspicious hunting accident so Ned is named Protector of the Realm until Cersei’s son Joffrey comes of age. Ned, however, decides Robert’s brother Stannis Baratheon should be on the throne instead of him but is then betrayed by councillor Lord Petyr Baelish (Little finger) and Ned is beheaded on Joffrey’s order.
• Sansa is arrested and held captive by the Lannisters while her sister Arya escapes. Robb, Ned’s older son is named King of the North and rallies his troops to fight the Lannisters.
• A Dothraki warlord across the Narrow Sea named Khal Drogo marries a young woman named Daenerys Targaryen who is said to be the true heir to the Iron Throne. She plots to win back her throne but her husband is hexed by a witch but Daenerys avenges him and hatches 3 dragons from the eggs he presented to her as a wedding gift.

• Tyrion becomes Hand of the King in order to keep an eye out on Joffrey while he reigns. Stannis fall under the spell of a witch named Melisandre and publicly claims he is the true heir to the throne since Joffrey is actually the child of Cersei and her brother.
• Robb’s army goes south and imprisons Jaime Lannister. Meanwhile, Theon Greyjoy, a young man raised in Winterfell with the Stark family, is asked by Robb to seek an alliance with his father, Balon Greyjoy. However, Theon betrays the Starks and captures Winterfell. Bran Stark runs away into the wilderness to survive.
• Robb sends his mother Catelyn to meet Renly Baratheon (Stannis’ younger brother) who also wants to be king. Catelyn asks him to join forces with his brother but Renly refuses and he is murdered by an evil spirit Stannis’ witch has created.
• Brienne of Tarth (Renly’s bodyguard) and Catelyn flee since they are accused of the assassination of Renly. Once reunited with Robb, his mother and he conspire to release Jaime so he can be swapped for Sansa.
• John joins the Wildlings after discovering infant sacrifices at the Wall. Arya is captured by Lannister soldiers, who think she is a boy, and is imprisoned and becomes a servant for patriarch Tywin Lannister at Harrenhall. She escapes with the help of Jaqen H’ghar, one of the Faceless Men of Essos.
• Stannis tries to invade King’s Landing but fails because of Tyrion’s use of wildfire.
• Daenerys arrives at Qarth to convince them to fight with her to regain the Iron Throne but ends up imprisoned in the House of the Undying. Thankfully, she escapes and pillages the city as revenge.

• Tyrion is demoted from Hand by his father Tywin and is forced to marry Sansa. Joffrey is engaged to Margaery Tyrell, Renly’s widow, to establish a Lannister-Tyrell alliance.
• Jon Snow meets Wildlings leader Mance Rayder who anticipates a battle with the White Walkers. Snow falls in love with a wildling named Ygritte.
• Robb decides not to marry Roslin Frey after falling in love with another woman. The Starks are invited to Roslin’s wedding to another man but the invitation ends up being a trap by her father Lord Walder Frey. Robb, his pregnant wife and Catelyn, as well as their bannermen, are murdered with the blessing of the Lannisters.
• Arya witnesses the Red Wedding and is saved by Sandor “The Hound” Clegane. Roose Bolton is named Warden of the North after helping to kill the Starks.
• Bran discovers he can project himself into the body of a dire wolf, Brienne and Jaime head south and Daenerys gathers an army of 8,000 Unsullied soldiers.

• Joffrey dies after being poisoned at his own wedding. Sansa is smuggled away by Littlefinger from the castle after the Lannister’s think she murdered Joffrey. He takes her to her aunt’s house in the Vale.
• Sansa’s aunt has lost her mind and turns on Sansa but is then killed by Littlefinger.
• Jaime (who lost his hand) and Brienne arrive at King’s Landing only to find out that Sansa has escaped. Brienne vows to find the missing princess.
• Cersei blames her dwarf brother for her son’s death. Tyrion is allowed a trial by combat but his champion, Oberyn Martell is defeated by Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane so he is imprisoned.
• Jaime frees his brother and Tyrion discovers his mistress has been sleeping with his father. He kills his mistress and then kills his father before escaping King’s Landing. Tyrion crosses the Narrow Sea so he can meet Daenerys and defeat Cersei.
• Roose Bolton returns to Winterfell and finds out his bastard son, Ramsay Bolton, has tortured Theon and has renamed him “Reek”.
• Jon returns to the Night’s Watch to warn them about Mance’s advancing forces. Stannis’ men ride north to help the Night’s Watch.
• Brienne finds Arya and The Hound but Arya runs away to study with Jaqan H’ghar at the House of Black and White in Braavos.

• Stannis and his troops defeat Mance and the wildlings and Jon Snow becomes the leader of the Night’s Watch even though many disapprove. Melisandre convinces Stannis to burn his daughter for a sacrifice to the gods. His troops no longer respect him.
• Littlefinger brings Sansa to Ramsay Bolton in order for them to get married so the Starks could regain Winterfell.
• Stannis fights the Boltons but his men desert him because of what he’s done. Brienne kills Stannis and finds Sansa in Winterfell while Melisandre escapes to Castle Black. Sansa escapes from the crazy and sadistic Ramsey.
• Cersei conspires against Margaery who is now married to Tommen, her youngest son who is now king.
• After going against the High Sparrow (the leader of a cult), Cersei is forced to enact a naked “walk of shame” in the streets of King’s Landing.
• Daenerys captures the city of Mereen with her army but she struggles to keep hold of the city since the Sons of the Harpy rise against her. Her army fights the Harpies and Daenerys is whisked away by her dragons to a Dothraki horde.
• Tyrion and Daenerys meet and he rules her army in her absence.
• Jon tries to form an alliance with the wildlings to save everyone from the White Walkers. The Night King (king of the White Walkers) kills many and forces the Night’s Watch to retreat to their castle. Jon is killed by the men of the Night’s Watch.

• Melisandre brings Jon Snow back to life and he takes back control of the Night’s Watch but also plans to take back Winterfell from Ramsay. He is reunited with Sansa.
• Ramsay and his army are defeated and killed by Jon Snow when the Knights of the Vale unexpectedly join forces with him.
• Cersei faces trial for her sexual misconducts but decides to blow up the Great Sept of Baelor and thus kills Margaery and the High Sparrow. Tommen is so sad his wife is dead that he commits suicide.
• Daenerys becomes a prisoner of the Dothraki since they believe widows of previous Khals need to be secluded like other widows. She shows them her divine powers and is released. She returns to Mereen.
• Theon is free from Ramsay and returns to his home in the Iron Islands to join forces with his sister to fight their uncle.
• Arya leaves the House of Black and White and decides to murder Walder Frey to revenge her family.
• Bran has been training with the “Three-Eyed Raven” who is then killed by the Night King.

• Daenerys goes to Dragonstone with the ships given to her by the Theon and Yara Greyjoy. Melisandre convinces Daenerys to join forces with Jon Snow to win the Iron Throne.
• Jon Snow meets Daenerys at Dragonstone. They make a plan to defeat the Lannisters and the White Walkers. The Unsullied are sent to King’s Landing.
• Cersei considers marrying Theon’s evil uncle Euron Greyjoy if he can win the battle against his niece and nephew. He does defeat them.
• The Lannisters fight against the Dothraki and injure one of Daenerys’ dragons Drogon with a special weapon.
• Jaime warns Cersei of Daenerys’ power. Jon and Daenerys head to the north to fight the White Walkers after calling a truce with Cersei. The Night King traps Jon and in the process, Daenerys loses her dragon Viserion, which becomes a dragon White Walker.
• Daenerys and Jon bring a captured White Walker to Cersei to convince her to fight with them. Jon and Daenerys become intimate on their way back to Winterfell.
• Arya, Sansa and Bran and reunited at Winterfell but Littlefinger tries to make the two sisters hate each other. Bran reveals it was Littlefinger who killed Jon Arryn, so Sansa has him executed. Bran learns that Jon Snow is not Ned’s bastard but the son of his sister Lyanna and has a legitimate claim to the Iron Throne.
• The Night King break the Wall with the help of the dragon. Winter has come.

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