What's “R+L=J”? How do you kill a White Walker? We answer important questions about the HBO drama.
Daenerys Targaryen sets off for Westeros with Tyrion Lannister. By Travis M. Andrews and Travis M. Andrews Pop culture reporter covering music, movies, TV, comedy and celebrity culture Email Bio Follow Elahe Izadi Elahe Izadi Pop culture writer Email Bio Follow April 2 at 4:44 PM The last episode of “Game of Thrones” aired nearly two years ago, so it’s likely you have a lot of burning questions before the final season begins April 14. We certainly did, so we compiled them all here.
Starks: Sisters Sansa and Arya Stark finally had a heart-to-heart in Winterfell and stopped feuding. Bran Stark is also back home, flexing his all-seeing powers. We’re throwing Jon Snow in here as a Stark, who we last saw on a ship en route to the North and, well, having sex with his aunt. Brienne of Tarth: We last saw her in the Dragonpit at King’s Landing, where she served as Sansa’s representative. She’s likely on her way back to the North.Lord Varys: The man with the little birdies whispering secrets aligned himself with Daenerys. He was at the Dragonpit but didn’t say much, so he’s likely northbound as well.
From the jump, something about this scenario seems off. The elder Stark was presented as a virtuous dude, but the audience is led to think that he strayed in a time of war. Not everyone was fooled, however, and the theory known simply at “R+L=J” began circulating. In the Season 7 finale, it was proved to be true.
How are Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen related? Daenerys is the daughter of the Mad King and brother to Viserys and Rhaegar. Given “R+L=J,” that makes Daenerys the aunt of Jon Snow. Unfortunately, the only characters who know this are Bran Stark and Samwell Tarly — and news didn’t reach Jon and Daenerys before they had sex in the Season 7 finale.
Grey Wind : Poor Grey Wind got it bad. Robb took the teethy pup with the Stark army as it marched toward King’s Landing, where Ned was being held. But at the Red Wedding, both Robb and Grey Wind were decapitated. The direwolf’s head was then sewn onto Robb’s body, which was put atop a horse. Eventually, Bran attempted to see through the eyes of the Night King, which created a psychic bond between them, allowing the Night King to enter Bran’s mind and vice versa. The Night King brought white walkers to the cave, where they killed the three-eyed raven. Bran escaped and, in doing so, became the three-eyed raven himself.
Fast-forward roughly a century and a half to Season 1, when Daenerys was given three petrified dragon eggs as a gift to celebrate her betrothal to Khal Drogo. She was drawn to the eggs, beginning to believe they could be hatched. But then a witch betrayed her, destroyed the baby in her womb, took away her ability to bear children and turned Khal Drogo into a vegetable .
In Season 7, however, the Night King threw an ice spear at Viserion, killing him. The Night King then reanimated the fallen dragon’s corpse, which was pretty bad news for everyone, particularly since the dragons can break through the Wall — which was exactly what zombie Viserion did, allowing the Army of the Dead to enter Westeros proper, setting up the show for the big war to come.
It appears that the White Walkers simply want to conquer the world, and that makes sense given their origins as basically being the weapons of the Children of the Forest. They’ve attacked before, thousands of years ago, and despite that “long winter,” they were eventually defeated, driven north and kept there by a newly built Wall.
Valyrian steel, meanwhile, is metal that was forged in the era of the ancient Valyrian civilization. Myth has it that the pieces were forged with magic and dragonfire, although no one knows for sure. All we do know is that the weapons cannot be forged any longer, and there is a finite amount left in the world.
In short, Arya can transform into different people. The rules surrounding this aren’t exactly clear, but it’s implied that she can only become people who have died.It’s a pretty useful skill to have if you happen to have a revenge list, filled with enemies you want to kill — like Arya does. The first person she took down after leaving the House of Black and White was every male under the tutelage of the now-late Walder Frey as revenge for the Red Wedding.
The Red Woman also gave birth to some shadow demon that killed Renly, has excellent skin despite being a few hundred years old and foresaw that Jon Snow and Daenerys needed to come together, saying that they “have a role to play” in the “long night to come,” which, presumably, refers to the White Walker invasion.
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