It began filming in July 2. December 2. 01. 4. Weiss return as executive producers and showrunners for both seasons five and six, having signed a new two- year contract with HBO in early 2. The storylines of the two books run concurrently but follow different sets of characters. Westeros is on the brink of collapse, and many are seizing what they can while the realm implodes, like a corpse making a feast for crows.

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The crazed boy- king Joffrey Baratheon, Tywin's grandson, is also dead after being poisoned at his own wedding, and succeeded by his younger and more pliable brother, Tommen. Queen Cersei Lannister succeeds her father as the head of House Lannister, and once again takes over as Queen Regent, as Tommen has yet to come of age. Cersei has been blocked by several powerful men over the years, including her husband King Robert Baratheon and his friend Eddard Stark, but due to her betrayals they are both dead. Now with even Tywin and Joffrey dead, and Tyrion fleeing the realm, there are no more checks on Cersei's power, and she is essentially the Ruling Queen of the Seven Kingdoms in all but name. However, Cersei is neither a master strategist nor a skilled diplomat (unlike her father and brother) and she faces mounting crises that would have strained even their abilities.

The Iron Throne was already in massive debt to foreign banks before the war even began, and the Lannisters' immense wartime spending increased the crown's debts to crippling levels. The Lannisters must now desperately attempt to placate the Iron Bank of Braavos, by far the largest of the foreign banks, and the one which the crown owes most of its huge debts to. The Riverlands, where most of the war was fought, have been reduced to a burned out husk. Nominally the Lannisters and their House Frey allies control the Riverlands, but it has been reduced to a lawless and corpse- filled devastation, hardly controlled by anyone.

Winter is fast approaching, but instead of stockpiling harvests the past few years, the great lords have been busy destroying one of the main breadbasket regions of the Seven Kingdoms. Combined with the realm's massive debts to foreign banks, starvation level conditions are starting to set in for the smallfolk across the realm. Outraged by the willful indifference of their rulers to their well- being for so long, commoners are starting to fall back onto old cultural touchstones, channeling their frustration into religious fanaticism. A popular disgust movement spreads across Westeros, and makes its way to the capital. The Lannisters only managed to win on the battlefield with the armies and food resources won by their alliance with the House Tyrell of the Reach.

Now that Tywin is dead, and Margaery is soon to be King Tommen's queen, the Tyrells are no longer pretending to be polite to the Lannisters, but openly demanding greater concessions and key positions of power. With half of the Lannister armies slaughtered by Robb Stark during the war, their financial resources depleted, and the Tyrells controlling the only major breadbasket region untouched by the war, the Lannisters are having to face the reality that the Tyrells hold numerous advantages over them. Just as Robert Baratheon became king only to become dependent on the support of the Lannisters, the Lannisters have now become dependant on the Tyrells. Adding even further to her woes is that the king's Small Council has been gutted, with Hand of the King Tywin dead, Master of Coin. Petyr Baelish leaving for the Eyrie, and both Tyrion and Master of Whisperers.

Varys fleeing the capital city. Of the original Small Council when the Lannisters first seized power, only Grand Maester. Pycelle remains. With nearly all the other Great Houses defeated or half- exhausted, the fresh armies of the Vale and Dorne can drastically alter the political playing field, depending on which side they choose to join. The secret architect of the conflict, it was Littlefinger who was responsible for poisoning Robert's Hand, Jon Arryn, by conspiring with his own wife Lysa Arryn.

Littlefinger then engineered the betrayal of Eddard Stark, only to later assist Olenna Tyrell in assassinating King Joffrey at his own wedding. Baelish has now murdered Lysa, mere days after wedding her, and seized power over the Vale as regent for her young son. For the moment, Baelish remains in the Vale, consolidating his new hold over the Vale lords through his stepson Robin and his position as Lord Protector of the Vale.

Alongside Baelish is the black- haired . Leading the call to enter the war against the Lannisters are Oberyn's paramour, Ellaria Sand, and the eldest of his eight daughters: Obara, Nymeria, and Tyene. But Doran Martell, the Prince of Dorne and Oberyn's older brother, continues to urge restraint. Further complicating the matter is that early in the war, the Lannisters bribed the Martells into staying neutral by offering a marriage- alliance, sending Cersei's daughter Myrcella to Dorne to betroth her to Doran's son Trystane. Myrcella is still a ward living in Dorne's capital, Sunspear. The massive assault against Castle Black by the wildling army of Mance Rayder was defeated at the last moment by the surprise arrival of Stannis Baratheon and his remaining forces.

Stannis withdrew from his island stronghold Dragonstone to reach the Wall by sea, to defend the realm of which he feels he is the only rightful king. With his home territories in the Stormlands overrun, Stannis needs to win the allegiance of Robb Stark's defeated bannermen, to rally the North again as a springboard against Lannister rule, as well as the support of Jon Snow, who therefore must walk a political tightrope between Stannis and his vows, since the Night's Watch is sworn to strict political neutrality. Though the battle against the wildlings is all but over, the Night's Watch is in its own dire conditions.

With almost all of the Watch's top officers either killed or missing, among them Lord Commander Jeor Mormont and First Ranger Benjen Stark, the organization has been left leaderless during this time of crisis, and therefore will have to navigate a contentious election for a new Lord Commander. All the while, the White Walkers and their ever- growing army of the dead are bearing down on the Wall itself, intent on spilling over it to destroy the lands of men beyond, who remain ignorant of the long- forgotten but all- too- real danger. The Boltons switched to the Lannister side during the betrayal at the Red Wedding, during which their leader Lord Roose Bolton personally killed Robb Stark, and they have been installed as the new rulers of the North in the name of King Tommen and the Lannisters. With the other Northern Houses defeated and weakened, the Lannister- backed Bolton army can now suppress any feeble opposition to their rule. Meanwhile, Roose's sociopathic bastard son Ramsay Snow - now legitimized as Ramsay Bolton - is the new Lord of Winterfell under his father, reoccupying the castle which he personally burned out previously. With the Boltons in power, Ramsay is now free to commit numerous atrocities throughout the North, such as flaying men alive and hunting and killing young women for sport.

Various areas of the North's western coast are still held by ironborn invaders under Balon Greyjoy, who chose to crown himself as King of the Iron Islands and attack the North during Robb Stark's march south rather than ally with him against the Lannisters. Watch Blood Of Redemption Online Freeform. Balon's son and heir, Theon, who himself was a ward of Lord Eddard Stark and one of Robb's closest advisors, turned on the Starks and led the assault himself but was betrayed by his own men and is now a prisoner of the Boltons, having been brutally flayed, tortured, and psychologically broken by Ramsay himself, who has reduced Theon to his personal slave, . Accompanied by Varys, he arrives in the east, unaware that the erstwhile Master of Whisperers might yet have secrets to reveal.

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But, as the new season of Game of Thrones picks up speed, the sense of an approaching endgame is increasingly palpable. The dramatic stakes were certainly raised in the second episode. We reconnected with Arya, were introduced to the political complexities and wonderful shrubbery of Dorne and witnessed Daenerys's grip on power slip after she tried to do the right thing – always a rash option in Go. T. Key Event. Good news for fans of giant, grumpy flying lizards as Drogon the Dragon returned. And just in time, as Daenerys had surely started to wonder if there was anybody left in the desert city of Meereen she could fully trust.

She had, after all, provoked her previously faithful subjects by presiding over the public execution of the loyal ex- slave who went behind her back and killed a member of the Sons of the Harpy as the insurgent awaited trial. To Daenerys, the ensuing beheading, carried out before a baying mob, was justified and necessary. The dead prisoner had been entitled to due process – the pre- eminence of the rule of law being one of the principles upon which her reign was based. But the unwashed masses were appalled and, with riots erupting between former slaves and their one- time masters, the .

As she trotted away, protected by a human shield of Unsullied, perhaps she recalled a veiled warning earlier in the episode from Ser Barristan regarding the unfortunate habit of her father, the Mad King, of conflating recriminatory violence with decisive leadership. Later, gazing forlornly from her chambers high in the pyramid fortress, the Mother of Dragons detected the familiar rustle of wings. On the balcony, she reconnected with Drogon, biggest and scariest of her fire- breathing brood. Having snorted sweet nothings in her direction, Drogon soared into the horizon. We may reasonably assume it will not be the last Daenerys, or the restive citizens of Meereen, see of him. Quote of the Week. Every pile of s*** on the side of every road has someone's banner hanging from it.

She had crossed the Narrow Sea to Braavos, a Venice- like warren watched over by a giant iron Titan. She was en route to the House of Black and White, hoping to resume acquaintances with shape- shifting assassin Jaqen H'ghar.

Alas, a scowling stranger in robes told her nobody within answered to that name. Nonplussed, Arya sat on the steps, spending all night reciting her . Unfortunately, Braavos was the not the sort of city where you simply walked around swinging a headless pigeon and she was quickly surrounded by local hoodlums. But when an apparent doppleganger of the grumpy gatekeeper appeared the bullies fled. Back at the House of Black and White he removed his hood and, by the time the camera panned all the way behind Arya, had assumed the likeness of Jaqen. To forge alliances with minor noblemen across the north, he required a Stark at his side.

If Snow swore loyalty on bended knee – we were reminded again that Stannis was big on knee- bending – Baratheon would declare him a full- fledged Stark, removing the taint of illegitimacy. He'd sworn an oath to the Night's Watch – if he was truly a Stark he would stay true to his word. The Night's Watch version of a leaders' debate ensued, with Snow a late entry into the race. There was lots of predictable mud- slinging on behalf of frontrunner Alliser Thorne, who raised the voter- sensitive issue of Snow's Wildling lover (it had tested well with focus groups). Samwell, exulting in the role of spin- doctor, retorted by pointing out that Jon had led the defence of Castle Black as others, notably Thorne's advocate Janos Slynt, cowered in the basement – a hearts- and- minds plea that carried the day. Handed victory by Maester Aemon's casting vote, for a fleeting moment something like a smile danced across Snow's mouth.

Then it was gone, the portcullis of imperturbability slamming shut once more. Cersei and Jaime. The prophecy scene from last week had provided an insight into Cersei's toxic world view. As a teenager she had been told she would be usurped, Snow White- style, by someone younger and prettier and that her children were bound for early graves. With smirking Margaery apparently determined to make the first half of the prediction come true as soon as possible, Cersei received what seemed to be a mortal threat against her daughter Myrcella, the girl's necklace attached to a porcelain snake. This, she concluded, was a none- to- subtle message from the rulers of Dorne, the southern kingdom to which Myrcella had been packed off for an arranged marriage. Revenge would be extracted, Cersei feared, for the death at King's Landing of Dorne princeling Oberyn Martell.

All of this she frantically explained to Jaime, who asked her not to shout, lest an eavesdropper understand brother and sister were referring to their incestuously conceived daughter. Nor did he intend to – he was to recruit a surprised Bronn, presented with the bombshell as he took a beach- side walk with the ditzy heiress he'd planning on marrying. Back at King's Landing, Cersei called a meeting of senior advisors, explaining she was speaking for young regent Tommen in his absence.

Creepy necromancer Qyburn would, she added, be new Master of Whisperers – provoking the cold fury of her uncle Kevan Lannister. He dismissed her as .

Watching disapprovingly was Ellaria Sand, Oberyn's lover, who advocated slicing the teenager up and couriering the parts to King's Landing. Consequently, Tyrion was wisely maintaining a low profile – no matter that he was on the far side of the Narrow Sea. He and Varys were traveling by covered wagon to Meereen, with the foggy intent of forging an alliance with Daenerys. As was his wont lately, Tyrion was drinking and grousing, prompting Varys to wonder if the dwarf would spend the entire journey talking . And now here he was, hiding in a darkened wagon.