Have you missed the Game of Thrones craze and are looking for a quick catch-me-up, or generally just want to refresh yourself on the madness of the series' last six seasons? Well, if you don't have 60 hours to commit to watching the hit HBO series, IGN has you covered.
We took on the unenviable task of trying to summarize Game of Thrones in a five minute package. A lot of material hit the the cutting room floor (sorry Brienne, Davos, Melisandre, Sam and... well, pretty much all this show's secondary characters) but here is our best succinct breakdown of everything that's happened so far in Game of Thrones.
Beware: spoilers are coming.
This is a world where magic used to exist. But at the outset of Season 1, it’s politics that rule the continent of Westeros, and the concept of magic isn’t something that many people still believe in. The series opens with undead creatures known as the White Walkers killing men, so the audience knows there are obviously more supernatural forces at work here.
Historically, the house Targaryen and their dragons ruled Westeros. But a decade and a half before the events of Season 1, a usurper named Robert Baratheon overthrew King Aerys II Targaryen and took control of Westeros’s Iron Throne. Only two Targaryens escaped -- more on them in a bit -- but this is the political backdrop from which we pick up in Season 1.
The show opens with Robert, his wife Cersei Lannister and their family traveling to Winterfell to visit the home of Robert’s close friend and old war buddy Eddard Stark. Robert asks Ned to be his Hand of the King after the death of Jon Arryn, the former Hand of the King.
Ned agrees only after hearing that the Lannisters murdered Jon Arryn, and that Robert might be next. When Ned’s son Bran catches Cersei and her twin brother Jaime having sex, Jaime throws the boy out the window, hoping to kill him. Though no one knows the Lannisters were behind Bran’s fall, (even he can’t remember), this move incites the series-long political rivalry between the Starks and the Lannisters. Salt on the wound: we later learn the Lannisters weren’t even behind Jon Arryn’s death.
Ned brings his daughters, the ladylike Sansa and tiny buttkicker Arya, with him to King’s Landing. His heir Robb stays behind to rule Winterfell with Catelyn, the now-paralyzed Bran and the youngest Stark, Rickon. But Ned’s arrival at King’s Landing is a rude awakening: Robert’s a terrible king, and has run Westeros into major debt. He’s also been cheating on his wife like crazy and has a bunch of illegitimate heirs, which leads Ned to the revelation that Cersei’s three children are actually her kids with her brother Jaime, NOT with the king. Gross.
Robert dies soon after their return thanks to Cersei’s devious machinations, and her cruel son Joffrey becomes king. Ned also gets the axe -- literally -- early on in the series after not being a very good player at the game of thrones. Lesson: don’t piss off Cersei Lannister. Westeros quickly spirals into chaos.
When rumors of King Joffrey’s questionable claim to the throne spread, various forces, including Robb Stark, rise up against the crown. The good Tyrion Lannister does his best to hold the country together. But when his family repeatedly betrays him, he finally burns ties with them, kills his father, and departs Westeros a fugitive.
Luckily, he’s one of a few people who realize that the likely heir to the Iron Throne is raising power across the Narrow Sea to the East.
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