![]() When first he came to Dragonstone, the army of stone grotesques had made him uneasy, but as the years passed he had grown used to them. Their droppings speckled the gargoyles that rose twelve feet tall on either side of him, a hellhound and a wyvern, two of the thousand that brooded over the walls of the ancient fortress. It was here the ravens came, after long flight. The maester stood on the windswept balcony outside his chambers. The comet’s tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky. To John and Gail for all the meat and mead we’ve shared Meanwhile the Night's Watch, sworn to protect the realm from dangers north of the Wall, dwindle in numbers, even as barbarian forces gather and beings out of legend stalk the Haunted Forest Daenerys, the exiled last heir of the former ruling family, nurtures three dragons and seeks a way home. Robb Stark, declared King in the North, battles to avenge his father's execution and retrieve his sister from Joffrey's court. Both the dour Stannis and the charismatic Renly Baratheon, Robert's brothers, also seek the throne. ![]() Queen Cersei's family, the Lannisters, fight to hold it for him. ![]() Joffrey, Queen Cersei's sadistic son, ascends the Iron Throne following the death of Robert Baratheon, the Usurper, who won it in battle.
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