A Song Of Ice And Fire

Westeros Lore

King Aerys II Targaryen, the penultimate monarch of House Targaryen before the rebellion, sits at the root of one of Westeros’s most consequential family trees. As the father...

Characters

Sansa Stark is a central character in HBO’s Game of Thrones, adapted from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. As the eldest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark, sh...

A Song of Ice and Fire & Game of Thrones

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a sworn swordsman of the Faith of the Seven who holds a formal title granted by a king or their regent. In A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of T...

Status Updates

Jon Snow is a central figure in Game of Thrones whose story addresses questions of parentage, duty, sacrifice, and leadership. In the television series, Jon is revealed to be Ae...

book-series

George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire is the book series that underpins the television phenomenon Game of Thrones . This narrative profile explains the five published n...

A Song of Ice and Fire & Game of Thrones

Jon Snow receives his direwolf pup early in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones as a bastard son joining the Night’s Watch. In both the novels and the show, the norther...

Guides And Explainers

In the Season 5 episode "The Dance of Dragons," Hardhome suffers a devastating attack by the White Walkers and their army of the dead, resulting in large-scale wildling casualti...

Evergreen

Dunk and Egg refers to a series of novellas by George R. R. Martin set in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, focusing on the legendary knight Ser Duncan the Tall and his squir...

relationship-stories

The relationship between Ghost and Jon Snow is one of the most compelling human–animal bonds in modern fantasy. Ghost, the white wolf pup, and Jon Snow, the brooding Stark son...

Fiction

The rulers of the Seven Kingdoms are the monarchs who sit the Iron Throne in Westeros, traced from Aegon I Targaryen’s conquest to the present incumbent. This guide identifies...