Enacting a plan to gain support for Jon Snow as King of Westeros, Varys sent messages spreading
the word about his claim to the Iron throne.
However his attempts to sway Jon in that direction were entirely unsuccessful and the conspiracy
was soon discovered by Tyrion who reluctantly reported it to the Queen.
Grieving for the loss of her closest friend Missandei, Daenerys secluded herself on Dragonstone,
getting little sleep and refusing food.
Feeling isolated, desperate and unloved, she concluded her only path to the Throne was
to inspire fear, and in that vein executed the treasonous Master of Whisperers with dragon
fire.
Making plans to attack King’s Landing with her army and dragon, Tyrion begged her to
stop the attack if the people rang the city bells, signalling their surrender.
Though hesitant, she agreed before informing him that his brother Jaime was stopped trying
to return to the capital.
Blaming Tyrion for passing the information about Jon to Varys and speaking on Jaime’s
behalf in Winterfell, the Queen threatened the Hand against failing her again.
Despite the warning, Tyrion dismissed the Unsullied guarding his brother and released
him so he could travel to Cersei and flee with her to start a new life in Essos.
As the Battle of King’s Landing commenced, the capital was defended by the Lannister
Army, the Golden company, the iron fleet, and had many scorpions placed along the walls
and on their ships, all these preparations proved useless against the full might of the
dragon Drogon.
Who was able to dodge scorpion bolts while raining torrents of fire upon them.
After defeating Euron and burning the Iron fleet, Dany set fire to the scorpions on the
walls, blasted through the city gates and attacked the Golden Company and Lannister
forces outside the city.
With the gate destroyed, Grey worm and jon snow led the northmen, Dothraki and Unsulied
into the city streets, tearing their way through the defenders.
Pushing the enemy army back to the red keep, Drogon perched himself on a building and the
fighting momentarily subsided, as everyone came to the realization the Targaryens were
victorious.
The Lannister forces then threw down their swords and the city bells rang out, signalling
their surrender.
Despite agreeing to stop the attack when the bells were rung, Dany was so consumed by anger
and determined to set an example, she continued the attack and started massacring civilians
while destroying the city, street by street as well as targeting the Red Keep.
Seeing his Queen strike without mercy, Greyworm charged forward, leading the Targaryen army
to attack their unarmed Lannisters, creating further chaos and slaughter in the city streets.
Watching from the outer walls, Tyrion was horrified by what he saw, as was Jon Snow
who unsuccessfully tried to restrain his men.
Swimming to shore of Blackwater bat after his ship was destroyed, Euron Greyjoy encountered
Jaime Lannister as he made his way into the Red Keep and the two engaged in a fight to
the death.
Though Jaime suffered two grievous wounds, he killed Euron before slowly continuing on
his way to Cersei.
Meanwhile Sandor Clegane and Arya Stark were also on their way to see the Lannister Queen,
making it into the red keep while the city burned around them.
However when the hound saw how unlikely it was Cersei would escape alive, he convinced
Arya to abandon her self destructive need for revenge, as there was no coming back from
this mission.
Going their separate ways, Arya tried escaping through the city while Sandor continued forward,
eventually finding his brother Gregor Clegane as he escorted the Queen.
Carving his way through the other Queensguard, Sandor challenged Gregor to a fight but Cersei
demanded he stay by her side.
Though Qyburn tried reiterating her command, Gregor disobeyed for the first time since
his transformation, and killed the hand of the queen.
Cersei then left them to engage in a duel where Sandor struck a number of killing blows
only to learn Gregor seemed immune to pain and injury, and so seeing no other recourse,
the hound charged at him and crashed through a crumbling wall, launching both from a high
tower to their deaths in the burning ground below.
Scared and alone, Cersei broke down in tears when she found her brother Jaime, and the
two embraced before trying to escape in the boat Tyrion arranged for them.
However the passage was blocked by the collapsing keep, leaving the Lannister twins to die together,
crushed beneath falling stones.
With the city in ruins, and their own warriors at risk from Danys attack, Jon Snow ordered
his men to retreat and escape the city, while Arya ran from one tragic scene to another,
as men, women and children were brutally slaughtered.
Knocked down in the chaos, Arya was at risk of being trampled until she was saved by a
woman trying to flee with her daughter.
Seeing the woman again later, she tried to lead them to safety, but instead brought them
directly into a line of dragonfire, resulting in both their deaths.
Wounded, exhausted and enraged by all she saw, Arya soon found herself as the only person
left alive in the area, though a beautiful white horse also survived, which she then
mounted and rode through the street.
Though the Targaryen Queen was victorious, she not only eliminated the Iron Fleet, Scorpion
defenses, Lannister Army and Golden company, but also destroyed the city and wiped out
much of the population, with this portion of the campaign resulting in the deaths of
several important figures like Varys the Spider, Qyburn, Queen Cersei Lannister, King Euron Greyjoy,
Ser Jaime Lannister, Ser Gregor Clegane,and the Hound Sandor Clegane.