Beyond the wall, Bran Stark continued his journey to find the three eyed crow, alongside
Meera and Jojen Reed, his servant Hodor and the Direwolf Summer.
Throughout the journey he continued to practice his warging abilities, and had visions by
touching heart trees, hearing a voice that summoned him further north.
Among the images he saw, there was the frozen and barren throne room in the red keep and
the shadow of a dragon flying over KL.
Unfortunately, they soon found their way to Craster’s keep where they were captured
by the night’s watch traitors.
However when Jon Snow and his companions arrived, it was Locke who discovered Bran and the others,
attempting to kidnap the boy as part of his mission from the Boltons.
To stop him, Bran warged into Hodor and snapped his neck before trying to get Jon Snow’s
attention, only for Jojen to stop him, saying they must leave unnoticed or else his brother
would try to stop them from continuing on their mission.
After a long and harrowing journey, they at last reached the cave of the 3 eyed raven
but were immediately attacked by an army of undead wights trying to stop them.
Though Jojen died in the battle, one of the last Children of the Forest emerged from the
cave to help bring them inside where a protective spell protected them.
Bran then met an elderly man sitting amongst weirwood trees, revealing himself to be the
three eyes raven, who was waiting to train Bran as his replacement.
Far to the east as Daenerys Targaryen marched with her unsullied and freedman armies to
capture Meereen and complete the conquest of Slaver’s Bay, she was greeted by 163
slave children crucified along her path meant as a warning against her approach.
Enraged but what she saw, she ordered them taken down and buried, but not before personally
looking upon the face of everyone.
Laying siege to the city, the champion of Meereen came out of their gates to issue a
challenge which was answered by Daario Naharis who won a quick victory.
Daenerys then yelled out to the slaves attending their masters atop the walls of the city,
asking them to revolt before catapulting the broken chains of other freed slaves into the
city, to inspire them.
In order to further encourage an uprising, Greyworm and his unsullied infilitrated the
city through the sewer system, bringing weapons to arm the slaves.
After her victory, Daenerys randomly selected 163 of the great masters and crucified them
in retaliation for what they did to those children.
Having conquered all three major cities of slaver’s Bay, Daenerys did what none thought
possible, yet her victory was short lived, soon learning that the Wise Masters overthrew
the government left behind in Yunkai and once again ruled the city, while a butcher named
Cleon did the same in Astapor, naming himself King.
Though she now had the opportunity to sail to Westeros with 8000 unsullied and 2000 second
sons, she instead decided to remain to become Queen of Meereen, both so she might learn
to rule and to prevent the city from suffering the same fate as the others.
Unfortunately, the profound changes she implanted to their society came with many complications,
learning that some of her people, especially the elderly were happier as slaves, and wished
to sell themselves back into servitude.
She also learned that not all Great Masters were alike, as Hizdar zo Loraq went before
her to ask for the body of his father, one of them men she crucified, claiming that he
had no part in the killings and spoke out against them.
Impressed by the man, Daenerys named Hizdar her ambassador to the old Masters.
The situation then grew worse when the Queen was given a message from the hand of the king
Tywin Lannister in which he revealed that Jorah Mormont was originally working as a
spy for the court of Robert Baratheon.
Enraged by this betrayal, she exiled him from the city.
In addition to all the challenges she was facing, she also had to deal with the growing
problem of her dragons, when it was discovered Drogon burned a little girl to death while
on the hunt for food.
Though Drogon had flown off, Dany went against her own instincts as a mother to lock up Viserion
and Rhaegal in an underground tomb, in the hopes of limiting the possibility of another
innocent person being hurt.