Theon Greyjoy arrived on the Iron Islands with a proposal of alliance from Robb Stark.
But Theon’s father told him they would instead invade the North while Robb’s army was occupied
in the south.
Theon, though hesitant, chose to betray Robb and help his father.
At the Battle of Ox Cross, King Robb Stark battled Ser Stafford Lannister with House
Stark and their Tully allies victorious.
Arya befriended Jaqen Hgar and ordered the deaths of Chiswyck and Weese
Melisendre used her Red Magic to assassinate King Renly Baratheon on behalf of King Stannis
Baratheon.
Most of the Stormland forces switched sides to Stannis, while Soldiers of the Reach followed
Ser Loras Tyrell back to High Garden.
Jon Snow joined Qhorin Halfhands party beyond the wall and went scouting at the fist of
the First Men With the Ironborn invasion of the North underway,
Theon Greyjoy disobeyed orders, moving in land to instead take Winterfell.
Melisendre used her Red Magic to assassinate Ser Cortnay Penrose on behalf of King Stannis
Baratheon to aid in capturing Storm’s End.
Theon faked the death of Bran and Rickon Stark, who were hiding in the crypts of Winterfell.
Ser Edmure Tully disobeyed the orders of King Robb Stark and attacked Lord Tywin Lannister
in the Battle of the Fords.
Edmure was victorious, forcing Tywin’s retreat, but his actions disrupted Robb’s longterm
plans for the war.
Barristan Selmy became advisor to Daenerys Targaryen, posing as Arstan Whitebeard.
At the Battle of the Blackwater, King Stannis Baratheon led his armies against Lord Tyrion
Lannister, commanding on behalf of King Joffrey Baratheon in the Battle of the Blackwater.
Though Stannis came close to victory, Lord Tywin arrived with a Lannister-Tyrell army
just in time to push the Baratheon forces into retreat.
As a result the Kingdom learned that House Tyrell had pledged to King Joffrey Baratheon.
Tyrion Lannister suffers a great injury in the battle, losing most of his nose.
Jon Snow met Ygritte, a Wildling woman he came to love.
King Robb Stark captured the Crag in the Westerlands.
Robb’s mother Catelyn Stark freed Jaime Lannister, in the hopes the Lannisters would
return Sansa and Arya, sending Brienne of Tarth to accompany him to King’s Landing.
With Tywin’s returned to the capital, he took up his position as Hand of the King while
Tyrion became Master of Coin After being captured and on the orders of
Qhorin himself.
Jon Snow feigned betrayal and killed Qhorin Halfhand, in order to win the trust of the
wildling and act as a spy.
Robb betrayed his word to Lord Frey of the Twins, by Marrying a minor noble woman Jeyne
Westerling.
Theon lost Winterfell, and was taken captive by Ramsay Snow, on behalf of Roose Bolton.
Winterfell was burned.
Arya Stark used Jaqen Hgar to help her escape Harrenhall and was given a coin along with
the phrase Valar Morgulus, before Jaqen changed his face and went his own way.
The gift, he said would grant her passage to Braavos.
Daenerys obtained an army of Unsullied Warriors and conquered the city of Astapor, leaving
a Ruling Council before departing.
Bran and Rickon Stark separated and fled north, with Osha leading Rickon and Shaggydog to
Skagos while Bran, Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Summer went in search of the 3 eyed crow which
continued to haunt Bran’s dreams.
Lady Margaery Tyrell came to King’s Landing and was betrothed to King Joffrey Baratheon.
Freeing Sansa from King Joffrey’s constant abuse.
Daenerys Conquered Yunkai.
White Walkers attacked the Great Ranging beyond the Wall, forcing their retreat to Craster’s
Keep At the Battle of Duskendale, Lord Robett Glover
battled Lord Randyl Tarley and Ser Gregor Clegane.
The Glover forces were defeated Robett was taken captive.
Jaime and Brienne were captured by the Mercenary Company the Brave Companions.
Jaime’s sword hand was removed by Zollo the fat, a merciless Dothraki fighting for
the companions.
Lord Rickard Karstark disobeyed his King and murdered Lannister prisoners.
Robb beheaded the Lord as punishment, and so the Karstark forces abandoned his campaign.
Sansa Stark married Tyrion Lannister.
Stannis and Melisandre threw 3 leeches into a fire and performed a magical enchant calling
on the deaths of Joffrey Baratheon, Robb Stark and Balon Greyjoy.
King Balon died soon after under mysterious circumstances.
Having fallen off a bridge during a storm, though many suspect assassination.
After sometime with the Brotherhood without Banners, Arya was captured by the Hound Sandor
Clegane.
Daenerys Targaryen besieged the city of Meereen.
After learning that Arstan was Barristan Selmy and Jorah Mormont was once a spy for King
Robert, she sent them on a suicide mission to help capture the city.
But they both survived and succeed in their objective.
Ser Barristan was forgiven but Jorah was dismissed after he demanded an apology.
Meereen was Captured Jon Snow scaled the Wall with some Wildling
scouts, on behalf of Mance Rayder.
At Kraster’s keep, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont and the Night’s watch suffer mutiny, and
many are killed including the Lord Commander and Kraster.
Samwell Tarley fled the fighting with Gilly, a daughter of kraster, and her baby.
Jon, now south of the wall, managed to escape from the wildlings and returned to Castle
Black.
Bran enlisted Sam and Gilly to help them pass the wall.
There they encountered Coldhands, a mysterious creature, appearing to be an undead Wight,
but without hostility and clear intelligence.
At the Twins, Robb Stark was betrayed by Lord Frey and Roose Bolton at the wedding of Edmure
and Roslin Frey.
The event became known as the Red Wedding, and saw the death of Robb Stark, Catelyn Stark,
the Direwolf Grey Wind, the destruction of the Stark army, the capture of Edmure Tully
and Great Jon Umber.
Robb’s wife Jeyne Westerling was safe in Riverrun at the time and her family connections
ensured her safety from the Lnnisters..
3 days later Catelyn Stark was resurrected by a magical ritual where Beric Dondarrion
sacrificed his life so she could live.
She took the name Lady Stoneheart and assumed control of the Brotherhood without Banner.
Above all else she desires vengeance against the Lannisters.
King Joffrey Baratheon married Lady Margaery Tyrell, but during the wedding feast, the
king is poisoned and died, in an event that came to be known as the Purple Wedding.
In her rage Queen Cersei ordered her hated brother Tyrion Lannister arrested for Regicide,
though he appeared to be innocent.
With King Joffrey dead, his younger brother Tommen inherited the Throne.
Oberyn Martell offered to represent Tyrion in a trial by combat while Queen Cersei named
Gregor Clegane as her champion.
Oberyn was killed in the fighting and Tyrion was sentenced to death, but Oberyn was able
to wound The Mountain with a poisoned spear, leaving him severely injured.
Petyr Baelish went to the Vale of Arryn with Sansa Stark.
There, he married Lysa Tully and became Lord of the Vale.
He then killed Lysa, and it was revealed that Littlefinger arranged the death of Jon Arryn,
and set the Starks against the Lannisters, igniting the civil war.
Marillion the singer was blamed for Lysa’s death and lost his eyes and some fingers.
Lord Baelish set to consolidating his power with Sansa Stark acting as his ally.
Arya left the Hound Sandor Clegane to die of his injuries, and boarded a ship to Braavos.
War at the Wall with Mance Rayder and his Wildling Army attacking the Night’s Watch.
With Jaime back in King’s Landing, Brienne of Tarth went off in search of Sansa Stark
in honor of the deceased Lady Catelyn.
In Dorne, the Sand snakes, the eldest daughters of Oberyn Martell, were imprisoned.
A Kingsmoot was held on the Iron Islands, where Euron Greyjoy, Balon’s younger brother
was elected King.
He promised the Ironborn a full scale invasion of Westeros and that he would bring Dragons
to aid their cause.
He presented the Dragonhorn, a relic from ancient Valyria he claimed could control the
creatures.
Jaime Lannister and Varys the Spider arranged for Tyrion to escape the city, but before
leaving he used the secret tunnels of Maegor’s Holdfast to reach his father’s room.
There he found his former lover, the prostitute Shae and killed her, then moving on to find
his father in the privy.
Tyrion shot his father with a crossbow, killing Lord Tywin, Hand of the King.
Tyrion then set sail for Pentos, while Varys the Spider went into hidingda, fearing he’d
be suspected.
After the victory of the Night’s watch in holding back the Wildlings.
Jon Snow was arrested by Janos Slynt and Alliser Thorn.
After several days in an ice prison, he was sent on a suicide mission to kill Mance Rayder
under the guise of a negotiation.
But while Jon was with the Wildlings, King Stannis Baratheon arrived North of the wall
and scattered Mance Rayder’s Army.
Mance was forced to surrender but did not bend the knee.