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Arya and the surviving recruits bury Yoren, subsist on acorn paste, and spy a village that is not completely abandoned. Reconnaissance gets Arya, Gendry, and Hot Pie captured by Gregor Clegane’s men. Weasel escapes and Lommy meets his maker. Simon and Mackelly grope for positives.

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Arya Stark, Gendry, Hot Pie, Lommy, and Weasel (the new name given to the crying girl) head back to the holdfast in the daylight. They bury Yoren and find three comrades still alive. Kurz succumbs to a wound, and the other two abscond rather than throw their lot in with Arya’s crew. Lommy is injured and must be carried. Weasel has stopped crying.

Continuing north around the western edge of the God’s Eye, they find a village not entirely abandoned. Arya and Gendry check it out and determine that it is Lannister troops who inhabit it. Gendry is captured, so Arya returns to the others to solicit Hot Pie’s help in a daring rescue mission. Lommy wants to abandon Gendry - but Arya convinces Hot Pie to help.

Hot Pie makes enough noise as they enter the village to have them both immediately captured. Arya comes face to face with Gregor Clegane, the Mountain that Rides. Hot Pie cracks under questioning and leads the troops back to Lommy. Weasel has scarpered, and the Lannisters are unwilling to carry Lommy, so they run him through.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Arya Stark - Younger daughter of Ned and Catelyn Stark.
Yoren - Man of the Night’s Watch who was in King’s Landing seeking recruits and supplies.
Gendry - Recruit to the Night’s Watch. Former armorer’s apprentice. Bastard son of King Robert Baratheon.
Hot Pie - Recruit of the Night’s Watch.
Lommy - Recruit of the Night’s Watch.
Jaqen H’ghar - Unwilling recruit of the Night’s Watch, from the dungeons of King’s Landing.
Biter and Rorge - Jaqen H’ghar’s cellmates on the journey north from the King’s Landing dungeons.
Amory Lorch - Cruel Lannister knight. Implicated in the murder of Rhaegar Targaryen’s two children. Raiding the Riverlands with 300 men.
Ser Gregor Clegane - The Mountain that Rides. Sandor Clegane's older brother. Bannerman to Tywin Lannister.
Beric Dondariron - Lord of Blackhaven. Sent by Ned Stark to arrest Gregor Clegane for his crimes in the Riverlands. Continues to

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Sansa rendezvous with a would-be rescuer. Her Florian is not quite who she’d imagined but he'll have to do. On the way back, she bumps into Sandor Clegane drunk as a lord (the Hound, not Sansa). He tells her that a dog can always smell a lie, and she’s the worst liar in King’s Landing. Mackelly and Simon consider the canine polygraph test.

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Sansa Stark has received a note telling her to come to the Godswood if she wants to go home. She’s uncertain, but she really wants to go home. A maid almost spots the note, which Sansa then burns. She bides her time and sneaks out when the coast is clear.

She imagines it will be some handsome knight determined to free her and right the wrongs. It turns out to be drunken Ser Dontos Hollard. She’s not impressed. But he gives an impassioned speech about how she reminded him of what a true knight should be, and that he’s determined to repay her by getting her home. He compares himself to Florian, the legendary knight who wooed Jonquil. Sansa is swept away and agrees to Dontos’ as yet unfinished plans.

On the walk back, she bumps into a drunken Hound. He escorts her back across the drawbridge into Maegor’s holdfast. He says that he’ll have a song from her eventually, and she agrees to sing for him one day. He calls her a liar and tells her that everyone in King’s Landing is a liar and she is the worst of them.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Sansa Stark - Eldest daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully. Betrothed to Joffrey Baratheon. Captive of the Lannisters.
Queen Cersei Lannister - Widow of King Robert Baratheon, twin sister of Ser Jamie Lannister. Mother of King Joffrey Baratheon.
King Joffrey Baratheon First of His Name - Bastard son of Jaime Lannister and his twin sister Queen Cersei Lannister.
Sandor Clegane - The Hound. King Joffrey's personal protector. Member of the Kingsguard.
Ser Dontos Hollard - Last member of house Hollard. Saved from execution on King Joffrey’s name day by Sansa Stark.
Ser Preston Greenfield - Member of the Kingsguard.
Ser Boros Blount - Member of the Kingsguard.

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Tyrion meets with Pycelle, Littlefinger, and Varys, feeding each a different story, hoping to learn which story reaches Cersei’s ears. Allister Thorne has arrived, hunger is getting out of hand in King’s Landing, and Cersei wants Jamie freed and her father’s army to come defend her. A Hand’s job is never done! Mackelly and Simon try to prioritize.

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Tyrion Lannister breaks his fast with Grand Maester Pycelle. He dispatches a raven to Doran Martell in Dorne but Tyrion won’t be drawn on the letter’s content. Tyrion steals a bottle from Pycelle’s potion shelves, while the maester isn’t looking.

Tyrion and Bronn discuss today’s supplicants: Tanda Stokeworth with offers of food and her plump unwed daughter, Ser Alliser Thorne newly arrived from the Wall with a hand for the Hand - Tyrion doesn’t like Thorne so has him consigned to a dingy cell without meeting with him. A representative of the Bank of Braavos who’d like to discuss repayment by the crown of some loan, sounds like a job for Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish. A discontent Riverlands lordling and local merchants all get fobbed off.

Tyrion meets with Baelish and proposes marrying princess Myrcella to young Robert Arynn. If Baelish can broker that and bring the Vale’s forces out to oppose Renly and Stannis, the glittering prize of Harrnehal will be his. Petyr is wary, but unable to refuse.

Next is Varys, who already knows about the prior meetings, and apparently the contents of the letter: Tommen to be a ward of the Martells. Tyrion does not deny. One of this trio is going to blab to the queen and Tyrion cannot wait to find out.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Queen Cersei Lannister - Widow of King Robert Baratheon, twin sister of Ser Jamie Lannister. Mother of King Joffrey Baratheon.
King Joffrey Baratheon - bastard son of Jaime Lannister and his twin sister Queen Cersei Lannister. Currently King Joffrey Baratheon First of His Name.
Tyrion Lannister - Youngest son of Tywin Lannister. Brother to queen Cersei and Jamie Lannister. Acting Hand of the King.
Shae - a prostitute, consort of Tyrion Lannister.
Lord Varys - The Spider. Eunuch and Master of Whispers. Member of the small council.
Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish - Master of Coin, member of the Small Council, and childhood friend t

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Bran, as the Stark in Winterfell, must welcome and entertain a succession of Northern nobility as they come to petition for favors and to vie for the hand of the recently widowed Donella Hornwood (who happens to be the Lady of a large tract of valuable land). He’s not thrilled, but Simon and Mackelly are.

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Bran Stark and Hodor watch the young nobles, squires, and pages practicing in the yard. The Freys come over and verbally abuse Hodor, who is unaffected by their cruelty, but Bran isn’t. Maester Luwin intervenes before things get heated.

Bran, Luwin, and Ser Rodrik Cassel host representatives of houses: Manderly, Hornwood, Umber, Glover, Tallhart, and Cerwyn. They all want something, and all have a plan for Lady Hornwood’s hand. Her own plan seems to involve Ser Rodrik to the amusement of Maester Luwin. What’s within their power is granted, but most serious matters (including Lady Hornwood) are deferred until King Robb can decide. Lady Hornwood is troubled by what Roose Bolton’s bastard and presumed heir is up to in the Dreadfort. As should we all.

Cley Cerwyn mentions Stannis' accusation that Joffrey is the product of incest and none other than the Kingslayer’s son. This discombobulates Bran. That night he dreams of the raven who pecks open a third eye for Bran through which he sees a blonde man pushing him to his doom.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Brandon (Bran) Stark -  Middle son of Eddard (Ned) and Catelyn (Cat) Stark. He was pushed from a tower by Jamie Lannister and lost the use of his legs.
Summer - Direwolf of Bran Stark.
Shaggydog - Direwolf of Rickon Stark.
Maester Luwin - Maester in the service of house Stark at Winterfell.
Rickon Stark - Youngest son of Eddard (Ned) and Catelyn (Cat) Stark. At Winterfell.
Hodor - Huge but simple man who carries Bran Stark wherever he wishes to go.
Big Walder Frey - Grandson of Lord Walder Frey. Ward of Winterfell.
Little Walder Frey - Grandson of Lord Walder Frey. Ward of Winterfell.
Osha - Wildling captured by the Starks, now held as servant/prisoner in Winterfell.
Ser Rodrik Cassel - Master-at-arms of Winterfell. Aging knight who accompanied Cat on her journey to King's Landing. Current castellan of Winterfell.
Lady Donella Hornwood - Lost her son and husband in

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The Small Council discusses an appropriate response to Stannis’ widely publicized accusation of Cersei’s children being Jamie’s. Later Tyrion employs all the blacksmiths in King’s Landing to make him a monstrous chain. Later still, Tyrion publicly enters a brothel before sneaking out through a secret door to visit Shae in private. Mackelly and Simon debate the levels of cunning on display.

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Stannis Baratheon has been sending word of Cersei and Jamie Lannister's incest to every house, great and small, in the realm. The Small Council discusses a response. Cersei wants to quash it completely, in particular so that neither her father nor her children ever hear of it. Wiser heads point out that trying to silence such a rumor tends to indicate a guilty conscience. Littlefinger comes up with the winning idea. They will circulate their own salacious accusation against Stannis: that his daughter Shireen is in fact the child of Patchface the fool.

Tyrion Lannister and Bronn meet with the armorers and smiths of King’s Landing and commission an almighty chain. Some are worried about their prior commission (from Cersei) to equip the Gold Cloaks, but Tyrion assures them that his project takes priority and he’ll protect them from the Queen.

Tyrion visit’s Chataya’s brothel. He makes no attempt to hide. But once inside he exits through a secret tunnel, built by a former Hand of the King, and meets Lord Varys in a stable. There he's disguised as a child on horseback and rides across King’s Landing to visit Shae.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Queen Cersei Lannister - Widow of King Robert Baratheon, twin sister of Ser Jamie Lannister. Mother of King Joffrey Baratheon.
King Joffrey Baratheon - Bastard son of Jaime Lannister and his twin sister Queen Cersei Lannister. Currently King Joffrey Baratheon, First of His Name.
Tyrion Lannister - Youngest son of Tywin Lannister. Brother to Queen Cersei and Jamie Lannister. Acting Hand of the King.
Shae - Prostitute, consort of Tyrion Lannister.
Lord Varys - The Spider. Eunuch and Master of Whispers. Member of the Small Council.
Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish - Master of Coin, member of the Small Council, and childhood friend to Catelyn Stark.
Grand Maester Pycelle - Elderly grand maester of the Seven Kingdom

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Arya and her fellow recruits spend the night in an abandoned holdfast south of the God’s Eye. Tywin’s second favorite goon, Amory Lorch, and his gang arrive in the night and attack. Arya does all she can in battle, but eventually flees with Gendry and a couple of others, having paused to throw Jaqen H’ghar a lifeline. Simon and Mackelly worry for her future.

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The Night’s Watch recruits are stymied by an uncrossable river. They head north to the point of difluence with the Gods Eye lake. They find an unharmed village, utterly abandoned. No boats or anything useful. Gendry suggests that they could build rafts to get across to Harrenhal. Hot Pie fears ghosts, but Arya Stark sees her salvation: Lady Whent and knights will be waiting and she can reveal her true identity.

Yoren wants to sleep on it, inside the small holdfast. Their sleep is disturbed by the arrival of a large mounted force that rides through the village setting fire to the homes. Amory Lorch verbally jousts with Yoren before setting his men to attack the terrified recruits.

Arya acquits herself honorably enough, but there’s only one winner between 300 hardened soldiers and 30 trembling recruits, regardless of the 10-foot high walls. She, Gendry, Hot Pie, an injured Lommy, and the crying girl use a tunnel from the burning stables to escape. Before she leaves, she tosses an axe to the three prisoners who would otherwise burn to death.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Arya Stark - Younger daughter of Ned and Catelyn Stark.
Yoren - Man of the Night’s Watch. He was in King’s Landing seeking recruits and supplies.
Gendry - Recruit to the Night’s Watch. Former armorer’s apprentice. Bastard son of King Robert Baratheon.
Hot Pie - Recruit of the Night’s Watch.
Lommy - Recruit of the Night’s Watch.
Jaqen H’ghar - uUnwilling recruit of the Night’s Watch, from the dungeons of King’s Landing.
Biter and Rorge - Jaqen H’ghar’s cellmates on the journey north from the King’s Landing dungeons.
Amory Lorch - Cruel Lannister knight. Implicated in the murder of Rhaegar Targaryen’s two children. Raiding the Riverlands with 300 men.
Beric Dondariron - Lord of Blackhaven. Sent by Ned Stark to arrest Gregor Clegane for his crimes in the Riverlands. Continues to harass the Lannister forces.

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The Great Ranging has found a fourth abandoned wildling village under a great weirwood tree. There is no sign of struggle or clue as to their motivations. Mormont sends word to Maester Aemon via one of Sam’s ravens and the ranging continues north. Mackelly and Simon try to keep warm.

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The wildling village is deserted. Only some charred human bones remain within the mouth of the weirwood tree that shades the entire village. Ser Jeor Mormont wonders why the wildlings burn their dead, but Jon Snow has a pretty good idea. This is the fourth abandoned village they’ve found. So Mormont pens a message for Maester Aemon.

Jon delivers the message to Sam, who is supervising the ravens. He’s trying to teach them to talk. Sam is warming to the ranging, as there don’t appear to be any wildlings around. That which reassures Sam is troubling to everybody else.

Jon and the Old Bear discuss what Benjen Stark would have done had he found the villages deserted, and they conclude that he would have continued on to try to solve the mystery. This gives Jon some hope. Their force will soon be swelled to 300 when they rendezvous with Qhorin Halfhand’s men from the Shadow Tower. In the meantime, the trek north continues.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Night's Watch - The men who guard the Seven Kingdoms against threats from beyond the Wall.
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Recently sworn brother of the Night’s Watch.
Samwell Tarly - Brother of the Night’s Watch. Heavy-set and cowardly. Attendant to Maester Aemon. Friend to Jon Snow.
Ser Jeor Mormont - Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.
Maester Aemon - 100 year-old maester of the Night’s Watch.
Ghost - Jon Snow’s direwolf.
Mance Rayder - leader of the Wildlings, self-styled King-Beyond-The-Wall.
Thoren Smallwood - acting first ranger of the Night’s Watch.
Eddison Tollett (Dolorous Edd) - An unhappy member of the Night’s Watch.
Mallador Locke - Knight of the Night’s Watch.
Ottyn Wythers - Ranger of the Night’s Watch.

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We rejoin the Mother of Dragons as she chooses to traverse the barren Red Waste, to avoid her many enemies. The going is arduous and her Khalasar is diminished still further. Outriders find the city of Qarth, emissaries of which are very keen to meet the dragons. Ser Jorah, Mackelly, and Simon all reckon she needs to tread carefully.

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Daenerys Targaryen considers her options. All directions are bad. Her Khalasar is miniscule and mostly comprises those unable to fight. Her dragons are suckling babes unable to defend themselves. Her enemies abound. The comet seems to point south east - so that way they go into the desert known as the Red Waste.

Things go badly and many people (including Doreah) and horses die before they discover an abandoned city with fruit trees and wells. They rest there. Ser Jorah tells his queen of his former life as Lord of Bear Island. How he fell in love with Lynesse Hightower and married her. But her need for finer things bankrupted Jorah leading to a life of crime, and ultimately to his self-imposed banishment to Essos. He tells the Khaleesi that she looks like Lynesse.

Dany sends her three bloodriders on as scouts, in different directions. The first two return empty-handed, but Jhogo comes back with three dignitaries from the city of Qarth. They would welcome the Khalasar and the dragons to their home.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Daenerys Targaryen - Daughter of King Aerys. Widow of Khal Drogo. Mother of Dragons. Claimant to the Iron Throne. Khaleesi of a small Khalasar in Essos.
Ser Jorah Mormont - Disgraced Lord of Bear Island. Advisor to Daenerys Targaryen.
Doreah - Lysine handmaid to Daenerys Targaryen.
Jhiqui - Handmaid to Daenerys Targaryen.
Irri - Handmaid to Daenerys Targyen.
Jhogo - Dothraki warrior. Bloodrider of Daenerys Targaryen.
Aggo - Dothraki warrior. Bloodrider of Daenerys Targaryen.
Rakharo - Dothraki warrior. Bloodrider of Daenerys Targaryen.
Lhazareen - Peaceful sheep farmers of the southern Dothraki Sea.
Pyat Pree - Great warlock of Qarth.
Xaro Xhoan Daxos - Merchant Prince of Qarth.
Quaithe of the Shadow - A shadowbinder from Asshai. She is a dignitary of Qarth. She wears a wooden lacquered mask to hide all but her eyes.

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Theon returns home to Pike after 10 years a captive. His welcome is not all he had dreamed it would be. His father, Balon, doesn’t want to pay the gold price for his crown, he’d rather pay the iron price. Mackelly and Simon weigh the options and worry for Winterfell.

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Theon Greyjoy arrives back in Pyke after 10 years away. His heart swells when he sees the kraken sigil flying above the ramparts. He has one last visit with the captain’s daughter, telling her of the old ways of the Iron Islands and how she might be his salt wife - basically a sex slave - she’s not entirely opposed. But Theon is more concerned with returning his family to past glories.

When the ship docks, he’s a bit puzzled by the lack of fanfare. A priest of the Drowned God offers a ride up to Pike. The priest is Theon’s uncle Aeron, youngest brother of Lord Balon. Aeron was a fun-loving youth, but is now devout and joyless. He and Theon do not get on very well. 

When Theon finally gets an audience with his father, he’s treated as an outsider, an emissary of a hostile foreign force, and certainly not as the prodigal son returned. Theon lays out the strategy, the Ironmen’s fleet to attack the Westerlands and in return Balon will be given independence and his crown back. But Balon sees other uses for his fleet that don’t involve gifts from the hated Starks. 

Characters/Places/Names/Events: 
Theon Greyjoy - Heir to the Iron Islands and former ward of Ned Stark. Sent to Pike to bring the Greyjoy fleet into the war to help Robb Stark. 
Asha Greyjoy - Elder sister to Theon. Oldest surviving child of Balon Greyjoy. 
Balon Greyjoy - Lord of the Iron Islands. Father to Asha and Theon. 
Aeron Greyjoy - Younger brother to Lord Balon. Priest of the Drowned God. Dour and devout. Known as Damphair. 

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On Dragonstone, Davos watches Melisandre burn the gods of The Seven. He has a drink with pirate Salladhor Saan. He meets with King Stannis and is commissioned to go spread the word of Stannis’ rightful claim to the people of Westeros. Simon and Mackelly consider converting. 

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Melisandre reveals the prophecy of Azor Ahai and his flaming sword Lighhtbringer, from the time of heroes. She tells that Stannis is the embodiment of the fabled hero and he withdraws a flaming sword from the burning effigies of the seven false gods of Westeros. Davos is impressed by Melisandre’s powers, but concerned by Stannis’ willingness to alienate what few allies they have. 

Davos has a pint with Salladhor Saan, a Lysene pirate. He brings news of the wars on the mainland and demands that they attack King’s Landing while it is vulnerable. Saan also has a very negative view of the whole Azor Ahai thing - he, Azor Ahai, murdered his wife to make his sword, not exactly an inspiring antecedent for Stannis to emulate. 

Davos meets with Stannis. The king wants his smuggler to sail to every port in Westeros with news of Joffrey’s parentage and Stannis’ rightful claim. Davos doubts that they have the proof, but Stannis reminds him of Edric Storm - Robert’s recognized bastard son at Storm’s End. Stannis bemoans that he is in the right, but has the least gold and men of the various claimants. He notes that his only assets are his navy and Melisandre. 

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Stannis Baratheon - (Arguably) The rightful King of the Seven Kingdoms. Elder brother of Renly Baratheon. Husband to Selyse. Father of Shireen. 
Melisandre - The Red Woman of Ashaii. Priestess of R’Hellor, the Lord of Light. Advisor to King Stannis. 
Selyse (Florent) Baratheon - Wife of Stannis Baratheon, (arguably) rightful Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Mother of Shireen. 
Ser Davos Seaworth - The Onion Knight. Advisor to King Stannis Baratheon. 
Maester Pylos - Young maester, sent to Dargonstone to replace the frail Maester Cresson.
Maester Cresson - 80 year-old maester of Dragonstone. Long-time servant of the Baratheon family. 
Robb Stark - Eldest son of Eddard (Ned) and Catelyn (Cat) Stark. Crowned King in the North after his victory at Riverrun. 
Eddard "Ned" Stark - Er

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