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- The War of the Roses. Stark? York? Lannister? Lancaster? Come on people! Surely you can see the connection? Taking place between 1455 and 1485, The War of the Roses was a series of bloody battles over the British throne by rival royal families.
- Hadrian's Wall. George R. R. Martin (GRRM) has admitted that he came up with his giant ice wall creation (imaginatively called ‘The Wall’) while visiting Hadrian's Wall near the Scottish border with England.
- The Roman Empire. But it’s not just that great big wall the Romans constructed that GRRM was inspired by. Various elements of the Roman Empire have seeped into the world of Game of Thrones.
- The Black Dinner. One of the most notorious events in GoT history is the brutal, gruesome ‘Red Wedding’ where King Robb Stark, his wife, Queen Talisa, his mother, Lady Catelyn and many many more were murdered during the marriage of Edmure Tully to Roslin Frey.
Mar 30, 2024 · The War of the Five Kings is the main conflict in the Song of Ice and Fire books and the Game of Thrones TV show. This war erupted following the death of King Robert Baratheon and the subsequent ...
May 16, 2019 · Named after a misconception fanned by William Shakespeare that the Lancasters wore red roses against the Yorks’ white ones, the decade-long conflict has long bloomed in our imaginations. Coming at...
Sep 16, 2023 · 302 AC: ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5 (‘ASOIAF’ Book 4: ‘A Feast for Crows’ and Book 5: ‘A Dance of Dragons’) Arya trains to be an assassin in Braavos. Bran is in a tree. Current King ...
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"There is only one war that matters. The Great War. And it is here."
―Jon Snow at the Dragonpit Summit
The Great War was the ultimate culmination of the long-simmering conflict beyond the Wall: the war between the living and the dead. It was the second war waged by the White Walkers against humanity, the first having occurred thousands of years ago during the first Long Night in the form of the War for the Dawn.
The opening stages of the Great War are a war of attrition between the Night King, his legions of White Walkers, and their Army of the Dead against the living peoples of Westeros. They were opposed by the Night's Watch, the North, the Brotherhood Without Banners, the Free Folk, and the Vale, all under the leadership of Jon Snow, the Warden of the North. Jon is later joined by Daenerys Targaryen, who leads the forces of House Targaryen with her hand, Tyrion Lannister. Jaime Lannister also abandons his sister Cersei to travel north to Winterfell to join the military forces of the North after she reveals her intentions to Jaime to hold back the southern armies.
Although expected to threaten all of Westeros and possibly the world, the Great War at its beginning is centered on the North, as the southern kingdoms are in disbelief of the White Walkers and are more preoccupied with the aftermath of the War of the Five Kings and the Last War, another long-awaited conflict which began around the same time the North began preparations for the coming Great War.
The alliance of the living led by the Great Houses of Stark, Targaryen, and Arryn face off against the army of the dead in the Battle of Winterfell. Although the living suffer heavy casualties and many are risen again as wights, the Night King is drawn out by Bran Stark, the new Three-Eyed Raven, and destroyed by his sister Arya, causing all of the White Walkers to shatter and the wights to fall and ending the Long Night before it can truly begin again.
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"Jeor Mormont and Jon Snow both understood that the real war isn't between a few squabbling Houses. It's between the living and the dead. And make no mistake, my lady: the dead are coming." ―Davos Seaworth to Lyanna Mormont The White Walkers first descended upon Westeros during the Age of Heroes 8,000 years ago, bringing with them a cold and terrible winter and a dark night that lasted a generation. The Night King had been created thousands of years prior by the Children of the Forest, the natives of Westeros, with dragonglass to combat the invading First Men in the Dawn Age, but the Children and the First Men came together in War for the Dawn to fight against their common enemy. The White Walkers and their wights, which had been raised from those that they slaughtered, were defeated and driven back to the far north while the Wall was raised and the Night's Watch formed to prevent the White Walkers from returning. Many were trapped north of the Wall, becoming the Free Folk, while those south of the Wall began to form kingdoms. As the many centuries passed, most of Westeros came to see the magical White Walkers and Children of the Forest as nothing more than legends and scary fairy tales, especially as the Andals and the Rhoynar had never encountered them on Westeros since their migrations came thousands of years after the Long Night. However, the White Walkers eventually rose from the ice again beyond the Wall around the time of Robert's Rebellion. While the southern Seven Kingdoms were preoccupied with their own civil war and largely did not believe in the White Walkers, the Free Folk, who were being slaughtered by the White Walkers to amass a new army of the dead, were attempting to cross the Wall while the Night's Watch was seeking out the truth and fighting against their old wildling enemies in the conflict beyond the Wall. However, the Night's Watch, under Lord Commander Jon Snow, let the wildlings cross the Wall after realizing the existence of the White Walkers and the threat that they posed. They come south of the Wall after the attempted rescue mission at Hardhome. This decision led to a mutiny but Jon was resurrected and freed from his life long vows to the Night's Watch. Seeking to unite the North against the White Walkers, Jon, himself the alleged illegitimate son of Eddard Stark, joined with his half-sister Sansa Stark to save their younger brother Rickon Stark and reclaim their home Winterfell from House Bolton, who had previously usurped House Stark from the North after the Red Wedding. Ramsay Bolton and his allies were defeated and killed at the Battle of the Bastards, and in the aftermath of the battle, Sansa became the new Lady of Winterfell while Jon was declared the King in the North by the lords of the North and the Vale at Winterfell. Around the same time, Daenerys Targaryen, the only known survivor of the once royal House Targaryen which had been ousted during Robert's Rebellion, begun setting sail for Dragonstone with her allies, vassals, and three dragons, the first born in the world in over a century. At this time, Bran Stark discovered via the Sight that Jon, unbeknownst to all including Jon himself, is of both Stark and Targaryen lineage as the secret son of Lyanna Stark, Eddard Stark's sister, and Rhaegar Targaryen, Daenerys's eldest brother, both of whom died in Robert's Rebellion.
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Melisandre, a red priestess serving Stannis, whom she believes to be the Prince That Was Promised, says to Gendry, a bastard of Robert Baratheon, that the Brotherhood Without Banners are "just foot soldiers in the great war," telling Gendry that she believes him to have a higher purpose. She later saves Ser Davos Seaworth from execution, stating her belief that the War of the Five Kings is irrelevant and that "the true war lies in the North", in which Davos has a role to play.
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"Daenerys has been sent to lead the people against the darkness, in this war, and in the great war still to come." ―Kinvara Kinvara, a high-ranking red priestess, is invited to Meereen by Tyrion Lannister to forge an alliance between House Targaryen and the Red Temple of Volantis so as to give the people of Slaver's Bay faith in Daenerys Targaryen as a savior. She believes that Daenerys is the Prince That Was Promised and has been sent by the Lord of Light to lead the people against the darkness in the "great war still to come". When Benjen Stark drops off his nephew Bran, the new Three-Eyed Raven, and his companion Meera Reed just outside the Wall, he warns them that the Great War is coming.
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the prophesied conflict against the Others is called the "war for the dawn," and is said to accompany the night that never ends, an event similar to the Long Night. Melisandre believes that Stannis Baratheon, as Azor Ahai reborn, will be the one to lead humanity in the war.
As of the latest published novel, A Dance with Dragons, the war for the dawn has not begun yet.
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May 1, 2018 · And really, regardless of which war we’re talking about, The Real War of Thrones is full of stuff any Game of Thrones fan will recognize: betrayal, sex, pitched battles, strategic marriages ...
Alex Gendler illustrates how the historical conflict known as the Wars of the Roses served as the basis for much of the drama in Game of Thrones. [Directed by Brett Underhill, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by WORKPLAYWORK and Cem Misirlioglu].
