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The Door ( Game of Thrones) " The Door " is the fifth episode of the sixth season of HBO 's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 55th overall. The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Jack Bender .
- May 22, 2016
- Ramin Djawadi
May 22, 2016 · The Door: Directed by Jack Bender. With Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen. Sansa and Jon make plans. Arya is given another chance to prove herself. Jorah confesses a secret to Daenerys. Tyrion meets with a red priestess. Yara finds her rule tested. Bran discovers the origin of the White Walkers.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Jack Bender
- 2016-05-22
- Overview
- Synopsis
- Appearances
- Cast
- Quotes
- Behind the scenes
"The Door" is the fifth episode of the sixth season of Game of Thrones. It is the fifty-fifth episode of the series overall. It premiered on May 22, 2016 on HBO. It was written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and directed by Jack Bender.
At the Wall
Sansa Stark receives a message bearing the sigil of House Baelish, asking her to a meeting in Mole's Town. Accompanied by Brienne, Sansa furiously confronts Petyr Baelish, asking if he was aware what Ramsay Bolton was capable of. Baelish deflects, saying he has the knights of the Vale waiting at Moat Cailin to aid Sansa. She is mistrustful of him when he claims he had no idea of Ramsay's abusive treatment of her. Sansa describes her wedding night and what Ramsay did, Littlefinger looks on in silent horror and apologizes to her, offering to protect her now. She doubts Baelish's ability to protect her or even himself, threatening to have Brienne kill him. He says he'll do whatever she asks and Sansa tells him to leave and never come back for her. He obeys, but not before informing that her great-uncle Brynden Tully has recaptured Riverrun and recommending she seek him out and the remaining loyal Tully forces. Sansa says she already has an army, her brother Jon Snow's army of wildlings. "Half-brother," Baelish clarifies as he walks away. At Castle Black, a war council is called, and is attended by Sansa, Brienne, Podrick, Jon, Davos, Melisandre, Tormund and Eddison Tollett, who discuss the need for more men to defend Castle Black, since the Karstarks and Umbers, two major Houses in the North, have declared for Ramsay. Jon points out that they can summon the rest of the minor Houses, such as the Mormonts, Glovers, Cerwyns, and Mazins, to rival their enemies. Sansa states that "the North remembers" - the people of the North are still loyal to the Starks and will risk everything for the name Stark. She reveals Brynden's successful retaking of Riverrun, though she claims she learned via one of Ramsay's ravens in order to stop Jon from pursuing Littlefinger. Sansa subsequently tasks Brienne and Podrick with securing Brynden's help while the rest of them leave Castle Black to start building their army. Before leaving Castle Black, Sansa presents Jon with a new cloak like their father's, carrying the Stark sigil.
In Braavos
The Waif continues to drill Arya, mocking her high-born origins. Jaqen H'ghar explains that the Faceless Men were slaves in Valyria before establishing the Free City of Braavos and the House of Black and White. Handing Arya a vial, Jaqen tells her an actress, Lady Crane, will be the next to receive the Many-Faced God’s “gift.” Arya enjoys the spectacle of the actors re-enacting the War of the Five Kings, playing Baratheons and Lannisters, but her pleasure ceases when her father, and his execution, are inaccurately caricatured. Eddard is portrayed as a buffoon, and the actress who plays Sansa has her breasts bared to the audience. Arya sneaks into the dressing room after the play to observe her target – the actress playing Cersei – who appears to be a clever, decent woman. Arya later shares with Jaqen her plan to poison Lady Crane’s rum, which no one else in the troupe drinks. Arya suspects that a jealous younger actress, Bianca, has commissioned the kill. Jaqen cuts her off, reminding her a servant does not question.
In Vaes Dothrak
Daenerys is unsure of what to do with Jorah, having banished him twice, seeing him defiantly return twice, and him twice saving her life. Jorah finally confesses his love for Daenerys, but also reveals his spreading greyscale infection, and says that this time, he needs to leave for good. He starts to leave and states his plan to take his own life well before the greyscale envelops him, but Daenerys tearfully commands him to find a cure and come back to her side when she conquers Westeros. Jorah then departs while Daenerys and Daario Naharis lead the Dothraki horde back to Meereen.
Firsts
•Izembaro •Clarenzo •Lady Crane •Camello •Bobono •Bianca •Kinvara •Rickard Stark (flashback)
Deaths
•White Walker •Summer •Three-Eyed Raven •Leaf •Hodor
Starring
•Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister •Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen •Kit Harington as Jon Snow •Aidan Gillen as Petyr Baelish •Liam Cunningham as Davos Seaworth •Carice van Houten as Melisandre •Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark •Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei •Maisie Williams as Arya Stark •Conleth Hill as Varys •Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark •Kristofer Hivju as Tormund •Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy •Michiel Huisman as Daario Naharis •Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth •Tom Wlaschiha as Jaqen H'ghar •with Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont
Guest starring
•Max von Sydow as the Three-Eyed Raven •Kristian Nairn as Hodor •Richard E. Grant as Izembaro •Essie Davis as Lady Crane •Pilou Asbæk as Euron Greyjoy •Gemma Whelan as Yara Greyjoy •Ben Crompton as Eddison Tollett •Ellie Kendrick as Meera Reed •Faye Marsay as the Waif •Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm •Michael Feast as Aeron Greyjoy •Kae Alexander as Leaf •Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne •Darrell D'Silva as an Ironborn captain •Kevin Eldon as Camello •Leigh Gill as Bobono •Eline Powell as Bianca •Rob Callender as Clarenzo •Eva Butterly as the mummer playing Margaery Tyrell •Vladimír Furdík as the Night King •Ania Bukstein as Kinvara •Gerald Lepkowski as Zanrush •Annette Tierney as Old Nan (young) •Sam Coleman as Hodor (young) •Wayne Foskett as Rickard Stark •Sebastian Croft as Eddard Stark (child) •Matteo Elezi as Benjen Stark (child) •Fergus Leathem as Rodrik Cassel (young) •Kate Anthony as a Braavosi woman •Sally Mortemore as a Braavosi woman •Michael Hooley as a Night's Watch man •Ruairí Heading as a Night's Watch man •Robert Render as an Ironborn •James Lecky as an Ironborn •Glen Barry as a mummer •Brendan O'Rourke as a mummer •Ross Anderson-Doherty as a mummer •Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir as a musician •Ragnar Þórhallsson as a musician •Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson as a musician •Brynjar Leifsson as a musician •Kristján Páll Kristjánsson as a musician
Uncredited
•Logan Bruce as an Ironborn •Tamsin Greene Barker as Braavosi theatre server •Bobby Marno as a Night's Watch Man •Rachelle Beinart as a Child of the Forest •Casey Michaels as a Child of the Forest •Kristina Baskett as a Child of the Forest •Darragh O'Connor as a Wight •Kiran Shah as a Braavosi theatre sound artist
"Hold the door....holdthedoor...hold-da-dor...hol-dor...hodor...hodor..."
―Young Hodor, having a seizure due to Bran Stark losing control of his powers during a vision of the past.
"Everyone is what they are, and where they are for a reason. Terrible things happen for a reason."
―Kinvara to Tyrion and Varys
"Don't knock it down while I'm gone."
―Jon Snow to Eddison Tollett, on giving him command of the Wall as he leaves.
General
•The title of this episode is revealed to be a reference to the last stand at the door to the cave in the final scene. •Dorne does not appear in this episode. King's Landing and its subplots do not appear in this episode (including House Lannister and House Tyrell). Ramsay Bolton in Winterfell and the Tully/Frey subplot do not appear, though they are discussed. Samwell Tarly and Gilly on the way to Oldtown do not appear in this episode. With Season 6 halfway through, Bronn is the only credits sequence character yet to appear at all. •This is only the sixth episode in the TV series in which King's Landing is not featured in any scene. The previous five were Season 1's "The Kingsroad" (because King Robert and Cersei were with the Starks on the road and had not yet reached the city), Season 3's "The Rains of Castamere" (which focused mostly on the Red Wedding), Season 4's "The Watchers on the Wall" (which focused entirely on the battle for the Wall), Season 5's "Kill the Boy" (which didn't feature any scene in the Seven Kingdoms not counting the North), and "The Dance of Dragons." This is also the first episode of Season 6 in which modern-day Winterfell and Ramsay Bolton do not appear. Winterfell is however visited within a vision. •It is the third time on the show, following "High Sparrow" and "Kill the Boy", that the phrase "the North remembers" is spoken on-screen. •In the novels, the phrase is used in a context of warning: the people of the North will get even with those who wrong them (including other Northmen). •In this episode, Sansa uses the phrase in a different context: that the people of the North remain loyal to the Starks.
Bran Stark's storyline and the White Walkers
•Bran Stark's storyline has officially surpassed the novels. He arrived at the cave of the Three-Eyed Raven in his second-to-last chapter in the fifth and most recent novel, corresponding to when his storyline in the TV series paused in the Season 4 finale. His last chapter involved him being guided through visions of the past, such as his father as a child sparring with Benjen and Lyanna at Winterfell - thus the first few episodes of Season 6 were still adapting some of Bran's remaining material. The White Walkers' attack on the cave, however, hasn't occurred yet by the end of the fifth novel. For all anyone knows, everything that happens in Bran's storyline in this episode, and from this point onwards, is exactly what will happen in the next novel. • This episode reveals that the Children of the Forest actually created the White Walkers, as a weapon to use against the First Men. The first humans began migrating to Westeros 12,000 years ago, initiating the war of the First Men and the Children of the Forest which lasted for around 2,000 years. The Children were gradually pushed back by the more numerous and larger humans, and in desperation they did resort to various magical "superweapons": they called down the hammer of waters to break the arm of Dorne (the old land bridge between Westeros and Essos), and they tried again to use it to flood the Neck, turning it into a vast swamp. The Children actually made peace with the humans about 10,000 years ago, known as "the Pact" - and the White Walkers first appeared during the Long Night, about 8,000 years ago. By the Long Night, the White Walkers were killing all living things, and had apparently turned on the Children, and they were only driven back when the Children of the Forest united with the First Men to drive them back and build the Wall. It is unclear why they would create the White Walkers even centuries after the Pact was made: it's possible that they were created late in the wars but ultimately abandoned, but then returned 2,000 years later. Another possibility is that a sub-faction of the Children created the White Walkers because they thought humans would inevitably crowd them out of Westeros. •The current novels have made no mention whatsoever that the Children of the Forest actually created the White Walkers. There have been a few scarce hints about the origins of the White Walkers - only in the sense that it was implied that they aren't really a "race" but a malevolent force created by someone else. Martin also said that he isn't sure if the White Walkers really have "a culture" as we would understand it. With this revelation in mind, it's clear why: they are not an independently living race, but a race of living weapons created by others (weapons don't have their own culture). The White Walkers don't reproduce naturally: in the novels implied that they were taking Craster's sons to turn them into new White Walkers, but the TV show outright confirmed this in Season 4's "Oathkeeper." George R.R. Martin's initial pitch outline for the series also cryptically used an alternate name for the White Walkers, saying that their armies consisted of "undead wights and the Neverborn": White Walkers aren't an independent race, were "never born," but created by another race. •As David Benioff directly points out in the "Inside the Episode" featurette, the White Walkers were previously observed arranging the corpses of those they had slain into strange symbols. The first of these was seen in the Prologue sequence to the series premiere itself "Winter Is Coming" (which was a sort of diamond-like symbol made from dead wildling body parts). The next time was in Season 3's "Walk of Punishment," when they arranged the body parts of the Watch's horses they killed into a large spiral pattern. As Benioff points out, in this episode we see that same spiral pattern formed by stone monoliths emanating out from a Weirwood heart tree where the Children of the Forest actually created the first White Walker. Thus, as he says, they are some sort of magical symbols which were actually first used by the Children of the Forest. The specific symbol used is a seven-spoked spiral, spinning counter-clockwise. •Apparently, the frozen dead weirwood surrounded by a ring of stone monoliths which Bran sees in his vision is in fact the location where the Children of the Forest created the first White Walker, now deep in the Land of Always Winter. It has also been suggested that this is the same ring of frozen stones that the White Walker took Craster's last son to in Season 4's "Oathkeeper" to turn him into a new White Walker, although the overall layout of that scene is remarkably different (the ice slab and structure were enclosed in a canyon; the ice shards jutting out of the ground did not resemble the stones structurally or pattern-wise, as viewed from both overhead and side shots). •As Benioff and Weiss point out in the "Inside the Episode" featurette, Game of Thrones is supposed to be a very morally grey story, in which in contrast to many previous Fantasy works, there are few straightforward or wholly "Good" and "Evil" characters - in contrast to the way that say, in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf is predominantly good, while the Dark Lord Sauron became pure evil. Generally, (though not always), this has held true throughout the narrative, as even Eddard Stark had some flaws and Tywin Lannister had some redeeming qualities. Barring a few genuine sociopaths such as Ramsay Bolton, Gregor Clegane, Rorge, etc., the overall moral tone has been gray rather than black and white. One of the few major exceptions to this until now were the White Walkers, ice demons who command a horde of the undead and who were presented as "pure evil," and their leader the Night King the worst of all. As Weiss points out, however, in this episode we learn that even the White Walkers are not some simplistic "pure evil" fantasy Dark Lords: they are just weapons created by the Children of the Forest, who were only trying to save themselves from extinction when they were losing a war, and even the Night King himself was a captured human unwillingly turned into the first White Walker. They actually aren't some stereotypical "pure evil" demonic force, but weapons that went out of control. •This episode marks the first time the Night King is referred to by name. The production team would refer to him as "the Night King" in behind-the-scenes videos for Season 5 and other supplementary materials but the term was never used in on-screen dialogue before. •Although unclear from the episode itself, Benioff and Weiss speak of the Night King in the "Inside the Episode" featurette as if he is in fact the first White Walker, the specific one we see being created by the Children of the Forest from a human. In this case it isn't a title passed down to whoever the current lead White Walker is - he's always been their leader. •It is unclear if every White Walker is animated by a magical dragonglass shard in their chests, or if perhaps only the Night King has this one magical dragonglass shard, and it is his power which animates all of the others. •The Children of the Forest are apparently now totally extinct, as it seemed that the last of them were hiding at the cave of the Three-Eyed Raven. •Meera Reed manages to kill a White Walker in this episode, making her only the third person to do so - after Samwell Tarly in Season 3 and Jon Snow in Season 5. Notice that one of the Children tries to stab the White Walker in the chest with a Dragonglass-tipped spear, but it is blocked by his armor, then he counters and kills the Child. The production team pointed out in behind-the-scenes featurettes how the White Walkers in Seasons 1 to 3 didn't really wear armor but were typically bare-chested, but then they shift to wearing some armor in Season 4: this was explicitly supposed to be a subtle hint that Samwell actually managing to kill one with a dragonglass dagger in Season 3 made them realize (or perhaps, reminded them) that there are things which can actually kill them, so they need to protect themselves in some fashion. The Child of the Forest that tries to stab one wasn't expecting the White Walkers to now be wearing armor, as in the TV show this was a recent development (in the books they are described as wearing armor since the opening Prologue). Meera realizes it is wearing armor and skillfully aims for its unprotected neck (as according to the traditions of the crannogmen, she was raised to be a warrior woman and skilled with weapons). •As of the most recent novel, Sam is still the only person who has killed a White Walker (though Bran and Meera's storyline in this episode has moved past the most recent book). •The death of Summer in this episode leaves only two of the Stark direwolves confirmed to still be alive: Jon's direwolf Ghost (who was with him at the Wall), and Arya's direwolf Nymeria (which she had to drive away early in Season 1 so Cersei wouldn't kill her - she is still loose somewhere in the Riverlands). •Shaggydog was of course presented as dead a few episodes ago, but unlike Lady, Grey Wind, and Summer he wasn't shown being killed on-screen. •Benioff and Weiss stated in the "Inside the Episode" featurette that George R.R. Martin confirmed to them that this is how Hodor will die in the next novel, and why he says "Hodor." It isn't just some wordplay they made up themselves. It was Bran's powers going out of control as he was pulled out of a vision during the attack, while adult Hodor was being urged to "hold the door." Through Bran accidentally warging into both of them at once and linking their minds, young Wylis mentally experienced his own death in the future. This traumatized him so greatly that he had a seizure which damaged his mind, the dying command to "hold the door" left seared into his younger self's mind, which he ultimately slurred to just "hodor" - from "ho(ld the) door." Benioff and Weiss said that of all the future plot revelations that Martin told them, such as that Shireen Baratheon would die as she did in Season 5 or that Melisandre is actually centuries old, and other things which haven't happened in the TV show yet, this revelation paired with Hodor's death had the most emotional punch and left them more stunned than almost anything else. As they said, they didn't even see it in a TV episode, Martin just verbally described it to them in a hotel room meeting, but even so the revelation was so powerful that it left them deeply shaken. •Jojen Reed also said that he had visions of his own future death (he knew it involved fire), and he also had seizure-like fits after some of his visions. It's possible that they were from the stress of outright experiencing his own mind dying in the future. Unlike young Wylis/Hodor, Jojen's seizures didn't do him long-term harm - though this was possibly because Jojen himself had the power of the Sight like Bran does and could direct his own visions to a degree that young Hodor could not (Jojen could pull his mind back if the visions got too intense, young Wylis could not). •This episode confirms that Bran actually can use the Sight to influence events in the past (though he can't control this yet). This raises the possibility that certain other seemingly magical or fortuitous events performed by animals were actually Bran's doing, i.e. in the series premiere "Winter Is Coming," it is taken as a sign from the Old Gods that a female direwolf would somehow cross south of the Wall and give birth to exactly six pups, one for each Stark child and even matching their genders. In Season 3's "Second Sons," Samwell and Gilly are seemingly warned by a flock of crows that a White Walker is approaching. The revelation in this episode that Bran can influence past events in his visions raises the possibility that it was Bran himself who warged into these animals in the past - as he did to young Wylis in this episode - then directed their actions to set up later events which would help himself and his allies. •It doesn't really seem that Bran learned anything important from his visions about the day young Eddard Stark left Winterfell for the Vale. The earlier flashback three episodes ago may have been "basic training" of a sort in visions, but now, even pressed for time to show Bran as many visions as possible, he directed Bran's mind to this moment in particular, even though it didn't reveal anything else. The implication is that the Three-Eyed Raven himself knew from his own visions about the time loop, and that he would need to bring Bran's mind to this moment in a vision, specifically because it would result in Bran accidentally turning Wylis into Hodor - setting off the chain of events in Wylis/Hodor's life so that he would be in a position to save Bran's life (multiple times). In this case it's possible that the Three-Eyed Raven foresaw his own impending death. •Strictly speaking, Bran's actions seem to function according to Novikov's self-consistency principle of time travel: it is impossible to outright change events in the past which have already happened, but it is possible to set up stable time loops. Bran didn't change history when he accidentally gave Wylis a seizure and turned him into Hodor - that always happened, had already happened, and Bran in the present was just fulfilling that stable time loop. More bluntly, Bran Stark's actions follow Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure time travel rules (stable time loops are possible), but not Back to the Future time travel rules (in which outright changing the timeline is possible). •The deaths of Osha, Summer, and Hodor this season, combined with Jojen Reed dying in Season 4, mean that all of Bran Stark's traveling companions since he fled Winterfell are dead except for Meera Reed - and also except his brother Rickon, who departed before he went North of the Wall and is now a prisoner of Ramsay Bolton. In the books, the Reed siblings actually arrived at Winterfell before it fell to the Ironborn (in the second novel and TV season), but the TV series reshuffled these scenes around a little due to time constraints so that the Reeds were introduced at the beginning of Season 3, near the outskirts of Winterfell after Bran and Rickon escape. •As their bodies weren't burned, it's possible that Hodor, Summer, and the Children of the Forest who were killed (excluding Leaf) might be reanimated as wights. In a post-episode interview Kristian Nairn (Hodor) jokingly pointed out that the camera never actually shows Hodor's death, so for all he knows he might be called back to the set to film again some day (though he is fairly convinced that Hodor as a human is in fact dead). •In the "Inside the Episode" featurette, Benioff more clearly explains that the reason Bran didn't immediately flee the cave was because the Three-Eyed Raven was desperately "uploading" visions to his mind as quickly as he could - faster than his mind could process in this short time span. These vision/memories are now loaded into Bran's mind, so that even without the Three-Eyed Raven he will continue to experience more important visions of the past in subsequent episodes. •A few professional reviews criticized that they felt Hodor wasn't truly making a heroic sacrifice in his final scene, but was being forced against his will to sacrifice his life by Bran Stark warging into his mind. In interviews the week after the episode aired, however Kristian Nairn (Hodor) made it clear that Bran was not warging into Hodor's mind during his final stand at the door. Nairn would know because he didn't play it like that; also the character is visibly saying "hodor" in fear, and Bran never speaks when he wargs into his mind. Bran only warged into Hodor's mind earlier in the cave to make him stop panicking, so he would get up to save both Bran and himself: by the time they are at the door Bran wasn't controlling him anymore. Nairn therefore stated that Hodor indeed voluntarily made a heroic sacrifice in the truest sense: once he was at the door and no longer being controlled by Bran he could have run to save himself but that would have let the wights through and they would have killed Bran and Meera. Notice that during Hodor's last stand there comes a point where, despite his terror, he sees that Meera and Bran are successfully getting away into the cover of the snow storm, and Hodor gets a look of grave determination on his face and leans hard into the door again. Nairn stated that Hodor's dying thought was happiness that Bran and Meera would survive. •In Bran's final vision, Eddard Stark is seen departing Winterfell and saying goodbye to his father Rickard Stark. As explained three episodes ago, he is leaving to become a ward of House Arryn at the Eyrie - notice the Arryn guard standing in the background holding a banner with House Arryn's sigil on it. •In Bran's vision about the creation of the first White Walker, an arrowhead-shaped mountain can be seen in the background. It has significance in a couple of the following episodes.
Jon, Sansa, and the War for the North
•This episode contains a lengthy scene in which Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, and the other characters at Castle Black look over a large map of the North and discuss how they are going to try to rally it against House Bolton. The scene gives a relatively detailed description of the political landscape of the North: •It is said that after House Stark and House Bolton, the three Houses with the largest armies are House Karstark, House Umber, and House Manderly. The Karstarks and Umbers already joined their forces with Ramsay Bolton's army at Winterfell. In the books, these are three of the more prominent families - and after the Red Wedding, the Karstarks are the only other vassal House with their armies still relatively intact because they abandoned Robb Stark and went home before the massacre. The Umbers took considerable losses but have a strong martial tradition as the northernmost House, always fighting wildling incursions, so even their remaining forces of old men and young boys amount to a fairly considerable army. The Manderlys are the richest vassal House, as they rule over White Harbor, the only city in the North (albeit it is the smallest of the five true "cities" in Westeros) - thus the Manderlys are in the best position to hire and raise new armies to replace the soldiers they lost. •Not every major vassal House in the North is listed on the map - apparently they just hand-wrote onto it the more prominent ones they were talking about at first. Jon explicitly points out that there are more than just three other vassal Houses, citing that there are also "the Mormonts, Cerwyns, Glovers, Mazins, and Hornwoods" - yet when Jon points at the map, House Cerwyn isn't labelled on the map at all, even though their lands are south of the Starks. •Of these, "House Mazin" doesn't exist in the novels. It is a joking inside reference to Craig Mazin, a writer who is a friend of Benioff and Weiss that gave them vital advice on the unscreened pilot of the TV series. This "House Mazin" was first mentioned in Season 5 ("Sons of the Harpy") - and back then, they were implied to be incredibly weak and not noteworthy at all, given that Jon said that he had "never even heard of these people." •While leaving out certain major families mentioned by name such as the Cerwyns or House Reed, the southern edge of the map does accurately label House Frey's lands (which border the Reeds' lands at the southern edge of "the North"), House Tully to the southwest of the Freys, and House Whent to the southeast of the Freys. The Whents held Harrenhal but actually died out during the course of the war, as their last living member old lady Shella Whent died during the Lannister occupation, and the lands were nominally given to Littlefinger. The Stark children actually have some partial claim to Harrenhal given that their maternal grandmother was herself a Whent. They might just be using an out of date map in this scene (or just defiantly labeled it "Whent" as a take-that against the Lannisters). • Altogether, Jon says that there are about "two dozen" other vassal Houses in the North. In each of the Seven Kingdoms, there are typically about a dozen or so major vassal Houses immediately below the Great House of each region (a little more in some, a little less in others), though each of them may in turn have up to a dozen or so minor lordly Houses under it, and they have Houses of landed knights under them, and so on. The feudal patchwork is uneven in every region: some "major Houses" are actually quite poor and weak, and only considered major because they answer directly to the Great House and no one else - i.e. House Mormont, which rules over the poor forested Bear Island. Other major Houses are so strong and wealthy, such as House Manderly, that some of their minor Houses rival the weaker major Houses in size. •The point is that when Jon says that there are "about two dozen" other vassal Houses in the North besides the Starks and Boltons, the actual number of "major" Houses in the North in the novels is fourteen - and that includes the Umbers, Karstarks, and Manderlys, which Jon apparently wasn't including. The other Houses mentioned in TV dialogue were the Mormonts (Jorah's family), the Cerwyns (Ramsay flayed their lord alive in Season 5), the Glovers (who rule the Wolfswood), and the Hornwoods (in the books Ramsay killed the old woman who ruled their House by flaying her fingers then leaving her to starve to death in a tower). The Reeds are also staunch Stark loyalists, and Meera Reed is seen in this episode. Other Houses from the North haven't been mentioned as prominently in the TV series but they have been indicated on maps in past seasons: Dustin, Ryswell, and Tallhart are south of the Wolfswood on the southwest coast. Three other Houses that were sworn directly to Winterfell but which aren't very prominent even in the novels are House Locke (which mostly does whatever the Manderlys do), and the eastern and western branches of House Flint. In addition to these, there are actually about 40 or so very small noble Houses in the northwestern mountains of the North, north of the Wolfswood and northwest of Winterfell. While technically they are in the top tier of vassals because they directly serve the Starks, they are very weak - all of their armies combined consist of less than 3,000 men - which is slightly less than what a more powerful House like the Manderlys can raise individually. Of these Northern Houses, all of their armies were destroyed at the Red Wedding, except for the small local forces of the Reeds and mountain clans, who stayed behind to harass invaders. •Thus, the only way that Jon could reach a count of "about two dozen" other major families is if first, he added some of the weaker and less notable ones like the Northern Mountain clans into the initial count of 14-17, and even then he was sort of rounding up. •The map of the North that Jon and Sansa look over at Castle Black has an error with the Iron Islands, accidentally omitting Old Wyk island (which has appeared in other maps).
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