- Eddard Stark is torn between his family and an old friend when asked to serve at the side of King Robert Baratheon; Viserys plans to wed his sister to a nomadic warlord in exchange for an army.
- At the castle Winterfell, Lord Ned Stark begins to believe that something is amiss. A deserter from the Night Watch, the guardians of the giant ice wall at the northern boundary of their territory, says he's seen the white walkers. Later, Ned and his sons find animals slain in the woods, including a she-wolf whose six pups they keep, one for each of Ned's children. They also welcome the arrival of Ned's good friend King Robert who was once betrothed to Ned's sister. She was killed before they could marry and he wed Cersei Lannister who has given him a son, Joffrey. Along with them are Cersei's two brothers, the handsome Jaime and Tyrion, a dwarf with very large appetites. The King wants Ned to return with him to his capital, King's Landing, and become the King's Hand. Ned accepts but his young son Bran accidentally sees something he should not have and suffers a serious fall as a result. Meanwhile, in the land across the narrow sea, Viserys Targaryen needs an army to attack King's Landing and retake the throne that he believes is rightfully his. He arranges for his pretty sister Daenerys to marry warlord Khal Drogo.—garykmcd
- Jon Arryn, the King's Hand, is dead and King Robert Baratheon has asked his best friend, Eddard "Ned" Stark, to take his place. Meanwhile, across the sea, Viserys Targaryen plans to marry his little sister, Daenerys, to a tribesman, Khal Drogo, in exchange for a king's crown.—Chris Green
- In the northern frontier of Winterfall, the warriors of the Night Watch patrol are searching for savages but out of the blue they are attacked by white walkers. One of them survives and deserts the Night Watch and is considered mad and decapitated by Lord Eddard 'Ned' Stark in accordance with their laws. Lord Stark also learns that his friend Jon Arryn, the Hand of the king, is dead and King Robert Baratheon, who is his friend, is traveling from the King's Landing to Winterfall to invite him to be his Hand of the King and travels with him to the capital. The King was betrothed to Lord Stark's sister but she died and he married Cersei Lannister, who has two brothers and a secret love affair. Meanwhile in the exile, the greedy Viserys Targaryen forces his sister Daenerys Targaryen to get married with the brutal warrior Khal Drogo since he needs an army to overthrow King Baratheon and take the power.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Lord Eddard 'Ned' Stark, governor of the North, prepares his castle Winterfell for a visit of the court of his youth friend Robert Baratheon, sovereign of the Seven Kingdoms, who will ask Ned to succeed his recently deceased mentor Jon Arryn, as Hand (royal prime minister), requiring him to move to the capital King's Landing in central realm Westeros, leaving his wife Catelyn and kids behind. Eddard personally beheads young Wildlands patrol deserter from his northern border's Night Watch, which Ned's bastard son Jon Snow is bound to join, dismissing his warnings that the ogres of 'winter' are returning to the wall. Jon gets the overseen extra pup of a hunt-killed shadow wolf after the five legitimate children -heir Rob and four siblings- are each allowed to keep one and care for it. Ned's shy daughter Sansa is about to be betrothed to Robert's immature firstborn Joffrey. Queen Cersei is accidentally making incestuous love to royal guard captain Jamie Lannister, champion knight and heir to the richest family, by Ned's youngest Bran, whom Jamie pushes down the high semi-ruin tower, yet survives. Meanwhile Drogo, the imposing 'khal' (war king) of the proud horseman people Dothraki, pledges his mounted army of 100,000 to help pretender Viserys Targaryen regain the Iron Throne which his mad father lost to Robert in exchange for the hand of his sister Daenerys, who feels practically raped by both.—KGF Vissers
- In the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, a soldier of the ancient Night's Watch order survives an attack by supernatural creatures known as the White Walkers, thought until now to be mythical (and extinct for thousands of years). The order's platoon was patrolling the North side of the Wall, when the soldier stumbled across an entire village of wild-lings who had been torn from limb to limb and laid across in a Geo-metrical pattern on the ground. The soldier gets his colleagues to visit the spot, where they are brutally killed by the White Walkers and the entire village is now un-dead, with blue eyes.
He attempts to abandon the order (by running off to the South of the wall) but is captured and sent to Castle Winterfell, which is ruled by Eddard "Ned" Stark (Sean Bean), Warden of the North, who decapitates the soldier for desertion. The soldier keeps talking about the white walkers till he is killed. Ned does not believe that the White Walkers are back, as they have been gone for thousands for years. Eddard has 5 sons Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright), Rickon (Art Parkinson), Robb (Richard Madden), Brandon (10 yrs) and Jamie (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is Ned's bodyguard and bastard son. The group finds 6 pups from a dead dire-wolf (a large wolf animal) (direwalls are never found South of the wall) and Ned orders the 6 pups to be adopted by his 5 sons and Jon. Jon gets the runt of the litter. Arya (Maisie Williams) & Sansa (Sophie Turner) are Ned's 2 daughters. Arya has a natural flair for weapons.
In King's Landing, the capital of the seven Kingdoms, Jon Arryn, the King's Hand, dies under mysterious circumstances. King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) (ruler of the Iron Throne), Ned's longtime friend, travels to Winterfell to offer the position to him and propose marriage between his firstborn son Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) and Ned's older daughter Sansa (Sophie Turner). Ned's sister used to be married to Robert and is now dead. Robert used to love her very much. Ned's sister was killed by the Targaryen in the great war that established the 7 Kingdoms. Sansa (who is still 13 yrs old) is smitten with Joffrey and wants to be married to him. Benjen is JOn Snow's uncle (Ned's brother), who comes to visit him at Winterfell. Benjen serves at the wall as a Night's watch. Jon wants to serve with Benjen, but he says that its a lonely life. Ned's wife Catelyn (Michelle Fairley) receives a letter from her sister Lysa (Kate Dickie) (who is now at castle Eyrie and has escaped the King's Landing), Arryn's widow, saying that she has escaped King's Landing and that Arryn was murdered by the Lannisters, Queen Cersei's (Lena Headey) family. Catelyn burns the letter and tells Ned about it, believing that the Lannisters are plotting against Robert. Ned knows he has to protect Robert and decides to take the post.
Ned's 10-year-old son, Brandon, climbs a tower, where he witnesses Cersei having sex with her twin brother, Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who then pushes him out the window from a presumably fatal height. Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) is Cersei's other brother and is known to be a lech and has the nickname "imp".
Meanwhile across the narrow sea in Essos, the exiled Prince Viserys Targaryen (Harry Lloyd) makes a deal with the Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa), who marries Viserys' younger sister, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke), in exchange for providing Viserys an army (of 40,000 killers) to conquer Westeros and reclaim the Iron Throne. Khla has never been defeated in combat. Daenerys doesn't like Khal, but is forced into marriage due to her brother's blind ambition. Viserys admits that he let all 40,000 of Khal men have sex with Daenerys, if that's what it took to reclaim his throne. As a wedding gift Daenerys is given the history of the seven kingdoms and 3 dragon eggs (the ages have turned them to stone), from a stranger Jorah Mormont of Bear Island. He had served the house of Targaryens for many yrs. Khal gifts her a white horse.
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