
These encounters can result in hostilities, startling conquests, and the spread of influence, or they can result in the formation of temporary alliances. Each turn centers around the resolution of an encounter between two players. Delivering one of the show's most iconic twists, Arya dropped the dagger, caught it in her other hand and promptly dispatched the Night King, which in turn, also downed his frozen forces.Battles, alliances, and betrayals lie at the heart of The Iron Throne. With Winterfell under siege from an army of the undead, it looked like the Night King had the upper hand on Arya when he grabbed her by the throat and prepared to turn her into one of his own. Only episodes later, Arya used it to topple the Night King.

Of course, this wasn't the end of the dagger's journey. With this in mind, there's a sense of justice that Arya then slit his throat using that very dagger in front of the northern powers at Winterfell. It's never confirmed as gospel, but the show heavily implied it was Littlefinger who sent the assassin to kill Bran, knowing that by doing so he could create a power vacuum and exploit the chaos for his own ends. In actual fact, it was all part of an elaborate scheme of Littlefinger's that ran all the way until season seven.

It was this sneaky exchange that inadvertently launched the war between the various houses. Here, an unnamed catspaw assassin tried to kill Bran Stark in the night but ultimately paid the price at the jaws of his direwolf.Ĭatelyn Stark went in search of its owner and was told deceitfully by Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish that he'd lost it in a bet to Tyrion Lannister. Alicent is destined to clash with Emma D'Arcy's Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, while the scene in question could come directly from the books where Alicent's son (Aemond) loses an eye to Rhaenyra's son, Lucerys.įor those who need a refresher, the catspaw dagger first appeared in Game of Thrones season one.

House of the Dragon will follow a familiar-sounding race to the Iron Throne, with the Targaryens fighting over the line of succession, a series of wars known as the Dance of Dragons.
