AGOT: Bran I

A Game of Thrones

BRAN I

Characters:

Bran Stark

Lord Eddard Stark

Robb Stark

Jon Snow

Theon Greyjoy

Joey Cassel - captain of household guard

Hullen - master of horse Winterfell

Harwin - Hullen's son

Desmond - guard of Winterfell

Gared - killed

Important Characters:

Mance Rayder - the King Beyond the Wall

Old Nan

Rickon Stark

Notes:

They are going to behead a deserter from the Night's Watch

Gared is the deserter - from the Prologue

The Long Night - 8,000 before AL Westeros was covered in darkness for years, the Others arrived from the Land of Always Winter

Winterfell castle of the North, ancestral seat of the Starks

Children of the Forest - nonhuman race here long before the First Men during the Dawn Age, magical beings supposedly extinct

Age of Heroes - began with the signing of the Pact at the Isle of Faces and lasted for 4,000 years

Ice – Ned’s sword

Valyrian Steel - a magical alloy invented in Valyria and used to make weapons of unparalleled quality.

Starks – one of the Great Houses (The North)

Tullys - one of the Great Houses (Riverlands)

King Robert Baratheon is the king

Ned beheads Gared

Theon kicks the head

Jon thinks Gared was dead of fear

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid

Riverrun – castle in the Riverlands, ancestral seat of the Tullys

First Men - (Northerners) first men who came to Westeros 12,000 years before AL, fought a war with the children of the forest because they were cutting down weirwoods

Andals - (Southerners) arrived 6,000 years before AL, fought First Men and children of the forest could not conquer the North so they made peace, brought faith of the seven and knighthood

Rhoynar - (Dorne) riverfolk forced by war with Valyria to Westeros 700 years before AL, where river queen Nymeria married a Martell and gave Dorne many of its traditions

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is

They come upon a pack of pup direwolves and a mother killed by an antler

Direwolves have not been seen south of the Wall in 200 years

There are 3 male and 2 female - just like Ned's true born children

Ned allows the children to keep them

Jon Snow finds an albino direwolf for himself

This is where the entire story stemmed from

Great Houses:

Crownlands - Baratheon (Targaryen)

Riverlands - Tully

Stormlands - Baratheon

Dorne - Martell

Iron Islands - Greyjoy

The Vale - Arryn of the Eyrie

The North - Stark

The Reach - Tyrell

Westerlands - Lannister

As I say above, this is the chapter that George R.R. Martin originally conceived of that led to the entire series. It is crazy to think of how much grew out of this one scene, but this is a great chapter and a great opening to the story.