Viserys Targaryen Be careful what you wish for is the moral of this story. The bratty brother of beautiful Daenerys believed himself the rightful ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. “Where’s my golden crown?” he drunkenly demanded. Khal Drogo finds him one – a molten one, which really ruined his day. Khal Drogo He was Daenerys’ sun and moon, a superman warrior who was going to bring her the world. Armies couldn’t kill him – but a scratch could, at least one ‘treated’ by evil godswife Mirri Maz Duur. The wounds festered along with his khal. Poor Danny herself had to finally put him out of his misery with a pillow Lady & Grey Wind Did we say only men, women and children were on Martin’s list? Actually, there’s plenty of beasts too. Just four of the direwolf litter now remain – Lady slaughtered by Ned to appease Robert and Joffrey and Grey Wind a victim of the Red Wedding, his head cut off and sewn onto his master’s still-warm corpse. Ygritte Star-crossed lovers indeed – could Jon Snow with his vow of allegiance to the Blackwatch and flame-haired Ygritte, wildling spearwife through and through, a sworn crow-hater, live a long loving life together? Er, no. When all hell breaks loose on The Wall, they find themselves on opposite sides.Ygritte has Jon Snow in her sights, but young Olly comes to his aid with an arrow to her lung. She dies in Jon’s arms.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Left, rotten King Joffrey and grandfather Tywin Lannister (above) probably deserved all that they got but was the same true for The Hound, right, and Ygritte, bottom? Ned Stark (with steed) certainly seemed unfairly despatched.
Jojen Reed So near and yet so far. Jojen’s insights brought Bran to where he should have been, but just as they near their goal – wights, wights everywhere. They spring from the ground and Jojen falls. Yes, he catches a glimpse of a child of the forest before dying, but it lands on his sister Meera’s shoulder’s to cut his throat and send him on his way. Shae Who wouldn’t want to be Tyrion’s girlfriend? Shae, apparently. In one of the more heart-breaking Game of Thrones betrayals it turned out this whore didn’t have a heart of gold after all. It was all about the money. Few tears then when the Halfman offed her with the golden chains his father had given her. Tywin Lannister Which, of course, left Game of Thrones’ biggest hero with just the one thing to do before getting out of King’s Landing. He finds his father on the commode and yet somehow Tywin still keeps his dignity, right up to the moment Tyrion’s crossbow bolt reminds him that all Lannisters truly do pay their debts. april 15 | PRIMOLIFE
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