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one of whom is Illyrio Mopatis, benefactor to the Targaryen siblings. This region must pay tribute to their neighbors, the Dothraki horse lords, to avoid invasion and pillage. The Dothraki are a nomadic warrior tribe with their own set of beliefs and customs who occupy the middle grasslands of Essos. Beyond the grasslands is an area of farmers and shepherds called Lhazar. The people calling this area home worship a deity called the Great Shepherd. Operating separately from Westeros authority, Essos serves as a refuge for exiles hailing from that region.
    Rich with its own history, this supernatural world sets the stage for the culmination of a power struggle that has been ensuing for generations. Dynamic, full-scale characters ensure engaging interactions and shocking plot twists. Reputations and family holdings are at stake in an environment where it is better to have a bad family code than no code at all. Decisions and sacrifices are made by key players that set events in motion drastically affecting the future of this land’s inhabitants.

Episode 1: Winter Is Coming
    The premier episode of Game of Thrones takes viewers on a journey through several realms of the kingdom of Westeros and introduces them to many of its ruling families. Our story begins with three rangers venturing out on patrol of the northern territory beyond The Wall. The area is covered with heavy snow and appears to be bleak and gloomy. One of the men stumbles upon a bloody scene of bodies torn apart and placed to form the shape of a circle with a line down the middle. He scatters to find his comrades and upon return to the site, discovers that the bodies have disappeared. The man in charge dismisses the hi-jinks as typical “Wildling” pranks just before he is killed by a large hulking figure in black with glowing blue eyes. The two remaining men flee but are chased down. The ranger who discovered the bodies is left to have his comrade’s head tossed to him after the “White Walker” slices it clean off the man’s body. The scene closes with this ranger running scared.
    Next we travel to Winterfell, home of the Starks, where a strikingly contradictory scene is taking place. The young men are teaching a young boy, Bran, archery while his parents look on. The young ladies are in a room practicing their needle work. As Bran attempts to hit the archery target, an arrow comes from behind him and sails into the bull’s eye. It is the boy’s slightly older sister, Arya, who shows him up because she had grown bored with sewing. A lighthearted chase ensues. Interrupting the play is news that a deserter has been found in the territory and must be dealt with. Ned Stark, head of the House, insists his young son come along amidst protests from his wife, the boy’s mother. The group of men rides out to where the deserter is being held and we see that it is the ranger who had fled from the woods in the previous scene. Although the man tells what he had witnessed and warns of the return of the White Walkers, he takes responsibility for deserting his post nonetheless. Ned sentences him to death and beheads the ranger himself, explaining to Bran that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
    On their return to the Winterfell castle, a deer and dire wolf are found dead in the wood. Five motherless pups are discovered and just as Ned is about to kill them out of mercy, his eldest son Jon, who is a bastard, interjects and convinces Ned to keep the pups, pointing out that the direwolf is the sigil of the Stark House and there are five, one for each Stark child. As they are leaving, a sixth pup is found for Jon to have, an obvious symbol of his inclusion in the Stark bloodline. Upon their return, word is received that King Robert intends to visit Winterfell.
    We leave Winterfell and enter King’s Landing, the Capital of the seven kingdoms and home to the Iron Throne. Here, we meet the Queen and her brother conspiring about the dead body in the