The Last of the Starks

"**The Last of the Starks**" is the fourth episode of the eighth season of *Game of Thrones*. It is the seventy-first episode of the series overall. It premiered on May 5, 2019. It was written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss and directed by David Nutter.

It is the seventh modified episode as part of this wiki's rewrite.

## Plot

The survivors flee the North; Cersei makes a power move.

## Summary (abridged)

* Drogon, Rhaegal and the crypt’s survivors make it to Castle Cerwyn.
* Ravens are sent out to the lords of the Riverlands and Vale, urging them to gather what forces they can and meet at the crossroads near the Trident.
* Lord Cley Cerwyn gives the non-combatants skiffs to sail down the White Knife for White Harbor, and gives rest of the survivors horses to ride down the Kingsroad and meet up with the reinforcements from the Riverlands and the Vale.
* Dany and Sansa set off for the Eyrie on Drogon, while Jon Snow travels to Riverrun on Rhaegal.
* Cersei learns of the Fall of Winterfell.
* Drogon, Rhaegal, and the southbound party from Winterfell meet up at the Trident, alongside 2 hosts of soldiers led by Robin Arryn and Edmure Tully respectively.
* Jaime and Tyrion are reunited with Bronn at the Crossroads. Bronn half-heartedly presses them to make good on their promises of a castle, but ultimately gives up and agrees to join them regardless, accepting the full gravity of the situation.
* Daenerys sends Gendry, Davos, Brienne, Edric and Devan south to Storm’s End to raise an army, but out of concern for the health of Drogon and Rhaegal after they suffered injuries during the Fall of Winterfell followed by an exhaustive flight south, the five are ultimately required to ride rather than fly to their destination. Ravens are sent to the stormlords prior to their departure.
* Daenerys and Jon also order the non-combatants, under the leadership of Samwell, Gilly, Missandei and Varys, to head further south for the Reach. Both Sam and Missandei are reluctant to leave their friends, but Jon and Dany ultimately convince them to part ways. The group intend to make for Horn Hill to meet Sam's family, before moving on to Oldtown.
* Bran wargs into the past to watch various historical events. In a rare moment of emotional yearning for days of peace, Bran ends up watching the Great Tourney at Harrenhal. At the very moment that Rhaegar crowns Lyanna as his Queen of Love and Beauty, Bran suddenly feels a strong connection to the rubies on Rhaegar’s breastplate, before returning to himself after the Sack of King’s Landing and the climactic duel between Robert Baratheon and Rhaegar Targaryen flashes before his eyes. Bran then gets Jon to search through the nearby ford, and surely enough, he finds one of the rubies from Rhaegar Targaryen’s breastplate.
* Several days later, the rest of the Riverlander and Valemen forces finally arrive, and the march to King’s Landing begins. Daenerys, anguished from her losses, vows to fly up to the Red Keep and demand Cersei’s unconditional surrender, lest she bring down the castle on top of her. Jon eventually talks her out of it, and she agrees to sneak Jaime Lannister into the city to confront Cersei and talk her into joining forces to fight the dead.
* Since Edric and Devan ordered their forces to be ready to mass at Storm’s End several months earlier, by the time of their arrival alongside Davos, Brienne and Gendry, a large force awaits them ready to set sail for King’s Landing. Among those at the head of this force include Edric's maternal grandfather and adoptive father; Gulian Swann.
* Daenerys’ forces arrive outside the walls of King’s Landing to find a protected siege. Jaime sneaks into the Red Keep. Despite Jon’s warnings against trying anything, Arya seeks to kill Cersei herself and confides in the Hound her intentions. The Hound also warns her not to go, but Arya sneaks out the camp anyway.
* Bran, while warging, watches Rhaegar leave the Tourney at Harrenhal from a small skiff on the Gods Eye, along with Arthur Dayne and Gerold Hightower. He then watches as Rhaegar approaches and then kneels before the weirwood on the Isle of Faces, touching it’s roots with a bloodied hand. Before he can see anymore, he is pulled out of his vision by contemporary visions of the Army of the Dead breaking through Moat Cailin and invading the Riverlands, and the Night King atop Viserion flying over the Eyrie.
* Bran informs Daenerys of the latter vision, and Daenerys surmises that the Night King intends to destroy the Baratheon fleet before it can arrive at King’s Landing. Daenerys mounts Drogon and starts flying to Dragonstone to intercept the Night King.
* The Baratheon fleet approaches Dragonstone, which is seemingly still under the control of Daenerys’ Unsullied garrison, but as the landing detachment approach closer, the ‘Unsullied soldiers’ begin firing on the ships with scorpions while a large fleet bearing Euron Greyjoy’s sigil emerges from behind the island to engage the main fleet. A force led by Gendry and Edric land on the beaches, and after being reinforced, move on to breach the walls and fight within the castle itself. During the battle, Daenerys arrives and burns a significant number of Greyjoy ships, before the Night King arrives and engages Daenerys in a duel above Dragonstone. On the ground, Edric discovers a large cache of wildfire in the central structure, imported from King’s Landing in the event that Euron be forced to abandon the fortress, and prevents it from being lit by the alchemists tending to it, accidentally breaking one of the barrels and spilling its contents across the courtyard in the process. As the battle in the skies above intensifies, both armies retreat from the island. Dany eventually gets the upper hand on the Night King and Viserion is sent crashing into Dragonstone, but before Dany can do anything else, the Night King begins to target a badly injured Drogon with ice spears and Dany is forced to flee. The Night King stands in the Painted Table room, watching the Baratheon fleet retreat from the island, and begins to raise the dead all around. With the courtyard containing the wildfire slightly visible, Edric fires a flaming arrow towards the castle, successfully igniting the cache, destroying the fortress, and incinerating and all the dead within the castle, including Viserion. But once again, the Night King emerges unharmed from the ruins of Dragonstone as the Baratheon fleet heads west for King’s Landing, while the Iron Fleet heads east, away from Westeros.

## Appearances

### First

* Lord Gulian Swann
* Lord Eldon Estermont
* Princess Elia Martell *(In vision)*
* Prince Lewyn Martell *(In vision)*
* Ser Oswell Whent *(In vision)*
* Ser Jonothor Darry *(In vision)*
* Ser Elbert Arryn *(In vision)*
* Lord Jon Connington *(In vision)*
* Lady Ashara Dayne *(In vision)*
* Lord Quellon Greyjoy *(In vision)*
* Lord Walter Whent *(In vision)*
* Queen Rhaella Targaryen *(In vision)*
* Princess Rhaenys Targaryen *(In vision)*
* Prince Aegon Targaryen *(In vision)*

### Deaths

* King Aerys II Targaryen *(In vision)*
* Princess Elia Martell *(In vision)*
* Princess Rhaenys Targaryen *(In vision)*
* Prince Aegon Targaryen *(In vision)*
* Prince Rhaegar Targaryen *(In vision)*
* Viserion
* Many wights
* Many Greyjoy soldiers and sailors
* Many Baratheon soldiers

## Events

* Great Tourney at Harrenhal *(In vision)*
* Sack of King's Landing *(In vision)*
* Battle of the Trident *(In vision)*
* Siege of King's Landing
* Battle of Dragonstone

## See also

* The Last of the Starks on Wiki of Westeros
* The Last of the Starks on Wikipedia
* The Last of the Starks on IMDb