Messengers interrupt a happy afternoon at home: Ned's heir Robb and bastard son Jon Snow teach his next-youngest son, Bran, how to shoot, whilst daughters Sansa and Arya occupy themselves with needlework and Ned presides over it all with his wife Catelyn. He is gathered up by guardsmen in the employ of Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell, Warden and nominal ruler of the North. He's in (literally) greener pastures, having made his way south of the Wall. As the rangers head back for the Wall, shadowy figures of legend, the White Walkers, show up and begin the slaughter anew.Īfter a freaking awesome credits sequence, our young ranger Will is the only one left alive. Even worse, by the time Will gets the rest of his party there, said body parts have gotten up and wandered off. Will is the one to find the wildlings - already dead, their body parts spread in a circle. Three rangers of the Night's Watch - Will, Gared and the knight Ser Waymar Royce - have been sent beyond the Wall to track a band of wildlings that have committed recent raids and ambushes. We start our series in the far north of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, at the 700-foot tall frozen barrier known simply as The Wall.
