The
season is expected to premiere in Spring 2016 and will be based on the hitherto
unreleased sixth novel of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, The Winds of
Winter, along with some material from the fourth and fifth novels, A Feast for
Crows and A Dance with Dragons.
Winter
has come. Westeros braces for a winter which many fear will become a new Long
Night, while the White Walkers and their army of the dead begin their attack
against the Wall.
In
King's Landing, Queen Cersei Lannister has been publicly shamed by the Faith of
the Seven and awaits her trial. Even Grand Maester Pycelle has abandoned her,
and called her uncle Kevan Lannister to rule as the new Hand of the King. Even
though Cersei has been released to their custody, her inept leadership nearly
destroyed House Lannister's hold on the throne and they have no intention of
ever letting her wield power again. Kevan and Pycelle must attempt to mend the
damage Cersei did to the Lannister-Tyrell alliance. The Lannisters and Tyrells
on Kevan's Small Council maintain a shaky truce as they attempt to deal with
the ongoing debt crisis to the Iron Bank of Braavos, as well as the rise of the
fanatical Faith Militant due to Cersei's blunders. Cersei meanwhile, though
seemingly humbled, still has a few schemes she will attempt to play to regain
control.
In The
North, the Boltons have triumphed over King Stannis — but in the distraction,
Sansa Stark and Theon Greyjoy escaped, desperately jumping off Winterfell's
castle walls. Brienne of Tarth, who executed Stannis, must now deal with the
consequences of putting her vow to avenge Renly before her oath to protect
Sansa.
In
Dorne, Ellaria Sand's poisoning of Cersei's daughter, the Princess Myrcella,
just before the eyes of Jaime Lannister, may now push Doran Martell into war
against the Iron Throne he has been fervently trying to avoid.
Across
the Narrow Sea, in the Free City of Braavos, Arya Stark killed Meryn Trant
without the Faceless Men's permission — and without the proper training, the
use of one of their masks has poisoned her and rendered her blind. Her training
continues, as the now blind girl must learn to rely on her other senses to
survive.
In
Slaver's Bay, Daenerys Targaryen's attempt to liberate Meereen has resulted in
massive bloodshed, with the former slave masters conspiring to retake the city.
In a large scale ambush on the opening day of the games in Daznak's Pit
however, Daenerys climbed onto Drogon's back to try to escape the danger — but
she could not make him return to the city. Instead the young dragon flew north
to the southern border of the Dothraki Sea, the lands of his birth, where the
stranded Daenerys has been surrounded by a hostile Dothraki khalasar numbering
in the thousands. Jorah Mormont and Daario Naharis have set out to search for
her. Meanwhile, back in the city Daernerys's advisors Tyrion Lannister,
Missandei, and Grey Worm are joined by Varys in attempting to hold together
rule over the city wracked by civil war until Daenerys returns — if she returns
at all.
At The
Wall, Lord Commander Jon Snow attempted to prepare for the coming of the White
Walkers by letting as many surviving wildlings through to the south as he could
— but tens of thousands more were killed and resurrected as undead wights at
Hardhome. The leading Night's Watch officers, increasingly upset at Jon's
proposed alliance with the wildlings, staged a mutiny and stabbed Jon multiple
times until he fell.
Just
before the mutiny against Jon Snow, he sent away Samwell Tarly to go to the
Citadel in Oldtown, Westeros's second largest city (located in the Reach), in
order to train to be a new maester to replace Maester Aemon after his passing.
Samwell takes Gilly and her young son with him, rather than leave them in the
path of the White Walkers.
Distracted
by the political intrigues in King's Landing, the exhausted lords of Westeros
must now brace for the rise of the kraken — the ironborn led by House Greyjoy.
Early in the War of the Five Kings, Balon Greyjoy declared the Iron Islands'
independence and raided the North while the Stark's army was fighting in the
south. Having remained relatively uninvolved ever since, the ironborn's massive
fleet remains at full strength, a fact lost on the major powers of the
mainland, who have been nearly exhausted fighting each other. All of this
changes with the sudden return of Balon's exiled younger brother Euron Greyjoy
— cunning, ruthless, manipulative, and more than a little insane, he strikes
fear even into the other ironborn. Euron now pushes for the ironborn to launch
massive new offensives against the other kingdoms — not simply to raid, but to
hold and conquer territory, as Euron's ultimate ambition is nothing less than
to conquer all of the Seven Kingdoms. He is opposed by Balon's daughter Yara
Greyjoy, who urges that the Iron Islands must preserve their strength and
engage in diplomacy with the mainland if they are to survive.
And as
the winds of winter begin to sweep through the south, far Beyond the Wall the
young Bran Stark has been staying with the last of the Children of the Forest
and his new mentor, the Three-eyed raven, in order to hone his abilities of
warging and the Sight. Bran will not walk again, but he has learned to fly.
Watch
out for Season 6
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