A FanGirl's Guide to Westeros.

I can admit it, HBO's Game of Thrones sold me first episode. For a couple of months my brother would keep bringing up Game of Thrones. Whoop de fucking dooo. Didn't care. He burned the first season onto DVD for me and he had to hound me to watch them. So I finally did. Watched all of season one in a single sitting.

With YouTube being the wonder that it is, I have assembled a guide for those who are audio/visual learners. Those who have read the novels (Admittedly, I'm on A Clash of Swords right now) will appreciate the nuances that narration can bring. Those new to the wild land of mind games in hopes of scoring a throne will enjoy a perspective not really expounded upon in the series.

And for those of you who haven't yet seen GoT for yourself, give it a whirl. It's fantasy, but a more gritty version of Lord of the Rings. A version filled with lust, violence, and songs of pwning disrespectful families. It's very character driven. And Tyrion is my favorite.


On that note, let me get down to business.


Westeros has a history that goes back twelve thousand years. Yeah. So I'll use THIS VID as a way to bring you up to speed before you get going below.

[each link will open into a new window. heads up on that.]

WAY IN THE PAST
-History and Lore The Children of the Forest, The First Men, and the Andals. [Indigenous peoples, treaties and invasions]
-The Age of Heros [300 years before the start of Book/Series]

NOTABLE PLACES
- History and Lore of Valyria [Where the last invaders came from]
-The Free Cities [Cities in Essos, a contient across the Narrow Sea]
- Harrenhal
- Dragonstone

RELIGIONS
- Old Gods and New
- The Drowned God

ORDERS OF PEOPLE WORTH NOTING
- The Night's Watch
  - as told by House Stark
  - as told by House Lannister
- The Maesters
- The Warlocks
- The Alchemists Guild
- The Free Folk

THE GREAT HOUSES OF WESTEROS
- Targaryen
   -Character Study
- Baratheon
- Stark
  -Character Study
- Lannister
   -Character Study: Tytos and Tywin   |  Cersei, Jamie and Tyrion
- Tyrell
- Greyjoy
- Arryn

20 YEARS BEFORE THE BOOKS/SERIES START
Robert's Rebellion
THE MAD KING, AS TOLD BY:
- Lannister
- Stark
- Baratheon
- Davos Seaworth

ROBERT'S REBELLION, AS TOLD BY:
- Baratheon
  -Stannis Baratheon
- Catelyn Stark
- Targaryen
- Tyrell
- Davos Seaworth

THE FIELD OF FIRE, AS TOLD BY:
- House Targaryen
- House Stark

THE SACK OF KINGS LANDING, AS TOLD BY:
- House Targaryen
- House Baratheon
- House Stark
- House Lannister

After the rebellion
THE GREYJOY REBELLION, AS TOLD BY:
- Theon Greyjoy
- Robb Stark
- Stannis Baratheon

MISCELLANEOUS
- House Clegane