Bend the Knee: A Song of Ice and Fire Podcast

Reaching the  Nightfort ,  Bran  recalls all the horror tales he’s heard about this castle, such as the stories of the  Rat Cook ,  Mad Axe , and the  Night's King . Before it was abandoned by the  Watch  some two hundred years before, the Nightfort had once been the greatest castle along the Wall. However,  Meera and  Jojen Reed  are unafraid of the ancient castle. They sleep that night in th...

Reaching the  Nightfort ,  Bran  recalls all the horror tales he’s heard about this castle, such as the stories of the  Rat Cook ,  Mad Axe , and the  Night's King . Before it was abandoned by the  Watch  some two hundred years before, the Nightfort had once been the greatest castle along the Wall. However,  Meera and  Jojen Reed  are unafraid of the ancient castle. They sleep that night in th...

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Donal Noye  and  Jon  have done the best they could to fortify  Castle Black  from the  impending attack  of  Styr  and his raiders. The castles along the Wall were designed defenseless, as the  Night's Watch  was not meant to be able to repel a force from the South. Castle Black was meant specifically to be protected from  wildlings  by the  Wall  itself. When  Styr , the  Magnar  of the  The...

Salladhor Saan  tells King  Stannis Baratheon  of the  Red Wedding , how the  Freys  sewed the head of  Robb Stark 's direwolf,  Grey Wind , on the king's shoulders and nailed a crown on its head.  Catelyn Stark was slain and thrown naked into the river. Queen  Selyse  and  Axell Florent  declare that it was the hand of  R'hllor  that killed the usurpers, but Stannis knows it was Lord ...

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Tyrion  and  Sansa  spend a joyless meal together, with both not talking much. Sansa takes a joke Tyrion makes about the quality of the food as him criticizing her, but he assures her that it's not her fault and that he has more serious matters to worry about. Besides  Joffrey ,  Cersei  and  his father , what bothers him most are the 300 Dornishmen visiting for the King's wedding. He has...

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Arya  and  Sandor  try to reach the  castle . Arya notices that the gate is opened and armed riders are beginning to come out from the castle toward the pavilions where the Stark host is celebrating the wedding. She hears a  wolf  howling and music she faintly recognizes. The pavilions that the Stark host are celebrating in have been rigged to collapse. The riders from the castle attack the northm...

Catelyn  listens to the continuous pounding noise of the drums the musicians in the hall are playing. She is seated between  Ryman Frey  and  Roose Bolton  during the wedding feast. She remarks to herself how joyless the wedding is, and watches as  Robb  dances with several of the Frey maids and  Edmure  dotes on his soon to be wife,  Roslin . Catelyn becomes more wary when she learns that  Olyvar...

Sandor  and  Arya  arrive at  the Twins  where Sandor hopes to ransom Arya to  her family . To get there The Hound had robbed a farmer of his  wagon  and casks to disguise themselves as simple farmers who have come to bring pork to the feast. The castle is closed so they are sent to the pavilions instead where the common soldiers are. Arya recognizes a few coats of arms but there is nobody she kno...

Robb's  host approaches the  Twins  in the rain. Robb rides at the head with  Catelyn ,  Edmure  beside him, and Ser  Raynald  bearing his banner. Catelyn cautions Robb again about offending Lord  Walder Frey , and advises him to ask for food and wine as soon as they arrive to secure the  guest right . They are met by a contingent headed by Ser  Ryman Frey , Lord Frey's grandson, and three...

Gared ,  Will , and Ser  Waymar Royce , three  rangers  from the  Night's Watch , are tracking a band of  wildling  raiders in the  haunted forest . Will has reported on wildlings that he found, claiming they are all dead. Gared, an older man who has been in the Night's Watch for decades, is uneasy, and insists that they turn back to the  Wall ; they have eight or nine days of travel ahead...

Jon Snow  reaches  Mole's Town  and warns the populace to evacuate. At  Castle Black , Jon learns that  Jarman Buckwell  and his men have returned with tidings of  Mance Rayder ’s army. He discovers that the  wildlings  have been feinting all along  the Wall , and groups of black brothers have been dispersed to counter them. Maester  Aemon  also tells him that  Jeor Mormont  was betrayed and k...

Arya  attempts to kill  the Hound  at night while the man is asleep, but he awakens and takes the rock from her hands. They reach  Lord Harroway's Town , but find it flooded. Sandor promises to pay some ferrymen to take them across the  Trident , but gives them only the parchment  Lord Beric  had given him promising reimbursement after the war. Arya tells Sandor that she had once been captured...

Sam  and  Gilly  have reached what appears to be  Whitetree . When Sam studies the carved face of the  Heart Tree  for a moment, he admits to himself that it is not the face he and his brothers saw when they started out on the ranging. Nor does he remember its red eyes weeping blood (sap). Sam prays earnestly to the  old gods to protect them. He and Gilly camp in one of the  wildling  huts for the...

Traveling in the rain to the  Twins  for the wedding of Lord  Edmure Tully  and  Roslin Frey ,  Catelyn  recalls  Robb  sending Ser  Rolph Spicer  to deliver  Martyn Lannister  to the  Golden Tooth  in an exchange of captives, with  Robett Glover  put on a ship at  Duskendale  as part of the agreement. Robb left his wife  Jeyne  at  Riverrun , and only Ser  Raynald Westerling  travels with them. R...

Roose Bolton  has left  Harrenhal  to the  Goat , but before marching for  the Twins  he told  Jaime  to give his warm regards to  his father . Jaime responds,  "So long as you give mine to  Robb Stark ." Jaime is now traveling for  King's Landing  under the protection of  Steelshanks Walton  and a host of  Dreadfort  men.  Qyburn  tells him that Lord  Selwyn  has promised Vargo Hoat 3...

Gendry  mentions that Master  Mott considered  Thoros  a false priest, and Thoros agrees. He was sent to the  Seven Kingdoms  to bring word of  R'hllor , but he spent his time eating and whoring. King  Robert  was fond of him, and many enjoyed the sight of his flaming sword in melees. Lord  Beric silences Thoros by saying, "Fire consumes. It consumes, and when it is done there is nothing l...

Daenerys  and her army of  Unsullied  reach  Yunkai , to find the city guarded by a huge force including two  sellsword  companies. She knows that open battle will cost her many lives, even though her commanders feel she will win easily. Daenerys tells her men to invite the two sellsword Captains, as well as the Yunkish leader. The first to arrive are the three Captains of the  Stormcrows , who sp...

Jon  is with  the Magnar ’s men nearing  a village  alongside a lake. He realizes that he must somehow escape and reach  Castle Black  before the raiders do, in order to warn them. The  Thenns  captured an old man camped in one of the ruined houses, and Styr commands Jon to kill the man. Jon balks, but  Ygritte  slits the man’s throat with her dagger. As Styr begins to command his men in the Old T...

Bran  and the others reach a small, deserted village on a lake. There is a  holdfast tower  on an island in the middle of the lake, and Bran tells them that Good Queen  Alysanne  once stayed there.  Brandon's Gift  is a strip of land south of the Wall to a distance of 25 leagues which was once given to the  Night's Watch  to support them. The  New Gift , given to the Watch by Queen Alysann...

Arya Stark  watches as Lord  Beric Dondarrion  and  Thoros of Myr  seem to be everywhere at once, both with flaming swords in hand. After  the battle , the  brotherhood  hang several Mummers, including Septon  Utt , for their crimes. Arya is upset that Beric let  Sandor Clegane  free after taking all his gold.  That night at the septry's brewhouse, Beric speaks with Arya and asks Thoros, "...

Tyrion  has been sent to greet the three hundred  Dornishmen  with a small retinue. However, he is shocked when he finds that the Dornishmen are being led by Prince  Oberyn Martell  and not his brother, Prince  Doran . The Red Viper of Dorne has an infamous reputation for using poisoned weapons in battle. The man fought in the  Free Cities  and even formed his own  sellsword  company, he studied a...

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