A Song Of Ice And Fire A Storm Of Swords

Chett's hatred of Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly for usurping his comfortable position as steward to Maester Aemon has boiled over.

Brienne of Tarth and Ser Cleos Frey bring Ser Jaime Lannister toward King's Landing in a skiff on the Red Fork.

Ser Desmond Grell is castellan of Riverrun while Edmure is off at battle and he has confined Catelyn to her father’s rooms for releasing the Kingslayer without the consent of King Robb or Edmure.

Arya, Gendry, and Hot Pie head north after fleeing Harrenhal, evading wolves and passing through a burned village.

Bronn visits Tyrion, who is recovering from his wounds. He finds that much has changed in King's Landing under his father’s rule. He also realizes that his father has seen to it that Tyrion received little of the credit for saving the city.

Davos has washed up on the shore of a small island in Blackwater Bay.

Sansa is invited to supper by Margaery and her grandmother, the Lady Olenna. She is escorted to the party by Loras, and unknowingly upsets him by talking of Renly's death.

Jon is brought before Mance Rayder, since Rattleshirt doesn’t trust him.

Illyrio's three ships are sailing for Pentos, and Daenerys is watching her dragons fly over the ocean.

While hiding in the Tumbledown Tower, Bran gains the ability to open his third eye at will, and become Summer. Jojen again warns him not to spend too much time as Summer, neglecting his body and forgetting what he should do when in contact with his direwolf.

Davos learns that his son Devan is alive, and that mainly only the Florents remain to King Stannis.

Jaime, Brienne, and Cleos stop at the Inn of the Kneeling Man to eat. The innkeep mentions the Lightning Lord, and we learn that Lord Beric and Thoros are still together raiding in the Riverlands.

Tyrion is waiting in Varys' room when the eunuch walks in. The Spider reveals that Tywin Lannister means to restore Pycelle as Grand Maester, since the archmaesters of the Citadel claim that “only the conclave can unmake a Grand Maester”.

Arya is gathering vegetables when she hears voices. She warns Gendry and Hot Pie. They try to hide but one of their horses gives them away. They are discovered by three men.

Catelyn hears Robb’s return from the west, and recalls that when Edmure returned, dozens of men left after trampling Robb’s banner, all of them Freys. She is brought before her son to explain why she released Jaime Lannister.

Jon is observing Mance's host, taking note of all the giants and mammoths that make up the army. Tormund is telling Jon some tall tales about himself, when the eagle that was once Orell rakes Jon's face.

Sansa is being fitted for a new gown provided by Queen Cersei.

Hot Pie has decided to stay with Sharna as a baker at the inn. The others depart for Riverrun, or so Tom tells Arya. Harwin tells Arya the tale of how they first rode out in search of Gregor Clegane, and about all the men they lost when Gregor's men fell on them.

Sam and the few survivors from the Fist are running south in the middle of night with a heavy snow falling.

The small council meets to discuss the progress of the war, and Tyrion learns that Lancel is still near death.

Robb stands with all his bannermen attending as the bodies of Willem Lannister and Tion Frey are laid before him. The Greatjon brings Lord Rickard Karstark and four of his men to Robb as prisoners.

Brienne, Cleos, and Jaime are still travelling to King's Landing. They visit Maidenpool, but finding the town deserted, continue on toward Duskendale.

he brotherhood without banners searches for Beric Dondarrion, and Arya Stark sees the ghost of High Heart.

Daenerys and one of the master slavers in Astapor are discussing the purchase of Unsullied through a translator.

Bran Stark travels through the northern mountains and learns about the Knight of the Laughing Tree.

Davos, imprisoned beneath Dragonstone, gives the names Lamprey and Porridge to the unnamed gaolers of the dungeon.

The night before the planned attempt to scale the Wall, Jon tells Ghost that he cannot come with him, and that they will meet again at Castle Black.

Daenerys tells the slavers that she wants all eight thousand Unsullied, plus all the slave boys in training, whether they've been cut yet or not.

Expecting to marry Willas Tyrell, Sansa Stark is forced to marry Tyrion Lannister instead.

Harwin tells Arya about the Battle of the Bells, where her father defeated Lord Connington, Aerys II Targaryen's Hand, in a fierce battle fought in the streets of Stoney Sept.

Jon is watching as Jarl’s men are competing with the Magnar’s to see who will reach the top of the Wall first.

On the way to Harrenhal, Jaime's wound is infected, and he is feverish from the loss of his hand.

Tyrion visits Symon Silvertongue, and thinks to pay him to leave King's Landing. But the singer wishes to join the tournament of singers that will take place during Joffrey’s wedding.

Forty-four survivors have reached Craster's Keep, of the 300 men the Watch had at the Fist. Some of the men are becoming ornery because there is so little food, and Craster seems to be hiding a larder. Mormont speaks with Sam about dragonglass.

Arya and Gendry are blindfolded until they reach the hollow hill, the secret base of the forgotten fellowship. Sandor Clegane is brought bound before Thoros of Myr.

Hoster Tully has finally passed away, and his family and bannermen are gathered for the funeral.

Axell Florent brings Davos Seaworth before King Stannis Baratheon.

Jaime and Brienne are in the bathhouse in Harrenhal, washing themselves before meeting Roose Bolton.

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.

Lord Beric Dondarrion's brotherhood without banners attack a septry held by several members of the Bloody Mummers.

Bran and the others reach a small, deserted village on a lake.

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.

Daenerys and her army of Unsullied reach Yunkai, to find the city guarded by a huge force including two sellsword companies.

Arya Stark and the brotherhood without banners visit the ghost of High Heart. Arya escapes the outlaws but is captured by the Hound.

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. But he had forget something back at Harrenhal...

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.

Sam and Gilly have reached what appears to be Whitetree. When Sam studies the carved face of the Heart Tree for a moment.

Arya attempts to kill the Hound at night while the man is asleep, but he awakens and takes the rock from her hands.

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.

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.

Sandor and Arya arrive at the Twins where Sandor hopes to ransom Arya to her family.

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.The musicians begin to play a new song, "The Rains of Castamere".

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.

Tyrion receives the news that Robb and Catelyn Stark are dead. The end of the war is within reach and Lord Tywin intends to be generous to Stark allies, but Joffrey wants all traitors executed and accuses his grandfather of cowardice during Robert's Rebellion. Tywin orders Joffrey to be escorted to his bedchamber, and Cersei leaves after an unsuccessful attempt to defend him. On the Dornish issue, Tywin reveals that he will not sacrifice Gregor Clegane to the Martells. Tyrion is shocked, and Tywin explains his rationale at the time of the Sack of King’s Landing and the murder of Elia Martell and her children. He also reveals that Arya Stark is still alive.

Salladhor Saan tells King Stannis Baratheon of the Red Wedding.

Donal Noye and Jon have done the best they could to fortify Castle Black from the impending attack of Styr and his raiders.

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.

Meereen is enclosed by a great wall, with hundreds of defenders to guard it. Daenerys's huge army consists mostly of freed slaves.

Tyrion is lying in bed beside his wife. Dreadful details of the Red Wedding have reached King's Landing, about how the Freys mutilated the corpses of Robb Stark and Catelyn Tully.

Sansa and her husband join many other guests at the Queen’s Ballroom to give Joffrey his wedding gifts.

The wedding day of Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell.

Sansa has fled to the Godswood, and when she removes her hairnet, she notices that one of the black amethysts is missing.

Ser Jaime Lannister returns to King's Landing for the first time since the outbreak of the War of the Five Kings.

Davos and a few hand-picked men he knows to be loyal only to Stannis begin their mission in the dark of night.

The remaining members of the Night's Watch from Castle Black and several people from Mole's Town man the Wall as Mance’s army approaches.

Arya dreams that she is running with a pack of wolves every night, but by day she is still Sandor’s captive.

Tyrion Lannister is imprisoned in a tower cell of the Red Keep. His trial awaits...

Jaime is looking through the White Book, the history of the Kingsguard, updated throughout the ages by the Lord Commander.

Sansa is alarmed to discover that Littlefinger has no intention of bringing her home; instead she is being taken to the Vale of Arryn.

Mance’s raiders advance under the protection of a giant fortified turtle but the Night's Watch is able to destroy it. Afterwards, Jon tries to get some sleep, but is pulled out of bed by some men from Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.

Tyrion wakes up in the morning and readies himself to go to the trial. He considers admitting guilt or demanding a trial by battle.

Daenerys sits in the great pyramid of Meereen, her troops having conquered the city after the men she sent into the sewers opened the gates.

Jaime is seated with the small council, as King Tommen signs all the papers brought before him by Ser Kevan.

Jon is taken out of his ice cell and brought once again before Janos Slynt, and told that only Maester Aemon is preventing Janos from hanging Jon.

Sandor Clegane and Arya Stark come to the inn at the crossroads. To Arya's dismay, she recognizes Polliver and the Tickler with a pimply squire.

At Castle Black, Gilly is nursing both her own son as well as Mance Rayder's, as Dalla died giving birth. Sam and Gilly have recently returned to Castle Black, meeting up with Ser Denys Mallister and the men from the Shadow Tower.

Jon is training with Satin in the yard, when Melisandre arrives to take him before Stannis. The King does not believe Jon is a traitor, for he knew Janos Slynt as well as Ned Stark.

Tyrion, locked in the black cells beneath the Red Keep, is rescued by Jaime.

King Stannis has brought several of the black brothers before him to make known his anger about them taking too long to select a new Lord Commander.

Jon practices swords in the yard with Iron Emmett, another brother of the Night's Watch. Emmett hits Jon hard and Jon is knocked into thoughts of Winterfell and his boyhood rivalry with Robb.

At the Eyrie, Sansa awakens to find it snowing outside. She wanders outside and begins to sculpt a snow castle, slowly forming it into a replica of Winterfell.

Merrett Frey is approaching the ruins of Oldstones with the ransom for his half-brother's grandson Petyr Pimple.