Harrenhal

Only then did he descend, well inside the castle walls.

On wings as black as pitch, Balerion plunged through the night, and when the great towers of Harrenhal appeared beneath him, the dragon roared his fury and bathed them in black fire, shot through with swirls of red.

Stone does not burn, Harren had boasted, but his castle was not made of stone alone.

Wood and wool, hemp and straw, bread and salted beef and grain, all took fire.

Smoking, screaming, shrouded in flames, they ran across the yards and tumbled from the wall walks to die upon the ground below.

And even stone will crack and melt if the fire is hot enough.

The river lords outside the castle wall said later that the towers of Harrenhal glowed red against the night, like five great candles, and like candles they began to twist and melt as runnels of molten stone ran down their sides.

Harren and his last sons died in the fires that engulfed his monstrous fortress that night.

Yeah.

And then when he heard his shithead son was trying to do a coup at Harrenhal, he showed up and he was like, hey, bitches, I'm back.

You know, in all seriousness, and like he was kind of right about that, based on everything we know, it sounds like he was not wrong.

I think they were, in fact, trying to depose him at that point.

I'm like, why does he hate Janos Slynt so much? And literally it all boils down to his dad hates him and he disrespected Cersei by complying with killing Ned.

So you have that line from Tywin of the man's father was a butcher and they grant him Harrenhal.

Harrenhal, the seat of kings! And then, of course, from Cersei, Janos Slynt and Ser Ilyn went ahead blithely and shortened the man without a word from me later in this chapter.

Without a word from me! Oh, Cersei, you're everything to me.

So...

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Janos Slynt's involvement is explained to Tyrion as well, that Littlefinger made the arrangements to grant Janos Slynt Harrenhal and name him to the council as well as provide his gold cloaks to stop Eddard and Renly's plotting.

He leaves King's Landing, basically leaves his throne behind.

they pretty much just declare him dead, let Rhaenyra declare him dead, and Aemon now is going to rule, and he wants to join the battle, and he flies off to Harrenhal, and things don't quite go the way that he had expected, and he ends up injured, and he's there with the strange Alice Rivers, and I thought this storyline was so fascinating.

To me, especially when we got to the final episodes where she's told her her backstory.

Yeah.

Because we've had all these different battles, and all these different routes and destructions and s- and, and, uh, you know, the Winter Wolves are being decimated.

How many are left? Who the fuck knows, except for they all get to Harrenhal, and he kinda gives us a quick rundown.

"Oh, there's a couple thousand from here, and there's a couple thousand from here." And Ormund is Katamari Damacy-ing armies as he goes.

Like, you know, at, you know, conquering an atom as they go and-

Again, it's, it's too bad that Ormund had to be such a cartoon by the end, but I do like how it kind of launched this Daeron into a potentially interesting character for the wars to come.

I, I do wanna talk about Alys because in the...

It's clear in the books that something is going on with Alys because, like, everyone that switches by Harrenhal is, like, all about her, and it's like, you know, you, you hear that Daemon was, got kinda, like, ensorcelled by her.

Aemond is kind of sor- ensorcelled by her.