A Song of Ice and Fire, answered

About this section

What this section answers

This is the reading half of the Westeros wing. The quizzes and games sit one door over; here the questions are the ones people actually type, such as who fathered Jon Snow, why the realm ends up with Bran on a throne that no longer exists, or what the Dance of the Dragons was before House of the Dragon filmed it. Each page gives a short answer first, then a table of facts with a source on every row, then the reasoning in our own words.

The ground covered is the five novels Martin has published in the series so far, the companion histories that fill in the centuries before them, all eight Game of Thrones seasons, and whichever House of the Dragon seasons had aired when each page was last checked. Where the books and the screen disagree, a page says which version it is describing rather than blending the two.

Which editions, seasons and references these facts rest on

Facts about the novels are tied to the book they appear in, and facts about the screen to the season and episode. Neither the books nor the episodes could be read or watched by the system that drafted these pages, so every such fact also names the reference it was located through: an English Wikipedia article at a stated revision, a page of A Wiki of Ice and Fire at a stated revision, or a Wikidata item. Those locators are printed beside each source on every page, so the trail can be followed by anyone.

Two things are left out on purpose. Neither The Winds of Winter nor A Dream of Spring, the planned sixth and seventh novels, has a story these pages can describe: both are unpublished as of the date each page was last checked, and no page guesses when that will change. And no page retells an episode: outcomes such as who holds the throne at the end appear as single lines of fact, and the prose argues about why they happened instead of staging them.

Corrections, arguments and the rest of the wing

If a fact here is wrong, the place to say so is the Game of Thrones room on the forum, where corrections are read and the page is rechecked against its sources before it changes. The same room is where the theories live, which these pages report as theories and never as settled. For something less studious, the wing's sorting quizzes and the conversation with Jon Snow are a click away, and the house quiz places you in one of the nine houses listed further down this page.

How every page here is sourced and checked: How these pages are made.