ToastingĪ wave of toasts crashes through the room. Mostly I live in the past.”Īnd with this scene, we dispense with the idea that anyone other than Sansa is slated to run Winterfell now. “You’re the only surviving trueborn son of Ned Stark. “That will be useful as Lord of Winterfell.” As we learned in a previous episode, the Night King wanted Bran dead because the Three-Eyed Raven is the living repository of the world’ history. “You know our history better than anyone,” Tyrion says. The smalltalk gives way to a discussion about lineage. Tyrion walks over the Bran and compliments his wheelchair. Tyrion says there’s no comfort in that line of thought. “We play his game for him, we fight his war and win, and then he fucks off. He’s pissed off at her and the one she follows. It’s just that Davos never got the chance. “I told her I’d kill her if I ever saw her again,” Davos says. Ser Davos Seaworth, aka the Onion Knight, talks to Tyrion about Melisandre the red witch’s sudden departure. Tyrion smiles back until he sees Sansa, who looks mortified at what she’s just witnessed. The room toasts Gendry, and from his seat next to Dany, Tyrion is impressed, calling Dany’s political machination “a Lord of Storm’s End who will be forever loyal to you.” Dany smiles and lets him know that he’s not the only clever one. To Lord Gendry Baratheon of Storm’s End.” “No, you are Lord Gendry Baratheon of Storm’s End, the lawful son of Robert Baratheon.” “Does anyone? I think you should be Lord of Storm’s End.” “I didn’t even know he was my father until after he was dead,” Gendry says. “You are aware he took my family’s throne and tried to have me murdered?” “You’re Robert Baratheon’s son,” Dany says. Gendry gets up to leave (presumably to find Arya), but Dany calls to him from her seat at the head table with Jon and Sansa. “You can still smell the burning bodies, and that’s where your head is at,” the Hound says. Gendry sits across from the Hound, gives him a small toast to his health, and asks a question. Inside Winterfell’s great hall, the living eat and drink in celebration of their victory. The flames consume the dead, and the smoke envelopes Winterfell. Several carry torches, and when Jon finishes his speech, they step forward and ignite the funeral pyres. The survivors are assembled in long, deep lines outside Winterfell’s walls. And we shall never see their like again.” They were the shields that guarded the realms of men. It is our duty and our honor to keep them alive in memory for those who come after us and those who come after them for as long as men draw breath.
Everyone in this world owes them a debt that can never be repaid. Our fellow men and women who set aside their differences to fight together and die together so that others might live. “We’re here to say goodbye to our brothers and sisters,” Jon Snow says. The talky part of “The Last of the Starks” begins with a eulogy. She leaves a wolf-shaped pin - the sigil of House Stark - on his coat. Sansa cries over the body of Theon Greyjoy, who died defending Bran Stark/the Three-Eyed Raven last episode. Perhaps no one typifies the sacrifice better than the late Jorah Mormont, eternal servant of Daenerys Targaryen, who laid down his life defending her, the woman he loved but who could not love him back.