GOT Rewrite: Knight King attacks the Citadel and the Southern Westeros

Published May 28, 2019 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hey Guys,

Kevin Gabriel here and I have taken up the challenge to Rewrite the Last season of Game of Thrones. I have some issue with season 6 and 7, but the task is to develop a different take on Season 8 of ASOIAF. I will extend the season to 8 Episodes. I will leave the first two episodes as they are, with the exception of EPISODE 2, I will show the Knight King seeing Bran looking at him via the crows flying over. That leads to the knight king to split his forces to a larger 100,000 wights and sending them to Kings landing. The other 50,000 wights head to the river lands and the south.

The night king lands Vicerion and commands about 150 Wights to climb Vicerion. Climb his back, his legs, his neck, the wights basically latch on wherever they can to ride as an advanced force to attack the south. But unlike most armies, the army of the dead can add numbers and it moves. Where the opposite is true for other armies in history. Every time the army of the dead fights it adds more and more soldiers.

The knight Kings flies south with this small number of wights on Vicerion and proceeds to drop them off at different points to attack the general population and swell the army of the dead all over Westeros. This action sends the Riverlands into an absolute panic.

Episode 3:
The battle of the wights, as opposed to the Battle of Winterfell only. People are battling the army of the dead all over. The main two battles are taking place at not only Winterfell, but the knight king is also attacking the Citadel. Bran tells the brain trust at Winterfell that the Knight King is trying to erase the likes of men and their memories. Bran is one level of the history of men, but also the Order of the Maceters is another type of scientific type of recording memory.

This dual attack by the knight Kings leads Jon, Danerys, Tyrion, and Varys to demand that Bran has to fly all over Westeros to give a picture of the battlefield. It shocks everyone when the knight king attacks the Citadel. Cersei gets word of the attack of the Citadel from Qyburn and she realizes that she made a mistake not supporting the north to fight the army of the dead. Qyburn advises her to send her troops to defend the Citadel. Qyburn has to ask Sam how to fight the wights. Sam replies back with the answer of dragon glass. But the south has none of this, so they feel like they are fighting an unwinnable fight against the undead. Qyburn did experiment with fire and wildfire when he first saw the wight in the dragon pit at King’s landing. Qybrun has his forces set up fire trenches around the Kings Landing and the Citadel. They also take Scorpion blots to defend the Citadel, along with the Iron Fleet. Carrying tar and wildfire. Several red priestesses of Ashia arrive at the Citadel and inform the Macters that they have been guided by the Lord of light and Milisandra that is one of the places that needs to be defended against the long night.

The scenes switch back to Winterfell and the wights arrive at Winterfell. The horn blows everyone to get ready. Milasandra arrives, lights up the Dothraki swords. Danerys sends Jon to light up the field and pre-attack the wights so they can be seen better. The Dothraki attack and put up a fight for about 5-10 minutes of action. They are not vanquished right away but they are pushed back and have to retreat. While Jon continues to burn many of the wights the unsullied swoop in from the flanks to take out many of the wights. Eventually, they are beaten back and have to retreat. The scene goes back to the citadel as the Maceters try to barricade the entrances to the citadel. We see the Knight King attacking the Citadel with Vicerion and the Lannister forces trying to fight with fire and tar. We switch back to Winterfell and the Unsullied are still attacking the wights. Jon spots the Wight generals and he tries to attack them, but they bring the storm of winter and near zero visibility. The Unsullied are forced to retreat behind the fire trench set up around Winterfell. They try to signal Jon to light the trench but he can’t see them. Milasandra comes out the trench to light it with a spell but the spell is not working and wights are getting through the lines and she looks worried she will not be able to get the job done. We reach the end of Epidose 3.

Episode 4:

Milasandra is struggling to enact the spell to light the trenches around Winterfell, but she gets it done and hope seems to be restored. The wights stop at the fire of the trenches and seem to be waiting for the fires to die out before they proceed. The knight King senses that the battle of Winterfell is in need of help so he heads for Winterfell. The other Wight generals step forward and order the wights to lay on the fire to extinguish parts of it and let the rest of the wights break through the lines. Bran is following the knight King as he arrives in Winterfell. Danyers see him and takes off after him on Drogon. The battle ensues similar to the current show events. When it comes to the Knight King at the end of the episode. He enters the wearwood tree with Bran waiting. Theon dies by his hand, Jon heads for Bran as he fights off several wights. Arya jumps at the Knight King but is stopped by his wight generals she kills 2-3 of them. Jon arrives and kills 2-3 more generals. The knight Kings knows its a trap and leaves on Vicerion As the wight generals are killed it causes thousands of wights per general to fall. This gives the remaining living soldiers the ability to take back Winterfell. The Knight King retreats to fight another day. The wights stop fighting and leave with the knight king.

Episode 5:
The living mourns the dead soldiers and burns them in mass pyres. The survivors of the BAttle at Winterfell proceed to celebrate with a feast. Danyers lets everyone know that the dead have been sent back and she is heading to kings landing. Bran tells all the knight king is not defeated he has redirected his troops to the south. He thinks the knight king went to the Dreadfort for some purpose, but he’s not sure. We switch to a scene of the knight king reaching out to the land of never-ending winter. There we see about 150 wight generals in training, ranging in age from 18 to babies. The Knight King calls on several of his teen and pre-teen wights generals to come south. The knight King then flies north on Vicerion to pick up his generals in training. Danyers flies south to Dragon stone while the unsullied sail there. While on the way they are attacked by Euron and their ships are sunk and Misande is captured by Cersei. They arrange a meeting with Cersei to broker a final piece before they have to take on the knight King again, but Cersei beheads Misande and tries to ambush Danyers but to no avail.

Episode 6:
Danyers tells everyone she is going to burn Cersei and all who follow her to the ground. Tyron and Varys try to convince her otherwise and she is put off for the moment. The wights have been adding forces all over Westeros, especially the Riverlands. The last battle for the living takes place at the Twins. The battle goes similar to the Battle at Winterfell. Sansa and the people of the north brought Bran to the Hall of Walter Frey where the Red Wedding took place and where Arya extinguished the Frey bloodline. The olden company defect from Cersei after a visit from Jaqen H’ghar, when he tells them that this night king is trying to upset the balance and death needs the living to make their sacrifice. For without sacrifice death is pointless. The Golden company attack from the south while Jon, Sansa and her troops fight from the north. Once again they trap the Knight King but this time he does not approach Bran alone he has several of his pre-teen Generals with him. Jon, Jorah, Arya and Jamie and Brienne concentrate their efforts on fighting the generals. As the wight generals fall so do many of the wights. We get the battle of the Knight King and Jon, but Jon is knocked down and about to be killed when Arya stabs him in the arm and his arm shatters, but he is not killed he escapes. He flies on Vicerion back to the land of endless winter. However, in the mele Jorah is killed by a wight general.

Episode 7:
Bran tells everyone that the Knight King has been beaten back, but he will come again one day. Not anytime soon. He has to rebuild his army. Hopefully, it will take another thousand years to happen again. Now Danyers calls on everyone to ride with her to King’s landing and take the city and the crown for your rightful Queen. The Episode proceeds like the original Episode 5. Cersi is letting everyone into the Red Keep. Jon rejects Danyers from her advances of love and it makes her feel alone and isolated. Danyers on Drogon and Reygal proceed to take out the scorpion bolts all around the city. The Lannister Army is parked outside the walls of King’s Landing and is taken down in battle by the Unsullied and North armies. As they walk through the city. they lay waste to the remaining forces and arrive near the Red Keep. See that the battle is lost, Cersei gives the order to destroy Kings Landing with the Caches of the wildfire she has placed all over the city. Danyers is seeing the city she has always wanted to rule being destroyed section by section. She and Tyron react with horror. Outside the city walls, we see Reygal land and is burning the remaining Lannister Army when two hidden scorpion bolts are launched from underground positions outside the city. One misses Drongon, but the other hits and mortally wounds Reygal. Danyers looks at Tyron and is so pissed off. This is before she takes off on Drogon and attacks the Red Keep. It kills thousands of people taking shelter in the Red Keep. Cersei manages to escape the Red Keep when the mountain and the Hound have their epic Clegane Bowl fight. When Cersei finds Jamie, she is now the monster that destroyed King’s landing. He tells her that she has been a monster for a long time and he never had the courage to stop her because he loved her so much. He grabs her neck and starts to choke her while he says. “I should have done this after the Cept of Baylor and you have only become worse.

After her destruction of the Red Keep, Danyers lands on the walls of the City and is looking over all that is happening. She sees wildfire exploding from afar and some wildfire is exploding around her. She is so infuriated by what she is seeing and the dream of her childhood laying to waste. That she takes off on Drogon and proceed to destroy the rest of King’s Landing.

Episode 8:
Opens the same as episode 6 in the original airing of the show. Danyers gives her speech to the Unsullied and Dothraki forces. Tyron and Jon are horrified. She meets with her war council of Unsullied and Dothraki generals and tells them to lay waste to the other cities that will not come in line with her rule. Jon goes to see Tyron in jail and Tyron convinces Jon that they have to stop Danyers now before she gets even more powerful and even more isolated. She is given the word that the Throne room is safe and they can take her there. UNsullied men are walking around the throne room checking with their spears that the ground is safe to walk on. She asks them to step back. They retreat to the first set of stairs in the throne room. She approaches the Iron throne and touches it but never sits on it. This is when Jon comes in Danyers tries to convince him of her vision of the world. Jon kills her and immediately the Unsullied rush forward to attack him and they manage to stab him in the shoulder before Danyers tells them to stop, leave him be. The dream could have been so beautiful. Then she dies.

The council is formed and they elect Jon to lead them after the death of Danyers. Greyworm won’t allow it. Saying Jon is a traitor to his Queen. Tyron lets them know that almost every King that fought for the throne has to betray the last King or Queen that sat there before them. Unless you were born into the position like Goffery or Tomin, or the long line of Targerian rulers. You had to usurp the previous ruler. They bring Jon out of prison and let him know of their decision. He refuses and states that ruling the North is one thing, but the Whole of Westeros is another. Plus Stark men don’t do so well in the capital. They are doomed to fail. He states that he intends to live out the rest of his time beyond the wall. It’s the only place where he has felt home, where he has felt free. His battle is for the lives of mankind and the Knight King is still out there. This is when Bran tells them what he sees in the future of Kings Landing, the mistakes of the past and the promise of a new way. The council votes him as King and the episode plays out as in the original broadcast. Except we see the small council discussing they have to hunt down more wights that are found in the forest and in unexpected places. They suspect that it will be years before we get them all. With an added flyover of the rebuilding of the destroyed Citadel.

I hope this humble attempt to give a different spin on the events that take place with the end of ASOIAF, can add a little something to the narrative and that George RR Martin is able to correct that missteps of Dan and Dave.

Kevin Gabriel

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