
TV's Rakharo combines Jhogo (the whip) and Rakharo (the arakh), two of Dany's Dothraki bodyguards. The TV series never introduced the others and seems to treat Gendry as the only surviving bastard. In the books, at least two of Robert's other bastards survived: Edric Storm (sent to the Free Cities) and Mya Stone (in the Vale with Sansa). Gendry, perhaps the biggest example, has seen his own book plot combined with the book plot of Edric Storm, another of Robert's bastards who only appears in the book series, who is taken to Dragonstone and targeted by Melisandre as a potential Human Sacrifice and is spirited away to avoid this, which happens to Gendry in Season 3. Happens frequently in Game of Thrones, with many characters taking traits from a variety of book characters. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.Tropes A ( Adaptational Attractiveness, Adaptational Badass, Adaptational Heroism, Adaptational Modesty, Adaptational Villainy, Adaptational Wimp, Adaptation Distillation, Adaptation Dye-Job, Adaptation Expansion, Adaptation Explanation Extrication, Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole, Adaptation Name Change, Adaptation Personality Change, Adaptation Relationship Overhaul, Adapted Out, Age Lift, Animal Motifs, Ascended Extra, Asshole Victim, As You Know) | Tropes B ( Badass Boast, Bait-and-Switch, Bullying a Dragon) | Tropes C to D ( Call-Back, Canon Foreigner, Composite Character, Cruel and Unusual Death, Death by Adaptation, Demoted to Extra, Due to the Dead) | Tropes E to F ( Establishing Character Moment, Famous Last Words, Fan Disservice, Fantasy Counterpart Culture, Foil, Foreshadowing) | Tropes G to K ( Hate Sink, Jerkass Has a Point) | Tropes L to O ( Leitmotif, Oh, Crap!) | Tropes P to S ( Pragmatic Adaptation, Surprisingly Realistic Outcome) | Tropes T to Z ( Wham Episode) Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys.
Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance.