How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended — Part 1

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Let’s go back to the moment Winterfell is under siege. That’s where we’ll start changing things. First, let’s rewind the scene where the Dothraki are sent to die in a completely idiotic way. This time, the Dothraki do not attack.

(Because anyone with even the slightest speck of intelligence wouldn’t send their soldiers riding into pitch darkness. Especially not against the Night King. I mean, he’s called the Night King!!!)

This time, the Dothraki are inside the castle. Because the Night King brings the night, and it’s obvious that a cavalry charge would not be a smart move in the pitch-black night.

Even within this standard battle tactic, there are many things that need to be changed. The wooden stakes planted into the ground are this time driven a bit further out — at a wider range from the castle — far enough for archers on the walls to still shoot, but also far enough to allow room for maneuvering for the army which is going to stand behind the spikes. Around the stakes, trenches are dug and filled with flammable materials. The Dothraki are not at the front, but at the back, placed so they can assist the weaker side with quick maneuvers. Finally, in case of a possible defeat, the following plan is prepared inside the castle:

Pink lines mark buildings to be demolished, their stone and wood stockpiled as ammunition for catapults and trebuchets hidden along the walls. If the city falls, some of these materials will also help to defend refugees inside and allow the Dothraki to maneuver within the castle with their reorganization. This “ring” also enables a last-ditch sortie through one of the gates. Half the Dothraki forces remain inside, ready.

The buildings marked with pink lines are demolished, and the stone and wood materials are stored as ammunition for the catapults and trebuchets to be positioned on the walls and within the city. Thus, if the outer defense fails and the city falls, a circular maneuvering area is created inside the castle to protect the innocents who take shelter there and to allow the Dothraki to move effectively inside the city. This ring can also be used to facilitate an evacuation through one of the castle gates in the event of a possible defeat. Therefore, half of the Dothraki army is kept ready inside.

Let’s move on to the battle now:

The Battle Begins and the Plan Works:

The battle starts with the attack of the dead. The castle soldiers are stationed behind the planted stakes, not in front of them. As I said, this time there’s also a trench in front of the stakes, filled with every kind of flammable material. This time Jon Snow and Daenerys are waiting on top of the highest towers of the castle on their dragons. Jon Snow constantly shouts commands down below.

When the dead reach the trench and approach the stakes, they weaken, but they are so numerous that they climb over each other and leap over the stakes. Luckily, the Unsullied slow them down. At this point, Jon Snow immediately flies and sets the trenches on fire. Daenerys starts doing the same.

Just then, a violent snowstorm breaks out and visibility drops to nothing. Fighting becomes much harder now. After Jon Snow burns all the trenches, he goes to Daenerys. They return to the towers again. Thanks to the flames of the trench, the battlefield can barely be seen now after the snowstorm’s negative effects. For now, the tactic seems to be working.

As the battle continues like this, suddenly there’s the sound of an explosion from the rear of the castle, and blue flames rise. The Night King has attacked from the rear on his dragon and heads with relentless speed towards the grove where the Weirwood trees are. His commanders also pass over the trenches one by one, extinguishing the flames there, and the castle soldiers fighting at the back are almost completely wiped out. Jon Snow immediately sends the Dothraki, led by Mormont, to the back. (See the map above. Remember that there is a large castle gate at the front and another at the back. The castle gates, in preparation for a potential breakout, have not yet been barricaded and are only closed. So they can be opened quickly, and the Dothraki can go out.) He and Daenerys exchange looks and head toward the Night King.

The Night King makes Viserion blast the Weirwood grove with blue fire. It makes half of the grove burned down, and with the effect of the blast, one side of the ramparts is demolished. As he turns for a second attack, he spots Jon and Daenerys and ascends immediately to the sky. He is swallowed by the blizzard and disappears. Luckily, Bran, Theon, and half their soldiers barely survive.

Jon Snow and Daenerys engage in a long game of cat-and-mouse and aerial dogfight with the Night King. While fighting both of them at once, the Night King can’t aim his ice spears accurately. He grows angry and decides they must be separated. Somehow, he jumps onto Daenerys’s dragon and sends his own dragon to Jon Snow. Daenerys is confused and doesn’t see the Night King on Viserion (the blue dragon). Then she suddenly feels the urge to look back — and sees the Night King standing comfortably on her dragon (Drogon).

The Night King is not only able to stand; he’s also raised his hand and is about to strike with his sword. Daenerys quickly tilts to the side and turns her dragon as well. As the dragon spins, the Night King has to hold on tightly. But he never takes his eyes off Daenerys. And there’s someone else who’s trying not to take his eyes off Daenerys: Jon Snow.

While struggling with Viserion (The blue dragon), Jon Snow keeps watching Daenerys. He wants to defeat Viserion as quickly as possible and go help her, but he can’t manage it because Viserion is too powerful. When he sees the Night King creeping closer and closer to Daenerys, he shouts something at his dragon (Rhaegal): “Fly to your mother!!!”, and jumps onto Viserion (the blue dragon).

Rhaegal immediately swoops toward his mother. Knowing she’s fireproof, he releases flames onto his sibling just as the Night King raises his hand to strike Daenerys. But the Night King realizes the flames at once and jumps over onto the battlefield. When he descends charismatically, he finds himself among the right flank Stark forces. He immediately criples 10 to 20 people, and his army of the dead rushes through him!

Jon sees Daenerys’s dragon crash into buildings before losing sight of her — Viserion spirals upward, violently maneuvering to bite Jon. Jon tries to cling on helplessly, since the blue dragon ascends so high in the sky. Suddenly, the dragon stabilizes. Jon looks down at the battlefield but can’t see anything due to the extreme snowstorm. But then he notices a gap letting him see the battleground just for a few seconds: the Night King stands in the battlefield gloriously among a circle of dead men around him, looks through Jon Snow from that distance, and throws his ice spear through him. And Rhaegal cuts the scene, flying through Daenerys, unaware of the incoming spear at high speed. And suddenly screams with spewing fires from his mouth. Jon sees the spear piercing through Rhaegal, still coming through him. Makes a quick dodge and survives. He looks back down, but the snowstorm again covers all his eyesight, and nothing can be seen. The last thing Jon sees is that the Night King draws his sword through the Weirwood grove.

Upon this, Jon Snow draws both his Valyrian steel sword and his dragonglass dagger angrily, and plunges them into a weak spot between Viserion’s thick scales. As Viserion starts to fall down with screams and spinning movements, he disintegrates into dust, and Jon Snow lands on the roof of a house that isn’t demolished yet. The reeds of the roof make him slow down somehow.

The Plan Falls:

Jon Snow lands firmly. The sloped reed rooftops have slowed his fall. He crashes right in front of the rear castle gate. Daenerys is nearby where she fell. He quickly thinks of reaching her first, then Bran. But at that moment, Mormont sees him and says, “Let’s switch to Plan B. The Dothraki are losing too many men — we have a safe maneuvering zone inside the castle. If we don’t retreat, we’ll be wiped out.”

Jon Snow says the walls of the Godswood have been breached, and that to make the plan succeed, they need to pour all their forces there, otherwise Bran will be killed and the last chance to kill the Night King will be lost.

At that very moment, they notice something: The dead are slowly rising again. Among them, of course, are a new dragon freshly speared and a giant freshly killed. Now the massacre begins. This time, Jon immediately worries about Daenerys and quickly rides his horse. Mormont, too, orders his soldiers to advance toward the Godswood from three fronts and rides after Jon toward Daenerys.

As the new blue dragon glides into the city, turning everything into a blue inferno. But to crash him, increasingly enraged Drogon strikes his new half-blue brother Rhaegal fiercely from below.

Jon searches the area for Daenerys. He finally finds her and lifts her onto the back of his horse. With the twenty cavalrymen beside him, he charges into the Godswood.

He tells Mormont to hold off the enemies coming from inside the castle, then immediately leaves Daenerys next to Bran and rushes toward the breach in the wall. The number of enemies keeps growing.

They fight epicly. Then suddenly, the dead freeze in their place, and those on the breach part to the sides like the sea in front of Moses, letting the Night King pass. He is walking toward Jon Snow with his commanders with great self-esteem.

They meet face to face at the breach, on top of wall wreckage and dead bodies. The Night King raises his sword and invites Jon Snow to a duel.
Jon Snow attacks the Night King.

The Night King strikes so hard against Jon Snow’s Valyrian steel sword that with every blow, Jon flies back several meters. When the Night King attacks from above, Jon’s knees crash into the ground. But still, he does not give up.

Their fight goes on some time. Night King constantly pushes Jon through the Weirwood, Bran. Jon seems like he will lose. At this moment, Arya jumps from their back with a dragon glass dagger. Night King suddenly turns his back and catches Arya from her throat. Arya drops his dagger and catches it with her other hand and before she can even try to stab the Night King, he throws Arya meters back with a diminutive gesture of opening his hand and pushes slightly. Jon sees the chance and attacks. But the Night King is so fast to respond, as like he did on Arya. Arya also doesn’t give up and tries to strike. Night King smoothly repels all of their attacks. Thankfully, Arya is so fast, the Night King can’t catch her.

The two of them fight together for a while, carefully saving each other over and over again. Meanwhile, the Night King is steadily advancing toward Bran at every possible opportunity. Eventually, they all gather around Bran.
The Night King’s commanders encircle them, and the undead, wielding swords, drive the remaining soldiers of the castle into the Godswood.

Now everyone watches the duel.

Jon Snow and Arya are putting up an epic fight. But they’re both beginning to tire. Still, neither yields. Not achieving to a conclusion, the Night King begins to attack harder and faster. By the way Bran is in trance.

At a very delicate moment, Arya gets very close to the Night King —
— when suddenly, the Night King slashes the hand holding her dragonglass dagger. Arya screams and fall onto her knees, holding his arm.

Seeing this, Jon becomes even more enraged and launches a relentless attack on the Night King. But the Night King is too strong. He can only be defeated by speed, not strength. That’s why Arya made his job difficult. Since Arya is off the game, the Night King’s blows against Jon grow so powerful that Jon falls to his knees and drops his sword to the ground. He signals his commanders to seize Arya. They capture her.

The Night King looks into Jon Snow’s eyes with his glowing blue gaze. He raises his sword and strikes at Jon Snow’s neck.

Everyone is devastated with grief.

But then — what’s that?

The Night King’s sword has not harmed Jon Snow. Despite the mighty blow, the blade that struck Jon’s neck shatters into dust.

“What is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger.” says Bran, forcing a smile to intrigue the Night King. “You didn’t know, did you? He already died once. If you were the three-eyed raven, you’d know! He came back. “You”, cannot kill him again. I knew this. I also know the dangers that await you. You will not take King’s Landing. The Queen knows your army cannot enter the water. And there is “wildfire” in the Queen’s city. The Queen can defeat you. Your men can kill all of us here, but you will never get what you want. In the end, you will be defeated. I know it, we know it now, even Jon, the promised prince; not believing himself before, now, he knows it too.”

Upon hearing this, the Night King signals to his men, and they seize Jon Snow. He takes the ice spear from one of his warriors, then picks up Arya’s dragonglass from the ground and walks toward Bran. He grabs Bran by the throat and pins him to the Tree by sticking the ice spear into Bran’s core. A green light bursts forth, and strange sounds as if the tree is agonizing. Then he stabs the dragonglass into Bran’s heart. Finally, he impales himself onto the spear as well and embraces Bran and the Tree.

In the sky, green and blue lights — auroras — appear. The air grows cold, and it begins to snow steadily. The Tree begins to grow and swallows Bran. The Night King pulls himself away and takes a few steps back. As he steps aside and turns around, his eyes shift from blue to gray slightly. Bran’s face appears on the Tree.

He approaches Arya again. He picks up her severed hand from the ground and places it on her wounded arm. Arya looks furiously at him. Grasping her arm with both hands, he presses down hard, leaving a mark just like he had done to Bran, fusing Arya’s arm back together. Arya is shocked when she sees her fingers start to move slightly.

Suddenly, Arya cries and her eyes turn gray. The Night King step aside, his eyes are also mixed with blue and grey. Arya gets up, she turns to Jon, speaking in a voice as cold as ice, standing with more dignity than ever before:

“You know nothing, Jon Snow!!!”

To be continued…

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