'Hear me roar,' the Lannister lion says, while Tyrion's photo promises, 'A Lannister always pays his debts.' Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) is a lovely young blonde whose gentle appearance is downright disquieting when it follows the Targaryen's arms: A black field with a red three-headed dragon and the motto 'Fire and Blood.' The Lannisters' gold lion on a red field heralds the crafty, brilliant Tyrion Lannister as played by Peter Dinklage in an Emmy-nominated performance. We paired HBO's quotation-captioned photos of the characters with their house sigils and mottoes, and looped them in rotation with an image of the Iron Throne itself.Įddard 'Ned' Stark (Sean Bean), Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, appears after the Stark direwolf and its 'Winter is Coming' motto.

It's clear very early in both the books and the TV series that three of the strongest players are the families of Stark, Lannister, and Targaryen. The throne, and some of the characters who battle to seize or protect it, take over your Windows 7 desktop with this free themepack. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy book series and HBO's television adaptation, Game of Thrones. But the one who takes control of this dangerous symbol of power rules over the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, the setting of George R.R. If it were merely a chair, no one would try to sit on it.

Made of sharp swords, the Iron Throne is uncomfortable, even known to draw blood from the unwary.

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