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- The Iron Throne is located on a high platform in the throne room within the Red Keep. It can be reached by climbing steep iron steps in the Great Hall, and the small council has a table at the base of the throne.
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The Iron Throne is the seat of the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and is often used as a metonymic device to refer to the authority of the King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men or to the polity born after Aegon's Conquest.
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The Iron Throne was forged at the order of Aegon the Conqueror, the first of the Targaryen Kings, who conquered six of the seven independent kingdoms of Westeros and unified them under his rule - the seventh kingdom of Dorne was later joined through a marriage alliance. The throne was allegedly forged from the 1,000 swords that had been surrendered to Aegon in his conquest by the lords who had offered their fealty, though the actual number of the swords in 300 AC is fewer than two hundred. Th...
Game of Thrones: Season 1
Septa Mordane quizzes Sansa Starkon her history lessons while walking through the throne room, asking her who built the Iron Throne. Sansa correctly answers that it was Aegon the Conqueror. Viserys tells Doreahthat the Iron Throne was made of the swords of the vanquished. Because the king is out hunting, Eddard Stark sits on the Iron Throne while listening to royal petitioners, in his capacity as Hand of the King. He hears a report from a peasant refugee that Ser Gregor Cleganehas been raidin...
Game of Thrones: Season 2
Joffrey continues to jauntily sit on the Iron Throne as the War of the Five Kings tears apart the realm. He gets up from the throne to menace the captive Sansa Stark with a crossbow, idly considering shooting her, before relenting that his mother insists she remain alive - so he simply orders his Kingsguard to beat and strip her in front of the entire court. Meanwhile, at Dragonstone Island to the east, Robert's younger brother Stannis Baratheondeclares that the Iron Throne is his by right, a...
George R.R. Martin expressed in his blog that the appearance of the Iron Throne in Game of Thrones isn't what the Iron Throne looks like in the world of the A Song of Ice and Firenovels. In the TV series, the Iron Throne is the size of a very large chair, is reasonably symmetrical, and Littlefinger remarks in Season 3's "The Climb" that it doesn't ...
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Iron Throne is reportedly uncomfortable to sit upon due to the blades that radiate out from it, occasionally cutting the incumbent. The moral lesson Aegon intended for his heirs was that no ruler should ever sit upon the throne carelessly, just as they must not rule carelessly. The Iron Throne specifically ...
The Iron Throne got constructed after Aegon’s Conquest of the Six Kingdoms. He collected the blades of defeated lords, dying soldiers, and fallen Kings and used them to craft a massive ugly throne symbolizing conquest. The Iron Throne sits on a raised platform in the throne room of the Red Keep.
Aug 22, 2022 · Here’s what you need to know about the history of the Iron Throne and why Viserys slicing his finger is an important plot point in this series. How the Iron Throne came to be
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Aug 28, 2024 · The war of succession between Rhaenyra Targaryen and her half-brother Aegon II got its name both from its combatants and the dragons who fought each other over the skies of the Seven Kingdoms. But...
May 19, 2019 · Written and directed by series creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss, “ The Iron Throne ” puts an end to all the speculation about who will wind up in charge of the Seven Kingdoms, ruling from...
The Iron Throne is an asymmetric monstrosity of spikes and jagged edges and twisted metal. The throne was constructed by Aegon I Targaryen from the melted, twisted, beaten, and broken blades surrendered by his enemies, or wrenched from the hands of the dying.
