Stream Game of Thrones online, episodes and seasons, online with DIRECTV. The depiction of two powerful families - kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and honest men - playing a deadly game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and to sit atop the Iron Throne. Game of Thrones' season 8 finale ended in a way that few would have expected: with Bran "The Broken" Stark as the new King of the Six Kingdoms. Though he has no bloodline claim to the role of King, either through the Targaryen or Baratheon family name, Bran was elected by a new council as the best possible ruler for Westeros, and in turn he selected Tyrion to be his Hand of the King. It’s more of a King Lear story than it is a sprawling epic, the way the original series was.” Big throne to fill:'House of the Dragon' cast worries about living up to 'Game of Thrones' at Queen Rhaenys Targaryen [c] was a sister and wife of Aegon the Conqueror and helped him in his invasion and conquest of Westeros three centuries before the events of the series. Rhaenys and her sister Visenya were (simultaneously) the first Queens of the Andals and the First Men. Since her nephew Maegor Targaryen died without issue, all The adapted Night Queen theory, pointed out by Inverse, surrounded Drogon's actions after Daenerys' death in the Game of Thrones series finale. Based on the ambiguous nature of the map of continents features in the series, the revised theory believed the queen could have been brought to the "True North." Essentially, Drogon may have taken Finally, at least for the purposes of this list, a good king or queen surrounds him or herself with good advisers and wise counsel. Kings like Edward II failed to do this, choosing to cavort with Over a 283-year period, 17 kings (and one queen) of Targaryen descent sat on the Iron Throne and ruled Westeros. During that time, the Targaryens went unyielding mighty dragon lords to weak rulers Queen Selyse Florent was among the first in Dragonstone to convert, and it was initially by her insistence that Stannis Baratheon took notice of the red priestess, Melisandre. Calling them the "queen's" men alludes to the fact that Selyse is a vocal supporter of Melisandre and of her god, R'hllor, arguably more so than Stannis himself, and In the Game of Thrones finale, Sansa becomes Queen of the North. After Tyrion Lannister convinces representatives of the Seven Kingdoms that her brother Bran deserves to be king because he has the Bymz3i.