Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, is dead. King Robert Baratheon rides to Winterfell, home of the Warden of the North and his closest friend Lord Eddard Stark in hopes of joining the houses of Baratheon and Stark together at last. But the kingdom is in turmoil, with the crown heavily in debt, double-dealings behind every door and deep-seated rivalry between noble houses. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, the last remnant of a great house prepares to marry into a brutal tribe in hopes of securing an army and taking back the Iron Throne. Be anyone, follow their story and shape it as you will.

Are you Eddard Stark, noble Warden of the North? The hedonistic King Robert, married to ice-cold beauty Cersei Lannister? Are you Cersei herself, involved in an incestuous relationship with her own brother? Lecherous dwarf Tyrion? Beautiful eldest Stark daughter Sansa? Directionless bastard son Jon Snow? Or anyone else from cruel Ramsay Snow to Pod "The Rod" Payne?