įar away on the eastern continent in Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys Targaryen urges her husband Khal Drogo to help her win back the Iron Throne that her own father once sat upon, for her and Drogo's unborn son that she carries inside her. įollowing the death of King Robert Baratheon, his alleged son Joffrey Baratheon takes his place on the Iron Throne. He hears a report from a peasant refugee that Ser Gregor Clegane has been raiding villages in the Riverlands. īecause 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. Viserys tells Doreah that the Iron Throne was made of the swords of the vanquished. Sansa correctly answers that it was Aegon the Conqueror. Septa Mordane quizzes Sansa Stark on her history lessons while walking through the throne room, asking her who built the Iron Throne. Stark never knew why Jaime really killed King Aerys, and seeing him seated on the Iron Throne like that (apparently, out of arrogance) gave Eddard the incorrect belief that Jaime hoped to seize the throne himself some day. Years later, Jaime's sister Cersei chided Eddard that he could have tried to seize the throne then and there, instead of letting Robert take it, but he did nothing. Hours later, the main rebel army arrived in the city, and Ned Stark came to the throne room, where he found Jaime sitting on the throne. Greatly disturbed at having killed the king he had taken the most sacred oaths to defend, Jaime then sat down on the Iron Throne and gave no thought to the carnage going on outside. To prevent this, his own Kingsguard Ser Jaime Lannister killed the Mad King in front of the Iron Throne itself. The Iron Throne as it appeared during the reign of Viserys I Targaryen.Īt the end of Robert's Rebellion, during the Sack of King's Landing, as the Lannister army overran the city outside of the Red Keep, King Aerys II Targaryen - the Mad King - refused to surrender, and secretly ordered the city to be burned to the ground with hidden caches of wildfire. At some point during or prior to the reign of Aerys II Targaryen, many of the swords that made up the Iron Throne were removed and the throne was given a safer and more symmetrical design. These were subsequently melted down by the fiery breath of Aegon's dragon, Balerion the Black Dread, then beaten and bent into a throne of imposing appearance, asymmetrical and surrounded by swords protruding from the ground, the steps being decorated with twisted steel.
The throne was allegedly forged from the 1,000 swords that had been surrendered to Aegon in the War of Conquest by the lords who had offered their fealty, though the actual number of the swords in 300 AC is fewer than two hundred. 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. Swords from the defeated enemies at the Last Storm are transported to the Aegonfort to be used in the construction of Iron Throne.
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