Season 9 picks up two years after the events of Season 8. Westeros is fractured, the scars of war still fresh, and the Iron Throne is gone—replaced by a council, but peace is fragile. The North stands independent under Queen Sansa, but Dorne and the Iron Islands are restless, seeking their own sovereignty. In Essos, the power vacuum left by Daenerys’s death has unleashed chaos, and rumors swirl of a new dragonrider. Meanwhile, Arya’s voyage west uncovers a threat that could change the fate of the Known World, and Jon Snow faces ancient horrors beyond the Wall. Bran the Broken, now King, is not all he seems—his motives and powers growing ever more mysterious and unsettling
