Video game of Thrones is one of HBO's signature series and a huge runaway hit for the network. This year, a variety of engaging stories will play out to their unavoidable, and bloody, conclusions. As the season begins, motivated by the Red Wedding event massacre in the Riverlands that eliminated a lot of their Stark banes, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne stays undamaged ... however can they survive their own egos as well as new and continuous risks from the south, north and east? While an unbowed Stannis Baratheon continues to rebuild his army in Dragonstone, a more immediate threat comes from the south, as Oberyn Martell, the Lannister-loathing "Red Viper of Dorne," gets to King's Landing to participate in Joffrey's wedding event to Margaery Tyrell, and possibly act upon an ulterior agenda. In the north, a diminished Night's Watch seems overmatched against the inexorable Wall advances of Mance Rayder's army of wildlings, which in turn is being trailed by a a lot more powerful enemy: the undead White Walkers. If that's inadequate, Daenerys Targaryen, accompanied by her intense trio of dragons and Unsullied army, is poised to "liberate" Meereen, the largest Slaver City in the east, which might provide her with an imposing force to perform her ultimate plan: to cruise to Westeros and recover the Iron Throne the Lannisters usurped from her household.