The first season begins fifteen years after "Robert's rebellion", with which Robert Baratheon expelled the Targaryen from the Iron Throne and proclaimed himself ruler of Westeros. Some time later, and after the sudden death of the Hand of the King, Jon Arryn, Robert invites his friend Eddard "Ned" Stark - Lord of Winterfell - to assume the vacant office. The latter accepts and, as soon as he arrives in King's Landing -the capital of Westeros and seat of the Iron Throne-, he discovers the truth behind a series of intrigues and conspiracies involving other noble families and related to the Arryn tragedy. However, when Robert also dies suddenly, the Lannisters reclaim power and execute Stark to prevent the spread of their investigations. These events unleash a war between the kingdom

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