Rate the Eras
The Eras of Game of Thrones
Every long story has chapters fans argue about — the stretch before everything changed, the golden run, the ending. Here Game of Thrones (2011)is split into its defining eras and every major character's arcs. Score each one from 1 to 10 and see how the fandom rates them.
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⚠️ Era descriptions contain spoilers for Game of Thrones.
The Story, Era by Era
The main timeline, cut at the moments fans use as before-and-after markers. Score each era 1–10.
The Honor Era
S1E1 – S1E9When the game still had rules. Robert on the throne, Winterfell whole, and the belief that the honorable man wins — right up until the sword falls at the Sept of Baelor.
War of the Five Kings
S1E10 – S3E9Kings multiply, Robb marches, Blackwater burns. The realm tears itself apart — and it ends at a wedding no fan has forgiven.
The Lion's Court
S3E10 – S4E10Lannister supremacy at its peak and its rot: the Purple Wedding, Tyrion on trial, Oberyn's gamble, and a crossbow in the privy.
The Broken Men
S5E1 – S5E10The grimmest stretch: Sparrows rising, Stannis's fall, Dorne, the walk of atonement — and daggers in the dark at Castle Black.
The North Remembers
S6E1 – S6E10Resurrection, “Hold the door,” the Battle of the Bastards, and wildfire under the Sept. The era of paybacks.
The Great Convergence
S7E1 – S8E3Ice finally meets fire: Dany lands in Westeros, enemies ally, and everything funnels toward the Long Night at Winterfell.
The Final Act
S8E4 – S8E6The bells, the ashes, the ending. Three episodes fans have spent years arguing about — now they get to put a number on it.
Character Arcs
Every major character, split into their own eras — rate the versions of each character separately.
Jon Snow
The Bastard Takes the Black
S1 – S2E5Winterfell's outsider finds a purpose: the Wall, the oath, Ghost, and learning what the Watch really is.
Among the Wildlings
S2E6 – S4E9Undercover with Mance's army, Ygritte, “you know nothing” — ends defending Castle Black against the woman he loved.
Lord Commander
S5E2 – S5E10The election, Hardhome's horror, the hardest calls of his life — repaid with daggers from his own brothers.
The Resurrected King
S6 – S8Back from the dead, the Battle of the Bastards, King in the North, bending the knee, and the truth about his name.
Tyrion Lannister
The Imp Abroad
S1The clever tourist: Winterfell, the Eyrie's sky cells, a trial by combat and a hill-tribe army.
Hand of the King
S2Running King's Landing behind Joffrey's back and winning Blackwater — peak Tyrion by near-universal fan consensus.
The Trial
S3 – S4Demoted, married off, framed for the king's murder — “I demand a trial by combat,” and a crossbow on the privy.
The Wanderer of Essos
S5 – S6Drunk in Pentos, kidnapped, sold — then talking his way to Dany's side and ruling Meereen in her absence.
Hand of the Queen
S7 – S8Advisor to Daenerys in the great war — the era where fans debate whether the show broke its smartest character.
Cersei Lannister
The Queen Mother
S1 – S4Power behind three thrones: Robert's wife, Joffrey's maker, Margaery's rival — scheming from behind the curtain.
Faith and Humiliation
S5 – S6E9She armed the Sparrows and they came for her: imprisonment, confession, the walk.
The Mad Queen
S6E10 – S8E5Wildfire under the Sept, the Iron Throne at last — until the bells.
Jaime Lannister
The Kingslayer
S1 – S2The golden lion at his most arrogant: “the things I do for love,” war, capture.
The Road with Brienne
S3 – S4The hand, the bathhouse confession, the rescue at Harrenhal — the redemption arc fans call the show's best.
The Queen's General
S5 – S7Serving Cersei with growing doubt: Dorne, Riverrun, the loot train — ends riding north alone.
The Knight and the Return
S8Knighting Brienne, fighting the dead — then the ride back south that fans still argue undid the whole arc.
Ser Davos Seaworth
The Onion Knight
S2 – S5The smuggler who kept his king honest: Blackwater, teaching Shireen to read, and the pyre he couldn't stop.
The King's Conscience
S6 – S8The man who demanded the resurrection, stood at the Battle of the Bastards, and became the North's plainspoken moral anchor.
Daenerys Targaryen
Dany in Essos
S1 – S6From sold bride to Mother of Dragons: Drogo, the House of the Undying, “Dracarys,” Meereen — the six-season rise before she ever sailed west.
Dany in Westeros
S7 – S8The queen arrives — and the arc every fan wants to weigh against her Essos years.
Arya Stark
The Water Dancer
S1Needle, Syrio Forel, “not today” — the tomboy of Winterfell learns to dance, then watches her father die.
The Road
S2 – S3E9Cupbearer to the enemy, Jaqen's three names, the Brotherhood — a girl disappearing into the war.
With the Hound
S3E10 – S4E10Westeros's worst road-trip duo: the list, the Vale gate, the fight with Brienne — leaves him for dead, sails east.
The Faceless Era
S5 – S6E8House of Black and White: blindness, the Waif, the price of becoming no one — “a girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell.”
No One Comes Home
S6E10 – S8Frey pie, the Winterfell reunion, Littlefinger's trial, a dagger in the dark — and a ship sailing west.