8 Wild Ideas To End Game Of Thrones Without Disappointing Everyone
4. The None-Of-The-Above Ending
Sick of fighting and ruling, Jon Snow returns north of what used to be the Wall to live with the free folk, abandoning the game of thrones for a quieter, better life. He often visits Samwell and Gilly at their halls at Horn Hill, however.
Daenerys fares no better: after the slaughter at King’s Landing none of the remaining nobility will accept her rule. Faced with razing all of Westeros to the ground or abdicating her claim to the throne, the Mother Of Dragons retreats to Dragonstone and eventually, to Slaver’s Bay to reclaim her interests there.
In the absence of either of the expected Targaryen heirs to the throne, Tyrion, as the last of the Lannister lords and de facto heir to Casterly Rock, convenes a new council and points out the obvious: Cersei was only legally queen due to her marriage to Robert, and there is a newly legitimised heir to Robert Baratheon’s crown: Gendry, Lord of Storm’s End.
Utterly bamboozled by this turn of events, King Gendry (first and probably last of his name) accepts the help of Tyrion as Hand and Sansa as Mistress Of Coin. Between the two of them, they run Westeros on the young man’s behalf, Ser Brienne and the newly knighted Ser Podrick Payne forming the nucleus of the new Kingsguard and Bronn taking his promised seat at Highgarden.
Arya is named Lady of Winterfell and Wardeness Of The North: alongside Bran, she keeps one eye forever northward… just in case...