Game Of Thrones: 18 Most Outrageous Moments So Far

12. The Shadow Baby

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Stannis Baratheon, the rightful King of Westeros, needs a little help to win the War of the Five Kings, and thus enlists the help of Red Priestess Melisandre.

A servant of R’hllor, the Lord of Light, she convinces Stannis of the power of her god and how it can help him defeat his enemies and win the war. The two have sex, and later Davos is ordered to row Melisandre into a cave where she appears heavily pregnant.

She lays down and start to give birth. To a shadow. She gives birth to a shadow. It’s an actual thing that happened. And then that shadow went and killed Renly, Stannis’ younger brother, because Thrones! 

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