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Season 2 of the Emmy-award winning HBO series “A Game of Thrones” is 4 months away. It will be back on spring, April 2012, while in the story, from where we had left it, winter was about to visit the north. Ned Stark (Sean Bean) was dead, leaving behind him a family that was torn apart by other people’s lust for power and ultimate greed.

We don’t know what would happen to Arya, a princess in boy’s clothing and the youngest daughter of Ned Stark who can duel with a sword, shot an arrow and ride the horse even without equestrian helmets, after she narrowly escaped persecution from her dad’s enemies. There’s a slew of characters that would play major roles in the next season: Jon Snow (Kit Harington), Cersei Lannister (Lena Heady), Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), Lord Baelish (Aidan Gillen), and dragon lady Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane), the sorceress Melisandre (Carice van Houten), Margaery Tyrell (Tudors alumni Natalie Dormer) and the loathsome manipulative daddy Lannister, Tywin (Charles Dance) would be introduced and given more airtime in the next season.

Let’s see how the story would unfold from where we have left it – the spoiled brat boy who became a king, the traitor Baelish, the Baratheon brothers, the lone survivor of the Targaryen clan, the fate of the Stark boys and the witty dwarf Tyrion Lannister. Of course, everyone wants Tywin, the equally cunning twins Cersei and Jaime, dead. One thing for sure, alliances will be forged and broken, and heads will roll as usual.

While waiting for season 2 to debut, a trip back to the popular books of George R.R. Martin, “A Song of Ice and Fire”, would definitely fill in the gap and make the wait worthwhile.