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‘Game of Thrones’: A Closer Look at the Most Important Scene in the Season Six Trailer

Why "He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood" is a big deal for the HBO series.

March 9, 2016 8:00am

'Game of Thrones': Closer Look the Most Important Scene the Season Six Trailer — For *Game of Thrones* fans who weren't familiar with the **George R.R. Martin** books, watching Ned Stark's (**Sean Bean**) beheading in season one was quite the surprise as the HBO fantasy drama whacked its leading man.
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“He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood.” So begins chapter 39 of A Game of Thrones, the first book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga, and the basis for the hit HBO show. The sentence makes little sense to the casual Thrones viewer, but for many fans, it means everything — and soon, it’ll matter to everyone.

Game of Thrones returns on April 24.