Later, Sam is beaten while defending Gilly from two Night's Watchmen who attempt to rape her, but he and Gilly are saved by Jon's direwolf Ghost.

He is rescued by a Summer Islander, Xhondo, who offers Sam and Gilly passage to Oldtown. Finally, Ramsay Bolton is dead on Game of Thrones. Gilly defends Sam by revealing that he killed a White Walker while traveling south toward the Wall, in doing so accidentally revealing that she is a Wildling. Sam is assigned to the order of stewards, to serve Maester Aemon. Sam Smith Shared a Powerful Statement Against the BRIT Awards Gender-Based Categories by Navi Ahluwalia 2 days ago Sam discovers a cure for greyscale in an old medical text. Sam is quickly identified as being soft and weak by Castle Black's master-at-arms Ser Alliser Thorne, and suffers in sword-training until Jon Snow convinces the other new recruits to go easy on him.

Later, Jon returns to Castle Black, gravely wounded and disguised as a Wildling. Westeros is left without a ruler when, after Daenerys wrests control of King's Landing from Cersei Lannister, she burns the surrendered populace of the city, during which Cersei is also killed.