Simon Strong

Great-uncle to the late Lord Lyonel and castellan of Harrenhal ÔÇö a courteous old man who surrenders the realm's largest castle with the dignity of a good host.

A soul born at Harrenhal, sworn to House Strong.

The fuller tale

Season Two

Daemon flies Caraxes to Harrenhal and takes the greatest castle in Westeros without a blow; Ser Simon Strong yields it with supper.

Where they stand. Harrenhal.

How it ends for them

The chronicle records no death for this soul ÔÇö they are living when the tale leaves them, or their ending is a page the maesters have yet to turn.

Their chapters, book by book

Where the page and the screen part

Simon Strong is a minor figure treated almost identically in both tellings, his brief appearance functioning mainly as a graceful hinge point for Harrenhal's change of hands rather than a subject of significant narrative interest in either version.

Their journey

Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.