Game of Thrones truly begins how it wishes to continue: with the introduction of White Walkers in the cold open and a beheading soon following, the themes of bloodshed, magic and realism, death and fear are alluded to.
After rather extensive opening credits which move across the map of the Seven Kingdoms. The scene jumps from the wintery wooded scene to Winterfell, which is the seat of House Stark. The Winterfell castle is the largest castle in the centre of the north. Eddard Stark and his sons Robb, Bran and his bastard son Jon Snow, travel with other knights to speak to the deserter informant whom saw the White Walkers and beheading, Eddard kills him and subsequently questions Bran as to why he did so. He states that the person who delivers the sentence ought to carry out the punishment. Upon their return to Winterfell, they come across a dead stag, the sigil of House Baratheon, later finding a dead direwolf and her surviving pups. The direwolf has part of the stag's rack in her side. Each of the direwolf pups are given to each of the Stark children as companions.
The scene changes to King's Landing, which is the capital of the Seven Kingdoms. Queen Cersei and her twin brother, Jaime Lannister, watch over the dead body of Jon Arryn, The Hand of The King. They discuss whether or not Arryn revealed any dangerous information about the both of them before his death. Jaime assures his sister that had any information about them been revealed, they would have been executed by this time.
The King, Robert Baratheon, visits Winterfell along with a small royal congregation including his wife, the Queen, their three children, Jaime Lannister and the other Lannister sibling, the dwarf Tyrion Lannister. Robert visits the vigil of his late fiancee and Ned Stark's sister, and tells Ned that he does not trust anyone around him, offering him the post of The Hand of The King. He also offers to make an alliance between them by marrying his eldest son Joffrey and Ned's eldest daughter Sansa.
Across the Narrow Sea, the exiled prince Viserys Targaryen plots to overthrow the King and reclaim his father's throne. To accomplish this, he intends to broker a marriage between his sister Daenerys and the powerful warlord Khal Drogo who is the leader of a nomadic horde of Dothraki.
That night, Ned Stark's wife, Catelyn receives a message from her sister, Lord Arryn's widow stating that her husband was murdered by the Lannisters. Although, Ned does not wish to leave Winterfell and his family, he accepts the job as The Hand of The King to protect his good friend the King, Robert Baratheon.
During the wedding ceremony between Daenerys and Khal Drogo, displays of seemingly inhumane and savage acts are displayed. Throughout, Daenerys receives wedding gifts: first is a collection of books from the Seven Kingdoms, given by Ser Jorah Mormont, an exiled knight loyal to the Taygaryens. The second gift is three petrified dragon eggs, given by Magister Illyrio Mopatis, the man who helped to arrange the union. She also receives a white horse from her husband, Khal Drogo.
Bran, an avid climber, witnesses incest between the Lannister twins once he climbs part of the castle to look over the Winterfell lands. After seeing Bran watching them, Jaime Lannister pushes Bran from the window and he falls, possibly to his death, from a great height.
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