1. He's the reason Arya lost Nymeria. Back in Season 1, Nymeria protected Arya from Joffrey by attacking him. Joffrey lies about the incident and says he was attacked on provoked and calls for the Joffrey goes against the wishes of his small council and his mother and, instead, has Ned Stark beheaded, thus plunging Westeros into the War of Five Kings. All the pain and suffering since has Joffrey appears in the first episode of the show (and the early pages of the first book, if you’re following along there), as the son of King Robert Baratheon and his wife Cersei Lannister. His parents have manufactured a strategic marriage between himself and Sansa Stark, the daughter of Ned Stark, who has just been made the King’s Hand. xc3e.

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