Meanwhile the Dornish royal family have been gutted, the Iron fleet is a pile of cinders and Theon has proven himself untrustworthy once more. Likely she will be handed to Cersei Lannister as a gift. Yara could be dead, we don’t know, though the suspicion would be that her psycho uncle has plans for her yet. The last shot we see is of him clinging to wreckage as Euron’s black dreadnought slips off into the distance. Rather than save his sister, however, the heavily traumatised Theon reverts to his Reek persona and runs for safety, jumping into the cold sea. As hard as Yara fights she soon finds her uncle’s axe against her neck as Euron challenges Theon to rescue her. She was ultimately outdone by Ramsay when she stormed the Dreadfort in season five and was beaten by Euron to the Iron Crown in the first place (though sexism amongst the selectorate may have had something to do with that). But as brave as she is, Yara has never been as indefatigable a warrior as Jon Snow or Brienne of Tarth. The scene comes to a climax with Yara fighting Euron herself. On deck Ellaria’s daughters, known as the Sand Snakes (who so memorably flirted with Jerome Flynn’s Bronn back in season five), face off against Euron and are killed one by one. The Dornish queen Ellaria, herself familiar with intra-familial betrayal, is captured but saved from death for a worse fate (viewers will be in little doubt as to what that will mean). There are swords into guts and axes into heads. He storms the main vessel, and a gory fight ensues. ![]() Having somehow snuck up on Yara’s fleet, we don’t quite know how, Euron destroys all the ships that were the pride of his kingdom by setting fire to their sails with flaming arrows. ![]() ![]() Played by Pilou Asbaek (who made his name as Kasper Juul in Borgen), Euron likes to signify his bloodlust with a wild cackle, a toothy grin and a bulging eyeball. He loves a fight, a face full of blood and the feeling of someone’s windpipe crushing between his hands. Gemma Whelan as Yara Greyjoy, Alfie Allen as Theon GreyjoyĮuron’s type of psychopathy is the gleeful kind.
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