In one of Game of Thrones’s more gruesome scenes (and there have been a fair number of those), season five’s penultimate episode saw Stannis Baratheon burn his teenage daughter Shireen at the stake as an offering to the god R’hllor, who counts sacrifices of those with king’s blood among his very, very favorite things. They’re still around as of A Dance with Dragons, serving at Castle Black and freezing their butts off. Game of Thrones book readers were shocked when season four’s penultimate episode, “The Watchers on the Wall,” saw Jon Snow’s close friends Pyp and Grenn killed during the battle between the Night’s Watch and the Wildling army of Mayce Rayder. In the show, however, it’s a sure thing: the season four finale saw him get stabbed multiple times by a zombie skeleton (a wight, in Thrones parlance), before his sister Meera mercy killed him by slitting his throat. This one’s a bit iffy, because if you believe a popular fan theory, Jojen Reed-one of Bran Stark’s traveling companions and the one who taught him about his supernatural powers-is actually dead in the books. King in the North, in the show she’s dead-memorably killed during the Red Wedding-and in the books she’s alive, mourning her late husband and possibly (according to some fans) carrying his child. In the show, she’s Talisa, a noblewoman from the foreign land of Volantis. In the books, she’s Jeyne Westerling, the daughter of one of Stark’s minor vassals. One of the major book-to-show changes made by Game of Thrones is a complete overhaul of the character of Robb Stark’s wife.