This post contains discussion of Season 6, Episode 6 of Game of Thrones titled “Blood of My Blood.” If you’re not caught up, now is the time to leave.

In a post-episode interview on HBOGo last week, Game of Thrones show runner David Benioff said, “As soon as the Three-Eyed Raven realizes there is no time, he has to upload all this knowledge to Bran.” Viewers were curious why, given the time constraint, the Three-Eyed Raven would take Bran to the courtyard in Winterfell to see Hodor, young Ned, and the rest. Surely there were more important visions?! Well, there were. And Bran got plenty of them in this week’s episode. As Benioff put it this week, “Bran had to absorb the entire history of the world in imagery.”

According to Benioff, Bran just got a little “window into his purpose.” So what did Bran see? Well, likely we didn’t get to view everything he downloaded. The show does have a budget, after all. But between a clever mix of recycled footage and some fresh, new images, the sequence provided a fun little tour of Westerosi lore. Let’s find out what Bran learned via (almost) every single image that flashed by in that vision.

The Dragon Queen

The dragon imagery was repeated a few times, but these were the basic images. Daenerys’s rebirth, Drogon in flight, and the shadow of Drogon over King’s Landing. It’s all recycled footage. Bran had actually seen a number of these images before, including that shot of Drogon over King’s Landing, when he touched a weirwood tree back in Season 4. Whether or not Bran understood all he saw remains to be seen, but, if he did, he’s aware of the dragon queen over in Essos.