Episode 8, called Lord of the Tides, is apparently the longest of the season.

It's centered around a sudden succession crisis within House Valarion with details

nearly identical to the succession crisis looming over the iron throne nearly all season long.

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It's been six years since the last episode, and fighting has resumed in the

stepstones as the triarchy's strength ascends again. The Seasnake has taken a terrible wound in the neck,

and is afflicted with blood fever as well. The prognosis is uncertain, but it doesn't look good.

Surveyman, the brother of Corley's son, Master of Complaints,

confronts Rainy's on the matter, saying he would like her support in making a claim

for himself on the grounds that Lucerius is not a Valarion. But even if she's not willing to help,

well, he doesn't need her, because it's going to come down to what the crown decides.

And crucially, the man who has been on death's door much longer than the Seasnake,

King Viserys himself, is so unwell these days that the governance of the realm is in the hands of

Queen Allison, and her father Otto, the hand of the king, who sits the throne in his absence.

They're making all the decisions. But Allison is also dealing with a household issue. Her son,

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