Arya and Bran (now the Three-Eyed Raven) return home to Winterfell the Starks execute the treacherous Littlefinger. He mines the dragonglass at Dragonstone and begins a romance with Daenerys. Jon Snow leaves Sansa in charge of Winterfell and visits Daenerys to secure her help to defeat the White Walkers and the Army of the Dead. Daenerys Targaryen arrives in Westeros with her army and three large dragons and begins to wage war against the Lannisters, who have defeated her allies in the south and west of Westeros. The penultimate season focuses on the convergence of the show's main plots in preparation for the final season. The series was adapted for television by David Benioff and D. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, while also incorporating material that Martin revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series. Like the previous season, it largely consisted of original content not found in George R. Unlike previous seasons, which consisted of ten episodes each, the seventh season consisted of only seven episodes. The seventh and penultimate season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on July 16, 2017, and concluded on August 27, 2017.
