At the start of the story, the ruling royal house are the Baratheons, who captured the throne by conquest and displaced the previous ruling dynasty, the Targaryens. Westeros is broken into seven Kingdoms, with a King or Queen of the whole of the continent and then noble house governing the different kingdoms in their name.
To try and summarise Game of Thrones for those who haven’t seen it, the series takes place in an entirely made up world split across two continents – Westeros and Essos. George RR Martin, the author behind the book series which the tv show is adapted from, has confirmed that The Wars of the Roses is the foundation behind much of the early plot, and it isn’t too difficult to see the correlations. Game of Thrones is in many ways an amalgamation of our past. Beneath the entirely fictitious world of Game of Thrones, there exists a lot of true to life history both informing and influencing the story, from characters to historical events.
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