Game of Thrones Season 8: How the Golden Company will break their word
By Callum Gunn
The Golden Company is on the way to Game of Thrones Season 8 and their word is good as gold. But is it? Here is a look at how the Golden Company will break their word.
OK. So a couple of quick things before we get started on how the Golden Company will break their word in Game of Thrones Season 8. Number one, this is all speculative. It may happen, then again, it may not. If it does happen, then it is a spoiler, so you may not want to read any further.
Basically, this is a spoiler-filled post about the Golden Company and this is your last chance to hit the back button. Still here? Great! Let’s get started.
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Let’s start off with the Golden Company themselves. We know they are on the way to Westeros and they will appear in Game of Thrones Season 8. Cersei dispatched Euron Greyjoy at the end of Season 7 to get them and bring them back to Kingslanding to bolster her army.
In the Game of Thrones Season 8 trailer, we catch a glimpse of the Golden Company sailing aboard, what is assumed to be Euron’s ship, with the leader of the Golden Company, expected to be Harry Strickland, visible.
Now, for those of you who don’t know, the Golden Company are a company of sellswords, mercenaries for hire. But, unlike other sellswords who are notoriously unreliable, the Golden Company has a reputation for not breaking a contract once formed. Their motto is in fact “Our word is good as gold.” Essentially, once you hire them, they will not betray you, unlike other sellswords.
Formed by Aegor Rivers, also known as Bittersteel, Rivers was an illegitimate child of King Aegon IV Targaryen, who was later legitimized. He fled Westeros after the end of the First Blackfyre Rebellion.
The Golden Company is said to be comprised of many exiles and sons of exiles. Exiles being those who once held great lands and titles but after failed rebellions had them stripped away. Which takes things nicely into why, despite their famous motto, the Golden Company will break their word in Game of Thrones Season 8.