In the Game of Thrones universe, law and order is often left to the gods through a trial by combat. The thought is, whoever is in the right will be destined to win by the Seven Gods. That’s the thought process that led to Tyrion’s defense by Bronn at the Vale and Oberyn Martell’s eye-popping loss against The Mountain in Game of Thrones.
But in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Episode 4, we learn of a new kind of trial by combat that we’ve never seen before. In fact, it’s only been mentioned one other time in Westerosi history, dating back to the first Targaryen kings — and it sets a bloody precedent for the next episode.
