Every Game of Thrones Spoiler We Know for Season 7
By Ani Bundel
The Iron Bank will call in Cersei’s debt
The Iron Bank has played a low-key role on the show up to this point. There were whispers of it as early as season 3, when Tyrion worried that the Crown owed it too much money. Tywin made it sound ominous, too. “You can’t run from them,” he told Cersei in season 4. “You can’t cheat them. You can’t sway them with excuses. If you owe them money and you don’t want to crumble yourself, you pay it back.” And as Tywin put it, the Crown owes the Iron Bank “a tremendous amount of money.”
We haven’t seen anyone from the Iron Bank since season 5, when Cersei sent Mace Tyrell to Braavos to try and renegotiate the Crown’s debt. It didn’t work. In season 7, Iron Bank representative Tycho Nestoris will show up in King’s Landing and tell Cersei that the debt is due.
We first met Tycho is season 4, when he lent money to Stannis so the doomed king could buy sellswords. So far, when he’s shown up, it’s only been for one episode per season. But when talking to members of the press at the BFI & Radio Times Festival, actor Mark Gatiss revealed that he’ll be in two episodes of season 7, and possibly two more in season 8. And keep in mind that seasons 7 and 8 are shorter than past seasons. That means that not only is the Iron Bank returning, but that it’s returning with a bigger role.
What role will that be? Will the Iron Bank fund Daenerys or Jon as it once funded Stannis? Will it hire an army of its own to battle the delinquent queen? Whatever happens, Cersei should be scared. Warriors are frightening enough, but bankers…they’re terrifying.
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