Sam The Saviour?

With his new-found knowledge, can Sam, Jon Snow’s former sidekick, help defeat the White Walkers?

- Benji Wilson and Richard Mcclure

Could it be that Samwell Tarly is going to save the entire land of Westeros? Yes, that’s the unassuming, bookish Sam Tarly with the wispy beard…

As Game of Thrones moves on apace in its thrilling penultimate season, suddenly it’s Sam, once a source of comic relief, who seems to have all the answers.

Not only has he cured Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen) of his greyscale (which was thought to be incurable), but he also found out, deep in his books, that there are valuable stores of dragon glass beneath Dragonstone – and it’s dragon glass that’s required to slay White Walkers.

That one discovery could be the difference between survival and annihilation for everyone.

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