No one is an island, and getting through any ... Varys Varys understood power better than anyone else on Game of Thrones, having fought his way to the top and survived four kings along the way.

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Low and, at this point, anticlimactic. No one should end up on the Iron Throne at the end of Game of Thrones. The Iron Throne and the notion of centralized power should be abolished by the time ...