Queen Margery – dead – by wildfire
King Tommen – dead – by suicide – jumped out a window
Mace Tyrrell – dead – by wildfire
Loras Tyrrell – dead – by wildfire
High Septon – dead – by wildfire
Lancel Lannister – dead – by wildfire after being stabbed by a whisperer
Grand Maester Pycelle – dead -stabbed by throng of whisperers
Septa Unella – not quite dead – being tortured by The Mountain
Walder Frey – dead – throat slit by Arya
Black Walder – dead – killed by Arya and chopped up into bits
Another Frey – dead – killed by Arya and chopped up into bits
This was a bigger slaughter episode (of main characters) than the Red Wedding I think.
Now we know why seasons 7 & 8 are going to be short seasons.
They're running out of main characters to kill off!
When the explosion happened, I thought ‘red wedding’ ‘green explosion’.
I wonder if that is how it will be referred to in the future.
Some divergence from the books here, for those who care.
In the Epilogue of the fifth book of the series, Kevan Lannister is emerging as the power behind the throne, unifying the Faith and the Kingdom under Tommen. He is shot with a crossbow by Varys in Picelle's chamber. Picelle is slumped across the table, having been brained by Varys.
Varys then summons the whisperers to finish off Kevan. His stated reason is that Kevan was undoing much of the mess created by Cersei, and that with him gone, things would fall apart in Kings Landing. Presumably this was done to weaken Westeros prior to Dany's invasion.
I believe this now kills every “king” in the war of the five kings, plus a lot of their heirs (Shireen, Tomen, etc).
There are now some noble houses standing (Eyrie, Tully) but many others decimated and unable and unwilling to oppose Danerys when she arrives.
Add in that she has the backing of Dorne, the surviving matriarch of house Tyrell and a Queen of the Ironborn people will support because it means an end of the reaving ... and maybe or maybe not support from the North just for letting its current arrangement stand.
I found that scene particularly satisfying, especially the fact that Arya got to deliver him not only the fate of the Rat King in feeding his sons to him but also avenged her family and revealed herself as she killed him.
You forgot Kevan Lannister, he was in the Sept too. I think every single member of the old small council is dead now.