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Baelish, behind the earthly drama in ‘GoT’

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Chaos is a ladder, and the climb for Petyr “Littlefing­er” Baelish has come to an end (RIP Smirking).

During Sunday’s season finale, Sansa deliciousl­y ticks off all of Littlefing­er’s misdeeds before issuing his death sentence. And it hits you: this guy was the driving force behind the biggest of

conflicts. So much of the earthly drama – the non-White Walker stuff – in the HBO series sprang from the Stark-Lannister feud and the death of Ned Stark. Baelish played a huge role in orchestrat­ing that.

Sansa’s listing of Baelish’s crimes includes callbacks to events three, four, and even seven seasons ago. Don’t remember exactly what she’s talking about? Here’s her rundown of just how much Littlefing­er played everyone – till he played himself.

“You murdered our aunt, Lysa Arryn. You pushed her through the moon door and watched her fall.”

Sansa didn’t need Bran’s three eyes to know that one. She saw that fatal fall herself.

Lysa held Sansa terrifying­ly close to the edge of the moon door as she accused her niece of making moves on her husband/object of her obsession Petyr – that is, until he showed up and talked her down. Littlefing­er promised to send Sansa away from the Eyrie and reassured Lysa: “My sweet, silly wife,” he tells Lysa. “I have only loved one woman – only one, my entire life.”

And then he hits her with the worst breakup move of all time: “Your sister,” followed by a fatal, stunning push right through the moon door.

“You conspired to murder Jon Arryn. You gave Lysa ‘Tears of Lys’ to poison him.”

Although he was in love with Catelyn Stark, Littlefing­er pretended to be all about Lysa so he could manipulate her to do his bidding. Back in season four, Lysa revealed how deep her love for Petyr went – she killed her husband for the guy!

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