Game of Thrones has kept viewers glued to their seats since it first launched in 2011, with plenty of sex scenes, epic battles and dragons.
As one of the most popular shows in recent years, talk of who should, or will, win the Iron Throne in Westeros has been almost impossible to avoid.
Breakout stars including Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington have become familiar faces across the silver screen, and for most of us it would be impossible to picture anyone else playing the Mother of Dragons or Jon Snow.
But how do the HBO characters compare to their descriptions in the wildly popular George R. R. Martin series A Song of Ice and Fire?
According to Looper.com, most of the characters are spot on, but there are some very big differences - from Tyrion's injuries at the Battle of the Blackwater to Daario Naharis's lack of a blue beard.
Some of the characters, such as Daenerys Targaryen and Sansa Stark are made older, with Daenerys aged 16 instead of 13, and Sansa 13 instead of 11 at the start of the show - presumably because of some of the sexual and violent content.
Here, Looper has photoshopped the cast to show how they would really look if the producers stayed closer to the books . . .
Tyrion Lannister, as portrayed by Peter Dinklage, is one of Game of Thrones fans' favourite characters without a doubt. But in the show, the producers have been far kinder to him than author George R. R. Martin - he doesn't have different coloured eyes, or his 'lank fall of hair so blond it seemed white'. He also manages to keep his nose during the Battle of the Blackwater - instead gaining a large scar across his face
In the books, violet eyes are meant to be incredibly common in the Targaryen family - but Emilia Clarke's Daenerys doesn't have them. And while the producers were happy enough to lop off Cersei's locks, Daenerys doesn't lose her instantly recognisable silver hair when she climbs on to Khal Drogo's funeral pyre with her eggs and becomes the mother of dragons in season one as she does in the first book. If she had, by the time she arrived in Westeros she might have a chic pixie cut (right)
