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Joffrey orders a barrel of wine for him to be drowned in (as opposed to having it poured down his throat as it happens in the show), but Sansa dissuades him the same way she did in the show. In the books, Ser Dontos arrives late, chasing his horse (which he is too drunk to mount), and only wearing the top half of his armor (he is nude from the waist down).In the series, they compete in a fight with blunt weapons on the walls of the Red Keep. The tournament in the book is a joust competition with horses and lances and takes place in a small tourney ground set up inside the keep walls as the city and surrounding land is too dangerous.Sandor Clegane does not fight in Joffrey's nameday tourney, he is dismissive about the poor quality of the competition.In the book she is escorted there by Ser Arys Oakheart who shares court gossip. Sansa is at the tournament when the scene opens in the show.The show starts with Joffrey's tournament, which is the third chapter in the book (the Prologue's storyline is altered in the series, the second chapter was moved to the first season).
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At Littlefinger's suggestion, they retaliate by questioning the parentage of Stannis's daughter Shireen. Tyrion points out that it is now too late to suppress the rumor, and trying to do so would be counter-productive.
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She orders all copies of the proclamation burned, and decrees that anyone who repeats the allegations should have their tongue cut out. Cersei is enraged, which amuses Tyrion, given that Stannis's allegations are true. Stannis sends out hundreds of ravens all over the Seven Kingdoms proclaiming himself the rightful king, and declaring that Cersei's children are bastards born of incest.Maester Cressen dies several days before Stannis allows Melisandre to burn the statues of the Seven, which does not happen on the beach.The poison Cressen uses is not hidden in his maester's chain, in the books, but in a pouch in his sleeve.She also realizes Cressen's plan and tells him he doesn't have to do it. Melisandre is not cruel to Cressen, it is Stannis's wife Selyse doing the mocking.Stannis had already discovered the true parentage of Robert and Cersei's children long before Eddard, as he had first taken these suspicions to Jon Arryn, and they had been investigating it together. The letter is intercepted by Cersei and used as evidence of Eddard's " treason". In the books, Stannis doesn't receive the letter from Eddard saying that he is heir, because Tomard was killed before he could deliver it.In the books, Selyse mentions Melisandre gazing into the flames and seeing Renly dead, which particularly alarms Cressen as he had been a surrogate father to all three Baratheon brothers after their parents died and the thought of one killing another was too much for him to bear.He also tries to persuade him to help Robb avenge his father, but Stannis immediately cuts him off and reveals his bitterness at how Eddard Stark was closer to his brother Robert than he was. In the books, Cressen tries to persuade Stannis to forge an alliance with Robb Stark, even if that meant giving up the North and the Riverlands, citing half a kingdom is better than none.Then he tries to poison Melisandre and dies in the process. Cressen then appears at the feast where he is humiliated by Stannis's wife Selyse Baratheon, who wasn't present at all when Cressen appears on the show. After that, he meets Ser Davos, then he visits Stannis, who has not yet accepted the Lord of Light. In the book, Cressen receives a message from the Citadel first, then Shireen Baratheon visits him. The book starts with Cressen's chapter on Dragonstone, which is also different than Cressen's storyline in the show.