7 - I don't think he's either in or out of that story, not really. His own part apparently conforms to that, for now, poor not so important noble from the bad part of the country makes good, inspirational feel good story (from his POV I'm sure it is).

But GoT has consistently proven that the story you're in isn't the only story around. More than one story going on. And I'm sure that the people who are in a social climb story are going to be very disappointed when they realize they're also in a Zombie story.