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Do we think Yara will return in Season 5? [Book Spoilers]


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It's common speculation that the Iron Born storyline will be largely cut, which most are taking to mean no Kingsmoot, but it seems unlikely the show will skip over Yara entirely, especially since Season 4 went out of its way to include her (even if it was to results that received...mixed reception).



Put another way, if we assume that the Greyjoys will get little screentime this year, what will that screentime consist of? Theon's participation is obvious, but don't you think they would at least have to cover Balon's death? It's high time the show fulfilled Mel's leech prophecy. It seems that it would at least behoove the show to acknowledge Yara becoming the defacto ruler of Pyke, even if it happens with a lot less muss and fuss (by removing her uncles).


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If there is no Euron and Vic, could easily mean no Balon and then no Yara.



Only way if those others dont appear but she does would have to be something that she is controlling with other Iron guys and while Stannis is trying to get more support he ends up catching her, and it would be one of the last episodes where Theon ends up being right close to her etc



I really hope they do the kingsmoot though


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Yara was likely shoehorned into season four to remind us of her existence before she joins the Battle for the North arc in season five/six. Not sure what motive they'll give her for running around the North if she's not on the run from Euron and the Iron Islands, but they'll think of something.

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They name dropped Deepwood motte several times in season 2 so I'm guessing Stannis and his mountain troops or wildlings will make a quick stop there to liberate it from the Ironborn. Then bring her with them to Winterfell where she meets Theon.



Cutting Euron, Vic, Kingsmoot etc is going to write some plotlines into a wall. Not sure what D & D are doing but I hope they know what they're doing.


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It's been interesting that Gemma Whelan as Yara turned up unexpectedly in season 3.

Gemma and Patrick Malahide were unexpected in season 3.

Less surprising to see Gemma in season 4. Actually page-wise Asha is missing for quite a while and should have been off-screen.

Gemma was spotted season 2 in Belfast but not season 3 and 4.

Like all the actors she was mum for season 5 in a way that usually implies she is in.

I am guessing Stannis's force will do as in the book , somehow the Yara(Asha) story, abbreviated in some way , will play out.

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People assume that when she left the Dreadfort in Season 4 it was only to turn back home, but perhaps that's not the case. She did after all sail a long ways. Surely, if they keep only one future book plotline in which Asha/Yara participates, it would be her interaction with Theon and Stannis. Maybe she'll hang around the North.



It could also explain the delay of Balon's death. Keeping him around is a convenient way to preclude the entire Kingsmoot plotline which seems likely to be skipped. By the time they get around to offing Balon (still a must due to Mel's leeches), the ruler of the isles may be a [kings]moot point.


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Yara was likely shoehorned into season four to remind us of her existence before she joins the Battle for the North arc in season five/six. Not sure what motive they'll give her for running around the North if she's not on the run from Euron and the Iron Islands, but they'll think of something.

If I had to guess, I'd say she joins Stannis because Stannis is fighting Ramsay. Or she just gets captured as normal at Deepwood Motte.

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They kept Yara in S4 so people don't forget she actually exists and there must be a reason why they want us to remember her, she will return in S5 for sure. Since there will be no Aeron/Victarion there won't be a Kingsmoot either so I can see the IB storyline continuing like this:

- She returns to Pyke only to hear that Balon was found mysteriously dead.

- The Crow's Eye now sits the Seastone Chair and he wants both Yara/Theon dead so she escapes to Deepwood Motte.

- We hear about Euron in some council meetings like we did with Stannis in S1 and we see him only in S6.

- Yara gets captured by Stannis one way or another.

- Yara meets Theon and their arc ends unless the show enters TWoW territory.

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They kept Yara in S4 so people don't forget she actually exists and there must be a reason why they want us to remember her, she will return in S5 for sure. Since there will be no Aeron/Victarion there won't be a Kingsmoot either so I can see the IB storyline continuing like this:

- She returns to Pyke only to hear that Balon was found mysteriously dead.

- The Crow's Eye now sits the Seastone Chair and he wants both Yara/Theon dead so she escapes to Deepwood Motte.

- We hear about Euron in some council meetings like we did with Stannis in S1 and we see him only in S6.

- Yara gets captured by Stannis one way or another.

- Yara meets Theon and their arc ends unless the show enters TWoW territory.

This sounds about right.

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Yara returning to Pyke seems like a strange notion. She took that longship of 50 men on a very long journey to the Dreadfort. There's a reason she didn't appear again for more than half a season. The Dreadfort assault scene was silly for a lot of reasons, but I don't think it was so silly that it was trying to imply that Yara just fucked off back to the Iron Islands right after.



She invaded the Dreadfort with just a few men, because it was covert ops. She would have rowed back to that longship with most of the 50 killers still alive and ready to spill blood. She may have given up on saving the brainwashed Theon, but that doesn't mean she doesn't still want to make the Boltons pay. I see her doing just that with the resources she has on hand, not backtracking around a continent again. That's my preference, anyway. They've made the ironborn look ineffectual enough already.


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I was under the impression she made it to the Dreadfort by navigating through the northern rivers. It probably doesn't make sense with regards to book geography, but when has the show ever made sense with travelling time/distance (looking at you, Littlefinger)?



It still is more logical than sailing around the entire continent.


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Yara explicitly states her course in the Season 3 finale. She says she will sail up the Narrow Sea and into the Weeping Water. When you consult the map, it's clear that she is in fact sailing around an entire continent - there's no other water-based route to the Dreadfort.


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The long journey is no doubt the reason she didn't emerge again until 4x06. Of course, it also makes Ramsay look like he's just been dicking around for an extended period of time after Roose commanded him to take Moat Cailin.

Pretty weird. My guess would be that he might have been gathering more troops before he left.

Maybe D&D originally planned to switch places between the Dreadfort and Deepwood Motte in the show, but changed it after learning the outline of the story from George?

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