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[Kasoroth]

aryagonnakill, on 10 March 2013 - 12:45 AM, said:

So your saying you think that Ilyrio will hire the fm to kill her, not that the fm want her dead bc of dragons?  And I'll give it to you that it's possible missandei is a fw, it's all possible, but pointing out the waif and arya doesn't make fw more common.  We were explicitly told that its more common for men, and they are after all called the fm not the fw, add to that being a young child and the odds are simply mind boggling thats really my only point
Arya says that she was blind for a full year, and she was blinded at about the same time Sam left Bravos for Oldtown.  Thats the only time frame I can really find, though you have given me a very interesting thought, how long in between the time Sam is sent to Oldtown via Bravos, and the time Stannis sends Justin Massey there, surely it has not been a year.  Add to that the fact that the year Arya was blind was not started until Sam and Dareon had been in Bravos for a little while, so that the trip and their time in Bravos was not included and even more time for Stannis' plot line to continue on.  Now you have me wanting to re-read the Arya chapters and I don't have my books, damn.

Or was she blind for half a year, one of the two, damn I really gotta get my books.

The last clear thing I remember to synchronize timelines is that right before Arya gets her sight back, she reports that one of the things that she learned was that a slaver ship was seized by the Sealord carrying wildling refugees captured from Hardhome.

[Nick_Scryer]

Was Arya even sent to assassinate anyone? I thought she was sent to train with Izembaro?

She might be sent to learn from him/her, and the best way to learn is to watch so she tags along on Izembaro's next hit which happens to be a big one in Westeros. I can see Izembaro failing his mission and Arya completing it but remembering who she is in the process.

[Stannis the Menace]

Nick_Scryer, on 21 May 2013 - 03:33 AM, said:

Was Arya even sent to assassinate anyone? I thought she was sent to train with Izembaro?

She might be sent to learn from him/her, and the best way to learn is to watch so she tags along on Izembaro's next hit which happens to be a big one in Westeros. I can see Izembaro failing his mission and Arya completing it but remembering who she is in the process.

Interesting Idea here, I like it

[elanmorin]

Nick_Scryer, on 21 May 2013 - 03:33 AM, said:

Was Arya even sent to assassinate anyone? I thought she was sent to train with Izembaro?

She might be sent to learn from him/her, and the best way to learn is to watch so she tags along on Izembaro's next hit which happens to be a big one in Westeros. I can see Izembaro failing his mission and Arya completing it but remembering who she is in the process.

Considering she was given a contract already, and a pretty difficult one at that (someone who suspected he was being targetted by assassins and had the means to hire professional guards to protect him), I think it's safe to assume her training with Izenbaro will also include hits on selected targets.

If this apprenticeship is anything similar to medieval apprenticeships it ill surely include Arya taking part to the "trade" in an active way, although how much of a partecipation is anyone's guess at this point.

[ejhawman]

No one.

Seriously: she's still in training. She has to learn a little bit of a lot of different trades; no doubt the FM have arrangements with some masters. If she kills anyone, it will not be for a contract taken by the temple.