Your most Ridiculous Theories--Post em here

[snax]

Jaime = Azor Ahai, Cersei = Nissa Nissa, Oathkeeper = Lightbringer. Their love story is bittersweet.

Howland Reed was dying of dysentery when he sent his kids to Winterfell in his place. Now we will never know the truth about the TOJ.

[Davos' fingertip]

The Wall was actually built to protect from Grumkins and Snarks, The Others were just a fairytale.

Randyll Tarly is the Great Other.

[House Draper]

Darkstar is Rhaegar. Look at it.

First, the appearance. Both are described as having silver hair and most importantly dark purple eyes​, no doubt if Rhaegar had darkened a lock of his hair it would have added to the effect. (See ADwD Chap: Griffon Reborn, in which JonCon notices that Aegon has lighter eyes than the Dornish Elia and dark purple eyed Rhaegar [one bit of proof showing 'Aegon' is fake])

They are also both described as having 'Iron Tones in his voice' (in Rhaegars case) or 'A Cruel Mouth, and an even crueler tongue' (In Darkstar's case)

Next: The Name. Two of Rhaegars closest friends on the Kings Guard were Gerold Hightower (the White Bull) and Arthur Dayne (The Sword of the Morning), now compare those two to Darkstar's real name.

Gerold Dayne

It seems odd for a man from Dorne to name their son a Reach name, considering they are enemies.

Unless Darkstar is really just an alias for Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. If he had sent a double to the Trident(A man with Valaryian Traits) it could explain how he was defeated so easily by Robert Baratheon. And if the double had taken a blow to the face then there wouldn't be much to recognize him as Rhaegar. The real Rhaegar is in Dorne at this time, waiting for Lyanna to give birth to AAR (Read: Jon Snow) which also makes the fact that Ned met three kingsguard members (Including arguably the two most skilled). When Ned came Rhaegar was away, possibly in Starfall. When word reached him (through Ned's visit) that Lyanna had died he met with Doran. He then becomes Gerold Dayne, Darkstar, of the Night. Which Rhaegar is. He is of the end of the Targaryen line, the 'night' you could say.

He then proceeds to join the group of plotters to crown Myrcella at Doran's command after the Prince catches wind of it. Because of the hate for the Lannisters he slashes at Myrcella but misses.

Please be true!

[Black Wolf Smith]

The hooded man is a Stark King of Winter/Other that was released when Bran/Rickon/Reeds/Osha/Hodor took one of the iron swords from the crypts.

Thats my crack pot theory, I had it like 2 months ago. I think its real.

as to the OP I have 2.

Patchface is the drowned God.

Jon Snow is AAR but will die and doom the world.

[Tenshi]

They're all conspiring together. Daeny is staying in Essos so that the AAR prophecy won't work. The ironmen have undermined the wall on behalf of the drowned god. When the Others sweep down, R'hllor will finally have to manifest himself (he's really hotpie) to stop them, and when he faces the others, Arya will suddenly pop up behind him and kill him with a fire extinguisher.

Ned found out about his, so they had to kill him. Joffrey was instructed by the seven.

[Fat Mac]

Rhaella Targaryen, the mother of Daenerys and Viserys and Rhaegar, is Quaithe. This is known. ;)

Out of all secret Targ theories, I have to say I like this one the best.

[Djinn]

The real reason for Ramsay's sadism, Gregor's violence, Tywin ruthlessness, Cersei's madness, Jaime's cynisism, Ned's foolishness, Cat's recklessness, Renly's ambition, Stannis sour mood, Tyrion moral twists, Walder's wickedness and many others failings is beets. The Children of the Forest, under the guidance of the foul Bloodraven, having poisoning the Westerosi through beets. It's literaly the root of all evil. And only pure good King Tommem is aware of this. His army of warged cats will kill all of Bloodraven's feathered spies and deliver wildfire to that cave were he hides.

[Simarilius]

Darkstar is Rhaegar. Look at it.

First, the appearance. Both are described as having silver hair and most importantly dark purple eyes​, no doubt if Rhaegar had darkened a lock of his hair it would have added to the effect. (See ADwD Chap: Griffon Reborn, in which JonCon notices that Aegon has lighter eyes than the Dornish Elia and dark purple eyed Rhaegar [one bit of proof showing 'Aegon' is fake])

They are also both described as having 'Iron Tones in his voice' (in Rhaegars case) or 'A Cruel Mouth, and an even crueler tongue' (In Darkstar's case)

Next: The Name. Two of Rhaegars closest friends on the Kings Guard were Gerold Hightower (the White Bull) and Arthur Dayne (The Sword of the Morning), now compare those two to Darkstar's real name.

Gerold Dayne

It seems odd for a man from Dorne to name their son a Reach name, considering they are enemies.

Unless Darkstar is really just an alias for Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. If he had sent a double to the Trident(A man with Valaryian Traits) it could explain how he was defeated so easily by Robert Baratheon. And if the double had taken a blow to the face then there wouldn't be much to recognize him as Rhaegar. The real Rhaegar is in Dorne at this time, waiting for Lyanna to give birth to AAR (Read: Jon Snow) which also makes the fact that Ned met three kingsguard members (Including arguably the two most skilled). When Ned came Rhaegar was away, possibly in Starfall. When word reached him (through Ned's visit) that Lyanna had died he met with Doran. He then becomes Gerold Dayne, Darkstar, of the Night. Which Rhaegar is. He is of the end of the Targaryen line, the 'night' you could say.

He then proceeds to join the group of plotters to crown Myrcella at Doran's command after the Prince catches wind of it. Because of the hate for the Lannisters he slashes at Myrcella but misses.

All the rubies in Rhaegar's armor could have been used by a red priest/priestess for a glamour to make it look like it was he who died at the Trident.

[Darth Rivers]

That the Others built the Wall?

Heh, some of the heretics seem to believe this.

Anyway, my crazy theory is that there are no secret Targs besides Jon Snow.

[Florina Laufeyson]

Rhaella Targaryen, the mother of Daenerys and Viserys and Rhaegar, is Quaithe. This is known. ;)

OoooOOoooooOooh! This is a crackpot i can get behind!

All the rubies in Rhaegar's armor could have been used by a red priest/priestess for a glamour to make it look like it was he who died at the Trident.

Not all of them. The Quiet Isle has all of the rubies...save one. OOoOOOOH SNAP!

[valyrian_steel]

The thing Lyanna made Ned promise.

"Ned, promise me that if u ever decide to pull down a tower again, u'll check first to see if Im still inside. Promise me, Ned."

[Light a wight tonight]

The Others post here in the forum. You see stuff like Ragged Prince III, Salahador Soup, Bowl of Bronn and 3 Others like this.....

[The Blade of Winterfell]

Tyrion is the son of aerys, and when he discovers this will reform house blackfyre and make a serious play for the throne. He will realize there is no way to hold all of westeros though, and will have to give Rickon Stark the north and river lands and possibly the vale in an attempt to keep the peace

[red fork]

sapphires v rubies = brienne slays melisandre

[NotSoSilentSister]

The Others are big on environmental conservation and biodiversity. Scientifically advanced as they are, the know something about the seasons the humans don't, namely that the next winter will basically amount to an ice age and probably extinguish all warm-blooded creatures. To prevent this, they are trying to somehow genetically engineer more cold-resistent humans in an attempt to prevent mass extinction and this is why they had that deal with Craster. They only take babies however because trying to integrate grown-ups into their society would be too much of a hassle. They kill every person they come across out of mercy, because they think not-genetically-modified humans are doomed anyway and want to spare them the more cruel death by freezing and starving.

[red fork]

The Others are big on environmental conservation and biodiversity.

Har! This is a crazy idea, but I like it. How great would it be if the entire series is one big allegory for environmentalism?

If I remember right, it took decades for anyone to figure out that CS Lewis was doing the planets... love the idea that GRRM has a "deep" subtext.

[NotSoSilentSister]

Har! This is a crazy idea, but I like it. How great would it be if the entire series is one big allegory for environmentalism?

To make the allegory work, it would be great if that onset of the Long Night had some men-made component: maybe Rhaegar fucking around with magic to bring back the dragons/spawn AA or something? Think of it: By trying to engineer a savior, he creates the need for a savior in the first place? The irony! Would also nicely fit into the whole self-fulfilling prophecy thing.

Of course, it might be a bit too simple to pin it on a single individual....Take global warming for instance. It's linked to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Now the Westerosi don't burn fossil fuels for energy, but a lot of magic practiced by humans involves burning stuff and fire in some capacity (Rhollorism, Dragons, the Doom of Valyria). Maybe every use of magic in Westeros leads to environmental pollution? There might be more sustainble uses of magic - clean magic if you will - and warging and greenseeing could be among them. But maybe any kind of magic used by a warm-blooded creature is a problem. And the cumulative effect of all these magical activies are the out-of-whack seasons. The Westerosi are simply using too much magic right now, and the Others just figured - fewer humans, less magical pollution => let's reduce the human population to a more sustainable size.

The flaw of that theory is that it does not explain why the use of magic has increased so dramatically in such a short span. The Measteres seemed to have things under control for a long time, what led to the increase in Magical activities?

[Darth Rivers]

Another crazy theory: Stannis could actually survive a while, with Braavosi support. Maybe they have some tricks up their sleeve? I can't believe the Iron Bank would support such an obviously weak candidate (at this point, at least), without some kind of reason to believe he can win.

_{firearms, maybe?}

[Anne-MelissaStone]

Sansa is Azor Ahai, and the Prince that is Promised.

"Born amidst smoke and salt"

-- Reborn, mentally from the salt of the tears she cried when her father died, or when she had her first flowering. Smoke-- When she tried to burn her sheets to hide the proof.

"There will come a day after a long summer when the stars bleed and the cold breath of darkness falls heavy on the world. In this dread hour a warrior shall draw from the fire a burning sword. And that sword shall be Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes, and he who clasps it shall be Azor Ahai come again, and the darkness shall flee before him."

-- Sansa has hope. She thinks of songs, possibly even still. Is it not the best for a hero to have hope, to think of songs? To be light in the darkness? The drawing of a sword could be metaphorical-- Sansa had red hair surrounding her head, heroes usually use their minds. Drawing from the fire-- From the madness of it all.

While the woods witch said the Prince that is Promised comes from Aerys II and Rhaella's line, Melisandre believes it is Stannis, who is not from that line.

Daenerys is the mummer's dragon. The mummer was Viscerys-- "He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon." For a while, she belonged to her brother.

[Ser Areo Mace]

Hodor=the Great Other

The Hound is AA/tPtwP and his sword will become Lightbringer when he slays Ser Robert Strong/UnGregor