locke and key Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Either Jon or Dany. This is really their story. It will probably go something like this: Dany tries talking Jon to leave the North and go back with her to Essos. This is after the Others have been repelled. Jon says his job is to stay and lead the Wildlings, they need him to build good relations with the rest of the North. He's the only one that understands them, after all. Dany hops back on Drogon, and leaves for Essos to finish the job of creating a new slavery-free society. Dany doesn't tell him that she's pregnant with their child.asoiaf is more about the game of thrones and everyone involved in it jon and dany are sidestories that were the main focus of ADWD because most of the game had been dealt with in AFFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wun Drop Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Final POV will be King Rickon explaining ".... and that's the story of how I became an only child." :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Seastar Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 In order of how likely:1. Bran. Not as a tree. He started the series, so it would be apt if he finishes it.2. Sansa. In Winterfell, holding her newborn child, son of Aegon Targaryen. Thinking about how when he's of age, he will ride south to take the throne from his father's aunt. She falls asleep clutching her baby one in arm, and in the other, a dragon egg.3. Dany. I have a feeling she will survive the series and take the Iron Throne but with great loss. All of her dragons are gone, and her dothraki, and Drogo and Daario and Jon. The people of Westeros fear her as a conqueror, and no matter how hard she tries, she cannot think of them as her people. Was it worth it?4. Tyrion, in Casterly Rock, lording it up.5. Theon. Being visited by Stannis who is in some new position of power, but not king (Queen's Hand? Lord of the Dreadfort? Warden of the North?). He has with him a gift that he thinks Theon may enjoy, as a token of peace between the Iron Islands and the North. It's name is Reek. Reek the Bastard.6. Arya. The little girl wasn't ugly any more, but very pretty with hair of gold. She was even beginning to enjoy it. But not as much as she enjoyed being Queen. They called her a lioness, but she knew that really she was a wolf, no matter whose face she wore or what name they gave her.As for a non-POV character, Varys and Rickon seem the obvious choices. I'll also throw Bloodraven out there.I don't like Sansa and Arya. Arya ending up as Cercei of all people in the world? No. Just no.As for Sansa...I don't like it because I don't like Aegon. At least not for her. I am not a SanSan shipper, and I sure as hell want her away from Littlefinger, but no. Not with Aegon, even if he's not fake and dies a hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redviper9 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I think it'll be one of the original POVs from AGoT (Bran, Cat, Dany, Ned, Jon, Arya, Tyrion, Sansa). The entire saga was originally supposed to be told from their perspective only. And of the remaining candidates, my money's on Bran; he started the series -- so you would have the symmetry aspect -- and he's a Stark, who are the "heroes" of the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceHenryris Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I like the idea of it ending with Sam writing an account of the "War of the Five Kings: Return of Dragons" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyofslytherin Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I can't understand why everyone keeps saying Bran will have the final epilogue because his POV started the series. His POV was the first "chapter", but not the first prologue. The first prologue, and therefore the POV that actually started the series, was of a member of the NW who deserted after being scared witless by an Other and the wights it controlled.Therefore, if you want symmetry to end the series, the final POV should be a member of the NW who has no reason to fear the Others/wights... maybe even a member of the NW who has become a conscious wight? There's definite symmetry there.It should also be remembered here that GRRM loves to surprise us in the epilogues, usually with a huge plotty reveal coupled with a death. And even though he's proven that he'll off pretty much anyone (even if he does plan to resurrect them later), I doubt he'll end the series by killing off a character that we've all come to know and love. Too many people would be up in arms. Therefore, it's going to be someone we're not attached to, but that we're familiar enough with (like Kevan Lannister) that we can get some perspective on the series as a whole.Also, retrospective time-jumps as epilogues are a tried & true way to try & tie up all the loose ends, but GRRM hasn't used that device before, so it would be odd for him to use it now. If he'd used it even only in the prologue of the first book, I'd say yes, but since he hasn't, I'm not banking on it suddenly cropping up now.Last clue is that epilogues tend to include characters with abilities that exceed normal men: even Varys, whose ability to know the most closely-guarded information seems otherworldly even when you factor in his vast network of spies. So someone in the final POV will be preternatural in some regard.Based on all of this, my guess is the POV character in the final epilogue will be Benjen Stark, aka Coldhands, who will be killed at his own request after reflecting on all that has happened & knowing that what he is will eventually be used against the realm he swore to protect when the whole business cycles through again if he's allowed to live. His last thought as the flames engulf him, & the last line of the series, will be: "Now my Watch is ended; theirs is just begun."(BTW: relevant quote in my signature is relevant) ~_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azzanadra Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I think the final chapter won't even be a PoV, it will kind of be an "epilogue" in which GRRM just tells us what became of the 7 kingdoms and the characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateastrophic Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I want Benjen as our first Land of Always Winter POV. But and epilogue of him reflecting on his trip beyond the Wall would be awesome too.Hmmmm *crackpot ridiculous*:Ned wakes up as King Robert and Co. arrive at Winterfell. Everything was just his dream.Only GRRM would troll on that level :PI'll add something to that theory: yes, it's Ned's dream, but... it's another of his fever dreams in that cell. And in the last chapter he wakes up. Everyone we know and love is still alive, everything seems to be working out better this time around... and then, on the very last page, Ned dies of that fever.Honestly, though, I think tree!Bran will be most likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western wolf Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 It's impossible to know where Winds of Winter or Dream of Spring will go, but the story will eventually come to an end, and I'd like to hear bets on who will have the last perspective.Will it be one the mainstays of the series (Arya, Bran, Tyrion, Sansa, Jon, or Dany)? Will it be a random epilogue character who dies at the end? Or will GRRM break form and give the final chapter a neutral third-person look at the world?Just a guess, but I'd say it'll be Jon Snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paytheironicprice Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 What about Jaqen H'ghar? That could be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninewinter Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Dont forget Samwell tarly - now recognized as dam intelligent guy possibly having a sonBrienne -with Jaimee who forgives Tyrion. or maybe kingslayer will die in the endAsha those viking iron borns finally recognize the right of a girl to rule their islands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Stark Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 This stuff gives me goosebumps, such crazy amazing ideas!!! I don't have anything to add... Isn't it sad to imagine the series ending, and saying a final goodbye to all of the people we have come to know and love (or hate?) so very much? :crying: <---Bittersweet tears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvilKing Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I don't like Sansa and Arya. Arya ending up as Cercei of all people in the world? No. Just no.No, of course not Cersei. That makes zero sense. I was obviously implying Myrcella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter George Stewart Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Bran. He started, so he will finish, giving us a tie-up of the last loose ends from an over-arching greenseer point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon's Queen Consort Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Bran as a tree... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvilKing Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I can't understand why everyone keeps saying Bran will have the final epilogue because his POV started the series. His POV was the first "chapter", but not the first prologue. The first prologue, and therefore the POV that actually started the series, was of a member of the NW who deserted after being scared witless by an Other and the wights it controlled.It won't necessarily end with an epilogue. AGoT didn't have one, nor did AFFC. Off the top of my head, can't remember if ACoK did, but I'm pretty sure that book ended on Bran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanF Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 King Ramsay Bolton, First of his name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Drunkard Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I'm trying to remember this movie, it's French, and it's about a family that finds video tapes of their house being sent to them. Long story short, it ends with a simple, revealing clip that explains how the videos came to be and the reasoning behind them. It's probably my favourite conclusion to any movie.And I can totally see Bran having a tree moment that's exactly like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliana Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I like the idea of it ending with Sam writing an account of the "War of the Five Kings: Return of Dragons"Me too. But in my mind it's Maester Samwell, trying to teach a history lesson to Jon's kids :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmholt Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I've heard there are to be no new POVs.I think Jon as his new incarnation as the supreme watcher on the wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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