Lord Lannister

Assuming she accomplished the task she set out to do, I could see her giving it back to Jaime. I could also see him declining. It'd be a nice moment for both characters if they survive that long.

All that wildfire is a pretty big Chekov's gun for nothing to come of it.

From the description given, sure she's attractive and certainly her behavior is provocative. Beyond that, she strikes me as the type of woman that looks great on the surface but the more you learn about her, the less you like. The way she manipulates people would be a huge turn off for me.

Well there are enough "Why don't people like/hate what I do" threads, I guess it's about time someone poked fun at it.

I managed to read the first novel spoiler free, and I'll say Ned's death shocked me. I was expecting him to be allowed to join the Night's Watch, and even after Joffrey's command, I was like "Well Yoren and Arya are there, they'll manage to yank him into the crowd somehow.. that'll probably be kind of dumb how they pull it off." Then a page later I was like "Holy crap they killed him!" The notion of killing the primary protagonist in the first of a series of novels did surprise me. As to the Red Wedding... well, season 4 of the show was out by the time I started reading the novels and someone just -had- to spoil me to that one. So I was able to see the signs and build up that it was coming. Even still the sheer brutality of it was surprising.

I'm not a fan of Stoneheart at all. It just took away from Catelyn's character and provides a rather pointless plot thread in a very cluttered story. She wasn't necessary to show people hate the Freys. She wasn't necessary to illustrate the pointlessness of war. She isn't necessary to test Brienne and Jaime's loyalty to one another, that could've happened in other ways. She pretty much ruined the awesome concept of the Brotherhood without Banners and turned them into just one more group of assholes. It's almost like Martin just gave into the emerging fad of zombies at the time. Other than a surprise WTF moment, she's brought nothing positive.

Do you really think the lords of Westeros are going to care about that distinction? Most of the lords of Westeros still think Joffrey and Tommen are Robert's children, or just don't care if they aren't. They were slaves and they obey her, that's all they need.

Jaime is a romantic at his core despite everything. He wanted to be a heroic knight, and that turned to poison during his service to Aerys. His feelings towards Cersei are obviously misplaced, but in his belief in his notions of true love, he's put up with an awful lot from her and even that is obviously turning to poison. Most of the more villainous things he's done can be traced back to Cersei in some form. As he said, "the things we do for love." As for his jaded cynicism, his brother's words come to mind. He doesn't let it hurt him, instead he wears it like armor.

Throughout her arc she hasn't been influenced much by religion save how they view her. Certainly she doesn't have anything resembling devotion to any of the religions she's come across. You'd think she'd end up having to at least pay lip service to the Seven if she's to invade Westeros, but honestly it really doesn't matter much. She's going to be coming across with an army of slave soldiers, paid mercenaries, Dothraki barbarians and Ironborn plunderers. She's not going to be viewed in a positive light and is more likely to inspire allegiance by fear rather than devotion.

His family is Bravossi. I guess it's possible he has a connection to the Iron Bank and one of his tasks was to run the crown's debt up as much as possible.

I think people look -way- too much into this line. It was a comment meant to wound and a grandiloquent was of saying never. Not some sort of prophecy.

A lot of assumptions going on here that everything will just quickly and neatly resolve itself in Mereen.

Your organization already has credibility problems. Are you really going to add to that by sending a fourteen year old boy as your spokesman?

Why? Because F*** Tyrion, that's why.

I think Dany's motivation for going after Aegon will be far more basic. She's done too much and come too far to cede or even share the Iron Throne with anyone. He's going after her throne, and she'll use this "prophecy" as a convenient excuse to denounce him as a fake.