The_Watcher_On_The_Walls

I really like this theory, especially considering Ghost is the one who alerted Jon when the wights attack Mormont, giving Jon his first hero moment and setting everything in motion regarding Jon being groomed and eventually being named LC.

I agree that the bridge of skulls is probably too far to get around and back to Winterfell or near enough to it. My guess is that he’d have to have free climbed the wall at one of those points where the ground has built up behind it and walked along the top til he found something to help him down the other side.

Lol for a minute I was wondering what you were on about, like why would the watch not accept the existence of the others? I’m the goose, I meant Gared.

True, it’s Gared not Will. In any case the question remains.... He’d been longer on the wall than Mormont, by all accounts he was a seasoned veteran of the watch I could entertain him being driven mad by the events and going AWOL, but it’s never clarified. Besides, when the Others showed up later no one lost their shit like he supposedly did.

Why didn’t Will go back to the wall instead of deserting after the prologue?

Woah. That settles it, Yezzan is king behemoth.

If I ever disagree with Rhaenys_Targaryen, someone be sure to tap me on the shoulder. Small question: Who’s the fattest out of Yezzan zo Qaggaz, Lord Manderly and Illyrio Mopatis?

They had a dad and a sister but they both got Gregor’d edit: grammar

If there’s a repeat of the last hero legend, is it safe to assume Lady Stoneheart is one of the dozen companions?

Both of those places are over 100 years old aren’t they? Either way I just realised that almost all of the castles have had major extensions over the years, which more or less explains it if you think of castles as though they were cities.

A general paranoia is something I can get behind. It’s not perfect, I mean there really should be a lot more but lords not allowing construction for that reason is better than no explanation. You guys don’t think there’s a magical element at play here? I’m thinking about the black stone of ‘unknown origin’ that was used in the construction of the Hightower at old town, the five forts and other well known structures.

Do you think that’s all it is? No one has had the funds or motivation to build anything in hundreds of years? IMO it’s something that needs an explanation. Look at a place like Dragonstone; that place is an architectural marvel and it was built before the doom, we’re talking over 400 years ago. Think about all the other amazing structures, basically every major castle is incredible, the Titan of Bravos, the wall, the effing Eyrie. None of it inspired anyone to build anything except Sansa who built a snow castle once.

How come no one has built anything in forever? Everything is really old. Also, if songs are so important how has no one has written a hit since The Rains Of Castamere?

Yeah that’s probably right, the mother would likely have helped. Maybe I’m being too hard on him, but it seems like a super dumb move, the Northerners would have planned for Balon refusing them and like surely this plan b wasn’t to have Theon start raiding villages along the stoney shore.

Not bad points at all, Admittedly I hadn’t thought overly about Theons life as a ward/hostage and how that would mess with his head. At that point isn’t the story I would have considered Theon a Stark. He didn’t care much for the rest of the Starks but Robb was close to a brother to him and Theon was obviously a huge part of his rebellion. I just think he fell in with the Greyjoy’s way too easily, for dumb reasons and his plan to take winterfell was moronic.