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Adam Targaryen

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  1. Okay, here we go: Predictions: 1. Victarion and the Ironborn fleet join Ser Barristan and Meereen's forces and win the war over Slaver's Bay, making Vic stay there and him & Tyrion be invited by Barristan to be on Dany's side and sit on the queen's council in her absence. 2. Stannis wins the Battle of Ice. Theon helps him take Winterfell. After that, there will be negotiations held and Stannis will try and consolidate his power at Winterfell before the great War for the Dawn. 3. Jon will live with his mind inside Ghost and then be resurrected by Melisandre by sacrificing Shireen about 400 pages in, after which he will lead the Night's Watch as a changed, hardened Jon and a type of warg king. 4. Cersei and possibly also Tommen will flee to Casterly Rock before/when Aegon comes. There they will stay until Tyrion takes over Casterly Rock with the sewer trick in the very beginning of A Dream of Spring. 5. Daenerys will get to Westeros by the end of the book. ... Unlikely but wishful thinking: 1. GRRM finally sorts out the time year gap but with 2 years halfway through the book, giving Dany's dragons and the Stark children etc time to grow before the next things to come. 2. Ser Barristan gets to ride Rhaegal (one of my old visions from like back in season 4 or 5 of the show) like a badass Ser Grandfather and he, Daenerys and someone else all ride to Westeros like a dream team 3. Alayne/Sansa & Aegon are set to marry, with Littlefinger discussing the terms with JonCon, Tyrion etc at the Vale. Making for an extremely interesting political situation and meeting. (I have seen this on the forums a long long time ago.) 4. Bran travels via Eastwatch somehow and/or gets on to Daenerys's side and wargs Drogon just as Daenerys flies into King's Landing sitting naked on Drogon after her clothes have been burned away. 5. There is some actual official meeting wherein the lords of Westeros come together to fight against the Others and begin building an army and amassing at the castles of the Wall in a decent time.
  2. Karlstad, Skövde and several other cities here in my land Sweden used the Göta Kanal during the 1800's and used the lakes Vänern and Vättern, which strongly resemble and might even have inspired the God's Eye, as a major trade. The perfect example.
  3. I really don't think so. I think the matters would be so tedious and he would mostly be so tired and drunk after the first four or five petitions that he'd just sit there still and wait for the minutes to tick on by... He mostly only becomes like young old roaring Robert when he goes to the North to see his old friend Ned again, I would say. Especially, he'd not be feeling angry or cheerful in the Throne Room, almost only melancholic or bored perhaps.
  4. Ser Rodrik: "If he were alive to see this..." He would look into Theon's eyes, hear his story and his last words as to why he did it (conquer Winterfell I mean, including the thing about the bedding), and then he would reluctantly but dutifully as always possibly take his head with Ice. Maybe.... But if he knew that Bran and Rickon were alive he might have Bran decide the judgement for him or something like that?
  5. Her story about them all living inside the eye of a blue-eyed giant named Macumber... "Maybe we do." It does, as anyone familiar with Norse mythology might certainly know, and I am Swedish and the North RemembersTM, resemble the tale of the giant Ymer, who was killed by the first god, Bore if I don't misremember, and then his head and/or body was made into the world, with his hairs being the trees, his blood becoming the sea and rivers and so forth... Also her stories of the Long Night certainly seem true when we find out about the Others and prophecies later in the story.
  6. Does Daenerys have a Tyroshi accent? Where is this mentioned?
  7. Is there a theme to these three ladies? That they are all from the period of the Dance of the Dragons?
  8. Tom Sturridge is maybe Dalton Greyjoy - "The Red Kraken". Sam Neill
  9. What was the temporal reference point in Westeros, or in each kingdom, before Aegon's conquest? Like how would they write years? Maybe B.A./A.A. ("Before/After the Andal crossing") or something else?
  10. So you mean that there are long, continous tunnels stretching the ENTIRE LENGTH OF WESTEROS?? Even for a fantasy story like ASOIAF, with seasons lasting for years, that seems a bit extreme. The biggest magical structure that we know of is The Wall, and that is only maybe a tenth or less than the length of Westeros.
  11. Who was most likely better at swordplay and fighting in general: Aegon the Conqueror or Visenya? Or were they super evenly matched? And what was the ranking between Visenya, Aegon, Orys and Rhaenys? Like when they were practicing with their master-at-arms (Quentyn Qoherys, by the way), who would beat who?
  12. Now that is incredible to think about. The three ultimate schemers, except Pycelle I guess haha, in charge of King's Landing.
  13. If one is standing high up at the highest tower on Dragonstone, does one see Driftmark or any other islands in the horizon, or would it be a view of like 98 % water in all directions?
  14. Yes, that is a very good point. I have also thought about that sometimes, but since one half thinks about Westeros as a version of Europe and half thinks about it as a version of Britain, and since it's written from an English-speaking English/American perspective, one doesn't really think about that. It would make sense for at least the North and possibly the Iron Islands to speak the Old Tongue, since they are First Men. I guess that somehow the Andals' language, the Common Tongue, slowly and gradually took over all across Westeros, but yes, precisely, that really doesn't make much sense. There isn't even that much trade between The North and the other kingdoms. But maybe the few great all-Westerosi things such as the Night's Watch and the maesters actually are a decent reason for that. If the maesters all were trained in Oldtown, the center for education of the entire contintent, like some specific universities were in Medieval Europe, then the Common Tongue of the Reach would have spread with the maesters and if the lords relied heavily on their maesters, then over time they would begin to speak more of the common tongue with their maesters, and then with the lower servants and smallfolk of the keep, and so forth... But yes, it's still strange. ------ A reasonable version of the three or four different languages across Westeros, like you mention, based on its history and geography, might look something like this: The North - The Old Tongue/The Northern Tongue. (The "true"/most original version of the Old Tongue, since it has been in isolation the most and retained the culture of the First Men. The Iron Islands - The Iron Tongue. (A slightly different version/accent of the Old Tongue, somewhat influenced by the Andals that came into the Iron Islands, maybe with some few specific loan words from thralls and so forth.) The South (The Vale, The Riverlands, The Westerlands, The Reach, The Stormlands) - The Common Tongue. (The Andals' language, with some distinct accents/dialects for each kingdom, but still similar enough to be considered one single language. This is due to significant trade and the lack of strong geographical boundaries, the center of education around Oldtown in The Reach and so forth.) The Hill Tribes of the Vale - The Mountain/Hill Tongue. (The First Men hill tribes, as the last isolated population of First Men remaining in the South, would probably have their own distinct dialect of the Old Tongue from several thousands and thousands of years ago and retaining it due to their relative isolation.) Blackwater Bay - High Valyrian. (Not necessarily that impactful, due to the very small population of Valyrian noble houses, but still, considering the status of the language it might have spread throughout Dragonstone, Driftmark, Claw Isle and so forth, and especially in King's Landing if at least a few of the Targaryens would speak it to a certain degree at court and it could spread to courtiers, traders, dragonseeds and among the common smallfolk of the Blackwater. Dorne - The Common Tongue & Rhoynish. (Maybe like 70 % of the population, especially the stony and sandy dornishmen speaking The Common Tongue, but many of the salty dornishmen still speaking Rhoynish.) ... (Even within this, there would also be a few further specific languages and dialects within kingdoms and so forth.)
  15. It's an anagram of "Ranger stack" or something similar, as well, if I'm not mistaken. Or maybe "Ranger cast"? "Ranger" and "Stranger"... And something like that... Hmm...
  16. Hello,

    This is just a random acknowledgment to myself that as of today I've leveled up from Squire to Hedge Knight!!!! Yes!!!! 250 posts. Feels awesome. I've been a Squire since like 2019 I think, but I'm not sure... Anyway)

     

    // Adam Targaryen

  17. After Sigorn and Alys’ wedding in A Dance with Dragons, when Jon has gotten a letter from Cotter Pyke about how he and several others at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea are setting off their ships to save the wildlings at Hardhome: ”The fish course was next, but as the pike was being boned Lady Alys dragged the Magnar up onto the floor. [From the way he moved it was plain that Sigorn had never danced before, but he had drunk enough mulled wine so that it did not seem to matter.]” The sea voyage from Eastwatch to Hardhome is next, but Cotter Pyke (”pike”) will be killed by wights and become boned (turn into a wight skeleton). As this happens, the noble forces of the North/the Night’s Watch/the Seven Kingdoms - represented by Lady Alys here - will nonetheless manage to drag some wildlings up onto the floor, I. E. rescue them with the boats and take them back to Eastwatch and into the fold of the Seven Kingdoms. [Furthermore, from the way the wildlings act, it will be plain that they have never ”danced”, I. E. taken part in Seven Kingdoms’ politics before, but they will still have a go at it due to having drunk mulled wine - which might represent the faith of R’hllor or something...]
  18. How can House Frey get income from people passing by the Twins if the Green Fork only goes on up into the Neck, splits in two and then stops there, whereas the King’s Road goes to the east of the Twins, continues all the way to Winterfell, and is the path that should get the most trade? Does House Frey only get income from people trading between The Riverlands and The Neck, I. E. people trading with the elusive crannogmen? On the old North VS South map of Westeros, but from my pocket edition of ADWD, the King’s Road seems to pass clearly to the east of the Twins and therefore noone would have to pass over the Twins. (Including Robb’s army as well!!) So what’s the deal with that? Is the map just old and faulty or what’s the thing?
  19. How can Roose Bolton pass through the Neck and make it back to the North after the Red Wedding? Wouldn't House Reed and the other crannogmen have stopped him or tried to kill him? Or didn't they know about the Red Wedding yet or what?
  20. Which captain of the Golden Company had filed teeth? One of the skulls has filed teeth. Who is this and why did he have filed teeth?
  21. Where do Genna Lannister and Emmon Frey live at the start of the series? Do they have their own castle, somewhere in either the Westerlands or the Riverlands, or do they live at Casterly Rock or the Twins, or something else?
  22. What does the word "pergent" mean??? In one of Tyrion's chapters, when he's aboard the Shy Maid, he's writing down everything he knows about dragons' mating habits, "on which subject Barth, Munkun and Thomax held markedly pergent views". I googled it and I couldn't find any definition or explanation of it. How is it possible that no online dictionary has this seemingly archaic word and yet GRRM knows it? And what does it mean, and why?
  23. Is the House of Black and White so small that it only contains two Faceless Men who reside there permanently? Surely there must be a lot of Faceless Men since their organisation is so "grand" and well-known and they have an entire religion and everything. Shouldn't there be at least 20-50, or maybe more than 100 Faceless Men in the world? And surely they can't all constantly be out on missions? And isn't the House of Black and White their only headquarters? But in the "The Blind Little Girl" chapter in ADWD, it says that "Besides her, the House of Black and White was home to two serving men, three acolytes, Umma the cook, and the two priests that she called the waif and the kindly man. Others came and went, sometimes by secret ways, but those were the only ones who lived here". So what's the thing? Why aren't there more priests/faceless men in the House of Black and White?
  24. Does anyone realise that almost ALL of the Dothraki are now dead? An entire race of people who have lived over like a third of Essos just wiped from the face of Planetos? Of course there are probably a few of them left but if I understand correctly, Daenerys became khaleesi of all - or at least the vast majority - of the Dothraki in season 6, so maybe that was all the Dothraki in the world or close to it. I do think that at least 20-25 % are left, because some might have stayed behind or refused to join her, and of course half of them are women and children and do not fight, but still. Possibly almost all adult male Dothraki on Planetos dead in 5 minutes...
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