Son of Man

Rhaegar was not bold in personality. He just made a bad call to fight Robert man to man and lost. Lyanna and Arya are clones. Ned called it the wolf's blood. Wild and crazy live short lives.

So there are two of the three treasons. The third we later find happened when Ser Jorah got her son killed. Daenerys herself said so in her thoughts. MMD murdered Drogo and Rhaego for revenge. For blood. Viserys threatened Daenerys for glory, kingdom, and wealth. Which is good enough to pass for the treason for gold. Dothraki law made her Khaleesi and Viserys holds no status. Therefore what he did was an act of treason. Jorah got her son killed and he did it for love. Time is not linear and it's not an arrow when seen by the dead. The Undying are dead. They make no distinctions between past, present, and future. They gave Daenerys a blast of all three simultaneously. Daenerys and the Daynes are strangely connected. The pale swords and Dayne's family sword are too similar to be random coincidence. Lightbringer lit when AA murdered his wife. The Glass candles lit after Daenerys suffocated Khal Drogo. It is no coincidence. Drogo was NN. Daenerys made a promise to give Ser Jorah his own Valyrian steel sword in the future and he will be her champion to lead her army against the Others. I think she meant to give the pale sword. For Queen or Empress it's not fitting to lead an army. Her work is ruling. It works out. Jorah redeems his honor and completes Jeor's job. Daenerys gets to do the job she's been learning back in Mereen. To learn ruling is why she stayed in Mereen and she is learning.

Bonding with Nymeria isn't helping her hold on to her humanity! She didn't have much of that to begin with.

I want to know how Dany and Drogon will deal with the khalasar. I look forward to her chapters. George won't start with his big guns Tyrion, Jon, and Dany. He wants to save the suspense. We won't get back to the Dothraki Sea until after we go through a few points of view with lower ranking characters. The prologue and then followed by a point of view chapter which is going to be somebody like Sansa, Arya, or Sam. Get some fillers (appetizers to some fans) in before the main entree. Play the bench before the Starters in this game.

Thanks, yeah Dany was looking at the blue heart on the table. She thinks its a human heart but only a cardiologists can say with any certainty. I would not trust Pycelle and his maesters to know human heart from gorilla heart. It's a guess but the heart came from a creature with a long life. Like say the Children of the Forest. The sorcerers want to live long so they need a hive heart from somebody who has a life span of billions of heart beats.

How the dead see time compared to how the trees remember memories. The living perceive time as an arrow with one flow. The dead no longer perceive time in the same way. They see the whole of time like a person staring at a painting. Time is the painting and all of it is visible all at once. The senses of the living are blocked from seeing the whole painting. We see and thus perceive a small part at a time and it begins in one spot like looking at the painting through a pin hole. The drugs taken by Bran Stark and Daenerys Targaryen briefly removed some the block. They were able to read the history stored in the trees. The weir tree and the tree in the Palace of Dust are similar. They hold the memories of the people they fed on. The warlocks were sacrificing people to their tree just like the Starks were doing for their trees. Bran saw history flowing backwards. His visions were sequential. The start of Dany's visions were also flowing backwards through time but the ones she got from the Undying were random. The trees live long but they are bound by time. The pinhole is larger and it can travel backwards on the surface of the painting. But only where it has passed before. Living trees have to play by the rules of time. The Undying are already dead and can see the whole painting all at once. Dany's visions were random because they were showing her the painting. She saw through the eyes of the dead for that brief moment. The weirwood trees in Westeros hold the souls of the sacrificial victims. The White Walkers are changed humans where the resurrected souls are now residing. I don't think just any human could be turned to become a new home for one of the souls stored in the weirwood. The supply of wildlings is endless but the process require a specific family DNA. Preston Jacobs reasoned that bastard kids were sacrificed in the north. I say only specific bastards can be turned to White Walkers. Those coming from Craster and those from the Night's King. I believe the Night's King came from House Stark. So the White Walkers are dead Starks who got resurrected. The trees are altars as well where the people worship the Old Gods and feed them blood. The OG are the Greenseers feeding on the blood of the sacrifice. Stark babies can be turned to make them suitable vessels for the resurrected. Sacrifice was mainstream in the north. The trees and the Undying are not mainstream in Essos. We don't know whose souls are in their tree. Perhaps random victims. I don't know how they have memories of something that happened across the pond though. Or how Bran saw all the way to Asshai. Maybe all the trees are connected and information is shared like a global network.

I think you get where I'm going SeanF. I am saying the battle against the slave masters is much easier to justify than it is to do the same for the people back in Westeros killing people for revenge.

It is far easier and more rational to support a war against slavery than it is to accept shedding blood to avenge a family.

And if such negotiations fail? Jon was already working to give the North to the wildlings rather than let the Boltons rule it in peace. I would not hold out any hopes of the Starks letting old grudges go. The best answer to the conflict of ice and fire is for each to go their own way. Fire and the humans should migrate to Essos where there are places for them. The Starks and the Others stay in Westeros and rule over the wights.

Valyrian Peninsula and the God's Eye.

There is a passage in Fevre Dream where the main character says something like slavery must end even if it means using fire and blood to do so. That should tell you what George thinks. Slavery is so bad that it is one of the things which justifies war and bloodshed to stop. That is the reason why Dany is a hero even if she chooses to drop fire on the slave masters.

The power pyramid applies to the ruling classes of Westeros. House Targaryen is the top of the pyramid and the great houses are lesser than they and forms the lower parts of the pyramid. The empires to the far east have their own social divisions that we have not been told about. I am expecting there are empires in other continents but are not going to have a role in this part of the story.

Kraznys was a slaver. Countless suffered and died because of him. He's pure evil.

I feel the need to speak up for Catelyn. She was a good woman during her life. The one exception was killing Jinglebells. The young fellow was an innocent. She got the punishment she lives in now. But with that one exception she was a good woman most of her life. She was not in the habit of killing or harming people. She went insane at the last moment and rage took over. She should and is being held accountable for the murder. It's just not fair to label the living Catelyn as vengeful while she was alive. Lady Stoneheart, on the other hand, is. I'd say LSH is no longer Catelyn. It was an awful crime but given suitable time in the hell she is living in. I'd want her to stop murdering the Freys. I am hoping for an end to Lady Stoneheart's suffering. An apt ending for Stoneheart is by Dragon fire after receiving forgiveness from the Dragon Queen. Arya, Doran, and Barbrey are indeed header for tragic endings. They take their emotions too far and will waste many lives in trying to get revenge. They're so sick they can't judge what's fair anymore.

Tyrion had a lot of chapters and many people assume that means he is a main character and a good guy. Indeed Tyrion is a main character but he is not a good guy. The 3 mains are Daenerys, Bran, and Tyrion. Tyrion is what the author would term as a gray character. A gray character can be a protagonists if he is a lesser evil than his adversary. It is situational and the label is not permanent. Tyrion is the protagonists in any fight between him and Jaime.

What about Heartworm for Bran? Bran is the disease in the heart of his wolf like the parasitic worm that can enter the hearts of domestic dogs.

Part II Bran's dreams were coming from the living weirwood tree. There was no interaction. It was like reading a book from page to page. His is in reverse chronological timeline. Dany was interacting with her visions. The undying were showing her visions of things in the past and what could come in the future. Hers may be randomly timed. The naked girl and the dwarfs could have taken place thousands of years past.

Jon Snow was the worst leader ever to lead the watch. The only reason to include Jon in any discussion of leadership is as a cautionary tale of what happens when an incompetent son of a noble lord is given a position for which he was obviously not qualified. Jon is another Weymar. An arrogant young man with more bravery than brains who ignored the advice of smarter people. Dany usually weighs advice carefully and generally chooses the right decisions. Dany is the better leader.

Everybody who has been brought back is incomplete. It's like jumpstarting a car. The battery is still bad and the broken parts are there. The car is running on borrowed time. Like Catelyn, Jon, and what may happen to Arya. The only one who has brought back better (BBB) is Dany when she called the dragons back from death. Her dragons came back strong and very healthy.

Ominous tidings there. We have seen this happen to somebody before. To Weymar at the beginning. Jon is just like Weymar. They were arrogant, temperamental, and not fit to lead. Jon becoming a wight is a bigger threat to mankind because he will learn to warg. An angry wight who can warg wolves is a threat to all in the north. A bastard meeting between Jon and his wolves with Ramsay's Girls can liven things up in the humdrum story in the north.

People would not trust the Starks if they knew the ugly truth about that family. Take Lyanna. The Starks were able to hide the truth, or lie if you will. She betrayed Robert. The Starks hid that very important detail and led everyone to believe, including Robert, that Lyanna was kidnapped. Lord Walder learned the hard way what it meant to trust the Starks.

The Broken Heart is Sansa. Bran is the Heartworm.

I chose to omit Arya from my list at "Characters who suffered but for who you have no sympathy" discussion. Indeed she has suffered but in no way do those experiences justify the murders of the insurance underwriter and the black brother. It is fair to extend Arya a small amount of mercy because of her mental illness.

Jaime Lannister, Jon Snow, Robb Stark,and Robert Baratheon.

He lost a lot of blood. Pale is also the messenger of death. Jon the Pale Wraith who will haunt the halls of Castle Black, murder the Brothers, and become the servant of the Others.