Loose Bolt

I know that we will never see a book with tittle A Time for Wolves. But it would be easy to find 3 potential meanings for that tittle. 1. Hour of wolf is darkest moment of night. 2. It will be time when many people will suffer and die and law and order do not exist anymore. 3. However that tittle also indicates return of dawn (Starks?) After all most nights end sooner or later.

One candidate for that unnamed goddess is Artemis (Cybele?). After all priests of Artemis in Ephesus were eunuchs who had sacrificed their testicles to that goddess.

I agree. After all Varys caused many deaths as a spymaster. So there should have been a lot of relatives and friends of those people who wanted revenge. That was not problem as long A2 was in power. But when he was gone there should been many who wanted to say this to Varys

Actually Arya is black ninja

I suspect that Q is not real person. So she is either dream or hallucination of Dany. Or someone has created an illusion about Q to manipulate Dany.

IMHO best case for all would be that both Bran and Dany would die. After all both of them have means to turn all people as their puppets.

It is also possible that those organisms play their own games. For instance Godswoods of Dreadfort and Winterfell had played their own game of roots by using humans as their agents.

Glovers were petty kings of First Men b4 they knelt to Starks. So they were not Andals.

I assume that as long Iron Throne had access to dragons they could made trade deals with Free Cities that favored them and Westerosi. And anyone capturing a ship that was under protection of dragonlord would have to care about a possibility of meeting angry dragon(s). But since dragons are gone those are not relevant anymore. Or Free Cities could collect higher customs from any Westerosi traders and even make their own versions of Jones Act. Piracy has also became safer for pirates and people who hire them.

It is also possible that without Lannister gold Pycelle would be nobody. Or Lannisters supported him against other candidates ( who might have had their own supporters) during election of Grand Maester.

I suspect that one reason why Harrenhall was build near large lake was to give people living there source of food. Or people who had access to fishes would survive longer than people who do not have access to any. So as long local garrison has any available boats and access to Gods Eye they would not starve and so would make any siege much more difficult. Naturally excluding all dudes who own dragons.

I assume that major reason why certain names are still used is that those names had become brands long time ago. Or when some victorious warlord had wiped out are males of previous ruling Stark dynasty he just started to use name Stark. So actually Starks and also other ancient "families" like Arryns and Lannisters really belong as many dynasties as pharaohs of ancient Egypt.

Basically same reason why I pay my taxes. Or I may not like idea about giving up some of my money to government. But if I do not pay them there will be some very bad consequences for me.

I assume that among 7 Stranger is a source of magic. Or there is a cult and some people that sacrifice people to that aspect of 7 to gain magical powers. Because magic has returned to Planetos those rituals work and so some very dangerous people will have access to magic and those cultists will cause a many problems.

If Starks had ruled Ironborn during Wo5K Tywin could not have invaded Riverlands with as many men than he did in the books. Or he would have needed more men to guard against possible invasion by IB to Westerlands. After all in the books he sent most available men to RL and left very few men to defend WL. So if Tywin had done same thing when IB would have been bannermen of Starks those IB could have sacked Crekehall, Lannisport, Fair Isle, Kayce and maybe some other places. If most possible defenders of those places were raiding and burning down RL and so those places would have been easy prey for IB. In fact IMHO major reason why IB invaded huge swamp and some other very poor areas instead of much richer Westerlands was the plot. Or somehow IB forgot that they are pirates who would like to gain as much gold and have as many sex slaves as possible. In theory it would be much easier to find those in major city like LP or even rich town like Kayce than places IB invaded in the books.

Reason why Valyria did not try to invade Westeros b4 Aegon I was that some dragonlords tried to raid Hardhome. But that raid failed bc local wargs tried to take over invading dragons. They could not control those dragons but they only disconnected connections between riders and their dragons and made those dragons mad. So for Valyrians it seemed that in Westeros dragons go mad and rogue and for that reason they did not invade until Targs waited long enough and made sure that danger of anyone trying to take over their dragons is over bc all wargs were gone and nobody in the South even believe that becoming a warg is even possible.

That did not save Septa Mordane. But she was killed like all other servants of House Stark. Or Lannisters considered her as an enemy.

I assume major reason why Valyrian Steel would hurt Others is that unlike normal weapons VS weapons will not broke when they are used against White Walkers. Or Others cannot broke them like they would do to any other normal weapons that would be used against them. So VS would be very effective against White Walkers.

Another problem would be that Dunk is nobody when many KG are relatives of lords or landed knights. So I assume that only king who would name D as member of KG would be A5. Or all other kings would rather hire somebody with better pedigree than a hedge knight with unknown origin.

Common thing about Pyrrhus and Hannibal was that both of them won battles but lost wars they fought. So I assume that (f)Aegon will have similar destiny. Or he will fail to secure his throne. Totally another thing is that elephants are logistical nightmare. Or instead of feeding just 1 elephant one could easily feed at least 20 cavalrymen and their horses and any sane general would choose those cavalrymen instead of battle elephant(s). Besides we saw that there was already some snow in Riverlands. So incoming winter would make feeding those even more difficult. Naturally assuming that cold weather and diseases just don't kill most elephants b4 they could starve to death.

Another possibility is very nasty STD.

In nightmare Dothraki seems to have ability to re-spawn. Or during Battle of Winterfell they launched hot looking kamikaze attack against Army of Death that wiped out about 99 % of their screamers and horses. But somehow about moon later their horde had enough warriors for another zerg rush. Or Dothraki would be perfect unit for any player who would want to use that tactic against their enemies.

By that logic. If dragons are hot all male riders would sterilize themselves. After all they sit on very hot seat and their important body parts are near of source of heat.

It is possible that average Targ has higher body temperature than most people. So they would only be harmed by germs that could somehow either bypass or ignore that natural defense. Or most infections that would be harmful for anyone with lower body temperature would be burned alive by heat generated by bodies of Targs.

White Harbor seems to be nice place to live. So I would live there.