James West

It's not just Velaryons and Arryns who got nipped from the family tree. Drogo, Baelor, and Rhaego got nipped because they were not real dragons. Baelor was part Dornish. Rhaego was half Dothraki. Rhaegar's children with Elia got lopped from the tree too.

Dany will build her army around the Unsullied, Ironborn, and Dothraki. The best foot soldiers, fierce sea warriors, and awesome cavalry. She can flatten paramount houses without the need to use her dragons. I think she will choose to negotiate first and will be mostly successful. The biggest problems will be the Starks. I foresee the Boltons getting rid of Stannis. The Lannisters will win their war with the Martells. We should get a Field of Fire 2.0 if the Lannisters and the Starks become problems.

If by this you mean an afterlife you will be disappointed. Reincarnation happens over there but you lose memories and you do not come back as you were. Wargs like the Starks get on as animals, wolves, after death. Wights are not the same person. Only the shell of a body and the mind is mostly gone. Catelyn should be easy to control because a lot of her mind is gone. She is a wight with no controller.

The red wedding will be important to Dany's understanding of the politics in Westeros. The Freys and the Starks will be at each others' throats when she lands her troops. A fair peace deal will be negotiated. Or not and this is where she will ride Drogon to burn the ice army led by the Starks.

Symmetry with Fire would require Jon Snow to be the son of Brandon Stark and Lyanna Stark. The Dark Side is also on the move to create their own champion of the dark and it's Jon Snow. The Kingsguard of Aerys were honorable men. I don't see any of them fathering a child with a child unless the king commanded it. And Aerys would not do that.

Best of the shows. This is proof that Daenerys is Azor Ahai as the person is called in Asshai and the Prince Who Was Promised from the Targaryen family. Daemon finally found his place in the story. His role is to help make Dany happen in the future and he needs to support Rhaenyra to make it happen.

I like the Blackwood side because the present Targaryen has some of their blood. All that said the feud between the families is not one of the high points for me.

What Daemon did is something most lords would do when one of theirs is killed. I like Daemon.

Bran is becoming a Sauron style dark lord. He or Jon will be the last antagonists who must be defeated before Westeros can be saved. The wights will be their zombie army. Bran could get the power to create wights as part of his dark magic.

The Targaryens are a subset of the Valyrian race. I think the Starks have the DNA of the Others in their blood. A fair comparison can be made between Targaryen and Stark. Targaryen is to Fire, as the Stark is to Ice. Some Targaryens are magically connected and bonded to dragons. Some Starks are magically bonded to wolves and genetically connected to the Others. The genetic jump took place when the 13th commander, a Stark, had children with the Night's Queen. The Starks saved the children and their genes now live in the Stark. Jon Snow, Ned's illegitimate son, is the new Night's King.

I like Strong Belwas. Discussing large men in general can lead to interesting talk. Illyrio Mopatis was athletic in his younger years. Father time is harsh and too much of the good food is unkind to the body. Belwas is a young man who must have fought every week like professionals play football. I also think he started wrestling to learn those moves. His owners would not allow him to add so much weight were it not serving a purpose in the ring. I am thinking Sumo kind of wrestling and then he learned to fight with blades later on. The buckler training came later. I would doubt if Oznak was his first fight against a mounted opponent with a lance. He was way too confident. Wayman Manderly is an old man. The lords do not often get into battles. Wayman's last and only fight has to happened during the rebellion. Dunk was a squire who wasn't smart. He succeeded because of the size advantage he had. Gregor is the toughest of all. I appreciated Dany's sensibility with Belwas. She knows how to manage people and their feelings. This is important in a leader. She will increase her followers this way and they will be loyal.

House Frey has one of the better probabilities of surviving because of the number of children the Lord of the House has. Arya, Jon, and the Others will reduce the number of Freys but many who live in the southern parts of Westeros will have ample warning and sail for Essos before the wights kill everyone in their path. A wight Jon Snow will be among the armies of ice moving towards the south. Arya and wighted Jon might burn together in each others' arms at the Trident after Drogon bakes them with dragon fire.

Arya, Sansa, Bran, and Rickon are part Tully. Arya has already began to lose her fragile grip on sanity. Bran will become more dangerous if he should follow and lose his sanity. A greenseer falling victim to the Tully curse of insanity will be great for the story though.

It is Arya who will slowly become mentally impaired. Sansa will fall in love with Petyr Baelish and her life will end the same way like her Aunt Lysa. Petyr killing her after she becomes useless.

Remove the symbolism of silver against werewolves and the future for the Starks still look bleak. That one family is responsible for the two rebellions. The latter, War Of The 5 Kings, is still not settled. Lord Commander Jon Snow will be the cause of the fall of the Night's Watch. Winter is the season of dying. The Starks cause the death of many. Bran's body will lose its function but he will not die. He will be the greenseer or the more appropriate, Darkseer. The Direwolves will be banished to the other side of the wall and then the winter will give way to sunlight. Silver was not involved in the stabbing of Lord Commander Jon. It was not Bowen who did the betraying. Jon betrayed them. Jon betrayed the watch. The stabbing was damage control. Silver was part of the payment to Roose Bolton but he would have done it for less to save the people from more harm from Robb the rebel.

Rickon was losing himself to Shaggydog because the instincts of the animal overpower his feeble reason. It wasn't madness but the boy going wild. He sure has a taste for human flesh with garlic by now but that in itself is not crazy to the Skagos people. It would look insane to normal people though.

The plight of the Westeros lower class puts them in consistent state of misery and pain. They cope and live without going mad. Arya lost it because of this trait she inherited from Cat. Her personality too is tense and reacts strongly to stress.

Sansa is a pawn but even a pawn can murder a helpless child.

Definitely cannot be ignored. It's not proof but the evidence of madness in the Tully line is there. It is surely more than enough cause for concern for any Tully or Stark fan because it means Catelyn's children inherited it.

True. They do.

Oh what a find. It's one more thing to consider when discussing the sanity of Arya and Jon.

The Sansa we know is a selfish girl who has delusions of her own grandeur. Sweetrobin is a dead bird if Sansa ever got the notion to kill him to benefit herself.

The Unsullied are the elite fighting corps of Daenerys Targaryen's armed forces. Best of the best.