Alright, so, Has anyone played Bard's Tale 3, the Thief of Fate?! I did when I was a wee lad. It was published in 1988, before the books were written 3 years later.
I've felt for a long time (since reading the books, well before the TV show even aired) that Arya would be, essentially, the Thief of Fate, the titular hero of Bard's Tale 3, killing the worst person in the Game of Thrones universe, whomever that turns out to be. When Beric and Sandor and Gendry and the lot formed a sort of D&D party, I felt even more strongly about this eventuality.
Here's an excerpt of the hint book from Bard's Tale 3, 1988, in which the thief is named "Nadya" (hmm....Arya....Nadya...):
"When the party finally met Tarjan, he was in reach of neither sword nor spell. The party couldn't get through the endless line of creatures that the Evil One summoned from the bowels of Hell. But to the side of the fray, Nadya slipped off into the shadows. Arbo didn't have time to wonder if she was alive or not. He cast spell after spell until the corpses formed a wall around the party."
Nadya kills Tarjan, of course. It's a cleaner kill in the hint book, but, when I played the game, it played out more like in the show, because my thief %$@*ed it up at first try and had to go again.
Anyways, I spent the whole episode waiting for that bit, and when it came, and the walls of corpses were everywhere, and Arya came flying out of the shadows, I was too excited to remember anything else about the episode.
I mean, it's the conclusion of the metaphysical war of ice and fire. What comes next is the quelling of the fire incarnate before it destroys the world.
