PrettyLittlePsycho
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QuoteBy the time Hot Pie and Gendry came up with the horses, the rain was falling hard. "You killed him!" Hot Pie gasped."What did you think I would do?" Her fingers were sticky with blood, and the smell was making her mare skittish. It's no matter, she thought, swinging up into the saddle. The rain will wash them clean again.
ACOK Arya X
That´s pretty cool on itself, but if you take into account it´s a girl of 10...
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Hard to say what will happen, but I hope Edmures baby will become Lord under the tutelage of someone competent.
Edmure himself has proven to be a shitty leader pretty much every time he could.
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20 hours ago, Sandy Clegg said:
I read somewhere that maybe it was to hide the fact that he had named too many 'A-starting' characters, in AFFC:
- Aeron
- Arianne
- Asha
- Areo
- Arya
- Alayne
So the naming convention may have been a way to mask this otherwise jarring fact? I mean, he could have just changed the names if this was the case, so I don't completely buy it. But I found it amusing.
I believe that explanation goes way too far.
George just did that naming thing because he likes to fool around. And he didn´t start before book 4 (?) because he didn´t think of it earlier.
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Theres one theory I really like and yet don´t want to be true because it builds on another theory I don´t like.
Jon & Val the Wildling princess are twins. Like the idea very much but it would require R+L to be true. And as I mentioned too often already I won´t buy that one until I read it with my own eyes. (Then curse George for not coming up with something better)
For those not familiar, the short version is R+L had twins. Ned promised Lyanna to take care of them but as Val took too much after her father Ned couldn´t pass her off as his bastard. So one of the kingsguard present back then took her as his own, the man we now know as Mance Raider.
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8 hours ago, House Cambodia said:
I don't think Mel extracting Jon's soul/spirit/essence from Ghost will kill Ghost though; he'll have a good run until well into ADoS and may even make it to the end.
Think so too. If that was to happen, they´d likely co-exist as two souls in one body. And if Jon was extracted again Ghost wouldn´t be harmed, although their souls might get mixed up a little bit, meaning Jon becoming more wolfish and Ghost more human. It is mentioned in the books that when a human overdoes warging/skinchanging he becomes more like the animal over time.
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The many-faced-one and the old Gods would be my favorites as well. They do seem to be the most tolerant/least extreme of the major religions.
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Gotta keep in mind the former kingdoms didn´t want to be united, they only were because the kings weren´t stupid enough to argue with dragons.
And the more centralised a government gets the higher the risk it´s mis-governed. I mean what does a king growing fat in KL know about the needs of people in the North or Dorne ?
I think Westeros would be better off with independant kingdoms that can agree on some basic common benefits, e.g. free travel and trade.
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Might be obvious since Arya is my favorite character but her first chapter (after the Mercy preview) should be pretty interesting as well. She just did her 2nd unsanctioned kill in Braavos. On her first one the FM blinded her and now it should be obvious she will never become the "noone" they´d like her to be. Trouble brewing...
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That Jeyne Westerling rumor has been really persistent for a long time, so I believe that´s a likely choice.
And there is potential, we haven´t seen Jeyne since the red wedding and generally we know very little about her. Her story could go many different ways from
1. She is pregnant and Robb has a legal heir to
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10. She conspired with Tywin from the start to sow chaos in the north.
And anything in between.
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Obviously, Hannibal comes to mind, but even though he was a pretty successful military leader his Elephants were more for show than actually useful in battle.
Don´t think the ones of the GC will be more effective.
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I don´t think the gift is such a fun place to settle. It´s way up north, it´s cold and even if some crops might be able to grow, it´s unlikely they could feed a watch at full strenght. Unless they could harvest some goods to trade from the area like lumber, maybe some ore ?
Otherwise the watch would still be dependant on the goodwill of the 7K.
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His realm has a long shoreline and also islands like Tarth.
They need to have a strong Navy just to move around.
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I think the idea is quite far-fetched and it could have mightily backfired if LF hadn´t carried out his "rescue" plan, which Sansa was totally unaware of.
I think Sansa was just what she appears to be: A pawn in another ones scheme.
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Seems strange, yeah. Usually nowadays and also historically, like the Roman Legionnaires, people in a dangerous profession would be rewarded with early retirement. 20-30 years duty compared to a civilian worker with 40-50 years. And for a good reason, as people in their 40s, or worse 50,60+ usually won´t be able to do their job properly anymore.
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On 1/27/2024 at 12:13 AM, Odej said:
I always thought that under normal circumstances Robert and Lyanna's marriage would have been a disaster. If he married her despite the rape I believe this would become the elephant in the room of the relationship and the marriage would disintegrate even faster. But to get to this we return to the initial question, would he marry her?
I think it might even have strengthened their relationship. It would show that Robert is really commited to Lyanna, despite what she´s been through.
And for the societies concerns "She´s not a maiden." King Robert would have given a "FU, get out of my castle."
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4 hours ago, Potsk said:
You're right, that was a poor choice of argument. I should have used the Hodor reveal (confirmed by GRRM) instead. That is unquestionably time travel.
One of the more weird moments the show gave us.
I mean it´s a cave in the middle of a frozen wasteland. WTF thought "Hey, this might be a good spot to place the door I´ve been carrying around."
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3 hours ago, Gilbert Green said:
I don't hate it, but others do:
Not really a theory but a collection of theories, all hated. Summarized by 2 words:
MORE DRAGONS.
- Dragon from the crypts of Winterfell, seen by Summer
- Dragon in the Mountains of the Moon;
- Dragon on Skagos;
- Stone Dragons, maybe with advanced grey-scale, re-awakened by blood magic;
- The Dragon Egg that Euron threw into the sea.
- Maybe others.
It is hated for good and bad reasons:
GOOD REASON
It will probably overcomplicate the story and make it impossible for GRRM to finish in his own life.
BAD REASONS
But then Dany won't be super-special anymore.
Westeros in particular, and the World in general, is a tiny place - no way could a dragon hide anywhere.
Mostly agree, except for Summers "Winged Snake". I honestly can´t come up with a better explanation of what he saw then: Dragon. "Winged Snake" is pretty much what a wolf would think if he saw a dragon for the first time and when he saw it he was already quite far away from Winterfell, so that "Snake" must have been pretty big.
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24 minutes ago, SaffronLady said:
Another potential secret Targ? How many secret Targs do we have by this point in the main series?
Imma facepalm a bit.
I´d say, if every secret Targ theory comes true, they´d outnumber the Golden Company.
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1 hour ago, sifth said:
I mean she was blind to Joff being openly cruel to people, Sansa in particular. That alone makes her a pretty horrible mother in my book. My mother would literally wash my mouth with soap if I ever did that.
And even that can not be called bad parenting. Some people would argue that letting your son do what he feels like is good for "developing his personality" or stuff...
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5 hours ago, SaffronLady said:
Define "can never be proven right or wrong in coming volumes".
It´s just a matter of perspective. Unless GRRM writes a Cersei POV with a line like "Oh, my f***ing children, I hate all of them.", which he won´t, it will always be up to the reader to decide if she´s a good mother or not.
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58 minutes ago, Him of Many Faces said:
I don't think people with more exotic interpretations should leave the conversation, but I do believe in the reminder that ASoIaF is a series of novels, literature. It should be analyzed as such. When making up assumptions and theories about the text, one should not forget how they would change the meaning of the story or character actions along the way. Ned Starks' relationship with Robert in AGoT is directly affected by Jon being his sister's and Rhaegar's child. They had a fallout over the murder of Rhaegar's children. They reconciliated over Lyanna's death. The old rift over killing children resurfaces when Dany gets pregnant and Robert wants to kill her child (and her). Ned was right to keep Lyanna's child's identity hidden because Robert didn't change, he was still okay with the murder of kids as seen by his furious reaction to the news about Dany. And when Ned finds out about Cersei's incest he will try to save the kids again because he correctly assumes Robert would kill them - why wouldn't he think that after Robert's reaction to previous child murders. Making Ned's flashbacks and dreams mean something different than R+L=J would change the entire narrative that we are given from Ned's POV. Like I said, R+L=J is the key to Ned Stark's behavior and relationship with Robert, it really isn't important to Jon as of yet in the story.
I agree with most of what you say here, Ned is protective of children, but I don´t see any proof of the theory in here.
Ned would protect Lyannas son, true, but wouldn´t he do the same for his own ? Or for the son of anyone else he cares about ?
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16 hours ago, Willam Stark said:
Most of the fandom did, especially after the end of the show.
It's only on this forum that I've seen people questioning Jon's parentage, on other forums it's recognized as an established fact.
And I blame the show for establishing R+L=J.
GRRM himself said many things in the books will be resolver differently than in the show.
I sincerely hope this is one of them.
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Well said. Now we only need him to lose a little weight so he won´t die of a heart attack while fighting.