PrettyLittlePsycho

Well said. Now we only need him to lose a little weight so he won´t die of a heart attack while fighting.

ACOK Arya X That´s pretty cool on itself, but if you take into account it´s a girl of 10...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 ... ... ... 10. She conspired with Tywin from the start to sow chaos in the north. And anything in between.

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.

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.

His realm has a long shoreline and also islands like Tarth. They need to have a strong Navy just to move around.

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.

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.

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."

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."

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.

He´s actually Aegon, no wait... Grey Wind, oh no, no no, Obi Wan.

I´d say, if every secret Targ theory comes true, they´d outnumber the Golden Company.

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...

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.

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 ?

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.