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Aejohn the Conqueroo

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  1. Why not? I'm sure it would be impractical, but that would only constrain a certain sort of monarch. The only precedent that I've seen in Westerosi legal history is that a king isn't bound by precedent unless he choses to hide behind it, so essentially he can do as he wishes, as long as he's ready to deal with whatever rebels pop up because of it.
  2. Could do, sure. I think that she ultimately shows down with Jeyne though. I just think that with all of the identity crisis the author has been saddling her with since book 1 it would follow that the choice to finally kill Arya Stark for good would be something she'll have to confront.
  3. She's being heavily manipulated for what it's worth. Littlefinger talks about Sweetrobin's death as a foregone conclusion and Sansa will begin to as well. All of her plans and ambitions will become dependent upon the idea of a post Robin Vale (which we see happening already) and when his lingering gets in her way, she'll see removing him as hurrying the inevitable, perhaps even mercifully. I doubt she'll be gung ho about it, and I do wonder whether or not she'll go through with it, but I think that it will be a choice that Littlefinger will make her face and he will be depending upon her doing her part.
  4. This would be my bet as well, but I couldn't call it anything more than a guess. He doesn't seem that eager to hurry his work, as he explains later to Arya, but unless his target was in Yoren's gang that's a horribly slow way to choose to travel and if he's there not by his own choice, well he sure got his shit together between then and weasel soup day.
  5. I doubt he was ever in the dungeon, fwiw. Let's not forget that JH might have been the name of some murderer he replaced. If this was royally or Varys sponsored the switch could have been made at any time. If his target was Jon, then I'm sure left to his own devices Jaqen could have made far better time getting to the Wall. It could have been Ned, if the hirer believed that Ned would make the trip north with the recruits, but then what kind of outsmarting themselves sort of game were they playing? May as well just execute the traitor as Joffrey decided. I suspect that we will eventually find out that he was there on his own for reasons that might not be available to us at this time.
  6. Yeah, she's pretty brutal. Maegor with teats as they like to say. I better quickly go write up something about Arya's dark evil heart or I might have to acknowledge it or something.
  7. More criticism here, I don't think you've sufficiently explained 'I wonder which of them did it'. Maybe you could go a little slower through that part. I'm also not sure how knowing Tyrion was behind the knife protected Littlefinger from him. It would make him a more pressing target, wouldn't it?
  8. It's ridiculous that anyone makes excuses for this person at all. It's so easy to see where all the lurid anti Stark fabrications come from. 'If my hero is evil enough to do all of this and dismiss it, then the wolves have to be so much worse!' Hey Dany, how do you feel about all of those executions, wasn't that a little arbitrary and murderous? "If I look back I'm lost" She's even cut herself off from reflecting on her actions.
  9. How much turning does the Mad Butcher of Mereen really have to do? 163 crucified. That's evil.
  10. This is 4 years old? Not finished yet, but I got to pack it in for now. Direwolves really dislike the smell of those who break guest right: no wonder they dislike Tyrion - I think this needs to be supported a little. Also I wonder if the dream that you ascribe to Bran's 'magical subconscious' might have come from Summer, perhaps an explanation for his behavior towards Tyrion. Anyway, I look forward to finishing this, You make a pretty good argument, but more over it's good to look at these characters from a detatched perspective. The author often refers to Tyrion as a villain and I always find myself wondering why, because we really don't seem his do anything that most of the people in the story wouldn't themselves., or when we do, we walk down the garden path with him and reach the conclusions that he does along hte way. If your theory bears out, that's a pretty good reason to call him a villain. It's never explained why Tyrion's dagger was in Robert's weapons stash, is it, and it's said outright in another place that it was Robert's dagger. That's just sort of slid through. Tyrion denies winning the bet, but he doesn't outright deny owning the blade because he knows his defense relies on him not intentionally incriminating himself. But it's right there. It does put Tyrion and Cersei a little closer than we'd expect. Still, all the things that don't make sense in the Joffrey version make a lot more sense in the Tyrion version. Pretty involved plan for Joffrey to put together, too.
  11. Choosing the Lolys disguise on the day Marcella was shipped off to Dorrne might have been a decision that Varys regrets.
  12. Pretty cool. Too much in common to be coincidence, if you ask me. Is Willem Darry that important though? I wonder if Leathers is pointing to Darry, or if both Leathers and Darry are pointing to someone else.
  13. Whether this is meant as a genuine account of his feelings on the matter or as bait I couldn't say, but I think that whatever his message is, it's for Ramsay. I kind of take it at face value and see it as Roose telling letting Theon know that Ramsay doesn't have anything to fear from Walda's children... unless he lets them or Roose get too old.
  14. What I'm on the edge of my seat to know is how is the narrator going to pronounce 'Brienne' and 'Petyr'?
  15. Yeah, totally. I completely forget sometimes that love conquers all. Of course they'd marry.
  16. 'Look at me, the king who eats leftovers.' It just wouldn't fly. There's more at stake than Robert's personal wishes and if no one else did, at least Jon Arryn still had his eye on the prize. The fact that Robert made himself look ridiculous by the time the boar got him doesn't mean that he set out to look ridiculous or set out willing to be seen as ridiculous. Honestly, I think he'd be more likely to Victarion her than marry her, but again, the people around him would have saved him from that bad choice. If he did marry Lyanna, he would have to wait a good long time to have a child with her, so moon tea every morning for a year or so. Half the kingdom would be laughing at the usurper who put his enemy's son on the throne if there was even the hint that their kid could have been Rhaegar's. it's all too messy. Lyanna would have to be disqualified.
  17. Mel said that someone's AA, so that must be true. Of course she said that it's Stannis but she was wrong there, unless she wasn't and he is. She wasn't wrong when she said that someone must be AA though, because she wouldn't be wrong about that. It was Prophesized.
  18. If things were different, they definitely wouldn't be the same.
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