Black Crow

Inevitably we're now into two different texts given that the master one hasn't been completed far less published, but the mummers are aware of the milestones and as I've just said on the main thread I'll be interested to see how long the dam lasts before the milestones are "released" for discussion, given that they are already all over the internet.

I wouldn't necessarily get too excited. There are three possible outcomes. We could learn the truth of R+L=J although I think this unlikely, its not explicit in the book so there would have to be a major change. Secondly we could learn that Jon's father is Ser Arthur Dayne, who appears to feature very prominently in the trailers. Either is possible, but without delving into the relative merits of either it doesn't feel like the right time. Jon is far far away and has a lot of other stuff on his mind, including perhaps a battle for Winterfell as the season finale. On the whole I'm very much more inclined to think that the vision may largely revolve around Meera's father saving Bran's father from Ser Arthur, which would fit well with Bran's current story-line

As I recall, in the last season there was a walk on appearance by Master Benero - as a woman. I suspect that the one in the previews might be called [or at least filling in for] Moqorro

No need to skim; the Heresy OP always includes a link.

Its more a matter of knowing or not knowing the individual personally.

... in the run-up to HERESY 100 Mace Cooterian very kindly organised a Centennial Seven project, looking at seven major topics in Heresy, featuring a specially commissioned introductory essay followed by a whole thread concentrating on that one topic. A link to Heresy 100 follows, in which will be found updated essays on the Seven, with a bonus essay on the Crows: http://asoiaf.wester...138-heresy-100/. Links are also provided at the end of each essay to the relevant discussions

Very useful, Wolfmaid. For those who haven't yet gone there Heresy 6 is an absolute must as it contains a complete transcript of all of Old Nan's tales.

Ah, no, Edinburgh Castle is called Edinburgh Castle. We do sometimes refer to the castle rock but only in the sense of the rock on which Edinburgh Castle sits. Mind you, there is a very popular kind of candy, which I loved when I was a kid, called Edinburgh Castle Rock. :cool4:

Bran is Bran the Blessed, from the Mabinogion.

As I've suggested before I have a suspicion that a mummers's dragon (a real one) may be involved.

Just a subversive little thought; while its plausibly suggested the tunnels and caverns provide a refuge from the cold, they are also places of darkness and might serve equally well as a refuge from light and fire.

A very proper response to such a daring coup :cool4: Just by the by, the hay wain trick wasn't a replay of the Trojan Horse. They jammed it under the portcullis long enough for everybody else to break cover and dash in through the open gate.

Possibly, but very effective if Aegon and his men were/are pretending to be Mummers - it worked for the Black Douglas and it fits the prophecy in a turn around and bite you on the bum sort of way

Had a happy thought while I was reading this one as to how this utterly impregnable castle was taken so swiftly - it was a dragon, a mummer's dragon made of cloth held up with poles as already described by GRRM in prophecy. Yes, really - with young Griff and some of his men inside. Leaving aside obvious precedents like that wooden horse at Troy, GRRM prides himself on a good working knowledge of mediaeval military history and the Scottish Wars of Independence and will therefore be pretty familiar with Douglas taking Roxburgh by moving up his men hidden under bits of cloth to look like cattle in the twilight, and there was another one (I forget which) where they pulled the old trick of the hay wain stuffed full of soldiers. Never mind the metaphysical prophecies, Storms End was (or rather will be) "liberated" by a mummers' cloth dragon on poles :cool4: