Endymion I Targaryen

I believe that Feast/Dance could cover a span of two years since many travellogues were involved. This could explain the character developpment and the current reality. 

I believe the battle of Meereen will be in two parts.

Part 1: Windblown and Second Sons switch sides. Dany's army and Ironborn crush the Yunkish separately. Dragons attack everyone on their own. Victarion will have the dragonhorn blown and ride Rhaegal. In the meantime the Sons of the Harpy revolt and Skahaz goes on rampage. Children hostages and Hizdar are executed. End of battle.

All the sides enter Meereen but can't coordinate. Probable conflict between Barristan and Victarion. Tyrion starts reading the books Jorah gave to Daenerys and starts feeding Viserion. He goes the Nettles way and Viserion accepts him as a rider. While things are starting to get hot in Dany's camp, Volantene arrive. 

Part 2: Dragons and slaves make the difference. Volantene slaves revolt and change sides and dragons burn the Volantene. I believe this is the time for Barristan's death.

On 6/22/2021 at 9:04 AM, Serddar said:

With difference being that it seems there are still no worms in Victarion's arm. They might be small/young.

If they actually do have the same infection, and fire-worms end Victarion, what does that mean to us? That they can be caught outside Valyria? That they can be made up with magic, or carried like a biological weapon? Maybe even made.

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Gogossos : New methods of torture were used and blood magic is said to have been practiced, including slave women being forced to mate with beasts to produce twisted, half-human offspring. 

This can also be done in Valyria in a greater scale and explain the twisted life of Valyria after the Doom. 

This is a version of the story I believe. The Doom was not only a cataclysm but something like a nuclear explosion and the remnants of life that continues to live in Valyria are twisted (people, dragons, etc). Aerea can have eaten/drunk something that had twisted fireworm eggs upon it. Balerion may have been attacked by a twisted dragon. And Euron visited a valyrian colony ruin like Gogosos not Valyria.

From Arianne I:

"And krakens off the Broken Arm, pulling under crippled galleys," said Valena.  "The blood draws them to the surface, our maester claims.  There are bodies in the water.  A few have washed up on our shores.  And that's not half of it.  A new pirate king has set up on Torturer's Deep.  The Lord of the Waters, he styles himself.  This one has real warships, three-deckers, monstrous large.  You were wise not to come by sea.  Since the Redwyne fleet passed through the Stepstones, those waters are crawling with strange sails, all the way north to the Straights of Tarth and Shipbreaker's Bay.  Myrmen, Volantenes, Lyseni, even reavers from the Iron Islands.  Some have entered the Sea of Dorne to land men on the south shore of Cape Wrath.  We found a good fast ship for you, as your father commanded, but even so... be careful."
 

Are these ships the ones that Aurane Waters stole from Cersei?The mention of is together with krakens and reavers from the Iron Islands. Could Aurane Waters be Euron's ally?

http://grrm.livejournal.com/490176.html?thread=24623296#t24623296

Probably Aeron will stay alive for a while since the Forsaken is not his last chapter.

21 hours ago, Ihaveadognamedclegane said:

Consideration needs to be made for Sansa's prophecies. Bran - "He saw Sansa crying herself to sleep at night, and he saw Arya watching in silence and holding her secrets hard in her heart. There were shadows all around them. One shadow was as dark as ash, with the terrible face of a hound. Another was armoured like the sun, golden and beautiful. Over them both loomed a giant in armour made of stone, but when he opened his visor, there was nothing inside but darkness and thick black blood."

Some way or another, she will have more involvement with Sandor and Jaime and I am guessing it's Gregor Clegane looming over them all.

Ghost of High Heart -  "And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow." So whether you believe the giant is LF or Gregor, they are in there somewhere, and it seems to all be point to WF. \

Sansa is leaving the Vale with someone and heading to WF.  GRRM setting up a tourney as either a distraction for the escape (or kidnapping) or it will serve to attract certain people as noted above. 

 

in the end of Dance it is snowing in King's Landing.The castle built of snow could be the Red Keep.Cersei wont let Gregor leave her now and go to the vale.Probably Sansa will be taken to Gregor/Cersei.

Manderly & Glover have Wex.They know that the Stark boys are alive.Theon is needed alive for a while to reveal what happened in Winterfell.His execution will be delayed until one of the Boltons is arrested.

There is an army descending on Storm’s End from King’s Landing. You will want to be safe inside the walls before the battle.” Will we? Wondered Arianne. “Battle? Or siege?” She did not intend to let herself be trapped inside Storm’s End.

She will be trapped inside Storm's End.Jon Connighton can't let her go before she sees Aegon's power.

In Balticon, GRRM confirmed working on a Cersei chapter.So she returns too.

I really enjoyed to see Arianne's character growing. She is colder,more cautious and has her own will.

As in Arianne I, her dislike for Daenerys and the beauty of Targaryen men appear again. 

If Mace Tyrell leaves King's Landing that means Margaery is free?

The only trouble is that if Arianne hasn't reached Aegon in two chapters then how many chapters will be needed for Aegon to reach King's Landing? Not to mention Dany's return to Westeros.

There is a difference:Margaery is arrested for adultery and treason and is definitely not a virgin.Only if she is found innocent Aegon can marry her.

All these about Winged Knights and Robert Baratheon's tapestries seem to me like a preparation for the kingdom of the Vale and LF as King Regent.

Given that Daenerys won't show up in Westeros soon, Aegon will need Martells to legitimize him and Jon Connighton seems determined to take them on his side after taking Griffin's Roost.So Arianne still has many possibilities to become Aegon's queen.

After a re-reading in Arianne I & II am I the only one who thinks her increasing dislike for Daenerys will be a factor to the upcoming Dance (given that Arianne is on fAegon's side)?

Perhaps Bran wants Theon to be sent to the Wall , not executed. He may have no love for Theon , but Theon could tell Jon , personally, what actually happened at WF.. without the news of Bran's and Rickon's survival and Ramsay's betrayal becoming common knowledge before it's convenient for Manderly and the GNC. .. and there would be a bonus in terms of the practicalities of defending the wall : Jon could definitely use another expert archery instructor. ...And wouldn't Jon's acceptance of Theon be the ultimate demonstration to wildling hold-outs ( e.g. those who've been following the Weeper) that past transgressions are forgotten if you join the NW or abide by the terms of Tormund and Jon's agreement ?

Stannis has begun, on this campaign, to hold off on the destruction of weirwoods for political reasons (he wants the support of the clans) ..but over time Stannis has become gradually more open to supernatural possibilities. At first he believed nothing of Melisandre's claims , but that changed , partially due to the fact that he began to see his own visions in the flames, at least one that proved true ( the Fist ) . If Bran should manage some sort of demonstration at the Tree .. Stannis would not discount it entirely , and would continue to force his men to respect the sanctity of the weirwoods.

Once Stannis decides to go to the tree , it only makes sense that he would have Tycho's party wait, so that they could report to Jon on what happened. ( At that point he would not know he had a raven to send and would plan for Tycho's party to bear news of Theon's execution.)

I think something will happen to convince Stannis that one of the ravens could possibly fly to Castle Black. And so , though I think Bowen &co. will alter the letter before Jon sees it , I think Stannis is the one who originally wrote it... I don't want to go into all the letter arguments here (they're lengthy) .. I'm just asking - be open to the possibility.

I believe the letter is correct ,and that after the events at the Tree , Theon is sent north with Jeyne and Tycho.

I was thinking the same.Theon will head to the Wall along with Jeyne Poole (at least).If Manderly comes to Stannis's side he must tell him about Davos and his mission so Theon can stay alive for a while so as the truth about Stark children be revealed.But other Northmen hate him so he can't stay in Winterfell.And I too believe his execution will be stopped by Bran.

I don't know if it is the right thread to ask but for Arianne we know: Arianne I is back in Dorne,Arianne II is in Martin's website,but I've read in another thread that she reached Griffin's Roost and learns Aegon is not there and heads to Storms End.So this means Arianne III?

It was discussed, yes, even before that, but you can look at pg. 5 and 6 of the current thread, starting from my post number 94. Me and some other posters are discussing whether it's a confirmation or merely a possibility that Cersei is the queen that they are talking about.

Just read it!thank you!

Excuse me if it has been asked above but the guards mention about a queen that will have Suift's head if he returns without gold. But Kevan sent him to Braavos not the queen. So it means Cersei has come back to power (as it seems impossible Queen Margaery uses such language) and won her trial?