Stannis faking his death= Chekhov's gun?

[aryagonnakill]

supporting analysis http://branvras.free.fr/HuisClos/Battle.html

Some of the things in here are really reaching for straws. For instance where it talks about Mance telling Jon that he is either referred to as Mance or The Mance, the author of this compares this to the mountain clans being called The Wull etc. But we saw first hand that Tormund Giantsbane refers to Mance as The Mance, so looking any deeper than that really doesn't having a strong baring.

[Slayer of Lies]

Some of the things in here are really reaching for straws. For instance where it talks about Mance telling Jon that he is either referred to as Mance or The Mance, the author of this compares this to the mountain clans being called The Wull etc. But we saw first hand that Tormund Giantsbane refers to Mance as The Mance, so looking any deeper than that really doesn't having a strong baring.

That's a great example of what I was saying on the previous page.

BV has provided many readers with a lot excellent research and documentation, which takes a lot of time and requires a special skillset. And for that I'm grateful.

But that does not mean the conclusions are always bulletproof, or don't warrant research and analysis of their own.

For example, the Seven Days of Battle link kicks off with the assumption that the contents of the letter are true. That's one way to go about it, but pure objectivity would lead one to accept that the letter might also contains untruths, and to analyze that sequence of possibilities too (which BV does not do in that essay).

[Sub_Zero94]

I think rumors about Stannis' death will spread thanks to the Pink letter. All people on the Wall would think Stannis is dead.

concur with this.