I am starting to ponder an unexpected role played by Ser Barristan Selmy in the books: Stranger. In other words, an embodiment of death, as personified in the Faith of the Seven. Our first introduction to him comes in AGoT, Sansa I. From the wiki: When she nears the camp, Sansa sees a crowd gathered around the wheelhouse; the council has sent an honor guard from King's Landing to accompany them the rest of the way. The party includes two knights in fine armour: a strong old man in whit