A Certain Man
When Varys tells his story about the sorcerer who maimed him, he calls him 'a certain man'.
A Clash of Kings - Tyrion X
"Nor do I, but . . ." This pause was longer than the one before, and when Varys spoke again his voice was different somehow. "I was an orphan boy apprenticed to a traveling folly. Our master owned a fat little cog and we sailed up and down the narrow sea performing in all the Free Cities and from time to time in Oldtown and King's Landing.
"One day at Myr, a cert
Martin confirmed that it was Varys who Arya saw:
5) About the two men Arya saw conspiring to restore Dany to Westeros in GoT--one is obviously Illyiro, but who is this other? My friend seems insistent that you confirmed that it is Varys, but IIRC, Varys is hairless while the man Arya saw had a beard.
Varys was a former mummer.
Could you clear this up, or will we find out later?
It was Varys.