What are your favorite theories of all time?

[The Commentator]

19 hours ago, Lord Lannister said:

Given the examples of resurrection we've seen(Beric, Stoneheart, wights) I'm inclined to say please don't do that to Aemon and just let the poor old man rest In peace.

I have this theory which says Dany is capable of restoring life. Her dragon eggs were no longer viable and yet her dragons are strong and healthy. She was a child, still is by today’s thinking, when she tried to revive Drogo. That power to resurrect wil grow stronger as she matures from child to adult. She will learn a lot from Marwyn and put the pieces of the puzzle together. She is called “Mother” for good reasons. 

 

[The Bard of Banefort]

For anyone who's interested, we had a Baseless Predictions thread a few months ago that was a lot of fun. Plenty of good theories to read through:

https://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/158298-baseless-predictions-thread/

[CamiloRP]

19 hours ago, EggBlue said:

bolton men had actually died...so.. are you suggesting Theon is the hooded man killing them but he is not aware of this due to his mental struggle?.....if that's the theory I actually like it!:)

weren't the murders committed by the Spearwives?

[EggBlue]

3 hours ago, CamiloRP said:

weren't the murders committed by the Spearwives?

that's what I thought at first when i read it but then there was the hooded man and then I read so many theories that I kinda got lost!

[CamiloRP]

34 minutes ago, EggBlue said:

that's what I thought at first when i read it but then there was the hooded man and then I read so many theories that I kinda got lost!

Yeah, it happens, I think they confess to it tho.

[SocratesSnow]

Aerys + Ashara Dayne = Daenerys

Tyrion Targaryen

Old Nan is a Frey 

Mance is Mance, but Qhorin is someone else in disguise 

Lemore is Mellario

 

[Aejohn the Conqueroo]

On 10/1/2021 at 7:46 AM, CamiloRP said:

weren't the murders committed by the Spearwives?

They seem pretty adamant that they didn't have a hand in killing (was it Big or Little?) Walder, but iirc they don't deny the others in conversation with Theon.

[Aejohn the Conqueroo]

20 hours ago, SocratesSnow said:

Old Nan is a Frey 

Any more than Hodor's real name to base this on? I have to admit it's a curious name, but it seems more of a red herring than clue to me.  More evidence would be interesting though.

[SocratesSnow]

On 10/5/2021 at 5:55 PM, Aejohn the Conqueroo said:

Any more than Hodor's real name to base this on? I have to admit it's a curious name, but it seems more of a red herring than clue to me.  More evidence would be interesting though.

FUll disclosure, I this is not my theory, here's a transcript of it from bridge4 youtube chan

Transcript

 

 

 

 

 

 

i could tell you about sir duncan at all

those were always your favorites

those weren't my favorites george r

martin confirmed that sir brienne of

tarth

is a descendant of sir duncan natal a

knight

of the seven kingdoms but we're not done

with sir dunk the long

something clicked a couple weeks ago and

i know i know a quick google search

revealed that

other people realized this years before

i did but

for me this is new and it's really cool

old man

is in fact afraid or rather

the evidence that old man is afraid is

much deeper than just the fact that

hoarder's real name is walder like

walder frey

so here's my take old man is very old

she's hodor's great-grandmother and

hodor's nearly seven feet tall

which is the same height as sir duncan

the tall in bran stark's epic final

dream sequence of the winterfell heart

tree

bran saw a brown-haired girl slender as

a spear

who stood on the tips of her toes to

kiss the lips of a young knight

as tall as hodor as the theory goes that

was

old man and sir duncan the tall so

that's the old stuff which basically

says

that just like brienne hodor is a

descendant

of one of history's best ser duncan the

tall

we don't know yet whether bran will

force hodor to hold that door or not but

there's a chance that hodor selflessly

protects bran

just as sir duncan atoll allegedly

sacrificed his

own life in order to protect those he

loved the tragedy of summerhall

very cool but now let's integrate the

clues that old man is afraid

and thus hodor is also a fray

the clues come from the third dunkin egg

novella the mystery knight

in a song of ice and fire there are a

few

very old people for the most popular

being

the three-eyed crow otherwise known as

brendan rivers or

bloodraven maester aemon old man

and walder frey george r martin has

confirmed that

the four-year-old boy in the mystery

night the boy who ran around acting like

a

pain in the ass at lord ambrose

butterwell's wedding

that boy was none other than our

friendly neighborhood

walder frey the child had the most

irritating laugh dunk had

ever heard a high shrill hiccup of a

laugh

that made him want to take the boy over

a knee or throw him down a well

so that's one of four let's keep going

in this story

egg mentioned his older brother maester

eamon and of course

egg's cousin bloodraven he played a

really big role in the story

so of these four people four of the

oldest people alive

at the beginning of the a song of ice

and fire timeline

old nan was the only one who did not

appear in the novella the mystery night

or did she in the mystery night

lord butterell was married to a 15 year

old

frey girl that means the frey girl was

11 years older than walder frey

who is just four years old in this story

walter frey was 90 and 298 ac so

that would imply that his older sister

in the story the frey bride

she'd be around 101 years old at the

start of a song of ice and fire

does that line up with old man yes it

does

according to bran old man had lived so

long

the lady cat had once told bran that all

the brandon starks had become one person

in her head

but how old was old man she had come to

winterfell

to nurse a brandon stark according to

the world of ice and fire

the king beyond the wall raymond

redbeard he slew lord willem stark

in 226 ac so at the very latest

lord willem's youngest child jocelyn she

was born in 227ac

and her older brother ed weil he was

born in 226ac

and that's at the very latest he may

have been born before then

willem's first child brandon stark he

was born to a different mother

so brandon may have also been born as

late as

226 ac no later than that

the point is old name was said to have

come to winterfell

as a wet nurse for a brandon stark who

very well may have been

this brandon stark right here if old

name was the freight girl from the

mystery knight

then she was born around 196 or 197 ac

and thus would have been at most 30

years old

when this brandon stark was born when

she was his wet nurse

basically the timeline fits now

before we get to the fun part let's go

over the logistics

three separate times during the course

of the mystery night or the second

blackfyre rebellion

dunk told people that he and egg had

planned to head north to winterfell

and at the end of that story bloodraven

allowed lord ambrose to live

but he took nine tenths of ambrose's

fortune and he

pulled down his home stone by stone

so think about it the fragra was 15

and freshly floured and her new husband

lord ambrose

he was 50 freshly widowed looked at as a

traitor to the crown

and homeless so there's a chance

that that fray girl the 15 year old frey

girl the bride

she may have rode north to winterfell

with sir duncan the tall

and egg we'll have to wait for the next

night of the seven kingdoms novella to

find out

but here's where it gets fun humor me

and let's assume that that freight girl

is old man

what do we know about her first off she

was not a virgin when she married lord

ambrose

her little four-year-old brother walder

frey

he had caught her hopping on the good

foot and doing the bad thing

in the frayed kitchen with the pop boy

so that's an awesome nod to bran

how bran barged in on jamie and cersei

many years later

but let's not get ahead of ourselves

most

fans assume that sir duncan old man got

down at winterfell based off bran's

heart tree vision right

well during this story sir dunk carried

the fray girl up to her room

during the betting ceremony so we may

have already seen the very beginning of

old man and dunk's relationship

how cool is that and one more thing

during the betting ceremony

a dwarf leapt in beside the frey bride

and he grabbed one of her boobs

so is this the sort of story that you

like she then squealed and dunked

grabbed the dwarf by his collar

and threw him out of the room four pages

for the duncan

he must have been quite a man so they

say last

but not least if old man was this fray

girl from the mystery knight

born in 196 or 197 ac

then that means that maester eamon was

not in fact

the oldest person in westeros because

old man

may have had him by an inch or two

figuratively speaking

but yeah that's a theory mayhap's

old man was afraid what you telling him

now

only what the little lord wants to hear

get your supper i want some time with

him

[SocratesSnow]

On 9/28/2021 at 8:13 PM, Jaenara Belarys said:

Which is totally proof for Ramsay killing Little Walder. 

But he could be an eye witness to the fact that Bran and Rickon are not dead. His uncle Hosteen could leverage that info against the Boltons. 

[Jaenara Belarys]

32 minutes ago, SocratesSnow said:

But he could be an eye witness to the fact that Bran and Rickon are not dead. His uncle Hosteen could leverage that info against the Boltons. 

Theon only brought Reek and two of his Ironborn to the mill. And he killed them. 

[Walda]

Marillion lives!

He might be shivering in the Eyrie, relying on his falcon for food and news of the world. Or perhaps he slipped down the mountain on the night the Lords Declarant treated with the Lord Protector. Or perhaps he was smuggled down to the Mountains of the Moon rolled in a tapestry.

Wherever he is, he lives.

That poor creature with the gloves and the blindfold and the cracked whispery voice was SweetRobin's whipping boy, who is used to apologising for sins he did not commit. Not sure what has happened to him, either, but as it involves Mord, it probably isn't good.

[Aejohn the Conqueroo]

12 hours ago, SocratesSnow said:

FUll disclosure, I this is not my theory, here's a transcript of it from bridge4 youtube chan

Thanks!

[CamiloRP]

12 hours ago, Jaenara Belarys said:

Theon only brought Reek and two of his Ironborn to the mill. And he killed them. 

Or maybe it's because of what I said here

 

Quote

Essentially, to force Roose to kick the Manderlys and Freys out of Winterfell, with the Frey forces spent, the Dreadfort men outnumber everyone else and Ramsay can claim Winterfell without significant pushback from Walda's family.

This is based on the fact that I don't think BW as able to do it, or would want to, since he had little motive (yes, he wants to move up the line of succession, but doing it by killing someone who's like twentieth in line seems stupid, and BW is supposedly very smart) and it would be really hard for him to "butcher" LW who's twice his size and beats him at every physical competition (lord of the crossing and jousting). He was there when LW was killed tho, as the blood on him shows.

My version of events goes like this: Luton dices with LW, looses on purpose (is unlikely that a nine year old boy would win against a man) and promises to pay him latter that night. They meet, but BW is with him, Ramsay butchers LW and convinces BW to keep it a secret (by promisses or treats or both) and he even convinces BW to "discover" the corpse some time later, therefore instigating conflict. Then the whole thing happens, Ramsay offers BW a cloak made of the skin of the man who murdered LW, which sounds more like a treat towards him than a reward, a fight happens and even tho the fight is between Manderly and Frey men, Ramsay murders Luton to keep him quiet (the text even says that he 'silences' him). Then Roose is forced to send Freys and Marnderlys outside.

 

Why do you think it so unlikely that Ramsay killed someone tho?

[CamiloRP]

Bonus theory I like and forgot about: Dragonbinder is a horn made for binding slaves, not dragons.

[Aejohn the Conqueroo]

5 minutes ago, CamiloRP said:

Bonus theory I like and forgot about: Dragonbinder is a horn made for binding slaves, not dragons.

I like this one.  I'm not certain that it didn't bind the Iron Born to Euron at the Kingsmoot. There were a few rebels IIRC which is the only reason I'm not banging on about this daily on here.

[Tucu]

52 minutes ago, CamiloRP said:

Bonus theory I like and forgot about: Dragonbinder is a horn made for binding slaves, not dragons.

From F&B:

Quote

His Grace grieved for Prince Aemon until the end of his days, but the Old King never dreamed that Aemon’s death in 92 AC would be like the hellhorns of Valyrian legend, bringing death and destruction down on all those who heard their sound.

Both Euron and Moqorro are lying to Victarion.

[Daeron the Daring]

1 hour ago, Tucu said:

From F&B:

Both Euron and Moqorro are lying to Victarion.

Wow, never catched that. 

I always suspected that Dragonbinder can't actually bind dragons (I never believed, rather.), but never had any other idea about it. 

[Jaenara Belarys]

4 hours ago, CamiloRP said:

Why do you think it so unlikely that Ramsay killed someone tho?

I don't think it unlikely Ramsay killed someone. I do however think it unlikely that Ramsay would kill Little Walder because he might know something about the two Starks. 

[CamiloRP]

On 10/8/2021 at 12:04 PM, Aejohn the Conqueroo said:

I like this one.  I'm not certain that it didn't bind the Iron Born to Euron at the Kingsmoot. There were a few rebels IIRC which is the only reason I'm not banging on about this daily on here.

yeah, same