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On 1/9/2022 at 1:43 PM, Corvo the Crow said:

Ranger from Shadow Tower is attacked by a Shadowcat, is gravely wounded, nursed back to health by a wisewoman who mends his cloak with silk from Asshai, Asshai which is called Asshai-by-the-Shadow

Very nice catch. And that ranger is later glamored by Melisandre, who does a lot with using fire to cast shadows. Her so-called shadow babies are unstoppable weapons. Is Mance yet another shadow baby while he is under Melisandre's control?

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26 minutes ago, Corvo the Crow said:

After you've posted, I've noticed a second thing... It's an elk they've brought down and lures the shadowcat. foreshadowing of a Stag's fall perhaps? How funny it would be, if Cat, who is now a shadow of herself, brings down Stannis because he gives Jon Winterfell :D

Or in a more serious note, perhaps a Stag's fall will lure shadows, shadows of the white kind.

The giant elk that carries Coldhands and Bran and their traveling companions is eventually killed and eaten by the riders. I wonder whether GRRM is comparing Bran and his fellow travelers to elk-eating shadows?

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1 hour ago, Corvo the Crow said:

Also worth noticing is Ser Dontos Hollard, a fool escorts Sansa the merwive in the prophecy, and in another prophecy, another fool, Aegon Jinglebells is present so looking for fools for prophecies could be the way to go.

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A Game of Thrones - Eddard XV

The dungeon was under the Red Keep, deeper than he dared imagine. He remembered the old stories about Maegor the Cruel, who murdered all the masons who labored on his castle, so they might never reveal its secrets.

He damned them all: Littlefinger, Janos Slynt and his gold cloaks, the queen, the Kingslayer, Pycelle and Varys and Ser Barristan, even Lord Renly, Robert's own blood, who had run when he was needed most. Yet in the end he blamed himself. "Fool," he cried to the darkness, "thrice-damned blind fool."

 

 

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"He came to save the realm, my lord, Davos insisted. "To defend your lands against the ironborn and the wildlings."

Next to the high seat, Ser Marlon Manderly gave a snort of disdain. "It has been centuries since White Harbor has seen any wildlings, and the ironmen have never troubled this coast. Does Lord Stannis propose to defend us from snarks and dragons too?" (Davos III, ADwD)

This passage is so interesting. The wildlings hadn't come south of the Wall yet when this chapter happened. So it seems like wildlings will be seen in White Harbor.

The ironborn never came up the eastern coast of Westeros, but that may be changing with Euron as their king. Euron wants all of Westeros. This chapter takes place before the kingsmoot.

The snarks are still north of the Wall, but not for long.

And the dragons. Ser Marlon doesn't spend enough time at the Lazy Eel to listen to the stories of the sailors coming ashore. Ser Marlon doesn't know that there are in fact dragons in the world once again. Davos found out about them in his previous chapter.

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Lord Stannis, Not Lord Lannister
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ASOS:

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Lord Redwyne pinched at his nose. "May we return to the matter of the Greyjoy alliance? In my view, there is much to be said for it. Greyjoy's longships will augment my own fleet and give us sufficient strength at sea to assault Dragonstone and end Stannis Baratheon's pretensions."

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The news from the Reach seemed to grow more dire with every raven. The ironmen had not been content with their new rocks, it seemed. They were raiding up the Mander in strength, and had gone so far as to attack the Arbor and the smaller islands that surrounded it. The Redwynes had kept no more than a dozen warships in their home waters, and all those had been overwhelmed, taken, or sunk. And now there were reports that this madman who called himself Euron Crow's Eye was even sending longships up Whispering Sound toward Oldtown.

Paxter Redwyne was in favor of the Greyjoy alliance, but the Lannisters refused. Now the Ironborn are raiding his land and sinking his ships instead. Methinks Lord Redwyne is going to be looking for some payback once a certain Aegon reaches King's Landing.

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On 1/3/2022 at 11:19 AM, Corvo the Crow said:

becomes white after staying in the river for so long

Bah! You made question  if she always dyed her hair, and it came out in the wash, or a Who’s really under that cloak situationor is death just bad for your hair? 
I’m hitting the easy button. Magic.

 

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There’s another queen who never was aside from Rhaenys and Daena: Daenora, Rhaegal’s daughter and Maekar’s niece. She gave birth to Aerion’s son, Maegor, during Maekar’s reign, so she would have still been alive when Aerys I died. But she was passed over, and the crown went to her father’s younger brother instead.

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2 hours ago, The Bard of Banefort said:

There’s another queen who never was aside from Rhaenys and Daena: Daenora, Rhaegal’s daughter and Maekar’s niece. She gave birth to Aerion’s son, Maegor, during Maekar’s reign, so she would have still been alive when Aerys I died. But she was passed over, and the crown went to her father’s younger brother instead.

The super interesting thing about Daenora is that she is Arryn down her mother's side, making her son Arryn by blood. So him getting passed over at the Great Council might not have sat all that well with House Arryn. 

This doesn't feel like a coincidence. Maybe Jon Arryn wasn't just trying to protect Ned and Robert when Aerys called for their heads but was also acting on an old grievance.

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8 minutes ago, Crazy Old Guy said:

I understand. But Stannis is a person with pent-up anger and knowing all the horrible shit that Cersei has done would probably set him on a tangent.

Maybe...

The other other theory that I have is that it's Davos that does it, but that's kinda a crackpot theory of mine.

Davos?! do tell..

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2 hours ago, Takiedevushkikakzvezdy said:

Jaime's famous line "There are no men like me, there is only me", apparently isn't in the books... 

"What gods are those, Lady Catelyn? The trees your husband prayed to? How well did they serve him when my sister took his head off?" Jaime gave a chuckle. "If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?"

"Because of men like you."

"There are no men like me. There's only me."

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39 minutes ago, Hugorfonics said:

"What gods are those, Lady Catelyn? The trees your husband prayed to? How well did they serve him when my sister took his head off?" Jaime gave a chuckle. "If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?"

"Because of men like you."

"There are no men like me. There's only me."

I really need some caffeine.

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