More Small Questions, Really?

[azurespecter]

Is Oldtown situated on both sides of the Honeywine? I'm confused about the layout of the city because some stuff seems to be on one side, or on the river, or on the other side.

[Scarlet Seastar]

From the World of Ice and Fire page on Wikipedia:

The city is located in the south-western part of Westeros, at the mouth of the River Honeywine, where it opens onto Whispering Sound and the Sunset Sea beyond.

I believe it's sprawled on both sides of the river.

Also there's this:

Oldtown is also one of the most important ports of the Seven Kingdoms: trading ships from the Summer Islands, the Free Cities, the eastern cities, and the rest of Westeros constantly crowd into its harbors. The city itself is described as stunningly beautiful; many rivers and canals crisscross its cobbled streets, and breathtaking stone mansions are common. The city lacks the squalor of King's Landing, which usurped its position as the pre-eminent city of Westeros.

You could re-read Pate's prologue. I think the city is best described in there, or Sam's last chapter in Feast.

[SimonSez]

Why was Prince Aerys (later Aerys II) at Tywin Lannister's wedding?

[The Manhood-Eating Goat]

Why was Prince Aerys (later Aerys II) at Tywin Lannister's wedding?

Tywin was one of the most powerful men in the Seven Kingdoms when he married Joanna. Combine this with Aerys' feelings for Joanna and it'd be more unusual for him not to be there than for him to be there.

[Fire Eater]

Why was Prince Aerys (later Aerys II) at Tywin Lannister's wedding?

Illyrio stated that Tywin was a childhood friend of Aerys, and it's possible that Aerys had been fostered at Casterly Rock.

[TheMysteriousOne]

I don't know if this was answered/asked, but did Arianne fantasize about Oberyn?

[Fire Eater]

I don't know if this was answered/asked, but did Arianne fantasize about Oberyn?

Yes

I sat beside the well and pretended that some robber knight had brought me here to have his way with me, she thought, a tall hard man with black eyes and a widow's peak.

ETA: My opinion, that's the Targ side of her.

[Rune Targaryen]

I always thought that Bran's power would exceed Bloodraven's. And I thought it was Bran who spoke to Theon through the leaves. Even Ned could hear whispers in the leaves. I think this is the same scene in the past that we see:

1. First Ned says that sometimes he could hear things in the rustling of the leaves

2. In Dance, Bran literally tries to contact Ned and cause the whispers in the leaves.

Also, in Brienne's arc in Feast, there was a place called the Whispers, and it had a weirwood. She buried Nimble Dick there, didn't she?

I think that Bran could contact someone through the trees. I believe Bran contacted Theon that way. I think only a very powerful Greenseer could do that.

I do believe that that Brans power is greater than bloodraven, and that he will be able to whisper to some people, but to talk with Jon he will have a hole conversation, using Jon powers as medium to get him (just for the time of the talk) in the weirnet.

But the whispers are called that way because of the sounds of sea into the rocks, Brienne realized this as soon as herd the whispers.

[Rune Targaryen]

I do believe that Brans power are greater than bloodraven's, and that he will be able to whisper to some people, but when he talk with Jon he will have a hole conversation, using Jon powers as medium to get him (just for the time of the talk) in the weirnet, probably when he is dead/wounded from the holes he got in Dance.

But the whispers are called that way because of the sounds the sea make into the rocks, Brienne realized this as soon as herd the whispers.

[Black Wolf Smith]

Bran cannot speak through a tree. If he could, the reactions would be "holy shit trees speaking". But he cannot.

Um, didn't Theon hear Bran say his name on the wind/leaves?

Bran isn't supose to be able to speak to those in the past, but some of those he watched seem to hear something.

[FittleLinger]

Um, didn't Theon hear Bran say his name on the wind/leaves?

Bran isn't supose to be able to speak to those in the past, but some of those he watched seem to hear something.

Yes, but it's abstract, Theon thinks he hears his name, at the same time Bran is trying to reach to him but realizes he can't really. It's not a tree speaking, like for example the weirwood door beneath the wall, which outright speaks to Sam.

[SimonSez]

Was Danaerys conceived the night Aerys burned Rickard Stark?

[SelanSnow]

Was Danaerys conceived the night Aerys burned Rickard Stark?

No, it was later, after Aerys burned the pyromancer he made Hand of the King.

[The Dornishman's Wife]

Don't think so, Aerys never burned that pyromancer, Jaime killed him during the Sack. Were you talking about the death of Qalton Chelsted?

[Belandra Waters]

Edit: moved question to a different thread.

[MacNobody]

Who is the little old lady that meets the men that Arya are traveling with? She makes (Tom O'Sevens maybe??) pay her with a song.

Who is she? There is something about that part of Arya's chapters (and she pops up somewhere else too) that I am missing.

[Fire Eater]

Who is the little old lady that meets the men that Arya are traveling with? She makes (Tom O'Sevens maybe??) pay her with a song.

Who is she? There is something about that part of Arya's chapters (and she pops up somewhere else too) that I am missing.

She is known as the Ghost of High Heart. She was a friend of Jenny of Oldstones who brought her to KL, and tell that the Prince that was Promised would be born of Aerys and Rhaella's line.

[DolorousKim]

Don't know if this question has already been asked/answered, but whose head is unGregor thought to be wearing these days?

[The Dornishman's Wife]

Asked yes, answered no. Common speculations are none or his own (though possibly lobotomized). But I've also heard people speculate about Falyse's, one of the mummers' or Robert I's.

[MacNobody]

Wait - unGregor has someone else's head?? Or is this a glamour?