@Aegon Arianne II was good, although most of it was just walking. Elia Sand wasn't too bad because she was forced to stay quite by Arianne, and Lady Lance was only mentioned once and that was by Arianne.
Why did Robb not marry Talisa in secret or just keep their whole relationship secret until after the war? Seems even though he was "stupid in love" he could have done that.
Ghosts lined the hallway, dressed in the faded raiment of kings. In their hands were swords of pale fire. They had hair of silver and hair of gold and hair of platinum white, and their eyes were
opal and amethyst, tourmaline and jade. “Faster,” they cried, “faster, faster.” She raced, her feet melting the stone wherever they touched. “Faster!” the ghosts cried as one, and she screamed and threw herself forward. A great knife of pain ripped down her back, and she felt her skin tear open and smelled the stench of burning blood and saw the shadow of wings. And Daenerys Targaryen flew.
It was already a private ceremony though, as long as he kept it that way and the people who were there, who I can't remember, didn't talk he'd be fine. Plus in the show he never had any reason to marry her.
@TheLethalCarrot And what happens when she bears him a son? Does Robb disown him as a bastard? Since he never married? What if he dies before the war ends and after that people refuse to follow his heir as Young Wolf never married or sired a son?
@TheLethalCarrot People talk. See How important news was always leaked by serving men and women in Harrenhal or King's Landing.
@TheLethalCarrot Talissa exists only in the show.
In books, that whole thing is rather way more sinister
@Aegon If he dies before the war ends he's lost anyway so Jon/Bran/Rickon take over. Or the Boltons. If he survives then he marries her and the child won't be a bastard anymore.
Would be better if he had it before especially with the design of it
A Feast for Crows - Samwell V
"Who would be so mad as to raid this close to Oldtown?" Xhondo pointed at a half-sunken longship in the shallows. The remnants of a banner drooped from her stern, smoke-stained and ragged. The charge was one Sam had never seen before: a red eye with a black pupil, beneath a black iron crown supported by two crows. "Whose banner is that?" Sam asked. Xhondo only shrugged.
As far as I can see, in my limited search, that's the only place it is described so doubt we know when he chose it.
Euron Greyjoy was banished by Balon:
Some time after the war, in 297 AC, Euron was sent away from the Iron Islands by Lord Balon as punishment for seducing or raping Victarion's salt wife, and he was warned never to return while Balon was alive. Victarion wanted to kill Euron and would have i...
@TheLethalCarrot If you're going to abuse the system, abuse it properly, let users like Aegon and myself throw down a quick answer and then you already have one written out and bang!
You think Aegon's self answer last time was "accidental" or "I wanted to even the playing field", if I'd have seen it before him I would've got the same answer in before him, but he would've still posted his answer
I just don't see the point in waiting before posting my answer, there's a feature to post it straight away and I'm going to answer it anyway so I might as well do.
Yeah I'm not saying it wasn't, I'm saying even if I didn't need the badge I still would have posted it. Just that the need for the badge provided a further incentive.
I've had to deal with quite a few of them before, we've got one in our UI that no one can fix because you think it's fine then 2 days later it appears once and disappears for a month again.
I think the original theory was User has a problem, posts it here, doesnt get much attention or other users can not solve it. OP eventually find a solution, comes back and posts it.
@TheLethalCarrot No one cares about the repository of knowledge, like 99% of our answers come from the respective wikias, which are already held on their own network. the wikia network
Haha, ones still open waiting for an answer, there's a free "We don't know" just waiting there for someone. If they can make it into something more than those words that is :P
Haha, I think you'd have to do like "Evidence for/against LF: Evidence for/against Joff: Evidence for others:"
There's theories that 3ER sent the the assassin or that Bran did it. Though the Bran ones are annoying- Just because he is the 3ER now doesn't mean he is responsible for everything!
You're gonna end up making me self answer it as we don't know with all evidence for and against each character and then your gonna moan again :P
On ASOIAF Semi-canon wiki page for Volantis, it is said that:
Many of the statues in Volantis lack heads
Why do those statues lack heads? What is the story behind that and in which part of the series is it told? Is it a cultural thing or some historical event caused that mutilation of those...
Justin's answer (with your edits of course) is sufficient, your answer is basically an answer to the question "What is the history behind the knocking off of the heads and what was everyone thinking at the time" - An Essay by Aegon ;)
I hope you're not downvoting all HP questions because they're HP questions, I mean hilarious, but probably not the nicest way of dealing with them, you can ignore tags
@Edlothiad Nah I downvote HP questions which are "If Voldemort drank polyjuice potion with Dumbledore's bits in it, could he see what Dumbledore sees in the Mirror of jahdjkahwd"?
This one, tho, isn't that as I discovered on re-reading it after your comment. Removed the DV.
Joff: Seems to know about valyrian steel now - similar to books : Same as books : Catspaw says "Assassin: You're not supposed to be here. No one is supposed to be here. It's a mercy. He's dead already." similar to what Robert says for Joff to try andf impress him : He wants to impress Robert? : LF didn't bet with Tyrion to lose the dagger so might be the same as books and he lost it to Robert, quote?
LF: It was his knife at some point before the attempt, may never have bet it? : "Chaosh ish a ladder"
> And so, Aeron Damphair returned to the salt sea. A dozen longships were drawn up at the wharf below the castle, and twice as many beached along the strand. Familiar banners streamed from their masts: the Greyjoy kraken, the bloody moon of Wynch, the warhorn of the Goodbrothers. But from their sterns flew a flag the priest had never seen before: a red eye with a black pupil beneath an iron crown supported by two crows.
It appears as though the show has left it ambiguous on purpose and hasn't explicitly stated who it was so far.
The evidence for each of the characters is the following:
Cersei/Jaime Lannister:
The reason Bran is in a coma is because Jaime pushed him, maybe they sent the assassin to finish the...
In the Bran theory there's this quote "Upproxx theorizes that the current Bran just wanted to ensure he would eventually become the Three Eyed Raven, which makes a lot of sense — we've seen the future Bran guide his younger self before, by taking the form of a raven in visions." - Do we see Bran guide himself? I was under the impression that, that was the current 3ER guiding him.
A key part of the creed the Black Brothers swear to is that "I shall father no sons". But we know that former Lord Commander Jeor Mormont did have a son, Ser Jorah Mormont. Presumably, if the Lord Commander was faithful to his vows, he fathered Jorah prior to taking the Black. Is there anythin...
@Skooba can we get the pointless thing unpinned and the link with the TWOW chapters pinned?
Wait I'm going to make a pin with them all
[A Wiki of Ice and Fire](https://awoiaf.westeros.org), [Springfield Scripts](https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/episode_scripts.php?tv-show=game-of-thrones), [Genius scripts](https://genius.com/artists/Game-of-thrones), [TWOW](https://thehawke.github.io/twow-excerpts/), [A Search of Ice and Fire](https://asearchoficeandfire.com)
@BaeltheBard my own fan theory is that Jeor took the black so that Jorah could directly gain the incomes from the lands the Mormonts held, to try and help support his wife's expensive habits
@Edlothiad tis done
@TheLethalCarrot yeah people are crazy. i mean in the books it is clear it is the current TEC
During Robert's Rebellion, so many houses aligned themselves with the current King. However, to the best of my knowledge, none of their heads are sent to the wall. Most of the people fighting for the Crown are pardoned and some of them even retained their former seats, like Barristan Selmy.
What...
@Jolenealaska I think many people offered as they saw the longer he spent with his mother the softer/spoiled he would become. Since he was to be the next Lord of the Vale and Warden of the East he would need to be hardened up.
Yeah, but either Tywin or Stannis would accomplish that.
What I find odd is that King Robert believed the plan was to foster the kid with Tywin, Cat thought Stannis (I think), and Pycell had an opinion too (in which he was sure).
@Jolenealaska I can't remember is Lysa rejected the ideas or if the other lords did. If they knew of Sweet Robin's reputation and ailments they probably would not want to be blame if the he never shaped up or died in their care.
I found it interesting that the show made Sweet Robin a bit more enigmatic than the books did. In the books, it's clear that he is actually sick. In the show you're not really sure whether or not he's just overly pampered, protected and spoiled.
Euron Greyjoy was banished by Balon:
Some time after the war, in 297 AC, Euron was sent away from the Iron Islands by Lord Balon as punishment for seducing or raping Victarion's salt wife, and he was warned never to return while Balon was alive. Victarion wanted to kill Euron and would have i...
On ASOIAF Semi-canon wiki page for Volantis, it is said that:
Many of the statues in Volantis lack heads
Why do those statues lack heads? What is the story behind that and in which part of the series is it told? Is it a cultural thing or some historical event caused that mutilation of those...
A key part of the creed the Black Brothers swear to is that "I shall father no sons". But we know that former Lord Commander Jeor Mormont did have a son, Ser Jorah Mormont. Presumably, if the Lord Commander was faithful to his vows, he fathered Jorah prior to taking the Black. Is there anythin...
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