WindyNights

Tinfoil theory time: Gregor Clegane's head was shipped off to Dorne. So is he headless then? The German word for Strong is Stark. So Robert Stark? Whatever happened to Robb's head? Joff wanted it shipped to KL. What if Qyburn got his hands on it? Meaning Robert Strong has Robb Stark's head glued to his body. Dun dun dun. (Or it's just reaching and GRRM is potentially messing with us) Yeah I think this was also a motivation to have Joffrey killed from LF's point of view despite what he says that it was just a move to baffle people. He wanted to make Cersei suffer for spurning him imo.

Funnily enough the actor who plays Bran Stark looks quite a bit like Jon Snow especially in his new season 6 haircut: http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/got-game-of-thrones-9999z-2015-122815-07a.jpg @Alayne Yeah the Faceless man really are just assassins and there's nothing particularly good about them. Although I do think Jaquen H'ghar might be a rogue Faceless Man. Faceless Men usually only kill their targets and not anyone else and yet he ended up killing Pate. I prefer using artwork to the Live action depictions unless they're really good depictions. Like for instance I always picture Varys looking like TV Varys same with Benjen Stark and Viserys Targaryen.

@Imp True although Ben looks less his age than Harry does imo. I like to pretend that time is moving a lot faster in AFFC and ADWD so everyone ends up being at least two years older especially in lieu of (not for shimpy) Alternatively a Westerosi year is longer in than a year in our world.

@imp He's a little old to be Jon Snow: Kit Harrington looks nothing like the Jon Snow I had in my head. There's a joke that says there is no Jon Snow on GoT just Satin pretending to be Jon. Because Kit really does look more like what Satin's supposed to look like. I even picture him in my head when I read about Satin. Speaking of casting, Ben Barnes would've been my perfect casting for Theon Greyjoy but he would've worked great as a Jon Snow alternative. http://www.canmag.com/images/front/narnia/princecaspianp3.jpg

That reminds me someone showed me this: http://aireenscolor.deviantart.com/art/The-Stark-Children-539241285 This is closer to what the Stark kids should look like in-canon although it's a more cartoony style. GRRM used this picture of Jon Snow on his website once though: http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/5/5e/MagaliVilleneuve_JonSnow.jpg But GRRM also approved this: http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/File:MKomarck_JonSnowLC_II.jpg I put extra Jon Snow so people have alternatives to Kit Harrington who doesn't really do the character justice with those gormless looks.

That's not House Clegane's colors. House Clegane colors are bright yellow and black not gold and dark brown. You could say they're close to those colors but that's kind of reaching.

I dunno Sansa didn't seem to have as much trouble renouncing her name as Arya did.

Yeah he knows. You already passed the chapter but it says: So I assume he wants Pentos on his own terms where he has absolute power and doesn't serve in a ceremonial role as the Princes of Pentos usually do and won't get sacrificed if something goes wrong.

No man is as accursed as the insurance agent. It is known.

He wants to rule it. Also he has 2,000 men and not 500 men. And well Quentyn is a Prince of Dorne so he should have many 25 k men at his disposal.

@shimpy Don't worry, I don't think the insurance guy was anyone we were supposed to know.

It'a not really that he thinks he's intellectually superior to people so much as that he's just really confident that Lady Luck has blessed him and everything will go his way. Problems and obstacles are blips on the radar for him like Dany's marriage to Hizdahr and Dany's disappearance from the city. But if Daenerys really is fated marry a Greyjoy pls let it be Vic and not Euron.

I can't take Victarion seriously so he ends up being entertaining rather than revolting for me. Like when he frees the slaves and makes them his thralls and likens himself to Daenerys, a breaker of chains. Or when he burns several virgins and thinks "On wings of song I fly to you, Daenerys" Or how his whole plan is to walk into Meereen, punch Daenerys' husband to death and marry her like it's the easiest thing in the world.

@shimpy Jon Con's one of my favorite new PoVS in the last two books. Also I like that we finally have a gay POV character. I don't think any of the Kingdoms have a thing against cousins marrying. At the least, the North and Westerlands have no problem with it. Fun family fact: Jorah Mormont is Loras and Marge's uncle through marriage. ------------ I suppose Jon Con will hold out for Daenerys until they hear news that she got married and then died.

@shimpy Well this is what GRRM had to say about that:

Kinda make the words some guy said that that black cat was the real king of the castle kind of interesting. Although I always just assumed Rhaenys was a warg so when she died she attached herself to Balerion her cat. Which is why she's so antagonistic towards the Lannisters.

But he only has two chapters and one of them is half battle and half Euron talking about his plans. I will say the same about Brienne's chapters though. Not all of them though just about half of them.

Meereen is actually the reason GRRM took so long to write the fifth book. Like for example, he couldn't figure out in what order the people looking for Daenerys should arrive. And like in Quentyn's case he had trouble deciding whether he wanted Quentyn to arrive 100 days before Daenerys got married, the day before Daenerys gets married or just after Daenerys got married so he wrote chapters from all 3 perspectives and later chose which one made the most sense which happened to be the second one. And then he wrote chapters where Tyrion was going to actually meet the Shrouded Lord but he couldn't get Tyrion back on track to Meereen after that so he made it a dream sequence but then he decided to split this dream sequence into pieces and little them throughout Tyrion's chapters but then he revised that again and decided not to use it and just reference the Shrouded Lord. But he talks about it like he's pretty proud of it and might decide to release it as a short story which he never does.

I mean they titled the show "Game of Thrones" and were happy if they just got the show to the Red Wedding clearly showing where their heads were at in concerns to what they loved about the series (the twists, shocks and betrayals).And they love the Lannisters and Ramsay. Or rather they love their versions of Cersei, Tywin, Tyrion and Ramsay.

Extremely sure. I think it's sillier if there was only ever one magic horn around than multiple ones in this big world. I believe the Celtigars also have a horn that can summon krakens.

Okay this is funny you said that. Mormon't Raven screaming "Corn and King and Snow, Jon Snow" is a reference to the Corn King legend which states:

I'm fairly convinced Mormont's Crow is really Bloodraven watching over Jon. This isn't the first time that crow's looked at Jon and said "King".

I wouldn't say that because Moquorro is necessary for Tyrion to begin his transition to the magic based plot and he was really only in one chapfwr with Tyrion. He's also the first one to bring a clue that Tyrion may be the third head of the dragon: And it needs to be Tyrion who turns Aegon west and be the first one (not for shimpy) It's an important plot based reason though.

AFFC and ADWD consists of our original POVS not doing too much plot heavy stuff but a crap ton of development while all the new POVS introduce major characters that do a lot of the plot's new heavy lifting.

Ygritte, Daario, Penny and Shae only exist to develop Jon, Tyrion and Dany's characters. Maybe it's more blatant in Penny's case.