Aethermancer

Not even a bloody nose. But after a wrestling match? No one looks pretty. Nothing like exerting yourself at 100% for several minutes, getting all sweaty and having a purple face for being not pretty. Oh and "mat-burn", that's a thing, only it happens to your face. However, I clean up well. ;)

You lend money to earn interest on the money lent. Lending to the Iron Throne when your son-in-law is King (and later Grandson), should normally be a very secure investment. It would basically be a AAA investment in today's world. The Seven Kingdoms, being an absolute monarchy, makes it VERY easy for the throne to pay back debts. If you are making no income off your holdings, then you move your assets into something that makes you money. Even if the Throne has trouble paying back in gold, it can pay back in other lucrative ways. Granting of lands, easement of taxes, granting authority to levy tariffs, bans on importing competing products...

One thing that bugs me, unless they have Arya blurt it out (which is probably what will happen) I don't think Brienne or Pod have ever laid eyes on Arya. She looks nothing like Sansa, and now that I think on it, they have never even seen Ned Stark either, so any recognition of Arya is going to have to come FROM Arya.

Not all noses break easily. My nose is about the same in structure as Kitt's is and it's been pretty resilient and never broken on me. I used to wrestle up to the collegiate level, and pretty much have supported my body weight (and more) on my face from time to time usually with someone actively pushing down on me.. It not breaking is a byproduct of having the bone where the cartilage attaches not protrude much. Someone with a more aquiline nose is more prone to have it break. I've even been in a car accident that resulted in my head cracking against a solid metal surface, but from behind, not the front, and the bones are weaker in the back. No fracture, but a cut that produced a hell of a lot of blood. My head easily hit as hard as they showed Jon Snow getting hit. I was able to walk away from it without a concussion, but had to go to the ER to get my scalp stitched back together. That said, he could very well have a fractured skull, cheekbone, or chin. Fractured chin/cheekbone is just something that you have to live with and the treatment is basically 'just don't touch it'. (jaw fracture is a whole other beast)

One of the things that keeps coming up is that people seem to think that Jon should have taken Ghost, or at least his sword to go after Mance, but it would make absolutely zero sense to do something like that: The last time Jon was with Mance, he put himself forward as a deserter and someone willing to fight for the wildlings. To the wildlings, he will be seen as the dirtiest of traitors. He needs to leave Ghost behind because nothing will say "Hey, look, it's that guy with the wolf who is back to being a crow. Looks like he betrayed us all" like walking up with an albino dire-wolf. He and Ghost would have 400 arrows sticking out of them before they crossed half the field. However, if Jon goes forward just dressed in black and looking like an envoy, he will look just like any other nightwatchmen. Out of 100,000 people, only a fraction would recognize him as Jon Snow. So he can get close to Mance, at least close enough to talk a bit before being summarily executed. As for his sword Longclaw, It would be stripped from him before he got within 200m of Mance. You don't really think they would let him in there with ANY weapons, let alone a Valyrian steel bastard sword, do you? Jon is going on the hope that there will be some sort of weapon he can get his hands on when he meets with Mance, because he certainly won't be allowed to bring any of his own. So, in summary, Jon leaves Ghost and Longclaw behind because they would be killed/taken from him anyway.

No one has ever really tried to 'lift' the gate before though. It's not like there are power-lifting competitions at the Wall to see who can do it. The lifting of the gate seemed more of an adrenaline-rage one-off thing that most people probably didn't think was possible. The giants aren't dumb, and they were going along with the mammoth plan. It probably never even occurred to the one that lifting it was possible. If you noticed, the barrel release mechanism jammed (and later exploded). Pretty much everyone there was either counting limbs, putting out fires, or trying to regroup. One of the 'leaning' archers fell, and the other looked to be in fear of the same fate. Basically it looked like they WOULD have dropped another barrel, if not for the fact that they had no mechanism (or upright people) to actually drop the barrel at that time.

This is one of the things that really comes back to me again and again while watching this show with my spouse. The characters all seem to forget about or dismiss the literally horrific things that Regina has done. By now, she must have PERSONALLY murdered thousands of people, some of them good close friends of the main characters. I don't care how bad the foster care system might be, it can't be worse than Regina, fairytale Hitler.

Why? To tell Petyr "Do Not Touch". A wound in the gut is painful, but not mortal. If no arteries were hit, it can take days to die from a gutshot. With a perforated intestine, you might be a dead man walking facing a VERY long and painful death, but physical activity would certainly be possible. I've seen deer get shot in the gut and leap/run at full speed for long distances (500 yards or more), and unfortunately they will often live for at least 24 hrs. (Thankfully I've never had a bad shot, but it happens and I've seen it happen) The actor playing the Mountain himself is over 400 lbs. The max load a human skull can withstand is about 520 lbs of force. A quick pushup would exert more than 500lbs of force if the man doing it is a 400 lb man. Of course, here is the best part of the article you linked: Given that the actor IRL actually IS the world's strongest man... I'd definitely call this myth plausible. (Yes, I think he really did come in third, but I think the statement also applies to the Third Strongest Man in the world as well.) ;)

Sansa was often called "Little Bird" by Sandor Clegane (The Hound). He made a lot of references to her as a caged bird. A bit of odd foreshadowing as she does seem to be developing into a little version of the mockingbird. I don't think men typically dress in mourning black.

I feel I have to correct you a bit here, removal of the external genitals does NOT prevent sexual arousal/interest or even (though it is significantly hindered) the capability for sexual climax (via alternative erogenous zone stimulation). The majority of activity regarding sexual arousal occurs in the brain. The big difference between the Unsullied here and a real world total eunuch, is that the Unsullied also have been dosed with a drug that has deadened their capacity for feeling pain. It's not a stretch to imagine that also deadened their capacity to be stimulated via alternative erogenous zones. I just wanted to point out that the lack of external organs does NOT mean an inability to have sexual desire or experience sexual stimulation.

Some other bastard names have been mentioned, but I don't know if ALL of them have been mentioned or explicitly identified as regional bastard names (ie: We know that Snow is for the North's Bastards, but I don't know if the show has explicitly linked all the other names without a careful rewatch). I don't think it would be a spoiler at all, anymore than identifying the sigils of houses, but better safe than sorry imo.

Spanish is full of booby-trapped grammar. You can get the spelling correct, but mess up an accent and end up with some rather awkward dialog. "El perro tiene cuatro anos" vs "El perro tiene cuatro años".

If you think back to the scene where Ned resigns as hand, Robert Baratheon received a report that Dany was pregnant. It was this report that caused him to put the assassination bounty on her (and her baby). Thus Jorah's spying was what caused Dany to be targeted by assassins. Though correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't Barristan there at the time too? I'm pretty sure he knew Jorah was spying on Dany all along.