Tyrion didn’t murder Joffrey either. No, this was him trying to inflict maximum emotional harm to Jaime in return for what Jaime told him about Tysha.
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If Aegon takes King’s Landing while Stannis is stuck up north, does the Iron Bank cut their losses and try to collect the throne’s old debt from him instead? Presumably Stannis has assumed personal responsibility for the debt in exchange for the loan. Would/could he have negotiated some sort of reciprocity clause obligating them to not recognize any rival claimants?
Well, the nice thing about being the Iron Bank is that you can offer to get rid of pesky rivals in return for prompt payments – hitting people with the carrot and enticing them with the stick, as it were.
I’m sure Stannis would have liked to have that sort of clause, but he wasn’t in a position to insist.
Is Moon Boy really a spy for Varys, or is that disinformation Dontos was fed by Littlefinger?
Wouldn’t surprise me. All the jesters in ASOIAF/WOIAF have hidden depths.
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Sansa I, ASOS
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Sansa I, ASOS
“The old woman smelled of rosewater. Why, she’s just the littlest bit of a thing. There was nothing the least bit thorny about her.”
Synopsis: Sansa meets ALL THE TYRELLS Margaery and the Queen of Thorns.
SPOILER WARNING: This chapter analysis, and all following, will contain spoilers for all Song of Ice and Fire novels and Game of Thrones episodes. Caveat lector.
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do you think the dornish are so unified because of the legacy of the rhoynar princes being so independent and fighting alone. That Nymeria saw that and wanted to build her new nation differently and get everyone to buy into a collective whole and that they weren’t first men, andals and rhoynar they were dornish, and her descendants carried that on?
That’s part of it, no doubt. I personally think that the unification expanded considerably following the First War, as the experience of common sacrifice against a foreign invader would have damped down Stony vs. Salty tensions considerably.
Do you think; when the gods flipped the coin for Daemon Targareyen, it landed on it’s edge? A great and brilliant man but also a mad ambitious monster. What do you imagine created and shaped his personality in such a way? The death of his father? growing up in the shadow of his wise grandfather and beloved elder brother?
I don’t think the coin landed on its edge when it came to Daemon; I think it bounced off the god-hand and flipped into a vial of hydrochloric acid.
This vat, specifically:
In Girl Genius, what do you think happened to Agatha’s family? Do you think Agatha’s mom is really the Other? Love the blog btw!
Glad you like it! Theories below the cut:
I think Lucrezia is definitely the Other, but became so due to the combination of her experiments in personality transfer and transfer of consciousness across mechanical/biological divides AND a stable time-travel loop. So in other words, while Lucrezia blew up the castle it might not have been the Lucrezia from that point in time. I’m pretty sure that Lucrezia was planning to transfer her consciousness into Agatha, either/both to undone the damage done that turned her into RoboLucrezia or to put her in a Heterodyne body so she could gain access to the secrets of the Heterodynes.
Bill I think either died or went mad or both in the futile effort to reclaim his wife from her kidnapper (who was in fact, his wife). Barry took Agatha back from the Other’s hideout to keep her safe from her mother, which is why he gave her the locket.
Would it have ever been a good idea for a Targaryen king to conquer the lands north of the Wall? It would make the NW’s job easier, the land is free, and it gives the knights of the realm the chance to fight “barbarians at the end of the world”, which would sound pretty cool to them wouldn’t it? And how about the Stepstones?
No, it’s a terrible idea, for two reasons.
First, the Night’s Watch. It actually makes their work more difficult. A small number of men can hold a permanent defensive structure, but they can’t occupy a huge wilderness against a much larger hostile population who can now freely engage in guerilla warfare.
Second, the land: it’s mostly worthless, being too far north and too cold to be arable except for the valley of the Thenns. So you’re expending huge amounts of blood and treasure for little reward.
What kind of cultural traditions do you think the Dornish have around water?
I had some thoughts here.
Of all the locations we know of but will probably never see in the books, which would you most like to have fleshed out via a “Dunk and Egg” style novella?
Hmm, I’m more interested in lore than locations, per se – I want to get a better picture of House Stark’s history from the “She-Wolves of Winterfell,” a better understanding of the Bracken-Blackwood feud and the history of the Riverlands from “Village Hero,” what happened during the 3rd Blackfyre Rebellion, and what Aegon V’s reforms were.
But in terms of locations we won’t see – probably Summerhall?
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