Tag: Catelyn Stark

Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Catelyn III, ASOS

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“Outside the thunder crashed and boomed, so loud it sounded as if the castle were coming down about their ears. Is this the sound of a kingdom falling?” Synopsis: Rickard Karstark commits suicide in an extremely elaborate fashion. 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. (more…)

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So I checked, and you don’t seem to have covered this in your What-ifs in your Game of Thrones chapter analyses, but there is one scene in Catelyn’s earliest chapters (if not the very first one), in which Catelyn is reflecting after having sex with her husband, that she was still young enough to have another child. I’m curious of the possible ramifications if she had in fact gotten pregnant, provided there’s enough time between GoT and CoK for her to give birth, and how they might differ based

(Catelyn with child what-if, cont.) (2) on what gender the child was. I could easily see the Freys choosing not to kill him/her, and instead raise it to be a pro-Frey Stark. On the other hand, Tywin might have demanded the baby handed over to be raised as a ward of the Lannisters.

If Catelyn got pregnant in Catelyn II of AGOT, she would have given birth roughly around Catelyn I of ACOK. This has some pretty wild ramifications:

  • first and most obviously, she’s not going to Bitterbridge and Storm’s End having just given birth – Robb’s going to send someone else. This has substantial knock-on effects for Brienne of Tarth, which in turn reduces the odds that Jaime will be released.
  • Second, if her child is a boy, the Red Wedding loses a good deal of its political purpose, because the Stark/Tully forces will have a boy king to rally around. 
  • Third, no way in hell Blackfish lets his niece and his king become Lannister prisoners. 

Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Catelyn II, ASOS

Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Catelyn II, ASOS

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“It was the moment she had dreamt of and dreaded. Have I lost two sons, or three?”
Synopsis: “No I would not give no false hope/On this strange and mournful day/But the mother and child reunion/Is only a motion away…”
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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Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Catelyn I, ASOS

Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Catelyn I, ASOS

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She was a widow, a traitor, a grieving mother, and wise, wise in the ways of the world. Synopsis: Catelyn is put under house arrest at her own urging, comes to a realization about her father, gets some news about Robb, and gets into a fight with Edmure. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way… SPOILER WARNING: This chapter analysis, and all following, will…

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Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Catelyn IV, ACOK

Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Catelyn IV, ACOK

“She thought she glimpsed movement, but when she turned her head, it was only the king’s shadow shifting against the silken walls. She heard Renly begin a jest, his shadow moving, lifting its sword, black on green, candles guttering, shivering, something was queer, wrong, and then she saw Renly’s sword was still in its scabbard, sheathed still, but the shadowsword…the steel of his gorget parted…

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