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Thunder Moose posted:

Game of Thrones spoiler

Do you think Jon is staying dead? I say no because Melisandre conveniently just arrived and priests of R'hllor have been known to revive the dead like Beric Dondarian. I also am intrigued by the new theory that Meerja is in fact Jon's twin.

no he's the son of lyssa stark and rhaegar targaryen

its genre fiction and certainly is really hosed up, I read the first books when I was tiny and followed the series forever... so i will discuss it with you if you want, but be aware we'll have to deal with people jeering and throwing rotten fruit at us and stuff...

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dune is better imo. if he's good at anything it's consistency in like 100+ characters, he must use some kind of organizational system to keep their locations and stuff together...

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Thunder Moose posted:

yeah the story is that hes their son but if you recall Howland Reed was the only other person besides Ned to see Lyssa in the Tower of Joy and the only other person who knows "the truth." then you look at his daughter, Meerja - who looks nothing like her brother but a lot like Jon Snow and is incidentally the same age. So we might be looking at a Luke/Leia Skywalker thing wherein Ned and Howland take Lysaa's twins as their own - dividing the pair to erase any possibility that the dots are connected by those who would not want to see the twins live.

that seems highly possibly right

it's meera not meerja though. they were born in the same year and howland reed had been campaigning during robert's rebellion since 282 after the tourney at harrenhall, it seems unlikely he made it back to greywater watch in order to actually be possibly a parent again. a lot of the reasons ned is unlikely to be jon's father are the same reasons howland is unlikely to be meera's. and they were both born in 283, second year of robert's rebellion.

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oh, that makes one nagging thing a lot more clear. 'the dragon has three heads'. I knew dany would be one, and jon the other, but the third was still confusing. at first I thought it'd be aegon but it seems really unlikely that he is who they say he is. but if meera and jon are the other two heads, then dany's the third. nice and clean. but yeah I do think jon's going to get brought back to life though probably not with a pulse.

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just went through my ebooks confirming that description of the high septon. dang. I had a visual idea that he was actually quite tall. other than all that though, he seems too old to be Howland Reed, who should be just in his 30s at most? there's no physical description of howland reed short of him being young and slight in the tourney story jojen tells, but it seems like the completely grey-haired high sparrow would be too old to be reed. i admit the strange correlations in the description are interesting though

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gently caress. marry. t-rex posted:

Didn't they take Griff out of the HBO show?

doesn't seem like they're doing any part of the aegon griff storyline, another reason to suspect it's probably all a dead end anyway

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Bwee posted:

Please don't use spoiler tags

i'd rather spare anyone who doesn't want to know any details about this stuff but because you asked I will stop using them

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check out this incredibly insane fan's theory:

http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/96129-corn-code-revision-8-the-game-of-thrones-exposed/

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TWIST FIST posted:

security drone which game of thrones character am i

Victarion Greyjoy because you are a peerless warrior

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gently caress. marry. t-rex posted:

Strap in because nothing happens in the last 2000 pages of novels he's written

This is very true. The entire Quentin Martell arc is literally just him wringing his hands, whining, and then dying of full-body burns having accomplished nothing and he's a huge plot line. Most of everything that happens in the last 2 books is pretty pointless.

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