" When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."
Thus goes the driving line of The Song Of Ice And Fire by George.R.R.Martin. Five books down, two more to go and everyone seems to be dying. Statutory warning - this is not a review - this is theorizing on where the series is going - so spoiler alert would be a gross understatement.
Taking stock of them as would be Kings or Queens -
Baratheon
Robert, Renly - dead and Stannis reportedly dead.
Joffrey, Tommen, Myrcella - not Baratheon.
Lannister
Tywin, Kevan dead.
Jaime missing and seems to be unsympathetic to Cersei by now. Might die shortly.
Cersei is a blithering idiot. Period.
Tyrion - alive. But now what? Lead the sellswords to Westros and join Connington? Go to Dorne?
Greyjoy
Euron - lacks the numbers to do anything to Westros. Will be a persistent pain in the ass till someone kills him. Assuming Victarion is going to do the honours.
Victarion - Almost at Mereen. Caught in between gods of sea and fire??
Theon - Will have some part to play but no chance of fighting or producing children to complicate matters if he dies.
Asha - God knows and GRRM (hopefully).
Stark
Ned, Robb - dead
Cat also dead but still active.
Sansa - alive. High chances of getting raped/married by Littlefinger though not necessarily in that order. Alternatively Littlefinger might discover hitherto unsuspected reserves of good and decide to be a knight in shining armour and remain father figure with slight groping tendencies.
Arya - alive. Will emerge key player.
Bran - alive. Another key player but not in the Game of Thrones. He looks like he is being groomed towards the battle beyond the wall.
Rickon - alive. Brat. Has shown no talents so far. But heir apparent.
Jon - stabbed. I don't think dead. Too important to die so tame a death.
Benjen - Presumed dead. Coldhands?
Targaryen
Rhaegar - hopefully dead - nowadays it is becoming extremely difficult to be sure.
Daenerys - Alive and will remain so. Else why the dragons? Loose motion might have been from eating the berries. Cant be the water. She had been drinking the water before as well.
Aegeon - Newbie. Apparently groomed to be king. Being backed by almost all the intelligence of Westros.
Thus goes the driving line of The Song Of Ice And Fire by George.R.R.Martin. Five books down, two more to go and everyone seems to be dying. Statutory warning - this is not a review - this is theorizing on where the series is going - so spoiler alert would be a gross understatement.
Taking stock of them as would be Kings or Queens -
Baratheon
Robert, Renly - dead and Stannis reportedly dead.
Joffrey, Tommen, Myrcella - not Baratheon.
Lannister
Tywin, Kevan dead.
Jaime missing and seems to be unsympathetic to Cersei by now. Might die shortly.
Cersei is a blithering idiot. Period.
Tyrion - alive. But now what? Lead the sellswords to Westros and join Connington? Go to Dorne?
Greyjoy
Euron - lacks the numbers to do anything to Westros. Will be a persistent pain in the ass till someone kills him. Assuming Victarion is going to do the honours.
Victarion - Almost at Mereen. Caught in between gods of sea and fire??
Theon - Will have some part to play but no chance of fighting or producing children to complicate matters if he dies.
Asha - God knows and GRRM (hopefully).
Stark
Ned, Robb - dead
Cat also dead but still active.
Sansa - alive. High chances of getting raped/married by Littlefinger though not necessarily in that order. Alternatively Littlefinger might discover hitherto unsuspected reserves of good and decide to be a knight in shining armour and remain father figure with slight groping tendencies.
Arya - alive. Will emerge key player.
Bran - alive. Another key player but not in the Game of Thrones. He looks like he is being groomed towards the battle beyond the wall.
Rickon - alive. Brat. Has shown no talents so far. But heir apparent.
Jon - stabbed. I don't think dead. Too important to die so tame a death.
Benjen - Presumed dead. Coldhands?
Targaryen
Rhaegar - hopefully dead - nowadays it is becoming extremely difficult to be sure.
Daenerys - Alive and will remain so. Else why the dragons? Loose motion might have been from eating the berries. Cant be the water. She had been drinking the water before as well.
Aegeon - Newbie. Apparently groomed to be king. Being backed by almost all the intelligence of Westros.
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