{"id":614,"date":"2017-07-19T21:37:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T21:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/?p=614"},"modified":"2017-07-19T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T22:03:18","slug":"how-game-of-thrones-will-end-massive-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"How Game of Thrones will end *massive spoilers*"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been meaning to write this one for a while now, but the first episode of season 7 really confirmed all my major theories about the story arc.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s begin, like season 7, with Arya.\u00a0 The interesting thing about Arya\u2019s mass-assassination of the Freys \u00a0is she says “Tell them Winter came for them.”\u00a0 This gives it away.\u00a0 Arya, by taking a face of the dead to haunt the living, mimics the tactics of the Night King.\u00a0 Like the Night King, her vengeance can be all-reaching.\u00a0 And the faceless men are much like the zombie hordes \u2013 nameless, faceless, with one singular purpose.\u00a0 This is how the story segues from the battle among the kingdoms to the battle with the Night King.\u00a0 This may also have to do with anything the Faceless Men do in the Stronghold.\u00a0 Surely they must research the origins of their magic and how they can find deliverance from the Night King.\u00a0 But enough about that.<\/p>\n

I also figured Arya would be the one to assassinate Cersei.\u00a0 But I\u2019m surprised nobody else has mentioned my angle, that taking the face of Walter Frey is a foreshadowing of how she\u2019ll do it.\u00a0 Cersei\u2019s madness is onsetting, as her conversation with Jaime attests.\u00a0 She will surely suspect he is to repeat history and be King(Queen)slayer yet again, and off him before he gets a chance.\u00a0 Arya will then use his face to haunt her, claiming he\u2019s back from the dead.\u00a0 This weakness for Jaime and what she\u2019s done will let Arya kill her easily.<\/p>\n

But not without massive guilt.\u00a0 You know, the kind that will have the Night King come straight for her.<\/p>\n

Notice in the \u201cnext episode\u201d teaser, Arya encounters her dire wolf again.\u00a0 She\u2019s the only Stark who really still needs her Dire Wolf, which is a sort of Patronus for the children to help see them through their innocent years.\u00a0 Contrast it with Sansa\u2019s dire wolf, which gets offed pretty quickly \u2013 forcing her to grow up quickly and face the reality of grownup politics.<\/p>\n

Arya has been an innocent child trapped in the machinations of grownups her whole life.\u00a0 She thought she met a nice guy in Jaquen H\u2019Ghar, but he\u2019s really just an agent for the Iron Bank.\u00a0 Her assassination of Cersei was something planned by the Bank, because the Lannisters couldn\u2019t pay their debts<\/a>.\u00a0 Once the assassination is complete she is of new use to them and her downward spiral will be quick.<\/p>\n

Some suggest she might warg into her Dire Wolf to avoid being taken by the Night King.\u00a0 I find this a fitting bittersweet ending \u2013 her eternal innocence saved by melding with the spirit of the wild.<\/p>\n

Now \u2013 how will the war play out?\u00a0 The Iron Bank and Cersei gives a good clue into how the Kingdoms will spar.\u00a0 The secret to the crown is nobody has a monopoly on it.\u00a0 Each kingdom has a certain dimension of power and stake in it:<\/p>\n

Braavos: purse (Iron Bank)
\nIronborn: navy (ironborn fleet)
\nMereen: army (unsullied)
\nDorn: fertility (Elia Martell)
\nWesteros\/Tyrells: food
\nVale: knights
\nNorth: popularity\/memory<\/p>\n

If you take a closer look at the seven aspects of the Septem, you will probably be able to chart a simple 1-1 ratio between these dimensions.\u00a0 The Septem therefore becomes the spiritual recording of this ancient connection between the kingdoms. \u00a0Cersei’s destruction of the Septem destroys the old shadow of this relationship, and paves the way for it to be rebuilt anew.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s how they will play out, and they will only find a resolution when each kingdom finds its proper role restored in the crown, whoever manages it.<\/p>\n

Now, as to Jon Snow.\u00a0 We know he\u2019s special.\u00a0 I think he\u2019s Azor Ahai.\u00a0 If you remember, Aegon Targaryen had two sister wives.\u00a0 Jon Snow has two living half sisters \u2013 Sansa Stark and Danerys Targaryen.\u00a0 Ice and Fire.\u00a0 He will ride the dragons with them against the Night King.<\/p>\n

Of course, Snow will also need a badass flaming Valyrian sword.\u00a0 He will get it \u2013 through the willing sacrifice of the Red Priestess.\u00a0 She will find redemption for her life of error only by becoming the fiery spirit of the sword.<\/p>\n

I always found Sansa\u2019s development to be beautifully understated.\u00a0 As is the nature of ice.\u00a0 We already see her cold calculating command in this first episode.\u00a0 She knows exactly what Baelish wants and knows how to control him with it.\u00a0 Baelish, the man nobody else trusts.\u00a0 She is the perfect counterpart to Danerys\u2019s fiery temperament.<\/p>\n

More in a bit.<\/p>\n

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Been meaning to write this one for a while now, but the first episode of season 7 really confirmed all my major theories about the story arc. Let\u2019s begin, like season 7, with Arya.\u00a0 The interesting thing about Arya\u2019s mass-assassination of the Freys \u00a0is she says “Tell them Winter came for them.”\u00a0 This gives it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[379,376,313,380,378,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}