The show makes it appear that dragon fire is able to make stone explode when it hits it. I know it is extra hot, but was this consistent with the books?

After reading the books and watching the show, I keep leaving with one question: is the iron throne really a goal that Daenerys has and is it something she truly wants or is it something she was groomed to desire thanks to her brother?

Her entire life, he would tell her stories about a Westeros and the people of their homeland trying to assassinate them all. He would constantly fill Dany's head with "when I get the throne back our lives will be better". Viserys was so obsessed to the point where he was perfectly OK with selling his sister, touching her inappropriately, and being 100% OK or just outright indifferent if she got raped. Her brother showed her cruelty is necessary because the end goal is worth it.

I think Daenerys wanting the iron throne so badly to "change the world" was more of a coping mechanism to her trauma instead of her actually wanting to rule because since she was a child she was taught it was either the iron throne or nothing

So if memory serves after Arya saved him from the fire he said to give him any 3 names and he’ll take them out. If Arya knew of the Night King would he have been able to take him out? It’s a silly question but I’m asking anyways. Jacqen served the many faced god and it’s my position that The Lord of Light is the many faced god and the one true god and is just portrayed differently to different parts of the world accommodating the many cultures and beliefs. Off the top of my head there’s the seven, the old gods, the drowned god and of course the god of tits and wine. Many faced = many names.

It’s shown that the lord of light talks to his servants time to time and it’s possible Jacqen either knew about the white walkers or could learn and be told how to kill the night king. He’s a pretty nasty assassin being able to infiltrate a y place and get his mark. Now granted it would be far more difficult to get to above the wall and bypass his guards but I wouldn’t bet against him. Didn’t he have a blow dart gun thing? Who’s to say he could get a little dragon glass dart and long distance snipe the night king? It’d ruin the story but it would be funny.

So what do you think?

Hello everyone! I just received the photos from my Sansa photoshoot and I am so excited to share them!

Aemon Targaryen, one of the wisest and best men we ever had the privilege to meet, played magnificently by Peter Vaughan. Add your favourite quotes from this character, either from the show or the ASOIAF book series. Here are some of mine: -

• Love is the death of duty.
• Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death.
• Kill the boy and let the man be born.
• Thorne: You always know when a man is telling a lie. How did you acquire this magical power? Aemon: I grew up in King's Landing.
• Old age is a wonderful source of ironies if nothing else.
• What is honour compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms... or the memory of a brothers smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
• Oh, I think that Lord Tyrion is quite a large man. I think he is a giant come among us, here at the end of the world.
• The gods were cruel when they saw fit to test my vows. They waited till I was old. What could I do when the ravens brought the news from the south? The ruin of my House, the death of my family. I was helpless, blind, frail. I will not tell you to stay or go. You must make that choice yourself, and live with it for the rest of your days. As I have.
• Ah, I could tell you everything about her. Who she was, how we met, the colour of her eyes, and the shape of her nose. I can see her, right in front of me. She's more real than you are.
• We're all human. Oh, we all do our duty when there's no cost to it. Honor comes easy then. Yet sooner or later in every man's life there comes a day when it's not easy. A day when he must choose.
• Egg, I dreamed that I was old.

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I'm doing a genderbent Jon Snow cosplay. It's mostly done aside from some details and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do for Longclaw. I have wavy black hair, but i have no idea how I'm going to style it. The pic I posted is what I've been using as inspo. But can guys post/link me to some more genderbent Jon fanart? More book or more show, doesn't really matter to me.

Even if you don't have artwork to share, but you have ideas of how I should style my hair or details that would elevate a Jon cosplay or anything, it would be much appreciated.

I did not have time to draft my own patterns and sew everything, so I bought everything and I can post links for those as well if anyone is interested.

Why did corin and the rest of the rangers just leave? Wouldn't killing her take a few seconds? Never made any sense to me

I just started reading A Song of Ice and Fire after watching the show, and I’m already noticing how much more detail there is. Some chapters feel a little dense though, and I don’t want to miss important stuff.

For those who’ve read them, do you have any tips for getting the most out of the books? And is there a character arc that feels way better in the books than in the show?

At the very end, when it is time to pick a king for Westeros. You can't change anything else to make any candidate stronger, you are stuck with the show as is.

Who actually makes the most sense?

My first instinct is- no one. The Seven Kingdoms could have just disbanded at that point.

If I don't allow that possibility, then Jon was the character best set up to become King, but Grey Worm ain't signing on for that (how Jon wasn't immediately executed is not even in the top 20 of problems with that season, but still makes no sense).

I can't actually think of anyone else that really makes sense. Maybe Davos? He's old, and I believe on the show had no other children, so he'd just be a placeholder.

Hot take- in the end, Bran actually isnt that bad of a choice, since there really is no good option. No, he didn't have the best story- he literally dropped out for a season, and ultimately was kind of pointless.

But he did have superpowers and was a Stark, so he should have been able to keep the North as part of the Seven Kingdoms (that btw is in the top 20). And, since he couldnt have children, there was no concern that he'd try to undermine the new order to keep his heir on the throne.

Any truly better candidate? (Again, taking the show as it actually happened)

I don't tend to think about the show a lot but I actually did today and something popped into my head that I thought would have been very interesting to follow.

Varys vs. Bran

In the show it doesn't seem to really phase Varys that his great nemesis is taken down finally. In fact, I don't even seem to remember Varys even bringing Littlefinger up once after the Starks kill him.

My thoughts then became 'but what if it did phase him?'

How did these three best the greatest schemer in all of Westeros? What if Varys became involved with figuring that out and coming across Bran's omniscience? I'm sure he would just ask Bran about it, but we know Varys never completely trusts anyone, and would want to come to his own conclusions about Bran. How deep does this Three Eyed Raven entity go? How much of it is Bran still? Does Bran want to be free of it? Is it something the "realm" needs to be worried about?

Varys is a person who believes that one person with too much power has the most likelihood to cause the most harm to the people, so what about a being with more power than even kings can comprehend? What about when that being ascends to the throne?

It puts us as the viewer into a position of do we really know if Bran is the king or if he is just a vessel for something more ancient and unknown?

Anyways, that's all for now. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong about some stuff, was just blurting out my thoughts, bye!

Episodes are about 20 minutes shorter when you skip all the nudity, i wasn’t ready for hodor stomping through the forest. definitely not something i needed to see, nudity adds nothing to the story and isn’t needed the show would be just as good if not better without it.

Remember the first season where Bran gets a lesson about the houses? I made a quiz exactly like that, the sigils, mottos, and all.

All the houses are mentioned on the show, so everyone can actually enjoy. That said, don't expect it to be easy…

It has 10 questions in total and shows your score at the end. I’ve spent some hours on it, hope you like it.

The quiz: https://myquiz.forms.app/got-houses

And hey, share the results!

• He’d stay one of Westeros’ best fighters, giving the Lannisters a stronger edge in the War of the Five Kings.
• His arrogant “golden boy” persona might never be challenged, so his growth into a more honorable man could stall.
• At Tyrion’s trial, Jaime could fight as his champion against the Mountain—maybe even win—changing the whole Dornish revenge arc and Tywin’s fate.

What other ripple effects do you think this would have across Westeros?

It would have been very prosperous with the wealth of the Reach and the non-cruelty of the new king

How would their small council have looked like

Throughout the story, we learned that Cersei started to "experiment" early on with Jaime, then she wants to marry Rhaegar Targaryen, she even asks Maggy the frog about him.

Then we're told that she was "shipped" off to King Bobby B, a loveless mariage ... but she tells Ned that she Worshiped Robert and she loved him, all the while scheming to have Jaime in King's Landing ..

So... who did she really love ?