re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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I could get behind this, but I have not read enough to know; can the stone men talk? They seemed very zombie-like in the episode.


I thought they were just men with greyscale all over so they were sent to Valyria to live out their days instead of spreading the disease. I would think they could speak but they are just not kind to outsiders. If Dany comes flying into Valyria on Drogon's back, they might see her as coming home instead of an outsider and take to her like the slaves did.

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In the book, the stone men weren't sent to Valyria. They inhabited one of the ruined cities along the Rhoyne that had been destroyed by the Dothraki centuries before.

Also, they only go mad once the disease progresses past a certain point. Sherreen, Jorah, nor Connington haven't gotten there yet