re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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I'm going to be disappointed if Jaime kills Cersei. I'm really hoping that the Valonqar (whoever it is - personally hoping for Tyrion) has their hands around her throat, choking the life out of her, then stops and sends her away from the castle to live her life in cowardice and fear of all she once held herself.

So much of this series has been about deconstructing the most popular fantasy tropes that it seems silly that every prophecy would come true, and given Cersei's paranoia about what Maggie the Frog told her, it would be delicious irony for her to see all her planning and cruel scheming go for naught because the prophecy only had as much power as she gave it.

On a purely selfish level, I really want a physically and emotionally broken Cersei to be crawling through the Riverlands, trying to convince herself that she can regain her lost glory, only to encounter Nymeria, who closes her teeth around her throat in the last sentence of the epilogue.

I saw a really good theory line-of-thought on YouTube by the Order of the Green Hand the other day. It detailed how we've actually seen the original Lightbringer already.

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Brandon of the Bloody Blade was the original Azor Ahai. He tempered the blade in the heart of Rose of Red Lake, creating the first dragonsteel blade the world had ever seen.

Being the father of Brandon the Builder, the blade became the ancestral Stark sword, Ice, and was passed down until the Andal invasions began. At that point a Stark lord took the blade across the sea to raid Andalos and dissuade future invasions, losing it in battle before returning.

The blade would eventually return to Westeros as well, though. This time in the hands of a minor Andal noble family...the Corbrays. Of course, being a new age and new owners the blade needed a new name: Lady Forlorn. It's quite the apt name when you consider the possibilities of its past. One last (probably defining) characteristic to note is the heart-shaped ruby in the pommel.

Draw what conclusions you may, but I found it pretty interesting.

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I'm going to be disappointed if Jaime kills Cersei. I'm really hoping that the Valonqar (whoever it is - personally hoping for Tyrion) has their hands around her throat, choking the life out of her, then stops and sends her away from the castle to live her life in cowardice and fear of all she once held herself.

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Cersei has to die. She is not going to give up until all of her enemies, real or imagined, are dead, and she'll keep on creating new enemies in her own head even if she wins.

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So much of this series has been about deconstructing the most popular fantasy tropes that it seems silly that every prophecy would come true, and given Cersei's paranoia about what Maggie the Frog told her, it would be delicious irony for her to see all her planning and cruel scheming go for naught because the prophecy only had as much power as she gave it.

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Well that's kind of the point with Jaime killing Cersei in this prophesy. It's never remotely crossed her mind that Jaime may be the Valonqar. The second she knew the word, she knew for a fact it was Tyrion. Cersei's obsession with it also led to her killing her friend.

Exactly. The fact that the Ice we see is not the original is stated in the books. So something that predates the Valyrian Freehold and still meant so much to the family is pretty impressive.

I was just doing the rewatch on HBO and something struck me as odd. When Ramsey is torturing Theon and making him guess who he is, shouldn't it be easy for Theon to know that it's Ramsey since he's being flayed? Something that he's well know for?

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So much for the book coming out in 2017

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There's still time.

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There's still time.

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I believe!