re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

Who do you think Marwyn is?

My best guess is he is a Hightower maybe?

Second guess is he is an Umber

But why on earth would he trust a Tyrell to be on his Kingsgaurd? You know Loras is always going to put glory and power for his family ahead of his Kingsgaurd duties

A theory of mine is that Marwyn sent Satin to the Wall as a spy. Here goes..

I did a search for Oldtown Whores and came up with the Prologue to AFFC. It is said that Marwyn consorts with whores in Oldtown. Could he have been the one to send Satin? I visited AFFC:

Sam chewed on the question for a moment, wondering how much he ought to say. The sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler. Could Maester Aemon have meant this Sphinx? It seemed unlikely. "Lord Commander Snow sent him away to save his life," he began, hesitantly. He spoke awkwardly of King Stannis and Melisandre of Asshai, intending to stop at that, but one thing led to another and he found himself speaking of Mance Rayder and his wildlings, king's blood and dragons, and before he knew what was happening, all the rest came spilling out; the wights at the Fist of First Men, the Other on his dead horse, the murder of the Old Bear at Craster's Keep, Gilly and their flight, Whitetree and Small Paul, Coldhands and the ravens, Jon's becoming lord commander, the Blackbird, Dareon, Braavos, the dragons Xhondo saw in Qarth, the Cinnamon Wind and all that Maester Aemon whispered toward the end. He held back only the secrets that he was sworn to keep, about Bran Stark and his companions and the babes Jon Snow had swapped. "Daenerys is the only hope," he concluded. "Aemon said the Citadel must send her a maester at once, to bring her home to Westeros before it is too late."

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When Sam hesitated, one of those hands grabbed him by the arm and yanked him through the door. The room beyond was large and round. Books and scrolls were everywhere, strewn across the tables and stacked up on the floor in piles four feet high. Faded tapestries and ragged maps covered the stone walls. A fire was burning in the hearth, beneath a copper kettle. Whatever was inside of it smelled burned. Aside from that, the only light came from a tall black candle in the center of the room.

The candle was unpleasantly bright. There was something queer about it. The flame did not flicker, even when Archmaester Marwyn closed the door so hard that papers blew off a nearby table. The light did something strange to colors too. Whites were bright as fresh-fallen snow, yellow shone like gold, reds turned to flame, but the shadows were so black they looked like holes in the world. Sam found himself staring. The candle itself was three feet tall and slender as a sword, ridged and twisted, glittering black. "Is that . . . ?"

". . . obsidian," said the other man in the room, a pale, fleshy, pasty-faced young fellow with round shoulders, soft hands, close-set eyes, and food stains on his robes.

"Call it dragonglass." Archmaester Marwyn glanced at the candle for a moment. "It burns but is not consumed."

"What feeds the flame?" asked Sam.

"What feeds a dragon's fire?" Marwyn seated himself upon a stool. "All Valyrian sorcery was rooted in blood or fire. The sorcerers of the Freehold could see across mountains, seas, and deserts with one of these glass candles. They could enter a man's dreams and give him visions, and speak to one another half a world apart, seated before their candles. Do you think that might be useful, Slayer?"

"We would have no more need of ravens."

"Only after battles." The archmaester peeled a sourleaf off a bale, shoved it in his mouth, and began to chew it. "Tell me all you told our Dornish sphinx. I know much of it and more, but some small parts may have escaped my notice."

So Marwyn is able to see what is happening at the wall. I suppose he could use the candles for this, but does there need to be one at the wall? Did Satin bring it? Has he been corresponding with Marwyn?

Satin always seemed to be exactly what he said he was to me.

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All Valyrian sorcery was rooted in blood or fire.

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So is all "blood magic" and Fire magic (Red God) essentially handed down from Valyria?

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Thoughts on the casting change?

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The Hodors will be confused as frick.

Let's talk about hands. I have about 20% left in my reread of ADWD (did the boiled leather combo read and it was absolutely awesome.) Martin is obsessed with deformed hands:

Jon - burned hand
Jaime - gold hand
Victorian - black hand
Connington - gray hand
Theon - Mangled hand
Cold hands - cold hand
Tyrion - literal darwfed hand

Am I just chasing something that isn't there? Or is Martin foreshadowing something?

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Jon - burned hand
Jaime - gold hand
Victorian - black hand
Connington - gray hand
Theon - Mangled hand
Cold hands - cold hand
Tyrion - literal darwfed hand

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Maybe it ties in with the fact that pretty much everyone who gets appointed hand of the king dies

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