re: GoT S7 E5 "Eastwatch" MAESTERS THREAD

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If Cersei could she would send whoever with wildfire and burn
that bitch down.

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This has potential. Cersei is about to be besieged by a 100,000 strong army, playing the wating game to starve her out. No risking the dragons taking a stray ballista bolt, when she has no food and nobody can bring it in.

How to break the siege- break the Wall, let the Night King come in and wreck shite in the North. That eliminates the North's threat to her, and forces Dany to turn her forces around. She can either go North and help her new allies, or hold the line against the Night King on the plains (where the Dothraki and dragons could be more effective), and leave her back exposed to King's Landing. And Qyburn would likely say he has enough wildfire to successfully defend the castle from the dead, so suddenly the advantage would shift (at least, in her mind).