re: Game of Thrones S6:E6 "Blood of My Blood" (reader thread) (NO LEAKS!)

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Is it just me or do the Tarly's have the best castle in the 7 kingdoms?

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Yeah, I was a bit surprised about that. I always imagined Horn Hill to be the crappiest castle in the Reach and for it to be more of a Northern-like house in appearance. That kicks the crap out of Winterfell.

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people who are ahead somehow hold back with their comments please?

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Sounds like we need another weekly thread.

GOT Episode 7 BOOK READERS (but only people who are a couple scenes ahead of everyone else.)

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I'm assuming the 3ER is the one responsible. He was trying to tell Aerys about the White Walkers and that he needed to burn them all, but he couldn't quite converse with him through his visions like he wanted to. It ended up just fricking Aerys up mentally.

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That is just ridiculous to me and destroys his character. Aerys and Aerys alone is responsible for his madness. Yes people like Tywin and Duskindale helped him get to that point, but he was responsible at the end for all the horrible things he did as King.

The "Burn the All" really makes no sense for the warging purpose. That was at the very end of his life, he rigged the city to blow, and it was a direct command. It's not like Hodor. And if the Three Eyed Raven really warged into him, I'm almost sure Aerys would have heavily invested in the Wall.

So if Benjen was changed into Coldhands by the CoF in the same way that the Night's King was, why isn't he some crazy White Walker going around raising the dead and killing people? I guess they worked out the kinks from the last time?

That's what I thought at first, but I guess not after what happened with Jamie. She did a big 180 in a week it seems

and Cercei seemed weirdly okay with Jamie leaving and at what happened

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If I had to guess, the Others have a hive-like mind.

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The other White Walkers maybe, but I don't see the Night's King being part of a hive-like mind. And as far as we know, the Night's King is the only Other that was created by having dragon glass shoved into his chest. I would think that Benjen should've turned out the same way. Maybe because he was already dead or something changed how he turned out?

Jamie, Blackfish, the Freys, the Brotherhood Without Banners and soon to be Brienne all in the Riverlands... LSH is happening you guys

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The other White Walkers maybe, but I don't see the Night's King being part of a hive-like mind.

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I see him, for better lack of a word, the queen of the hive mind. They do what he says. The Others have some free will, but they always must obey him.

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I would think that Benjen should've turned out the same way. Maybe because he was already dead or something changed how he turned out?

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I think the initial curse of the Others was to have the dead follow him and obey his orders unquestionably. This just spiraled out of control, not to mention they took someone against his will. They just didn't give Benjen this power they imbued with the Night's King.

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Not that I disagree, but things are certainly starting to add up to Bran or 3ER being the cause for Aerys ultimate demise.

If that's the case, I'm just hoping it's the 3ER failing to warg in to Aerys or talk to him in a vision instead of it being another Bran vision that gets side tracked because they're under attack or something.

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Well, we just see it. I think if you can blame the Aerys Madness on 3ER, you can literally blame any event on the 3ER. There would be no free will in this universe. It completely cheapens the story if one of the main catalysts wasn't responsible for his actions at all the whole time.