821

Five-ish years per book is the schedule that he did for Feast and for Dragons, so you can expect the next one around 2016-17-- around the time that the show would have caught up anyway,

822

In that same interview he said that he never does any writing during football season. I’m just like…damn, football doesn’t last all day every day.

823

Are the books worth picking up and reading? I fucking love this show.

824

He sounds like a prick to be honest.

825

You’re like the 3rd person today who I’ve seen suggest this. Where are you guys getting this idea? To me, there is nothing so far that suggests this.

826

[LIST]
[]Syrio is from Braavos
[]Syrio is a strong fighter
[]we don’t see what happens to him after the 4 guards tried to capture him in season 1
[]we first see Jaqen captured
[]Jaqen is also from Braavos and is a strong fighter
[]Jaqen is a shapeshifter
[/LIST]
the shapeshifting thing is what gets me. also Jacqen seems to want to train Arya or have her trained by all their people.

827

Books are the best fantasy series currently, but you’ll be stuck waiting on book six like the rest of us.

Seen it suggested a lot. For ASOIAF, Syrio wasn’t killed on screen, Jaquen showing up immediately afterward, both being Bravosi, and some other shit. It seems like a stretch to me (why would he have been there in the first place? Why is he there now even, since faceless men are expensive as shit to hire to kill people and who would need to die in westeros?) but who knows.

828

There are many people from Braavos.

Jaqen Spoiler

[details=Spoiler]Jaqen is not a shapeshifter. The show made it seem like magic when he changed his face, but there is more to it than that (and it has do to with cutting off faces). A faceless man does have magic, but it isn’t shape shifting. Jaqen wants Arya to be trained because she has many “names” to offer up to their god.

Jaqen is just the identity of a criminal that “Jaqen” took over. As a faceless man, he takes on many identities (for the purpose of killing people). If he ever was Syrio, then the real Syrio was already dead.[/details]

829

I thought I was the only one

830

ahh, that makes sense :tup:

831

So who was he in westeros to kill? Will we ever find out?

832

some questions. haven’t read the books yet

  1. what was the point of daenarys having those visions? also does daenarys own qarth now?
  2. are the wight walkers marching south?
833

thank you… cause i had the same feeling like arya like how are you doing this. Do you care to tell more on what happens between the two of them (spoiler set obviously)…

834

Jaqen and Arya future spoilers

[details=Spoiler] Since Jaqen is a faceless man, it is hard to say for 100% that he is still in the books. Later on, there is a faceless man with the same face that Jaqen had at the end, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it is the same person. The faceless men do have some magic, and part of their magic includes absorbing the memories and feelings of the face they are wearing.

Arya goes to Braavos in order to find Jaqen. She joins the guild, and is being trained to become a faceless man. When Arya asks if anyone knows Jaqen, no one at the guild admits to knowing who Jaqen is.[/details]

835

He doesn’t write during trips either. Even during downtime.

Basically Dance was a huge homework assignment to him, an unwelcome chore that he felt obligated to finish. And it shows.

836

I feel like the visions were meant to try and ‘tempt’ Dany. First the Iron Throne, covered in snow (or ash?) and sitting silent amidst ruin. I hope that’s some foreshadowing of the Others sweeping all of Westeros!
Then you have Khal Drogo and her child, another temptation.

Scene with the dragons could have been done a little better imo. It felt a little too easy and anti climactic. She should have been tied in ropes or something, and the guy should have been near her leering or gloating.
Dracarys, etc.
Then she’s engulfed in flames as her dragons burn all over her, including the guy. She is completely unharmed obviously and laughs as it happens.
This would have demonstrated her ‘magic’ a little bit more clearly and made it less ‘easy’ looking that she defeated baldie

837

Pretty sure the Faceless men…

spoilers!

[details=Spoiler]are responsible for killing Balon Greyjoy at the least. possibly others. This is heavily implied by the old crone and her dreams that heavily foreshadow what happens in Storm of Swords.

“I dreamt of a man without a face, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings.”
*[/details]
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838
Spoiler

I mean I thought it was pretty clear that was what happened with Balon Greyjoy. But then the real mystery is… who wished it to happen in the first place? It has to be somebody who wishes it, correct? Possibly as a dying wish?

Was it Euron who somehow has the Faceless men as his personal servants?

839

Euron Greyjoy

[details=Spoiler] It’s heavily implied Euron was responsible for killing Balon. Euron’s nickname is Crow’s Eye and the faceless man has a ‘drowned crow’ hanging on his shoulder. Furthermore, Euron has spent a lot of time sailing in the east and has been gone for years - then suddenly he shows up immediately when there’s a vacancy on the throne?

The Faceless Men are an assassin group, not a charity killing group. They cost a lot of money, but if you can afford it, they’ll kill whoever. So it seems pretty obvious that Euron hired them to kill Balon.[/details]

840

Euron Greyjoy

[details=Spoiler]The crows eye paid the Faceless for Balon’s life with a dragon egg (the one he claims he tossed into the ocean). Now the Faceless men have a mole in the citadel, looking for a book on dragons to hatch their own to fight dany’s three.

It is known[/details]

well, or maybe I just made that all up, but its plausible.