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[Bodeanicus]

And has to the conversation between Varys and Illyrio that Arya overheard, he wasn't speaking literally. He was in admiration of Varys' seemingly supernatural skills. Varys and Illyrio have been partners in crime, literally, since they were adolescents.

[Bodeanicus]

Apparently, there's a theory floating around that Varys is a Targaryen, hence his motive to retore the throne to the Targaryens.

"He shaves his head so his silver hair won't show, just like Egg in those other stories!"

[Slave]

Originally Posted by aresprophet [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The best of these is Jon, since he's now dead. "But Catelyn came back! But Coldhands! But wights! But Beric Dondarion!" and all the people saying this don't realize that rising from the dead in this series is not a good thing. Jon is, at best, a revenant, or a servant of the Red God, or a mindless zombie, or a thrall of the Others. Unless he gets a special plot exclusion for being half of Martin's two-headed author insert, which is entirely possible.

Jon took a graze to the neck, a dagger to the gut, and one to the back. There was a giant there and numerous wildlings to protect him from the rest, thus "He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold..." This is apart from the fact that priests of R'hllor have strange healing powers (see Victarion's hand) and the ability to impart the Breath of Life. Melisandre is on the Wall with Jon, so he is certainly not ended even if his woulds would have otherwise proved mortal. However, the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch is an inauspicious number, and one of the traitors may well be elected to the 999th. The 1000th, of course, shall be Stannis Baratheon when he takes the black over Daenerys's return.