Maegor Targaryen (son of Aerion Brightflame) is the representative of the House of the Morning and Evening Star.
It would fit with his age, hinted birthplace, color scheme, features that seem familiar to Gregor Clegane (and which Chataya takes for Lysene, i.e. Valyrian), and one of his relatives says his name “is a fright.”(Incidentally, he recognizes Gregor Clegane's Stone alias as the bastard name of the Vale; Maegor's maternal grandmother was an Arryn.)
The House itself could be a merger between his family and that of Elaena "Evenstar" Blackfyre, comprising the Brightstars and the Nightstars respectively.
He describes alcohol as a "family evil" when refusing a drink, and several of the worst Targaryens, like Brightflame (who died during an Alcohol-Induced Idiocy moment), Aegon II, and Aegon IV, were fond of drinking.
If so, then Shierak Rahsan's given name is Maegi.
It would be a reasonable guess at a feminine form of Maegor, but it's not a "real name" like i.e. Maegelle would have been. And it would also be a word that, as she claims, Drogo wouldn't like to hear.The Widow-All-In-White is Daena "the Devil" Blackfyre.
- Salladhor Saan describes the Widow, his aunt by marriage, as a "camp follower" (with a significant pause) of the Golden Company, and the daughter of "a Westerosi knight [and] the grandchild of an Archon of Tyrosh." This description fits Daena's parents, Gaemon and Gael Blackfyre, though it would elide that, being siblings, they were both grandchildren of the Archon (their mother Rohanne's father).
- The Widow was close enough to Maelys Blackfyre that Samarro Saan went to him to ask for her hand in marriage. Daena was Maelys's heir and the one to crown the Ninepenny Kings.
- When Davos references the difficult relationship between the Brightflowers siblings, the Widow mentions she also had a brother, implying her relationship with him was also difficult. Daena openly celebrated when Maelys killed her brother Daemon.
- The Widow speaks High Valyrian, as Septon Balerion recollects from the peace talks; he echoes the nickname of "the Devil" when he refers to her as a "hellion."
- The Eldest Daughter refers to the Widow as "the Dauntless," which could be an alternative, more flattering alliterative epithet.
Samarro Saan will return from the Doom of Valyria.
Garth will eventually try to call out Gerold like he did Oswell.
The price Victorian has to pay the Mudds is marrying Morella to give the next generation of the family incontestable blood ties to a Great House and resources for their envisioned conquest of the Riverlands.
Mychel and Euron will meet and one will give the other a Horrifying the Horror moment.
Rodrik Harlaw will be sent to Highgarden as an Ironborn envoy.
Any surviving descendants of Haegon Blackfyre III are in Tyrosh and will meet Chataya.
Haegon had a Tyroshi wife and a Tyroshi grandmother, after all.Once Jaime reaches the Wall, a early subplot will be the Watch choosing a new First Ranger.
Canon says Benjen joined the organization a few months after the rebellion (which has dragged on for months longer in this universe) and quickly became First Ranger, so the timing is about right for the position to be opening up, and Benjen isn’t joining the Night's Watch in this universe.The guilds and their allies will eventually interact with Viserys and his court (maybe as peace dignitaries) as their interest in preventing a return to the old status quo if Stannis loses grows and they seek to get people to understand that Stannis is doing at least some good htings.
Euron Greyjoy is behind whatever is happening at Rollingford.
While the presence of wildfire indicates a massacre may be in the plotting, many people are suspicious and uncomfortable regardless of which king they are loyal to. Word of God claims that Clydas and Walder know better than to try a repeat of the Whitewalls Tournament after witnessing the first one as boys. The Ironborn are one of the few factions (besides the Blackfyres, who seem to have different plans) that are likely to benefit from killing lots of people on both sides, if that is indeed what the plotters are up to.Pylos is one of the three currently unnamed Chelsted children.
The way Rys encourages Davos to look past his humble birth feels reminiscent of Pylos saying the same thing, their names sound slightly similar, and many maesters are of noble birth.The bad prophecy Cersei got from Maegy the Frog focuses on her firstborn child rather than all of them.
Alliser Thorne will eventually end up in Viserys' kingsguard, replacing Arthur, Oswell, or Gerold.
Arthur and Oswell are serving on the front and Gerold is sharing a castle with a Master Poisoner who hates him, so one of them could suffer a premature death soon. Or Oswell could decide to go to Essos to look for Lyanna and her son, as he sometimes regrets sending them away. The dialogue in chapter 93 about how Alliser was twice passed over for the kingsguard could be Foreshadowing. If Alliser does join the kingsguard, he could either find himself in the same kind of situation that Jaime did, or, if Viserys stays sane, then the contrast between him and Aerys may finally make Alliser admit the truth about the monstrous monarch who he keeps making excuses for, and he could be the person to educate Viserys about the kind of man his father really was.The enmity between Daemon Blackfyre IV and his sister and cousin Maelys is rooted in something Daemon did to one of the children of their uncle, Haegon II
Daemon became king-in-exile after the sudden death of his young cousin Aegor, supposedly from illness, and the three daughters of their cousin Haegon II vanished soon afterward. Daemon could have killed Aegor to become king, and while he wouldn’t have had to kill his female second cousins due to Heir Club for Men succession laws, if they thought Daemon killed their brother, they might have had the motivation to leave the Golden Company behind and drop out of sight.Alternately, maybe Daemon sexually assaulted one or more of the girls. That could have driven them to leave the family.
Either way, it is doubtful Daemon killed Aegor's sisters, as Maelys and Daena probably would have tried to make this public to keep Maelys from being stigmatized for killing Daemon (this is less applicable for Aegor himself if Daemon murdered him, since it would have been harder to prove Aegor didn't just get sick).
Danelle Lothston was born from Brother–Sister Incest between Jeyne and Manfryd Lothston
According to the official story Manfryd married a woman from Lorath who just happened to suffer Death by Childbirth at the same time Manfryd's sister Jeyne died from a sexually transmitted infection, and who doesn't have even a posthumous depiction of her. Gerion Lannister hints at a "less wholesome" explanation, and earlier points out that the Lothston family portrait depicts a young Danelle touching Jeyne's picture.Khal Bharbo hunted down Khal Khaggo because the latter murdered his daughter Bharbei
In the story thread on AlternateHistory.com, the author comments, "Incidentally, expect to learn just why Khal Bharbo and Drogo were fighting Khal Khaggo on the demon's road in the future. Rest assured—it was personal." After the fact Drogo "hoped, idly that Bharbei rode alongside their father now," and hopes she saw him killing the bloodriders of Khaggo and Jhaggo (likely Khaggo's son) in the afterlife.Other members of the Lothston family have appeared in the story besides Falena
Falena Lothston's parents, sister, and brother are dead, and her only other named close relative is her uncle Jon, but her family is implied to have more branches (or Jon has several kids), given how she mentions "Some [Lothstons] worship one god, some another, some several." Furthermore, Gerion has heard rumors of Lothstons hiding in "darkened corners of the Seven Kingdoms" as well as across the Narrow Sea. The Floating Marketplace could be a place for them to lay low, and there are two brothers named Bluerivers (with their surname implying bastard descent) there, Elwood and Jace, when the Bastard of Harrenhall's wife was named Elys. Morella Mudd's mother is another possibility. The Brave Companions of the Vow (assuming they take non-native Qohorik members) could fit in with the Lothstons worshipping Essosi gods with spooky reputations but Creepy Good potential. The guilds of King's Landing and Tytos Clegane's free-riders also have lots of members with vague or unstated backgrounds and no one to investigate them hard, but none of them seem like obvious Lothstons.
Tytos telling Lord Beesbury to bugger himself with his insulting surrender terms will get a Call-Back.
Either Tytos will capture Beesbury and remind him of this to make him sweat (since following through with it would be rape, he probably wouldn't make good on the threat). Or, if Beesbury dies in battle with Clegane's group, they will shove the surrender terms up his corpse's butt as a sign of mockery for the Viserys forces who find him.As a result of the High Septon's visit to the Reach, someone will ask Stannis what he actually does plan to do to Viserys and his main allies if he wins, given how that has been left unsaid so far despite Viserys discussing his plans for Stannis, Tywin, and Renly.
Rheager's son Aegon really is alive here.
- Based on a conversation Oswell overhears between heavily-implied Blackfyre "Uthera Ruari" and Falena Lothston, there is no male Blackfyre heir, even a female line one, that the Golden Company is aware of. "Uthera" only has a sister, and even if Haegon III's daughters or an unknown bastard produced male Blackfyre descendants, the Golden Company was seemingly involved in Aegon's upbringing, unlike those hypothetical boys.
- The House of the Morning and Evening Star may have ties to Varys and Illyrio (some of them were fathered by Pentoshi Princes), but there is supposedly too much hatred between the Golden Company and their potential ancestor Elaena "Evenstar" Blackfyre for any alliance between the mercenaries and Elaena’s descendants.
Therefore, if there's no Blackfyre boy to impersonate Aegon, maybe he really did survive the Sack.
If the Peake inheritance gets revisited, descendants of Glendon Flowers (who Egg could have legitimatized) and any kids Fireball had with his wife before sending her to the Silent Sisters will be among the competing branches of the Ball family.
If Jamie meets Squire Dalbridge, the older Black Brother will have memories of a young Aerys, either good or bad, that shape their interactions.
Lyanna will kill Gregor
Both are on the same continent, and Gregor could try to finish killing Rhaeger's family and/or Lyanna may want to avenge his past victims.Aesnyth's manservant Beccheggiayre is one of the Brave Companions of the Vow
Granted, this is a long shot, given how Aesnyth doesn't act like he's a member of a celebrated warrior group, but guarding Qohor's premier family might be a task worthy of that mysterious Qohorik order, and he would fit in with their Creepy Good motif.Any surviving Kingswood Brotherhood members besides Ulmer are members of the Golden Company
Since the current Golden Company leader is a kinsman of the late Simon Toyne, he might be amenable to sheltering some of Simon's allies, providing they are competent.Garth Tyrell will turn himself into a poison man for a suicide run against either Stannis or any threat serious enough to form an Enemy Mine scenario between the two sides.
His discussion of the poison men and his role as someone who is being set up as possibly too dangerous and vengeful to live if there is ever a genuine peace could be setting this up. Whether or not such a suicide mission would succeed is the question.If the Whents and Lothstons both survive the story, Falena and one of Alys’ brothers will engage in Altar Diplomacy and they will make a stab at sharing Harrenhall or will mutually decide to raze it.
The Alchemists and Guildhall will reluctantly ally to look for the missing wildfire.
- This could either set up a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk betrayal by the Alchemists or prompt them to reform their guild and acknowledge their past misdeeds. Either way, the uncovering of the wildfire plot could make many people see Jaime and Viserys in a whole new light and either make Viserys more amenable to peace or more volatile and dangerous as his image of his father is shattered and people in his court view him differently.
Tywin is behind the gathering at Rollingford and plans to lure in a Baratheon army to arrest the guests, and then try to kill them all with wildfire to undermine Stannis after their falling out and make Viserys weaker from the loss of his loyalists so that it will be harder for him to remain uncompromising about wanting Tywin dead.
- That scenario is one of the few remotely logical ones where Tywin could be involved after his Burning the Ships with Viserys and wanting to see Stannis beaten. Granted, Tywin may not be involved in whatever is happening at all, but his Frey in-laws are there, Rollingford has the potential to be the Red Wedding of this universe, and everyone knows who engineered the original Red Wedding. Tywin being involved in the Rollingford happenings as a perpetrator, scapegoat, or victim would be an interesting Continuity Nod, and scapegoat and victim are words that rarely, if ever, apply to Tywin.
There will be an Ironborn civil war (or at least the threat of one) over Balon and Euron's abandonment of their brothers.
The Red Priests will still declare Stannis Azor Azhai and reach out to him, but Melisandre won't be their representative.
- Unlike in canon, Stannis is making dramatic reforms, and his actions are significantly affecting Essos, so the Red Priests could easily take notice of him much faster. Since his actions have already indirectly upset the established powers in Volantis and have the potential to do so even more, Moqorro could potentially seek him out (Thoros may take the job like he did with Robert in canon, but Robert was a less likely convert who may have warranted a less persuasive ambassador).
Potential names for Stannis and Cersei's first child.
- Joanna
- Cressen
- Davos
- Jaime
- Steffon
- Balerion
- Cassana
- Jon
- Tommen
- Shireen
The main reason Tywin seeks to keep Tytos wallowing in frustration and obscurity dates back to the Reyne Rebellion.
- Maybe Tywin does just hate Tytos for being so loyal to his father, but it also feels potentially significant that Tytos has repeatedly recalled Roger Reyne fondly. This could have led him to do something like sit the rebellion out, vocally oppose flooding Castamere, or maybe even save the life of a Reyne or Tarbeck (him saving the boy Amory Lorch is rumored to have killed would make for some heavily bittersweet irony, given the crimes Lorch and Gregor carry out together), any of which could have left Tywin in a wrathful mood for years afterward.
Spotted Tom Sand (the only Ninepenny King who has yet to have his exact method of death mentioned yet) was killed by another Dornishman, given how the family of the Old Mother implies there was something especially sad about his death.
Spotted Tom was an actual butcher who became a famed warrior due to circumstances out of his control and was never The Butcher in battle.
Cersei and her sons will be killed by the Others, and deeply mourned - but at least one of her daughters will survive
- The alternate universe prophecy: "You will be the queen of summer, until the queen of winter comes, to blight your green and your gold, with a smile on her icy blue lips [...] Fine babes will he have of you, three princes and two princesses, and all shall take after their father, and be dark as a raven's wing [...] Yes, fine princes, but no kings. You will see them all die. Die before you. And the queen of winter shall laugh, and the valonqar shall come for you, and end your life with his cruel black hands. And they will find the tatters that were your body and weep bitter tears…"
- Maggy, who seems to be putting the most vicious cast on things possible, mentions Cersei will give birth to "princes" and "princesses", but only specifically says that the princes will not live to be kings.
Vialle Rogers is related to and/or named after Vaella Blackfyre.
