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** [[spoiler:Pending; Euron, visibly frightened by the live demonstration of a wight, declared neutrality and fled to the Iron Islands. But there's still a whole (if shortened) season to see...]]

[[WMG: Ser Jorah will return with a volcano arm]]
He'll find a Red Priest - possibly in Asshai by the Shadow, where Melisandre originates - and ask them to fix his greyscale. This will involve plunging his infected arm into a fire; it will emerge with charred and cracked skin, but clean of infection and possessed of superhuman strength.

[[WMG: The Mountain will be killed by the Sand Snakes]]
* Barring Cleganebowl, this is the only appropriate death for him. Of course, the Sand Snakes, like their father, won't survive the encounter because they're both too important and too non-essential to the plot to survive.

[[WMG: Tyrion will have a word with Ellaria Sand regarding Myrcella’s death]]
Since Tyrion loved his niece very much and hasn’t heard much news in Westeros since his exile to Essos, he’s going to find out that Myrcella’s dead and Ellaria poisoned her. There will be a conflict between them. Ellaria will blame him for Oberyn’s death and Tyrion will get angry at her for killing Myrcella who had nothing to do with his death. Since Tyrion is Dany’s Hand and the most reasonable among her council, he will demand Dany to exile or execute Ellaria. Dany will know that Myrcella is a fullblooded Lannister but since she despises people killing children (as seen way back when she saw corpses of slave children while on her way to Mereen) and doesn’t want to be like [[TheCaligula her dad]], she will probably exile Ellaria and legitimize the Sand Snakes (maybe the younger ones because the three oldest ones are nuts) as Martells instead.
* It would seem from the second episode that Tyrion did have a word with Ellaria. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Ellaria, so did Cersei.]]

[[WMG: How Littlefinger finally gets nailed to the wall]]
Interested in an alliance against the Lannisters, King Jon Snow sends Davos south to negotiate with the Targaryen alliance. The deal is sealed, and now Cersei the Usurper has collusion between her enemies to the north and south. As a token of the alliance, Lord Varys sends Davos back north with a juicy bit of intel: Petyr Baelish was the principal betrayer of Ned Stark when Cersei and Joffrey usurped the throne in the wake of King Robert's death. Naturally, some "Passing the sentence, swinging the sword" ensues. The Starks get retribution on the one who effectively doomed their father in the power plays in King's Landing, and Varys (and by extension Dany and her alliance) dispose of a dangerous wildcard actor in their campaign. And the senior Knights of The Vale who are aware of his puppeteer rule are finally rid of him as well.
** [[spoiler:Confirmed, except for the Varys part.]]

[[WMG: How Littlefinger finally gets nailed to the wall, option 2]]
Cersei finds out Littlefinger was one of the co-conspirators in Joffrey's death, and executed it in a way that would leave Tyrion in a position to be the most likely suspect. Given how casual she seemed to be about [[spoiler: Tommen's]] death, this may not be such a big deal, if not for the fact that, if not for Joffrey's death, the following do not happen:
* The KangarooCourt Trial for Tyrion, which resulted in the trial by Champion where Oberyn Martell died, which led to a vengeful Ellaria Sand murdering Myrcella.
* Tommen acceding to the throne, being far out of his depth and thereby allowing the Faith Militant to grow out of control - which necessitated the Green Trial gambit by Cersei, which directly led to [[spoiler: Tommen's suicide]].

[[WMG: Randyll Tarly will be awarded the Lord Paramountship of the Reach by the Crown in an effort to keep them under control.]]
As mentioned before, they went through too much trouble casting and showing the Tarly family for them not to have any further significance. Randyll already comes off as one of the few wholly unlikable characters left alive, so it makes sense to ally him with the ultimate HateSink in Cersei. Thirdly (although this will likely be glossed over), Tarly's wife is a Florent, and the Florents have had a rivalry with the Tyrells for years because they feel they were screwed out of their stronger claim to the Reach when Aegon I invaded Westeros. So to give the Reach to the female line of the Tyrells' rivals would be a final "fuck you" from Cersei to the functionally extinct House Tyrell - [[EvilIsPetty which is exactly the sort of thing Cersei would do.]]
* Alternately, Olenna Tyrell promises to name his house the successor as Lord Paramount of the Reach in exchange for aiding the Targaryen Alliance, since House Tyrell will die with Olenna. Randyll Tarly already fought on the side of the Targaryens during Robert's Rebellion according to the books, and was responsible for one of the few serious defeats that Robert's faction suffered.
** Tarly would have to be the TokenEvilTeammate a bit like Roose Bolton was for Robb Stark, then. [[{{Jerkass}} Let's be honest, he's kind of a dick.]]
* Confirmed. Tarly [[spoiler: is explicitly given this deal on screen and helps Cersei take Highgarden in return for the Lord Paramountship of the Reach and Wardenship of the South. However, this may ''still'' be somewhat in the air now as Tarly was last seen on the wrong side of a battle with a large quantity of Dothraki and a dragon.]]
** [[spoiler:He did survive the battle, but his {{Pride}} [[HonorBeforeReason Before Reason]] led to him [[KillItWithFire getting Dracarys'ed]].]]

[[WMG: Both Dany and Cersei's factions will both appoint Tarlys as Lords Paramount of the Reach... but different Tarlys.]]
Sam and Gilly's storyline is one of the few yet to intersect majorly with anyone else's, but if Dany and co. form a base in the Reach, they might run into them there. If Cersei appoints Randyll Tarly, Olenna's unlikely to take that without question. What would be more convenient than to declare him a traitor and appoint the man's first born son instead? Dany can probably claim that Sam's Night's Watch vows don't really count, since they were made under threat of death (nvm that most men who join the Night's Watch do so under threat of death). This will be a source of ConflictingLoyalty for Sam, particularly if Dany and co. also ally with Jon in the North - Sam doesn't particularly want to defy his father, or even be Lord, and it would mean giving up his dream of being a maester (it would also most likely mean giving up the rest of his family, who do love him). However he doesn't want to abandon Jon, or defy his rightful Liege Lady, and it would mean he could give Gilly and little Sam a better life than he ever thought.

[[WMG: Sansa will play along with Littlefinger in order to gain his trust so as to control him]]
Despite WordOfGod saying that Sansa feels overlooked for the part she played in the Battle of the Bastards, Sansa was clearly happy for Jon being declared King in the North and only stopped smiling when she saw Littlefinger's reaction. Since Littlefinger revealed his endgame to Sansa and she clearly noticed his DeathGlare when Jon was made King in the North, Sansa will realize that Littlefinger will eventually turn on Jon and try to do away with him just like he did with Eddard Stark. However she also knows he's in love with her and will use this love to gain his trust. She will pretend to be jealous and overlooked so as to convince Littlefinger that she would be open to betraying her brother, only to spring a trap on Littlefinger and have Jon arrest him, [[LaserGuidedKarma just as Littlefinger did to her father]].

[[WMG: Sansa will turn on Jon and get killed]]
In contrast to the above, Sansa will wholeheartedly join Littlefinger and the writers will toss away all of her prior character growth just so they can have Jon make a 'hard choice' to execute Sansa and Littlefinger for betraying him and angst over for the rest of the series. Because apparently the Old Gods forbid two people reasonably talking about their problems with each other in a moving way that proves that despite everything Jon and Sansa value each other more than plots or positions, or the writers just have a ComplexityAddiction.

** [[spoiler: Jossed: the Wildings have left Winterfell for Eastwatch-By-The-Sea, so they aren't around to frame.]]

** [[spoiler: Partly Jossed: The Tyrells, the Dornish, and Yara and Theon's faction of the Ironborn were wiped out by Episode 3, and Dany is no longer in any position to lay siege to King's Landing.]]

[[WMG: Jon Snow will fight Daenerys Targaryen for the Iron Throne, win and be known as "King Snow" or the "The Bastard King"]]
Jon Snow will end up with an army of others and wildlings, and Bran's advanced magic abilities. Danerys will invade Westeros. Between the two of them, they will obliterate the Lannisters (except for Tyrion, because he always manages to survive). The two will fight and Jon's side will prevail.

[[WMG: Cersei, ala Joffrey, will only last an episode or two into Season 7.]]
* She's put herself in a rather untenable situation, to where she's got everyone except the Crownlands itself having effectively seceded from the Seven Kingdoms, and a ''massive'' Essos[=/=]Southern Westeros coalition led by a Targaryen and three dragons coming for King's Landing [[note]]Most of the Dothraki khalasar ''and'' their horses, ships from the Iron Islands, Essos, and Dorne, a good portion of the Unsullied, and in all likelihood ground forces from Dorne and the Reach, which were the two regions more or less untouched by the War of Five Kings[[/note]]. Her strongest allies are Qyburn, a MadScientist that's trying to be Hand, Grand Maester, and Master of Whispers at once and is probably out of his depth; Jaime, who isn't the fighter he once was and whom Cersei (to her detriment) probably wouldn't be willing to risk; and the Mountain, who is strong as hell but certainly not invincible as Oberyn Martell's already proven - not to mention he can't be Queensguard and take the field of battle at the same time, robbing Cersei of one of her strongest fighters should war take place outside of King's Landing.

[[WMG: In Season 7, the three Sand Snakes will attempt to tame Dany's three dragons]]
Since those three are very impatient, they will try to tame the dragons so they can attack King's Landing. Similar to Quentyn Martell's poor approach in the books, this went bad and those three ended up barbecued by Drogon or Rhaegal (he's the smart one) or all three of them.

* The Iron Islands; Since Euron's plot to side with Dany is down the tubes, he will plot to side with another powerful ruler on the verge of Westeros; The Nights King. We know Euron isn't right in the head and might have a borderline God Complex, so teaming up with omnicidal beings to gain power couldn't be put past him. Perhaps the Horn of Winter will be involved. This will add fuel to the fire for the inevetable civil war in the Iron Islands. The question being is if the Nights King is the type that accepts deals or alliances considering the apparent deal between Craster and the White Walkers, or going by Euron's failure to side with Dany, he will be killed after a humiliating failure.
* House Tarly: Besides the North, other Houses may send men to the wall to help the Watch. Randyll Tarly will lead some of his men to the wall as a testament to valor, with Dickon lording over his house. Throughout this, people on the Wall will talk to Randyll about how is unfavorite son Sam was the first living human to kill a White Walker and praise Sam, much to Randyll's irritation. Bonus points if unlike Sam, Randyll will be killed by one of the White Walkers, without putting up a fight, or choose to flee at the meer sight of them.
* House Targaeryen: Daenerys and her armies set sail to conquer Westeros, not to fight zombies in the North, so they will focus their efforts against Cersei. Both Varys and Tyrion will be very aware of the extent of the threat from the White Walkers, and will impress this on Dany, and both will probably be aware that only dragons have a chance of really defeating them, but they will have differing advice. Varys will suggest that she focus on taking the south, let the North and the Vale wear themselves down holding off the White Walkers so that she can conquer them with ease, and then stop the White Walkers herself. Tyrion will urge her to send a contingent of her army and the dragons to see off the White Walkers, and make an early alliance with the North and the Vale, saving their lives and winning them over to her side that way, then together take the south. Dany will take a middle ground: she will put helping the North and the Vale on her to-do list, but will focus all her forces on retaking King's Landing first, as she will be unwilling to risk not having the Iron Throne after all her effort. Depending on how long this takes, by the time she's finished the White Walker invasion may be right on her doorstep, along with a refugee influx.
* Littlefinger and the Vale: The Walker invasion will bring about a gradual VillainousBreakdown in Littlefingsr. He never considered or took into account their existence in his long term plans. And would have little knowledge of them. The threat of the White Walkers are a threat to all his ambitions and plans. And he will adapt to it; it is said that Littlefinger would burn the whole country if he could be King of te Ashes, and it's no doubt that his chaos is a ladder philosophy will be at play. PragmaticVillainy has virtually no place with the Nights King on the horizon. Because Sansa is no longer his pawn, Littlfinger will retaliate by refusing any aid for the North in the White Walker threat, but since they are a threat to all of Westeros, in lieu of burning Westeros, he will allow them to pass, perhaps have his men kill any House armies heading to face the threat, he will burn any food and resources for their protection ala Ramsay in season5, and will refuse refugee aid. Whatever it takes for him to live to see his kingdom of ashes.

Because this is ''Game of Thrones,'' and because Season 6 ended with far too many good guys coming out on top (feel free to add your own speculations):

[[WMG: An early season 7 episode will end with Littlefinger taking the iron throne]]
Qyburn and Cersei will have a falling out about something, and Cersei thinking that she's in power, combined with the knowledge of Dany's fleet and the battle of the bastards, will lead him to consider his options. This will combine with Littlefinger's plans, as Littlefinger will seek out Qyburn and strike a deal with him, likely involving better working conditions than previously and a saner boss. Littlefinger will somehow convince Cersei to put him in a high spot in the chain of succession (who is Cersei's heir at this point?), using incomplete intel about "his" victory in the north. At this point, he will manipulate Cersei to try to kill Qyburn with zombie-Gregor as his weapon, which will end up in Cersei's death.

Littlefinger, zombie-Gregor and Qyburn will then die in the following episode, when Dany's army takes King's Landing.

** Ok, admittedly, I didn't think ''that'' far ahead, but I ''will'' point out that as the wife of a future king, adultery ''is'' treason, since she'd be trying to foist a bastard on the throne. I mean it got Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard executed in real life.

* The only magic that exists in at least Westeros is that of the three-eyed ravens, Jojen Reeds, and Orells of the world and every other magic is tangentially either related to or actively created by them. They are the Lord of Light, the Night King, the magicians, and any other manner of supernatural in the world. We understand that dragons and giants are flesh and blood creatures and, the show at least seems to suggest, rather unconvincingly, that the Faceless Men use only masks to pull off their disguises. As far as Pyat Or we and the House of th Undying, it's possible that more advanced greenseers/wargs are able to project illusory images into people's minds like Prof. X and saturate structures in them like the Shining.

* If Brandon Stark or another wart is the Night King, then wigts are created by him warging into the bodies of the deceased, illustrated in that their eyes become identical to his piercing blue eyes, much in the same way that Hodor's eyes go milky and opaque as do Brian's when he inhabits him. The Night King's greater power coupled with the fact that the dead have no consciousness, allows him to control more individual bodies and over greater distances.

Cersei's been clearly set up as a GenderFlip {{Expy}} of Aerys, and one of the things that happened to Aerys as he grew more and more insane, was that his distrust and paranoia extended to even close friends and family. Of course, Jaime may well have no intention whatsoever of killing Cersei no matter how far she goes in her attempt to hold the Iron Throne. But Cersei, knowing that Jaime has killed a king already, will grow to distrust him in the end. Of course, killing one of her few allies will prove to accelerate the inevitable.

** Mashable had a similar theory, except [[spoiler:they speculated she'd have a son, and it'd be a dwarf like Tyrion, just to twist the knife.]]

The valonqar didn't refer to Cersei's younger sibling,[[spoiler: but to the last younger sibling of the Jaime/Cersei relationship. Just like Joanna Lannister before her, Cersei will die in childbirth- a baby girl Lannister who will eventually grow up to be more beautiful than her and become queen.]] Given how much GRRM loves to twist prophecies, it would be fitting that Cersei spends her whole life terrified of Tyrion for no good reason.

* Though it is all but confirmed that Jon is not only the child of [[spoiler: Rhaegar and Lyanna]] but is also the legitimate [[spoiler: heir to the Iron Throne]] the showrunners recognize that Jon's real identity is that of a true Northerner and a Stark at heart. Though it would be a cool bit of fanservice for him to learn the truth, I see Bran realizing that revealing such information is not terribly important.

[[WMG: Tyrion will die at the end of season 7]]

* Jossed. He's still lives. Now, worry about his survival in Season 8.

* Jossed. He was beaten up and killed by his own men.

* It would seem from the first episode that Tyrion did have a word with Ellaria. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Ellaria, so did Cersei.]]

*** Actually, if this theory is true, this is the more logical part of it. So far, everything seems to point to the fact that you can't really change the past (and thus the future), because if you did, the future in which you travelled to the past wouldn't happen. The biggest point in favor of this to me is the fact that the original 3ER had to know what was supposed to happen, so he took Bran in a vision to the point in time when Willys/Hodor had his vision-stroke. If he didn't know he was supposed to die then and there, he wouldn't have taken Bran to this specific vision, no Hodor would be created and there would be no one to hold the door. Not to mention that in the very first episode, Bran climbs the tower and gets pushed off because ravens on the tower pique his interest.

[[WMG: The series finale will air in 2017.]]
The series finale is mentioned in the ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' episode "Leslie and Ron," which takes place 2017.
* Jossed as Season 7 won't air until 2017, with Season 8 as yet unknown.

[[WMG: The Martells in Season Five]]
* The Martells and the Golden Company subplots from Books 4 and 5 will be streamlined into a single whole. Doran Martell will be introduced as a secret Chessmaster who has been Varys' sponsor and financial backer(he is stated to be very rich) in setting up the Targaryen Restoration. It will be stated that Illyrio Mopatis was one of his agents, that he had planned the Khal Drogo/Dany wedding. It will be a simple and time efficient way to introduce the new character, setting and subplot. Season 4 will open with Tyrion and Varys' ship landing at Sunspear and Tyrion meeting Doran who tells him to take his son Trystane and/or Quentyn with him to Essos to bring back "our heart's desire: Vengeance, Justice, Fire and Blood". It also gives Tyrion a palpable goal, a new dynasty change will give him a pardon for his crimes and Casterly Rock and a fresh start and Doran will tell Tyrion that he owes Oberyn who died for him.
** Oberyn Martell is stated to have spent a lot of time in the East, probably on Doran's orders to establish a support base for the exiled Targaryens. In the books he worked with the Second Sons, here he worked with the Golden Company. Doran probably kept his cards close and presumably did not tell him about Varys being his man on the inside but Varys hints quite slyly to Oberyn about their connection in their conversation in the Iron Throne.
** With Arianne presumably AdaptedOut, it is likely that Myrcella Baratheon will become a kind of quasi-replacement with Doran and the Sand Snakes trying to manipulate her to taking the crown in a PlayingBothSides gambit.

[[WMG: The Golden Company in Season Five]]
* Bittersteel's Boys have been name-dropped twice in Season 4, with Jorah being a former mercenary for them and Davos recommending hiring them to Stannis. Given the whole Fake Aegon and Jon Connington thing, which might be hard to integrate in Game of Thrones, especially since it isn't backstory-crazy, their role and presence will likely be very different to how it is in the books.
** In Scenario One, Fake Aegon and Jon Connington are AdaptedOut and the Golden Company are combined with the Windblown and the Second Sons. The plan is A) Bring Back Daenerys to Westeros and if that doesn't work, B) Convince the Golden Company to take Westeros on behalf of Myrcella Baratheon, put brother against sister. It will simplify and make the whole story still work.
** In Scenario Two, Tyrion and Varys travels with the mercenaries to Braavos(instead of Pentos since it saves time and locations) and meets Aegon VI and Jon Connington in "The House with the Red Door"(a cool MythologyGag for fans) where Tyrion tells Aegon to go to Westeros while he heads to Meereen.
** In Scenario Three, The Golden Company are independent and unaffiliated. They are the personal PMC company on staff to the Iron Bank of Braavos who are built up as the next threat in Season Four. After Stannis' victory at the Wall and Tywin's death, the Golden Company will be assigned to protect Stannis' territory in Storm's End and the Stormlands mirroring the action in the books. The Martells and Tyrion and Varys will try and sway the Golden Company to their side away from Stannis and the Crown but Jorah who's in Braavos, kidnaps Tyrion putting a SpannerInTheWorks.

[[WMG: Lady Merryweather won't be AdaptedOut]]
The most important characteristic of Cersei's arc in book 4 is the contrast between how clever she thinks she is (and how smug she is about it) and how the consequences of her schemes turn out. Since we can't access her internal monologues on TV, she needs some (seemingly) sycophantic character to act as her sounding board.
* Plus the show has steadfastly refused to not include as many sex scenes as humanly possible, so there's no way in hell they wont have [[spoiler: Cersei's lesbian sex scene with Lady Merryweather]] adapted in some way. (Though Lena Headey has said explicitly she's saving any nudity for a particular scene from ADWD...

[[WMG: Gendry will ''become'' Hyle Hunt]]
The Goldcloaks don't know his face but they do know his name. Running around the Crownlands under the name Gendry ''and'' looking like a Baratheon is still a likely death sentence. So, why not change names? "Hyle" could either be a LineOfSightName, or even a DeadPersonImpersonation with so many knights slain in battle during the War of the Five Kings.

[[WMG:Most of "A Feast for Crows" Will be Omitted Completely.]]
* Until book 4, "A Song of Ice and Fire" is a rollicking thriller, but "Feast" is kind of the oddball of the series, in that not much really happens. The focus is on the fallout of the war, rather than on the twisty conflicts of the rest of the series. The Greyjoy, Martell, Arya, and Sansa chapters are all essential, but a majority of it is Cersei brooding in King's Landing and Brienne riding around for no apparent reason. Chances are 99% of the Brienne material will be cut and Cersei will get even less screen time than in season 3. Luckily, there's more material to combine with "Dance" to make up a solid season 4-5.
** This makes sense, to a point. AFFC and ADWD are meant to be taking place simultaneously. My prediction is that this will be reflected starting season five.
** On that note, most of Dany's Meereen material will be abridged as well. A whole lot of minor characters that play a role in those chapters are either dead or have been omitted by the writers. There's too much relevant stuff going on in Westeros to bother the viewers with having to remember 40 new characters all named Hazoo.

[[WMG: Ros has become a spy for Littlefinger and/or Varys and Pycelle was onto it.]]
We know she works Littlefinger and besides her profession, has a natural talent for being TheWatson/played into the show's love of "sexposition". It seems rather suspicious in "Fire and Blood" that she basically wanted to know Pycelle's feelings about all of the kings that he's served, and he seemed to catch on this, which probably explains why he effusively praises Joffrey (he wouldn't want that psychopath to learn that Pycelle had criticized him) and seems to feign senility to stop Ros' questioning. Note that the very next scene shows Varys and Littlefinger involved in their usual plotting.
* Probably every single one of Littlefinger's whores is a spy for him. And yes, Pycelle is clearly feigning that he is just a senile old guy - after Ros leaves, he stretches, makes a couple of squats, then puts on his robe, his chains ''and his slouch''.
** I wouldn't call this a guess so much as an outright fact. It even seems as though he begins expositing to her without her asking anything, as though he is intentionally taking an opportunity to further portray himself with the mask he has been wearing to this point. Everything he has said and done when other characters are present could be for an (as of yet) undisclosed agenda. The real question is "What is Pycelle's agenda?"
** Jossed as of "The Climb".
*** Not really. Littlefinger could very well have employed Ros as a spy before she defected to Varys. And we still don't know if Pycelle was on it in that scene, and probably we never will.

[[WMG: All characters from the Free Cities will have mainland European accents]]
The show will continue to use accents to distinguish regions. From Syrio, we already know that Braavos is Spanish (or possibly Greek). Shae and Jaqen are Lorathi, with German accents. The others will follow - Lys could be French. The tricky one is Pentos - Magister Illyrio has been shown speaking with an English accent (which on the show maps to Westeros, particularly the South.
** King of zig-zagged, Mero & Tycho Nestoris of Braavos and Thoros of Myr have generally British accents, but in Thoros's case he's been in Westeros for two decades and has likely lost his accent as a result.

[[WMG: The depiction of Ramsay Bolton will be a Crazy Awesome troll who will rival Tyrion in terms of audience adoration.]]
Building on the above theory of Ramsay Bolton being the Hornblower simply due to sheer trollery, when he is properly introduced to the show he will near instantly garner a memetic reputation for nightmarish yet insanely hilarious dickery, as well as delivering some unspeakably satisfying and cathartic Karma to [[spoiler:a certain Mr Greyjoy]]. His horrifyingly brutality will always be tempered by extremely dark hilarity, and his abuse of "Reek" will start off almost comically petty and humiliating, before steadily becoming darker and more sadistic.

Long story short, Ramsay will be one of the best characters in the show.

* Even if he [[spoiler:forces women to eat their own fingers or run naked through the forests only to be hunted down by his dogs, raped & butchered.]] He'll do so in style!
** Roose: "My son has sent you a wedding gift, your grace. [[spoiler:"A Piece of Prince"."]]
** This troper is shuddering at the thought of the impending Woobification of Ramsay <strike>Snow</strike> Bolton.
*** DON'T YOU PICK ON MY POOR MISUNDERSTOOD BB! HE JUST NEEDS A HUG!
*** [[spoiler: Given that "The Boy" is so certain to be Ramsay that fans aren't even pretending that there is any other possibility, I'd say that he is being played completely in synch with his book counterpart. And if that's the case? Then if the general reaction over at [[Website/TelevisionWithoutPity TWoP]] is any indication, then this is Jossed: He's rapidly becoming TheScrappy.]]
*** [[spoiler: Outside of TWOP, opinions seem to vary. Nobody's yet called him one of the best characters on the show, so technically still jossed.]]
*** [[spoiler: Judging from fan reactions in forums, youtube, facebook, tumblr e.t.c. the guy is most certainly considered CreepyAwesome and on his way to become a DracoInLeatherPants.]]
*** [[spoiler: Of course that depends on where you look. Most don't mind him, some think he's awesome and more then a few fans thinks his a {{Scrappy}} and are actively cheering for Yara's to show up and teach him a lesson. Who knew being a skinning, castrating troll who takes pleasure in stoning cripples could come off as repugnant?]]

[[WMG: Olyvar will play the role of the Blue Bard]]
Rather than suddenly introducing a new character, Cersei will torture Olyvar instead. He already has a link established with the Tyrells, to an extent.

[[WMG:Daario is behind the Sons of the Harpy]]
Daario was instrumental in conquering Yunkai and Meereen for Dany. However, ever since he got in her bed he has done nothing but hurting her position.

'''Daario lived in Meereen before Daenerys came'''. He used to be a slave in the Fighting Pits, the ones Dany closed after taking the city, where he gained skills, fame, money and his freedom. Daario boasts that his Second Sons blend into the Meereenese easily. This is because many of them are likely Meereneese themselves, veterans of the Fighting Pits like him. Then come out of nowhere the Sons of the Harpy, this mysterious group that also blends easily in the Meereneese, wants the city to be like it was before Dany (including reopening the Fighting Pits) and whose members are armed and trained in close combat. Why? Because the Second Sons ''are'' the Sons of the Harpy!

'''The Son of the Harpy arrested was a patsy'''. He was arrested by ''Daario'', when the Unsullied were about to leave the place. Other than hearsay from the Second Sons, the only evidence that he was the Son of the Harpy that had killed White Rat was that he had a bronze mask with him. However, Dany only knew that the Sons of the Harpy had killed White Rat because the guy who did it left a bronze mask over his body. The guy was wearing only one mask, so if he left it on White Rat he shouldn't have one when Daario arrested him. Furthermore, Daario prevents Dany's council from interrogating the prisoner arguing that he has interrogated him himself and has found that he has no useful information. We have no evidence of this but Daario's word.

'''Daario offers the worst advice.''' He wants Dany to reopen the Fighting Pits, a symbol of life in Meereen when it was controlled by the Masters. He wants her to release the dragons after they killed a child, even though she can't control them and one of them is still on the run. He was all for going to war with Yunkai again and killing the masters that did not bow last season, but Jorah talked her out of it. He executed Mossador, and he did it quick without giving her a chance to reconsider even though it was obvious that the crowd was getting pissed. And finally...

'''Daario pressed Barristan to leave the Great Pyramid for no apparent reason.''' By ''sheer coincidence'', the Sons of the Harpy attack just then and leave Grey Worm and Barristan grievously injured.

Why does he do this? Well, if Dany leaves Meereen the Unsullied do as well, if she's killed they are left with no reason to stay either. Who's left to assume control of Meereen? The Second Sons, with Daario at their head.

** I think we can safely call this jossed after episode 9. If Daario ''was'' with the Sons, he passed up multiple golden opportunities to either kill her or let her die, and they were trying just as hard to kill him as anyone else. Sure, you could argue that they got dangerously close to killing her on his watch, but the unsullied failed to spot the Harpies, either, and Daario isn't responsible for them.

** Also, the show doesn't portray ''all'' of Daario's advice as the worst, even if you consider it to be. Tyrion backs up opening the fighting pits as a good concession on her part, for instance. And if she had taken Daario's advice and "cleared" the city of the Sons of the Harpy district by district instead of playing Dragon Roulette with Meereen's nobles, the attack at the arena might not have happened.

[[WMG:Olenna will engineer Cersei's downfall.]]
Since she's far more adept at playing the long game than Cersei, Olenna will undoubtedly manipulate the Sparrows into turning against Cersei.
* Semi-confirmed, Littlefinger, working with her, brought Lancel to the attention of the High Sparrow, who proceeded to arrest Cersei on the charge of incest.

[[WMG: Tyene and Bronn will be an item]]
She thinks he's handsome, and he will admire her for bring him as close to death as he's ever come. To take it a step further, he will stay in Dorne with her. With Tyrion gone, and Lollys engaged to someone else, he has no reason to return to King's Landing. And it would be funny after all his comments about the Dornish being crazy.
** Alternatively Tyene will take on the role of Arianne and tempt Bronn to kidnap or kill Myrcella. Forcing Bronn to become both Arys Oakheart and Darkstar at the same time and be killed by Jaime.

[[WMG: Sansa's statement in the last episode of season 5 that "I know WHAT Ramsay is" was significant foreshadowing.]]
* The "incredible plans" he had for Sansa's lady parts was to transplant them to Theon thereby making Theon literally his bitch.

[[WMG: If Jaime returns to King's Landing, he will found out about Cersei's fornication and dump her]]
Face it, he'll learn eventually that Cersei slept with Lancel. There's likely no chance that he'll forgive her for cheating on him and will not be her champion once Cersei calls for a trial by combat for her crimes. With that, Ser Robert Strong will take his place as Cersei's champion.

[[WMG: Melisandre does not serve the Red God]]
* She is simply a powerful witch who has deluded herself into thinking that she does. Her blood magic allows her to fake divine miracles and her gift of The Sight allows her to be aware of the Red God's prophecies, but she is not a true acolyte and thus her visions come without wisdom. She manufactured the Azor Ahai as Stannis Barathion out of a need for there to be one and due to her flawed visions when she should have sought-out Beric Dondarrion.

[[WMG: Stannis wasn't himself when he sacrificed Shireen.]]
Melisandre used one of her concoctions on him to make him lose his better judgement.

[[WMG: Sansa is already pregnant by Ramsay.]]
Of course she is. Because nothing good can ever happen to her.

[[WMG: Stannis will get a posthumous dying grace]]
Shipments of dragonglass will begin coming into the Night's Watch from Dragonstone, Stannis having sent word for such before he left Castle Black.

[[WMG: Brienne will have a KarmicDeath for murdering Stannis]]
* She might end up being killed by one of his supporters, like Davos.

[[WMG: The Harpy will be...]]
...either a choice between Daario/Missandei/Varys. Since the show is going ahead of the books and making drastic changes and the context of Meereen's society is not properly developed. The show will go for the simpler Murder Mystery plot and have things NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize especially since Hizdahr is dead and presented as a Red Herring. The Harpy is well organized, effective and operates with inside knowledge. The only ones who fit and have the required narrative heft to pull this off is Daario or Varys or Missandei. What are their motives?
# Varys manufactured the Harpy to manipulate Daenerys into the ruler he wants her to be, to play the role he needs her to fulfill. He's manipulated from the background since Season 1 and obviously he has to have some big game and payoff to compensate for TheReveal at the end of Book 5 which has been AdaptedOut. Him being the Harpy will prove how this ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster has been TheOmniscient all along.
# Missandei is a long-shot but needs to be included simply because she's a named Essosi character with an ambiguous future role. She has inside information on Dany, is incredibly smart and sharp. She's also the one who convinces Dany to marry Hizdahr. The reason she manufactured the Harpy is that she doesn't want her to go to Westeros, she's a PossessionSue who wants Mhysa to stay in Slaver's Bay forever.
# Daario has always been a bad boy. In Season 3, he single-handedly hijacked the Second Sons, and helped Dany take over a city. He's also the man in charge of the Meereen City Watch. Pretty well organized and military man who was also in charge of security at the Fighting Pits when all those Harpy Men marched into the crowds. He had means, he had opportunity. As for motivations...he's Daario, who cares.

[[WMG: Brienne will give Oathkeeper to Sansa]]
And she will use it to personally END HOUSE BOLTON.

[[WMG: Resurrected Jon will be a CompositeCharacter with Lady Stoneheart]]
Hence why Lady Stoneheart was cut out; two Starks returned fom the dead and out for revenge would be a bit much. And it seems like the sort of thing the show would do: they'll bring back everyone's fave and one of the few genuinely good people in Westeros... but when he comes back, he's not himself anymore.

[[WMG: Either Lord Karstark or Smalljon Umber will conspire against Ramsay and arrange Sansa to marry one of them]]
While they seem to ally with Ramsay for now, it might not last due to their own ambitions and Ramsay is a psychotic murderer. And rather than kill Sansa, it might be better to have her widowed and be eligible to marry one of them and then have control of the North legitimately. That is if they find her and convince her to go along with the plan.

* There are a few problems with such a theory. On a Doylist level, 1) It more or less says that Aerys II's insanity is not down to incest, not down to feudal absolutism, and that the Mad King, his retainers and enablers, are not personally responsible for their actions and crimes. It completely removes the human element from the story in favour of some magic device. 2) This story makes the Game of Thrones entirely about Bran and a time-travelling kid rather than a HyperlinkStory of LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters who are HeroOfAnotherStory. If the entire story is about some kid trapped in a time-travel loop then what does all the prophetic stuff about Jon Snow, and Daenerys, the "ice and fire" stuff mean, it doesn't make sense. 3) If the Night King "is" Bran, and if Bran is all the Brans who have ever existed, does this mean that Bran is also Brandon Stark, Ned's elder brother who defeated Littlefinger in a duel and got killed by the Night's King? That doesn't make sense. 4) The Night's King looking more human is surely down to the fact that they changed the actor between season 5 and season 6, no? And I don't see how the Night King looks like Bran, if you squint, it looks like Jon Snow or almost any dude with his head shaved and dolled with lots of makeup. That's on a Doylist level.