Game of Thrones/WMG

The TV series will diverge from the book at some point (probably around A Dance With Dragons).

Otherwise the producers will have to wait until the final book is published, and who knows when that happens. They have to either diverge at some point, or end up waiting till the next decade to give the series a proper finale.

• Well, it sounds like the third book will be two seasons, and if Dance With Dragons and A Feast for Crows are merged into one story and split into two seasons, plus the upcoming second season, they have at least five years before they have to worry about running out of material. The sixth book may be around by then, or they may end up stretching the fourth and fifth books over more than a season each, since both of them are about a thousand pages each.
  • It's probably a good guess to assume that in five years GRRM will have finished the 6th book (that has about 300 pages as of now, I'm writing this in 2012), but most likelly not the last one. By then, I think he could just guide the producers through the rest of the unpublished story.
• As of the 3rd episode of season two, your guess has already delivered. They have made some very important modifications on season two (though most of them were necessary to tell the story without overcomplication/internal monologues). I predict that these changes will deepen as the series goes on to the point were the story will only be the same in very general terms (like the general geopolitcs of Westeros and Essos), the details being all very different.
• They'll have to make some changes to the timeline at least, to account for the obvious age changes that will have to happen with the actors playing the child characters, Arya being the most obvious example.

In the series verse is Syrio Forel is Jaqen H'ghar.

• Syrio Forel's discussion on death sounds a heck of a lot like a faceless man. Alternatively he just knows it well being of Bravvos.
  • The whole speech did seem to imply his familiarity at the very least with The Many-Faced God. Might be the creators have a little inside info that they need to hint at a connection to The Faceless Men and Syrio for some reason. However they could just as easily be using a native Braavosi to introduce Arya to the concept of the god of death without it seeming like heavy handed exposition. Just simply planting the seed for the future story lines. I do hope it is the case as it's one of my favourite theories or failing that Syrio returns in some other way.
    • Er, what? Isn't "Not today?" the exact opposite of "valar morghulis"?
    • Eh, "All Men Must Die." doesn't mean it has to be today they die. "All Men Must Die but Not Today."?
    • The motto is two parts; "All Men Must Die; All Men Must Serve." There's a wmg somewhere that proposes that as Braavos is a former slave city, "serve" is next to synonymous with "live", as in "I can't die today, I'm busy serving".
  • Interestingly, one of Jaqen's other identities, The Alchemist is actually described in the books as looking a fair amount like tv!Syrio- he has thick, black curly hair and a fairly large, hooked nose. This would make it easy for the show to confirm this theory, by having Jagen be a different actor, and then transform back into (a disguised) Syrio as The Alchemist. Still, as noted below, it's hard to believe that Syrio survived his last appearance- if Trant/Syrio is alive, then Syrio/Trant shouldn't be.

Ned is going to wind up allying with Drogo.

• Drogo's just about the only other honorable person with power in the show, and Daenarys is a far more decent person than her brother.
  • Pity that Drogo seems to be even more pigheaded than Ned. Good luck convincing him that the poisoning attempt wasn't the united will of the people of Westeros.
  • Drogo may be rash, but he's not stupid. Even with his army, Drogo wouldn't be able to take Westeros on his own. He'll need allies and not just the malcontents who were against Baratheon rule to begin with. Ned and the Starks are now at war with the Throne as it is.
  • That would first require Ned surviving, which looks unlikely at the moment.
  • It would also require Drogo surviving, which is only slightly more likely.
  • What? Did Ned and Drogo die in the book?
    • See? Yeah. This is not the only problem with the original theory, however, considering that "honor" means something completely different to Ned and Drogo. To Drogo, it means killing men in a fair battle - and sacking their city, raping the women and enslaving the children.
    • This troper hasn't read A Song of Ice and Fire...though his parents do have the first book...
  • Well, so much for that...lets just hope Joffrey winds up on the "anyone can die" list with Needle being impaled in his heart...
    • Nope. Poisoned in book three.
    • I'm curious; why are we putting book spoilers in the TV show WMG? Shouldn't we just be using this as a place to theorize the show, and not spoil the book series for those who haven't read it?
  • Still, it would make a fascinating For Want of a Nail fanfic....
  • There is another slight wrinkle in this plan; everything Drogo knows about Westros, he gets from either Dany or Jorah. Both Dany and Jorah hate Ned. Remember that from our perspective, Ned was The Lancer to Robert's hero. From Dany's perspective, Ned is The Dragon to Robert's Big Bad. Jorah knows it's not quite as simple as that, but at the same time, Ned Stark is the guy responsible for Jorah losing everything he ever cared about(again, from Jorah's perspective, the guy does not like accepting responsibility for his mistakes). Neither of these two would suggest allying with the Starks to be an option, so Drogo probably wouldn't even consider it. Drogo's a very intelligent man, but he's completely ignorant of the workings of Westrosi nobility and politics.

Syrio Forel did not die in episode 8.

• You can hear several death screams after Arya ran out of the room. Clearly Syrio picked the sword from one of the downed soldiers and made quick work of all of them. He just didn't want Arya to see the slaughter.
  • Why stop there? I'm pretty sure the season finale will end with the Lannister and Stark armies converging on King's Landing, the gates swing open, and all we'll see is Syrio Forel, standing atop a pile of shishkebabbed Lannisters.
  • We last saw him face Ser Meryn Trant in a fight to the death. Meryn Trant has survived the encounter as he hits Sansa in the season finale.
  • Not to mention, one of the heads on spikes in the same scene may be his. It's difficult to tell, but it may be the one to the left of the Septa's.
  • In the books, it's never elaborated on whether he was killed or not, or what happened to him. The only reference to him up through book 5 is a brief reference to him--still referred to as Arya's dancing master--interfering with their attempt to grab Arya resulting in her getting away.

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 The Watson/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 oppurtunity 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?"

Hodor is actually the smartest character.

He realized he was in an HBO series and thus thought it was appropriate to provide some random nudity.

• Technically, Jossed, as the scene was written that way before an HBO series was a glint in Martin's eye.

Ros is going to be the ultimate winner of the game of thrones.

Eventually, she'll realize her preternatural talent for getting people to exposit while she's in the nude, exploit this power by illicitly acquiring the most well-guarded secrets of every principal character she can get into bed, and use a system of blackmail and deceit to rise to the Iron Throne as Ros Hypnotits, First Of Her Name.

• Wouldn't surprise me if the show does present her as rising in status, but it will probably come crashing down. Speaking as a tv watcher who reads book spoilers, I wonder if she'll have the fate of book!Marillon, which would make sense, given her connection to Littlefinger.
  • . . . that fate includes trying to rape Sansa.
  • Well, it is Ros. Come to think of it though, it's probably more likely that Ros will play out the role of Alayaya or else, Ros will become more like novel!Shae and tv!Shae will take on Alayaya's role.

The Starks and Danaerys will wind up in alliance together

• Ned, one of the principle instigators of the Baratheon rebellion, is no longer head of the Stark family, Robb and Catelyn want vengeance for Ned's execution, and the man who killed Dany's father in the first place, Jaime Lannister, is in Stark custody. The Starks, furthermore, have no interest in the Iron Throne, instead content to govern themselves and see to the problems in the North. It would be a mutually beneficial partnership: The Starks assist Danaerys, her legitimacy to the throne reinforced by the fact that she's truly of the Dragon's blood(immunity to fire) and one of the symbols of the Targaeryens' Mandate of Heaven(of sorts) was their dragons which Dany's returned to the world. The Starks, meanwhile, want to just be left alone in Winterfell(hell, they might not completely secede from Westeros if Joffrey's beheaded, the Lannisters wiped out, and a new king/queen is on the Throne that they're no longer at hostilities with) and they're only fighting to maintain their (newly found) independence.
  • Well, the Greatjon did say that it was the dragons the Northerners bowed to...

Gendry (Robert's bastard that Ned met) is actually Cersei and Robert's legitimate heir.

• Cersei, not wanting a son by Robert on the throne, had him sent away (or he was smuggled away to prevent Cersei from killing him) under the guise that he died as the black-haired baby that Cersei told Catelyn about. After Cersei found out that Ned had been looking into Robert's other children, Gendry's master sent him off to the North to save him from being killed by her. Alternately, Gendry is not Cersei's but Robert and Lyanna's, and Cersei resented him for being the son of a dead woman / thought he would be a threat to any other children she had.
  • If Gendry was Cersei's son and she sent him away right after his birth, wouldn't someone have noticed that she was pregnant?
  • It's canon in both the books and the show that Cersei had a kid before Joffery; in the books she aborted the pregnancy with Jaime's help(it was Robert's kid and she only wanted to have Jaime's), and in the show she actually gave birth to a child by Robert, specifically mentioned to be blackhaired, and he died very young, presumably not long after birth. It *is* possible, but highly unlikely.

Jon Snow is King Robert's bastard.

• Jon has black hair, like all the Baratheon children. Ned and Robert were away at war together when Jon was born. Ned took the child to raise as his own, making up the story about his parentage for the sake of his friend, Robert.
  • Doesn't that mean his name should actually be Jon Waters?
    • First off, tee hee. Secondly, not necessarily. Careful research (going by the books here, with liberal exploitation of A Wiki of Ice and Fire) has led this troper to conclude that the bastard names must be more a matter of where the child is raised rather than born/conceived, a matter that usually isn't of note because the two are usually the same place. Take Edric Storm, the bastard son Robert conceived on Stannis's wedding night in his marriage bed (ouch). By all logic, his name should be Edric Waters, as he was born/conceived at Dragonstone in the Crownlands (or Edric Flowers, if we take the long shot that Stannis and Selyse were married in her family's castle in the Reach), but he's instead given the bastard name of the Stormlands, which could only be because he was fostered by Renly at Storm's End. Then there's the fact that (as is established) Robert and Ned were away at war, so no way was Jon actually born in the North, even if we ignored that Wylla (the woman Ned presents as Jon's mother when he talks about her at all) was a servant of House Dayne in Dorne (to put things into perspective for the TV-only fans, when the wildlings were talking about going as south as south can go? They either meant Dorne or getting off Westeros). If Eddard was raising Robert's bastard son as his own, then he'd only naturally slap on the name of the North in the hopes that people wouldn't ask too many questions.
  • Or Jon Snow is the Bastard Child of Lyanna Stark...
    • Why not both? They were in love, after all.
      • Not necessarily. Robert was in love with Lyanna, yes, but the books imply this was mainly from a distance and don't give any indication they ever actually slept together. Lyanna is even suggested to have been somewhat cynical about the arrangement; a flashback has her telling Ned that she knew Robert would never be satisfied with just one woman, even her. The popular guess, though this hasn't been confirmed in any way shape or form, is that Jon is the bastard of Lyanna and Rhaegar, followed up by him being the bastard of Ned or his brother Brandon and Ashara Dayne.
    • More on the Jon is son of Lyanna Stark: In his last conversation with Nedd, he tells him (paraphrasing) "You don't have my name, but you have my blood". That fits a bastard son as much as a nephew by your sister. Too bad he didn't live to fullfill what he promised when he said "We'll speak some day about your mother".
      • Don't you know? "We'll speak about this some day" is TV talk for "This is the last time you will see me before my untimely demise."
  • Another problem with this is that if Jon was Robert's child by Lyanna, there is no way in the seven hells Robert wouldn't claim the kid as his own. Hell, he'd probably raise him at court. Something not mentioned in the show yet, but will become a plot point in the second season is that Robert does have a bastard he acknowledges back in Storm's End, and he's really more of a father to that kid than he ever was to Joffery. That was specifically because Robert deflowered a daughter of a noble(if somewhat minor) house on his brother's wedding bed, so he couldn't very well deny the kid was his. But he actually loved Lyanna and never cared about humiliating Cersei. He'd hold onto his and Lyanna's son for dear life. Hell, he might even legitimize him(king's can declare bastard children legit) and name him heir, but that might go a little too far towards pissing off Tywin.

The Stallion that Mounts the World prophesy was actually about dragons.

• This was noted on this Westeros site's forum and I noticed part of it too. There may be a Prophecy Twist in that the death of Dany's son didn't disprove the Stallion prophecy- instead, it started the chain of events that will bring it about. The "Stallion" is actually a dragon that Dany will ride and will use to Take Over the World. So, if the witch thought she was preventing Dothraki expansionism by killing Dany's son, it's quite likely she actually made it possible. Incidentally, Dany's stillborn son was described as having scales and a tail- maybe that gave Dany the idea; maybe it would have been a human/dragon hybrid...
  • In the series Danys was much younger when she married, so that the child growing within her to be the stallion who mounts the world is actually Danys. It turns out Old Valarian had no gender...
    • Except the Dothraki don't speak Old Valyrian, so this particular Prophecy Twist only applies to prophecies written in Valyrian. That is, only the the Prince Who Was Promised prophecy.

Some musings about Westeros' climate

• Putting it here cos this dips far into the theoretical field of things. Not sure how physically possible this is or not, but make up your own mind about it. The seasons on the world where Westeros and the rest are situated are not caused by the planet's tilt or by an elliptical orbit, which causes seasons on most worlds. On the contrary; Westeros-world has a small axial tilt and as near a circular orbit as is physically possible. The seasons are in fact caused by the planet's precession. On Earth and other worlds, the rate of precession is slow and constant, with Earth's precession rate averaging 26,000 years or so in length, and is a major player in causing Ice Ages and warmer periods. On Westeros-world, the precession rate varies wildly, whether caused by a nearby large gravity well or otherwise, the rate can't stabilise. Mention is made of a prominent moon and that there may have at one time been two (loss of a moon leading to wildly fluctuating precession rate?). The precession rate is also phenomenally fast, taking as little as 15-30 years to complete.
  • I'm obsessed with this too. While the moon is "prominent" in their night sky, that could only indicate its proximity, not its size. It's entirely possible that their moon is smaller than ours and has a weaker gravitational pull. It would be fascinating to see an approved chart of the planet's solar system, with orbits and satellites, etc, similar to The Map of the 'Verse from Firefly.
  • Word of God says the reason for this is supernatural, not scientific.
  • Yep. IMHO, you're looking at a tidal aetheric energy type deal, similar to what you had with The Lord of the Rings, with the elves having to leave there, because they were dual physical/astral beings, who couldn't co-exist physically when the aetheric tide was that low/veil between the two was that thick. Best guess, the Wall between Westeros and the North was built close to the end of the last aetheric high tide, which is also why there was talk of runes being in the Wall's design. Back then, the humans would have had magick users who knew how to do such things. At another guess, that is also why the dragons died off, and why they're coming back now. The aetheric tide is rising, which not only coincides with Winter coming, (and is probably partly tied into it, more than any scientific/physical reason for the change in seasons) but would be a big part of the reason why the Walkers are able to come back. At aetheric low tide, you get no magic, and nothing but mundane types of people and animals, which is also why you get people becoming materialistic and thinking that science is all that exists, because low tide periods can last longer than living memory, so non-magickal stuff is all anyone living can remember.
  • If the orbital tilt is zero, precession is by definition zero. If precession makes the orbital tilt non-zero, you will get seasons which won't change the average temperature of the planet, and not a sudden "winter". Since years are used as a measure of time, they must have the same length, so the orbit can't change. This leaves fluctuations of the star's intensity, but that wouldn't explain the "long night" - a period in the lore where the sun didn't shine at all, something which would mean the destruction of any physical star because of the lack of photon pressure. This leaves as only option technology. Either the star is simulated, there's a dyson cloud or dyson sphere which is mostly translucent between the planet and the star, the planet contains machines to alter its rotational characteristics, it's all a computer simulation, or multiple of the above. There is no natural phenomenon to explain this, and no simple technology either.
    • Maybe the title sequence is more realistic than we realize, and Westeros is on the inside of a malfunctioning Dyson Sphere; the sun in the center has started to wobble, causing the random length of the seasons.

In the next thousand years or so, the Dothraki will evolve into the Sycorax.

Even their languages sound similar.

Bronn is a deserter from the Night's Watch

• He admits to having been north of the Wall for some unexplained "work". He's not exactly the most honorable guy, and could have been a criminal who was sent to the Wall as punishment, then fled, escaping the law and becoming a sellsword to make his living.
  • He mentions the first person he killed was a woman who came at him with an axe. Sounds like a wilding to me.
  • They don't send kids to the wall though - he killed her before he was twelve. Maybe he is a wildling, or he could be a bastard from one of the brothels in the North.
    • What about Lommy or Hot Pie? They might not *condem* children to the Wall but they definitely *recruit* them.

Women from the kingdom of Dorne taste like blackberry jam

Robert is heard to comment to a prostitute that she tastes like blackberry jam. When asked 'what's the strangest thing you've ever eaten,' Tyrion replies, 'do Dornish girls count?' Maybe the prostitute was from Dorne, where all the girls taste of jam, much to Tyrion's surprise the first time he slept with one.

• One would assume the reason any woman would taste like blackberry jam would be that they're using a type of lotion, perfume, or cream derived from blackberries, specifically for flavor enhancement. Perhaps this is especially common in Dorne.

Viserys "The Begger King" Targaryen will raise a second army to overthrow King Bob

For the record, I haven't watched past episode six, so just go along like the rest of the canon material doesn't exist.

It is simple, really. Viserys would pawn his newly designed golden hat for cash, for which he will use to fund an army or spark a revolt in the Crownlands. Now, I know what you are thinking: "Viserys is a dolt, and he would probably lose his hat before he got to the pawn shop.".

Well that's where you are wrong! You see, Viserys' golden crown was glued with super hot glue, so there is no way that he would be able to lose it on his way to the pawn shop.

Ser Barristan will rebel against King Joffrey, probably by supporting Renly or Stannis Baratheon's claim to the throne

What better way to shove the fact that you aren't a frail old man up Joffrey and Cersei's ass but bringing them down with Grandpa badassery?

• Close.

Jon Snow and Daenerys will team up to form a rock band at some point

Their first hit will be called "A Song of Ice (Snow) and Fire (Daenerys)".

They'll return the favor and parody The Simpsons opening.

An aerial shot of a rebuilt Winterfell as a modern city, complete with Lard Lad Lemoncakes sign and billboard advertising snow tires with the slogan "Winter is Coming", descends into a classroom window. Bran is Writing Lines on the blackboard: "I will not warg into the class gerbil"...

• • Or maybe "Asshai is not pronounced ass-high".

George R.R. Martin will write the bloodiest episodes of each season.

This WMG contains major spoilers for the books, so I'll be putting it in a footnote. ^[1]

• We now know he'll be writing episode 7 of season 3, with the working title of "Autumn Storm". Doesn't sound like the Red Wedding. I expect the episode depicting it to be called "Rains of Castamere", or something to that effect.

Ser Loras is a warlock

And the reason he was collecting Renly's body hair was because he needed it as part of a ritual to create The Lorax - obviously named after him - in order to stop the coming winter because as everybody knows WINTER IS COMING!!1!! and once it sets there will be no more flowers. Ser Loras is the Knight of Flowers so he can't let that happen.

The dragon Rhaegal is female.

That's the reason why (s)he is not named Rhaegon in accordance with Drogon and Viseryon.

• • This would solve the problem of reproduction further down the line.

Bronn is a Self-Made Orphan

The woman that attacked him with an axe when he was 12 and was his first kill was his mother (who he said was physically abusive to him). His father, who was also abusive, was either already dead by then, or was Bronn's second kill.

Joffrey is not the love child of Jaime and Cersei, but of Cartman and Butters.

He's got the blonde hair, the skinny body and the whining from Butters, and from Cartman everything else.

Ros will be the stand in instead of Jeyne Pool

Jeyne hasn't been seen since the first episode so she'd come completely out of nowhere when it's time for her to pretend to be Arya and marry Ramsey Bolton. On the other hand, you have Ros, who is an established character, who Theon had a close relationship with when she was in the brothel near Winterfell and anything can be done with her since she's from outside the canon story. Plus, we've seen Baelish need to find some use for her after she saw the baby die, why not sell her to the Lannisters?

• There is a slight problem with this theory, Arya/ Jeyne is supposed to be 12 or so by the 4th book, Ros appears to be something like in her early 30s. There is no way you could pass on something as big as that age difference. - Exterminatus

The Targaryens are Dragonborn.

Turns out there's a damn good reason they refer to themselves as 'Dragons' (aside from the explanation already established, that is). Not all Targaryens are strong in the Dragon Blood, however: Viserys isn't ("he was no true Dragon"); Dany, on the other hand, very much is.

• Alternately, Daenerys is a Jill in human form.
  • Does that mean Valyria was the Empire of Cyrodil?

It wasn't a cow pie.

For one, there was not a single cow in that crowd.

The monster that Jon Snow saw take Crastor's child sacrifice wasn't a White Walker: it was a White Walker Giant.

Remember when Maester Luwin stated "The dragons are gone, the giants are dead, and the Children of the Forest have been forgotten"? The dragons are already back, so it'd stand to reason the giants would find some way to come back. Plus, that creature seemed much larger than the average man.

• • White Walkers are a specific creature. Wights are dead things animated by White Walkers, they are seperate. There can't be a "White Walker giant". There might be an undead giant, if giants do exist, but only two White Walkers have been seen in the series, one in the pilot, and one that Jon saw in the forest.

The White Walkers are visiting Yautja hunters from outer space

I just had a very weird dream where this was revealed to me. Behold, because it makes a lot of sense:

• What little of their aspect (tall, agile humanoids that make weird insect-like noises) and behavior (ambushing people and butchering/decapitating them for no apparent reason) fits.
• They disappear for thousands of years. That's just the time they stop visiting.
• They are found north of the wall because that's where the most attractive hunting pieces are found (direwolves, shadowcats, giants, mammoths). They probably were behind the extinction of the dragons in Essos too.
• Their "pale spiders big as dogs" is a slight misremembering of their faces, shown when they are not wearing helmets.
• The Red Comet is a spaceship breaking into the atmosphere.

So far, the only thing that seems out of place is their ability to make zombies - but it could be some other Magic From Technology thing.

• • There's also the issue that the Predators are traditionally drawn to hot regions, and don't like cold. That's a pretty big contrast for the Others.
  • What about the Aliens vs Predators film? Also, a bit meta but it might be amusing, the actor who portrayed the White Walker in the pilot and who is also now doing Ser Gregor Clegane actually played a Predator in the AVP film.

Talisa isn't replacing Jeyne Westerling - she is Jeyne Westerling

In "A Man Without Honor", she is hesitant to accompany Robb to the Crag, seat of House Westerling. She has had some tension with her family, hence why she's out playing nurse. She adopted the Volantine persona to avoid suspicion - the Westerlings are Lannister bannermen, and Robb would never permit her to wander freely about his camp if he knew who she was.

• Also, Talisa was not only acting as a battlefield nurse, but also as a spy for the Lannisters. Telling Robb that she was reporting his army's movements to Tywin Lannister was a Sarcastic Confession.
• Furthermore, her claim to be from Volantis may not be entirely false, even if this theory is true. Her mother's house, the Spicers, are mentioned in the book as being spice merchants from the east. Perhaps she identifies with the (possibly) Volantine side of her family.

Pyat Pree is, or is somehow related to, the Mystery Man.

He has the same ability to appear and disappear, and he even looks somewhat similar.

Shae is going to betray Tyrion because she becomes jealous of his marriage to Sansa.

The TV series version of Shae is a more likeable character than in the book and even seems to be close to a friend to Sansa. It's not hard to imagine that she actually cares for Tyrion, but when he is married to Sansa in series 3 she'll be distraught, hurt and betrayed, driving her to betray Tyrion when he is framed for Joffrey's murder.

• One of book-Shae's defining traits is her ability to tell people exactly what they want to hear(an ability that failed her all of once), and make them believe what they want to believe. It's not hard imagine she actually cares about Tyrion because she wants Tyrion to think she actually cares about him. Which will make it sting all the more for both Tyrion and the audience when she betrays him.

Syrio is a Faceless Man, but he isn't Jaqen.

He killed Meryn and has been posing as him ever since.

Xaro's vault leads to a tunnel connecting it with the House of the Undying

Pyat Pree used it to enter and exit Xaro's house. 

• Why? Xaro let him take the dragons, so he could have walked in through the main gate. Not to mention that we see the dragons transported outdoors
  • When Xaro returned the gate was closed and Xaro's guards slaughtered. PP obviously didn't enter through the main door.
    • People have to die for the ruse to work. Although I'm fairly certain that many of those guards were Dothraki. And you can close a gate behind you just as easily as you can open it. There just doesn't seem to be any reason for this hypothetical tunnel to exist.

They will show Theon's transformation into Reek in Season 3 & 4

Mostly because they can't have him disappear for two seasons, and Alfie Allen had so far nailed Theon, so it would be a shame for him to vanish. Also, a casting call has gone out for a "20-30 year old, weird and extreme looking" which sounds a lot like Ramsay Snow, and he can only appear in the context of Theon's plot.

The final scene will be The White Walker attack on the Fist

Because they need to top the dragon reveal. And the OST has a track called Three blasts, and we know what that means

• Confirmed.

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.

The white walkers are really draugr

The white walkers look just like draugr from the way their skin looks to the blue glowing eyes.

• • So Ironborn, Northerners and Wildings are Nords or Nordic descendants? And the Drowned God is Shor?
• Fun fact: The White Walkers are extremely close to the mythological Draugr, more so in fact than their namesakes in Skyrim. Minus shape-changing powers (we think) and connection to their place of burial, anyway.

The hornblower is Ramsay Bolton.

Because that guy is a complete troll, and likes to do things himself.

• And he prefers vuvuzelas.
  • Vuvuzelas made from human skin.

1. ↑ The bloodiest episode of Season One was arguably "The Pointy End", what with the massacre of the Stark household in King's Landing and the Dothraki pillaging of the Lazhareen. In Season Two, he'll be writing "Blackwater" which of course is about the Battle of the Blackwater. Speculating, his Season Three and Four episodes will revolve around the Red Wedding and the capture of Meereen, respectively. "Written by George R.R. Martin" will be code for "SO MUCH BLOOD".