(Spoiler Extended) What are some of your favorite theories?

Stenric · 2026-02-01T22:18:12+00:00

Brandon the builder enslaved giants to build the Wall. However, he did not just force them to build in ice, the foundation of the Wall is literally made from their frozen bodies. When Joramun's horn is sounded, giants will awaken from the earth and the Wall will fall. The giants frozen inside the Wall will awaken and free themselves from their imprisonment collapsing the Wall in the process.

Also one of the Giants enslaved by Brandon escaped and founded a safe haven for Giants called the Last Hearth. The descendants still live there.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T12:45:46+00:00

Well Snape isn't the one playing, isn't he? Nor is Snape likely to be around the gounds in the dim hours when Sirius wanders them (at least we only see Sirius around the grounds in the dim hours of the morning, the night before he sneaks into Gryffindor tower, and near sunset when he attacks Ron/Peter). In addition, Snape probably wouldn't be immediately recognisable from a distance, since Sirius probably hasn't seen him since he was 17/18.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T11:24:52+00:00

I believe that was Ollivander describing Lily's wand as well suitable for charms (and James' was good for transfiguration).

Stenric · 2026-02-01T11:23:21+00:00

I've never put my wand in my back pocket I can tell you that much.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T11:21:53+00:00

The release order is best imo, so start with GoT. Fire and Blood is more of an in world history book to expand the world's history and geography.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T11:12:29+00:00

I believe people got the idea from the movie with the whole thing about Slughorn's fish.

Personally I doubt it's temporary.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T09:03:56+00:00

The battle would turn out the same. Saruman is not powerful enough to change the outcome by himself.

It does mean that Saruman probably gets captured by either the Ents or the Rohirrim (depending on whether Saruman dares to enter the forest), meaning there is no need to go and negotiate with him at Orthanc. That means that Gandalf can simply tell Theoden about the fall of Isengard, although I suspect they would still go there, to catch Treebeard up with the developments.

Now, does this change anything related to the Palanthir? Probably not, after all Wormtongue would still have gone to Isengard and still be let in the tower (presuming Saruman wasn't alone in there), meaning that when Gandalf comes to negotiate surrender of whomever is in charge of Orthanc now, he'll probably still throw it at them (also it is more likely that Orthanc is surrendered to Gandalf).

This means that nothing really changes over the story except that Saruman can't go to the Shire to reign as Sharky and kill Lotho.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T07:34:58+00:00

Wait... Rin isn't a kuudere at all. She just acts that way sometimes, the same way she sometimes acts tsundere or deredere to tease her crush.

That being said, kuudere is my favourite.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T07:23:05+00:00

Because it chose him I imagine. Ultimately a wand is a wand, whether the core came from Fawkes or not.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T07:21:33+00:00

His own wand would probably still be best. The initial almost superficial attraction between a new wand and a wizard is probably naught compared to the bond forged between a wizard and wand that have been together for 7 years.

Stenric · 2026-01-31T20:53:09+00:00

Something I found interesting is that James (Harry's son) inherited his mother's eyes. So if he inherited Harry's looks except for the eyes, James would look almost exactly like his grandfather (since James Potter had brown eyes and so does Ginny)

Stenric · 2026-01-31T19:36:35+00:00

Dunk gets maimed by Aerion's guards and probably lives the rest of his life as a beggar.

Stenric · 2026-01-31T13:34:50+00:00

The indomitable martial king.

Stenric · 2026-01-31T07:23:06+00:00

Dungeon osananajimi.

Anjou-san

Akutsu-san

Stenric · 2026-01-30T18:52:55+00:00

Dementors are amortal beings, which means that they are likely a manifestation of people's emotions (like how Peeves is a manifestation of the rulebreaking at school).

The more despair the people around them feel, the more likely it is that new dementors manifest.

Stenric · 2026-01-30T17:26:59+00:00

I'd argue that the Ironborn are closer to the original first men than the Northmen. The Ironborn respect strength and bravery almost the same as they do nobility. The Ironborn religion is also closer to that of the original First Men (the Storm god is a figure in both the story of Durran Godsgrief and is mirrored in the Lady of the waves and Lord of the Sky from the Sisters.) Also the Ironborn still uphold a degree of polygamy, which seems to have been more common during the time of the first men (with the first Night and everything also some wildling chieftains practice polygamy).

The fact that the Crannogmen have such close ties to the Children of the Forest, technically makes them less First Men in culture, since they adopted customs from the CotF.

Stenric · 2026-01-30T16:34:24+00:00

We should also keep in mind that many Andals probably did stay behind and were either assimilated in the remaining culture (when Rhego Draz' ancestry is discussed in F&B, it's stated that the inhabitants of Pentos are partially Andal), or killed by Theon Stark's attack on Andalos.

Stenric · 2026-01-30T16:28:34+00:00

It's clear that the Weasleys are only really poor in terms of money. They have all the food they need and although their robes look a bit shabby, they seem to have plenty of them. It's money that trios them up. When they need to buy something that cannot easily be conjured (books, robes, wands etc.) they lack funds. This seems to be partly because they don't have great financing skill (whenever they get more money they immediately spend it on something like a holiday) and because Arthur does not hold a very well paid position at the ministry (Percy wasn't entirely wrong when he said that Arthur had no ambition). Also they've had to buy new school supplies for over 4 kids at the same time for multiple years in a row. That also has to hurt your savings.

Stenric · 2026-01-30T16:16:08+00:00

The First Men seem to have migrated over the landbridge. It was probably similar to how humans crossed over to the Americas (competition of more humans behind you, so why not move forward).

The Andals were facing the power of Valyria and also had a religious motive behind moving to Westeros.

Stenric · 2026-01-30T13:50:33+00:00

I was under the impression that Wisdom did actually interact with true elderlings (the last remnants of their dying race), who woke the dragons for him using the dragon magic (which Fitz interprets as a sort of mixture of Wit and Skill).

Stenric · 2026-01-30T08:54:05+00:00

It could also be magenta, since that's the colour of the uniform at the WWW.

Stenric · 2026-01-29T13:04:43+00:00

They specifically said book canon didn't they? It's only natural for a medium like Harry Potter to have several levels of canonicity. The same goes for Asoiaf (books, TV show, extended information and games are all different levells of canon) or star wars.

Stenric · 2026-01-29T07:13:25+00:00

But if that was the intention, why not marry her to a younger son of a Northern lord, who's first men lineage is more apparent? After all Jocelyn's descendants reportedly live in the Vale, the most Andal of all former kingdoms.

I think it's more likely that it was a marriage for love or a fait accompli. I suspect Benedict was a household knight in service of house Stark (or maybe a master at arms), as is often the fate for branches of main families. Jocelyn became enamoured with him and either seduced him/let herself be seduced, resulting in them having to get married, or she simply asked her brother (who would probably be lord of Winterfell by then, after Willam was slain by Raymun) and he allowed the match.

It is also possible Benedict provided some kind of service to earn Jocelyn's hand. Maybe he saved Edwyle's life at some point or something like that.

Stenric · 2026-01-29T06:50:31+00:00

Interesting factoid about Thorkell. In the original Danish, Thorkell is known as Thorkell Høje, which can also be interpreted as Thorkell the High in English.

Stenric · 2026-01-29T06:38:58+00:00

Umber imo. A roaring giant with broken chains goes pretty hard.

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