“Huddled beneath her ermine mantle and surrounded by her ladies, serving girls, and knights, the southron queen seemed a frail, pale, shrunken thing. A strained smile was frozen into place on her thin lips, but her eyes brimmed with reverence. She hates the cold but loves the flames.”
some asoiaf theories are like “Tywin Lannister died on the toilet which basically means he is Elvis. Here are some parallels between Elvis’s life and Tywin’s:”
some asoiaf theories are like “Tywin Lannister died on the toilet which basically means he is Elvis. Here are some parallels between Elvis’s life and Tywin’s:”
Mod 2 here weighing in with my thoughts because I have thought about this a lot. I am not sure if Sansa will meet Lady Stoneheart. She may hear of her because the outlaws are becoming more and more notorious for their actions. Whether she would ever understand who it is I’m not certain about.
I am rather more certain that Arya will meet her. Arya already had association with the Brotherhood. I believe her conversations with Lord Beric and Thoros had some importance, particularly this said by Beric:
“Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman’s hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favourite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?” ASOS
I certainly do, though I can also see her dying without seeing them again. I’ve never actually understood where the idea that she wouldn’t recognize her daughters comes from.
“Can you bring back a man without a head?” Arya asked. “Just the once, not six times. Could you?” ASOS
Arya also learned the gift of mercy from Sandor Clegane as well as having the faceless men teaching that death can be a merciful end to suffering (I think there is more to it with the FM but it is relevant to this example). If anybody is in need of mercy it is the resurrected Catelyn Stark. It just seems that Arya learned from Beric of how it felt to be resurrected, that it did not feel right AND expressed a wish to have a parent resurrected.
Whatever people think of Lady Stoneheart and the quest for vengeance, it is an awful way for Catelyn Stark to live. Those conversations Arya had combined with learning to give mercy to end suffering feels as though it has to be leading to something.
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