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Originally Posted by lieinmygrave41
So we've got two seasons remaining. I'm guessing the plot lines will start accelerating and season 6 will see a few main characters die (Littlefinger, Cersei, Jamie, Brienne, Podrick, maybe Arya during a failed assassination), but what happens to Essos and that whole continent? The show runners spent almost 3 seasons in Mereen and now it's all supposed to be under Daario's handling? How do they resolve that plot while also showing the Targaryen invasion and subsequent White Walker war? Does Jaquen show up again? What happens to Jorah? Where is Gendry? He's the last remaining "Baratheon."
I think Dany will conquer King's Landing, learn of the White Walkers and during a battle with Winterfell, one of the dragons stops to investige Jon. Because Jon has Targaryen blood, the dragon allows Jon to climb on him, basically ending the battle and forming an alliance between the South and the North (now that Jon is King of the North). The Iron Borns will be obliterated by their internal political turmoil and betrayal, killing off Yara, Euron, and Theon. Dany and Jon marry each other, which is the end of season 6. During season 7, one of the dragons becomes an ice dragon (which the show and books has alluded to) and ends up fighting for the white walkers. This dragon ends up killing Dany or Jon. The plight of their spouse's death causes them to commit suicide. Ser Davos survives all of this and so does Tyrion and Sansa. In the end, Sansa is the queen, Tyron is hand of the Queen, and Davos is head of the Queensguard. The camera pans out of King's Landing, up and up, past the clouds and into the optical lenses of the Citadel library and back down into the large room revealed to us in Season 6. It's 20 years in the future now. Samuel Tarly is the Maester of the Citadel, teaching children of the War of the Three Kings and the Song of Fire and Ice. His son is his apprentice and Gilly leans against a small bookcase, smiling at Sam.
The last 5 minutes of the show pan to a small town north of the wall, so far north we've never been there. A hand protrudes out of the ground. He reaches for the soil and claws at it with his ruby-studded hand. It's a forgotten Night King, supposedly usurped and left to die by the formerly slaughtered Night King. /fin
The Song of Fire and Ice is perpetual. The epilogue is Bronn hooking up with a Sand Snake.
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I'll offer some of my own thoughts. Which also could be very wrong lol.
I agree, many characters are about to start dying. But I think Arya, Jon, Dany, Tyrion, and Bran all survive until at least midway-end part of the final season though. Those were the five main characters for the story to center around in Martin's original 1993 outline and I don't see that changing really, they'll all make it until the very ending. Like episode 4 or 5 assuming there's 7 episodes each in season's 7 and 8. Or half seasons, whatever you want to call them. Jon won't die again, I think Dany is in play though.
As far as Essos is concerned, they're probably going to just sort of move on. It's so large and there are so many different cities and realms that even what we've seen is just a microcosm of it. I'd be okay with just washing our hands of it and not checking in on Daario again.
Gendry ain't coming back, unless he's with Hot Pie hanging out in the Riverlands and Brienne and Pod run into them in season 7. Doubtful though.
Jaquen isn't a real person, he's no one. It's a face that no one wears. The dude she thought was Jaquen killed himself after she killed Trant to prove that point. I think we're done with the faceless men though.
Jorah is the interesting question mark that I really have no answer for. Could go the way of Gendry and just disappear. Maybe he just shows up out of nowhere during the last season half a stone man after finding some cure to stop it from spreading like Dany commanded.
I don't foresee a war between Dany and the North once she conquers the south. She's already granting the iron islands their independence with some fealty, the same could happen with the north. Jon and the North also aren't trying to conquer or sit the Iron Throne, I think their attention will be devoted to the Wall coming down and the WW invasion in season 7. Depending on when Jon learns of his parentage he definitely isn't going to start fighting his auntie who's got the largest combined army the world has seen and three dragons. Jon will ride Viserion though, and Bran will warg Rhaegal.
Dany's vision in the house of the undying of the throne room destroyed and covered in snow could be some foreshadowing though. Does Cersei go full Mad King and actually "burn them all" and destroy even the Red Keep? Or does the north get overwhelmed and have to retreat south because there's not much they can do to stop the WW and the WW are what bring devastation to KL? Is it just a regular winter snow dusting in the south, or a storm brought by the WW?
I think Euron will meet Dany in an epic sea battle on her way to Westeros or i could see an alliance with Cersei being formed. It's also possible that they take some of the book plot and have him start reaving down the coast and attacking Oldtown and the Reach and not actually have a conflict with Dany until she's already taken out Cersei.
A dragon isn't going to become an ice dragon I don't think. It'd be interesting though, like if the Nights King touched it like they do to Craster's sons. If an ice dragon does appear, because you're right it has been mentioned and hinted at, especially in the books, I think it's more likely to come from the wall itself or from under Winterfell, which are the two most common references. Ultimately I don't think we will though, not on the show at least. Just seems like too much out of left field for the show IMO.
I don't think Jon or Dany commits suicide as a result of one dying, they aren't going to fall madly in love over the course of 14 episodes remaining, Jon would be much more heartbroken over say Arya dying. If they marry it will be more for duty and to unite the realm than love. I'm interested to see how Jon and Dany feel about incestual relationships. Marrying cousins and nephews and nieces isn't that strange in the realm, Tywin wed his cousin for example, so maybe they'd be cool with it. The brother sister stuff was strictly Targaryen though. If they both survive Dany will be the one who actually sits the throne. Sansa will be wardenness of the North I think in that scenario.
The Sam in Oldtown zoom out probably won't work because he's still sworn to the Nights Watch and will be returning to be the maester there with the newly reformed Watch after all the fighting has finished. But he may be recanting the War of the FIVE kings, and the WW invasion.
Bronn and Sandsnake epilogue would be hilarious.
I actually like Jason Concepsion's (guy who writes for The Ringer) idea for the epilogue which is basically everyone's wiped out and we see Nymeria leading her huge pack around the Riverlands and happen upon a wandering Ghost. /fin
Who really knows how any of this will go though. A lot of different things could go down.