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blade55555

United States17423 Posts

October 26 2014 20:12 GMT

#11401

On October 27 2014 03:56 Skilledblob wrote:
dont quote me on this but I think there was a scene that showed Balon falling of a bridge?

In the book yes, show no.

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Germany2516 Posts

October 26 2014 20:57 GMT

#11402

I was surprised that Melisandre mentioned Balon in the first place, to be honest. In the show, they already replaced Balon with Mance Rayder early on when talking about the war of the 5 kings, if I remember correctly, and Balon always seemed quite unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

TheFish7

United States2824 Posts

October 28 2014 00:13 GMT

#11403

This comes out tomorrow:

Pretty good so far, although I've only read a few pages, the illustrations are the best part. Doesn't seem like it will be revealing too much info that was previously unknown like I was hoping. GRRM did say there will be some revelations in it though. My question got selected to be asked at the panel yesterday: I asked "Dragons being born seems to be connected to fire and death. Does birthing a dragon require a human sacrifice?" And he said "There are some things in the books that might lead you to believe that. I'm going to elect to dodge that question for now though."

illusiongamer

Mexico377 Posts

October 28 2014 01:51 GMT

#11404

On October 28 2014 09:13 TheFish7 wrote:
"Dragons being born seems to be connected to fire and death. Does birthing a dragon require a human sacrifice?" "

There are rumors about this, it requires the use of blood magic with king's blood.

SmoKim

Denmark10305 Posts

October 29 2014 12:22 GMT

#11405

icystorage

Jollibee19350 Posts

October 30 2014 02:46 GMT

#11406

this got me wondering. what if the greatest twist in the history of literature (and cinema) is that martin kills himself without finishing the book?

rebdomine

6040 Posts

October 31 2014 03:31 GMT

#11407

Everyone would just come up with their own alternate versions of the ending.

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Canada1557 Posts

October 31 2014 05:54 GMT

#11408

On October 30 2014 11:46 icystorage wrote:
this got me wondering. what if the greatest twist in the history of literature (and cinema) is that martin kills himself without finishing the book?

He would burn himself in a pool of bacon, trying to bring dragons into the world...

...only to be Azor Ahai born again amidst smoke and salt.

And he shall wield Lightbringer, the red pencil of heroes. The blank pages shall flee before him, and he'll write about a summer that never ends.

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Germany2516 Posts

November 05 2014 22:42 GMT

#11409

It's official, no Bran in season 5. Huh.

So no flashbacks, either, at least not through him. Which makes it even weirder that they cast Maggy the Frog for the upcoming season. Are they really going to do regular flashbacks, something they've chosen not to do for 4 season? Or is Maggy going to appear in the present time and give Cersei her prophecy then?