I don’t think this is a spoiler because it came form the show about shooting the various locations, not the books, but just in case:
They always called it “the fishing village”.
Umm, not quite. The Valyrian sword got knocked out of his hands and he picked up a couple replacement weapons, then found his Valyrian sword again, just in time.
I don’t remember exactly how it happened but I think Jon lost his sword in the fight outside the tent and just grabbed another. when the WW shattered that sword he made his way outside to get his sword. I don’t think he knew it would work the way it did on the WW, he just knew it was a better sword.
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Yeah. And how is he going to get into a ship? I think he’d capsize just about any that he could reach across and climb into. Otherwise he’s going to be hanging onto the stern, cold and waterlogged, kicking all the way back down south.
That’s how it looked to me, too.
Ah, thank you! But was having multiple swords in a battle an ordinary thing? Seems it would be awkward to be wearing multiple swords/sheaths.
Though I can grabbing up one from a fallen warrior after your own is destroyed.
He didn’t have multiple swords, he had his sword but it got knocked away when the white walker slapped him around.
The fort is a harbor with water on one side, a plateau on another side and a wall between the plateau and the water enclosing the fort. The plateau extends further and between it and the wall is a plain. What appeared to be thunder and an avalanche was the White Walker army throwing themselves off the top of the plateau across the plain. They recover and then run across the plain. The Wildlings were in the process of evacuating so some were inside and some were outside. The Gate was closed and the ones outside were killed, then the WW army attacked the gates. Further, more moved across the plateau and dropped down within the walled area.
I haven’t read any of the books, and know only what I’ve seen on the TV show about the Valyrian mythology.
But… is the legend not that Valyrian steel was forged by fire breathing dragons? Is THAT why the steel would have the same effect as dragonstone?
IF so… could Dany’s dragons be the key to forging new weapons against the Walkers?
Speaking of the necromancy magic, I remember something from S2 about the dragons waking up introduced more magic into the world. Or maybe it’s that magic is returning, so the dragons could wake up more easily. I wonder if all magic things push each other into a positive feedback loop, or if there’s some independent cycle, maybe related to the winters.
It is certainly possible, but it begs the question of why use the dragon to make weapons to fight the walkers when you can use the dragons to directly breathe fire on them from above.
It’s so nice to see things (plotwise) headed in a certain direction, actually get there. Tyrion meeting Dany, specifically. An awesome combination.
[I know I’m not the only one, and don’t mean this as arrogantly as it sounds, but it seems that a Dany & The Dragons vs White Walkers climax has been inevitable since the end of Season 1. Doesn’t make it any less eagerly anticipated.]
So the Faceless Men use their supernatural powers to knock off insurance cheats? Seems a bit beneath them.
Thanks to watching with subtitles, we know that the giant’s name was Wun Wun. I’m so happy he didn’t get turned into a giant wight (presumably…we didn’t see him reaching the ships).
I suspect that killing the White King will call all the wights to collapse, in much the manner that unmaking the One Ring caused the Nazgul to de-wraithify.
Remember that they’re knocking off an insurance cheat as a training mission. I’m sure they generally do more important stuff, but you don’t want to send an untrained teen to kill a mafia don.
Because a dragon can only be in one place at a time? Why wouldn’t you use downtime to create weapons that can be widely distributed to fight the enemy?
I’m pretty sure they’ll kill anybody that somebody pays them to kill. Payment could be some kind of favor or deed (like when Arya saved Jaqen from the cage) or probably straight-up money, too, or a “gift” of cash to the Many Faced God. Remember, Jaqen didn’t particularly care who he killed for Arya, just three names, any three names. He had some kind of issue with the logistics of Tywin, IIRC, and didn’t care for being named himself, but other than that I don’t think the “ethics” of the hits mattered one bit.
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I’m sure that the writers appreciate the fans’ attempts to explain plot developments that make little sense, but: this really does make little sense.
As previously mentioned in the thread, if an insurance provider fails to pay on legitimate claims, word would spread and he would soon be out of business. Why hire the Faceless Men in that case? Pure vindictiveness? Is that what the FM exist to deliver?
And if the woman-who-hired-the-Faceless-Men’s husband had been trying to cheat the insurance-provider, who rightfully denied the claim, then the Faceless Men would be killing an honest businessman. Are the FM merely assassins-for-hire? Why, then, all the religious trappings and ritual?
It’s all rather fuzzy and not well thought-out.
Was it real then, I thought it was hypothetical?
It’s hard to tell, with the Faceless Men’s unusual use of syntax. Everything is in the future pluperfect tense.
That’s goofy. There isn’t some magic mechanism that an existing business gets destroyed by one bad Yelp review. First off, they’re in a patriarchal society, and maybe no one gives a fuck what the wife says. Second off, maybe the broker is stretching some element of the contract, and the woman has no standing to bring whatever legal action is possible in Bravos. Maybe, specifically because the woman is of shady character or reputation, or weak, is why the broker thought he didn’t have to pay.
Maybe the broker pays everything else, but this was genuinely a freak accident, and he didn’t have the capital to swing the payout. So he told the lady to fuck off. The invisible hand of the market doesn’t work every time.
I’d assume that the faceless men check into their claims. Or that lying to them is very dangerous. It’s not needlessly fuzzy at all, you’re just expecting to be explicitly told every detail.
Already answered, but I’ll give you the play by play to help clarify:
Jon didn’t fight the White Walker on the battlefield. The WW entered the main lodge, away from the fighting. This was the little hut where the leaders met before the undead showed up. This is also the hut where Jon’s gift of a bag of obsidian daggers was left. When the fighting started everyone ran out of the hut to see what was what, so it was left empty.
The hut lights on fire so Jon and a red shirt go to check it out, then they see the WW. The WW kills the red shirt and then turns to Jon. Jon is armed with only his normal sword, the Valerian steel one. The WW knocks it out of his hand so hard it flies all the way outside the hut. Jon then tries to find the bag of dragon glass but since he’s being actively attacked by the WW he keeps picking up randomly discarded swords laying around.
The bag of dragon glass turns out to be buried underneath rubble, unreachable, so after shattering a couple normal swords Jon finally retrieves his Valerian steel sword outside and kills the WW in full view of everyone.
It may be worth mentioning that Jon had no idea his Valerian sword could kill a WW. His main focus was finding the bag of dragon glass, as that was the only weapon he knew would work. He was surprised as anyone that his sword works too; he only used it out of desperation and instinct.
PS: Firefox natively recognizes “Valerian” as proper but “valerian” as incorrect.
The religious part no doubt powers their supernatural face-changing ability.
If their god is death, then being run of the mill assassins for hire seems like a pretty perfect business to be in.
Ok, can you explain what the issue was with the guy being told NO by “the Gambler” and then being dragged off by his goons?