Counting the Prologue as chapter 0, I am now on chapter 20 - Tyrion.
After the ending of the last book: beheading of Eddard, capture of Jamie, crowning of Joffrey, Sansa taken hostage, death of Khal Drogo and birth of Dany's dragons... and so much more, one can just wonder how can we be drawn into the series even further?
The lasso that drags that mustang in is Stanis. Oh yes, we are wondering, after all that Renly, late King Robert, Eddard et al. shared with us on Stanis in the previous book, what could be interesting about this fellow. He doesn't like sex, he is a boring, staunch man... what could intrigue us about him?
The once again vague, ambiguous "Prologue", starts out on Dragon stone, with the Maester. This maester is old, and on the verge of death, how to put such a thing lightly, and his replacement has arrived. They receive news of the happenings in Westeros, or should I quite rightly say they "Game of Thrones" that is going on. They discuss with Stanis, and Stanis does not appreciate his old maester's advice. Later we find out, that the old maester in an attempt to assassinate the Red Woman - Melisandre- the maester poisons himself and dies. Melisandre, and Stanis' wife et al. have different advice to give him, which is basically send out birds to all the maesters stating the truth: Joffrey and his siblings are not heirs of the late King Robert but at instead bastards of Jaime and Cersei. He, Stanis is the rightful heir, and is going to wage war to be king soon. The birds go out, and the Clash of Kings begin.
So we have King Robb Stark to the North, King Joffrey to the East, Khaleesi Daenerys rising further East across the sea, King Renly gathering forces in the South, and now King Stanis rising out of the West. Lord Tywinn is stuck at Halenhaal and Lysa has her little Rob as Lord! Crazy! Do you hear the "clash" already?
Somewhere within all this, little Sansa, Arya, Jon, Bran, are lost, and somehow surviving. Arya is traveling with Yoren and other men who are traveling to the wall to take the black, when they take up in town run down by the war. Everyone still thinks she is a boy, and she has done well, putting up with bullying etc. Gendry (the late King Robert's bastard), is with them. HE kind of befriends her. It is in this old town they are confronted by Lord Tywin''s men, and Yoren decides not to yield on the basis that those who take the black serve only the realm. They are all burnt down or out, and Yoren dies fighting many. Many are killed save Arya, Gendry, Hot Pie, a crying girl, and another guy who is injured and later is killed by Lord Tywinn's men. They survive a few days on their own, until they come upon a fishing village and risk exploring it. All of them get caught by Sir Gregor Clegane - The Mountain (Lord Tywinn's ally) except the crying girl. However, it is revealed that Gendry knows Arya is a girl, and Arya reluctant at first, tells him who she is.
Dun dun dun!
Robb sends Theon Greyjoy to seek aid from his family. So Theon sets sail, when he gets there his father has different ideas. He does not wish to side with anyone, especially not the Starks. He wishes to strike where the nest is not guarded. This chapter leaves us hanging... till Theon's next chapter?
Bran is biding time at Winterfell, growing restless. He gets in a few tussles with the new boys sent there as Catelyn's wards from the Twins. Osha and he form a sort of relationship, as well as he and Hodor. His dreams carry messages or something. Very slow development here, and some political moving. It is very sure that Bran IS in fact growing up to be the Lord of Winterfell, due to Robb's absence.
Sansa is still stuck in King's Landing, as Joff's plaything. He gives his men orders to beat her when he wishes. Cersei has the maids changed every week so as they not form friendships with her. She has NO ONE, and it is really her own folly, but one can not help but feel bad for her. Get this, one night she finds a note under her pillow which says "Meet me under the God's Wood". Out of curiosity she goes, and finds ser Dontos Hollard, a knight. He was the knight who got too drunk on Joffrey's name day, during the tourney, and was unable to fight. Joffrey wanted him killed, but Sansa pleaded saying "but it's unlucky to kill someone on your birthday" then she added that "wouldn't it be a good idea to have him as your jester, your court fool, rather than as a knight?". As he was so grateful he thought of rescuing her. However it would take a while, and it would be difficult. She is happy about this, but then again he is a drunk knight.
Nothing much on Catelyn yet, other than she is stubborn to leave Robb's side, as he sits "idle" at Riverrun, and keeps trying to advice him. In fact she tells him to send someone OTHER THAN Theon to go seek the Greyjoy's help, but Robb doesn't listen. Will he pay dearly for this? I think he will. Once when Robb and Bean were attacked by Wildings in the woods, near Winterfell, where was Theon? So Robb should have listened to Catelyn. However, what is wrong with Catelyn? Her sun is doomed right now, and her other son, and family are all alone in Winterfell, what is wrong with this woman! Obviously she wishes to be there to make Robb bargain for his sisters. I think he really doesn't care about his sisters at this point. He is a little arrogant since the crown was placed on his head. Someone did tell her, "Crowns do queer things to the heads that wear them", or something along those lines. Anyway Robb dispatches a person to make a deal.
Tyrion is who it's mainly all about this time. He's now at King's Landing, and taking charge of things. He is finding out what everyone is up to... EVERYONE! and taking charge, steps, and making things move. He is being the King's Hand. I don't know what the King is doing, but the King is a jerk, and he probably thinks so too. This needs to be a blog on its own.
Lastly a person named Davos Seaworth is introduced. He works for Stannis. Here they plot too, on Dragonstone!
My predictions:
After the ending of the last book: beheading of Eddard, capture of Jamie, crowning of Joffrey, Sansa taken hostage, death of Khal Drogo and birth of Dany's dragons... and so much more, one can just wonder how can we be drawn into the series even further?
The lasso that drags that mustang in is Stanis. Oh yes, we are wondering, after all that Renly, late King Robert, Eddard et al. shared with us on Stanis in the previous book, what could be interesting about this fellow. He doesn't like sex, he is a boring, staunch man... what could intrigue us about him?
The once again vague, ambiguous "Prologue", starts out on Dragon stone, with the Maester. This maester is old, and on the verge of death, how to put such a thing lightly, and his replacement has arrived. They receive news of the happenings in Westeros, or should I quite rightly say they "Game of Thrones" that is going on. They discuss with Stanis, and Stanis does not appreciate his old maester's advice. Later we find out, that the old maester in an attempt to assassinate the Red Woman - Melisandre- the maester poisons himself and dies. Melisandre, and Stanis' wife et al. have different advice to give him, which is basically send out birds to all the maesters stating the truth: Joffrey and his siblings are not heirs of the late King Robert but at instead bastards of Jaime and Cersei. He, Stanis is the rightful heir, and is going to wage war to be king soon. The birds go out, and the Clash of Kings begin.
So we have King Robb Stark to the North, King Joffrey to the East, Khaleesi Daenerys rising further East across the sea, King Renly gathering forces in the South, and now King Stanis rising out of the West. Lord Tywinn is stuck at Halenhaal and Lysa has her little Rob as Lord! Crazy! Do you hear the "clash" already?
Somewhere within all this, little Sansa, Arya, Jon, Bran, are lost, and somehow surviving. Arya is traveling with Yoren and other men who are traveling to the wall to take the black, when they take up in town run down by the war. Everyone still thinks she is a boy, and she has done well, putting up with bullying etc. Gendry (the late King Robert's bastard), is with them. HE kind of befriends her. It is in this old town they are confronted by Lord Tywin''s men, and Yoren decides not to yield on the basis that those who take the black serve only the realm. They are all burnt down or out, and Yoren dies fighting many. Many are killed save Arya, Gendry, Hot Pie, a crying girl, and another guy who is injured and later is killed by Lord Tywinn's men. They survive a few days on their own, until they come upon a fishing village and risk exploring it. All of them get caught by Sir Gregor Clegane - The Mountain (Lord Tywinn's ally) except the crying girl. However, it is revealed that Gendry knows Arya is a girl, and Arya reluctant at first, tells him who she is.
Dun dun dun!
Robb sends Theon Greyjoy to seek aid from his family. So Theon sets sail, when he gets there his father has different ideas. He does not wish to side with anyone, especially not the Starks. He wishes to strike where the nest is not guarded. This chapter leaves us hanging... till Theon's next chapter?
Bran is biding time at Winterfell, growing restless. He gets in a few tussles with the new boys sent there as Catelyn's wards from the Twins. Osha and he form a sort of relationship, as well as he and Hodor. His dreams carry messages or something. Very slow development here, and some political moving. It is very sure that Bran IS in fact growing up to be the Lord of Winterfell, due to Robb's absence.
Sansa is still stuck in King's Landing, as Joff's plaything. He gives his men orders to beat her when he wishes. Cersei has the maids changed every week so as they not form friendships with her. She has NO ONE, and it is really her own folly, but one can not help but feel bad for her. Get this, one night she finds a note under her pillow which says "Meet me under the God's Wood". Out of curiosity she goes, and finds ser Dontos Hollard, a knight. He was the knight who got too drunk on Joffrey's name day, during the tourney, and was unable to fight. Joffrey wanted him killed, but Sansa pleaded saying "but it's unlucky to kill someone on your birthday" then she added that "wouldn't it be a good idea to have him as your jester, your court fool, rather than as a knight?". As he was so grateful he thought of rescuing her. However it would take a while, and it would be difficult. She is happy about this, but then again he is a drunk knight.
Nothing much on Catelyn yet, other than she is stubborn to leave Robb's side, as he sits "idle" at Riverrun, and keeps trying to advice him. In fact she tells him to send someone OTHER THAN Theon to go seek the Greyjoy's help, but Robb doesn't listen. Will he pay dearly for this? I think he will. Once when Robb and Bean were attacked by Wildings in the woods, near Winterfell, where was Theon? So Robb should have listened to Catelyn. However, what is wrong with Catelyn? Her sun is doomed right now, and her other son, and family are all alone in Winterfell, what is wrong with this woman! Obviously she wishes to be there to make Robb bargain for his sisters. I think he really doesn't care about his sisters at this point. He is a little arrogant since the crown was placed on his head. Someone did tell her, "Crowns do queer things to the heads that wear them", or something along those lines. Anyway Robb dispatches a person to make a deal.
Tyrion is who it's mainly all about this time. He's now at King's Landing, and taking charge of things. He is finding out what everyone is up to... EVERYONE! and taking charge, steps, and making things move. He is being the King's Hand. I don't know what the King is doing, but the King is a jerk, and he probably thinks so too. This needs to be a blog on its own.
Lastly a person named Davos Seaworth is introduced. He works for Stannis. Here they plot too, on Dragonstone!
My predictions:
Renly sounds like an idiot, he and his brother will fight it out.
The Greyjoys will take down Robb Stark from Winterfell.
Then the Lannisters can stop fretting and only worry about Dany!
Maybe Sansa will escape successfully. Robb might be backstabbed by Theon, Bran will be lord of Winterfell. Jon will find out MORE serious issues to the North... which will head South in later books?
Breathe!
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