Post by danl on Nov 2, 2017 13:51:43 GMT
The answer to this last question seems clear, at least to me. Ned enshrined Brandon and Lyanna as equals among the Kings and Lords of Winterfell.
I see it that way. But equal in what respect? Neither seems to have been king or lord of Winterfell. At the most mundane level, they are equal in that they have statues just like the kings and lords, but that doesn't tell us what the statues mean or what their significance is.
I don't want this thing to end in the extinction of one or the other, but that they find a way to live peacefully side by side.
If they find a way to live peacefully, that peace will be temporary.
Ned's mother does not have a carving, for example, and she is not present in Theon's dream.
Her absence from Theon's dream doesn't seem any more significant than her general absence from ASOIAF. I am not disputing your general theory that the statues may affect someone's ability to rest in peace, but I don't think you can prove much with the absence of Ned's mother from a particular dream. Is there a Ned's mother thread somewhere?
It's very possible that Ned might have killed Lyanna. I know you have thought this for awhile. But if he did, it was a death of mercy, which is similar in intention to the wolf pups and Lady, but the details are very different.
I don't think you can really call Lady a mercy killing. And if there is a parallel between Lady's death and Lyanna's, it was an execution to prevent a different sort of execution. "Promise me, Ned .. that you will kill me before they do"
She seems to be very hard on Ned in her words, but she gives his statue a lingering looking in the crypts. That is odd. Why is she studying his likeness so closely?
She does seem to be looking for something. Maybe there was something odd in Brandon's statue and she is looking for the same thing in Ned's?