Post by shymaid on Jan 16, 2018 13:07:13 GMT
"The look Ned gave him was anguish ..."
"... Catelyn strengthened her heart against the mute appeal in her husband's eyes."
This quote automatically reminded me of Dany's vision at HOTU
"On a throne above them sat a dead man with a wolf's head. He wore an iron crown and held in one hand a leg of lamb as a king would hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with a mute appeal."
The dead man with a wolf's head in Dany's vision is Ned!
I must admit I haven't sat down and looked long and hard on thses vision, but my initial thought was that this was Robb. (At that time I hadn't read or heard anything about this scene.) So I searched for "mute appeal", and the third and last use of the phrase is this:
She pressed the blade deeper into Jinglebell's throat. The lackwit rolled his eyes at her in mute appeal. A foul stench assailed her nose, but she paid it no more mind than she did the sullen ceaseless pounding of that drum, boom doom boom doom boom doom. Ser Ryman and Black Walder were circling round her back, but Catelyn did not care. They could do as they wished with her; imprison her, rape her, kill her, it made no matter. She had lived too long, and Ned was waiting. It was Robb she feared for. "On my honor as a Tully," she told Lord Walder, "on my honor as a Stark, I will trade your boy's life for Robb's. A son for a son." Her hand shook so badly she was ringing Jinglebell's head.
Catelyn VII, Storm
Catelyn VII, Storm
So I'm thinking this particular vision might not necessarily be about one person, but the Starks as a whole? To me it's difficult to deny the similarities in the images of the vision with the Red Wedding, and the rumor that Robb had a/his wolf's head sown onto his neck. Melisandre's vision of Brynden and Bran shows Bran with a wolf's head. It also reminds of Theon's dream of the feast of the dead. So I certainly connect it to the Starks!