1.7 Arya I

I think she is pretty at ease. She let's Summer lick blood off her hands and that is a baptism of a sort, if you ask me. And Grey Wind is the first to greet her when she arrives at Moat Cailin. When Robb stops paying attention to Grey Wind, Catelyn still is aware that the direwolf is trying to relay something important, and that Robb is making a mistake to push the wolf away.


Maybe. But after Cat wakes up from her 4 day snooze after the Catspaw incident, she is certainly embarrassed at her behavior in allowing herself to fall into such a deep depression that she ignored all but Bran. That is what seems to harden her resolve. "She would show these northerners how strong a Tully of Riverrun could be." It strengthens her but she certainly still doesn't connect herself as being a northern person. Maybe those things never change?



Thanks! I haven't read any of the in-world short-stories that exist. How old was Balerion supposed to be?


It would certainly stun a few people!


It's to overwhelming to look at too many things. The story is too big and too complicated. And there seems to be plenty of time just to come back to things when time allows. I circle back often, and still haven't looked into many of the things that have struck me as odd!

I hear you. I swear I have spun myself around in circles at times trying to think of all the options!

Gotcha!


Oh, I don't know if she was ever comfortable about the old gods, but I think she grew more accepting of the power they might play. Power like that is scary though! I don't know how easy it is to feel comfortable knowing that you are being watched and manipulated for your entire life. From her first pov, where she is very uncomfortable in front of the heart tree, she does seem to grow a little less frightened. But maybe that is because she is out of the north, away from the weirwoods (for the most part) and she doesn't have a reason to feel so uncomfortable?


Thanks! I actually thought Balerion could be older than that, but really, 200 years is a damn long time!


Oh, I hear you on that. That is why I have never actually got around to focus on even half of the stuff that has caught my attention over the years.

This is no different than Cersei associating with her Lannister name more than her Baratheon name. I would suspect this is the case for most women who marry into different houses. Even Dany, who embraces the life of Drogo and the Dothraki, still relates to her Targaryen side. That is in the blood, part of who a person is raised to be, and I can't blame Cat for still feeling that way, and even clinging to it a bit. I am sure she felt very lost in the north, in this house of Winter is Coming, and maybe even clung to her familiar ways, as a sort of comfort.

Well, we haven't got to this part of Dany's reread yet, but she was so miserable with her Dothraki life that she was contemplating death. It was her inner dragon that saved her, made her realize she was strong enough to embrace the Dothraki and Drogo. Dany was also much more lost and lonely than Cersei or Cat could ever be, I would think. Even if Dany is a Targaryen, Viserys is the only family she knew, and he isn't much! She had nothing to try to cling to, but she did thrive in her environment eventually. But the outcome is what matters and in this new environment she thrived to the point that she killed Drogo! She convinced him to fight for the iron throne, and he was wounded while trying to gain the Dothraki what they needed for Dany's war, and then she sentenced him to death by insisting he allow Mirri Maz Duur to treat him. Honestly, this makes her sound just like Catelyn and Cersei!