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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2736862" data-attributes="member: 20741">The Major Spoilers and Easter eggs from AFFC are as follows:[spoiler]  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> R+L=J : The evidence mounts with a few offhand references to the “wolf bitch” by Cersei. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Sandor is alive:  The most likely explanation is that Sandor was rescued by a Septon or other brother or the Quiet Isle. Sandor is the grave digger whose face is not all seen but who is described as "bigger even than Brienne". He limps  - as Sandor did when Arya abandoned him due to his wound. Above all, "Dog" sniffs at him and licks him. Lastly, Sandor’s warhorse, Stranger, is clearly described as the horse on the Quiet Isle.  The Hound is dead; but Sandor Clegane remains. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The Alchemist who kills Pate in the prologue is described – to a T – as the same face that Jaqen H’Gar assumes when he transforms in front of Arya in a Clash of Kings. At the end of the novel, Jaqen has now assumed the form of Pate and is in Marwyn’s chambers. What he is up to we do not know. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Read closely and you will see that “Alleras the Sphinx” is androgynous in description. This is for good reason. Alleras spelled backwards reveals “his” true identity as Sarella of Dorne, the Viper’s daughter  - the only child of the Viper who was outside of Dorne and could not be found to be locked up. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> There is reason to believe that Loras is not as injured as we are lead to believe. The  injury to Loras is described to Cersei by Aurane Waters and he is vague on how badly burned Loras may be.  Otherwise, Loras took two crossbow bolts, to shoulder and thigh. Cersei repeats Aurane’s tale to Margaery and Margaery cries. The same night Margaery is told of the injury, Lady Merryweather leaves Cersei’s bedchambers and says she spends it with Margaery to comfort her.  What they discuss or what Merryweather tells Margaery / is told by Margaery we do not know. It is after Loras’ “injury” that we notice Pycelle is spending more time with the little Queen. It is also at about this time that Kevan Lannister vanishes. Lady Merryweather is also the only person who is privy to Cersei’s plots concerning Margaery. Indeed - she is the source for all of Cersei's suspicions over Margaery's virginity and tells her tales of Renly and the marriage and Pycelle's visits.  But the same Merryweather refused to bring her son to foster with Tommen although invited repeatedly to do so.  “Someone tells. Someone always tells.” It is Pycelle’s public confirmation that Margaery has asked for moon tea that prompts Cersei to expose herself by going to the High Septon and leaving her guards behind.  After her arrest: The Merryweathers vanish. Pycelle takes over the small council, Aurane Waters puts the fleet to sea and Qyburne is deposed. Kevan Lannister is summoned to act as Regent. Meanwhile, Cersei has placed herself in a position where she is to be put on trial. In order to have Cersei fall at the trial, her champion must fail. The central point is that Loras – who would succeed against virtually any other champion  - as a King’s guard cannot refuse the Queen Mother’s request to act as her champion.  But Loras does not have to accept a request that is never made because he is “too injured” to be considered as a champion. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> There is a theory that the obsidian candles describe as “sharp as razors” and “slender as a sword” may not be candles at all but are the blades of ancient dragonglass swords. It may be that any one could qualify as “Lightbringer” as they burn, give off both heat and light but are not consumed. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Another theory that the Horn found by Euron is not a horn of Dragon Control. It is a horn of Fire and is meant to oppose ICE – not control dragons. It may well be the horn meant to bring down the Wall. If so – Mance Rayder’s Horn of Winter (which is reportedly burned by Melisandre in AdwD) was something else entirely and after 8,000 years, critical mistakes are about to be made in confusing the purpose of ancient artifacts. </li> </ul>[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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