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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ConnorSB" data-source="post: 1305996" data-attributes="member: 14273">Hmm... I've been musing on this for a while, and I've come up with a few thoughts. Some support the idea, and some don't.First, why exactly did Yoren take Arya in the first place? Besides her being, well, a Stark.Second, If Syrio basically changed his face and name while in the black cells (assuming he relented from the guards and they didn't outright kill him, how did he know that Arya was traveling with Yoren?Third, if Syrio is Jaqen, did a "real" Jaqen ever exist?Here's this for a theory:Syrio is a Faceless Man (Are these different than the Sorrowful Men? 'Cause wasn't it a sorroful man that Robert sent against Danys?). He is in town on a mission, whether it be to kill or to recruit. To recruit, he decides the best way to find good canidates is to teach them young- hence posing (possibly legitimatly) as a simple weapons teacher/water dancer in from Bravvos. So he starts teaching Arya and can see her great potential-maybe she is one of the very few people born to kill. He trains her, protects her when the Lannisters take over, etc. After she runs away, he wins the battle (but doesnt kill his opponenent, as he was, you know, still around later). But he follows her and see's Yoren grab her and take her with him. So he tracks them. When he learns that she is going to go to the wall, he, secretly, follows them some more, finds a particularly silent prisoner who obviously doesn't have a background (people say he did something dark, but no one knows what). So he kills the origional Jaqen and takes his place, thus being able to keep tabs on his newest recruit.And then he gives her the coin, as she has the potential. Basically he doesn't want to force her to do anything, so instead he gives her the coin and lets her decide to go to Bravvos on her own.Oh, and as to when his magic returns, perhaps it comes back with everyone elses, when the dragons are born. The mages of the alchemist guild thing, the one that made the wildfire for Tyrion, he does note (and this is about 2 chapters after Jaqen does his face-thing), that the magic seems to have returned, as they have made far more Wildfire than they used to be able to...</blockquote>

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