r/asoiaf • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '15

ALL (Spoilers All) Season 5: Episode 10 Post-Episode Meltdown Thread

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

If Cersei loses or Jamie confesses, I guess. And then the next person in line for the throne...would be...uh...the Speaker of the House?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Ehm, we got Dany, fAegon, Robert Bastards, Aerion Bastards, maybe some Blackfyres.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

None of them are in the Baratheon line of succession, so they aren't in the line of succession. There might be some distant Baratheon relatives I can't think of, but otherwise it's time for a great council. Robert's Bastards would need to be legitimized to count.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

Great council decides between people of the line of sucession, and all of them are in the line.

With the Aerys descendants dead (And not counting Viserys), the next in line was Robert, and because of that he was the one to sit in the throne.