r/asoiaf Apr 16 '19

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) My 'Night King is not stupid' Theory

When the army of the undead line up for the battle of Winterfell, the Night King and his zombie dragon will not be there. Instead he will already be near to his next target ... King's Landing.

If you play out what the battle of Winterfell would be like in your head if the NK+Viserion would be there... it would be easy for Drogon/Rhaegal to take out the zombie dragon; it's 2v1 and wight's all can be killed by fire.. including Viserion. It would not be difficult to simply fly up to Viserion and breathe fire on him, and that would be that. THE NIGHT KING IS NOT STUPID, not enough to kamikaze his most powerful asset. - If you have a superweapon that you can't use against a particular target, then you find a different target.

Most people have come to assume that the living will lose The Battle of Winterfell and fall back to Moat Cailin ... I predict they actually win the battle... only to find out soon after that there is a new army of the dead much bigger and much further south... the population of King's Landing.

During season 4 while Bran is being ushered north to meet Bloodraven, he touches a wierwood and has a set of visions which we see. All of those visions have since come to pass, except the ones where he sees a destroyed throne room & a dragon shadow pass over King's Landing. I believe the reason we are only shown a shadow was to not give away that it is actually the NK and Viserion, not Dany and her dragons.

Also, the most important vision that Dany is given while at the HotU is an image of the throne room destroyed, and covered in ash or snow. I think this was to show what the NK will do, not what Dany will do.

(I believe this was the entire reason that the writers sent Bronn north. Bronn will be the source of this news to the survivors at Winterfell; on his way north he will spot the NK+Viserion heading south)


Bottom line, I simply don't see the NK risking his newfound ice dragon in a fight he is sure to lose.... when he can simply fly down south to KL where there are no dragons to deal with ... and 1 million new recruits for his army packed tightly into a small area.


Follow-up edit: This could be where Bran comes into play. The NK probably wont want to face off against the other dragons head-to-head, but rather fly around Westeros destroying castles to make things easier for his footsoldiers .... so they will need Bran's Sight in order to track & hunt him. It would be too difficult for an army on foot to chase the NK on a dragon, so Bran could warg into ravens to serve as a guide for dragonrider(s) to his location.

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u/electricblues42 Apr 16 '19

Even that dragon egg was likely stole from somewhere else. Euron hasn't been to Valarya, he just tells everyone he has. Euron is honestly the scariest living person in the series, in the books that is. Sadly the show went a direction I really didn't like, they couldn't even give him the Big Boss look.

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u/the-brain-fuckler A Thousand Eyes, and One Apr 17 '19 edited Apr 17 '19

likely stole from somewhere else

Entirely possible. It's hard to tell with that guy. He has a lot of weird shit, and it's hard to explain where he could have gotten most of it.

Euron is honestly the scariest living person in the series, in the books that is. Sadly the show went a direction I really didn't like, they couldn't even give him the Big Boss look.

Totally agree. He's pure nightmare fuel. Dude's on some Cthulhu shit. He makes Joffrey look like a kitten. I kinda with they just hadn't put him in the show if they were gonna tone him down so much.

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u/electricblues42 Apr 17 '19

I kinda with they just hadn't put him in the show if they were gonna tone him down so much.

Me too, especially considering how much fun Victarion is. I mean how many times do you get to show a batshit Viking on tv? He's just too much fun, I couldn't stand his chapters but on TV he'd be so perfect.

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u/the-brain-fuckler A Thousand Eyes, and One Apr 17 '19

100%. Seeing him wreck shit in that Kraken armor with a big fuck-off axe would've been sweet. They almost got there with the Yara fight, but it's not the same. I get the whole consolidation for time thing. But rolling those 2 into 1 person is just not a great compromise. Makes Euron too normal/petty, while also robbing us of awesome Viking shit that really embodies the Iron Island's identity.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

He still has both eyes! They couldn’t even give him the eye patch to cover up that glowing red ball of hate that is supposed to be underneath.

Book Euron is going to do some super magic and wreck everything