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Originally Posted by vailpass

Great points made by all in the last few posts here, lots to think on.

Question: I just got done re-watching season 1 on HBO. Why does Maester Pycelle act like he is broken down and soft in the head in front of the whore in his room and everyone else then, when alone, he straightens up and cracks his back and appears just fine?

One more link to an essay that I found extremely interesting. It deals with the Citadel. It was written before book 5 came out, but since Book 5 did not have any Citadel information in it (a disappointment for sure after reading this essay), it is still up to date.

http://towerofthehand.com/blog/2010/...nt_/index.html

Spoiler!

The key info is that the Sphinx character at the Citadel is really Sarella Sand (one of the viper princesses from Dorne) in disguise.

Also, the man who killed Pate in the book 4 prologue, then took his form in the epilogue, and now has a key to every room in the Citadel, is really Jaquen H'Ghar the Faceless Man who sent Arya to Bravos. What is he up to?

Also interesting that Marwyn heads off to go see Dany, but then he never shows up in Book 5, so what happened to him? I wonder if Marwyn is also the same person as the red priest that ends up with Victarion when he fishes him out of the ocean. I don;t think their descriptions are the same, but red priests can glamor. Not sure why else he wouldn;t have shown up in Book 5, plus in the passage quoted in the essay, he clearly saw the future in the flames in that he knew Samwell Tarly was coming to the Citadel and got to him first. Made me wonder if he is really a red priest that infiltrated the Citadel for some reason.