It's been a while and the poll hungers.

No need to poll it, the first choice is the safest bet.

Pycelle will outlive all of Westeros.

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Voted Pycelle, Daario and Varys. I don't see Varys getting into a situation where he is liable to face harm, I trust GRRM has a sense of humour enough to let Pycelle live and Daario seems like the kind of asshole to ride off into the sunset while everyone else gets killed brutally.

Hey Sarah, not that I don't love it, but when can I change my avatar back to something more flattering and befitting of my wit and masculinity?

Sail, even.

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Yes, back to the Iron Islands... right Sarah?

This is the second time someone asked this, is this how it normally works with avatar roulettes? That they're mandatory? I always assumed that anyone can change their avatar at any time - roulettes should always be voluntary.

Fly actually.

Back in the day there used to be a set time people had to keep it for, so that people who got shafted can't run away crying. Anyway. Back to this noble discussion...

I also wouldn't be surprised if Cersei lives. To make it more interesting we could consider how these people die, though. However far fetched.

Littlefinger killed by Sansa, for example.

Ceresi is definitely on borrowed time. Her chapters now just feel like drawing out her suffering for the pleasure of the reader, though her 'surviving' as a raving mad-woman shell of herself is something I could see happening, though whether you classify that as 'alive' is another thing entirely...

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That is what I'm expecting, to live on as a broken shell of a woman. It also fits with her historical inspiration.


Anyhow, thought that it was a good time to revive this thread for the first time, the next time will be after the next season end probs.

So far Jon and Stannis appear dead but the former is likely to be revived somehow and Stannis probably isn't dead to begin with. If he is it will be my first miss. Jorah is on borrowed time too but that still leaves time for a cure, mundane and especially magical ones.

I'm increasingly under the impression valar morghulis should be taken literally and all of the PoV characters will be dead by the end of the series. I can think of semi-plausible deaths for each character:

• Jon - (Already dead)
• Daenerys - Dies fighting the Others while riding Drogon
• Tyrion - Slain by a tall person
• Aeron - Murdered by his brother's minions (a gruesome Aeron chapter was apparently cut from ADWD)
• Victarion - Dies outside Meereen blowing Dragonbinder
• Asha - Dies while attempting to flee/murder Stannis
• Theon - Sacrificed by Stannis
• Arya - Slain by Jon after the Faceless Men send her (who is blind) to kill Azor Azhai in a mad bid by her death cult to bring about the apocalypse; but she will live on through Nymeria
• Sansa - Victim of a fatal sexual assault by Littlefinger
• Bran - Slain saving the world by warging into a dragon to fight the Others and/or is betrayed by Bloodraven/The Children of the Forest
• Cersei - Loses her trial by combat and grows increasingly mad like Aerys and tries to have King's Landing blown up with wildfire; but she will be strangled by her younger brother Jaime
• Jaime - Executed by Lady Stoneheart or killed in a wildfire explosion at King's Landing
• Barristan - Dies heroically defending Meereen
• Brienne - Executed by Lady Stoneheart
• Samwell - Dies defending Gilly and the baby from the Ironborn or his father
• Melisandre - Slain by a reborn and vengeful Jon
• Connington - Greyscale
• Arianne - Darkstar
• Davos - Cannibals
• Benjen - Others

You have the craziest ideas.

Varys needs more votes!

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Show:

Definitely Survive

John Snow
Khalessi
Tyrone
Salsa
Breen of Tarts
Sam

Probably Survive

Arya
Jamie
Bronn
Brian Stark
Obren's Wife
Theon's Sister

Probably Dead

Davos
Darrio
Theon
Marge
Littlefinger
The Red Woman
Tyrone's bald friend
Edward Tully

Absolutely Fucked

Ricky Stark
Tommen
Tonks
Jorah

Literally Who?

Ben Stark
Gendry
The Hound
Red dude who sold Gendry.
Dude who Hound killed but got resurrected.

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Arya - Spoilers said she will die this season
Bran - Might die
Sansa - Won't die
Jon Snow - Won't die again
Roose Bolton - Dead in the show
Cersei - Will die
Jaime - Might die
Tyrion - Won't die
Tommen - Will die
Stannis - Dead in the show
Davos Seaworth - Might die
Melisandre - Will die
Samwell Tarly - Won't die
Daenerys - Might die
Jorah Mormont - Might die, is as good as dead in the show
Daario Naharis - Will die
Varys the Spider - Might die
Littlefinger - Might die
Margaery Tyrell - Spoilers said she will die this season
Grand Maester Pycelle - Is dead in the books

Could you people fucking tag potential spoilers, wherever you post them please?

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El. Psy. Congroo.

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There's a difference between personal predictions and "spoilers said...", that's all.

Just pissed i can't unread some stuff now, even if it's rumours.

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El. Psy. Congroo.

I just want Davos to survive.

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Jon Snow
Tyrion
Daenerys
Margery
Davos
Gilly
Arya
Sansa

Will survive

Everyone is else is doomed.

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LOL

Nah mate.

Hmm, looking at my guesses after all this time and:

Maybe should have voted Arya to live too, my thinking that her vengeance will consume her is probably true but if trained well enough (and it looks that she will be) then she could be good enough to survive. But I think it's quite likely her vengeance will not make her happy or free, she will continue on as a faceless assassin, empty inside.

Not sure if I should count my bet for Jon dying as fulfilled. Ah fuck it, it counts as correct

Still sticking to my Tommen is toast prediction, but I am quite sad about it still.

I was thinking either Stannis or Davos will die, the former due to his own decisions or the latter saving him from his acts. Well I may still be right but I flipped the coin badly

Had similar thinking about Daario and Jorah, again a bad flip it seems

Another season and it is time for this thread to rise again.

Looking at my picks I still think Bran is gonna sacrifice himself in some way so optimistic on that one.

Arya I thought was more far gone than she seems to be though maybe that is a show/book difference (cute kids have a high survival rate on TV) so looks like a miss there.

Sansa is likely to live but not a sure bet.

John Snow is alive but he did die at one point, counting that as a technical win!

I cba to go thorough all of the options but I will comment on my bolder choices. I though Pycelle might live because he is a sleazy and obsequious and old and might just sneak past without anyone bothering to kill him, I voted so despite knowing he dies in the books, but alas. Cersei and to a lesser extent Jaime are somewhat risky choices but Jaime is redeemable and Cersei might be worse off as a bitter, alone woman no one cares about going old alone (that is kinda what happened to her historical counterpart). They seem more likely to die both but the game is still on.

Also I had a few flip-flop choices where I felt one character would die and another live but it was not sure which. Namely Davos/Stanis and Jorrah/Daario. I think I was right that either Stanis would be responsible for Davos' death and regret it for the rest of his life or Davos would outlive Stanis and be haunted by his experiences... I just picked the wrong guy. And it seems both Daario and Jorrah might survive (though Daario is looking more secure, I voted Jorrah : / ). As Murphy put it, when you have 50-50 odds of guessing something right you have 90% odds of guessing wrong.

Anyway 4:2 score so far counting my technicallly correct answer about Jon