Melisandre doesn’t have any friends at the Wall or Wildlings (she kinda burned a favorite), and admitted most of her power is from the equivalent of magic tricks designed to recruit for her religion.
She had to get to the Wall for a reason. She convinced Stannis to burn his only child (TV version, but the end result will be the same), which resulted in the majority of his forces abandoning him out of disgust and the dire situation he put them in.
Melisandre doesn’t have a practical use for John Snow. In fact, she made his death more probable, taking out two birds with one stone.
GRRM is very predictable. Look for clues in actual history. ;)
“Melisandre doesn’t have a practical use for John Snow.”
She does actually. Cause Stannis ain’t her hero, she knows that in the show now (she left him to die, almost made me feel sorry for him) and is fixating on Snow in the books, seeing him in her visions. Her hero is supposed to be “reborn”.
Most of her magic is illusion, yes, some think she’s really an old crone with a magical disguise! But that other Red Priest demonstrated the power of resurrection, seems the obvious course.
If Snow were really dead for good I don’t see where the story on the wall has anywhere to go besides White Walkers breaking though and killing all the Night’s Watch. Fat boy left, there are no other major characters up there. ‘
HBO loves this, people speculating!
Just curious. Do you think Melisandre had a practical use for Stannis? If her real business is beyond the Wall and the search for Azor Ahai is a sham (or if she already knows AA is someone else), why did she spend so much time with SB?
Doesn’t she have a use for royal blood or something?
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It’s obvious Dany ends up on the throne. Remember Henry Tudor was called the “dragon of the North”.
She will end up married to someone who has a claim to the throne but is possibly a bastard child.