Thanks for the info. Any one have an idea where varys might be? He probably has to be shi**ing himself not knowing where Tyrian is.
Potentially massive spoilers but also just my guess.
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I'm not sure as they are deviating pretty sharply from the books, but my guess is that Varys is still orchestrating everything to get Tyrion to Dany. His main goal seems to be to get a Targaryan back on the throne. The only question is why? Is he in league with the Red God/all of the "fire gods" and lightning gods in opposing the Others and "Great Other"? Or is he just wanting patsy to rule with himself guiding because of his lost manhood.
Remember, while the tv series is called Game of Thrones because it's a cooler title, that's only the name of the first books in the series which is titled A Song of Ice and Fire. And most of the religions except for the Seven all fit on the spectrum of either fire, life and lightning or ice, cold and death. On one side is the Great Other who is the "evil" God across the wall, the Drowned God of the Ironborn (which some say is only a lesser demon under the Great Other) and the manifaced aspects of Death worshipped by the Faceless Men, the Black Goat of Qohor, the Lion of Night of Yi Ti, . On the other side is R'Hllor the Lord of Light/the Red God, the Great Stallion/the fire and flame horse God of the Dothraki, the as yet unnamed fertility and flame goddess of the Summer Islanders and the dragon gods of Old Valyria.
The only gods who do not fit into either a greater cold/ice/death pantheon or the fire/sex/lightning/"life" pantheons is the Seven and the Old Gods of the North and the Children. But the Seven are the only gods that thus far in the book have been "fake" with no power while the clerical magic of both ice (through the drowned God priests bringing back the dead for real now and the return of "Otherly" magic) and fire (the red mages/witches newly strong fire and hinted at Magic of Dothraki and Summer Islanders) are strong. So with the Seven powerless as of now but the cold and ice magic coming back, what about the Old Gods? They always seem to be nature/earth based and unlike the fire and ice magica have continued unabated at a low level with those few remaining true practitioners (the wargs of the wildlings and the "children"/elves).
I kind of get the feeling that ultimately where this is going will be similar to the conclusion of Babylon 5, where the young races were sided in a millennial long struggle between the Vorlon who represented conservatism, stasis, and "order" versus the Shadows who represented freewill libertarianism, Darwinism and "chaos". Eventually the humans were told to pick a side and the end to that greatly written (but mainly horribly acted) storyline was that the humans rose up and said "No" to both and told both of the Godlike races to (heck)....by bringing in some races just as old or even older to help them "fight" the order Versus chaos side.
So if it's true that everyone will fit into team ice, team fire and team earth.
You would have Team Fire as clearly being represented by Dany, Tyrion, Melissandre, and the dragons.
Team Ice as clearly being represented by the Others, Arya and the Ironborn.
Team Earth would at a minimum have on board the Children, Bran and the Wildlings/Nights Watch.
Where everyone else fits is up in the air with the biggest being Jon Snow. He could still fit on either of the three sides as its looking like the leader of the Others is his distant ancestor Bran the builder and with the possibility his uncle is Coldhands so he might tip towards team Ice, BUT he's also half Targaryan and would then fit potentially as a dragon rider which would be team fire...BUT he's a believer in the Old Gods which is team Earth. So where Jon will end up is speculation as far as I'm concerned. The tea leaves point to him being a fulcrum with his decision throwing the entire worlds future into play.
End of spoilery rant.