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It has to do with the Seven-Faced God
Warning: This
post contains spoilers from both the Game of
Thrones TV show and
George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fireseries.
Game of Thrones theories have been flying since the drama returned
to HBO April 24, creating rampant speculation about everything from Jon Snow’s true parentage to Hodor’s origin story. Now — in the wake of a
rumored flashback scene to Lyanna Stark’s death at the Tower of Joy — fans have
turned to the Stark family as a whole, and specifically, their possible
connection to the Seven-Faced God.
While some have long believed the Starks to be the
human embodiment of the Seven — the deity of the main religion in Westeros, the
Faith of the Seven — YouTube user Calluna recently gave a
detailed explanation of the theory. In the video, she argues that each member
of the Stark family represents one of the seven aspects of the faith: Ned the
Father, Catelynn the Mother, Robb the Warrior, Sansa the Maiden, Arya the
Stranger, Bran the Crone and Rickon the Smith.
She goes on to say that not only do they each
demonstrate characteristics of their divine counterparts, but that their fates
are an inversion of those traits. Confused yet? Here’s an example.
In the context of this theory, Ned is the Father,
who is a symbol of justice in the Faith. Throughout his storyline, Ned is known
as honorable to a fault. In fact, one of his earliest lines in the show — “He
who passes the sentence should swing the sword” — foreshadows his strict
commitment to doing what is right. However — and this is where that whole
inversion thing comes in — Ned’s death is a direct result of his unwillingness
to stray from his moral code.
And before you ask, don’t worry — Jon Snow plays a
role in all of this as well. Calluna posits that Ned’s bastard is a
manifestation of all the faces of the deity, referencing his capacity to
demonstrate qualities from each of the Seven.
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