The Burning Mill

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Most Plausible

Harrenhal Selects for Fire, Processes Through Alys, and Destroys Through Recognition

84% Plausibility

Most Debated

The Meeting Rhaenyra Is Engineering Is the One Alicent Cannot Survive Without a Confession

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Strength Breakdown

Strong
3 theories43%
Plausible
3 theories43%
Speculative
1 theory14%

Did You Notice

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Daemon's Harrenhal Vision of Rhaenyra

Daemon sees a vision of young Rhaenyra stitching Jaehaerys's head back onto his shoulders in Harrenhal

Daemon's King Consort Title Assertion

Daemon corrects Simon Strong, demanding 'Your Grace' instead of 'my Prince' and asserting his right as Rhaenyra's king consort

Daemon discovers a weirwood Heart Tree in Harrenhal's godswood, which is a sacred site of the Old Gods where believers pray and are believed to be places where men cannot lie.

Daemon finds himself standing before Harrenhal's weirwood heart tree in the godswood after his supernatural vision

Need To Know

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Daemon Claims Harrenhal for Rhaenyra

Daemon arrives at Harrenhal with Caraxes, claims the castle for Rhaenyra, and announces plans to garrison an army there

Simon Strong's Anti-Larys Motivation

Simon brands Larys a kinslayer who murdered their father and brother, declaring he owes his great-nephew no loyalty

Mysaria's Court Bargain

Mysaria offers her spy network to Rhaenyra in exchange for a court position, motivated by revenge and self-interest

Daemon's 'Your Grace' Authority Claim

Daemon corrects Simon Strong, demanding 'Your Grace' instead of 'my Prince' to assert his right to the title as Rhaenyra's king consort

The Battle of the Burning Mill between House Bracken and House Blackwood was not fundamentally about royal loyalties to Aegon II or Rhaenyra, but rather an escalation of a petty dispute over land boundaries between the two families.

The Bracken-Blackwood battle erupts from a dispute over moved boundary stones, not primary disagreement over royal succession

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