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Originally Posted by Boaz  Dogmatix, Welcome.
I tend to agree with Varamyr's mentor... warging into another person is wrong. Bran's a kid, he does not know any better and Hodor's basically defenseless anyway.
But on to Jon... A true and unique second life by warging into a dead body would truly be something. Remind me who these bodies are... Rangers or Wildlings? But don't you think that someone would notice if a body was up and walking around again? He'd have to hightail it out of there. He'd be a loner. He'd be a former brother of the NW forced to live alone north of the wall. And he'd have warging powers to have the forest critters help him.... hmmmmm, sounds like Coldhands. |
Do we really need another Coldhands?
I think the point about Jon warging into a corpse in the midst of hundreds of people who aren't particularly fond of wights is a valid one. There's no way he lasts long enough to signal a parley to explain the situation. Further, how could he plan this with anyone else? Who on the Wall would go along with a plot to essentially (in their minds) create a wight? Mel? Is she going to hold off everyone from ripping corpse-Jon to pieces the moment they see him?
Here's another thing: Assuming Ghost survives, he doesn't seem like the type of direwolf that's going to be cool with hanging out with a corpse-Jon. He's already independent enough to disappear on his own for days at a time. What would keep Ghost attached to corpse-Jon? And if Ghost leaves then Jon symbolically ceases to be a Stark.
If Ghost dies, it's the same situation; Jon symbolically loses his Stark status (the same thing that happened to Sansa). Then again, perhaps GRRM *wants* that to happen so that can be Azor Ahai reborn instead.