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Originally Posted by Aegon the Unworthy  So anyhow now that my sarcasm quota for a given post has been met.... |
Sarcasm quota. Funny stuff. Who writes your material? I need better writers.
YS, I don't know the mechanics or the Laws of Magic in ASOIAF. I don't know that GRRM has worked these out himself. We could all project the Laws of Magic from Tolkien, Rowling, LeGuin, Moorcock, Eddings, Feist, or D&D, but these mechanics may not be what Martin has in mind.
It seems that the geographic proximities of the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities to doomed Valyria disallow magic while dragons are absent. The Dothraki Sea is a long way from Valyria and thus the maegi is able to perform the magic ceremony to help Drogo. Following this idea, Pyat Pree or Quaithe said that magic never faded in the East... presumably because of the great distance from the cataclysm that befell Valyria.
The Sorrowful Men are the competing assassin's guild with the Faceless Men, if I'm not mistaken. The Sorrowful Men started with a slave in the Valyrian mines who put other slaves out of their misery. Ultimately these Sorrowful Men caused the catastrophe that destroyed Valyria, iirc. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.) Does anyone know if the Faceless Men preceded the Sorrowful Men, if they were founded by a Sorrowful Man, or if they are completely independent?
If the Faceless Men are just a branch of the Sorrowful Men, would they somehow still be attempting to cause harm to the Valyrians and their dragons? Why did the Targaryen dragons die out? Some say battle, some say they were chained and not set free to grow, some say poisoned... mayber all three are correct. Assassins could have been working at giving bad counsel to the Targaryens (as Varys did to Robert) in order to kill the dragons and weaken the Targaryens without being seen as overt assassins. If the Targaryens had known the Faceless Men were seeking to do them harm, I think the Targaryens would have flown a couple dragons over and napalmed the Faceless Mens guild house.
All that to say, will Arya be sent to destroy the last of the Targaryens? Her possible assassination of Jon has been mentioned before.
p.s. Welcome Robb!