The North
Rickon - No show in E5.
Rickon S6E6 prediction: Still act as useful hostage as bait to lure Jon or Sansa to Winterfell to attempt a rescue mission or prisoner exchange.
Umber / Karstark alliance - No show in E5.
Umber S6E6 prediction: With only 2000 Wildlings able to fight according to Jon, it doesn't appear those beyond the Wall are raiding and Umber is just using an excuse to secure Ramsey's aid. Umber can play both sides should Ramsey or Jon win.
Ramsey Bolton - No show in E5.
Ramsey S6E6 prediction: Ramsey is going to consolidate his strength in Winterfell. With the E5 trailer, Baelish has teleported to the north, missing the army of the Vale marching on Moat Cailin (avoiding White Harbor and House Manderly). Bolton has to be sending out envoys to get more support for the remaining Lords. He already has Umber and Karstark. Will he get House Manderly's allegiance (and possible turn-coat later on), or will Brienne beat him to it? Bolton has to defend the Moat and spread forces to make good on his pact with Umbers.
Bran - Totally messes up with Greenseering worse than Merry tossing a pebble down a hole in Moria. Jojen Reed also has the ability to Greenseer but he got eaten by the Others. The Night's King marks him and somehow that nullifies the protection of the Three-Eyed Raven (3ER or book Bloodraven?) weirwood cave. Summer and Leaf give their life to protect Bran's escape and Hodor makes the ultimate sacrifice holding the cave door (hence his naming - ho' d' door - and the episode title) shut against the walking dead horde. Bran was receiving a core dump of all the history from BR's Greenseering days (and predecessors) and had to deal with the present situation so being stuck to attempt warging while in past Winterfell where Wylis is. Bran has to reach the Hodor of the present since his conscience is locked in the past so hopefully there is some connection. This scene is where Eddard is sent away to the Eyrie for training as a boy, mirroring the 3 Eyed Raven's send off to Bran. The added bonus is Rickard Stark's message: Stay out of trouble, but if you have to fight -- win. The Greenseer seemed to stop Bran from touching the past while using greensight when he called out to younger Eddard at the Tower of Joy. Now that power has been confirmed. This also confirms that Bran is like his ancestor Bran the Builder having both abilities. Bran scars Wylis' psyche for life while Greenseering, which shows Wylis will become Hodor and that he must live in order to serve a Stark and sacrifice his life at the door. Luckily Wylis/Hodor survives long enough on his travels for many years. Such is fate - written for us. The time-traveling close loop that whatever Bran affects in the past will happen in the future and he can't rewrite what will happen. Meera gets a good shot in whacking one of the last three White Walker lieutenants, leaving the Night's King and two Horsemen (or are there much more we don't see from Craster's grown up babies). It also appears that most, if not all, the Children of the Forest were slain by the Others. So the Night's King has a special power to make White Walkers from live humans which are stronger than your average murdered zombie. Is there also a special bloodline needed with live humans and no other bloodline can be converted? Do the Others follow a god of darkness in opposing the Lord of Light, R'hllor and his hero Azor Ahai, who commanded them to awaken again after 8000 years of slumber? What is the triggering event of when the Wildlings realized they were in trouble and Mance Ryder began to lead them to the Wall? How many month or years were the Others active before noticed by the first Ranger to desert his post? Was the Wall a way for the followers of the New Ways to bury the Old Ways and tales only the Wildlings knew as bedtime stories?Then the big reveal is that the Night's King was created by the CotF from a man to combat the spreading of the First Men into their northern territory, supposedly Brandon Stark, the 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. That tale is wrong because the Night's King came first by the hand of the CotF and then his killing of men created the Others as followers instead of the Others existing before, then being seduced by a female White Walker. Also legend has it that the Wildling King Joramund had a horn that could wake up the giants, and possible collapse the wall. The Wall couldn't have been built until after the Night's King defeat at Nightfort, which is south of the Wall, and couldn't exist because the horn would have destroyed it. So the Night's King is an intelligent being that can control his mindless army with absolute authority (Craster's offering babies allowed him to live unharmed as a trusted pact existed with the Night's King so there had to be some communication along with some mystical way the White Walker was sent because a male baby was born. Why did the Wildlings leave Craster alone? Would the WW kill the Wildlings that hurt Craster? The WW couldn't help Craster from the NW. The WW did not attack the NW in retaliation for killing Craster) and has lesser lieutenants that serve him (are these grown Craster's babies?). What is the Night's King motivation besides killing all men and CotF they come across? What is the point of their new world order besides nothingness? Do they serve a god even though they were created by CotF? Can they freeze the Narrow Sea and cross to Essos which the CotF created to stop their advance the first time? An obsidian blade magicked by dragon's fire created them, so it can unmake them. But creating a weapon to destroy your enemies to only have it backfire ad turn on it's masters and creators is poetic justice coldly served. Not only is this very short sighted, it is very poor reasoning and intelligence. Why would CotF use a human as the Three Eyed Raven and not one of their own? How long do CotF live? If they live forever and nearly immortal, why would they need a human host bonded to the weirwood. Especially if they consider humans their mortal enemy. And why would they put in such a flaw in the magic of creating White Walkers that if a WW touches the simulacrum within a warging session whether in the current time or the past, that would cause the destruction of their magic force field? For such immortal and smart people, the CotF are complete idiots. There is no tales of how CotF procreate. As far as maesters know, Giants and CotF are legends of old from over thousands of years. Men and CotF always were fighting, and the Wall and the Narrow Sea between Essos and Dorne was created by their magic. The WW were always attacking Men and CotF time and again; it did not matter what creature you were. So were is the mention of a pact between Wildlings and CotF from Mance Ryder or Tormund? Did somehow the Wildlings decide to stop fighting the CotF? The first attack of the WW against Wildlings discovered by the Rangers of Castle Black noticed a strange design like a galaxy spiral but that later disappeared (by the WW laying in wait as a trap) when the scouting party came back to the campsite. First you do not create creatures that can kill you - this is a meme as old as time. You do not create a plague that can wipe you out if it gets out of control - such as lab created diseases via virus or bacterium. Always have a failsafe to pull the plug on your weapon of mass destruction so it doesn't blow up in your face. Where was the CotF failsafe on the WW? Did the CotF leave bundles of obsidian weapons for the Rangers of the Nights Watch to find? Did the CotF give the Wildlings these weapons as well? The WW would just go to sleep for thousands of years and hibernate? The CotF and Bran the Builder made a peace pact, then hoped to build a magic wall to contain the Others from Westeros. But the CotF still have to constantly fight the Others. Could Bran the Builder have some backup artifact hidden in the crypts of Winterfell long lost and forgotten? The CotF have weirwood trees guarded by a magic shield. Most of the trees were destroyed by men because they assumed the CotF were using the trees against them with their magic so they chopped them down. Once there was a truce with the building of the wall, the trees were left alone. But how does each weirwood protective shield fail to stop the Others if some how the Night's King plays tag with your warged host. Wherever the tagged skinchanger is, that ground is no longer sacred? So why didn't the CotF wipe them out when the Others were sleeping. Simple, right? Dragonglass (obsidian) and Valyrian steel blades? Fire? So why didn't they stockpile those while your enemy sleeps, find their crypt or hiding places in the ground and kill them off while they are dormant? Instead of getting your hands dirty fighting humans, they have to worry that their own creation might backfire on them? So now they have two potential enemies instead of one. Why do you create a creature that bites your hand to begin with? Men domesticate attack dogs and train their loyalty. Why couldn't the CotF figure this out? We build nuclear weapons to destroy our enemies but their are so many failsafes to prevent them from blowing up in our face. This doesn't take a genius sized intellect. This is pure lazy storytelling that is not believable for an immortal race to be that dumb.
Bran S6E6 prediction: Given that Bran only has Meera to pull him along in the lazy blizzard with thousands of Others chasing them down, they need a miracle to save them. The Others can simply "sniff" them out and catch up must faster and spread out and cover so much ground in a search. Fans are hoping for Uncle Benjen Stark (or "Cold Hands") to make his arrival as a savior, possible as a White Walker that has been able to overcome the nature of the monster. Benjen being at Winterfell during Hodor's transformation might be a teaser to let us realize uncle was effected by the skinchanging as well and Wylis is a key to something. Otherwise, Bran should be zombie fodder in 30 minutes of Meera dragging him. Totally unbelievable escape. Not even 007 could fix this Blofeld-sized plot hole. Maybe wight-Hodor will get even with Bran and give him a piece of his mind in revenge. Or perhaps Bran will still be warging in wight-Hodor and discover he can control him. If he can, then maybe he will try to warg into the Night's King. As nice and neat as this sounds, I highly doubt this will happen. Bran never tried to warg into Leaf? If the CotF are immune to being controlled by a Warg, then I doubt their creation is either, otherwise over the thousands of years they would have done this already and ended the threat. So either Benjen (Coldhands?) comes to save the day, or wight-Hodor controlled by Bran's skinchanging will happen to allow them to escape much faster wights chasing them down less than 100 yards away. Old Nan said that if Hodor learned to fight he would be unstoppable. Well, I hope for Bran's sake Hodor either is permanently dead or he can warg into him as the undead because we saw at Hardhome that the recently slain get up in a few minutes after being infected.
Now, let's consider the closed loop effect of Bran transforming Hodor during the greensighting. The 3ER brought Bran to this point in past time for a reason, so 3ER must have wanted Bran to warg into Wylis on purpose and that was fated to happen. Since 3ER expected to have more time to train and teach Bran, would Bran have purposefully scrambled Wylis' brain? Since Bran would not have been echoing Meera's orders for Hodor to hold the door at that time of leisurely teaching, Wylis would have been warged and imprinted for the future but not made catatonic from the deadly experience. The reason why Hodor was easy for Bran to skinchange into was because his mind was imprinted and could no longer resist. One of the main tenets of skinchanging is a ban on warging into humans. So the 3ER would have needed to force Bran to break one of the major restrictions on purpose. But with 3ER dying before Bran's escape, he knew his death was at hand because he never saw Hodor save them, and left it all to chance, assuming Bran was capable of warging into Wylis. If 3ER made Bran warg into Wylis without any imposing danger, Wylis would not have been Hodor, but might have been able to submit his will easier and have had an actual friendlier bond with Bran and been able to speak more than one word for the rest of his life. With the Night's King assaulting the weirwood, 3ER could die guilt free and even lessen the guilt for Bran because he had no real choice to mind control Wylis. This meant that Bran was not purposefully committing an evil act by dominating a normal boy, removing his choice to sacrificing his life so Bran could live.
Plot hole aside, Bran will be going south to the Wall and stop at the weirwood 1 mile north of Castle Black where Jon took his vow when taking the Black. If Bran passes through the Wall does he allow the Others to ignore the magic shield that prevents their passing? Supposedly the Wall was built with CotF magic with the First Men to contain the Others as a sign of truce and peace between their common enemy (which the CotF created and couldn't contain). Also, the Others are contained (maybe destroyed) by ocean or sea water. Why didn't they just build a 500 foot wide and deep trench across the land from east to west and let it fill with never-freezing magical salt water to prevent the Others from crossing instead of some magic Wall? And why would some men want to stay north of the wall as wildlings and stay clear of the CotF and hope to avoid the Others? The Night's Watch has kept 3 keeps in fair condition (Shadow Tower and Eastwatch-by-the-Sea). The wildlings never forgot the old tales of the Others and never expected them to come back after their defeat. Then why was the Wall built if not to contain the Others? And why dare fate and stay on the enemy side of the Wall? The CotF had some defense in their protective shielding by the Weirwoods. The Wildlings had none.
And another tease and a miss is that the Tower of Joy conclusion is never reached. Way to go showrunners - punish your viewers by ignoring an important plot point. Hopefully when Bran goes to the Wall, he will stop to use greensight at the weirwood and let us know L
Jon - Finally had his council meeting with Davos. Melisandre, as predicted, was quiet as a mouse. Brienne scoffing that Davos and Melisandre conveniently latch onto new lords to serve and promote the use of blood magic to commit crimes. Brienne is also ever insightful into Jon's demeanor of brooding.
Jon S6E6 prediction: Jon has to round up the Wildlings with Tormund. Maybe a skirmish with the Umber forces. No scene for E6. Jon leaving the wall and hugging Edd goodbye probably means the Others will be storming Castle Black and killing everyone. Could Bran's crossing the Wall be the reason because his Night's King mark nullifies any protection magic? Maybe Bran should have traveled around the wall by boat? Or Bran just being on the other side of the wall breaks the protection?
Jon's prophecy: Azor Ahai; the prince that was promised
Samwell & Gilly & baby Sam - No show in E5.
Samwell E6E6 prediction: From the teaser, Sam makes it home to Horn Hill in the Reach (southeast of Highgarden and close to the Citadel of the Maesters) with Gilly, but does he hid the fact she is a wildling, and that Sam is a child of a madman named Craster? I'm sure he hides that fact from his father Randyll and gets a cold reception and insults that he is still useless as ever and hopes he would fall off a horse and die. However, it is rumored that House Tarly has a Valyrian Greatsword - Heartsbane, which would be a boon against the White Walker battles to come. There is no way he is going to convince his father to send aid to House Stark as Lord Tarly is allied to House Tyrell.
Sansa - Totally blasts into Baelish for being a fool for not knowing secrets about Ramsey since he runs a brothel and knows his clienteles fetishes. Luckily she can use him to keep Bolton busy with Moat Cailin, but otherwise she will distance herself from him and attempt to make good with Robyn Arryn. At least after lying to Jon, she makes up for it with a nice winter wolf cloak for the trip.
Brienne - Too bad she didn't get to relieve Petyr of his head. She's been constantly ready to lunge at Davos, Melisandre and now Baelish. She is being sent to Riverrun. The book had Jaime Lannister campaigning to sweep Riverrun so a possible reunion could be in the making. Brienne is still appalled by Tormund's advances. She really seems to have her heart set on Jaime after all.
Melisandre - Seen and not heard. More of the same for a while.
Davos - Of course Jon and Sansa needs allies. Men only will commit to a battle they think they can win, no matter how loyal or how northern. Makes sense after all. Now he and Sansa are set to wind up in Castle Bear?
Sansa S6E6 prediction: Take Davos to Castle Bear to win over the Lady Lyanna of House Mormont with cousin Jorah exiled as a slaver and uncle Jeor Mormont slain in service with the Black. Since Sansa did not out the meeting with Petyr at nearby Mole's Town, she is not making Baelish an named enemy of the Starks. But her deception surely is not going unnoticed when she made a quick trip out after getting a raven's message. Also, she cannot trust the Vale since she slapped Sweet Robin on her last visit and he is a bit loopy.
Sister - Brother rivalry: Sansa ahead
Brienne S6E6 prediction: Off to Riverrun to get the alliance of the "Blackfish" Lord Brynden Tully in the Riverlands. The Manderlys of the Trident are much closer and have not declared a side so this is a puzzling decision by not allying with another House in the south with a path for supplies if Moat Cailin is manned by Bolton's men or blockaded by siege. House Arryn has committed against Bolton, which might help Tully to toss his gauntlet in with Sansa. However, the Lannisters might be marching on Riverrun to box in the Blackfish from gaining more territory and prevent them from heading north by sparing a small contingent (and bypassing Moat Cailin at the risk of cutting their own supplies off). The Lannisters have a reputation that they will decimate a House to the very last man.
Melisandre S6E6 prediction: More mousy scenes.
Davos S6E6 prediction: Lend his nine fingers to Sansa's diplomacy efforts within Castle Bear.
Petyr Baelish - The master weaver got snared. Did he expect Sansa to send a raven for rescue and his Vale army would save her from the monster, slaying Roose and Ramsey? It was his excuse all along to take his army north and used Sansa's escape from King's Landing to implicate the Boltons. By pulling the family card with Robyn, Petyr could snare the Vale's soldiers since the Fingers is a small fief. Petyr did not have a card to play should Sansa get free. In fact I believe it was never Petyr's plan to keep Sansa alive when the rescue attempt happened.
Lord Robin Arryn - Safe at home throwing things out the door.
Lord Yohan Royce - Leading the charge against Moat Cailin for Petyr and Lord Arryn.
Iron Islands
Theon Greyjoy - Backing his sister's ascension to the Salt Throne.
Yara Greyjoy - Puts in a nice speech why she should be queen, but really doesn't have a plan.
Euron Greyjoy - Crushes his opponent by mocking them and then declares the enemy of our enemy is our friend. As if Danaerys will marry this oaf. And won't it take them eighteen months to build a fleet of 500 ships from scratch? And after celebrating your victory by waterboarding and surviving, you promote a uplifting kinslaying of your nephew and niece. But alas, with most of the fleet under Yara's (and Theon's) command and sailing away, Euron is not doing much of anything for a while. Best he tell stories of how their navy crushed the Lannisters at Casterly Bay and now that Stannis is no longer a threat to beat them again, things should be all downhill from hereon out.
Theon / Yara S6E6 prediction: They have no love for the north and no where to attack. Perhaps they will be pirates. I do not see them teaming up with Dorne. They have no ships to transport Dany so getting to Meereen first would not help since a fleet needs to be built and Euron would arrive by then.
Sister - Brother rivalry: Even
Euron S6E6 prediction: The Iron Fleet is thought to only have 100 ships (according to the books led by Victorian Greyjoy). With the Greyjoys taking the best of the bunch in the show version, Euron's command to build 1000 ships sounds very bold (possibly having at most 66 ships left). A ship of that time (10th Century based) (25' cogs, 60' caravel or 90' carrack / galley), taking about 4 months apiece, taking a crew of 15-30 to man them. Not to mention the possible long galleass class which had 32 oars requiring 5 men apiece, and a bireme (2-mast, precursor of the trireme) galley with 25 oars requiring a crew of 120-160 men. The fleet would require a lowball estimate of 20,000 able bodied sailors. 1 ship requires over a hundred men to build, so that's around 100 ships completed every four months, which would take an estimate of 40 (over 3 years) months to complete the entire fleet. But everyone in Westeros has Littlefinger's time warping device. So if he plans to bring the Dothraki and Unsullied which is around 30,000 men (and 20,000 horses!) they are going to need a lot of supplies and cargo space which is nearly quadrupled on those 1000 ships. The best move would be for the Dothraki to march due west, send word to the Unsullied to group up from Meereen, and meet Euron at Pentos and land at Storm's End to start raiding the countryside and take a small keep before knocking on Renly's former castle. Even though Dragonstone is closer to King's Landing, it is a horrible launching point as Stannis would attest to. No one wants to meet the Dothraki horselords on an open field of battle, and the Unsullied are trained to lay siege and take fortifications. Now there was no mention of a magic horn that could control the dragons which Euron found during his travels in Valyria. In the book, he used it to win the kingsmoot handily, and doesn't mention Dany, just 3 dragons.
Tommen Baratheon - No show for E5.
Kevan Lannister - Former Hand is still no show for E5.
Cersei Baratheon/Lannister - No show for E5.
Jaime Lannister - No show for E5.
Ser Robert Strong / Gregor Clegane - No show for E5.
Maester Pycelle - No show for E5.
High Sparrow - No show for E5.
Lancel Lannister - No show for E5.
Olenna Tyrell - No show for E5.
Queen Margaery Baratheon - No show for E5.
Loras Tyrell - No show for E5.
Qyburn - No show for E5.
Cersei S6E6 prediction: Sit back with popcorn and hear the news of the face-off between Tyrell's men and the Faith Militant. The Kingsguard (Jaime) is the wildcard if he is indeed leading the charge with the Tyrells and not beside Tommen as he should be. Cersei would be stupid if she took out all the Tyrells along with their army. The king needs the loyalty of the second largest army to add to her own. The goal is to remove Olenna from interfering and ruling on the council, and make Mace a bootlicker to her causes. If the people can riot and bring down Olenna while her soldiers switch allegiance to the Lannisters for challenging the Faith Militant, Cersei can usurp and gain traction. If she causes the downfall of House Tyrell, no one else will want to ally with the Lannisters ever again since it is a fatal handshake to deal with them.
Sister - Brother rivalry: Even, though it's been awhile since they let the viewers know they still hitting the same haystack
Cersei's prophecies:
Each of her children she will watch die before her
She will be killed by Volanqar (younger sibling) -
Arya has her on the hit list, and Nymeria killed Myrcella so why not go for the mother
Sandor could be alive since we did not actually see him stop breathing, and the Faith saved him
Dany might, but she might be too late to the party to help
Tommen does not appear to be the type to be a kinslayer
Loras is in no shape
Brienne has no reason
Jaime S6E6 prediction: Will face off against the High Sparrow in a final contest of wills. If that is indeed Jaime on the horse in the lead of the chevron, he is utterly exposed being on horseback with stairs ahead and pikes behind. Eventually, he will be sent to end a civil war in Riverrun, given Lannister forces to put down the rebellion.
High Sparrow S6E6 prediction: Show off Margaery for her walk of shame, but then fall to an insurrection planned by Olenna. Or just about face back into the Sept, the Faith Militant protecting his escape as they blockade the Sept for a siege. Plus, the Sparrow will signal for the beggars in the streets to riot and overwhelm the Tyrell's soldiers. Just to nip the other end of the knot, the High Sparrow may have evidence of Tyrell's involvement with poisoning Joffrey slip into Tommen's hand. The Sparrow also might be telling Jaime how Cersei's other crimes included bedding Lancel, who then confessed about Jaime's incest, which might mess with Jaime's head.
Queen Margaery S6E6 prediction: Stay cloaked before her walk of shame and be herded into the Sept. Noticing the teaser, Margaery is not shaven and has a full head of hair. This might be due to that fact she only bore false witness and did not commit adultery like Cersei was excused of.
Lady Olenna S6E6 prediction: Wait out the storm with Cersei, only to be handed over as enemy of the Sept.
Kevan S6E6 prediction: Be forced to use the Kingsguard to lock up the Tyrells for insurrection
Pycelle S6E6 prediction: Still waiting for his assassination. Perhaps in the commotion, a Sand Snake is able to strike.
Margaery S6E6 prediction: Convinced by Loras to end his suffering, she will take the walk to gain him leniency with the High Sparrow. However, with the Tyrell banner men will assemble to prevent the show even though Margaery claims she is very popular with the common folk and they will treat her kinder than Cersei. The Sparrow will keep her locked up in the Sept during the riot. Or will he order her executed on the spot? That doesn't make sense since he's the one who keeps spouting that spilling blood on holy ground is forbidden. It would only happen if the Sparrow's life is compromised in retaliation.
Sister - Brother rivalry: Even since Margaery is set to do the walk and bent the knee
Frankenmountain S6E6 prediction: Start the charge against the Faith Militant and face the Hound again. Perhaps he will be the one to bust open the Sept's doors.
Tommen S6E6 prediction: Shiver with his mother over the outcome of the battle in the Sept. He might get wind of Tyrell's assassination of his brother Joffrey which would infuriate Cersei when she finds out and make her go full-out backstab on Olenna and Mace.
Mace S6E6 prediction: Hide in High Garden and avoid arrest for his mother's insurrection, but he might be leading his squad at the base of the High Sept.
Qyburn S6E6 prediction: Slink off and start his second experiment.
Bron S6E6 prediction: Be called for active duty by Jaime for Riverrun.
Dorne
Ellaria - No show for E5.
Sand Snakes - No show for E5.
Obara, Nymeria, etc.
Ellaria S6E6 prediction: Have a war council and move on the Stormland to prepare a land attack against King's Landing, and send word to Danaerys Targaryen for her return once the area is secured.
Sand Snakes S6E6 prediction: Kill of Kevan Lannister and Pycelle.
Essos
Danaerys S6E6 prediction: Knock on the gates of Astapor and find out the edict in place to end slavery in 7 years. She will demand a fleet to head west and the slave cities will gladly give them now to get rid of her. So why would anyone burn the fleet in Meereen since the Sons of the Harpy want to get rid of her and prevent her from leaving? Dany did not want to leave yet because she did not have peace in the city, nor did she have enough troops to hold Meereen and maintain an invasion force into Westeros. Astapor and other slaver cities were recaptured by the Great Masters so Dany decided to entrench her position to prevent losing again. Did Daarios give orders when he left to destroy the navy? Supposedly Dany gave orders for Daarios to set the fleet in the harbor to the torch during the invasion of Meereen in the books. This did not happen on the show, so this mysteriously happens in peacetime. When he finds Dany that would keep her in the palace for a long time to be her consort and ingratiate himself on her in his bid to remove Jorah from trying to court her. Did Euron pay off arsonists? Is Euron the leader of the Sons of the Harpy? I doubt he could afford to pay for that many hirelings. We never get reports from sailors or merchants of who started the fires and not one bandit or Son (with mask) was captured. Good job Grey Worm and Unsullied! Why would sailors want their only means of income destroyed by a one-time payoff? There needs to be a plausible explanation of how an entire fleet is destroyed in a huge concentrated effort without any information. Maybe the fleet is blockaded by the combined force of the slaver cities, but this is not divulged to the viewer. It would make sense that during the night a small contingent of slavers sneak on small rowboats and line the hulls with pitch and torch them in unison. Isn't Varys supposed to be the Master of the Little Birds and not even the great spymaster himself had a clue this was coming or news of who caused it? Another massive plot hole. Euron wants to give Dany his own Ironborn fleet. How does he know she doesn't already have one? Maybe he had some swag after all, but it is extremely unlikely that he has a hidden cache of gold. The best explanation would be slavers in the night. Who could dare attack a fleet of ships in port with a small compliment of crew and overwhelm all the sailors by throwing pitch torches in a huge concentrated effort in the middle of the day!?!? Lazy, sloppy story telling yet again that is just implausible and unbelievable.
With the teaser titled Blood of My Blood which alludes to Dothraki heritage, this is more geared toward progeny. Is this a stab at Lannisters family bonds? Sam and Gilly's son Jon? The Night's King even takes babies (900 of them?) donated by Craster to appease the Others as to not convert him (so is the baby created as a Night's Soldier as a weaker version of the King and then grows up fast into a man-like creature which we've seen the Children of the Forest do to initiate the whole mess).
Dany's prophecies:
Light three fires - one for life, death, and love
Ride three mounts - one to bed, one to dread, one to love
Three treasons - once for blood, once for gold, once for love
Jorah - Profess his love for the Khaleesi and honourably declare he has greyscale and must be exiled again.
Daario - If Jorah did not admit to having the disease, he would have turned him in.
Jorah S6E6 prediction: Search for a cure much like Shireen Baratheon was able to with vinegar baths. Or maybe he will have enough presence of mind to off himself before he turns into a stone man. Or maybe not. Or maybe go to Yunkai and start a greyscale plague for fun.
Daario S6E6 prediction: Lead the mercenary corps behind Dany quietly, or else get himself in trouble with his mouth and be put down by a Dothraki henchman. Could Daario be behind setting up the Sons of the Harpy so Dany will march out of Meereen and start waging war?
Meereen
Tyrion - With Varys, they make progress giving an elementary lesson to Grey Worm and Missi that 0 is better than a few -- stopping the killings of Masters or freedmen is just an added bonus. He hides behind Varys and starts apologizing for any offence when the Red Priestess starts to get brazen with Varys about his wounding. I failed to see how Tyrion recruited the priestess to win the hearts and minds of the citizens of Meereen to strike a bargain. She does not seem interested in telling the people that R'hollr has picked Danaerys, the Mother of Dragons, to save the World as the Chosen One. Kinvara seems more interested in bending people under the Lord of Light's yoke and brow beat anyone who doesn't agree with her.
Tyrion S6E6 prediction: Get bored with ruling and go back to drinking.
Varys - The Spider became very perturbed by the Red Priestess Kinvara's accounting of his enslavement and wounding. Just because Varys knew of Melisandre as a fanatic of the Lord of Light, and her sect's prediction of Stannis as the Chosen One was completely wrong, that might have gotten under Kinvara's skin. So in short order, she decided to profess every nasty detail regarding the secrecy of his incident. It is no wonder why Varys is feeling rather squirmish and exposed, but should not be convinced she is a worthy ally to rally the common folk to believe Dany is there savior and not the slavers. After all, he only verbally attacked her order and she is not to blame for some other rogue priestesses actions, meanwhile she went for Varys' jugular to shame him. That's a real politician that you want to work for you!
Varys S6E6 prediction: The Red Priestess doesn't appear to have any hold on Varys or special arraignment with the common folk, so I am perplexed by the unfolding scene and to the reasoning of its unveiling to his character.
Greyworm - Learns that 2 is greater than 0 and that no killing is preferable to a few killings.
Missandei - Accompanies Greyworm in his tutelage.
Braavos
Arya - Gets handily whipped by the waif bare handed against her own staff. More training to be done even with her eyesight. The next mission is to poison a mummer playing Queen Cersei, who is, according to Arya, a decent person, yet the actual Queen Cersei is on her little hit list. Jaquen reminds her that decent people die too and the price has been paid; so either follow orders to go home because he won't suffer her insolence. The mummer's play upset Arya as the portrayal of her father as a buffoon and dishonorable usurper angered her into wanting to shout that is not how it happened, forcing her to bite her tongue so she may further her mission. So when the waif calls her out as Stark, the play within the play did it's thing to Arya's psyche. (In the books, Arya is supposed to be in the mummer's troope playing her sister Sansa so she has much more control over her emotional attachment to her family's losses). Does Arya continue to use her skinchanging abilities in Braavos? According to the books, she can warg into cats. When and if Arya comes back to Westeros, will she find Nymeria, remembering (show Arya) that she can warg into her wolf? As far as the books go, Nymeria is leading a huge pack of wolves and is somewhere in the Riverlands. With Jaime Lannister faces off against the Tullies with Brienne's request for aid, perhaps the wolf pack can swarm in and change the tide of war for Tully so they can all march north to destroy the Boltons.
Arya S6E6 prediction: If she is truly her father's daughter and sworn to duty and truth, her time with the Faceless Men is at an end. However, the ends justifies the means will be urging her onward to give up that piece of her humanity. Causing death creates a loss, just like her brother coming back to life. If I know Arya, she will attempt to find out who wrote the play that defamed her father, insulting his honor in making him a fool and not a tragic figure and do a two-for-one poisoning (the mummer's leader perhaps).
Armies
House Targaryen
Danaerys
Unsullied
Elite - 8,000
Regular -
Support -
Dothraki
Elite - 15,000 (horselords)
Regular - 15,000
Support -
Stormcrows/Second Sons (Daario)
Regular - 500
Support -
Navy - 0
Westerlands
House Lannister (Lannisport) ***
Tywin (murdered by Tyrion)
Kevan Lannister
Regular - 30,000 / 50,000
Navy - 50 / 60 ships
King's Landing (Crownlands)
Elite - 200 (Royal Kingsguard)
Regular - 2,000 / 15,000
Navy - 50 ships
House Banefort
House Brax
House Broom
House Clegane
House Crakehall
House Farman
House Lefford
House Lydden
House Marbrand
House Payne
House Prester
House Reyne
House Serrett
House Swyft
House Tarbeck
House Westerling
The Reach
House Tyrell (Highgarden) ***
Lord Mace Tyrell
Army - 20,000 / 80,000 - 100,000
Navy -
House Ashford
House Caswell
House Crane
House Florent
House Fossoway
House Gardener
House Hightower
House Merryweather (Oldtown)
House Mullendore
House Oakheart
House Redwyne (Arbor)
House Rowan
House Tarly
House Vyrwel
Iron Islands
House Greyjoy (ex-Ironborn)
Yara /Theon
Army - 90
Navy - 30 ships
House Greyjoy (Pyke) ***
Balon (murdered)
Euron
Army - 5,000 / 20,000
Navy - 66 / 500 ships
The North
House Bolton (Dreadfort) ***
Roose (murdered by Ramsey)
Ramsey Bolton
Army - 3,500 / 33,000 (45K w/ Winterfell @ prime)
Navy -
House Stark (ex-Winterfell / ex-Castle Black)
Eddard (executed by Joffrey)
Robb (murdered by Roose)
Sansa / Jon
Regular - 2,000 (Wildlings)
Support -
Navy - 0
House Karstark (Karhold)
Harrion Karstark (deceased / war)
Rickard Karstark (executed by Robb)
Harald Karstark
Regular - 2,000
Support -
House Umber (Last Hearth)
Jon "Greatjon" Umber (deceased / war)
Jon "Smalljon" Umber
Regular - 3,000
Support -
House Manderly (White Harbor)
Lord Wyman Manderly
Regular - 3,000
Support -
House Mormont (Bear Island)
Jeor Mormont (murdered by Rast)
Maege Mormont
Regular - 1,000
Navy -
House Hornwood (Hornwood)
Regular - 2,000
House Ashford (inside joke)
House Cerwyn
House Cassel
House Caulfield (inside joke)
House Dustin
House Flint
House Glover (Deepwood Motte)
House Mazin (inside joke)
House Mollen
House Poole
House Reed
House Ryswell
House Smallwood (inside joke)
House Tallhart
House Wibberley (inside joke)
The Vale
House Arryn (Eyrie) ***
Jon Arryn (murdered by Lysa and Petyr)
Robin Arryn
Regular - 20,000 / 45,000 (standing / draft)
Navy -
House Baelish (The Fingers) (Harrenhal - abandoned) - Petyr Baelish
House Belmore
House Corbray
House Egen
House Grafton
House Hersy
House Hunter
House Melcolm
House Redfort
House Royce (Runestone) - Lord Yohn Royce
House Templeton
House Waynwood
Riverlands
House Tully (Riverrun) ***
Brynden Tully
Regular - 20,000 / 45,000
Navy -
House Frey (The Twins) - Lord Walder Frey
House Blackwood
House Bracken
House Darry
House Lothston
House Mallister
House Mooton
House Mudd
House Piper
House Ryger
House Strong
House Vance
House Whent
Stormlands
House BaratheonRenly (murdered by Melisandre)
Regular - 0 (backed by House Tyrell)
Storm's End (aka Dragonstone) ***
Stannis (defeated by Ramsey / murdered by Brienne)
Elite - 450
Regular - 3,000 (lost at Winterfell)
- 27,000 (lost at King's Landing)
Braavos - 20,000 (lost at Winterfell)
Navy - 160 (lost at Blackwater Bay)
House Buckler (Bronzegate)
House Caron
House Connington (Griffin's Roost) - Ronnet (Jon Connington exiled)
House Dondarrion (Blackhaven)
House Errol (Haystack Hall)
House Estermont
House Fell (Felwood)
House Penrose
House Selmy (Barristen Selmy - deceased)
House Staedmon
House Swann
House Tarth (Evenfall Hall) - Endrew Tarth - Brienne - island
House Wylde
Dorne
House Martell
Doran (murdered by Ellaria)
Sand Snakes - Ellaria Sand
Regular - 20,000 / 40,000
Navy -
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