Quote:The Kingsmoot was declared because Theon was thought to be dead.  Also let's not forget his father (Euron?) disowned him because he was taken by Ned Stark and raised in the North.  He viewed him as not a true Iron Born.

 

Balon*.  Euron was the one that pushed Balon off the bridge.

 

The kingsmoot is actually not at all typical, and there hasn't been one for hundreds of years prior to this one.  The show kind of skipped forward past a lot of largely (definitely for a show) boring stuff, but here's the jist.

 

After Balon's death, Euron showed up to declare himself king, while Yara contested she should be queen.  Theon was still imprisoned at the time, and in the books has actually still not returned to Pyke.  Aeron (Euron and Balon's brother, also the old guy that Yara was talking to when they sent Balon out to sea) really doesn't want either to be king/queen, since Euron is a godless man and Yara is a woman, so he declares a Kingsmoot in order to determine who is king.  IIRC, he basically drowned himself to let the sea god give him direction on how they should determine the new king, it was a lot of sitting around by the sea.

 

It'll be interesting to see if the show changes direction since Theon is back, and if Victarion shows up.

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