Quote:Even Martin warns about the idea of "prophecies" in his own interviews. Sometimes you look into it too literally and it bites you in the end. They're very tricky to decipher. Just look at how bad Melisandre failed Stannis Baratheon with her visions.

 

I had to borrow this quote because it seems to fit in really well with this discussion about the Valonqar.

 

There's a theory that the Valonqar was translated incorrectly, since neither Maggy nor the septa who translated it to Cersei would have been fluent in High Valyrian.  That the Valonqar is actually just a younger sibling, and not necessarily a little brother.  The term is actually gender neutral, they just default to a male gender when it's actually unknown.

 

The theory opens up the possibility of Dany, the Sand Snakes (sans Obara since she is the oldest), Brienne, Sansa and Arya as potential Valonqars, who all have definite or potential reason to want to kill her.

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