This dark 'Game of Thrones' fan theory predicts a bleak end for the Lannisters
Warning: Contains spoilers from Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 8, and A Dance with Dragons.
There have been a lot of Lannister-related Game of Thrones predictions lately, and the consensus seems to be the same: Things aren't looking good.
By now plenty of people think Cersei will attempt to burn down King's Landing -- "Burn them all!" as Aerys II Targaryen would probably say -- before Season 6 is out. There's also a theory that Jamie will be the one to ultimately kill her, thereby fulfilling the grim prophecy given to Cersei by Maggy the Frog when she was a little girl.
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Assuming those theories are correct -- and this is Game of Thrones, so we could of course be wildly wrong -- what we still don't know are the details. How will it all happen? And when? And, most importantly, who will die?
Luckily, Reddit user Greys88 has broken the whole thing down in impressively grim detail.
The burning of the Great Sept makes sense -- it's pretty much Cersei's last resort now that Tommen appears to have sided with the High Sparrow, and it would tie in with what Thrones actor Jonathan Pryce (who plays said Sparrow) alluded to in a recent interview.
Moving on to what might happen in future seasons, the predictions get even bleaker.
So there you go: Cleganebowl could still happen, although we may have to wait awhile for it.
All in all, people seemed to think the theory has legs.
Others thought the the fire in King's Landing might be even more destructive.
At this point, one Redditor mentioned the vision Daenerys experiences while she's in the House of the Undying in Season Two Episode 10. As part of the hallucination, Dany walks through a huge room that looks like it's been gutted in a fire.
Is that the ruined husk of the Great Hall she's walking through? Could this be some very early foreshadowing of the final fate of King's Landing?
We've no way of knowing for sure, but at this stage it all sounds horribly, horribly plausible.
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