I think it will be the threat to the happyish ending. Tyrion with Casterley Rock (as last Lion standing and Hand) married to Sansa, heiress to Riverun (after Stoneheart takes out Edmure and the Freyspawn) and their offspring becomes as very overmighty subject, dangerously close to the throne and GOT's Warwick the Kingmaker.
That sort of depends on whether it's John Snow or Dany who ends up ruling Westeros (I feel almost bad about never giving Stannis a shot at it but... nah. It's going to be Dany or John.)
Dynastic marriage. The Tudor solution to the knot. Jon as King, as L+R=J Dany as Queen. Only taking a joint monarchy model like Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, rather than a Henry VII Elizabeth of York model.
Tyrion as Hand.
And I think that Riverrun is the least Sansa ends the story with. I think it is very likely she also gets The Erie though a very short lived marriage and Harrenhall, though Kat's mother, who was a Went - and they're another house out of heirs. Which would make her offspring even more potentially dangerous to the restored Targ line once the dragons die out again. If they survive the books.
Yeah, actually, I tend to think of Jaime/Brienne being given 'an honorable end*' (She may live, heading up the King's/Queen's Guard. Seriously doubt that he will survive, though.)
And by 'honorable' I mean in his own and in Brienne's eyes. He may be yet another "King"(or rather Cersei as Queen) Slayer, with a name forever blackened in public but Brienne seeing the honor of it.
I also tend to think the Wildling subplot (with their outlying hints of quasi-democracy) are going to lead, at some future date, to some sort of Magna Carta-like resolution.
A Magna Carta is likely, but I suspect given under less duress. But in this world that was more than 400 years before the Wars of the Roses and Parliament not that much younger and we still had the WotR and Hundred Years War against the French. And even in the 1200's there was the basis for both with charters and boroughs with rights and commerce, whose participants want a say in how they're governed. Westeros is incredibly behind economically and socially in this respect.
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Date: 2014-02-18 03:42 pm (UTC)Tyrion with Casterley Rock (as last Lion standing and Hand) married to Sansa, heiress to Riverun (after Stoneheart takes out Edmure and the Freyspawn) and their offspring becomes as very overmighty subject, dangerously close to the throne and GOT's Warwick the Kingmaker.
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Date: 2014-02-18 04:02 pm (UTC)Jon as King, as L+R=J Dany as Queen.
Only taking a joint monarchy model like Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, rather than a Henry VII Elizabeth of York model.
Tyrion as Hand.
And I think that Riverrun is the least Sansa ends the story with. I think it is very likely she also gets The Erie though a very short lived marriage and Harrenhall, though Kat's mother, who was a Went - and they're another house out of heirs.
Which would make her offspring even more potentially dangerous to the restored Targ line once the dragons die out again. If they survive the books.
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Date: 2014-02-18 05:19 pm (UTC)For some reason it amuses me to think of Dany as Henry Tudor.
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Date: 2014-02-18 04:13 pm (UTC)And by 'honorable' I mean in his own and in Brienne's eyes. He may be yet another "King"(or rather Cersei as Queen) Slayer, with a name forever blackened in public but Brienne seeing the honor of it.
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