Game of Thrones Season 8 will have to address the line of succession after Daenerys Targaryen.
We unpack all the endgame hints…
This article contains spoilers for the first seven seasons ofGame of Thrones.
You once told me youd break the wheel.
How do we ensure your vision endures?
After you break the wheel, how do we verify it stays broken?
In so many words, who replaces you when youre gone?
But if she cant have children, what kind of future can Jon and Dany build that outlasts them?
He suggests that the sword is now meant simply for Jon and your children after you.
But that is assuming of course that Daenerys cannot have children again.
In general, she probably cannot.
She certainly tested that belief about her fertility with Daario Naharis.
Like Daenerys, Jon Snow is now touched (or cursed?)
Melisandre used some of the dark arts to bring him back to life, and if we believeGeorge R.R.
But Im less than convinced thatthis is the actual endgame.
And again, even the idea of magical conception might be a bit too biblical for George R.R.
Assuming they dont kill each other, Jon could pass Longclaw onto Arya just as he had Needle.
This is where Tyrions other suggestions become paramount.
The Nights Watch has one method, the Iron Islands for all their faults have another.
What Tyrion is referring to is a rudimentary form of democracy.
This is not to say that I believe the Westeros equivalent of the American Revolution is imminent.
Varys is a representative of the people already, so it is easy to imagine him liking this concept.
