#conveniently the other big mother character (i mean besides dany).

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one thing that’s definitely stood out on reread is just how much lsh and the brotherhood are involved in the plot and how much the show lost by cutting 80% of the brotherhood characters and stoneheart. it’s all minor things - the rosby freys & alesander frey being “good guys”, arya’s entire relationship with edric dayne & harwin, the split in the bwb after lsh rises - but it really colors the background of the story, creeping in and spreading out through the narrative to build to whatever conclusion we’ll get with LSH.

it’s so nerve wracking too! it really helps set the tenor of the next two books as you understand the brotherhood is not going away and neither is stoneheart, that this war is not over in the minds of many of the people no matter what the lannisters may say.