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the A song of ice and fire does not lack for villains.

While most of the characters in the story are gray characters capable of

both good and evil. George has also created thoroughly mean, hateful, cruel people who put the

protagonist through the ringer, and there's not as much to discuss in terms of whether

there's good in them. There isn't much or there isn't any. Think of Ramsey, Joffrey, Gregor, Viseras, as in Danny's brother. These characters are very much one-sided or almost one-sided, and that side is evil, serving as contrast to our heroes and their choice to do

good. The Tales of Duncan Egg is no exception when it comes to this sort of character. Perhaps the

biggest, even though he was in the first of the three novels, is Aryan Targaryen. He may have been

only in the Hedge Knight, but it wouldn't have taken long. In fact, just the first

scene to see that, well, this guy is pretty evil, or he certainly seems that way. If Egg was one

half of the heroic pair at the center of the tails, Arion was his polar opposite, arrogant,

sadistic, and absolutely against dunk from the first.

Given the mentions of Arian in the world of Ice and Fire, and the main novels were almost

guaranteed to see Arian in future tales, as history tells us he and his brother Egg will cross

paths again. While we doubt Arian will get any nicer with future stories, he was a very young man at

Ashford Meadow, so he probably changed at least a little, if not a lot over the years,

but that doesn't mean he changed for the better.

So we will speculate on what his life might have looked like, what kind of man he became,

how he dealt with madness, his supposed dabbling in the black arts,

and how he might impact both the characters in his own time and the current stories. He is referred to quite a few times

in The Song of Ice and Fire after all. We'll be sure to get into all that and more on this episode

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