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🗓️ 22 December 2025
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Of all the huge surprises and payoff moments in A Storm of Swords, the Lady Stoneheart reveal at the end of the epilogue is perhaps the most unexpected. She’s a very dark character, hard to look at, hard to hear… but her intentions are clear: kill Freys, kill Lannisters, kill Boltons, find Arya. The BwB’s 2nd undead leader has steered them away from justice and helping the smallfolk, towards vengeance and murder. How will it go with her, Jaime and Brienne? What if she meets her uncle Blackfish? Or is reunited with Arya? As a character cut from the show, Stoneheart aka Mother Merciless aka the Hangwoman has an arc and story purpose harder to guess at than most.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Perhaps the most famous character cut from the TV show was Lady Stoneheart. |
| 0:53.0 | But that is but one aspect of her existence that |
| 0:56.2 | is unusual, if not just short of unique. George twisted the undead trope or inverted it, |
| 1:02.8 | whatever you want to call it, to make Barak Dondarian a good guy. But he may have gone more |
| 1:07.3 | classic with Lady Stoneheart returning from death to take revenge on those who wronged her and her family. |
| 1:13.9 | I say may have because we pretty much know the full story of Barak Dondarian. |
| 1:19.9 | It's complete. We may learn a few more details, but for all intents and purposes, it's over. |
| 1:24.2 | Lady Stoneheart, not so much. We have, honestly, she hasn't been around very long, |
| 1:30.1 | so we have a lot less to work with and a lot more guesswork. So there's clearly a lot more to come, |
| 1:36.7 | or at least if it's not a lot more to come, we have a lot of trouble guessing what it's going to be. |
| 1:43.1 | Jamie, Brienne, the Brotherhood with Al Banner's Thoros, Harwin, and the rest, the phrase, |
| 1:49.1 | the Red Wedding 2.0, Jane Westerling, Edmure Tully, the Blackfish. |
| 1:54.4 | These are all characters she might interact with or are interacting with actively. |
| 1:58.2 | Obviously, the rest of the BWB and Thoros and Harwin. |
| 2:01.7 | But there's other characters she may interact with, and we have to consider what that might be like. We know |
| 2:05.6 | she's searching for Aria, but will she find her? Will Aria and Katlin be reunited? Will she learn |
| 2:13.6 | that Ricken and Bran are alive or where Sansa is? And what does her case tell us about the undead? |
| 2:20.3 | I mean, she's basically a firewhite, right? |
| 2:23.3 | I mean, that's what he called Barrick, and Barrett passed his wife force onto her. |
| 2:29.3 | So she is the same category in terms of what animates her and has her walking around, the power |
| 2:35.9 | behind all that, even if we don't know exactly what that is. It's the same as what it was for |
| 2:40.7 | Barrick, even though their personalities are quite different. So we've got a number of possible |
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