The The Over the many years we've spent analyzing these books, we've gotten pretty good at identifying foreshadowing, and you all have grown in that skill with us,

especially those of you who have been with us for a long time and or have been in the fandom with an active mind for the long term.

Yet, arguably, it doesn't take a whole lot of skill at catching clues for the future of a song of ice and fire

when it comes to the notion that King's Landing will burn. In some former fashion, if not multiple

forms and fashions, it has been foreshadowed. Whether it's Cersy's current obsession with wildfire

or Aries's past obsession with it, the danger remains as caches are still

sitting there like time bombs in unknown locations. And I don't mean unknown to all but a select few.

No, I mean truly unknown. There's only one person who might know a little about the hidden caches,

and I doubt they know it all, even if they know anything.

And without knowing at all, well, you can't stop the problem from happening.

Only one cache is required to do massive damage, and if there's a few,

well, the damage is like exponential from there,

because one sets off another, sets off another, sets off another,

sets off another, etc off another, sets off another, et cetera, that kind of thing. So it's really not just a times two, times three, it's a times 10, times 50, times a hundred

times thing, type thing.

I'm not even talking about the TV show, not just because what happened on the TV show

isn't foreshadowing, that's just a whole different set of events that might correlate.

And also not just because several important and highly involved characters and plotlines

were missing from the TV version like Agon and John Connington and John Connington having

grayscale. These are all important to us today. Meanwhile, HBO did have the Great Sept

explode via wildfire, but that wildfire didn't even spread.

It just was this cool explosion, but there was no like follow-up to that.

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