Could it be that Varys is hinting at his true nature? Perhaps he prefers to hide his lower torso because he is, in fact, one of the so-called Deep Ones (which are “half men sired by creatures of the salt seas upon human women,” according to Maester Theron).

… or a Targaryen

We know, we know: who isn’t a bloody Targaryen by this point? However, if you’re not a fan of the outlandish ‘Varys is a merman’ theory, than perhaps you’ll be more inclined to believe that he’s a Targaryen in hiding.

As Redditor dmitchell927 puts it: “We saw that the dragons did not attack Tyrion when he went to free them, but we are [forgetting] that Varys was in the room at the same time. We also know that Varys was castrated at a young age, and that his parts were burned by a red priest…. [but] why was Varys mutialted as opposed to anyone else? I think it is because he is of Targaryen blood, and, as we know the red priests believe, a king’s blood has power.”

It would explain why Varys has teamed up with many people to protect the Targaryen house, and why he might keep his head shaved (that silver Targaryen hair would be a dead giveaway). And, as Melisandre told him cryptically in season 7, Varys will have a big part to play in the endgame of Westeros.

Also, Tyrion could be a Targaryen as well

Another character, another Targaryen in hiding. For a House that’s supposedly been beaten into submission, there sure are a lot of these silver-haired f**kers running around Westeros, aren’t there?

The ‘Tyrion Lannister is a Targaryen’ line comes from the theory that mad King Aerys Targaryen took certain “unwonted liberties” during Joanna Lannister’s bedding ceremony with Tywin, much to Tywin’s displeasure.

“Not long thereafter, Queen Rhaella (Aerys wife) dismissed Joanna Lannister from her service,” reads a passage in The World of Ice and Fire. “No reason for this was ever given, but Lady Joanna departed at once for Casterly Rock and seldom visited King’s Landing thereafter.”

Of course, that wasn’t the first time that Aerys apparently took advantage of Joanna. Indeed, during his 10th Anniversary Tourney, Aerys famously asked Joanna whether breast feeding her children had ruined her breasts, resulting in Tywin attempting to resign as Hand of the King.

That tournament took place in 272 AC; Joanna died giving birth to Tyrion in 273 AC. Could the two have slept with each other that night leading to Tyrion’s birth a year later? It seems possible, particularly when you consider the fact that Tywin told Tyrion “you’re no son of mine” just before his son shot him with an arrow (families, eh?)

Throw in Tyrion’s close connection with Dany, the book’s description of him (he is said to have mismatched eyes of green and black, and a mixture of pale blond and black hair) and his ability to calm and tame her dragons, and you have a recipe for yet another Targaryen bastard. Season 7 only shed light on Jon’s lineage, but season 8 may yet provide a familial twist of its own for Tyrion.

So who is the Valonquar?

As we learned in George R R Martin’s books, a young Cersei sought out fortune-teller Maggy and asked her to look into her future for her. And the future that Maggy saw for her was grim indeed: she revealed that Cersei’s husband, Robert, would become a father 20 times over by bedding a number of mistresses – a prediction which has since proven to have come true. Maggy went on to warn that Cersei would outlive all of her own children (again, true) – and that “another, younger and more beautiful” will come forth to cast her down.

But it’s the final part of the prophecy that’s truly interesting: Maggy reveals that Cersei will be murdered by the valonquar (which is High Valyrian for “little brother”).

“And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you,” she told her.

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