(Spoilers All) Season 5 Predictions: For Those That Read The Books

Rather than make up more accurate predictions based on more recent information, here is what I had in July of last year.

Here goes.

The original Jaqen H'ghar will replace the kindly man. There will be the kindly man for a few minutes before Jaqen reveals himself.

There will be no Green Grace, or Shavepate, or Reznak. Only Hizdar will exist as a major Mereenese character, with Grey Worm taking the Shavepate's position for anti-master vitriol. Drogon will arrive in Episode 7.

The Ironborn will be culled. Balon will die early in the season. There won't be a kingsmoot, just Euron taking power. Yara will replace Victarion in kidnapping the dragons.

Quentyn will not exist.

Stannis will force wildlings to be his army to take Winterfell. There won't be any hill tribes.

Jaime will reveal to Cersei that he helped Tyrion escape, and she'll be back despising him. He'll be shipped to Dorne at her command to bring back Myrcella. He'll essentially be Arys, but without the seduction plot. Bronn will travel with him.

LSH will be gone from the show. The BWB resurrection reveal will be used on Jon instead.

Aegon and company will be left out entirely. Dany will always have been Varys and Illyrio's plan.

Dorne will go to war because of Jaime trying to steal Myrcella, and as a prelude to alliance with Dany.

Brienne and Pod will keep looking for Arya and end up at Winterfell, prisoners of the Boltons.

Sansa and Bran are complete mysteries.

My wild deviations will surely be unpopular, but I think they're workable to make the show streamlined enough to encompass books 4 and 5.

Thoughts?

(Also, as a disclaimer, yes I already know that the show hasn't made any deviations this big yet, and no I don't know how important any characters are in future books so this is just speculation from what we know so far).

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