Jaime Will Survive

So this will be a short blog with my explanation on how and why Jaime will survive. I'm assuming you have all seen episode 4, and in case you haven't, beware of spoilers.

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Now, I know that Jaime is wearing armour and all that, but that does not matter, because I am invoking a theory from a few months back.

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Tywin's Sacrifice

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Our dearest Jaime will come back, thanks to the sacrifice Tywin made to the Drowned God, when he diverted a river, to drown every Reyne left in the mines of Castamere. And before you start saying that it doesn't count because it's a river, and not the actual sea just read the following quote.

"All rivers flow to the sea."

So, Jaime is on the verge of drowning, and might even do so, before the Drowned God intervenes and sends him back to the surface, just like with Tyrion.

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Tyrion V, a Dance with Dragons

It felt like slamming into a castle wall, but this castle stood upon a shattered leg. The stone man went over backwards, grabbing hold of Tyrion as he fell. They hit the river with a towering splash, and Mother Rhoyne swallowed up the two of them.

The sudden cold hit Tyrion like a hammer. As he sank he felt a stone hand fumbling at his face. Another closed around his arm, dragging him down into darkness. Blind, his nose full of river, choking, sinking, he kicked and twisted and fought to pry the clutching fingers off his arm, but the stone fingers were unyielding. Air bubbled from his lips. The world was black and growing blacker. He could not breathe.

There are worse ways to die than drowning. And if truth be told, he had perished long ago, back in King's Landing. It was only his revenant who remained, the small vengeful ghost who throttled Shae and put a crossbow bolt through the great Lord Tywin's bowels. No man would mourn the thing that he'd become. I'll haunt the Seven Kingdoms, he thought, sinking deeper. They would not love me living, so let them dread me dead.

When he opened his mouth to curse them all, black water filled his lungs, and the dark closed in around him.

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Tyrion VI, a Dance with Dragons

He dreamt of his lord father and the Shrouded Lord. He dreamt that they were one and the same, and when his father wrapped stone arms around him and bent to give him his grey kiss, he woke with his mouth dry and rusty with the taste of blood and his heart hammering in his chest.

"That remains to be seen." The Halfmaester stood over him. "Duck, be a fine fowl and boil some broth for our little friend here. He must be famished."

He was on the Shy Maid, Tyrion saw, under a scratchy blanket that smelled of vinegar. The Sorrows are behind us. It was just a dream I dreamed as I was drowning. "Why do I stink of vinegar?"

"Lemore has been washing you with it. Some say it helps prevent the greyscale. I am inclined to doubt that, but there was no harm in trying. It was Lemore who forced the water from your lungs after Griff had pulled you up. You were as cold as ice, and your lips were blue. Yandry said we ought to throw you back, but the lad forbade it."

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Thanks to the deaths of the Reynes at the hands of Tywin, Jaime will be able to live for another day. Thanks, Tywin!

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Now, I know that the show will probably not go into this subject, and give another explanation for why Jaime will survive, but I thought this was a nice theory, and it'd make sense.

Anyway, thanks for reading my rambling and 'till next time!

-Ser Luthor

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