you
Tell me your name child
Salty I come from salt pans by the trident no tell me your name
Squab your true name child my mother called me man
But they call me weasel your name
Ari I'm arI closer and now the truth aria. I'm [aria] of house stark
You are but the house of black [and] white is no place for Aria of house stark
And that's our introduction to the house of black and white
The Kindly man claims that he doesn't want [Aria] he wants no one
But how likely is that ari has a pretty reckless child?
Why would they take her on over say anyone it seems a rather large?
Coincidence that the acolyte they take on happens to be a powerful telepath. No it seems much more likely that the kindly man
Can't actually read lies
He was expecting Aria the house of black and white is exactly the place for [Aria] of house stark
But why what is this assassins guild want aria? What do they need with a telepath well?
Let's go back to the beginning and try to figure out who the faceless men are really
faceless men first come up in a game of thrones on Roberts small Council on
Braavos there is a society called the faceless men
do you have any idea how costly they are you could hire an army of come and sell swords for half the price and that's
for a merchant
I don't dare think what they might ask for a princess later littlefinger tells ned if we'd sent a faceless men after her
She'd be as good as buried in a clash of Kings [Cresson] thinks about the faceless men
They are one of the few parties that know how to produce the poison called the strangler
[and]
Tyrion mentions that when he was young he dreamed about being rich enough to afford a faceless man to kill his sister in a storm
Of sword salad or san brings up hiring a faceless man to kill Melisandre
But he probably wasn't serious [and] in escaping tyrion thinks Cersei will hire a faceless man to kill him
Cersei does know about faceless men and a feast for crows she considers the cost of faceless men when thinking about killing bronn
So it seems that the general consensus in the world is that faceless men have a high level of expertise
But have a very high cost and this cost seems to be based on how
Important the Target is and how difficult it is to kill them however this high cost comes with a high probability of success
Being an industry that demands precision why would they take in mentally unstable, [Aria] well?
Aria did come in with the coin that she got from Jack and hagar this seems to have acted as some sort of recommendation letter
So what did [Ja] [can] see an aria that would make her a good faceless man?
well
Let's go over Arias time with Jack and Hagar back in the first Aria chapter of a clash of Kings
we meet Jacque and rorg and biter and
right from the beginning the three fixate on Aria the first thing they observe is aria posing as the boy re
getting in a fight with hot pie
Needle now let's keep in mind that aria would be quite a spectacle as she's using a braavosi water dancer stance
This would have likely been noticed by a faceless man who spent extensive time in braavos?
But actually it seems the three were watching [aria] even before the fight you see prior to the fight le'me calls aria
Lumpy head and hot pie calls, [er]. Lumpy. Face rorg later on uses both of these names on Aria
He was definitely watching her in the second Aria chapter jock and [Rogan] biters interaction with Aria goes a bit further
the Nights watch recruits decide to take a bath
Except for Aria which likely gives away the fact that she's not a boy and jock and mockingly calls her lovely boy
Rorg and biter try to scare Aria, but she's undaunted and [jocund] finds out
She has more courage than sense now shortly after this [exchange] gold cloaks come looking for Gendry
Aria hides though
Thinking they've come for her and in doing so likely gives away the fact that she's important in the third Aria chapter
Aria shows more of her fighting ability by killing a rabbit and feeding it to jock in and in the fourth [Aria] chapter she reveals
More of her identity by Yelling winterfell before fighting
So while arias actions show that she's fearless and somewhat good at fighting they also reveal her identity?
She [was] clearly a girl of importance from Winterfell who is hiding from the lannisters?
[Aria] loses touch with jock and until the seventh Aria chapter jacques and [Rogan] biter have come to harrenhal
Likely to find Aria Aria is in the middle of a wolf's dream when [Jack] and wakes her and claims
He owes three deaths now
It should be noted that Bran howls in his sleep when he has wolf dreams
so if [Aria] is like bran
[Jockin] would have heard her howling and might know that she's a warg if not here jock and may have thought it in the ninth
Aria chapter when he finds her talking to a weirwood tree now even though jock and is supposedly just in harrenhal
cross off three names
He does spend time spying on Aria or at least enough to know where she sleeps and as she's called weasel now
Jukin does eventually reveal that he knows [that] Aria is Aria of house stark [now]
What's interesting is aria only says her name once in all of a clash of kings she tells her name once to Gendry however
She tells him when she's miles away from sir a [murray's] men this means that unless Gendry spilled the beans
[Jaqen] knows about the politics of Westeros
He knows there is a missing stark girl named Aria who is of great political importance?
And this girl may be a telepath
So while there's no doubt that
Jacket observed that [aria] was a good fighter and clever and had little fear those qualities are actually quite common in the world
What's less common are people of great political importance who happen to have telepathic?
Powers it seems much more likely that it was this quality that led to [jon's] recommendation now
I'd like to talk a little bit [about] [jock] ins recommendation and his coin now on a side note
It's almost certain that jock and stored this coin in his rectum when he was in the black cells
[but] that's neither here nor there [Jaqen] asks Aria to come with him to braavos however [aria] refuses and says she's going to winterfell
And so [jaqen] gives her his ass coin and tells her give that coin to any man from braavos and say these words to him
valar Morghulis
Now [jockin] is absolutely lying when he says any man from braavos
Braavos is [a] huge diverse city
it's absolutely certain that some people wouldn't like the faceless men for instance any worshiper of real or
In fact jocund statement is pretty much proven incorrect on the ship trip over to braavos some of the crew shun
[Arya]
So what is jock in talking about when he says arya can give the coin to any man from braavos?
Well if arya believes that any man from Braavos will do she'll likely give the coin to the first braavosi
She meets now arya says she's going to winterfell which means she has to take a ship since the ironborn have moat cailin
the closest port to Harrenhal is
Salt pans and sure enough a braavosi ship is waiting there for her called the titans daughter now
Yes, Arya
Did a lot of wandering before that but based on what she told [Jockin] salt pans is where she should be?
And the braavosi ship at salt pans is awfully suspicious
First of all salt pans is not a major port ships only go there from time to time, so it's unusual that
There's a ship there let alone
Specifically a braavosi ship but on top of this much of [saltpans] has been destroyed
This means the industrial output of the city is lower
And there's even less reason for a ship to be there on top of this the ship's route makes little sense the ship's Captain turn
Seo [teres] says they rounded crack [La] [pointe] which means they came from the south or here on the map
They then stopped at salt pans
Which is here on the map and after that they said they were going to head [home] to braavos with no stops now braavos happens
to be to the
[northeast] so why wouldn't any trader stop at the major port of gold town what I'm saying is the braavosi ship goes to an out-of-the-way
Minor port and then skips the convenient major port it seems quite possible that the titans daughter was not insult [pants] to make money
But to find arya now what's interesting is that prior [to] boarding the titans daughter?
It seems some of the crew knows how to speak the common tongue
But once aboard suddenly everyone can't speak it some of the crew shuns arya while others try to get arya to learn their names
Now there's a very logical reason
Why they're trying to get Arya to learn their names
Later at the house of black and white we learned that faceless men aren't allowed [to] kill people they know with no one to talk
To on the ship arya is forced to spend all of her time with the Captain's son
[Den] yo
And the only thing [Denno] does is tell great things about the city of braavos?
[keep] in mind Arya does not want to go to braavos
She wants to go to eastwatch-By-the-sea and even when arriving in braavos. She wants to stay on the ship it seems
Denno is trying to change arya's mind and get her to stay in braavos now interestingly
Once the titans daughter arrives in braavos the Captain gets nervous the sea lords
Customs officer is supposed to check the ship and so the Captain has a son lower a boat and take Arya to shore
the Titans daughter smuggled Arya in to braavos
This is interesting as jocund said that any man from braavos would accept the coin
But here it seems the sea lords customs officer would not welcome a faceless recruit so braavos is not unified as jock and implied
It's filled with factions like any other city the religion of the many-faced
God isn't even the biggest religion the moon singers seem to be and there's a large temples of the red
God as well the house of black and white only has two priests and arya never describes any large crowd stopping by in fact she
Specifically, it's that the temple was never full so if the religion of the many-faced God is a minority religion
What are the chances that a random ship would have a captain that's a follower so [arya] went into salt pans a town [that] normally
doesn't get ships and there was a ship and of all the cities in the world that ship happened to be from braavos and of
All the religions the captain happened to be a follower of the many-faced
God it seems much more likely the jock and arranged for that ship to be there and that
[Chakan] had told the Kindly man that arya of how stark was coming which explains how the kindly man knows what to lie and what's
True he knew the answer before and was pretending to have powers keep in mind Charlatans ism
Is a reoccurring theme of our authors work?
It's the plot of his short story bitter blooms and call him moses and it explains
How aaron Damp hair resurrects people and much of?
Melisandre is so-called Magic keep in mind at no other point as the Kindly man have Impressive Lie Detection
Abilities he calls arya out for lying about whispering when she was clearly whispering and lying about snooping when she was clearly
Snooping he calls her out for not smelling a candle when the candle is clearly scented the only impressive lie the Kindly man ever
Detected was arya's name something jock and hagar another faceless man knew
But if arya is being watched what a rogue and biters role
And how far back could this watching go could Syria be involved well?
We'll go in depth about rorg and biter as well as Syria in Part 2
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