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war are hard . Recruiting ally to fight your wars is harder . And as Jon Snow and Sansa find out in " The Broken Man , " recruiting allies to fight in your wars when your U. S. Army consists of a mates thousand wildlings , one giant , and a former smuggler possessing only six fingertip and a cool last name is the hard .
The Snow - Stark campaign took us all around the North . First , we hit the wildling pack , to slant them on the idea that , although they ’d only previously agreed to aid Jon Snow fight the dead , they should get together this other fight , too , because otherwise they wo n’t be alive for that other combat . And then it was on to Bear Island ( former menage of noted greyscale - sufferer Jorah Mormont ) , scarper by 10 - year - oldLyanna Mormont , who stomach by absolutely no bullshit , has a very soft - spoken maester , and is repped by a banner that looks like it was steal from a badass summer ingroup in Alaska .
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Though Lyanna fundamentally tells Jon and Sansa to STFU , Davos manages to help assure her redoubtable United States Army of 62 gentleman , and then it ’s on to House Glover . Seems Lord Glover just got his residence back from the Ironborn , and it was the Boltons who helped him do that , so he does n’t seem eager to switch position , especially when he finds out that enounce army is made up of wildlings . Sansa attempt to get high and mighty with some talk of Glover ’s pledge to House Stark , and Glover gets PISSED .
" And where was King Robb when the Ironborn assault this castle ? … Taking up with a strange whore . Getting himself and those who followed him obliterate . I do House Stark once . " He look over at Jon Snow . " But House Stark is dead . " And then he drops his one-time - timey mic . So , yeah , that did n’t go well .
After their bell ringing of the lesser houses of the North , this is what the Stark / Snow U. S. Army consist of :
Faced with this straiten scenario , Sansa resolve to compose a letter and practice the raven postal system . But whom is this letter for , you ask ? ! Well , you may see the word " fulfil your " and " Winterfell , " and that she signed it " Sansa Stark , " and someone on Reddit managed to decipher " horse of the Vale are under your bidding " and " your help and I shall see to it that you , " but that still leave open a bunch of hypothesis . So permit ’s get around down the potential recipients .
1. Petyr Baelish
This seems the most obvious , right ? He ’s already tell apart her that the knights of the Vale are under his bid , and already pledged that they ’d oppose for Sansa . But that lead some doubtfulness . Namely , why the sin would she need to promise him anything ? She does n’t trust him anymore , he ’s raise to be a conniving dick , and he already say he ’d do it without take something promised in return . This scenario looks like the most blatant ticker - fake by theGOTwriters , like it was make simply as a meaty recreation to throw away us off the scent . ( In this scenario , we are actual bloodhounds . )
2. Robin Arryn
Another possible scenario : Sansa in reality writes the Lord of the Vale Robin Arryn , her 14 - class - old cousin who breast - fed until , like , last yr , when his female parent take a flight through the Moon Door , since the Knights of the Vale technically are his . But he ’s a little shit and she once slapped him in the nerve , so this seems less potential unless the closing of that sentence is " and I shall see to it that you get unlimited Boltons to throw through your Moon Door . And maybe some breast milk or whatever . "
3. Yohn Royce
The Lord of Runestone and a potent bannerman in House Arryn , Royce used to track down with Sansa ’s father as a boy , and he ’s the one grooming Robin to not be such a piddling pitiable whiner . Plus , back in Season 4,Royce told Sansathat he would protect her and Baelish suggested he ’d be a swell air force officer of the Knights of the Vale , so perhaps she ’s eventually taking him up on his promise . He was also diagnose leader of the regular army of the Vale and told by Baelish to round up soldiers to march north for Sansa . But again , how would Sansa do it that ? And where would the raven ascertain him ?
4. House Cerwyn
As many people driving down the information superhighway have remark , Sansa mentions sing to House Cerwyn before Jon impolitely cuts her off to remind her that he once decease by getting stab in the intestine a crew . If she did indeed get her alphabetic character off to Cerwyn , there ’s a pretty full chance that they ’d end up backing the Starks , based on the fact that the current lord watched Ramsay Bolton flay his Father-God , mother , and comrade alive for not paying taxis . Ramsay has obviously never heard the expression " you may catch more fly with beloved than by scramble their parents active . "
5. Brynden Tully, aka “Blackfish”
Sansa ’s great uncle is all over this instalment , dominating Jaime Lannister in a parley that he admit he ’d only harmonize to because " besieging are deadening , " and he wanted to get the measure of him . It would make some illusion of sense for her to reach out to him and his sinewy house , and there have been theories that she ’d even set for the knights of the Vale and Royce ’s troops to mix under him , but he ’s got his own problem in good order now .
6. Howland Reed
Though we ’ve only discover him in Bran ’s flashback , saving Ned Stark ’s life by killing Ser Arthur Dayne just as he was about to strike down Ned , he is Father-God to Meera and Jojen , and Lord of Greywater Watch , head of House Reed . He prevail over the peat bog of the Neck , essentially the Westeros version of Cajun state where citizenry are called " frog eaters . " He was one of Stark ’s best friends and would obviously number to help out the Stark campaign , but he might be kind of an obscure call .
7. Beyoncé
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