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On Jon's legitimacy: Yup, the debate begins here. Jon is known as Ned Stark's bastard, but that does not mean he is Rhaegar's bastard. Bear in mind these two pieces of information:
- Dornish women do not find it so unseemly that their men sleep with other women. Princess Elia, Rhaegar's wife, was Dornish.
- There is precedent for the Targaryens to be polygamous. A Targaryen ancestor was said to have married all of his sisters.
If you put those together, it could in fact be possible that Rhaegar and Lyanna were legitimately married in secret and that Jon is, in fact, their trueborn son and the rightful Targaryen heir. As the son of Rhaegar, who is older than Daenerys, Jon is ahead of her in the line of succession.
On Tyrion's guilt: Reading the chapter over again, it looks like Joffrey was either killed by the Strangler crystal-poison, hidden in Sansa's hairnet, removed by Lady Oleanna and put in the chalice of wine by someone - OR that he was killed by poison in Tyrion's pigeon pie and that he ended up eating the poison meant for Tyrion (which was why I fingered Cersei). I'm leaning more towards the idea that Tyrion admitting his crime to Jaime is simply meant to hurt Jaime.
Anyhow, if it's the more likely option and it was the strangler crystal, then Littlefinger was likely involved, but the Tyrells - at least, Lady Oleanna - had to have been in on it too.
[ 07-28-2005, 09:42 AM: Message edited by: Tancred2001 ]
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