Who's death? (SUPER MAJOR SPOILERS THROUGH AFFC)

[Culhwch]

Oh, I have no doubt he's alive. I should have made that clear. Just that he wouldn't cut off his own hand needlessly.

 

[TPA]

BTW, I hated the death of Maester Amon, so much more could have been done with that character.

 

[Raul]

How was Davos identified, by his shortened fingers or by his head? I don't believe his face was so known in the White Harbor (specially to the Freys who were one of those who identified him) so his shortened fingers were the answer. Most commonly Manderley and Davos put some bad guys head on pike, so why not his hands? Point is, how many men with shortened (left) hand fingers runned around in Westeros? Was Stannis punishment common punishment to the smugglers or act of mercy? Fact is, they cut off all the finger of thief (Tarly in Maidenpool), not just a tip of it. Were the smugglers lighter category than thieves in Westeros? I don't believe so. Most probably Stannis with all his great and kind heart didn't want to do much damage to his Onion Knight and cut off his fingertips not all fingers. Probaly was Davos with his shortened fingers maybe even as rare as white craven in Westeros and White Harbor dungeons didn't swarm with rascals with shortened left hand fingers. So what to do when you have somebody whose head you can cut off, but whose fingers don't answer to the parameters. Cut off his fingertips of course! But... there is very big difference between freshly cut fingers, still raw and dripping blood and old cut what was made years ago. So I believe that Manderley and Davos just run short with shortened fingers and Davos did his heroic deed.

 

[No One]

The Red Wedding. The Red Wedding. The Bloody Red Wedding.


I was at lunch at work when I read this and the following chapter where I though he might have killed off arya too. I didnt talk for the rest of the day. I swore to never read GRRM again. when I got off work . I dug through the book and saw arya again and took back my vow. This is the the 1st emotional climax in the book i think. the next will be even bigger. and then the books will start shelling out closure.

Let us share our pain... I happened to read the Red Wedding on my birthday. I too found myself tight-lipped after that and despaired at the thought of Arya being dead. I absolutely couldn't resist the urge to check ahead for another Arya chapter. Agreed also that Arya's chapter after the Red Wedding is utterly heartbreaking and a perfect addendum to the event.

By default, Robb and Catelyn's deaths are the worst. With that said, my favourite death just has to be the Tickler's. It was a simple enough sub-thread with regard to Arya's story, but the execution of it, like so much of ASOIAF, was perfect. The knife repeatedly coming down and Arya screaming his own questions back at him is a scene that'll stay with me for a long, long time and helped bring me out of post-Red Wedding despair.

Then there's Oberyn's death of course...

 

[Quick Ben]

This might be a bit of an unconventional one, as all major deaths have already been mentioned, but I was gutted when Jory was killed. How he got away, then came back and dragged off and stabbed to death was, to me at least, the "start of it all" where the Starks were no longer safe.

 

[TK-421]

I agree Quick Ben. Jory was a very likeable character. The kind of guy you want on your side.