Arya and the Riverlands

In the godswood she found her broomstick sword where she had left it, and carried it to the heart tree. There she knelt. Red leaves rustled. Red eyes peered inside her. The eyes of the gods. "Tell me what to do, you gods," she prayed.

For a long moment there was no sound but the wind and the water and the creak of leaf and limb. And then, far far off, beyond the godswood and the haunted towers and the immense stone walls of Harrenhal, from somewhere out in the world, came the long lonely howl of a wolf. - Arya X, acok

It should be anti-Daenerys to think that her character arc will be a tragedy of a girl who was traumatized and wanted to do good but could not see the flaws in her own methods and actions until it was too late. And this would make her one of the best written characters of all time because a majority of fans supported her and they fell for the same trap she did.

asoiaf characters + quotes

Daphne De Maurier - Rebecca (Reader’s Digest edition), 1968

The faith is very attached to her character,with alayne having the backstory of being a septa in training do you see it being important?

I feel like it has already been important throughout her Vale chapters. Petyr asks her to memorize some quotes from sacred texts to avoid too many questions and then Sansa just… doesn’t. She is subjected to too many questions and scrutiny and we don’t see her quote a single text or even bring up her faith upbringing. Plus how she acts throughout the Vale is not very Septa-In-Training-Since-Birth of her.

I think it’s a point of direction for the reader to notice that someone else might be noticing that Alayne is not who she claims she is & that her actions don’t fit in with her background story. The Royces seem to have caught up on that, at least in the way they act and considering that they looking to depose LF swiftly and vehemently, they even have the motivation to.

I mean Myranda is constantly bringing up sexual innuendo with a girl she is to believe will be pious and uptight and this -

“There’s a new High Septon, did you know? Oh, and the Night’s Watch has a boy commander, some bastard son of Eddard Stark’s.”

“Jon Snow?” she blurted out, surprised.

“Snow? Yes, it would be Snow, I suppose.”

AFFC, Alayne II

Apart from Sansa being reminded of the one brother that is conveniently and consistently absent from her narrative, it also serves as a gotcha for Myranda and the reader. Why does Alayne Stone, a bastard trained with the faith in the Vale, know about Eddard Stark’s bastard son’s name, or more even, why is she concerned with him rather than a new high septon being appointed? Because she’s not Alayne Stone, she’s Sansa Stark. And suspicions confirmed for the Royces that she’s a Stark and for us, that the Royces know that she’s a Stark.

Which leads on to the theory that the Royces are going to be instrumental in getting Sansa out of the vale and into White Harbour at least.

@sansaqueenofloveandbeauty