In Game of Thrones, Daenerys has managed to survive fire or extreme heat in several instances:   When Daenerys' dragons were born in the season 1 finale, "Fire and Blood" (Game of Thrones, S01E10) Killing the khals by locking them inside the temple of Vaes Dothrak and lighting the place on fire in "Book of the Stranger" (Game of Thrones, S06E04) - while all the men burned alive, Daenerys emerged from the hut unscratched. The steaming hot bath in "Winter is Coming" (Game of Thrones, S01E01) - Daenerys is warned by a servant that "it's too hot, my lady", but she steps in without flinching Daenerys casually picks up the dragon eggs that were roasting on hot coals, in "A Golden Crown" (Game of Thrones, S01E06) - when the Dothraki handmaiden, Irri, rushes in and knocks them off her hands, Daenery's hands are unscathed, while Irri's now have burn marks   Here she didn't show immunity to heat, but made a relevant remark:    Her comment, "He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon", at the time of Viserys' death in "A Golden Crown" (Game of Thrones, S01E06)   George R. R. Martin, author of the novel series that the show is adapting, has stated that the Targaryens are not immune to fire (at least in the books).  Were the above instances in which she is shown to be immune to fire (in the show) unique, or has she had this ability her whole life? If so, when and how did Daenerys acquire this ability?
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In the scene in  S01E06 where Khal Drogo pours molten gold over Viserys's head and he dies, Daenerys says that a real (dragon) Targaryen could never have been killed by that.  While we know that dragon blooded Targaryens are immune to fire, how does that translate to being immune to a pot full of molten gold? The Molten metal might have anyways killed any person on whom it was poured over.
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In , the second episode of the Hunger Games trilogy, one of the characters (Beetee) proposes a plan to kill some of the remaining tributes. He proposes wrapping a special wire that he has designed to withstand the vast energy of lightning around a tall tree and running it down to a salt water lake. Then when lightening strikes the tree (which it does predictably every twelve hours) anyone in the lake will be killed. (N.B. This is not Beetee's real plan, but it is the one he wants his allies to believe.)  I don't think his plan would work at all. Assuming that his wire can carry the enormous current delivered by a lightening strike (this is fiction after all) surely the current would short to ground through the salt water rather than taking a path through anyone standing or swimming in the water. The analogy I have in mind is that of birds standing untroubled on live electricity wires. They are unharmed because they do not provide a path to earth. But another analogy might be dropping a mains electric heater into a bath when you are in it. I think that kills you (though I'm not sure why.)
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For quite some time now I have been asking myself how the world of Game of Thrones is shaped and if the people living in that world know the shape.   In questions here on SciFi.Stackexchange concerning the unnatural seasons or the definition of a year in Westeros, it is often  that the Westerosi can measure the duration of a revolution of their planet around the sun. But that only works if they know that they actually live on a planet.   In  answer it was said that people have been travelling in ships around the world. However, I cannot remember any passage in the books supporting this. Actually I only remember evidence for the opposite:    During the  on the Iron Islands, there is a man called  who promises the Ironborn treasures from lands far to the west, if they elect him as king. However, the POV character of that chapter (I think it was Victarion Greyjoy) does not believe him and sees the madness in Gylbert's eyes - as if speaking of travelling west is crazy.  Later when he leads the attack against the Shield Islands, the Iron Fleet travels out of sight of the coast line. This manoeuvre is considered very dangerous and risky. If this is already dangerous, traveling even further west appears close to suicide.   In addition, there was a  who sailed to the far west and never returned.   establishes that the world is not a hollow world, but is not conclusive as to whether it is a planet.  Is there any evidence in the books that the World of Ice and Fire is a planet? Was it established that the Westerosi know the nature of their world?
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I started out watching the Game of Thrones series (just about to watch season 4), then became intrigued enough to also read the A Song of Ice and Fire series (soon to acquire book 5).  Obviously a TV series cannot cover the detail one might expect in the books, so some characters from the books would not be mentioned in the TV shows, but it intrigued me that  (the prostitute that travels from Winterfell to King's Landing to continue her career) is in the TV series but does not appear anywhere in the books!  I guess she was inserted to allow the film makers to show aspects of certain characters and drive other bits of the story that were simplified/shortened &amp; otherwise would have needed expounding.  Are there any other characters that are portrayed in GoT that are not in ASoIaF?
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From S05E02 and A Storm of Swords:     In this episode, a new Lord Commander of The Night's Watch is appointed after the death of Jeor Mormont. But to my surprise, the appointment takes place not from the direct orders of the King (Tommen or Stannis, your pick) but through a truly democratic process. Yes, elections, where anybody can stand for the post &amp; only the members of the Night's Watch gets to vote.      So, the question, why is the Night's Watch the only democracy in an otherwise feudal Westeros? Army is the last place you would expect to find a true democracy.    Is it just a happenstance because     Stannis Baratheon has claimed the Wall   or is the practice followed through the ages?
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(Spoiler alert for, well, Game of Thrones TV show up to Season 5 Episode 6, obviously.)  This question is about the events in the show, not the books (in which things happen very differently) - although answers based on book information not presented in the show, and which does not contradict what we know from the show, are acceptable :-)      So after the Vale affair, Petyr Baelish offers Sansa to the Boltons as a wife, despite saying he expects Stannis to beat them and take Winterfell.    That in itself does not make much sense, but his motivation seems to be revealed in this episode: He can make the Boltons look like traitors to Cersei. Truth be told, that's rather lame, since if Qyburn is doing any sort of work as Master of Whispers, he should have informed Cersei that it was Lord Baelish who offered Sansa, pulling the rug out from under his argument at the tete-a-tete with the Queen Mother.   But, let's put this contrivance aside and assume he had Sansa marry Ramsey Bolton for this purpose.     Well, what does this get him, exactly?  I mean,      Cersei does not give him troops, nor money, nor does she get Lannister allies to act in any way. He's been promised to get to be 'Warden of the North' if he wipes out Stannis. Is he really in a position to lead the Vale to war against Stannis in support of the Lannisters? Even with a royal decree, I don't see how that's happening. Maybe he can manipulate lords who owe him money or something; but even then - it's not just Stannis, it's Stannis and the Iron Bank. Seriously, I don't see that happening. Even if he had pulled this off - who said he would win? Petyr Baelish never led men into battle in his life, and now he's to carry out a foreign invasion against a seasoned and accomplished military commander? Who will likely enjoy some support from the surrounding population? Finally, Baelish has a fixation on Sansa, why would he put her head on a spear for Cersei, especially having invested so much effort in getting her out of King's Landing?   I must be missing something. How are all these Sansa-centered machinations of any utility to Lord Baelish?  Edit following Episode 7:      So now Baelish and Tyrell have sprung the trap on Cersei. This makes the request of sending armed men up north even more ridiculous, since even if he'd gotten her to accept that, she wouldn't get around to arranging it. Also, it's not even clear whether or not he's going to have that royal decree of his. This leads one to believe that everything he told Cersei was essentially babble to keep her distracted. That's fine, i.e. makes Baelish seem less of an idiot.     But then, the question remains: What's the use of sending Sansa over to marry Ramsey Bolton?   Edit following Season 5 Finale:      Looks like whatever it is Baelish was planning, it isn't quite working out. He should probably have kept her in the vale - unless he has some fiendishly-clever idea I can't even fathom.
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In "The Dragon and the Wolf" (Game of Thrones, S07E07), this happens:      it is shown that Viserion breaks the Wall with his breath.    I don't think he breathes ice. Does anyone know?   What does dead Viserion breathe if it's not ice?
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Follow-up question to     In "Beyond the Wall" (Game of Thrones, S07E06), the Night King       kills the dragon Viserion with a spear.   Why is he moving so slowly when he could have easily eliminated all targets? Also, in previous episodes, we saw him strolling around, e.g. when attacking Bran's hideout. Is there any in-universe explanation why he is moving slowly, or is he just ... too cool to hurry?  Scope: I'm not asking about this specific episode but in general. We have seen him act slowly in previous episodes.
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I was recently reading some Lord of the Rings/Stargate SG-1 crossover fanfiction. It is a guilty pleasure, I admit :) In this story, it was suggested by Col. O'Neill to destroy the Ring using a nuclear device. Truth be told I stopped reading at this point, as it was getting to be a little much even for me.  Obviously, this is not canonical in either universe, but it made me wonder: When Elrond said that "only in the fires of Mt. Doom may it be unmade," was he speaking literally? Or was this merely the only known active volcano in Middle Earth? In other words, was whatever magic that protected the One Ring from damage location-based or did it just make it very resistant to destructive force, and Mt. Doom just happened to be hot enough to do this? I know there is (understandably) little information about such technicalities of how magic works in Middle Earth, but I'll accept any reasonable conjecture/consensus as an answer.
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What was the reason for the complicated plan to smuggle the poison that killed Joffrey in  S04E02 to the Purple Wedding? It's not like there's TSA-style security at the entrance, right? Or at least we never see any.  Why was it not possible to simply conceal the poison in the robes, directly on the person who actually adds it to the drink?
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We could see that Theon Greyjoy helped Sansa Stark escape from Winterfell which was under Ramsay's control by jumping off the wall. The outer wall is said to be about 80 feet high. How did both of them survive jumping from that height? It is highly unlikely to survive that jump even if there was snow.
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There have been a few questions and comments in our community lately regarding Dragonglass and the need to have weapons (swords, arrowheads etc) made from it to combat the White Walkers.  In Season 3, Episode 8, Samwell kills a White Walker with a dragonglass dagger, by stabbing the Walker in the shoulder.   However what interested me is how deep a wound is needed to destroy a White Walker?  Is a single, shallow cut enough? If so, rather than trying to manufacture arrowheads or spear-points, men could be given slivers of dragonglass and simply throw them at the Walkers, throwing enough will almost certainly cause some wounds.  Manufactured weapons of dragonglass could then be provided to those better trained to use them.  There are a number of pages that talk about dragonglass killing , there is not (that I can find) any discussion of the degree of wounding needed for this to succeed.  Is there any in-universe lore that gives this detail?
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Having watched the latest Game of Thrones episode (""), I feel I've had a small epiphany. There's rumor and theory going around that in the books, Robb got Jeyne pregnant. Jeyne didn't attend the RW, and afterward was swept away. In the show, we know that Talisa is a replacement for Jeyne. And we find out that Talisa is pregnant. Looking over the credits, Martin himself wrote this episode (all except the bear scenes). Is it now safe to assume that Jeyne is pregnant?  EDIT  So, with last nights episode, how are we to interpret Jeyne's fate? Will GRRM take that into consideration when writing about Jeyne in the future? Or will he just say "eff em", and write that Jeyne was pregnant, had the heir, and he kicked face? Did GRRM have any say in the "Rains of Castamere" episode at all?
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In the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang      learns to energy-bend, and removes the Fire Emperor's ability to firebend.   What are the limits of this power?  Could Aang give Toph sight?  Could he give non-benders the ability to bend?  Could he give a bender the ability to bend more than one element?
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In Game of Thrones S08E04 (The Last of the Starks) when Tyrion and Jaime are confronted by Bronn, Tyrion attempts to evade poetic justice by offering Bronn Highgarden. Was it even within Tyrion's power to give away Highgarden?    Follow up question: Why would Bronn even risk waiting around to see how things play out? Based on his demeanor during that conversation, he seemed pretty pissed that all he has to show for serving the Lannisters is a lousy title. So, why wouldn't he just take bird in hand and collect the reward from Cersei instead of risking Tyrion dying before all of this is over? I mean, Tyrion even mentioned to him that all of this means nothing until they [the North] take over King's Landing, but it didn't really seem to faze Bronn.
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I've become hooked on HBO's A Game of Thrones, so I was going to read the books. However, I'm a little confused as to which order to read them since there are novellas based on chapters of the novels.  This is what I've found online:   Blood of the Dragon (July 1996), taken from the Daenerys chapters in A Game of Thrones. Path of the Dragon (December 2000), taken from the Daenerys chapters in A Storm of Swords. Arms of the Kraken (March 2003), based on the Iron Islands chapters from A Feast for Crows.   Should I read the novel first, then the novella for that book, then back to the original series?
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Let's take take a look at the oath of the Night's Watch from Game of Thrones:  &quot;Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.&quot; ―The Night's Watch oath  But as of S06E02   Now that Jon Snow has died, his watch has ended.  But apparently he's breathing again.  So how much of this makes sense to still be binding? Is he technically free from his oath now? Does the &quot;until my death&quot; part contradict the &quot;and all the nights to come&quot; part?