Jaqen H'ghar

He spoke to no one, was noticed by almost no one.

Jaqen H'ghar moved through the Red Keep like a ghost and left behind him only death.

Robert Baratheon was found the next morning in his chambers, cold and stiff.

Empty wine bottles surrounded him.

Still, it festers.

Later that night, Arya finds Jaqen H'ghar against a stone wall, eating an apple.

A girl has come.

Good timing.

Devon Lannister takes a small fleet of ships from Lannisport and hits them as they try to retreat.

The Iron Fleet is scattered, leaving them unable to support the rest of the Ironborn throughout the region.

however that is the extent of the lannisters support shortly after jamie's release the lannisters organize a great wedding to celebrate the union of joffrey and marjorie tyrrell yet shortly after this marriage joffrey unexpectedly dies some say by choking and others by poison Even Arya and Jaqen have no idea how this happened, but no one in the north mourns him, or his grandfather when he joins him a few days later.

The crime is blamed on Tyrion, who is tried and executed in a show trial.

They rush through the gates, making it difficult for the Goldcloaks to keep track of them, despite their insistence that they must be searched.

Their captain tries to restore order, but it is of no use as the soldiers cannot stop them, panic is already spreading amongst the small folk as they receive reports that stannis will soon arrive in the crownlands while many are terrified of him laying siege to the capital they are even more scared of the idea of being left out in the open when the army arrives tales of the bloodshed and destruction in the riverlands have frightened and convinced them that staying outside will mean death for them Among those who escape, Jaqen H'ghar walks silently amongst the crowds, disguised as a simple beggar.

He lifts his head just enough to glance at the looming red keep and smiles.

Later that evening, Cersei sits in her solar and sips a goblet of wine as she considers what must be done.

It's like she's looking among all the ingredients that will, will soon be used on her.

Um, and we get this great little moment, uh, yeah, where she has the lip biting tick, and that comes up specifically in the context of one of my favorite little long con setups and payoffs in the series, where the Waif is showing her basilisk blood, and she says, "This can make any animal g- go crazy." And Arya says, "Would it work on dogs?" And what she's almost certainly thinking of there is what Jaqen H'ghar did in A Clash of Kings for their second murder, when he got the guy Weese killed by somehow inciting Weese's dog to attack him.

And at the time, Arya was like, "Oh my God, he's a wizard."

Hmm.

... and he's just a man, 'cause the Waif's like, "Yeah, here's how.

This little bottle right here, that's how you do it." It's not magic.

Or, you know, it is magic, but it's ritualized, predictable magic, not Jaqen H'ghar, the strange man who can do anything.

Here are the rules.