Varys is one of the most mysterious characters in Game of Thrones and ASOIAF. What’s he up to? How does his plan involve Viserys and Daenerys? And is Aegon a Blackfyre?

This video contains spoilers for Book 5 and Season 5.

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Errata:
10:25 Daemon Blackfyre’s original name was Daemon Waters, not Daemon Rivers

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20 COMMENTS

  1. He's up to nothing because they're tying everything in for the final season. The days of writing for master schemers is done, it'll be a mad dash to the finish and we'll all be disappointed. Oh! except the blood, gore and action fiends.

  2. Could anyone explain how this theory makes sense… When he first starts talking about "young Griff" or Aegon, he says he is the son of Rhaegar, however, when explaining the blackfyre theory part he says that Aegon might be Illyrio's son and maybe Varys' nephew. So whose son is this Aegon in the end? And does this theory only make sense in the books? Because in the series is assumed that both Rhaegar's children are dead and Jon is the only Targaryen male left alive.. I am very confused D:

  3. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm still relatively new to the world even though I'm caught up with the entire series. Which Aegon are we talking about here? No Aegon attempted to invade Westeros that was alive at the same time as Daenerys and Viserys.. right?

    Spoiler alert but clearly we're not talking about Jon Snow. And at the time of the making of this video we didn't even know that Jon Snow was actually AN Aegon Targaryen. Help please?

  4. Euron Greyjoy on his way to season 8 with the Golden Company in his backpack bitches! Is Aegon being included? All that plotting and the false dragon (Daenerys) to get Cersei hire the Golden Company with that ton of gold. Perfect setting for Aegon to take over and wipe em all out.

  5. Finally! Congratz to you and your team (if you worked with someone else to assert). This is the first theory (not just subject, notions, intuitions, or impostured judgements on him, his motives, and the meaning of his acts and sayings) that not only is plausible, but convincing (if true) up to the point to show us how "…for the realm" he claims to act is just a pose. It is sad, nevertheless, since I take little into account the written works and only take the HBO series to analyze Varys and the subject of his demands, love, needs, desires and enjoyment. But even if somehow HBO includes Aegon (not the sand/snow one) into the story somehow, all this is perfectly coherent, and serious series of events and elements that you interpreted, and concluded an assertion that would not differ in nature of being a Claimant to the Iron Throne, it saddens me that amongst all the series characters, which can roughly be placed ideologically, in terms of politics, serious political philosophy, into two great groups: reactionaries (tyrants, royalists, Olenna and Cersei) to the Regime of a United Kingdom, which is really something new, few 300 years old union under a crown, against a backdrop of what, 8000 years of history of dynasties and very defined crowns and realms, like the North or the most southerner, which only became part of the union some 80(?) years after the foreign invasion? Nevertheless, knighthood and serfdom is very rooted, as the feudal-vassal-system in Westeros, with its proper institutions that guard them. The other bulk of people I place in a second, bigger, more in-tune with late medieval Europe, that is, after the wars of investitures and before rise of the Banking families as rulers, and followed by merchants and a new class that would end this regime by advocating property, not the name of the father, as legitimacy: The conservatives: big hierarchical systems of authority, power and violence to rule the lands, may it be by Merit (iron price), Family (aristocracy), Councils (oligarchs) and/or Rich or Pious (plutocracy, theocracy). To this latter group the most of the characters belong. But there was not one liberal, democrat, demagogue, but Varys. Which may still be very far of say, achieving universal suffrage, but he made it clear to Dany, for example, that as long as she would rule, and by that she would need to break the "wheel", which means the dissolution of a couple of institutions, it would obviously be not just a welfare state during her life, but many steps, with the help of Varys perhaps, and other, into a kind of Dynastic Dictatorship of a former-enslaved freewoman, lawmaker, charismatic, enlightened despot in the manners of Voltaire's vission. Only one thing is needed for this: Rule of Law, and a law that would grant equality to all before itself. Unlike the conservatives, which have Laws, their ways are to ensure private property and above all, heritage. The reactionaries are more self or family-interested… Not that I ask for democracy in times of feudalism, but as all modern tales and stories about the past, or about fantastical pasts or futures, have their world viewed with modern eyes, modern ethics, aesthetics… And maybe the Salt throne would be the closest to our modern day States, where merit is rewarded, it is very far from granting rule of law

  6. I heard you mentioned somewhere that in the series some characters are fused or given stories of other characters. Could this be true with Jon Snow and his real name Aegon Targaryen and Jon snow is Varys' Aegon Targaryen in the series ?

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