Questions Readers Should Ask

Some of the questions characters ask are prompts designed to be explored by readers. Some from the list below may be clues from the author.

1 AGOT Prologue: "Are they dead?" 1 Waymar asks this in regards to the wildling rangers Will saw.

4 AGOT Daenerys I: "What is he doing here?" 36 Dany asks this about Jorah Mormont.

5 AGOT Eddard I: "Did you have to bury her in a place like this?" 43 Speculative.

13 AGOT Eddard II: "I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?"116

14 AGOT Tyrion II: "Why did he attack me?" 125 Tyrion asks Jon this about Ghost.

17 AGOT Eddard III: "What would you have me do, whip her through the streets?" Robert to Cersei of Arya

20 AGOT Jon III: "And the grumkins and the snarks," Tyrion said. "Let us not forget them, Lord Snow, or else what's that big thing for?"

21 AGOT Eddard IV: "What game are you playing, Littlefinger?" 196 Ned says this to Littlefinger before being asked to trust him by Catelyn.

26 AGOT Eddard V: "Why do you think I hid Cat in a brothel?"

28 AGOT Eddard VI: "Why did Stannis leave?" 276

31 AGOT Eddard VII: "How could I have made a son like that, Ned?" 310

32 AGOT Tyrion IV: "Why would Petyr lie to me?" 330 Catelyn asks Tyrion

40 AGOT Eddard X: "How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?" 430 Robert

42 AGOT Jon V: "What use would rangers be if the Wall fell down?" 446 Speculative

53 AGOT Jon VII: "Who else, my lord?" 555 The rangers discuss the corpses of Jafer and Othor as Mance Rayder's work. Jon knows they all think it was the Others but no one will say so.

77 ACOK 4 Tyrion I: "Where did she come by that notion, I wonder."61 Lysa accused Tyrion of murdering Jon Arryn.

107 ACOK 34 Catelyn IV: "Where else are they to turn if not to the last Baratheon?" After Renly is slain, Catelyn assumes all his forces, even Highgarden, will turn to Stannis. 505