A balance between life and death. The most obvious way the showrunners depict this is when a life is spared and another must die for that spared life. That's the order, spared life of one leads to death of another.
My question is, what if the Faceless God works in a more subtle way that has been clouded in the Lord of Light narrative? Essentially, a reversal of the order. The unjust death (or death) of in the name of the lord of light (burning them at the pyre) gives the priest or priestess the ability to bring back another from death (humor me for a second, I'm still working through this). Shireen dies in a fire to further the vision of the Lord of light. Melisandre goes to the Wall because the Stannis battle is doomed. Jon is resurrected. Shireen died when she shouldn't have and a debt was owed, the balance was off. A day or two later, Jon dies. Melisandre is able to bring him back to restore the balance. Life pays for death and death pays for life.
I know one retort is that Thoros has brought back Beric multiple times presumably without burning anyone alive. However, shortly after Beric is tasked by Ned to take down Gregor Clegane, Melisandre enters the show and starts burning Stannis' relatives and other non-believers. Banking a lot of death/life debt for Thoros to cash in on to save Beric and Lady Stoneheart.
I don't know, just a tinfoil, poorly executed thought that came to mind.
Submitted May 29, 2017 at 10:40PM by FoundWaldo_meh http://ift.tt/2sfCjpV
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