Thread:BenRG/@comment-24198837-20140903213019/@comment-10390252-20140904082643

I think you summed it up with the pithy phrase "this is Westeros, though, and everything sucks". That's why I gave up in the whole story - everything is always so relentlessly grim and the bad guys are always wiinning because, IMO, George Martin is much like Frank Miller and Alan Moore in that he hates heroes. The only ones who seem to have survived is the ones so young and stupid that they can be controlled by bad councillors and those older ones who aren't realy so good at all. Hearing about Jon's death was the last straw for me.

Anyway, yeah, I've been thinking that Cinder will pack the confrontation spot with her ringers too. My call is that it will come down at the ball - Cinder will have introduced a poison into the water or something that blocks Semblance for a few hours and the band and waiting staff in the ballroom will all be heavily-armed Henchmen. She might have some White Fang goons do an air assault after the battle starts just to make sure too.