HOTD Season 2: Who Performs Alys Rivers?
Alys is allegedly a bastard of the Sturdy household, though it isn’t truly clear who sired her. The historian narrator within the supply materials, “Fireplace & Blood,” mentions some hypothesis that Alys is the daughter of Lyonel Sturdy, which might make her the half-sister of each Larys Sturdy (a.okay.a. Clubfoot) and Ser Harwin Sturdy. There are some issues with this concept, nevertheless — primarily that Alys seems a lot youthful than her supposed forty years, and that she’s closely purported to be a witch.
One other concept from Mushroom, a dwarf jester on Rhaenyra’s facet who’s secretly recording all his ideas on the Dance of Dragons, is that she’s “a malign enchantress who bathed within the blood of virgins to protect her youth.” Mushroom additionally believes that Alys was far older than the opposite sources declare, believing Alys to have been “moist nurse to each [Larys and Harwin], even perhaps to their father a era earlier.”
The e-book additionally provides consideration to how all of Alys’ youngsters had been stillborn, which spurred theories on the time that she’s “a witch who lay with demons, bringing forth lifeless youngsters as fee for the data they gave her.” The “Fireplace & Blood” narrator does not give a lot credence to this concept, however Mushroom followers know that the dwarf’s testimonies all the time are inclined to have a minimum of a shred of fact to them, a minimum of so far as the “Home of the Dragon” canon is worried. From what we have seen of TV Alys to this point, she positively appears to be dabbling in witchcraft.
