The sixth season of Game of Thrones has come and gone. While we're still recovering from all the emotions of the finale, it's time to look back at all the seeds that were planted throughout the season. In particular, we're looking back at a reference that came from Cersei back in this season's premiere, just after she finds that her daughter Myrcella is dead.
Cersei mentions the prophecy of a witch she'd been told years ago: "She promised me three children . . . she promised me they'd die," she says, and of course, it wasn't all that long ago that we actually saw this scene on the show; it happens in the season five premiere. Here's the clip where a young Cersei visits Maggy the frog, the fortune teller in question.
"Everything she said came true . . . ," Cersei says in the season premiere to Jaime, her beloved brother and father of her three children - all three of whom are now indeed dead. "This prophecy, it's fate." So let's go over exactly what the witch did prophecize, and how it all plays out on the show.
1. "You'll never wed the prince, you'll wed the king."
Did it come true? Yes. Cersei marries King Robert Baratheon and not "the prince" - Rhaegar Targaryen.
2. "You'll be queen, for a time. Then comes another, younger, more beautiful, to cast you down and take all you hold dear."
Did it come true? Yes, though the younger, more beautiful queen has been questioned. Margaery would come to mind first, as the young queen who is married to King Tommen, but it's also assumed to be Daenerys Targaryen, the queen I think we are all hoping to bring about the end of the Lannisters.
3. "The king will have 20 children and you will have three. Gold will be their crowns . . . gold their shrouds."
Did it come true? Yes. The king did have multiple illegitimate children without the help of Cersei, while Cersei bears just three: Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen - all three of whom have already died. Joffrey and Myrcella are both poisoned, by Lady Olenna Tyrell and Ellaria Sand respectively. Tommen tragically commits suicide by throwing himself out a window after he sees that Cersei has murdered his love, Margaery Tyrell.
But wait, there is one more piece to the prophecy in George R. R. Martin's books that did not make it into that scene in the show. The witch also tells Cersei: "And when your tears have drowned you, the Valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you." "Valonqar" means "little brother" in Valyrian - and if we are taking that literally, that means Tyrion . . . or Jaime, who is her twin but could technically be her "little brother." (That really makes the incest somehow even grosser, right?)
So, there's still a piece of the prophecy the witch predicted that we can look forward to: Cersei's murder at the hand of one of her brothers.
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