Much
has been discussed in Game of Thrones fan circles of just who is
working as a mole for Cersei in Dany's camp after the Tyrion-led
offenses have both met disastrous ends, but it keeps being ignored
who exactly executed the first blow, completely on their own, and may be responsible for even more: Euron Greyjoy.
Let's look.
Destroying
Dany's Fleet in the Night
Euron
left Cersei at the throne with a promise that he'd prove himself to
her, that he'd bring her a gift that would prove his value to her. It
wasn't on Cersei's command, and it wasn't with information that
Cersei had gathered and given to him via some mole, it was with what
he already knew. Somehow (we'll guess later), he knew where his
stolen fleet was, led by his niece Yara for Dany, and somehow he knew Ellaria
Sand and the Sand Snakes, "The Gift", were along for the
ride.
So
Euron tracks the fleet down, destroys it, then takes Yara, Ellaria
and Sand Snake Tyrene captive and heads back to King's Landing, then hands over the Sands to Cersei.
Now
on to Dany's next defeat.
Casterly
Rock
So,
yet again, Tyrion's offense is masterfully defeated when Dany's
forces sail up to Casterly Rock only to find that it has been
abandoned, and are then attacked by new Team Cersei Navy man Euron on
the sea just off The Rock. So it has to be a mole this time, right?
Nope.
The
plans to sail part of Dany's fleet down to Dorne to pick up forces,
and also to sail around Westeros to sack Casterly Rock were both laid
out on Dragonstone at the same time. So it's safe to assume that
members of the fleet who were sacked by Euron at night during the
first attack knew of the Casterly Rock plan. A little bit of
interrogating, torture, or “save my own ass so I'll start
squealing” later, and Euron has even more information on Dany and
Tyrion's plans.
“Hi
Cersei. Here is your gift....oh, and Casterly Rock is next.” -Euron
Grayjoy...probably.
But
how'd he know about the whereabouts of his stolen fleet and the Sands
in the first place?
First
of all, this is fiction, “Fantasy”, so there will be no perfectly logical
explanations, but we can make a pretty good guess of just how Euron
was able to figure things out before his first attack during the
night, no matter how far-fetched (or not).
Number
one, he has probably been looking for his stolen fleet for quite some
time, and may have been on their trail since not too long after they left
Mereen with Dany and her forces. Coming across different merchants
etc..., Euron may have gotten news of a large fleet of ships heading
toward Dragonstone/Westeros.
What seems certain at this point is that
he already knew where the fleet was, and who would be within the
fleet when he promised Cersei her gift. How he gained that
information can easily be explained away by the geography surrounding
these events:
Euron
meets Cersei in King's Landing. King's Landing rests along Blackwater
Bay. To enter Blackwater Bay from the sea to the East, you come very
close to Dragonstone. By this, we can assume it possible that scouts
from Euron's fleet spotted Dany's fleet at Dragonstone. Upon relaying
this information back to Euron, a plan could have been hatched to
have some of Euron's Ironborn infiltrate Yara's Ironborn at
Dragonstone and gather information.
From
whatever information we can assume Euron could have gathered, he
continued on to King's Landing knowing he still had time and that Dany's
fleet would not yet depart for Dorne. He made his promises to
Cersei, then went and capitalized.
...or
maybe Cersei has a mole in Dany's camp.
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