Poisoned wine game of thrones

Later, at the House of the Undying , Daenerys has a series of visions, some of them from the past, including a vision of a bloody corpse of a naked man, bouncing and being dragged behind a silver horse.

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Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things. The Wolf and the Lion. A Golden Crown. You Win or You Die. The Pointy End. Fire and Blood. He didn't yet realise the seriousness of the situation it's much less obviously poison in the book. Him pouring the wine away was a stubborn, drunken gesture of petty defiance. Like "All that over some stupid wine? Here's what I think of you and your stupid wine.

I'm not your bloody cupbearer, stupid boy choking on pie. Wait, is he dying? Why is everyone looking at me?

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Especially as Cersei would make Sansa drink. Michael Borgwardt Michael Borgwardt But he was very clearly poisoned. Everyone involved knew it was a murder immediately, whether the motivation was political or otherwise. JasonPatterson: Well, things rarely turn out as one might wish. According to GRRM himself, it wasn't supposed to be clear what happened: insidetv. But if someone dies by choking, the chicken bone is stuck in their throat and it's found shortly after death.

He choked on nothing in a world where rulers die frequently; they'd have been fools to not assume murder, regardless of Martin's intent in writing the scene.

My point was that it was unknown whether it was an assassination or a murder with a nonpolitical motivation; it was very clearly not an accident. Alternatively, he hated Joffrey enough to want his killer to get away. I've been back over the chapter and this is the paragraph where he pours out the wine: Tyrion found himself thinking of Robb Stark. Ford Mike. Ford 15k 9 9 gold badges 50 50 silver badges 85 85 bronze badges.

The argument about Tyrion not wanting Joffrey to drink to dislodge the pie makes no sense; the table was filled with cups, why would they only use Joffrey's cup? Tyrion also seems to inspect the wine he pours out, so he's probably already considering poisoning.

Flater It's not necessarily a rational thing for him to do, as he's very drunk at the time. My interpretation was that he tried anything he could to help the death happen.

If it was Joffrey trying to get a drink, he would go for his own cup first, wasting precious seconds when he finds that it's empty. No offense, but doing illogical things due to inebriation is a facile argument. It's a catch-all explanation that makes it possible to ignore logical fallacies in any theory that is presented. In absence of explicit evidence, answers should rely on logical conclusions, not just unprovable claims cfr Russell's teapot — Flater.

Flater Every single answer here is an unprovable claim, because his reasoning is never specified. The collar was set with an enchanted amethyst that Xaro swore would ward her against all poisons.

Around her throat was a red gold choker tighter than any maester's chain, ornamented with a single great ruby. The ruby at Melisandre's throat caught the light as she turned her head, and for an instant it seemed to glow bright as the comet. Red silk, red eyes, the ruby red at her throat, red lips curled in a faint smile as she put her hand atop his own, around the cup. Her skin felt hot, feverish. First, she knew that he had poisoned the cup of wine, and even gave him a chance to get out of it.

She sees things in the fire, I assume this is an example of the author using "show, don't tell" The second is that that ruby at her throat is definitely being highlighted--we don't know anything about her rings or shoes or hairpins because they're not important, but the ruby is. The ruby has some power strongly associated with light and fire or at least is a tool that she can focus her power in. Since she saw it coming, she was able to be prepared with the right magical tool, or the right spell.

Melisandre was robed in all scarlet satin and blood velvet, her eyes as red as the great ruby that glistened at her throat as if it too were afire. Melisandre wasn't poisoned because she didn't actually drink from the cup.

She merely created the illusion that she drank from the cup. She "glamoured" Cressen into believing she drank from the cup. In later chapters there are many instances of glamouring by Melisandre and others. Perhaps, and this is only a theory, that with her ability to sense the attempted poisoning, she merely warded off death with the Lord of Light's magic hence the ruby glowing. In a way, she instantly resurrected herself. This would be in line with Thoros' ability to revive the dead, and could support her theoretical ability to raise others though this has yet to be seen.

Her skin was hot to the touch, and when she meets Jon snow, she shows him that she is not cold wearing as little as she is even atop the wall by pressing his hand to her cheek. Simply, this doesn't seem to be anything she needed to actually prepare for. Her body runs at a higher temperature than normal humans and this cleanses poison from her body. In the books patchface knocks over Cressen as he enters and its Mel who picks him up this struck me as odd, I think there's a simpler explanation it says later that some of her magic is tricks and misdirection in a mel pof chapter on the wall I think she obviously knows Cressens trying to whack her , she pick pockets the poison when she picks him up and replaces it for something harmless then when she offers Cressen back the cup adds the actual poison , simple.

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why did Melisandre not die by the poison in ACoK? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 5 months ago. Active 5 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 22k times. After that, Maester Cressen dies of the poisoned wine. Has it ever been explained how Melisandre survived the poison?