2. The Theory Of The Two Jeynes
Here is another theory that would likely be impossible to play out on the small screen. In the series, they have changed the character Jeyne Westerling to Talisa Maegyr. The major change here is that her family are not bannermen to the Lannisters, but she still ends up being Robb Starks wife as he chooses to marry for love instead of his promised Frey girl. End result is the same; Walder Frey is mad. In the book, Jeyne does not accompany Robb to the Red Wedding, and survives him. The book leads us to believe that Jeyne is not with child when Robb dies - though not for lack of trying - and that her mother was giving her herbs and potions to make her more fertile, and Robb tells his mother while they are en route to the wedding that he does not believe she was pregnant. The TV version of the Red Wedding sees Talisa (Jeyne) as a wedding guest and is the first person attacked on Walders command, as she is repeatedly stabbed in the stomach. The series had revealed that Talisa was indeed pregnant at the time, so Robb again leaves no heir. Since the end result is the same, why does it affect this theory? The major difference is that in the series, the wife perishes, in the book, she survives. The theory stems from the most innocent of comments from two POV chapters; one from Catelyn and the other from Jaime. In Catelyns POV chapter, she makes a point of noticing that Jeyne appears to have wider hips that would be good for breeding. Jaime mentions that she is narrow of hip. Some readers have taken this as an indication that there may be more than one Jeyne. In the book, we know that Jeyne has siblings, and being that Jaime states he has no memory of what this girl might look like (as the Westerlings are bannermen of the Lannisters) it is plausible that another girl could have been presented to him as Jeyne. We see that happening later in the story when they decide to use Jeyne Poole as a substitute Arya to marry to the Bastard of Bolton GRRM has been confronted with this scenario, and claims it is a simple error on his part. But those readers that like a good conspiracy believe that the real Jeyne was spirited away by the Blackfish, Robbs mothers uncle, as she was in fact pregnant, in order to keep the heir to Robbs throne safe. We have heard nothing further in regards to where the Blackfish ended up after Riverrun was seized, so he wasnt necessarily alone. It would make for an interesting twist should an heir to the Kingdom of the North and Winterfell to all of a sudden show up in books 6 or 7. If this is true, then I cant even begin to imagine how they are going to try and play this out for television.