Game Of Thrones Recap: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Season 5

12. Maggy's Prophecy

Season 5 opens with a flashback, showing us a young Cersei as she visits a woods witch by the name of Maggy (the show seemingly dropped 'the Frog' when changing the character's appearance). There, Cersei hears a prophecy about her future, but which parts of it have come to pass as we look back now?

"You'll never wed the prince, you'll wed the king."

That was simple enough, since we already knew Cersei had married King Robert Baratheon.

"You'll be queen, for a time. Then comes another, younger, more beautiful, to cast you down and take all you hold dear."

Cersei thought this was Margaery, hence her desire to take her down first, and to a degree that almost came true. Cersei was paraded through the streets, she was on the verge of losing everything, and then she struck back. It cost her her son, but she became Queen again. Was that the end of the prophecy? Was that, as Jaime said, the moment where she decided to "f**k prophecy"? Or does it mean that, in Season 8, that another will cast her down? The obvious answer there would be Daenerys, who wants that throne, but it could also be Sansa.

"The king will have 20 children and you will have three. Gold will be their crowns... gold their shrouds."

The final part of the prophecy, and another one that we can now tick off: Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen died in consecutive seasons, leaving Cersei childless... or is she? As we discovered in Season 7, Cersei is actually pregnant again, so what does this mean for the prophecy? Maggy never saw her having more than three children, so does that mean she is going to have a miscarriage? Or is having this fourth child a means of breaking the prophecy?

On top of all that, there is another part of the prophecy from the books that didn't make it into the show: "And when your tears have drowned you, the Valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you."

Since it wasn't in the show, however, it might mean that it has no relevance to the story, but the idea of the 'little brother' killing her is a tantalising one with many possible readings: Jaime, Tyrion, Arya, or even the child growing inside her?