Game Of Thrones Season 4: 10 Book Deviations We'd Love To See

9. Give Us Victarion

Be honest with yourself. Literally nobody read "A Clash of Kings" and though, "Wow, that Balon Greyjoy guy is going places." If by "places," you mean "a watery grave," then you would be right on the money. When Balon takes a tumble off a rope bridge and makes an unexpected visit to the watery halls of the Drowned God, the Lord Reaper leaves a considerable power vacuum in his wake. Cue the typical Westorosi tradition of backstabbing, power-grabbing, and general unpleasantness. "A Feast for Crows" introduces us to Balon's three brothers, all of whom harbour different ambitions for the future of the Iron Islands. In the books, our point of entry for this storyline is Asha (known in the TV series as Yara), who cuts her reaving campaign short and returns to the Iron Islands to attend the inevitable kingsmoot. But since the TV series has set Asha (dammit, Yara) on course to rescue Theon from the clutches of the Boltons, it seems unlikely that she'll divert course to attend the Iron Islanders' admittedly archaic election. Since the show is already introducing Tycho Nestoris and Hizdahr zo Loraq well ahead of the books' timeline, it wouldn't be too big a stretch to toss Victarion into the mix as well. It only makes sense that Yara (or Asha, whatever) would recruit the Iron Captain to help her rescue Theon, and it makes even more sense for her to send him as her representative to the kingsmoot back on Pyke. It would bump up Victarion's debut and avoid just randomly cutting to character's we've never met like they did with Davos and Stannis in season two.