Yesterday’s Game of Thrones episode was filled with so much drama and gore you may have missed a crucial scene, where one character unsuccessfully attempt to poison Daenerys. Yep. Before meeting his untimely death at the hands of Dany and Drogon, Varys attempted to murder the Mad Queen by poisoning her food.
That’s what fans are theorising on Twitter, at least. Their main evidence is an exchange Varys had with a girl working in the kitchen named Martha.
Read the exchange carefully:
Varys: Nothing? Martha: She won’t eat.
Varys: We’ll try again at supper.
Martha: I think they’re watching me.
Varys: Who?
Martha: Her soldiers.
Varys: Of course they are. That’s their job. What have I told you, Martha?
Martha: The bigger the risk, the bigger reward.
Varys: Go on. They’ll be missing you in the kitchen.

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It’s clear that this young girl was stressed about delivering food to the Queen, which she wouldn’t be presumably if it was normal food. dd in Varys’ ominous mantra, “the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward”, and it certainly sounds like he was up to something diabolical.
#GameofThrones #ThronesYall
— M. Pelissier (@Is_Pelissier) May 13, 2019
wait a fucking minute
is Varys trying to poison Dany
yo, Dany is surrounded by traitors
Jorah would never😭😭 pic.twitter.com/R8f3G4ynUp
So…. everyone else got this too right ?? Lord Varys was having Martha the little kitchen girl poison Danys food. She was nervous the guards were watching her, he reassured her by “Greater the risk, greater the reward“ #GamefThrones #GOT #HBO pic.twitter.com/QrigC5t7ON
— Jess 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 QNS 💭🫶🏻♐️ 🤍 (@JessFromQueens) May 13, 2019
Bring on the finale.
See Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner on marie claire Australia’s June 2019 cover below:
WATCH: ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Episode Trailer.
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Grace Back is a journalist and was formerly the Digital Culture Editor across ELLE and marie claire Australia. When not stuck in a seemingly endless Instagram scroll, you'll find Grace with her head in a good book.
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