khalid
Unelected Mod
I think they are untouchable, simply because too much time has been spent on them and only 2(or maybe 3) books left. That is why the Jon "cliffhanger" was such an eye-rolling moment for me in DWD. No way he stays dead, since it would make so many previous chapters and pages irrelevant at this point. The RW and Ned's death were different in that they opened up other plotlines which had plenty of time to progress. Killing off dany or arya this late in the game would be a huge waste of story.who thinks that Jon, Arya, Sansa or Daenarys will be killed and stay dead before the finale of the book series?
I think this is a good thing though. GRRM has always straddled the line of being too brutal to the point where you don't want to care about anything. Killing off one of the few surviving "main" characters this late before the finale would feel like a waste. We want SOMEONE that we know and care about to have an arc.