Adding an Epilogue to the Three Books Without One (Spoilers Extended)

I was thinking about how sad it was that we never got to see Balon's reaction to Theon taking Winterfell. There def had to be some pride in his son when he found out and I would have loved to have seen it and I was wondering how it could have been possible.

So what if A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and, A Feast for Crows all had Epilogues? It seems that GRRM put in Epilogues to signify some sort of end of an act, but I think it would be fun to list out some examples of epilogue characters that would have made sense for each of these books.

List of Some Possible Epilogue Characters for the Books Without One

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A couple notes:

• Even though GRRM has stated that he likes to "break rules" so far all the Epilogue character POVs have died. So the POV character should die

• Due to GRRM's writing style some chapters take place months before/after chapters that the follow on page. With this in mind I think that we should try and use deaths that happen close to the "time period" at the end of each book

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A Game of Thrones

It would be cool to see Beric Dondarrion as the POV Character of the AGOT Epilogue. It could show the characters going out do the king's justice and then:

"I saw the Mountain slay Raymun Darry with a single blow so terrible that it took Darry's arm off at the elbow and killed the horse beneath him too. Gladden Wylde died there with him, and Lord Mallery was ridden down and drowned. We had lions on every side, and I thought I was doomed with the rest, but Alyn shouted commands and restored order to our ranks, and those still ahorse rallied around Thoros and cut our way free. Six score we'd been that morning. By dark no more than two score were left, and Lord Beric was gravely wounded. Thoros drew a foot of lance from his chest that night, and poured boiling wine into the hole it left. -ASOS, Arya III

How the chapter could end: Beric dies and Thoros gives the last kiss to him,

"I have no magic, child. Only prayers. That first time, his lordship had a hole right through him and blood in his mouth, I knew there was no hope. So when his poor torn chest stopped moving, I gave him the good god's own kiss to send him on his way. I filled my mouth with fire and breathed the flames inside him, down his throat to lungs and heart and soul. The last kiss it is called, and many a time I saw the old priests bestow it on the Lord's servants as they died. I had given it a time or two myself, as all priests must.- ASOS, Arya VII

but it ends before:

But never before had I felt a dead man shudder as the fire filled him, nor seen his eyes come open. It was not me who raised him, my lady. It was the Lord. R'hllor is not done with him yet. Life is warmth, and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone." -ASOS, Arya VII

Yes, it would somewhat ruin the seven deaths of Beric, but at the same time since so many other Prologue Characters come back to life in some way, maybe not.

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A Clash of Kings

As I mentioned in the intro I think the best bet for the Epilogue of ACOK is Balon Greyjoy (I know GRRM stated he originally didn't want any of the kings to have their own POV) but getting to see some Balon's thoughts on Theon's taking of Winterfell would have been great. I assume they would have mirrored one of these:

"They defied me!" he shouted in her face. "And it was blood for blood besides, two sons of Eddard Stark to pay for Rodrik and Maron." The words tumbled out heedlessly, but Theon knew at once that his father would approve. "I've laid my brothers' ghosts to rest."

"Our brothers," Asha reminded him, with a half smile that suggested she took his talk of vengeance well salted. "Did you bring their ghosts from Pyke, brother? And here I thought they haunted only Father." -ACOK, Theon V

and:

"If the Drowned God wills it. No godless man may sit the Seastone Chair." The Crow's Eye will fight, that is certain. No woman could defeat him, not even Asha; women were made to fight their battles in the birthing bed. And Theon, if he lived, was just as hopeless, a boy of sulks and smiles. At Winterfell he proved his worth, such that it was, but the Crow's Eye was no crippled boy. The decks of Euron's ship were painted red, to better hide the blood that soaked them. Victarion. The king must be Victarion, or the storm will slay us all. -AFFC, The Prophet

How the chapter could end:

The Silence is seen in the distance for the first time in years. As Balon is crossing a bridge at Pyke, he encounters "someone" and they have a small talk with hints of FM/Euron. Before Balon is pushed off the rope bridge.

But it would also potentially ruin the Ghost of High Heart's Prophecy:

Beside the embers of their campfire, she saw Tom, Lem, and Greenbeard talking to a tiny little woman, a foot shorter than Arya and older than Old Nan, all stooped and wrinkled and leaning on a gnarled black cane. Her white hair was so long it came almost to the ground. When the wind gusted it blew about her head in a fine cloud. Her flesh was whiter, the color of milk, and it seemed to Arya that her eyes were red, though it was hard to tell from the bushes. "The old gods stir and will not let me sleep," she heard the woman say. "I dreamt I saw a shadow with a burning heart butchering a golden stag, aye. I dreamt of a man without a face, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings. I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears on her cheeks, but when her eyes did open, oh, I woke from terror. All this I dreamt, and more. Do you have gifts for me, to pay me for my dreams?" -ASOS, Arya IV

The taking of the Crag (maybe with the man killed by Grey Wind as POV?) might be a decent alternative.

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A Feast for Crows

This one is tougher as AFFC ends basically about 2/3 of the way through ADWD. The possibilities I thought of included:

• Aeron Greyjoy ("killed" by Euron's mutes to prevent him from preaching against Euron on the II, he would then awaken in the "belly of the beast" in TWOW) Not sure I like it with him not actually dying. He also was already a real POV.

• Ryman Frey (killed by the BWB/Lady Stoneheart although it is wrongly believed to have been by Black Walder)

• One of Qyburn's experiment in the black cells

• A defender/attacker on dragonstone during Loras' assault

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I really wanted to do Stafford Lannister and Oxcross who is killed by Lord Karstark, but it didn't seem to fit from a timing standpoint.

I just thought this would be a fun way to show some of the cooler offscreen deaths in the series. Obviously some pretty cool stuff would have been ruined, but we also would have gotten some great insight as well.

TLDR: Some possible examples of epilogues for the books that currently don't have one.