Firstly, I just want to say that the Episode 5 review will be out tomorrow, if not this evening and we’ll also have another little blog dedicated to another big reveal that may have been missed last night, so stay tuned for those; but for now let’s concentrate on what it was that Arya found in Littlefinger’s bed chamber.

Okay so let’s start from the beginning. Arya is stalking Littlefinger around Winterfell as she clearly doesn’t trust him one bit. It’s also clear from an earlier scene in episode 5 that she believes Sansa is power hungry too, she doesn’t trust her sister one bit. In fact I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who felt Arya was maybe a little harsh in her questioning of Sansa’s loyalty to Jon in this episode? None-the-less there’s definitely a tiny rift forming between the two sisters, which could be about to be exacerbated through a plot by Littlefinger.

Firstly Arya follows him to courtyard, where she sees him whispering to people, including a commoner and then Maester Wolkan and Yohn Royce. He suspects he’s being followed but Arya stays well hidden (we think!). Later at his bed chamber, Arya spies Maester Wolkan handing him a scroll to which Littlefinger thanks him on behalf of Lady Stark. So has Sansa sent him on a secret mission?

After Littlefinger leaves his bed chamber, Arya sneaks in and looks for the hidden scroll and after finding it encounters a horrible realisation. She finds a scroll written and signed by Sansa, sent from King’s Landing in Season 1. You’ll remember at the time that Cersei was manipulating Sansa to try and win the war after Robb took up arms against Joffrey due to the death of their father Ned Stark. Sansa repeatedly tried to beg for her father’s innocence but with the whole of the King’s council in her ear, was eventually broken down and reluctantly signed off a letter (clearly written by Cersei) betraying her family and requesting Robb bend the knee to Joffrey.

Cersei pressurises Sansa into signing the scroll and look who’s in their presence… Littlefinger.

Here’s exactly what the letter said…

“Robb, I write to you with a heavy heart. Our good king Robert is dead, killed from wounds he took in a boar hunt. Father has been charged with treason. He conspired with Robert’s brothers against my beloved Joffrey and tried to steal his throne. The Lannisters are treating me very well and provide me with every comfort. I beg you: come to King’s Landing, swear fealty to King Joffrey and prevent any strife between the great houses of Lannister and Stark.”

So there you have it. How suspicious does that look? WE know that Sansa would never betray her family and that it was all a manipulation by Cersei at the time to get the Starks to end their rebellion, but to anybody else, this is treason against her own family. We then get the big reveal when Arya leaves the bed chamber, that Littlefinger is actually watching her and not the other way round. We’ve thought throughout the scenes that Arya was watching him, but in fact it was the other way round.

So why? Well it’s simple. Littlefinger wants to create a big divide between Sansa and her family as he’s seen Sansa manipulated in the past and believes he can use her for his own gain. With Bran a cripple and no interest in being King in the North and with Jon a bastard, Sansa is the rightful heir to the North and Littlefinger knows that. He will use this to his advantage by creating choas within House Stark… and of course, chaos is a ladder.

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