11 examples of George R.R. Martin’s subtle foreshadowing in A Song of Ice and Fire

9. Visions of the Red Wedding

In A Clash of Kings, Daenerys’ visit to the House of Undying in Qarth is full of visions into the past, present and future. Everything in there likely foreshadows something. For example, Daenerys sees a vision of her father Aerys, completely mad, ranting, “Let him be king over charred bones and cooked meat.” This is before the reveal in A Storm of Swords, when Jaime explains that he killed Aerys because he was planning to burn the city with wildfire.

Another vision gives readers a glimpse into what will soon be the horrors of the Red Wedding:

"Farther on she came upon a feast of corpses. Savagely slaughtered, the feasters lay strewn across overturned chairs and hacked trestle tables, sprawl in pools of congealing blood. Some had lost limbs, even heads. Severed hands clutched bloody cups, wooden spoons, roast fowl, heels of bread. In a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with mute appeal. Daenerys, A Clash of Kings"

It’s somewhat notable that the man with the wolf head is holding a leg of lamb. During the Red Wedding, one of Robb’s men held a leg of lamb before being killed.