Chapter 165 - War of the Four Kings (XII)
"Fire must purify heretics." Kinvara, Reverend Mother.
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As Kinvara and Sigismund had hoped, instead of staying at the Walls, Jaime Lannister set up camp outside Harrenhal.
Kinvara especially knew the influence a blessing could have on a mortal, she was a typical example of this. But even knowing this, her faith remained unshaken for almost two hundred years that she lived. The blessing she had received had only strengthened her existing faith, nothing more and nothing less.
But she knew exactly what it was like to be influenced by a god's blessing. Gods can bless humans with powers, but this power comes with a very expensive price: the mortal would never again be free, only a representative of the will of the god who gave the blessing.
At that moment, Kinvara could imagine that Jaime's mind was gradually being assimilated by the blessing, it wouldn't be long before a fanatic was born. She could have stopped it and attacked Jaime right then, but she didn't.
What is the fanatic's biggest flaw?
Heresy!!!
Whoever offends the god must die.
Kinvara was different because her God was the Red God and Aenar. In her eyes, both were one being, so even though she was angry at the people of Westeros for not accepting her faith, she didn't move because it wasn't something she could choose.
The Red Priestess knew that Jaime would leave the safety of Harrenhal to attack them head on, for to Jaime, they were the ultimate heresy that the God of the Seven Faces himself had ordered exterminated.