have you seen the theory that sansa has empathy magic? if so i’d like to know your opinion on it
Dear nonny,
I’m not sure tbh. On the one hand Sansa has lots of empathy and her empathy clearly influences people, even some as brutal as the Hound. But on the other hand empathy magic is not really part of the magical system in Westeros - although I must admit it is most of the times a pretty vague system.
I do think that she has one of the magics of the CotF. Jon and Arya have warging, Bran greenseeing, and Sansa singing. The singing that is the kind of magic that moves peoples emotions:
“Old Nan says the children knew the songs of the trees, that they could fly like birds and swim like fish and talk to the animals,” Bran said. “She says that they made music so beautiful that it made you cry like a little baby just to hear it." (AGOT, Bran VII)
You probably could call this empathy magic, but I prefer to identify this as the magic of song and singing - not only that is sounds much more ‘magical’ but also for the wonderful Sansa/Luthien parallel. Sansa as Luthien fits so well to Jon as Beren, that you would have to snatch Sansa as a singer of magical songs who sings Jon’s soul back into life by singing “Florian and Jonquil” to him from my cold dead hands.
And I think we haven’t yet see the full force of her magic, because we’ve only witnessed the incident with the Hound after the Blackwater and nothing else yet.
Thanks for the ask!
