That theory was debunked when Arya, still bleeding from stab wounds, killed the waif and placed her face in the Hall of Faces. Another theory is that Syrio Forel, Arya's beloved sword fighting teacher from season one, is actually Jaqen. This theory has been around for a while, with multiple Reddit threads dedicated to the idea. Thanks to a shadowed figure in the background of a scene in this season's episode seven, the theory has gained traction once again.
Sure, we didn't see Syrio's dead body, and yes, he was from Braavos. And maybe the shadowed figure does look similar, but the reveal hasn't happened and it probably won't. The Faceless Men have no identities that we are aware of. We don't know who they were before or what their motives are. To truly be No One, Jaqen can't actually be Jaqen or anybody else. However, he insists he's not Jaqen H'ghar, but "no one", as all Faceless Men are, and he tells Arya she must learn to be "no one" as well.
A few days later, Jaqen helps a man commit suicide while Arya watches and sweeps the floor. When she comes to him and tells him that she no longer wants to sweep the floor because she wants to train, he tells her that she is training: to serve, as all Faceless Men must. Jaqen later interrupts the Waif as she plays the 'game of faces' with Arya, claiming that she is not ready.
When he sees all her things in her room, including her sword Needle , he hints to her that she must dispose of all ties to her former life as Arya Stark in order to continue her training to be "no one. Later, when Arya is asleep, Jaqen H'ghar comes to test Arya again. This time, when he asks Arya who she is, Arya tells him how she came to join the Faceless Men, trying to slip in a few lies into the story. However, Jaqen is able to tell when Arya is lying and hits her with a switch whenever she does.
Before he leaves, he tells her that she is lying not only to him, but to herself as well. When, eventually, Arya proves herself, Jaqen brings her to the Hall of Faces, a great underground chamber that houses thousands of faces. All the faces had been taken from the corpses that the acolytes wash in the temple.
The Faceless Man then asks Arya if she is ready to give up who she is to become "no one. Arya assumes the identity of Lanna, a clam-seller, and shows Jaqen H'ghar she can convincingly become a different person, developing an elaborate and very believable backstory.
The Faceless Man sends her, as Lanna, to the harbor where she observes someone referred to as "the thin man" refuse a contract to insure a man's boat, leaving the man in desperate circumstances. Jaqen explains the thin man's business is a sort of gamble yet he does not honor his agreements; when a ship captain dies at sea, he is supposed to make good on his promise and pay the family, but he often doesn't.
Jaqen instructs her to kill him, and hands her a "gift" for the thin man —a vial of poison. The next day, Arya returns to the House of Black and White empty-handed, having abandoned her first mission for the Faceless Men. When Jaqen H'ghar asks what happened, she lies to him and says that the Thin Man simply wasn't hungry today and didn't order any over her oysters.
Jaqen quips that perhaps this is why he is a "thin man", and Arya promises that she will follow through on the assassination tomorrow. She departs, and while Jaqen seems to suspect that she was lying, he makes no outward reaction to it. Arya will have a lot of work to do soon. After killing Meryn Trant, Arya returns to the House of Black and White and returns the face that she used to hide her identity.
However, Jaqen H'ghar and the Waif appear and say that Meryn's life was not hers to take, and that a debt must be paid. The Waif grabs Arya as Jaqen pulls out a vial, presumably containing some kind of poison.
He however drinks the poison himself and collapses, with Arya screaming for him to stay alive. Arya states that he was her friend, and hears Jaqen's voice behind her say 'he was no one'. She turns around to see that the Waif now has Jaqen's face, and Arya asks who the person on the floor with Jaqen's face is.
Jaqen, in the Waif's body, says that he is no one, as Arya begins to remove multiple faces off the person on the floor, until she sees her own face. She then begins to lose her sight, as her eyes turn white and screams for help.
Arya has been a blind beggar in the streets of Braavos since she lost her sight in the Hall of Faces. The Waif shows up daily to torment her and beat her with a staff. One day, after being hit by the Waif, Arya tries to strike back with her rod, only to have it caught in mid-air by Jaqen H'ghar, who has been watching. He promises that if she says her name, he would provide her shelter, clothes and have her eyesight restored.
However, Arya resisted the temptations and said that she has no name. Satisfied, he tells Arya to follow him, and that she is a beggar no more. Back at the House of Black and White, Jaqen observes the Waif fighting with Arya and is pleased to see Arya successfully defend herself while still blind. He offers to give Arya her sight back if she says her name, and as before, she says "A girl has no name.
Arya hesitates for a moment, knowing that the water is poisoned and meant for those seeking a quick and painless death. Jaqen reminds her that as someone with no identity at all, she should be completely void of fears.
Arya calmly drinks from the cup, and her sight is restored. After explaining that the original Faceless Men were the founders of Braavos, previously slaves of the Valyrian Freehold , Jaqen gives Arya the task of assassinating Lady Crane , an actress in a troupe, and implies that she will be marked for death if she is not successful.
Arya reconnoiters her target at a play caricaturing the War of the Five Kings , and notes that Lady Crane is the only one who drinks from a certain bottle of rum. The two agree that poisoning the rum will be the method of assassination, and Arya proceeds to poison Lady Crane's rum at another showing of the play. When Arya prevents the assassination from occurring, Jaqen gives the Waif permission to hunt down Arya.
While pacing the atrium of the House of Black and White, Jaqen notices blood on the ground. He follows the trail to the Hall of Faces, where the trail stops at a new face on the wall, that of the Waif. Then, when she stabs Arya, she makes it incredibly painful, which was explicitly what Jaqen H'ghar told her not to do.
We should have known this was a test, and that the Waif was failing. It's awfully convenient that Mr. It almost seems like he found her in order to help her. Perhaps to help her find her identity?
Arya was a lost lamb for a bit, what with her dead family and all, and maybe in this case, the Faceless Man was trying to remind Arya of her face. Somehow, he knows and sees all. He knew when she joined up that she threw out her money. He knew when she killed Meryn Trant instead of the guy she was supposed to kill.
Doesn't it then stand to reason that he knew she kept her sword? If he wasn't on her side, wouldn't he have handled that differently? There's an age-old theory brought to us by our friends from Reddit that Jaqen is actually Arya's one-time Braavosi water dancing teacher Syrio Forel. And that could totally happen, because of magic, how we never saw Forel die on screen, and how H'ghar gave Arya a second chance after she killed Trant, Syrio's supposed murderer.
But in which way exactly their story is going to continue? No idea. Verno and KOC also touch on the Pacers-Jazz game that resulted in four ejections and discuss a side effect of the higher level of physicality in the game. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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