‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 4 Spoilers: What Happens To Arya Stark?

Season 4 of “Game of Thrones” is going to be a tough time for the Starks. Mainly due to the fact that they are all orphaned and the Lannisters killed their brother at their uncle’s wedding and killed their unborn nephew. Most fans thought it couldn’t get any worse for the Starks of Winterfell, however somehow it has. Following episode 3 “Breaker of Chains” fans discovered that Sansa was successfully smuggled away from the Lannister’s grasp, and out of King’s Landing only to end up with the man who turned on her father. Littlefinger explained to Sansa that Ser Dontos did not save her from the Lannisters because he owed her his life. Instead, he claimed he paid the knight-turned-fool to bring Sansa to him. But while Sansa may be in a precarious situation, her younger sister, Arya is not doing much better. Arya was kidnapped by the rogue Hound and the pair witnessed firsthand the tragic events of the Red Wedding. Now with little family left to ransom Arya too, the unlikely pair are en route to the Vale, where the Hound plans to get some gold from Arya’s “rich Aunt Lysa” as he claims.

Warning! This article contains major “Game of Thrones” spoilers. Please do not read if you do not want to know what is going to happen in the rest of Season 4.

Despite the growing bond between Arya and the Hound, the pair’s journey will most likely come to an end in Season 4. We originally expected to see the break between the two much earlier on in the season, but after a minor change from George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. They will probably stick it out until the Season 4 finale. But even though their time together will be a bit extended in Season 4 as opposed to “A Storm of Swords” one thing will most certainly stay the same, the Hound will die and Arya will journey on without him. The Lannister’s former dog will lose his life in a most obvious way in a fight. However the Hound never loses a sword fight, so it is really a wound that later kills him, suffering an eerily similar fate to that of his brother, the Mountain. When the Hound sustains the fatal wound, Arya sympathizes with him and attempts to care for him after he falls by a tree on the road and insists he can’t go on anymore.

The Hound is suffering deep physical and, though hidden, emotional pain. He bags Arya for mercy and asks her to end him so he can finally rest. She refuses, mainly because she’s grown to care for him -- however bitter the relationship still is -- and in the end she is still a young girl. In a brutal attempt to have her kill him, the Hound taunts Arya, reminding her of all the pain he has caused her, and even references slowly murdering her friend Mycha. The taunts work, once again inciting Arya’s rage for the Hound within her heart, but she decides that he will suffer more dying a slow death, and instead of killing him, leaves him alone on the side of the road. While the Hound is most certainly near death, there is never any complete confirmation from George R.R. Martin.

Arya continues on her journey and decides to go to her older brother Jon Snow on the Wall, whom she believes may be her last living sibling. She boards the boat, but when the captain asks for payment, it's clear that the she-wolf will not have enough to make it North. He refuses her passage, but not before revealing that he hails from the city of Braavos. In a last ditch effort, Arya recalls the coin Jaqen H’ghar gave her. The Faceless man and Arya’s sometimes savior, gave her the coin and told her that when she really wants to learn how to be an assassin like himself. Then she should present the coin to any man from Braavos and say the words, “Valar Morghulis.” She does this unknowing what the result will be, and it grants her passage on the ship. But they’re not headed to the Wall ... Arya is heading to Braavos. Arya’s journey continues to expand and change upn her arrival in Braavos, however it is most likely her story will end here in Season 4. Season 4 promo videos have revealed the Titan of Braavos, however it is most likely the promotional posters that read “Valar Morgulis” will be the last words said in the finale of Season 4.