Kristen Cole and the Queen

There's a lot of theories out there that Barriston Salmy is one day gonna flip to young Gryph, to Fagon because he thinks of him. Kristen Cole had this sort of relationship with this sort of undefined, maybe sexual, maybe not relationship with Rainier before they had a falling out. He was like her personal bodyguard for a long time until something happened. If we think about what happened to Kristen Cole, he splits with Amund and takes his army south through the Riverlands. There's disease everywhere. There's gray joys everywhere. It wouldn't be a big surprise if Barriston died.