Do you think Stannis perished in the books as well? Or will something else occur?

No. The books have done so much differently in that regard that I think the Winterfell stuff is just a big, big detour.

• Sansa isn't even at Winterfell.
• Brienne and Podrick are in the Riverlands.
• Davos is on his way to Skagos.
• Stannis is much, much better-equipped and has many more people with him, including actual northerners and mountain clans.
• Theon and Jeyne Poole actually get brought to Stannis' camp.
• Shireen and Selyse are both very much alive and are still at Castle Black with Melisandre; they never left.
  

I can see why the show did this; they need to start combining the loose threads and cutting the fat; there was literally nowhere else to go for Stannis after last week. I get it. But I simply do not think it will play out this way in the books.

And I'll do you one better: We never see Brienne kill him.

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