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I like trying to guess what Histories & Lore animated featurettes we will get for each seasons's Blu-ray release.

"Speculation" is actually a combination of "wishlist" stuff we want and stuff we'll probably get. I.e. the Greyjoys weren't in Season 5 so much as we might want a regional video on them (they never got one like the others), we won't get one this year, there's no point. They're meant as really be a guide to stuff appearing in each season.

There are usually around 16 videos each season, of variable length.

So I'm interested in what videos everyone wants us to get or expects we will get for Season 5.

My personal speculative wishlist is:


 * Robert's Rebellion - Cersei Lannister
 * (Based on the Cersei flashback, it's actually Cersei (Lena Headey, who has never done a video before) explaining what it was like growing up having Tywin as a father, how it was expected that she would be betrothed to the prince - Rhaegar Targaryen - but then the rebellion happened and she ended up married to Robert.
 * Robert's Rebellion - Barristan
 * (Barristan has never done one of these before; based on how Barristan talked to Daenerys about her father and confirmed that he was in fact "the Mad King" and Barristan was horrified to be sworn to this man's service but felt his vows prevented him from stopping him; might also briefly mention the War of the Ninepenny Kings, etc.)
 * The Tourney of Harrenhal
 * Someone (I don't know who) expanding on Littlefinger's story about the Tourney of Harrenhal, how Rhaegar gave the victor's crown to Lyanna - fairly well explained in the show, but now with actual artwork depicting it.
 * Tournaments and Gladiators
 * Jorah Mormont talks generically about gladiatorial combat in general; mostly an excuse to round out the point when they briefly mention that he won the Tourney of Lannisport (after the Greyjoy Rebellion) and even beat Jaime Lannister that day; and then segway to him talking about the Fighting pits of Meereen.
 * The Lands of the Summer Sea
 * Narrated by Missandei and Grey Worm. Mostly because Tyrion sails through the Summer Sea from Volantis to Meereen.  Actually not focused on Valyria that much, but talking about the much farther away lands it touches that we barely hear about - lands these characters are from.  "The Lands of the Summer Sea" would actually be explaining more about the Summer Islands, Naath, and Sothoryos, which have only been mentioned in passing in the TV series (Sothoryos never by name).  Just rounding out the world more, but pointing out "this is just sound of Valyria but in the same sea Tyrion is traveling in").
 * Greyscale
 * A more thorough explanation of greyscale and its history, much of how the Stone Men are treated in the Free Cities, etc.
 * The Doom of Valyria and the Century of Blood
 * While the Doom has been mentioned before or the Battle of Qohor, this would focus with better artwork on how exactly it happened (because we see Valyria this year) and then more detail on how after the Doom the Free Cities emerged in the chaos of the Century of Blood, Volantis tried to conquer the rest but failed, Braavos revealed itself, etc. Setting up the other videos:
 * Volantis
 * As we see Volantis this year (for one episode), this goes into a bit more detail about the Tigers and Elephants and stuff about Volantis in general.
 * Braavos 
 * An overview of the secret city, how it was founded by escaped slaves, etc. We've had a video on the Iron Bank, but not Braavos overall.
 * The Faceless Men
 * More specifically on the Faceless Men, some details the Kindly Man said in the novels that they actually predate Braavos but formed among the slaves in the mines of Valyria
 * Hardhome
 * The full backstory about Hardhome given in the novels, and its original destruction
 * The Faith Militant
 * A long video explaining how Aegon I's sons Aenys and Maegor ran into trouble with the Faith Militant, leading to the 'Faith Militant uprising, a six year long series of rebellions, only ending with Maegor's death, and Aenys's nephew Jaehaerys I Targaryen ended the conflict when the Faith promised to disband the Faith Militant.
 * '''The Dance of the Dragons
 * Because Shireen so prominently brought it up at the end of this season. Mentioned a bit in last seasons's videos, finally, but this would be more focused - before it was only mentioned a little in other videos about wars in general, not the specific narrative of this one.
 * The Sand Snakes
 * All three Sand Snakes (maybe) explaining how they actually have different mothers and Oberyn "collected" them all over the years.
 * The Crownlands
 * Because House Stokeworth and Castle Stokeworth appear this year in one episode. Last year they had the interesting idea to make regional videos, no longer about "House Tyrell" but about "The Reach", and describing who their major vassals are (Tarly, Hightower, Florent) etc.  There are nine major regions in the Seven Kingdoms but we only got seven of these regional videos - we didn't get ones for the Iron Islands (barely appeared lately) or the Crownlands (none of the other regional Houses from there were introduced yet).  There aren't many prominent vassal Houses from the Iron Islands, I think if they get a regional video next year it will be about the seven different islands (Old Wyk is the first, Great Wyk the largest, Harlaw the most populous and richest, etc.)....not really much to work with the Crownlands this season, only Stokeworth, so it would be more explaining "this is how Aegon I landed her and created the Crownlands by carving them out of the surrounding kingdoms".

That's my list of what I think we should get and quite probably will for this season.

What does everyone think we will get?

What are videos you want to see, regardless of probability this season? 