User blog comment:Etindel/That did NOT just happen!/@comment-15843945-20130606194856/@comment-10385544-20130610185005

Aye. It would have to have been pre-planned. Yet, they received news in King's Landing if King Rob Stark's death via raven. Okay, they would have sent the news via raven because it was no longer any need for secrecy or urgency. No need for a rider.

But yet, the raven's message was encrypted after a fashion. Tyrion couldn't understand it at all.

I had also thought that Lord Tywin's reference to Rob Stark's days as being numbered was an allusion to the shrinking size of his army. I believe that was the same episode in which Rob mentioned that Lord Tywin need not attack at all, but just sit back and wait for King Rob's arm to dissolve away.

But, I strongly suspected that Lord Tywin had something planned against King Rob, and that something would be an attack on his diminished strength before he could acquire reinforcements.

Remember, my namesake, Gregor Clegane, is still out there with a small fighting force of his own. That would be the same army that was defeated, which resulted in Jaime Lannister's capture. That force had retreated, and were not defeated to the last man. I thought that Lord Tywin would have them attack King Rob while his numbers were down. The Mountain's forces could be part of the same forces that were defending Casterly Rock.