Chapter 88: The Spider (3)
Varys is certainly one of the most complex characters that have ever crossed Victor's road, whether in this life or in his entire last life. Even after researching him so long to prepare for this very evening, he still wasn't sure of that type of person the Spider really was. He tried to gather physical evidence of everything he knew about Varys, but it was nearly impossible to find anything of value.
After all this research and theory crafting Victor concluded that was at start ridiculous, but the more he thought about it, the more this conclusion started to make sense.
Varys was not a eunuch or a future friend of Tyrion Lannister and has spent his entire life lying about his manhood to deter anyone from thinking that he could father any children, so that his true son, would always be protected while hiding.
Victor found problems with the Varys like he was portrayed in the TV show he watched in his previous life. Many inconsistencies he could never proof with his research in this life.
First, the lie that he was castrated as a young slave and had his manhood thrown into a fire by 'a certain man', which resulted in the fire turning magically blue and 'a voice' speaking out to Varys. There are three points with this story that were not making any sense for Victor after thinking it repeatedly.
There were no known instances of individuals being mutilated and having their mutilated parts being sacrificed in the flames for the sake of blood magic or appeasing R'hllor. Individuals have often been sacrificed to the flames but sacrificed with their whole bodies.
The details of how Varys was mutilated and that he was able to survive is unbelievable, and even more unbelievable that he went on to live as an orphan on the streets after this horrific ordeal with little to no medical treatment. Varys' simple claim that he "resolved to live" is very vague. Victor knew about the medical standards of this world after investing in the pharmaceutical business. A poor lonely orphan suffering such an injury while malnourished and mutilated was like a sure death scenario.
Varys can remember this mystic and mysterious voice, but not what it sends or what the words sounded like. Melisandre claims in the future to hear the voices of R'hllor in the flames and voices could be heard from Drogo's tent when Mirri Maz Duhr was performing her blood magic, but these voices are only heard by the sorcerers, and not the victims. By all accounts, Varys should not have been able to hear these voices if part of himself was fed to the flames.
These three inconsistencies with Varys' story led Victor to believe that there must be something wrong with the whole story and character of Varys himself.
But what made Victor aware of the problems with Varys was not the inconsistencies with Varys's past, but what he would do in the future. A man that was crippled, mutilated, and nearly killed by a supposedly magical practitioner would later join the very woman that bred three magical creatures, dragons.
Varys says that he "hates magic and all those who practice it", yet he goes to great lengths to protect and look out for Daenerys, and try to join her forces, despite knowing that she has three magical dragons by her side. Everything didn't add up anymore.
Another important point that he overlooked at first was the seemingly unimportant Illyrio.
Illyrio was and is Varys' best friend and closest confidant, who he works with to protect Daenerys for much of her life and is willing to crown her as Queen even though she has magical fire-breathing dragons that Varys, a victim of magical flames, would despise.
Illyrio, the same man who praised R'hllor, a God that Varys despised and hated. It makes little sense that Varys would entertain the company of those who worship R'hllor or magical forms of fire, if Varys truly was traumatized by what seemingly happened to him as a slave child by fire.
But any of the inconsistencies mentioned above couldn't really prove Varys' identity to be false. But this year another important event started that strengthened Victor's certainty that something was terribly wrong with the known and future story of the Spider.
By 280 AC, Aerys II had taken to burning traitors, murderers, and plotters, rather than hanging or beheading them. The king seemed to take great pleasure in these fiery executions, which were presided over by Wisdom Rossart, the grand master of the Guild of Alchemists...so much so that he granted Rossart the title of Lord and gave him a seat upon the small council.
Not only would Varys be present to witness these burnings, but Varys even encouraged Aerys to burn other individuals suspected of treachery and fueled both Aerys' paranoia and bloodlust. Aerys II saw traitors everywhere, and Varys was always there to point out any he might have missed. So, His Grace commanded his alchemists to place caches of wildfire all over King's Landing.
Varys developed a reputation for egging on Aerys' paranoia and encouraging him to execute apparent traitors by fire, so much so that people like Barristan lay chief blame for Aerys' downfall into madness on Varys for exploiting it.
It makes very little sense that Varys, a eunuch who seemingly hates worshippers of R'hllor and pyromancers for burning people and sacrificing his manhood to the flames as a child, would be best friends with a man who praises R'hllor or encourage his current King to burn several people, many of whom were likely innocent of the claims of treachery put against them.
But it makes a lot more sense that Varys actually never had a problem with R'hllor or wildfire, and instead chose to encourage Aerys' paranoia so that he would always both seem useful to Aerys and be on good relations with him, to solidify his position of power on the Small Council, given that he was just a young foreign man in Westeros and wholly dependent on Aerys' support to maintain his standing in King's Landing.
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