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Originally Posted by blankall

Naw....I think the writers will devout 20 minutes of screen time to Sam copying documents that have no significance whatsoever to the plot. The scene will feature, broken twill pens, him running out of ink, taking bathroom breaks, making grammatical mistakes and having to restart several manuscripts, the head maester chastising him for his sloppy handwriting, etc...

Seriously though, I think the head Maester is in on it. He has a mandate that prevents him from explicitly helping Sam, but he realizes something is up and will steer Sam in the right direction. So it won't be an accident that these manuscripts contain directly relevant information.

What would stop him from just explicitly helping Sam?