Game of Thrones Season 5 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]

[FatAndFaithless]

Were they not showing the Mountain's face because he looks all dead and gross? And why did he take a vow of silence? Can he not talk?

It's implied in the books that he's so grossly and entirely disfigured that for the sake of people not realizing he's a monster he is ordered by Qyburn (who appears to have contrl over him) to never remove his helmet. Mild spoiler

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In the books there's another possibility that he's simply headless, as in the books his skull is supposedly send to Dorne as consolation for Oberyn's death, and Bran has a vision of a massive warrior without a head matching his description

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In the books he's creepy as hell too, the other Kingsguard are really uneasy around him because he never eats, talks, sleeps, shits, or removes his helmet.

Mine, too. Varys in the books is kind of... simpering and gross in a way. Varys on the show is stone-cold awesome.

Well, it's easier to describe in the books but Varys is a master of disguise. He puts on the effeminate perfumed well-fed milksop act so that when he's in disguise people have no chance of recognizing him.