Why did Jaqen recruit Arya?

I didn't notice that Arya was actually so much like the slave in the orgin story of Jaquen's faith. He must've thought that she was clearly pointed/Guided to him by the Many Faced God. She fit the role to the point of it being uncanny, now that I think about in from Jaquen's point of view.

The warg thing is her secret talent. She uses a cat to spy for her when she is temporarily blind and nobody knows.

Important correction: Arya's desire to kill people on her list is explicitly not a trait desired by the Faceless Men. The Kindly Man (something of a high ranking Faceless Man) very clearly tells her that their power is not to judge who may live or die, but to deliver death as a mercy to everybody equally when their time comes. Arya takes this to heart so much that she stops speaking her death list aloud, instead confining it to her inner thoughts.

It's not just that Jaqen is testing Arya; if he is a true believer, she is a test for him. As you point out, she reflects the Faceless Mens's origins perfectly: to a religious man, she might well be an avatar of their god, a command they cannot disobey. The fact that she also could be a recruit seems a bonus, seen from that perspective.

You captured it in a nutshell at the end - "she is the most promising faceless man imaginable", apart from her rebellious nature making it impossible for her to follow their rules.

I'll add that any sensible organization that needs operators would gladly recruit Arya Stark. She's intelligent, self-possessed, and adaptable, and she's shown even at this age that she can face the world as it is, rather than laboring under fantasies about how she wants it to be.

And keeping in mind how expensive a facelessman hit is, it is even crazier to think Jaqen offers 3 deaths to Arya

I fully read the title as "Why did Japan recruit Arya?"

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Throughout Arya Faceless man was also able to deal even with the Night King. That is a dope theory.

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I think magic also plays a bit too. While he doesn’t particularly care she is a noble, but her Stark blood is old and entwined with magic that is older than even the faceless men. Magic she was starting to awaken too. Put simple, as a user of magic he probably felt an aura about her. That plus the way death seemed to circle around her might have made appear more than just a perfect deciple, but a down right devine gift from the man faced god.

And yet (based on the show only), I do think Jaqen made a serious misjudgment of Arya: he did not realize that Arya wished death on her enemies and those who had caused pain and death to her family and loved ones. In other words, to those she thought deserved death. He did not understand the influence of Ned Stark on her, honor. She was appalled at the death of innocents, and she failed at being a Faceless Man because she could not simply kill someone who she thought was innocent simply because they paid her to. I also think that since the House of Black and White is in Bravos, Jaquen definitely noticed that Arya fought like a Bravosi, and thus may have believed that Bravos may be a place where she would also feel comfortable in

You know what I just realized, if Arya went ahead had him kill Tywin, the whole story would've ended after book2

I always thought it was a greater plan from the God of Death, and that Jaqen may have been an incarnation but he was probably just an equivalent of Melisandre and trying to determine the will of his God. Arya kills the Night King, Jaqen gave her training she needed to accomplish that. Surely the God of Death has a response to an army of the undead..

The fact he let her go with their secrets I think it's because he knows her destiny in some way and he knows she has to fulfill it and their training was vital to do that.

If I remember right, there is a theory her "Dance Instructor" was Jaqen and the faceless men arranged for her to be in the caravan so she could be recruited.

Sometimes someone says something that makes you think “What a mind!” I thought that when you described the parallel between Arya’s prayer and the prayer that launched the Faceless Men’s origin story.

Given that a huge theme in ASOIAF is the fruits of old/ancient agreements it could be something along those lines. Ancient agreements being honoured deliberately or not, as Tyrion said 'dancing on the strings of those who came before us' I'd love to see the channel focus on Moorcock's Elric and indeed the whole of his multiverse. Martin straight up lifts whole storylines from it.

I'm looking forward to the next part. I always thought the parts with the faceless man were the most intruiging. But also the most complicated ☺