Tuesday, May 10, 2016

What’s next for Daenerys?

Potential Spoilers Below

I see the same thing just in a mixed up way happening for Daenerys as what happened to Rand al’Thor in TWOT.  The character of Rand has been divided between both Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen in ASOIAF.  If you have been keeping up with my theory you already know this so I am just focusing on Dany right now.  In TWOT Rand goes to Rhuidean which is equivalent to the Mother of Mountains.  There Rand learns the truth of the Aiel people which is they are all oath breakers in that they had been the Da’shain Aiel in the past and followed the Way of the Leaf.   The Way of the Leaf is a philosophy that will not allow the follower to raise a hand to one’s enemies even to defend themselves.  Those who follow this code will run from an enemy at all cost with no regard that it makes them look like a coward.  The Tuatha’an people follow this code and are despised by the Aiel people.  Only Clan Chiefs and Wise Ones who go to Rhuidean learn the truth of who they were as a people.  That truth is kept hidden form the Aiel.  The Prophecy of Rhuidean, the Aiel Prophecy, tells of the coming of the car'a'carn, the chief of chiefs, and He Who Comes With The Dawn.  Rand meets that prophecy by returning from Rhuidean at dawn.  After returning from Rhuidean Rand calls for a meeting of all the clan chiefs which is held at Alcair Dal.  Pressed for time Rand can’t wait for all the clans to arrive so he begins with 5 of the 12 clans in attendance.  There he is challenged by Couladin.  Rand eventually reveals to all the Aiel in attendance of their heritage which in essence breaks them according to the prophecy.

Daenerys

Jon Snow
Rhuidean
Mother of Mountains
Aiel warriors
Tuatha'an
Couladin

“It was Bair who spoke. “Everyone thinks they know the Prophecy of Rhuidean, but what they know is what Wise Ones and clan chiefs have told them for generations. Not lies, but not the whole truth. The truth might break the strongest man.”

Wise Ones
Amys - Bair - Melaine

“What is the whole truth?” Rand insisted.”

“She glanced at Mat, then said, “In this case, the whole truth, the truth known only to Wise Ones and clan chiefs before this, is that you are our doom. Our doom, and our salvation. Without you, no one of our people will live beyond the Last Battle. Perhaps not even until the Last Battle. That is prophecy, and truth. With you... 'He shall spill out the blood of those who call themselves Aiel as water on sand, and he shall break them as dried twigs, yet the remnant of a remnant shall he save, and they shall live.' A hard prophecy, but this has never been a gentle land.” She met his gaze without flinching. A hard land, and a hard woman.”



So how does this relate to ASOIAF.  First the Rand went to Rhuidean to learn his truth.  In the TV show the meeting of all the khal's has already been called but it wasn’t by Dany.  It also seems that Dany may be in a little trouble but is she really?

















Dany has already received her truth for this situation and it was given to her in the House of the Undying.

Dany in the House of the Undying
“Beneath the Mother of Mountains, a line of naked crones crept from a great lake and knelt shivering before her, their grey heads bowed”

She has already seen that these women who seek to pass judgment on her will be hers as she has seen it.  It’s not hard to see that Drogon will have something to say about the gathering Khal’s passing a sentence upon Dany.  I don’t really think that Rand breaking the Aiel will play out in ASOIAF but they had to throw in something that was a homage to it and I believe that this is it:

Drogon
Ser Jorah said the people of this country named themselves the Lhazareen, but the Dothraki called them haesh rakhi, the Lamb Men. Once Dany might have taken them for Dothraki, for they had the same copper skin and almond-shaped eyes. Now they looked alien to her, squat and flat-faced, their black hair cropped unnaturally short. They were herders of sheep and eaters of vegetables, and Khal Drogo said they belonged south of the river bend. The grass of the Dothraki sea was not meant for sheep.”

Ser Jorah
Khal Drogo
Remember he broke them by telling them they were once people that they currently despise.  Dothraki despise the Lamb Men but I don’t think it will go further than a simple comparison.  I believe the truth that will in essence break the Dothraki is the fact that a woman will lead the Dothraki people.

So what about the Prophecy of Rhuidean and how does it play out in ASOIAF?  Remember Rand is called “He Who Comes With The Dawn” because he went to Rhuidean and returned at dawn.  Have we seen anything in ASOIAF that would relate to this?  Yes. 

Khaleesi,” Cohollo said to her, in Dothraki. “Drogo, who is blood of my blood, commands me to tell you that he must ascend the Mother of Mountains this night, to sacrifice to the gods for his safe return.”

Only men were allowed to set foot on the Mother, Dany knew. The khal’s bloodriders would go with him, and return at dawn.

Drogo and his bloodriders

So this tells me that Dany will also ascend the Mother of Mountains.  Either the Khal’s will have bent the knee or will have been eliminated.  Dany herself will return at dawn and be the Rand equivalent of "He Who Comes With The Dawn" and become “She Who Comes With The Dawn.”  She will rise to become the most powerful khal ever seen.  The Stallion Who Mounts the World is a prophecy in the Dothraki religion. According to the prophecy, the Stallion is the "khal of khals" who will unite all the Dothraki under his single khalasar and ride to the ends of the earth. The prophecy states that "he will be the khal of khals, and all the people of the world will be his herd."  While on the Mother of Mountains I believe she will also receive 3 gifts, in the books not sure about the TV show, but you can read that in my article entitled “Daenerys Targaryen and Tyrion Lannister; the ties that bind”.  

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea's of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea's as "fact like" I'm not open to change my viewpoints which as far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.

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