Potential
Spoilers Below
I keep telling everyone that
similarities between The Wheel of Time (TWOT) and A Song of Ice and Fire
(ASOIAF) are vast even if there are those out there that say otherwise.
Episode 3: (Explanation)
If you don’t know it, I wrote a blog
article that points out why the Night King is still alive. To see it click here.
The Night King let them think they won. Why? Men who think they
are oppressed will fight back eventually.
He removes their suspicion that there is anything wrong. Before his disappearing act he showed them the
evil that they think they fight. But he
plans on making a world without good or evil.
In the end it will only be him.
What you may have also missed. R’hllor has been behind this all alone. The real fight is not for the Iron Throne but
a fight against Ice and Fire. R’hllor
represents fire. So, who represents Ice? That gets a little tricky because he has and
hasn’t be created all at the same time.
I will explain in a bit. First let
me show you a passage from the books:
“Where are the rest of you?” Bran
asked Leaf, once.
“Gone
down into the earth,” she answered. “Into the stones, into the trees. Before
the First Men came all this land that you call Westeros was home to us, yet even
in those days we were few. The gods gave us long lives but not great numbers,
lest we overrun the world as deer will overrun a wood where there are no wolves
to hunt them. That was in the dawn of days, when our sun was rising. Now it
sinks, and this is our long dwindling. The giants are almost gone as well, they
who were our bane and our brothers. The great lions of the western hills have
been slain, the unicorns are all but gone, the mammoths down to a few hundred.
The direwolves will outlast us all, but their time will come as well. In the
world that men have made, there is no room for them, or us.”
She
seemed sad when she said it, and that made Bran sad as well. It was only later that he thought, Men would
not be sad. Men would be wroth. Men would hate and swear a bloody vengeance.
The singers sing sad songs, where men would fight and kill.”
“As
Hodor he explored the caves. He found chambers full of bones, shafts that
plunged deep into the earth, a place where the skeletons of gigantic bats hung
upside down from the ceiling. He even crossed the slender stone bridge that
arched over the abyss and discovered more passages and chambers on the far
side. One was
full of singers, enthroned like Brynden in nests of weirwood roots that wove
under and through and around their bodies. Most of them looked dead to him, but
as he crossed in front of them their eyes would open and follow the light of
his torch, and one of them opened and closed a wrinkled mouth as if he were
trying to speak. “Hodor,” Bran said to him, and he felt the real
Hodor stir down in his pit.”
To me those two passages from A Dance
with Dragons explains it all. R’hllor is
the Children of the Forest or to be more specific their singers. They are the one’s that created the Night
King. The evil that men expect to
fight. He was created from a man who had
the abilities of a three-eyed crow; he was theirs from that moment on. With the magic they used he took on the opposite
warging abilities and was able not to warg living beings but the dead. The fire god R’hllor made everything possible
in the end to rid the world of the Night King (wink wink). He raised Beric to save Arya so that she
could kill him. He brought them
Melisandre who killed Renly thus prolonging the war of the five kings. She arrived from the same direction as the Army
of the Dead unmolested. She lit the
trench just in time to slow the dead long enough for things to play out as they
did. And he brought Jon Snow back for a
reason not yet given but I will explain in my episode 5 scenario.
Now for the explanation as to who
represents Ice. That would be Bran
himself. Let me explain by showing you
another passage from the books:
“Five
more castles he built, each larger and stronger than the last, only to see them
smashed asunder when the gale winds came howling up Shipbreaker Bay, driving
great walls of water before them. His lords pleaded with him to build inland;
his priests told him he must placate the gods by giving Elenei back to the sea;
even his smallfolk begged him to relent. Durran would have none of it. A
seventh castle he raised, most massive of all. Some said the children of the
forest helped him build it, shaping the stones with magic; others claimed that a small boy told him what
he must do, a boy who would grow to be Bran the Builder. No matter
how the tale was told, the end was the same. Though the angry gods threw storm
after storm against it, the seventh castle stood defiant, and Durran Godsgrief
and fair Elenei dwelt there together until the end of their days.”
That small boy is Bran himself and he
did the seemingly impossible and went back in time physically. Think of the possibilities if you could go
back after you have seen the outcome of all that has happened in the story to
this point. You add to the fact that HBO
after the first season DVD was released showed us a picture of Bran the Builder. Bran goes back at some point that we haven’t seen
yet because at this point, he is still a pawn of the Night King who is nothing
more than the man who was turned by the COTF from the beginning. He is like Hodor at this point is just stirring down
in his pit. Because the Night King’s
touch he is compelled to do as he is told.
But don’t lose all hope because I believe that Bran will prove to be
much stronger than even, they believe. As
a matter of fact, I believe that the name of his home Winterfell is a direct
result of Bran telling the story of how he became paralyzed. Know that the Lords of Winterfell were called
the Kings of Winter. Since Brandon the Builder
built Winterfell it became known as the place where the “First King of Winter fell” and over time was simply called Winterfell. So, when I say the god of Ice has and hasn’t
been created yet that is true. The Winterfell
weirwood is there and it seems to know Bran but the entity within it cannot act
until the event that gave it birth creates it in the first place. Which I don’t think we will see represented
until the last episode of the season.
At the heart of the
godswood, the great white weirwood brooded over its reflection in the black
pool, its leaves rustling in a chill wind. When it felt Bran watching, it
lifted its eyes from the still waters and stared back at him knowingly.
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| Bran the Builder crippled like Bran - coincidence? |
To those of you who think I am just
making this up now rest assured that I am not as I wrote the following articles
years ago that say pretty much the same thing.
My theory has been tweaked based upon the new evidence shown.
Episode 4:
The Aftermath of the Battle of
Winterfell
We see from the preview that Dany has
a fleet of ships with dragon sails. I
don’t think those ships are going to be effective in the taking of King’s
Landing. That is because of what the
maester’s said about the prophet Lodos:
What you have to know about the maester’s
when it comes to prophecies, they don’t believe any of it which normally means
that it is true. Lodos may have overshot
by 300 years but if you simply replace the name Aegon the Conqueror with Aegon
Targaryen, 6th of his name (i.e. Jon Snow) you see her ships aren’t
long for this world. Euron will
represent the Drowned God and ambush them and will most likely outflank her
ships and sink them.
Tyrion and Bran will be the interesting
focal points in Winterfell. Tyrion will
start accessing the battle and will come to the conclusion that the general who leads in the front of battle is a fool, plain and simple. No
matter what he thought of the Night King, his being a fool was not one of
them. They should have all been killed given
the number of the dead that they all faced.
They had gambled all their lives on a single fight with the Night King
and they somehow won. Why would he do
something so utterly insane. He will
start to question the plan itself and who shaped the plan. Bran will begin to feel the heat and will
tell a lie about Tyrion that we as the viewing audience will know to be untrue
or it may be such an elaborately twisted lie that we may even accept it. You tell a lie with a bit of truth sprinkled
in and people may not even question it. Why
would anyone take Tyrion’s word over that of Bran when he sacrificed himself to
save them all? Remember what Old Nan
told Bran; “Crows are all liars” and Bran is now the
three-eyed crow. Will Tyrion be able to slip
away from the hangman’s noose yet once again?
Think about something else; was
the three-eyed crow who was teaching Bran also being controlled by the Night
King? He resides in the same cave as the
nest of COTF singers but seems to be unaware of them. How could this be unless he was under a
compulsion spell the same as Bran? As a
parent when your kids are young you teach them simple but prudent things such as
don’t touch the stove because you may get burnt. Look both ways before you cross the street or
you may get hit. Well why didn’t the
three-eyed crow tell Bran if you see the dead walking and or a guy with what
looks to be an ice crown on his head come back immediately? I don’t think he did because he was also
marked. I think it makes sense now, in this light, when he
told Bran the following:
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| To become a puppet of the Night King |
That could also fit with “Crows are all
liars” and what he told Bran about not being able to change anything
as a result of his abilities.
Episode 5:
Dany’s dragon Drogon will be shot down
with the dragon bow and be killed. I
still think Dany will be captured by Cersei.
She will then hand her over to Qyburn.
With his fascination with the macabre I think he will turn Dany into a
version of the Night's King’s corpse queen.
The Hound will have an epic battle
with the Mountain. He will get over his
fear of fire and use wildfire and eventually use it to utterly destroy him.
This episode will give us the death of
Cersei at the hands of the volonqar; her little brother Jaime. Cersei’s prophecy tells us exactly how she
will die.
And
when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your
pale white throat and choke the life from you.
HBO gave us an Easter egg showing us
exactly who would kill her. Or to be
exact they tried to trick us yet once again.
You will see Jaime choking the life from Cersei but it will in fact be
Arya using Jaime’s face as he will have died at this point in the story. They have told us how Jaime will die also. We all thought he meant Cersei but we know
that the person that he loves is actually Brienne of Tarth.
I knew Jaime and Brienne would be a
thing back in 2015 in an article entitled What's going on with Brienne and Jaime?
I think Tyrion if he is still alive will
convince the Golden Company to yet again switch sides. Ghost will be joined by Nymeria and maybe her
pack of wolves in the fight for King’s Landing.
Ghost will die in this
battle. At some point Jon Snow will have
to face Euron in one on one combat. I
think it is here that Longclaw will break.
In the books I believe it will be on Euron’s full suit of Valyrian steel
armor that will cause this to occur.
Will this also be revealed in the TV show? What sword will Jon then claim. I still believe that the books will reveal
Jon’s replacement sword to be Dawn. After learning Dany's fate Jon
will have to do the unthinkable and kill her himself with his replacement
sword and in doing so forge Lightbringer.
I believe that Jon being so distraught after King’s Landing has been won
will not even take part in council meetings to decide the direction of the
realm. Like what happened at Castle Black, and the choosing of the next Lord Commander, I think Sam will help tip the scales toward Jon.
I think in the end it may even be Sam who delivers the news to Jon. I believe it will be Bran who will in private
talk to Jon alone and at the end of the episode we will get a scene where Jon
enters an empty throne room and sits himself upon the Iron Throne. The viewing audience goes wild as cheers
erupt all around the world. But as the
camera pans up to a shot of his face, we see him warg similar to Bran and in
his eyes we the eyes of the Night King himself as the episode ends. Now we know Jon Snow’s reason for being brought
back. Shocked fans start looking at each
other and start asking each other what just happened.
Episode 6:
Lucy, you got some splainin to do!
We see the cleanup from the “Last War”
and the funerals for the friends that they lost along the way. Bran is nowhere to be found as we hear Jon
Snow aka Aegon Targaryen, sixth of this name, King of the Andals and the first
men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and protector of the realm order he be
found. We now know that somehow Bran has
broken free of the hold that the Night King who now resides within Jon
Snow. Where did Bran go? Sam will receive a message from the Citadel
with a cryptic message from archmaester Ebrose saying something along the lines
of to destroy the Night King once and for all blow a horn when the Wall is
raised again and light explodes from it. There will be a description of the horn and
Sam will recognize it for the one that he found in the TV show and Jon gave him
in the books. He will think it strange
and dismiss it just as quickly as the Night King has already been destroyed.
Meanwhile back in Winterfell beneath
the heart tree. The camera will descend beneath the great weirwood itself. We will see an old man with Bran’s face. We may get a few flashbacks of him placing
spells within the Storm’s End castle. We
will get a small glimpse of fire and ice coming together to create the Wall. And finally, we will see Bran lay the first
stones to create his home of Winterfell.
It will be then that this Season 8 promo will finally begin to make sense:
We will see a wind shrouded in fog sweeping
in from the North covering everything in its wake with Ice coming straight for
King’s Landing. Jon Snow will unsheathe his
sword Lightbringer and King’s Landing will slowly be enveloped by a light
similar to a fire red aurora that will begin to cover the landscape. The two forces will collide and in the blink
of an eye a new Wall will begin to form this time black extending to the
coasts. Jon’s eyes will be a full-on
Night King blue at this time. Sam will
remember the raven and retrieve the horn and will blow it.
“Aye,
and long before them came the Horned Lord and the brother kings Gendel and
Gorne, and in
ancient days Joramun, who blew the Horn of Winter and woke giants from the
earth.”
It will be when Sam sounds the horn
and it sends up a blast so loud people will cover their ears from the sound of
it. The scene will then shift back to the
waterfall where Dany and Jon landed and we will see giant Ice Dragons burst from
rock under the ground and fly towards the cave of the three-eyed crow that taught
Bran. These are the dragons from the clutch
of eggs that Vermax left somewhere in the depths of Winterfell’s crypts, where
the waters of the hot springs run close to the walls. Bran used his magic to prepare them for this
very moment. You will see them concentrate
their fire upon that ground and it will eventually reach the nest of singer
and they will be destroyed. The
remaining Wall north of Winterfell will begin to crumble as well. As they die you see Jon’s eyes change back to
their normal color and he collapses. Both the
fog and the aurora begin to dissipate leaving spring behind in its wake. Everyone
in King’s Landing is mesmerized by the new sight in the skyline; a black Wall
extending 700 feet into the air stretching as far as the eye can see. There has to be something at the god’s eye
that provides some more explanation but I couldn’t quite figure out what it
was. Jon will recover to the delight of
the fans. Some more meetings will be held
and Jon will tell everyone that he has to travel back to Winterfell as Bran is
waiting for him there. He will climb
aboard Rhaegal and when he gets to Winterfell, we will finally get the meaning behind
this passage:
The call
came from behind him, softer than a whisper, but strong too. Can a shout be
silent? He turned his head, searching
for his brother, for a glimpse of a lean grey shape moving beneath the trees,
but there was nothing, only . . .
A weirwood.
It seemed
to sprout from solid rock, its pale roots twisting up from a myriad of fissures
and hairline cracks. The tree was slender compared to other weirwoods he had
seen, no more than a sapling,
yet it was growing as he watched, its limbs thickening as they reached for the
sky. Wary, he circled the smooth white trunk until he came to the face. Red
eyes looked at him. Fierce eyes they were, yet glad to see him. The weirwood had
his brother’s face. Had his brother always had three eyes?
Not
always, came the silent shout. Not before the crow.
“He sniffed at the bark, smelled wolf and tree and
boy, but behind that there were other scents, the rich brown smell of warm
earth and the hard grey smell of stone and something else, something terrible. Death, he knew. He
was smelling death. He cringed back, his hair bristling, and bared
his fangs.”
“Don’t be
afraid, I like it in the dark. No one can see you, but you can see them. But
first you have to open your eyes. See? Like this. And the tree reached down and
touched him.
Jon descends deep within the crypts
and finds Bran a shriveled up old man looking older than old.
Bran tells Jon it’s nice to
see him after so long. Jon approaches
and thanks Bran for everything he has done.
Bran tells him he is dying and asks him to promise to replace him as the
three-eyed crow. Jon being raised by Ned
Stark, promises Bran that he will as Bran dies.
The scene shifts back to King’s
Landing 6 months after. Jon never
returned. We see how other character’s
lives turned out. Another 20 years go by
and we find little Sam a man grown reading his kids a bedtime story and reading
the ending of the story we after 8 seasons just finished viewing. They ask him to read it again and he says
they need to go to bed before the snarks and grumpkins come to get them. He closes the book and we see the book title “A
Song of Ice and Fire” – written by Samwell Tarley. Screen fades to black.
He came
like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.
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 is 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.
Bonus: Could Bronn who has also been north of the Wall
have fallen under the Night King’s spell like his counterpart IMHO in The Wheel of Time?
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