Potential Spoilers Below
“He is born again!” Gitara cried. “I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!”
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| Gitara Moroso |
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| Tam al'Thor finds Rand in the snow on Dragonmount |
Above is the prophecy of the Dragon Reborn and about his birth. When it says “he lies in the snow”, I believe that is a direct correlation to why the bastard name in the north is “Snow”
So what is Dragonmount? Dragonmount is a high,
steep mountain west of the island of Tar Valon. It is also
where Tam al’Thor found a baby during the Battle of the Shining Walls and
raised him as his own with the name Rand al’Thor. This filled
Gitara’s prophesy.
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| The Creation of Dragonmount |
Lews Therin Telamon was the Dragon during the War of Power. He sealed the Bore of the Dark One using the Seven Seals. The Dark One countered and tainted saidin the male half of the One Power causing Lew Therin to become insane. During his insanity he returned and killed his wife Ilyena and their children. After he was healed of his madness by Ishamael he was horrified and drew too much of the One Power and killed himself causing the creation of Dragonmount.
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| Lews Therin Telamon |
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| Ileyna being held by Lews Therin after he went mad and killer her |
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| Iashamael one of the Forsaken |
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| The use of the One Power creating a Fireball |
Rand al’Thor is Lews Therin born again. Rand thinks himself insane as he can hear Lews Therin’s voice speaking to him in his head.
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| Rand al'Thor |
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| Rand al'Thor |
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| Rand al'Thor holding Callandor |
The Prophecies of the
Dragon say the Stone of Tear will never fall till Callandor is wielded by the Dragon's hand. The fall of the
Stone of Tear will be one of the greatest signs of the Dragon's Rebirth.
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| The Stone of Tear |
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| Callandor |
Callandor will be but one fulfillment of The Karaethon Cycle, as his birth on the slopes of Dragonmount was the first.
So what is
Callandor? Callandor is a male sa'angreal in the form of a crystal sword, powerful enough
to destroy a city with one blow. It is sometimes called the Sword That Cannot
Be Touched or Sword That Is Not a Sword. When used in the Pit of Doom it emanated a light as radiant as the sun.
OK let’s start with the birth. I contend
just like most book readers although it isn’t expressly stated that Jon Snow isn’t Ned Stark's son but his nephew. Book readers
go with this line of thinking.
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| Jon Snow |
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| Ned Stark |
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| Lyanna Stark |
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| Lyanna's Statue |
“He dreamt an old dream, of three
knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed
of blood”
The tower long fallen seems to be
Dragonmount. I wonder if we don’t see a
vision from Bran as his abilities grow showing us these events. Jon may take
on more of Rand al’Thor’s abilities and actually have the memories of Azor Ahai.
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| Azor Ahai |
“Promise me, Ned, his sister had whispered from her bed of blood”.
So why is “bed
of blood” important. It
is explained clearly in a conversation between Danny and Mirri Maz Duur
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| Daenerys Targaryen |
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| Mirri Maz Duur |
Before, Danny said to the ugly Lhazareen woman, I heard you speak of birthing songs... I know every secret of the bloody bed, Silver Lady, nor have I ever lost a babe, Mirri Maz Duur replied.
So with that being said
we know that Lyanna was in childbirth when Ned came upon her. When she asked Ned to “Promise me”, what did he
promise?
Promise me, she had
cried, in a room that smelled of blood and roses.
Promise me, Ned. The
fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when
he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister’s eyes.
The fear went out of her
eyes because she knew what a promise from Ned was worth. He was a man who would never forsake a promise.
What did she fear? She
feared that if Robert Baratheon learned that the child she gave birth to knowing
that the father was Rhaegar Targaryen that he would kill the child. The child being Jon Snow, The Prince That Was Promised. Jon Snow is therefore A song of ice and fire,
the Starks being ice and the Targaryen’s being fire.
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| Robert Baratheon |
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| Rhaegar Targaryen |
“I will,” Ned had
promised her. That was his curse. Robert would swear undying love and forget
them before evenfall, but Ned Stark kept his vows. He thought of the promises
he’d made Lyanna as she lay dying, and the price he’d paid to keep them.”
The price he paid was the
tarnishing to his reputation and a wedge in his marriage because he couldn’t
tell anyone the truth.
“In ancient books of Asshai it is written that there will come a day after a
long summer when the stars bleed and the cold breath of darkness falls heavy on
the world. In this dread hour a warrior shall draw from the fire a burning
sword. And that sword shall be Lightbringer,
the Red Sword of Heroes, and he who clasps it shall be Azor Ahai come again,
and the darkness shall flee before him.” She lifted her voice, so it carried
out over the gathered host. “Azor Ahai, beloved of R’hllor! The Warrior of
Light, the Son of Fire! Come forth, your sword awaits you! Come forth and take
it into your hand!”
Lightbringer in the Game
of Thrones gets it’s name in my opinion from the characteristics of Callandor.
“Burnt,” said Salladhor Saan,
“and be glad of that, my friend. Do you know the tale of the forging of
Lightbringer? I shall tell it to you. It was a time when darkness lay heavy on
the world. To oppose it, the hero must have a hero’s blade, oh, like none that
had ever been. And so for thirty days and thirty nights Azor Ahai labored
sleepless in the temple, forging a blade in the sacred fires. Heat and hammer
and fold, heat and hammer and fold, oh, yes, until the sword was done. Yet when
he plunged it into water to temper the steel it burst asunder. “Being a hero,
it was not for him to shrug and go in search of excellent grapes such as these,
so again he began. The second time it took him fifty days and fifty nights, and
this sword seemed even finer than the first. Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade
by plunging it through the beast’s red heart, but once more the steel shattered
and split. Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he
must do. “A
hundred days and a hundred nights he labored on the third blade, and as it
glowed white-hot in the sacred fires, he summoned his wife. ‘Nissa Nissa,’ he said to her, for that was
her name, ‘bare your breast, and know that I love you best of all that is in
this world.’ She did this thing, why I cannot say, and Azor Ahai thrust the
smoking sword through her living heart. It is said that her cry of anguish and
ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul
and her strength and her courage all went into the steel. Such is the tale of
the forging of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.
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| Salladhor Saan |
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| Nissa Nissa |
When the red star bleeds and darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.
Most book readers agree
that Jon Snow will rise after being stabbed. I look to the Wheel of Time for the answer:
“Rand screamed as he
felt it pierce his side, burning like a whitehot poker. The void trembled, but
he held on with the last of his strength, and drove the heronmark blade into Ba'alzamon's
heart. Ba'alzamon screamed, and the dark behind him screamed. The world
exploded in fire.”
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| Heron Mark blade |
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| Ishmael aka: Ba'alzamon aka: Mordin |
So it turns out that
Rand was found in a very similar type situation where he was also stabbed and
yet he survived and at that moment the Dragon was Reborn. Will Jon rise and become Azor Ahai?
Both Lew Therin and Azor
Ahai both killed their wives.
Both have the fate of
world in their hands if the Dark One (TWOT) or the Great Other (GOT) triumphs.
Another thing that both
have in common is that neither knew that the men they thought to be their
fathers weren't. Did Azor Ahai die on that spot that Jon will be reborn
metaphorically like Lews Therin did on Dragonmount where Rand was born
physically?
Another attribute that
Rand al’Thor has is the conquering of cites.
That attribute is given to Daenerys Targaryen from the Game of
Thrones. Rand is referred to as the Dragon
Reborn and Daenerys is responsible for the “Rebirth of Dragons”. Coincidence I think not.
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| Daenerys Targaryen and the "Rebirth of Dragons" |
For those of you who
haven’t read the Wheel of Time below is a list of The Prophecies of the
Dragon. Check
back to see how these prophecies relate to the Game of Thrones as the final
books are written.
And it shall come to
pass that what men made shall be shattered,
and the Shadow shall lie
across the Pattern of the Age,
and the Dark One shall
once more lay his hand upon the world of man.
Women shall weep and men
quail as the nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth.
Neither shall anything
stand or abide...
The Shadow shall rise
across the world, and darken every land, even to the smallest corner, and there
shall be neither Light nor safety.
And he who shall be born
of the Dawn, born of the Maiden, according to Prophecy,
he shall stretch forth
his hands to catch the Shadow,
and the world shall
scream in the pain of salvation.
All Glory be to the
Creator, and to the Light, and to he who shall be born again. May the Light
save us from him.
Yet one shall be born to
face the Shadow,
born once more as he was
born before,
and shall be born again,
time without end.
The Dragon shall be
Reborn,
and there will be
wailing and gnashing of teeth at his rebirth.
In sackcloth and ashes
shall he clothe the people,
and he shall break the
world again by his coming,
tearing apart all ties
that bind.
Like the unfettered dawn
shall he blind us, and burn us,
yet shall the Dragon
Reborn confront the Shadow at the Last Battle,
and his blood shall give
us the Light.
Let tears flow, O ye
people of the world.
Weep for your salvation.
On the slopes of
Dragonmount shall he be born,
born of a maiden wedded
to no man.
He will be of the
ancient blood, and raised by the old blood.
When the winds of Tarmon
Gai'don scour the earth,
he will face the Shadow
and bring forth Light again in the world.
For he shall come like
the breaking dawn,
and shatter the world
again with his coming, and make it anew.
Twice and twice shall he
be marked,
twice to live, and twice
to die.
Once the heron, to set
his path.
Twice the heron, to name
him true.
Once the Dragon, for
remembrance lost.
Twice the Dragon, for
the price he must pay.
Five ride forth, and
four return.
Above the Watchers Over
the Waves shall he proclaim himself,
bannered 'cross the sky
in fire.
The Stone of Tear will
never fall, till Callandor is wielded by the Dragon’s hand.
The Stone of Tear will
never fall, till the People of the Dragon come.
Into the heart he
thrusts his sword,
into the heart, to hold
their hearts.
who draws it out shall
follow after,
What hand can grasp that
fearful blade?
Power of the Shadow made
human flesh
wakened to turmoil,
strife and ruin.
The Reborn One, marked
and bleeding,
dances the sword in
dreams and mist,
chains the Shadowsworn
to his will,
from the city, lost and
forsaken,
leads the spears to war once
more,
breaks the spears and
makes them see,
truth long hidden in the
ancient dream.
He shall slay his people
with the sword of peace, and destroy them with the leaf.
With his coming are the
dread fires born again.
The hills burn, and the
land turns sere.
The tides of men run
out, and the hours dwindle.
The wall is pierced, and
the veil of parting raised.
Storms rumble beyond the
horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth.
There is no salvation
without destruction, no hope this side of death.
The unstained tower,
broken, bends knee to the forgotten sign.
The seas rage, and
stormclouds gather unseen.
Beyond the horizon,
hidden fires swell, and serpents nestle in the bosom.
What was exalted is cast
down; what was cast down is raised up.
Order burns to clear his
path.
There can be no health
in us, nor any good thing grow,
for the land is one with
the Dragon Reborn, and he is one with the land.
Soul of fire, heart of
stone, in pride he conquers, forcing the proud to yield.
He calls upon the
mountains to kneel, and the seas to give way, and the very skies to bow.
Pray that the heart of
stone remembers tears, and the soul of fire, love.
As the plow breaks the
earth shall he break the lives of men,
and all that was shall
be consumed in the fire of his eyes.
The trumpets of war
shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice,
and he shall wear a
crown of swords.
Master of the
lightnings, rider on the storm,
wearer of a crown of
swords, spinner out of fate.
Who thinks he turns the
Wheel of Time,
may learn the truth too
late.
The Seals that hold back
the night shall weaken,
and in the heart of
winter shall winter’s heart be born,
amid the wailings of
lamentation and the gnashing of teeth,
for winter’s heart shall
ride a black horse, and the name of it is Death.
And it shall come to
pass, in the days when the Dark Hunt rides,
when the right hand
falters and the left hand strays,
that mankind shall come
to the Crossroads of Twilight,
and all that is, all
that was,
and all that will be
shall balance on the point of a sword,
while the winds of the
Shadow grow.
He shall heal the wounds
of madness and cutting of hope.
He shall hold a blade of
light in his hands, and the three shall be one.
He shall bind the nine
moons to serve him. The
north shall he tie to the east, and the west shall be bound to the south.
Twice dawns the day when
his blood is shed.
Once for mourning, once
for birth.
Red on black, the
Dragon’s blood stains the rock of Shayol Ghul.
In the Pit of Doom shall
his blood free men from the Shadow.
His blood on the rocks
of Shayol Ghul,
washing away the Shadow,
sacrifice for man’s salvation.
He shall break chains
and put others into chains.
Fortune rides like the
sun on high
with the fox that makes
the ravens fly.
Luck his soul, the
lightning his eye,
He snatches the moons
from out of the sky.
When the Wolf King
carries the hammer, thus are the final days known.
When the Fox marries the
raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.
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.
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