Saturday, July 1, 2017

Euron Greyjoy - Worse than Ramsey Snow?

Potential Spoilers Below


Euron is pale and handsome with black hair and a dark beard. He wears a patch over his left eye, and is nicknamed Crow's Eye. According to Euron's nephew, Theon Greyjoy, the patch conceals a "black eye shining with malice".  His right eye is as blue as summer sky and is regarded as his "smiling eye". In addition, his lips are a pale blue, due to his propensity to drink shade of the evening.

Euron Greyjoy

Euron Greyjoy from the books

Theon Greyjoy

Shade of the Evening

Rahvin, aka Gaebril, was said to be as handsome as Lanfear was beautiful, with an insatiable appetite for the company of beautiful women. He had black hair, which was white at the temples



“The place where you stand lies in the shadow of Shayol Ghul.” More than one voice moaned at that; the man who called himself Bors was not sure his own was not among them. A touch of what might almost be called mockery entered Ba’alzamon’s voice as he spread his arms wide. “Fear not, for the Day of your Master’s rising upon the world is near at hand. The Day of Return draws nigh. Does it not tell you so that I am here, to be seen by you favored few among your brothers and sisters? Soon the Wheel of Time will be broken. Soon the Great Serpent will die, and with the power of that death, the death of Time itself, your Master will remake the world in his own image for this Age and for all Ages to come. And those who serve me, faithful and steadfast, will sit at my feet above the stars in the sky and rule the world of men forever. So, have I promised, and so shall it be, without end. You shall live and rule forever.”

Shayol Ghul

Bors
Ba'alzamon 
Euron speaking to Aeron, excerpt from TWOW – The Forsaken, tells him of his interpretation of the bleeding star.  Just like in The Wheel of Time the Dark One’s prophecies were much different from those who were against the Dark One.

Aeron

The Dark One
 The bleeding star bespoke the end,” he said to Aeron. “These are the last days, when the world shall be broken and remade. A new god shall be born from the graves and charnel pits.”

Rahvin’s two major weaknesses were his love of sycophancy and his fondness for women. Many people gained positions in his administration by flattering him, although he was quick to remove them if the proved too unsuited to the position. And although a handsome man he could not stand rejection. His lovers were seldom allowed any choice in the matter. Much of the laxity of his administration can be attributed to time spent with his lovers.

Through the use of Compulsion, he persuaded Morgase to accept him as her lover and consort as well as advisor, insinuating himself into the palace political structure. Before long, Morgase was rendered powerless under his "suggestions." Rahvin kept her in what felt to her like a lovesick haze. She was virtually unaware of her surroundings due to the Compulsion and intent only on earning her "advisor's" approval by doing his bidding, even as he dandled another woman on his knee.


Then Euron lifted a great horn to his lips and blew, and dragons and krakens and sphinxes came at his command and bowed before him. “Kneel, brother,” the Crow’s Eye commanded. “I am your king, I am your god. Worship me, and I will raise you up to be my priest.”

“Never. No godless man may sit the Seastone Chair!”
  
Aeron Damphair looked. The mound of skulls was gone. Now it was metal underneath the Crow’s Eye: a great, tall, twisted seat of razor sharp iron, barbs and blades and broken swords, all dripping blood.
“Why would I want that hard black rock? Brother, look again and see where I am seated.” 

The Iron Throne
Beside him stood a shadow in woman’s form, long and tall and terrible, her hands alive with pale white fire. Dwarves capered for their amusement, male and female, naked and misshapen, locked in carnal embrace, biting and tearing at each other as Euron and his mate laughed and laughed and laughed...

Note: Since Rahvin had his eye on the Queen Morgase Trakand who sat the Lion Throne I think Euron will do the same with Cersei who sits the Iron ThroneI believe the woman described as a shadow in woman’s form, long and tall and terrible her hands alive with pale white fire is Cersei.  Like Rahvin; Euron has a love of sycophancy asking his brother to worship him.  We also know when it comes to women he is also like Rahvin.  He was exiled to begin with for seducing and impregnating his brother’s wife, that same brother intended to kill him, and then when he returns he gives that same brother a woman he knows he has also slept with.  It is also implied that he abused two of his brother sexually when they were growing up.  We know from the books he has the horn Dragonbinder which is supposed to bind dragons to his will.  Does he have anything, like compulsion, that binds people to his will also? 

Cersei
“Gaebril spends most of his nights with you, but Alteima has nearly as much of his time. He spreads himself thin with the other six. Five have rooms in the Palace. One, a big-eyed young thing, he sneaks in and out for some reason all swathed in a cloak, even in this heat. Perhaps she has a husband. I'm sorry, girl, but truth is truth. 'Better to face the bear than run from it.

Alteima
Morgase's knees sagged, and if Lini had not hurriedly pulled a chair from the table to shove under her, she would have sat down on the floor. Alteima. Him watching the two of them as they gossiped took on a new image, now. A man fondly watching two of his pet cats at play. And six others!”

Could the scene we saw in the trailer before season 7 airs of Yara and Ellaria Sand kissing be Euron “watching two of his pet cats at play”?

Yara and Ellaria Sand
Euron Crow’s Eye stood upon the deck of Silence, clad in a suit of black scale armor like nothing Aeron had ever seen before. Dark as smoke it was, but Euron wore it as easily as if it was the thinnest silk. The scales were edged in red gold, and gleamed and shimmered when they moved. Patterns could be seen within the metal, whorls and glyphs and arcane symbols folded into the steel.

Valyrian steel, the Damphair knew. His armor is Valyrian steel. In all the Seven Kingdoms, no man owned a suit of Valyrian steel. Such things had been known 400 years ago, in the days before the Doom, but even then, they would’ve cost a kingdom.

The Seven Kingdoms

Euron did not lie. He has been to Valyria. No wonder he was mad.

“Burning shafts hissed upward, trailing tongues of fire. Scarecrow brothers tumbled down, black cloaks ablaze. “Snow,” an eagle cried, as foemen scuttled up the ice like spiders. Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist. As the dead men reached the top of the Wall he sent them down to die again.”

Jon Snow
In the end Rahvin was killed by Rand al’Thor who used balefire to kill him for good unable to be resurrected by the Dark One.

So, to me this says that in the end Euron will be killed by what I have said is the metaphorical balefire in ASOIAF which is dragon fire.  I have always said that both Jon Snow and Daenerys are both being setup to be the Rand al’Thor character so one of them will eventually kill Euron using dragon fire.

Daenerys on her dragon

Rand al'Thor
But let us take a look at what Euron is wearing “a suit of Valyrian Steel armor”.  Is the dream that Jon has about himself armored in black ice tell us that Jon is wearing the suit of armor that Euron is shown wearing?  If so does he kill Euron and take it as his own.  Also note that in the same dream his blade burned red in his fist.  This tells me that Jon is Azor Ahai and he has also come into possession of Dawn which I believe to be the Red Sword of Heroes; Lightbringer.

Azor Ahai

Dawn which I believe to be Lightbringer
If Euron is portrayed like in the books he will be worse than Ramsay Snow.   His ship, the Silence, is crewed entirely by mutes whose tongues he ripped out.  I would describe the two as similar but Euron makes him look like an amateur. 

Ramsay Snow
And you thought things couldn't get worse
Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the ideas 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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