When Jon met Dany - the events that follow

Potential Spoilers Below

I expanded the meeting between the two and showed what took place after:

Character Guide:

(whenever you see the names below change them to the ASOIAF character)

Mat Cauthon = Tyrion

Tuon / Empress = Dany

Trollocs = Wights

Dragons / to’raken / raken = Dany’s dragons

Seanchan = Valyrian

Selucia = Missandei

Egwene = Sansa

Two Rivers = Winterfell

THEY FAKE A FIGHT (Mat and Tuon)

Tuon and Mat

Tuon and Mat

Tuon and Mat

“She had always assumed that she would wed Viserys when she came of age.”  - I just think she got the brother wrong and she will indeed wed Tyrion in the books at least; just like Mat married Tuon.

Tyrion and Daenerys

Tyrion and Daenerys

Tyrion and Daenerys

“Really? Mat thought. This is what you want to fight about? He was not certain the spy would buy it. Too flimsy a reason.”

“His plan with Tuon was to take a cue from what Rand had once done with Perrin. If Mat could fake a split between himself and the Seanchan, and in so doing make Tuon pull her forces back, perhaps the Shadow would ignore her. Mat needed an edge of some sort.”

In the Wheel of Time (TWOT) there was a spy within their camp that was giving away all their battle plans to the Shadow.  I don’t think this will apply to ASOIAF as those in the room all have reasons to see Cersei ousted or are loyal to Daenerys.  But never say never this is “The Game of Thrones”. 

Is there a spy among them?

Queen Cersei

I do believe that when Tyrion’s tactics start to not pan out she will take Lady Olenna’s advice:

Lady Olenna

Last year when Dany started making her way to Westeros I wrote a blog describing what I thought would happen and Euron and her fleet were featured in it.  Without any monkey wrenches throw in her plans this story would be over to quickly and would be rather dull.

Euron attacks

Damaging Dany in the process

Daenerys makes forWesteros, so what comes next?

How Tuon recognized Mat's worth:

“What is he doing?” Tuon said, frowning. “He can’t think to sneak this many men out of Altara even if he knows where every last soldier is. There are always patrols, and sweeps by raken.” Again they took their time before answering. Perhaps she should try speaking very fast.

Raken

“We’ve seen no patrols in better than three hundred miles, and no—raken?—no raken,” Edorion said quietly. He was studying her. Too late to stop his imaginings.

Reimon laughed again. “If I know Mat, he’s planning us a battle. The Band of the Red Hand rides to battle again. It’s been too long, if you ask me.”

Selucia sniffed, and so did Mistress Anan. Tuon had to agree with them. “A battle won’t get you out of Altara,” she said sharply.

Selucia and Tuon

“In that case,” Talmanes said, “he’s planning us a war.” The other three nodded agreement as if that were the most normal thing under the Light. Reimon even laughed. He seemed to think everything was humorous.

“Three thousand?” Toy said. “You’re sure?”

“Sure enough, man.”

“Sure enough will do. Vanin can locate them if they haven’t moved too far.”

“Tuon looked at him, squatting there by the map, moving his fingers over its surface, and suddenly she saw him in a new light. A buffoon? No. A lion stuffed into a horse-stall might look like a peculiar joke, but a lion on the high plains was something very different. Toy was loose on the high plains, now.

She felt a chill. What sort of man had she entangled herself with? After all this time, she realized, she had hardly a clue.”

“Tell me, General,” Tuon said. “What is your assessment of our consorts abilities?”

“I don’t know where you found this one, Greatest One, but he is a diamond of great worth. I have watched him these last hours as he rescued the forces of the White Tower. For all of his . . . unconventional style, I have rarely seen a battle commander as gifted as he.”

Tuon did not smile, but he could see from her eyes that she was pleased.”

How Dany will recognize Tyrion's worth:

Although things have started to go wrong IMO to balance out the sides, otherwise this would just be a slaughter and Dany could easily take the Iron Throne, eventually I see Dany recognizing Tyrion's military genius.  One of Dany's vision in the House of the Undying was this:

House of the Undying

“A white lion ran through grass taller than a man.”

I believe that this is Tyrion and a metaphor to how Tuon saw Mat: "a lion on the high plains was something very different. Toy was loose on the high plains, now". 

THE DRAGON'S ENTER THE FIGHT

(The dragons are parallel to real-world cannons.  They can fire up to one mile with devastating effects)

“Birgitte’s archers and Talmanes’ dragons were doing an outstanding job of reducing the Trolloc numbers there, but it was still only a matter of time before their vast army would pour across the Alguenya.”

Myrddraal leading Trollocs
similar to White Walkers leading Wights

“On the Heights, Uno held his ears as the nearby dragons belched fire at the Trollocs and Sharans west of them. The scent of something pungent burned in the air, and the blasts were so deafening, he couldn’t hear his own bloody cursing.

Down below, Lan Mandragoran’s riders were sweeping the sides of the assault force, keeping them contained so that the dragons could do more damage.”

“The dragons fired again, blasting enormous holes in the hordes of advancing Trollocs. Uno clapped his hands to his ears. “Warn a man when you do that, you flaming bits hanging from a goat’s—”

“He ducked away as the wreckage of dragons crashed to the ground around him.”

“The battle was not going well. Cauthon had lost the Heights already— the original plan had been to hold there as long as possible—and the dragons were in pieces.”

“Good man. The dragons could still fight, but they probably looked busted up something good. They had an advantage there; nobody knew how they worked except Mat and Aludra. Bloody ashes, and even he worried that each time one went off it would somehow blow up the wrong way.”

“I’ll bet you gentlemen anything that we’ll find Taim’s men trying to destroy those dragons. We’re going to give them something of a surprise . . .”

With the introduction of the “Dragon crossbow” I can see how what happened with the dragons in TWOT being applied to Dany’s dragons.

TUON TO THE RESCUE

“Well?” Mat asked the three.

“It is done,” Neald said with a growl.

“What of Tuon?”

“They found the spy, apparently,” Naeff said. “The Empress is waiting to return on your mark.”

Mat breathed in, tasting the battlefield air, feeling the rhythm of the fighting he had set up. He didn’t know if he could win, even with Tuon. Not with Elayne’s army in disarray, not with the Aes Sedai weakened to the point of being unable to channel. Not without Egwene, her Two Rivers stubbornness, her iron backbone. Not without a miracle.

“Send for her, Naeff,” Mat said. He called for paper and a pen, and scribbled a note, which he handed off to the Asha’man. He shoved aside the selfish desire to let Tuon fly to safety. Bloody ashes, there was no safety, not anywhere. “Give this to the Empress, Naeff; tell her these instructions must be followed exactly.”

Then Mat turned to Neald. “I want you to go to Talmanes,” he said. “Have him move forward with the plan.”

The two channelers left, off to deliver their messages.

“Will it be enough?” Arganda asked.

“No,” Mat said.

“Then why?”

“Because I’ll be a Darkfriend before I’ll let this battle go without trying everything, Arganda.”

“Gateways in the sky. Dozens of them, and through them poured to’raken in flight, carrying lanterns. A fiery flight of arrows launched at the Trollocs in the corridor; the to’raken, carrying archers, flew in formation over the ford and the corridor beyond.

Over the battle, Mat heard sounds that must have made the enemy’s blood run cold: hundreds, maybe thousands of animal horns blared out in the night their call to war; a thunderstorm of drums began to beat out a unified cadence that became louder and louder; and a rumble of footfalls made by an advancing army, man and animal alike, slowly approaching Polov Heights in the dark. No one could see them in the pre-dawn blackness, but everyone on the battlefield knew who they were.”

Basically, Mat makes a plan but the enemy is just as cunning as he.  Daenerys sweeps in with her dragons they take damage but they are the difference when all is said and done.  But this is where the stories are going to diverge as I have believed for a long time now that Dany is going to turn to the dark side and IMO it is going to be Tyrion who will have to stop her by killing her. The stories always seem to end up taking a 180 degree turn:

“Tuon frowned. The explosions reflected in her dark eyes. “I’m with child,” she said. “The Doomseer has confirmed it.”

Mat felt a jolt, as sure as if a firework had gone off inside of his stomach. An heir. A son, no doubt! What odds that it was a boy? Mat forced a grin. “Well, I guess I’m off the hook, now. You have an heir.”

“I have an heir,” Tuon said, “but I am the one off that hook. Now I can kill you, if I want.”

Mat felt his grin widen. “Well, we’ll have to see what we can work out. Tell me, do you ever play dice?”

I believe Dany will get pregnant in the books by Tyrion and in the end where Tuon was joking with Mat; Tyrion will have to do what he has to and kill Daenerys.

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.