Potential Spoilers Below
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| Rhaegar |
“The day had been windy when
he said farewell to Rhaegar, in the yard of the Red
Keep. The prince had donned his night-black armor, with
the three-headed dragon picked out in rubies on his breastplate. “Your Grace,” Jaime had
pleaded, “let Darry stay
to guard the king this once, or Ser Barristan. Their cloaks are as white
as mine.”
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| The Red Keep |
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| Jaime |
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| Barristan |
Prince Rhaegar shook his head.
“My royal sire fears your father more than he does our cousin Robert. He wants you close, so Lord Tywin cannot
harm him. I dare not take that crutch away from him at such an hour.”
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| Robert |
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| Tywin |
Jaime’s anger had risen up in
his throat. “I am not a crutch. I am a knight of the Kingsguard.”
“Then guard the king,” Ser Jon
Darry snapped at him. “When you donned that cloak, you promised to obey.”
Rhaegar had put his hand on
Jaime’s shoulder. “When this battle’s done I mean to call a council. Changes
will be made. I meant to do it long ago, but . . . well, it does no good to
speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when I return.”
Those were the last words Rhaegar Targaryen
ever spoke to him. Outside the gates an army had assembled, whilst
another descended on the Trident. So the Prince of Dragonstone mounted up and donned his tall black helm, and rode forth to
his doom.”
Most people believe that
Rhaegar was going to depose his father King Aerys.
I think that was the furthest thing from the truth. I believe that Rhaegar was going to give up
the throne for Lyanna by
simply walking away. You will see why I
think this after I tell you the story of the character upon which I believe
that Prince Rhaegar was based.
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| King Aerys |
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| Lyanna |
I have thought this for some
time but I only put it on my blog on 8 July 2017, in the comments section,
after answering a question someone had asked of me: Jon Snow: Do The Prophecies Make the Man?
The
circumstances surrounding Janduin’s death: The Wheel of Time
(TWOT)
“Was. So he was dead now, too.
Egwene wore sympathy on her face. Rand ignored
it; he did not want sympathy. How could he feel loss, for people he had never
known? Yet he did. “How did Janduin die?”
The Wise Ones exchanged hesitant
glances. At last Amys said,
"It was the beginning of the third year of the search for Laman when Shaiel found
herself with child. by the laws, she
should have returned to the Threefold Land. A Maiden is
forbidden to carry the spear "while she carries a child. but Janduin could forbid her nothing; had she
asked the moon on a necklace, he would have tried to give it to her. So she stayed, and in the last fight, before Tar Valon,
she was lost, and the child was lost.
Janduin could not forgive himself for not making her obey the law.
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| Three Wise Ones Amys, Biar and Melaine |
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| Laman |
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| Maiden of the Spear |
He gave up his place as clan chief,"
Bair said. "No one had
ever done that before. He was told it
could not be done, but he simply walked away. He went north with the
young men, to hunt Trollocs and
Myrddraal in the Blight. It is a thing wild young men do, and Maidens
with less sense than goats. Those who
returned said he was killed by a man, though. They said Janduin claimed this
man looked like Shaiel, and he would not raise his spear when the man ran him
through."
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| Myrddraal leading Trollocs |
Dead, then. Both dead.
He would never lose his love for Tam, never stop thinking of him as
father, but he wished he could have seen Janduin and Shaiel, just once."
What it all means:
IMO Jon
Snow is based upon Rand al’Thor, Rhaegar is Janduin,
Lyanna is Shaiel, Ned Stark is Tam al’Thor and Ser Arthur Dayne (The Sword of the Morning) is Lews
Therin (The Lord of the Morning).
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| Jon Snow |
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| Ser Arthur Dayne and his sword Dawn |
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| Lews Therin |
Both Jon Snow and Rand were
raised by men who they thought were their fathers but weren’t. We learned the truth of this when the men in
question were wounded and recounted the stories via fever dreams shining light
on their true origins. Rand being the
Dragon Reborn was prophesied to wield the sword that could not be touched;
called Callandor. It was a sword that was made of crystal but
could only be retrieved from the Heart of the Stone by the Dragon
Reborn. The sword in Rand’s hands when
the One Power
was channeled through it was so bright that it looked like it was on fire. He was able to wield the sword because he was
born with the reincarnated soul of Lews Therin the last to wield the sword
Callandor. I believe Jon Snow will
eventually wield the sword Dawn, which I believe to be the fabled
sword Lightbringer, for similar
reasons. Ned describes
Dawn as follows: “And now it begins,” said Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the
Morning. He unsheathed Dawn and held it with both hands. The blade was pale as milkglass, alive with
light. I believe Dawn will be
found in the Crypts of Winterfell, most likely in
Lyanna’s tomb.
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| Heart of the Stone |
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| Young Ned Stark |
I can’t prove it but I believe
that some sort of bloodmagic was
performed that will make it possible for Jon Snow to be the next person to
wield the sword Dawn and giving him a connection with Ser Arthur Dayne the last
Sword of the Morning. Remember that line
“The Dragon has
three heads”? I believe that
Jon fits that saying perfectly as he is a Targaryen via
his father, a Stark via his
mother and a Dayne via bloodmagic
(a la reincarnated soul – TWOT speak).
The books have never told us what makes one eligible to become the next
Sword of the Morning. I simply believe
that Azor
Ahai was a member of the
Dayne family line from the Age of Heroes. People will argue that Dawn is still in Starfall where Ned took it after Arthur Dayne’s death. It said he took it there but nothing ever
said that someone there wasn’t aware of Ser Arthur Dayne’s role in the
prophecy. He could have left
instructions for the sword to be returned to Winterfell in the
event of his death. When Jon claims the sword,
he will become in TWOT speak – the Dragon Reborn; as he will be found to be a
Targaryen aka a dragon.
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| Winterfell |
Most argue with me on the
point of bloodmagic being performed by Rhaegar being absurd but remember the
following:
“As a young boy, the Prince of
Dragonstone was bookish to a fault. He was reading so early that men said Queen
Rhaella must
have swallowed some books and a candle whilst he was in her womb. Rhaegar took
no interest in the play of other children. The maesters were awed by his wits, but his father’s knights
would jest sourly that Baelor the Blessed had been born
again. Until one
day Prince Rhaegar found something in his scrolls that changed him.
No one knows what it might have been, only that the boy suddenly appeared early
one morning in the yard as the knights were donning their steel. He walked up
to Ser Willem Darry, the master-at-arms, and
said, ‘I will
require sword and armor. It seems I must be a warrior.’”
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| Rhaella |
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| Baelor the Blessed |
Whatever he read changed his
life dramatically. What if it told him
he had to perform this ritual. It is
another reason why I believe that Ser Arthur Dayne being the best friend of
Prince Rhaegar also knew he was going to die that fateful day. I believe that Rhaegar shared with him the
words he read in the scrolls which I believe to be from the book Signs and Portents.
Rand's father, an Aiel clan chief, would not kill Luc because he looked so much like his wife Tigraine or
Shaiel her Aiel name. The 180-degree came with switching Jon’s father with Ser
Arthur Dayne who died at the hands of Lyanna’s brother Ned. He sacrificed himself and let Luc kill him
because of that fact alone. His mother
Tigraine gave birth to him and then she dies on the slopes of Dragonmount. Rand is born at the same place that Lews
Therin, the Lord of the Morning, who is Rand’s reincarnated soul died. Jon Snow is born at the Tower of Joy, his mother Lyanna also
dies after giving birth at the same place that Ser Arthur Dayne, who I believe
is Jon’s (reincarnated soul – via bloodmagic) died. Tigraine’s personal sigil was a woman's hand
gripping a
thorny rose-stem with a white blossom. Lyanna is always associated with blue winter roses
or blue rose petals; they simply changed the color of the rose and
for the 180-degree twist made Rhaegar and Lyanna married unlike Rand al’Thor’s
parents.
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| Aiel |
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| Dragonmount |
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| Tower of Joy |
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| Proof that Rhaegar and Lyanna were married. Jon Snow isn't a bastard |
So with all that said since Janduin
was willing to give up his position as an Aiel clan chief; I believe that this
is what Rhaegar was going to do when he spoke the following words to Jaime: “When this battle’s
done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to do it long ago,
but . . . well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when
I return.”
If he didn’t want to be king
but didn’t make his wishes known does that mean that Jon Snow still trumps Daenerys in
the “line of succession”? I really don’t
think it would matter one way or another to Jon unless Daenerys were to go “Mad Queen” and he had to step in and do what was right and
oppose her. He doesn’t want to sit the Iron Throne; he simply wants to do
what is right for the realm. What do you
think?
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| Daenerys |
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| Iron Throne |
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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