Potential Spoilers Below
There was one particular plotline that occurred in The Wheel of Time (TWOT) that I have been trying to
figure out how they will use and it wasn’t until a few days ago that I think I
have it. It ties in with the fact that Cersei is now pregnant and how if she
has this baby the prophecy that she receives as a child about having only 3 kids
(in the books) would be violated if indeed she has the baby.
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| Cersei Pregnant? |
Q1: “When will I wed the
prince?”
A1: “Never. You will wed the king.”
Q2: “I will be queen, though?”
A2: “Aye. Queen you shall be…until there comes another,
younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.”
Q3: “Will the king and I have
children?”
A3: “Oh, aye. Six-and-ten for him, and three for you.”
The last made no sense to
Cersei. She wanted to know how that
could be but she was done with her questions.
The old woman however was not done with her and proceeded to tell her
that “Gold shall be their crowns and gold their shrouds. And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar
shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.”
In that blog I thought it
could be Daenerys but now I believe it will
most likely apply to Cersei. In the blog
search for the words “What happens to Elayne will happen to Daenersy” and it
takes you to the section in question. I believe that based upon the following in
TWOT something similar will occur in The Game of Thrones but now to Cersei:
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| Daenerys |
“Betrayal!” Birgitte
called, lifting her bow and shooting a mercenary through the throat. “To arms!”
“It’s not a betrayal,” Elayne
said. She wove Fire and struck down a group of three. “Those aren’t ours! Watch
for thieves in the clothing of beggars!”
She turned as another group of
“refugees” lunged at the weakened lines of Guards. They were all around! They
had crept up while attention had been focused on the distant battlefield.
As a group of mercenaries
broke through, she wove saidar to show them the folly of attacking an Aes Sedai.
She released a powerful weave of Air.
As it hit one of the men
charging her, the weave fell apart, unraveling. Elayne cursed, turning her
horse to flee, but one of the attackers lunged forward and drove his sword into
Moonshadow’s neck. The horse reared, squealing in agony, and Elayne caught a
brief glimpse of Guards fighting all around as she fell to the ground, panicked
for the safety of her babes. Rough hands grabbed her by the shoulders and held
her against the ground.
She saw something silver
glisten in the night. A foxhead medallion. Another pair of
hands pressed it to her skin just above her breasts. The metal was sharply
cold.
“Hello, my Queen,” Mellar
said, squatting beside her. The former Guardsman—the one many people still
assumed had fathered her children—leered down at her. “You’ve been very hard to
track down.”
Elayne spat at him, but he
anticipated her, raising his hand to catch the spittle. He smiled, then stood
up, leaving her held by two mercenaries.”
“Though some of her Guards
still fought, most had been pushed back or killed.
Mellar turned as two men
dragged Birgitte over. She thrashed in their grip, and a third man came over to
help hold her. Mellar took out his sword, regarded its blade for a moment, as
if inspecting himself in its reflective gleam. Then he rammed it into
Birgitte’s stomach.
Birgitte gasped, falling to
her knees. Mellar beheaded her with a vicious backhand blow.
Elayne found herself sitting
very still, unable to think or react as Birgitte’s corpse flopped forward,
spilling lifeblood from the neck. The bond winked away, and with it came …
pain. Terrible pain.”
“I’ve been waiting to do that
for a long time,” Mellar said. “Blood and bloody ashes, but it felt good.”
Birgitte … Her Warder
was dead. Her Warder had been killed. That tough yet generous heart, that
tremendous loyalty—destroyed. The loss made it … made it hard to think.
Mellar kicked at Birgitte’s
corpse as a man rode up with a body draped across the back of his saddle. The
man wore an Andoran uniform, and the facedown corpse dangled golden hair.
Whoever the poor woman was, she wore a dress exactly like Elayne’s.”
“Oh no …
“Go,” Mellar said. The man
rode off, a few others forming around him, fake Guardsmen. They carried
Elayne’s banner, and one started shouting, “The Queen is dead! The Queen has
fallen!”
Mellar turned to Elayne. “Your
people still fight. Well, that ought to disrupt their ranks. As for you … well,
apparently, the Great Lord has a use for those children of yours. I’ve been
ordered to bring them to Shayol Ghul. It
occurs to me that you needn’t be with them at the time.” He looked at one of
his companions. “Can you make it work?”
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Representation of the Dark One aka the Great Lord
In the Game of Thrones there is a place called "The Fist of the First Men" I think it is nothing more than an homage to the Dark One. "The Fist" of the First Men, because the hill looks like a fist thrust into the sky from the flat landscape surrounding it, and the jagged remaining stones circling the top look like the knuckles of a fist.
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The other man knelt beside
Elayne, then pressed his hands against her belly. A jolt of sudden fright
pushed through her numbness and her shock. Her babes!”
“She’s far enough along,” the
man said. “I can probably keep the children alive with a weave, if you cut them
out. It will be difficult to do right. They are young yet. Six months along.
But with the weaves I was shown by the Chosen … yes, I think I can keep them
living for an hour. But you will have to take them to M’Hael to get them to Shayol Ghul.
Traveling with a regular gateway won’t work there any longer.”
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| The Chosen |
“Mellar sheathed his sword and
pulled a hunting knife from his belt. “Good enough for me. We’ll send the
children on, as the Great Lord asks. But you, my Queen … you are mine.”
Elayne flailed, but the men’s
grip was tight. She clawed at saidar again and again, but the medallion worked
like forkroot.
She might as well have been trying to embrace saidin as reach saidar.
“No!” she screamed as Mellar
knelt beside her. “NO!”
“Good,” he said. “I was hoping
you’d get around to screaming.”
Mellar in TWOT was telling
everyone he was the father of Elayne’s babies and Elayne didn’t counter the
rumor because of the true father being Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, which could have put
the children at risk had the truth been revealed. I could see Euron spreading the rumor that he was
the father of the child and then having a Maester remove the child from her womb
not caring if she died after the fact as he would use the child for its title
being the heir to the Iron Throne because its mother being
the Queen. But every time it seems that
a major plotline from TWOT is used a 180 degree flip comes into play to make
it unique. The fortelling in TWOT said that the
babies would be fine but nothing of the mother Elayne surviving. I think this is what will get flipped. Elayne and her twins were saved and everything turned out fine but this is the Game of Thrones and we know that no one is safe. I believe that during the procedure to extract
the baby from Cersei’s womb the baby is killed but Cersei survies and Euron is
killed. Cersei’s demise however will
come not so long after this event and I wrote about that in the following blog:
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| Euron |
Could the one who saves Cersei
be Jaime and he gets her back to King’s Landing? The part of the prophecy that states: “And
when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white
throat and choke the life from you” could this be why she is drowning in
tears? At this point having nothing to
live for and possibly blaming Jaime for coming to late she has the Mountain kill Jaime as she once threatened
in the TV show.
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| Jaime and the Mountain |
I can see the Night King making it to King’s Landing by this time
in the story and raising the dead that have been slain in battle (Jaime being
among them). Like in the books the wights
first attack involves trying to choke out their victims. Thus Jaime becomes the valonqar choking the life from Cersei.
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| The Night King |
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| Wights |
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| The writers pretty much gave up the game when they placed Cersei and Jaime where they did on the map. Cersei is standing on a place called the Neck and Jaime is standing near the Fingers. In the end it will be his fingers that wrap around Cersei's pale white throat choking the life from her. |
Remember Dany's vision of the future and King's Landing? The Throne room had snow in it an indication that winter had reached the south (i.e. the Night King had reached the south).
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| Snowing in the Throne room? Who could make that happen? |
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| What else might she have seen? |
I believe that some of the stories that we have heard Old Nan tell Bran were not stories of the past but things that happened in the present and were passed on to guide those when the time came to take action. Check out my blog: Time travel hurts my head and see for yourself
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| Old Nan telling Bran stories |
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.
