Cersei is pregnant; is the prophecy wrong?

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. 

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.”

I wrote about this scenario once in the blog I entitled:  Bran vs the Children of the Forest - his true ADVERSARY

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:

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?”

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.

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.”

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:

Euron

What will happen to Cersei?

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. 

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.

The Night King

Wights

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).

Snowing in the Throne room?  Who could make that happen?

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

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.