Potential
Spoilers Below
I keep telling everyone that
similarities between The Wheel of Time (TWOT) and A Song of Ice and Fire
(ASOIAF) are vast even if there are those out there that say otherwise. What if there exists within the Citadel itself a secret society of maesters that none of the other maesters know about or will openly acknowledge. I say they do exist and
every maester unknowingly undertakes the initiation ritual but only a few are
selected. So that just leaves the ritual
and how they are recruited for the cause.
“What
are these glass candles?” asked Roone.
Armen
the Acolyte cleared
his throat. “The night before an acolyte says his vows, he must stand a vigil
in the vault. No lantern is permitted him, no torch, no lamp, no taper . . .
only a candle of obsidian. He must spend the night in
darkness, unless
he can light that candle. Some will
try. The foolish and the stubborn, those who have made a study of these
so-called higher
mysteries. Often they cut their fingers, for the ridges
on the candles are said to be as sharp as razors. Then, with bloody hands, they
must wait upon the dawn, brooding on their failure. Wiser men simply go to
sleep, or spend their night in prayer, but every year there are always a few who must try.”
If you can light a glass candle then
you are approached and recruited to be a member of their society. You then spend your time in pursuits of the higher
mysteries. The maesters, not in the
secret society, were the ones who rid the world of dragons but
in the process severed some ties to a source of the power and/or abilities of
the secret society. Three within the
books leap to mind Marwyn, Qyburn
and possibly Aemon.
I would also consider people like Melisandre, Thoros
of Myr, Benerro, Moqorro,
Ezzelyno and Quaithe members of a similar type society although not
directly connected to the Citadel.
“Alleras stepped up next to Sam. “Aemon would have gone to her if
he had the strength. He wanted us to send a maester to her, to counsel her and protect her
and fetch her safely home.”
“Did
he?” Archmaester Marwyn
shrugged. “Perhaps it’s good that he died before he got to Oldtown.
Elsewise the grey sheep might have had to kill him, and that would have made
the poor old dears wring their wrinkled hands.”
“Kill
him?” Sam said, shocked. “Why?”
“If
I tell you, they may need to kill you too.”
Marywn
smiled a ghastly smile, the juice of the sourleaf running red between his
teeth. “Who do
you think killed all the dragons the last time around? Gallant dragonslayers
armed with swords?” He spat. “The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for
sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons. Ask
yourself why Aemon Targaryen was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall,
when by rights he should have been raised to archmaester. His blood was why. He
could not be trusted. No more than I can.”
The tie to the Wheel of Time is
simple. Just click the link and read up
on the Black
Ajah. Like all major
themes I don’t think the secret society within the Citadel is hell bent on the
destruction of the world like the Black Ajah.
That is the 180-degree difference that I speak of when it comes to the two
books.
Comments encouraged. Love to hear the idea’s 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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