Why Dawn is Lightbringer and Jon Snow is Azor Ahai

Potential Spoilers Below

There is one line in the first book of the Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World that tells me that Dawn is Lightbringer and thusly Jon Snow has to be Azor Ahai.    

“Were bound.” Aginor smiled; his yellowed teeth had the look of fangs. “Some of us are bound no longer. The seals weaken, Aes Sedai. Like Ishamael, we walk the world again, and soon the rest of us will come. I was too close to this world in my captivity, I and Balthamel, too close to the grinding of the Wheel, but soon the Great Lord of the Dark will be free, and give us new flesh, and the world will be ours once more. You will have no Lews Therin Kinslayer, this time. No Lord of the Morning to save you. We know the one we seek now, and there is no more need for the rest of you.”

When Aginor says that “You will have no Lews Therin Kinslayer, this time.  No Lord of the Morning to save you” what stands out to me is Lord of the Morning.  That was a title held by the Dragon Lews Therin.  The compliment in ASOIAF is the Sword of the Morning.  The Lord of the Morning wielded the sword Callandor which was called the “Sword that Cannot Be Touched or Sword that Is Not a Sword.”  In the hands of Rand al’Thor the Dragon Reborn this happened:

“His hand closed convulsively. On Callandor’s hilt.

The One Power surged through him, a torrent greater than he could believe, from saidin into the sword. The crystal blade shone brighter than even Moiraine’s fire had. It was impossible to look at, impossible any longer to see that it was a sword, only that light blazed in his fist.”

When we hear of the battle between Ned Stark and Ser Arthur Dayne at the Tower of Joy the following takes place:

“They were seven against three.

“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.

So now we have to blades that are blazed/alive with light; Callandor and Dawn respectively.  The title of Lord of the Morning was bestowed upon the Dragon and presumably given to the one who he was reborn into Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn.  Only a member of House Dayne who is worthy and deemed worthy to wield the sword Dawn is given the title “Sword of the Morning.”  But GRRM never gives us the rules as to what makes that person worthy.  Ser Arthur Dayne wielded the sword Dawn but it never behaved like the stories say it does when Lightbringer was held in Azor Ahai’s hands.  That to me was hard to understand until I saw what they showed us with Bran and Hodor.  Hodor should have been a normal man prior to Bran being born as we all know that Bran made him the way he was by showing him the moment of his death and uttering what Bran told him to do “hold the door” until it morphed into “Hodor”.  That is a form of time travel IMHO.  I do believe that Bran will go back in time physically as there are clues that point to it in the books.  Click here to see more on that.  So, if Bran can do it why not the person, he is seeming to groom to replace him Jon Snow as also clues seem to suggest in the books?  Click here to see more on that.  With that in mind I believe that the sword Lightbringer will only work for one-person Azor Ahai.  Click here to see how Jon can wield Dawn because we know that he is a Targaryen via his father and a Stark via his mother.  It’s quite simple when you think of it in those terms.  So, right now in the world of ASOIAF they have no Sword of the Morning to save them but Melisandre herself IMHO is the key to fulfilling a prophecy that she herself has been searching for so long.  Click here to see how she will do it.  It’s funny if you think about its Melisandre is Moiraine, a member of the Blue Ajah, except they gave her the color red.  The Red Ajah was used to hunt down and still men who could channel the one power.  I used to believe that Dawn was going to be found in the crypts of Winterfell but now I believe that a piece of the puzzle that weirwood Bran will give him will allow Jon Snow to go to Starfall and claim the sword.  Where in the Wheel of Time souls are constantly being reborn.  I don’t think that is the case in ASOIAF.  I believe that from a time perspective Azor Ahai will seem to be reborn as the prophecies say he will be but it is only a form of time travel used in ASOIAF.

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.