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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. Again, I don’t think much was wasted from
TWOT as all the major themes keep finding their way onto the pages of ASOIAF
and vice versa in some cases. But I do
say that both men were friends and I think they did it on purpose.
ASOIAF: Khal Drogo an empty vessel
“She
lifted her head. “And I am Daenerys Stormborn, Daenerys of House
Targaryen, of the blood of Aegon the Conqueror and Maegor the Cruel and old
Valyria before them. I am the dragon’s daughter, and I
swear to you, these men will die screaming. Now bring me to Khal Drogo.”
He was lying on the bare red
earth, staring up at the sun.
A dozen bloodflies
had settled on his body, though he did not seem to feel them. Dany
brushed them away and knelt beside him. His eyes were wide open but did not
see, and she knew at once that he was blind. When she whispered his name, he
did not seem to hear.
The wound on his breast was as healed
as it would ever be, the scar that covered it grey and red and hideous.”
“Why
is he out here alone, in the sun?” she asked them.
“He
seems to like the warmth, Princess,” Ser Jorah said. “His eyes follow the sun, though he does not
see it. He can walk after a fashion. He will go where you lead him, but no
farther. He will eat if you put food in his mouth, drink if you dribble water on
his lips.”
Dany
kissed her sun-and-stars gently on the brow, and stood to face Mirri Maz Duur. “Your spells are
costly, maegi.”
“He lives,”
said Mirri Maz Duur. “You asked for life. You paid for life.”
“This is not life,
for one who was as Drogo was. His life was laughter, and meat
roasting over a firepit, and a horse between his legs. His life was an arakh in his hand and his bells ringing in his hair as he
rode to meet an enemy. His life was his bloodriders, and me, and the son I was
to give him.”
Mirri
Maz Duur made no reply.
“When
will he be as he was?” Dany demanded.
“When
the sun rises in the west and sets in the east,” said Mirri Maz Duur. “When the
seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens
again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.”
TWOT: Trayal an empty vessel
“Bring Trayal,”
Alar commanded, and Juin, who had remained by the door,
bowed and left. “It is not enough,” she told Verin,
“to hear what can happen. You must see it, know it in your heart.”
There was an uncomfortable silence until Juin returned, and it became
more uncomfortable still as two Ogier women followed him, guiding a dark-bearded Ogier of middle years,
who shambled between them as if he did not quite know how his legs worked. His
face sagged, without any expression at all, and his big eyes were vacant and
unblinking, not staring, not looking, not even seeming to see. One of the women
gently wiped drool from the corner of his mouth. They took his arms to stop
him; his foot went forward, hesitated, then fell back with a thump. He seemed
as content to stand as to walk, or at least as uncaring.
“Trayal was one of the last among us to go along the Ways,”
Alar said softly. “He came out as you see him. Will you touch him, Verin?”
Verin gave her a long look, then rose and strode to Trayal. He did not
move as she laid her hands on his wide chest, not even a flicker of an eye to
acknowledge her touch. With a sharp hiss, she jerked back, staring up at him,
then whirled to face the Elders. “He is . . . empty. This body lives, but there
is nothing inside it. Nothing.” Every Elder wore a look of unbearable sadness.”
“Nothing,” one of the Elders to Alar’s right said softly. Her eyes
seemed to hold all the pain Trayal’s no longer could. “No mind. No soul. Nothing of Trayal remains
but his body.”
“He was a fine Treesinger,” one of the men sighed.
Alar
motioned, and the two women turned Trayal to lead him out; they had to move him
before he began to walk.”
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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