Gerion + horn = Tyrion

[rozemarijn]

Right now Victarion is arriving at Mereen, with on his ship a nice horn he got from his brother, Euron. He has stumbled upon a Rhollor priest, Moquorro, who has explained him that when the horn is blown the dragons will be bound by the owner. The problem is, who is the rightful owner of the horn?

Moquorro is working himself to death to be as vague as possible about how to claim the horn. “You have to claim it as your own”; great advice, I say. But how does one claim an old Valyrian horn for himself? Right now Victarion hasn’t got a clue, and it doesn’t seem likely Moquorro is truly on his side, all is said about the matter. I have the feeling Victarion just things that some bloodshed around it will be quite enough, after all Moquorro has already told him about his ‘victory’.

Then there is Euron, whom I suspect has either no clue about the ‘claiming’part or considered stealing (or ‘paying the iron price’) it form the warlocks as sufficient.

The warlocks then, who had the horn before Euron. They seem like some kind of … frauds. Uncapable of real magic untill Dany woke the dragons, and even after that they tried to kill Dany by hiring a sorrowfull men and were taken prisoner by Euron. Not quite boosting about magic skill, is it? Even before Dany burned their house to the ground they were only capable of stretching a lifespan by drinking a potion and preforming some magic tricks. Would those skills be enough to claim the horn? I seriously doubt it. At one moment they actually were in the possession of such a horn and had dragons nearby, but they did not use it.

But, where did the warlocks get that Valyrian horn? Sailed all the way to Valyria and picked it up? Leaving their house? They are way to lasy for something like that. My guess is they just stole it, from its true owner:

A Westerosi owner, who has sailed to Valyria on a queest to find a lost sword and other treasures. Someone we know has at least gotten as far as the Smoking Sea, but somehow got missed? Perhaps he didn’t get shipwrecked, or stubled upon a vulcano somewhere in Valyria. Perhaps he just got tricked by the warlocks? As they have tried to trick Dany to get hold of her treasure.

What if it was Gerion Lannister, who found the horn, and claimed it by obtaining it? Or perhaps his blood claimed it when the Warlocks killed him for it?

So imagine, Victarion gets his three blowers to sound the horn. The horn works, but not for him, but for Gerion Lannister. Gerion, who is not present, but his blood is. Enter Tyrion, the dragon rider.

Valyria works with blood and magic. If you claim a horn I don’t think you claim it for your individual self, but for your blood, your family. Tyrion has some very pure double Lannister blood.

I think it would explain a lot:

1. The whole Gerion plotline. Such an investment in an uncle who sails to Valyria and disappears, all background for the story? Perhaps.

2. Why going to the trouble of putting Tyrion in Mereen when he is just going to ‘cross’ Dany if not for a dragon?

3. George RR Martin has clearly hinted the three dragonriders don’t have to be Targaryens. There has been put a lot of effort in this forum considering whether or not one can ride a dragon (‘the seeds” from tpatq by example) when one does not possess dragonblood. I think such blood is necessary, exept if one can claim a dragon by such a horn. So this would allow Tyrion to be a dragonrider, without him being another secret Targaryen.

Problems:

The main problem is how to get this story to us, the readers, and how to Tyrion so he would actually claim that dragon.

I think there are three possible ways to introduce this theory into the story:

-Moquorro has seen it into his flames and will simply tell Tyrion the horn is claimed by his family blood. Tyrion may add the information of his uncle and there is our story.

This would also shed some new light upon his “dragons great and small and you sneering amids them all”: dragons ridden by people with dragonblood, and then Tyrion, the exception who rides them thanks to the power of the horn.

It would explain what Moquorro is doing with Victarion, he is keeping an eye upon the horn.

-The Warlocks are plotting another scheme to kill Daenerys, they are caught again and somehow spill the story of the horn. Perhaps one of them reacts to the name Lannister, perhaps to the horn, …

-Euron has brought some Warlocks with him. Maybe he introduces them to his brother Damphair, a priest, and he asks for his opinion/help with their magic. we know there is a Damphair chapter, Martin tried to sell it as a reading once and called it ‘seriously twisted’ but the audience wanted Arianne instead. Maybe this chapter contains some torture of the warlocks. We already know Euron has forced them to eat each other before.

-In Braavos, we have the ‘Sailors Wife’ with a fourteen year old beautiful golden blonde daughter Lanna. The theory is she is either Tysha, or conceived by Gerion on his way to Valyria. The house of the undying gathers information, maybe they have been able to put two and two together. Maybe they stumble upon some other information, by a lost warlock, and they decide to kill his ‘blood’, daughter, because of the risk she may ride a dragon? (This is very very crackpot, but just a way to link the Sailors wife and his possible daughter to the rest of this theory. She may also be just Tysha.)

-A combination of (parts of) the above. I would go for Moquorro who encourages Tyrion to ride a dragon + Damphair for the readers more expanded background info. It may be we will have to put certain pieces of information together, and he will use multiple leads and little parts of information to back up the story.

[Liam Prieto]

I like it! I prefer this theory to Tyrion being a secret targ!

[ImpinDornish]

This makes more sense to me than Tyrion being a Targ. The biggest problem I have with Tyrion being a Targ is that it's just a weak story. It's almost like a carbon copy of R+L=J and in my opinion would just be a cop out of a "twist." Imagine revealing both twists in the same book? I'd feel cheated. I hope that this, or any other plot line gains Tyrion a dragon.

[nickdt]

What if Moquorro is Gerion?

[rozemarijn]

What if Moquorro is Gerion?

Apparently he is black skinned :(

[Faceless Man Friday]

Moquorro is burnt skinned. Black like someone who has been burnt.

[rozemarijn]

Moquorro is burnt skinned. Black like someone who has been burnt.

Well he could have been murdered (perhaps even burnt) in the house of the undying but given the kiss of fire. That would explain why the sailors wife friend told Arya he is dead.

Maybe he was undead at the house of the undying but he escaped because Dany burnt it down. (highly unlikely since he is already a priest of Rhollor and one to two years is a bit quick to achieve that).

Edit: isn't he compared to a lion as well? And speaks the common tongue surprisingly well?

[Mythrel]

Well he could have been murdered (perhaps even burnt) in the house of the undying but given the kiss of fire. That would explain why the sailors wife friend told Arya he is dead.

Maybe he was undead at the house of the undying but he escaped because Dany burnt it down. (highly unlikely since he is already a priest of Rhollor and one to two years is a bit quick to achieve that).

Edit: isn't he compared to a lion as well? And speaks the common tongue surprisingly well?

And we know its possible for skin to be turned black. Moqqoro turns Victarions hand black when he heals it.

[Just Maid]

There's something I don't understand about Moquorro and Victarion. Moquorro believes Danny is AAR and wants to help her so why would he help Victarion to steal her dragons. I strongly believe Moquorro is going to betray Victarion before he can use the horn.

[John Suburbs]

And the Dusky Woman doesn't like Moquorro. What's that about?

[aDanceWithFlagons]

And the Dusky Woman doesn't like Moquorro. What's that about?

Maybe she can see through his glamor and what's underneath is disturbing.