StoneColdJorahMormont Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Has anything been mentioned about this ? bit too much of a coincidence not to be a bit part of the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashes Of Westeros Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Aye, it's pretty obvious. But women's mortality at childbirth was very common in the Middle Ages. Even in ASOAIF there're a lot of mothers who died giving birth: Dalla, wife of Mance Rayder, Minisa Whent, mother of Cat, Lysa and Edmure, the wife of Mors Umber, as well as many women in Targaryen family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A spoon of knife and fork Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Yeah, good catch. It's often used as a piece of evidence that all three of them are, when combined, prophetic figures - "Three heads of the dragon", or perhaps, three dragon riders. But it may just be a little connection GRRM wanted them to have with each other, and nothing more significant than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Friendzone Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 It seems so far it just a coincidence but interesting one. Not only that but they way their characters go they look or been similiar. All three of them outcasts. Jon being a bastard, Tyrion looked upon as a bastard, Dany abused by Viserys, sold to slavery and being thrown around. People think it's a clue towards them being three headed dragon but so far on the show we haven't been introduced to this term or not much of clues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aFeastForDragons Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 I never noticed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyroclasticFlow Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 They all had tails too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneColdJorahMormont Posted August 14, 2016 Author Share Posted August 14, 2016 I think not having a mother in each of their life's might be a big help in getting each of them to lean to their Targeryen roots. Obviously Dany needs no convincing... But had Jons mother still be alive he would think of himself as more of a Stark being that the mother that raised him was one and his uncle ned etc and... with no Targaryen member in his life. Tyrion was raised a Lannister with no mother, but has no love for his father.... if it turns out he also has a Targaryen father then he may lean more to his Targaryen roots also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cron Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 On 8/10/2016 at 1:33 AM, House_Of_Fraser said: Has anything been mentioned about this ? bit too much of a coincidence not to be a bit part of the story. I noticed it, but didn't think much, if anything, of it. In a time and place where medical knowledge and medical care are roughly akin to our Middle Ages, it would not be uncommon at all for women to die in childbirth. A bit of a coincidence for the three mothers being discussed, but not nearly as much so as it would be in what we call the "real world" today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneColdJorahMormont Posted August 14, 2016 Author Share Posted August 14, 2016 Yeah it's common of course but the percentage of survivors must still be well over 70 percent.... so it must be written so to show another connection the 3 heads of the dragon have in common.... All black sheep's of their families. All lost their mother and brought up by surrogate fathers( if it's true about Tyrion )..Tywin,Viserys, Ned and now all brought up without a mother who passed away during childbirth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakin1013 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Not only were they brought up without a mother, but they also were raised with varying degrees of relatives. Dany was 'raised' with her brother, Viserys, a direct blood relative, a sibling. Jon was raised by his uncle, so a blood relative, but not a first level relative. Tyrion, if he should turn out to be a Targaryen, was raised without a single blood relative. His mother died, and his father had no part in his upbringing. Tywin would have been nothing but a hateful caregiver in name only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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