The Blood Eyed Crow

I just thought of something, probably nothing. Weren't the Water Gardens built for the Daenerys that was sister to Daeron who was brokered and married off to a Martell to bring Dorne into the Iron Throne? The same Daenerys who loved a Daemon Blackfyre who started the Blackfyre rebellion after he was denied her. Wasn't it also Daemon's remaining sons and Bittersteel that later started the Golden Company after Daemon died and the rebellion extinguished? Might answer why Aegon feels the need to marry Dany. If that's the case then the Martells have no reason to want anything to do with the Golden Company or a Blackfyre dressed up like a dragon, which could be the case with Aegon. Interesting that it all comes back to one Daenerys or another. Also interesting that Daemon Blackfyre took for his arms the inverted sigil of the Targaryen's, which makes the possible lineage of this new Aegon even more mysterious. This might be the reason we were given all those scenes of the Water Gardens, because how they came to be is so important to the story.

I think Dorne is going to end up as the space for the last battle with the Others. Dorne has been the last stand in the history of Westeros on numerous occasions, so why not again, this time against the Others (especially with all of the hinting with the caves, the COTF, and the weirwoods.) We know the COTF used the Arm of Dorne as a last stand against the First Men and that Dorne evaded capture by Aegon the Conqueror. I think we've seen so little of Dorne in respect to the other areas of Westeros because it's going to be so important in the end. If Westeros has to fight off this otherworldly invasion from the North the people would flee "As far South as South goes." I don't think it's an accident that we've been shown Arianne viewing remembrances of the COTF and their last stand with the First Men. It's just another reminder that Dorne is where it all ends for Westeros. This chapter also puts into perspective how important Arianne's opinion of Aegon will be. I don't know if Arianne is the most interesting of characters but her decisions are paramount. I think Daenerys may very well get into Westeros via Dorne with her army with little to no trouble if she has the support of the ruler/rulers of Dorne and then stay protected because of the mountains and the desert that keep Dorne cut off from the rest of the continent. The first Targaryen conqueror couldn't conquer Dorne, but our second conqueror is going to slip on through because of this very same place. It'd be a little poetic. I think the whole kidnapping of Myrcella in AFOC wasn't just a way to show the whole political situation in Dorne and Arianne's grievances with her father. I think GRRM is utilizing a little foreshadowing for the idea of Daenerys as queen or fighting to be queen in Westeros and that Arianne will be a huge supporter. I wonder if she will have to choose between Daenerys and Aegon or how the Dornish people with a Dornish "Queen" in Arianne will support a queen of Westeros in Daenerys. Just my opinion :dunno: