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On 2/17/2024 at 11:41 AM, Seams said:

Renly's purple guard was Ser Parmen Crane. He ends up held prisoner at Highgarden, after being captured by Ser Loras. We know that Loras killed red (Royce) and yellow (Cuy), for failing to protect Renly from the shadow assassin. Renly never had an indigo guard, which has always struck me as significant. Brienne (blue) and Ser Loras (commander) are the only survivors of Renly's guard aside from Crane.

Why is GRRM saving Ser Purple for later in the story, I wonder?

Can you imagine having to remember all these details? He has the hardest job in all of literature. Plus he is getting older. I certainly forgot about this character.

On 12/11/2023 at 2:37 PM, Hippocras said:

A play about someone trying to write it as a comedy could be a comedy though.

A Play About Nothing

By Larry R R David

On 12/7/2023 at 3:31 PM, Hippocras said:

GRRM recently mentioned meeting with the creators of the stage play that will cover the tourney at Harrenhal.

The original working title was “Harrenhal”. Currently they are using “The Iron Throne”.

What do you think this play should be called? My idea: they should call it “The False Spring”.

The False Spring is most poetic. But the Iron Throne will bring in the fans.

Interested in buying the ASOIAF.org domain name?

There is so much possibility in what one can do with it.

8 hours ago, Hippocras said:

I know there is SOMETHING to the Royces, but we don't really have any evidence of magic there. Yet anyway. I am certainly waiting to find out.

They wear bronze armor which won't shatter in the cold like steel. And they have runes on their armor which tell ancient secrets from before alphabets.

All this to say... will you unMarry me? 

On 10/23/2023 at 8:56 AM, Kal-L said:

I would like to talk about marriages/alliances between families that kind of baffle me at first sight.

The first one is the marriage of Ysilla Royce, daughter of Lord Yohn Royce with the young Mychel Redfort. I always found this match-up strange, why would the second most powerful man of the Vale marry his daughter to the fourth son of a less prestigious family ? It's not even a love match as the young Redfort had a rather known affair with Mya Stone, Robert's bastard. With House Royce's recent death rate, the young Redfort definitely hit the jackpot, but what is in for Ysilla's family ?

There is also the mariage of Jocelyn Stark, Lord Rickard's aunt, with a younger son of a minor branch of House Royce ! Before that, the only known daughter of a Lord of Winterwell to have been married south the Neck had been Lord Torrhen Stark's daughter - to the great dismay of her family. I know that Jocelyn's father Lord Willam had been long dead at that point but what could have led to that strange match-up ? Remember that if anything happened to Lord Edwyle or his only son Rickard, she would supposedly become the heir of Winterfell (maybe there is something to dig there...).

The Lannisters makes a big deal out of Gemma's wedding with Lord Frey's second son, probably with reasons, yet Gemma's fate is apparently far from an isolated case.

What are your thoughts on these matches ? Do you have others strange/unequal deals in mind ?

There is magic in Royce blood. One of the oldest Houses in Westeros. There is cache, prestige and the ability of getting magic blood in line.

On 10/12/2023 at 11:28 AM, sweetsunray said:

Sociapthy is an outdated term.

Psychopathy has a genetic factor. There is no doubt about that. But there are hypothesis and efforts and raising methods advized the past few decades to raise a child which might have been burdened with such genetical factors in a manner to increase its empathic abilities. Per definition no child can be diagnozed as a psychopath. Only adults can be.

I missed you Sweetsunray!

On 6/16/2023 at 3:19 AM, Hippocras said:

The Bracken vs. Blackwood feud is actually quite key. It is a way of weaving waves of historical conflict into a single complex story. It is petty kings fighting over territory, and then it is Andals vs. First Men, then Riverlands against Ironborn overlords, then Aegon against Maegor, then Greens vs. Blacks, then Blackfyres vs. the Crown. With Aegon V's marriage, the Blackwood-Bracken conflict becomes THE story, as that is the moment that the crown passed to one side and not the other.

ding ding ding

The IceBrandon: “Winter Is Flying”

• “Winter is coming” means the ice dragon named Winter is coming.
• Bloodraven via Bran wakes the icedragon named Winter in the black pool of Winterfell.
• Bran is the King of Winter the ice dragon.
• Bran has already flown as the ice dragon in his dream where he gave his (corn) seed and his soul to the crow, Bloodraven.
• Bran died and was reborn with the magic of the ground and weirwood roots just as Dany died and was reborn by fire.
• This entire story is set in play by the conflict when Jaime threw Bran from the tower and their conflcit will frame the story’s conclusion.

Nightbringer: The Hammerhorn of the Waters

• Daenerys summons the red comet to strike the moon which brings the Long Night.
• The Hammer of the Waters may be a horn; Euron’s horn.
• The Hammerhorn of the Waters will be sounded by Daenerys “the Unburnt”, who is the only person who can possibly sound it three times without burning from within to bring about the apocalypse.
• Azor Ahai’s sword may be a horn as an asteroid strikes the earth like a sword.
  Chunks of moon falls to Earthos bringing plumes of smoke to block out the sun, bringing darkness. Simultaneously the moon is moved closer to Earthos and it’s increased gravity brings flooding and cold.
• The flooding freezes over and Westeros becomes the Land of Always Winter.
• Dany is a Nissa Nissa figure to the man who makes her sound the Hammerhorn one of the “heroes” prophesied to come again.

Azor Ahannister & The Others That Were Promised

• Jamie is one of the remanifestations of Azor Ahai reborn.
• “Golden hand” means Lord of Light in Valyrian.
• Jamie will forge the blue-white flamed Lightbringer through (Brienne) killing Lady Stoneheart, secondly he will fulfill both the valonqar and Azor Ahai prophesies by killing Cersei and lastly through killing his love Brienne he will forge Lightbringer.
• Dragonsteel may be forged with ironwood charcoal. The fire of the dragon not the fire from the dragon is needed to forge it, namely the life soulfire of the dragon.

The Hooded Man of Winterfell Revealed

• This provides the basis for my “For The Night” theory listed below.
• Theon is the sleepwalking killer of Yellow Dick by being under the glasscandle control of Euron, the hooded man of Winterfell.

“For The Night”

• Jon’s death was not a murder. It was a blood sacrifice to wake the stone dragon… that is made of ice.
• Euron is the nighwalker that used a glass candle to control the movments and conscious actions of Theon the nightwalkee.
• The body language of Jon’s killers tells the truth but words lie.

Brienne The “More Beautiful”

• Why Brienne is Jamie’s Nissa Nissa.

The Stone Dragon is Made of Ice

• The stone dragon Melissandre wants to wake is Winter the ice dragon.

The Ice Dragon Must Have Three Heads

• Aside from Winter the enormous ice dragon, there may be two more ice dragons in the cave with Bloodraven.

Lemony Lemongate: Daenerys and The Three Heads

• Daenerys know nothing. The house with the red door was not in Braavos, but Lemonwood, the seat of House Dalt in Dorne.
• Daenerys may be a child of three different siblings

Winter Fell: Death of Azor Ahai & The IceBrandon

• Jamie is one of the reborn manifestations of Azor Ahai.
• Jamie will thrust a flaming Lightbringer sword into Winter the IceBrandon melting the ice dragon and extinguishing Lightbringer in the process.
• When Lightbringer’s fire goes out, so does Jamie’s.
• Jamie was blood of the dragon, but now his fire has gone out.

The Game of Horns: Blow or Get Blown

• The Horn of Winter helps wake or control Winter the ice dragon.
• The Horn of Joramun is Euron’s/Dany’s horn which she sounds three times signaling the coming of the Others.
• This horn heralds the red comet to strike the moon causing darkness, cold and flooding.
• The crash frees an unfathomably large world serpent, the sea dragon Joramun who is only partially(!) frozen in the Wall.
• The Stepstone islands are scales of this enormous sea dragon. When the Horn of Joramun (the Hammerhorn) is sounded these mountains will blow in the wind like leaves.
• The future Stromking will defeat the enormous serpent Joramun.
• The Horn that Wakes the Sleepers brings enormous giants back into the world.
• We have never seen true giants. These giants dwarf Wun Wun by a mile.
• There may be stone, fire and ice giants either metaphorically or literally.

Flight of The IceBrandon: Chapter Review

• A line by line chapter review of Bran’s flight as the ice dragon.

Garden of Edenos: A Tale of Two Trees 

• This is a tale of two trees, the song of black ironwood and white weirwood;, the tree of knowledge and the tree of eternal life.

The Lace Serpent: Duskendale & The Night’s Queen

• The Lace Serpent Lady Serala is a Metaphor for the Nights Queen.

The Secret Second Wall

• There is a second secret Wall at the Bloody Gate and Lord Commander Brynden Tully is in charge of it.
• The Boneway in Dorne may be a third secret wall too.

Very Fishy: Osha Turncloak

• Osha may be a Deep One and kidnapped Rickon.
• Shaggy Dogs eyes are green like wildfire which is associated with water.

The Halfdivorce

• Tyrion is still married to Tysha and his marriage to Sansa is nullified.
• Petyr knows because Tysha works in his brothel at the Happy Port.
• Tyrion will help the mountain clansmen take over the Vale.

The IcePriestess of Asshai

• Melissandre unknowingly worships ice and not fire.
• GRRM commissioned a custom Melissandre figurine in ice colors.

The Ruse of Bolton

• Roose Bolton may skinflaynge into Robb and “surprise Jon at the Wall”.

Roose The Rat Cook

• Roose may be a Rat Cook.

The CIA: Citadel Intelligence Agency 

• History isn’t written by the victors. History is written by the maesters.
• In ways great and small, the Citadel has altered our understanding of history for their own mysterious and seemingly anti-magic nepharious purposes.
• Robin Arryn’s shaking sickness is not epilepsy but drug withdrawal from sweetsleep which is used to both manipulate and then kill him.
• The Citadel may also be a Rat Cook.

Tyrion & Samwell Are The Riddlers of The Sphinx

• Tyrion and Sam may be the riddlers of the Sphinx.
• Tyrion’s is missing a nose like the Egyptian Sphinx and his riddle is where do whores go.
• Sam is the one posing the riddles about the riddler and is thus The Riddler.

Beyond Horrible: The Meaning of “The Dornishman’s Wife”

• The song doesn’t mean what we think it means.
• It is a song about the Long Night.

Aemon Targaryen: The Icedragon Knight

• Jon’s true name is Aemon. He will come back othered.
• Jon becomes Aemon the Icedragonknight atop Winter the icedragon.

Fire, Ice and Sea: The Three Heads of The Dragon Revealed

• The three heads of the dragon are fire, ice and sea dragons.

Fire and Bloodwyrms 

• Dany is blood of the wyrm.

The Seven Children

• The squirrel people of the forest in Bran’s cave are named after the Seven gods.
• The Old Gods are The New.
• The Seven and the Old Gods are the same religion.

We Are The World… We Are The Children

• Children grow up to become men.

Tormund Giantsbane: Husband to She-Bears

• Tormund may have slept with Alysane Mormont either in human form or if she skinchanged into a bear.
• He is the father of Alysane’s two cubs.

unOberyn Star-Eyes Martell

• Oberyn Martell is Simeon Star-Eyes

Maury Povich and The Baratheon Tapestries.

• The Baratheon Tapestries are like Ned’s book of family lineages to show that Myrcella and Tommen are bastards because they don’t have black hair.

Nymeria And Her 10,000 Wolves

• Nymeria will lead a pack of wolves at the Wall. They may fight ice spiders.

Did The Red Meteor Cause The Long Night?

• This post was the basis for my Hammerhorn of The Waters post.

The Others Are Not The True Enemy

• The gods are the enemy, not the Others.
• The gods are those who have eaten of both the tree of knowledge and the tree of eternal life.
• Dany is a god and thus “the enemy”, per se.
• This will be fifty shades of greyscale: beyond good and evil. All sides in the conflict will have just reasons for their unjust actions.
• This post builds from the Garden of Edenos.

unCivil War for The Dawn

• The Long Night will echo the battles between the “Greystarks”, Starks and Bolton’s as it did previously.

The Purpose of Ice Spiders

• Spiders climb Walls.

R’hllor and The Lord of Light Revealed. They Are Different People. 

• Bloodraven is R’hllor and Jamie is the Lord of Light.

Brave Arya Stark: A Song To Make Us Weep

• Arya is Brave Danny Flint

Mad-Axe Revealed

• unWill will be back.

Jafer Flowers Is… 

• Gennifer Flowers

11 hours ago, The Fattest Leech said:

I always assumed his minion was honored as Lemore. But you could be more right than I. Nice!

You are right. Lenore is the Many-Faced-Minion.

Laenore Velaryon is an homage to GRRM's minion Lenore. https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Laenor_Velaryon

I found a nod to Shakespeare in ASOIAF:

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” -A Dance with Dragons - Bran III

Which was a nod to:

“Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never taste of death but once” -Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene II

Snarks are an homage to Louis Caroll's "The Hunting of the Snark"

Snarks are "distinguishing those that have feathers, and bite" and "from those that have whiskers, and scratch." 

I was mercilessly mocked for it in 2015 but here we are.

IceBrandon has come.

On 2/4/2017 at 10:23 AM, Lost Melnibonean said:

"Lyra and Jory are with our mother."

Jory is short for Jorelle. Jor-El and Lara were Superman's parents. 

This makes me happy

Gilbert of the Vines, the founder of House Redwyne is a reference to the 1993 movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

According to a SSM, In 2008 GRRM said he wanted to write about Baldwin VI "the Leper" King of Jerusalem:

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GRRM: Would like to write about leper king of Jerusalem - has a lot of empathy for his problems and it’s a fascinating exercise to try to get into his mind. Creation of a character who is not like yourself is very difficult. You have to be able to project yourself into these different kinds of people.

Source: http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/2724 

 

 

 

I think JonCon pays homage to Baldwin VI "the Leper" that GRRM wanted to write about so much.

8 minutes ago, Lost Melnibonean said:

The second link you posted suggests that there is no Mountains of the Moon. Rather is suggests that a man in ancient times had claimed to have discovered the source of the Nile in a range of mountains, which the local inhabitants called the Mountains of the Moon for their snow caps. 

It exists as a reference. 

God's Eye is a lake acting as a moat and I think it is an homage to Larry Niven author of the 1975 book The Mote in God's Eye.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye

It was listed as one of the 100 best sci-fi books of all time. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books 

I also think Tywin's sidewhiskers plays homage to Issac Asimov, who through like 4 marriages is a half stepcousin six times removed.

5 hours ago, Imp Beyond the Wall said:

But Ned was with Stag Party Bob in the Vale not at Winterfell.  

Wasn't that Ned, Benjen, Lyanna and Brandon?

 

Side-wiskers make it seem more like a young Rodrik Cassel

9 hours ago, DJE said:

I think he freed Viserion

That's what I thought.

This episode basically all but confirmed his Targy-ness. You can play the mental gymastics that they were on a hunger strike, but not why they didn't burn him.

I think the guy who told Ned to give him another go is a young Robert Baratheon.

Hodor's name: "Wachu talkin' bout Willis?"

Which dragon did Tyrion free first?

Endgame of Thrones

https://endgameofthrones.com/

I think Ser Shadrich the Mad Mouse is an homage to Mighty Mouse.

From the wiki:

"Ser Shadrich, known as Shadrich of the Shady Glen and the Mad Mouse, is a hedge knight. His coat of arms is a large white mouse with red eyes on bendy brown and blue

Now, take a look at the iconic intro pic off Mighty Mouse

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Superraton.jpg 

Red, brown, blue and bendy, check, check and check.

The explanation for the colors and the design is because "the brown is for the lands he has crossed and the blue the rivers."

Now look at the intro to Mighty Mouse

Mister Trouble never hangs around
When he hears this mighty sound
"Here I come to save the day!"
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way!

Yessir, when there is a wrong to right
Mighty Mouse will join the fight
On the sea or on the land
He gets the situation well in hand!

So, though we are in danger, we never despair
'Cause we know that where there's danger he is there
He is there, on the land, on the sea, in the air!

We're not worryin' at all
We're just listenin' for his call
"Here I come to save the day!"
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way!

We're not worryin' at all
We're just listenin' for his call
"Here I come to save the day!"
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way!

Here is Andy Kaufman's iconic rendition