Dany, AA, lightbringer, waking the dragon, and the rest.

[chrisdaw]

An attempt to try and piece together the foreshadowing of some of the most major prophesies. There will be a lot of Dany, Jon, Euron and some Drogo, but it's turned out it's mainly about Drogon. Why this would be the case is pretty simple, he's going to be the only dragon to survive until the War for the Dawn. Rhaegal will probably go down with Aegon, and die. Viserion dying at the God's Eye though Tyrion will survive him. However it happens, they will both die, and so everything will hinge on Drogon, but, Drogon will become corrupted.

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A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness ...

Dany will meet Jon. Dany will end up in the north with Jon. She will learn of the threat of the Others, but she will not be in possession of Drogon to fight them with. Known to her or not, Drogon will be at Dragonstone. Free dragons just tend to gravitate there for whatever reason, and it's blatantly foreshadowed in ADWD.
 

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The hill loomed larger down here. Dany had taken to calling it Dragonstone, after the ancient citadel where she'd been born ...

He had dwelt there for some time, Dany had realized when she first saw the hill. The air smelled of ash, every rock and tree in sight was scorched and blackened, the ground strewn with burned and broken bones, yet it had been home to him.

Dany knew the lure of home ...

She would sooner have returned to Meereen on dragon's wings, to be sure. But that was a desire Drogon did not seem to share ...

And no matter how far the dragon flew each day, come nightfall some instinct drew him home to Dragonstone.

 

To fight the Others, to save the world, she will need to go to Dragonstone to get Drogon who has gone there instinctively of his own accord.

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“To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.”

She's in the north, to go north to fight the Others she must go south to get Drogon. When south, in about KL, she must then go east to get Drogon to go back west and fight. It's a bit of wit, the continuation of a theme, that it's all a matter of where she starts from, where she's standing, as with many things in the series it's a matter of perspective. I think best summarised in one of Jon's and Ygritte's first conversations.

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"Bael the Bard made it," said Ygritte. "He was King-beyond-the-Wall a long time back. All the free folk know his songs, but might be you don't sing them in the south."

"Winterfell's not in the south," Jon objected.

"Yes it is. Everything below the Wall's south to us."

He had never thought of it that way. "I suppose it's all in where you're standing."

"Aye," Ygritte agreed. "It always is."

 

To go forward she will need to go back, back south and back to Dragonstone, where she was born.

So she goes to Dragonstone where Drogon is.

On Dragonstone lots of things are going to happen.

Dragonstone will erupt, like the Doom of Valyria.

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“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.”

The seas will go dry, literally.

The mountains will sway and fall or explode and their ashen earth fall to earth.

Dany will give birth.

Drogon will return to her. Drogo is Drogon now, Drogo died and went into the pyre, a living Drogon came out the pyre. Drogon is Drogo in spirit.

I do not know what order it will happen or what will start it off. Maybe Bran calls down the hammer of waters, drawing water from the eastern sea to flood part of Westeros and that kick starts the chain of events. Perhaps someone blows a horn, waking giants from the earth, causing earthquakes, seismic activity that sees Dragonstone erupt, and rents in the ocean floor drain the sea. Perhaps it will all be left ambiguous.

But the effects of it all are in there.

Dragonstone will erupt, spewing smoke and ash into the air.

The seas will run dry around Dragonstone, and what will be left will be the salted sea floor.

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When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

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and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.”

And there Dany will give birth, her child born amidst salt and smoke. And Drogon will wake from stone and be as he was.

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"A trader from Qarth once told me that dragons came from the moon," blond Doreah said ...

"The moon?"

"He told me the moon was an egg, Khaleesi," the Lysene girl said. "Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire from the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return."

The two Dothraki girls giggled and laughed. "You are foolish strawhead slave," Irri said. "Moon is no egg. Moon is god, woman wife of sun. It is known."

 

Moon was both egg and wife. The sun and moon, Dany and Drogo, they kissed (bedded) and from their union was born dragons. It will happen again, the sun and moon will kiss, and then the dragon(s) will return.

Dany will have been pregnant a very specific time.

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“A burning sword,” corrected Davos.

“Burnt,” said Salladhor Saan, “and be glad of that, my friend. Do you know the tale of the forging of Lightbringer? I shall tell it to you. It was a time when darkness lay heavy on the world. To oppose it, the hero must have a hero’s blade, oh, like none that had ever been. And so for thirty days and thirty nights Azor Ahai labored sleepless in the temple, forging a blade in the sacred fires. Heat and hammer and fold, heat and hammer and fold, oh, yes, until the sword was done. Yet when he plunged it into water to temper the steel it burst asunder.

“Being a hero, it was not for him to shrug and go in search of excellent grapes such as these, so again he began. The second time it took him fifty days and fifty nights, and this sword seemed even finer than the first. Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast’s red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he must do.

“A hundred days and a hundred nights he labored on the third blade, and as it glowed white-hot in the sacred fires, he summoned his wife. ‘Nissa Nissa’ he said to her, for that was her name, ‘bare your breast, and know that I love you best of all that is in this world.’ She did this thing, why I cannot say, and Azor Ahai thrust the smoking sword through her living heart. It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel. Such is the tale of the forging of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.

 

Dany will have been pregnant 30 days + 50 + 100 = 180 days total. 26 weeks. Too soon, even babies born nowadays at 26 weeks face great danger. But, it's right on the edge, touch and go. A dragon queen giving birth to a premature baby on Dragonstone has happened before.

A wiki quote.

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Rhaenyra was on Dragonstone awaiting the birth of her sixth child. The Green conspirators in King's Landing ensured that the news did not reach her until after all her supporters in the Red Keep were dead or imprisoned, and Aegon II's coronation had already occurred. When news did reach her, she went into a black fury and went into early labor, producing a deformed, stillborn daughter.

Dany's child will be born live though not like to live long, sadly, but it doesn't need to. Melisandre got a lot right, the place of birth, Dragonstone. That dragons would wake from stone. And before that will happen, a great sacrifice of kings blood will be required. Her child is the sacrifice.

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Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he must do.

Azor Ahai knew what he had to do. So will Dany, because she's danced this danced before. She knows what it takes to wake dragons. The price. She always knew.

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Ser Jorah had killed her son, Dany knew. He had done what he did for love and loyalty, yet he had carried her into a place no living man should go and fed her baby to the darkness. He knew it too; the grey face, the hollow eyes, the limp. “The shadows have touched you too, Ser Jorah,” she told him. The knight made no reply. Dany turned to the godswife. “You warned me that only death could pay for life. I thought you meant the horse.”

“No,” Mirri Maz Duur said. “That was a lie you told yourself. You knew the price.”

 

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To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.”

To go forward, she must go back, back to where she doesn't want to, back to Rhaego. Back beneath that shadow of death, the shadows on the tent wall,

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“The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord,” Mirri said. “Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.”

to call forth lightbringer. To wake dragons from stone.

Dany doesn't want to, part of her doesn't want to. Understandably. Because she knows what it's going to require.

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His fingers brushed lightly over her budding breasts and tightened on a nipple. "You will not fail me tonight. If you do, it will go hard for you. You don't want to wake the dragon, do you?" His fingers twisted her, the pinch cruelly hard through the rough fabric of her tunic. "Do you?"

"No," Dany said, meekly.

No, she doesn't want to wake the dragon. She is scared, it's a cruel thing.

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There are no more dragons, Dany thought, staring at her brother, though she did not dare say it aloud.

Yet that night she dreamt of one. Viserys was hitting her, hurting her. She was naked, clumsy with fear. She ran from him, but her body seemed thick and ungainly. He struck her again. She stumbled and fell. "You woke the dragon," he screamed as he kicked her. "You woke the dragon, you woke the dragon." Her thighs were slick with blood. She closed her eyes and whimpered. As if in answer, there was a hideous ripping sound and the crackling of some great fire. When she looked again, Viserys was gone, great columns of flame rose all around, and in the midst of them was the dragon. It turned its great head slowly. When its molten eyes found hers, she woke, shaking and covered with a fine sheen of sweat. She had never been so afraid ...

Her body is thick and ungainly, she is pregnant. Blood drips down her thigh, she is in labor. She'd never been so afraid. She woke the dragon.

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Wings shadowed her fever dreams.

“You don’t want to wake the dragon, do you?”

She was walking down a long hall beneath high stone arches. She could not look behind her, must not look behind her. There was a door ahead of her, tiny with distance, but even from afar, she saw that it was painted red. She walked faster, and her bare feet left bloody footprints on the stone.

“You don’t want to wake the dragon, do you?”

She saw sunlight on the Dothraki sea, the living plain, rich with the smells of earth and death. Wind stirred the grasses, and they rippled like water. Drogo held her in strong arms, and his hand stroked her sex and opened her and woke that sweet wetness that was his alone, and the stars smiled down on them, stars in a daylight sky. “Home,” she whispered as he entered her and filled her with his seed, but suddenly the stars were gone, and across the blue sky swept the great wings, and the world took flame.

“ . . . don’t want to wake the dragon, do you?”

Ser Jorah’s face was drawn and sorrowful. “Rhaegar was the last dragon,” he told her. He warmed translucent hands over a glowing brazier where stone eggs smouldered red as coals. One moment he was there and the next he was fading, his flesh colorless, less substantial than the wind. “The last dragon,” he whispered, thin as a wisp, and was gone. She felt the dark behind her, and the red door seemed farther away than ever.

“ . . . don’t want to wake the dragon, do you?”

Viserys stood before her, screaming. “The dragon does not beg, slut. You do not command the dragon. I am the dragon, and I will be crowned.” The molten gold trickled down his face like wax, burning deep channels in his flesh. “I am the dragon and I will be crowned!” he shrieked, and his fingers snapped like snakes, biting at her nipples, pinching, twisting, even as his eyes burst and ran like jelly down seared and blackened cheeks.

“ . . . don’t want to wake the dragon . . . ”

The red door was so far ahead of her, and she could feel the icy breath behind, sweeping up on her. If it caught her she would die a death that was more than death, howling forever alone in the darkness. She began to run.

“ . . . don’t want to wake the dragon . . . ”

She could feel the heat inside her, a terrible burning in her womb. Her son was tall and proud, with Drogo’s copper skin and her own silver-gold hair, violet eyes shaped like almonds. And he smiled for her and began to lift his hand toward hers, but when he opened his mouth the fire poured out. She saw his heart burning through his chest, and in an instant he was gone, consumed like a moth by a candle, turned to ash. She wept for her child, the promise of a sweet mouth on her breast, but her tears turned to steam as they touched her skin.

The voice in the the fever dreams knows. It's her thoughts, and it knows what waking the dragon means, what it requires. It's saying to her, you don't really want to do this, do you?

Dany interprets the red door as safety, happiness, home. It is what she makes of it, but on the subconscious level and in this sequence it's not home, it's her destiny, the saviour of Westeros, the last dragon. And to pass through it she's going to have to make the sacrifice. The voice knows this, it sees her doing this, travelling the path in life that leads there, and in her dreams running towards it. That's why it's saying to her, you don't really want to do this ... do you? It's trying to pull her away.

The wording changes when Viserys dies. A sacrifice is made. It's no longer a question, it's imploring her now, don't do this.

Then comes the Others. The icy breath, the darkness, a fate worse than death. She runs from it. This is what pushes her to the scene of Rhaego's death. To the sacrifice.

The wording changes again after she is shown her Rhaego, burning, his heart devoured by fire. The decision is made. No longer is she fighting, no longer does she not want to wake the dragon. It's done.

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“ . . . want to wake the dragon . . . ”

Ghosts lined the hallway, dressed in the faded raiment of kings. In their hands were swords of pale fire. They had hair of silver and hair of gold and hair of platinum white, and their eyes were opal and amethyst, tourmaline and jade. “Faster,” they cried, “faster, faster.” She raced, her feet melting the stone wherever they touched. “Faster!” the ghosts cried as one, and she screamed and threw herself forward. A great knife of pain ripped down her back, and she felt her skin tear open and smelled the stench of burning blood and saw the shadow of wings. And Daenerys Targaryen flew.

“ . . . wake the dragon . . . ”

The door loomed before her, the red door, so close, so close, the hall was a blur around her, the cold receding behind. And now the stone was gone and she flew across the Dothraki sea, high and higher, the green rippling beneath, and all that lived and breathed fled in terror from the shadow of her wings. She could smell home, she could see it, there, just beyond that door, green fields and great stone houses and arms to keep her warm, there. She threw open the door.

“ . . . the dragon . . . ”

And saw her brother Rhaegar, mounted on a stallion as black as his armor. Fire glimmered red through the narrow eye slit of his helm. “The last dragon,” Ser Jorah’s voice whispered faintly. “The last, the last.” Dany lifted his polished black visor. The face within was her own.

 

Want to wake the dragon. Wake the dragon. The dragon. It becomes not a question, not resistance, but an affirmation. And the dragon wakes. She makes the sacrifice, she passes through the door, and she becomes the last dragon.

 

So, in summary, a Drogonless Dany goes north, meets Jon and learns of the Others. Comes to the conclusion she needs to go back and get Drogon to fight the Others. A now pregnant Dany then goes south, then east, to dragonstone in search of Drogon. While she is on Dragonstone, a catastrophe occurs, Dragonstone erupts, the sea runs dry, and she gives birth. The child is sacrifice, Drogon wakes from stone, returns to her, and she flies out of there primed to do battle with the Others. Or someone does ...

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Euron and the betrayal for blood. The beginning of what will be wrong with Drogon, why he will need 'waking'.

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“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.”

I interpret this to be about Drogon. Drogo's spirit became Drogon's in the pyre.

Dany says 'when will he be as he was?' I believe what this is all about is Drogon returning to the way he was. The way he is now. So something is going to happen to Drogon, between now and then, he will be corrupted, and Dany is going to want/need him back the way he was.

So, what's going to happen to Drogon? In a word, Euron.

Generally what Euron is going to do doesn't need foreshadowing, he has straight up said what he's going to do. He is going to use the dragon horn to control dragons and make himself king. And he wants to marry Dany. And I think he's going to succeed.

Foreshadowing for the Ironborn having Drogon as a weapon below.

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Most famous of all was Balon Blackskin, who fought with an axe in his left and a hammer in his right. No weapon made of man could harm him, it was said; swords glanced off and left no mark, and axes shattered against his skin.

Did such men ever truly walk the earth?

Black skin. Deflects steel. No such man has ever walked the earth, but such dragons have flown. (Axes shattering against his skin might mean Drogon kills/defeats Victarion.)

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in such numbers that the men of the greenlands told each other that the ironborn were demons risen from some watery hell, protected by fell sorceries and possessed of foul black weapons that drank the very souls of those they slew.

Euron aligns also with the Bloodstone Emperor.

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When the daughter of the Opal Emperor succeeded him as the Amethyst Empress, her envious younger brother cast her down and slew her, proclaiming himself the Bloodstone Emperor and beginning a reign of terror. He practiced dark arts, torture, and necromancy, enslaved his people, took a tiger-woman for his bride, feasted on human flesh, and cast down the true gods to worship a black stone that had fallen from the sky. (Many scholars count the Bloodstone Emperor as the first High Priest of the sinister Church of Starry Wisdom, which persists to this day in many port cities throughout the known world).

 

In the annals of the Further East, it was the Blood Betrayal, as his usurpation is named, that ushered in the age of darkness called the Long Night. Despairing of the evil that had been unleashed on earth, the Maiden-Made-of-Light turned her back upon the world, and the Lion of Night came forth in all his wroth to punish the wickedness of men.

Amethyst Emperor was a woman, but trade her for Balon and you basically have Euron. But it's double foreshadowing. Amethyst are purple, and Euron describes Dany's eyes as Amethyst's. The Amethyst Empress is Dany, the Blood Emperors betrayal of her foreshadows Euron's betrayal of Dany.

He does awful things yes yes, and then, he worships a black stone fallen from the sky. Black stone from the sky = Drogon. Or, it may be his black horn, symbolically the two are interchangeable, they mean the same thing essentially.

He marries a tiger-woman. His blood betrayal is blamed for the Long Night.

Euron is also the Grey King. As Lost Melnibonean posted.

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On the crown of the hill four-and-forty monstrous stone ribs rose from the earth like the trunks of great pale trees. The sight made Aeron's heart beat faster. Nagga had been the first sea dragon, the mightiest ever to rise from the waves. She fed on krakens and leviathans and drowned whole islands in her wrath, yet the Grey King had slain her and the Drowned God had changed her bones to stone so that men might never cease to wonder at the courage of the first of kings. Nagga's ribs became the beams and pillars of his longhall, just as her jaws became his throne. For a thousand years and seven he reigned here, Aeron recalled. Here he took his mermaid wife and planned his wars against the Storm God. From here he ruled both stone and salt, wearing robes of woven seaweed and a tall pale crown made from Nagga's teeth.

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But that was in the dawn of days, when mighty men still dwelt on earth and sea. The hall had been warmed by Nagga's living fire, which the Grey had made his thrall.

The Grey King didn't just slay Nagga. He made his throne from her, a hall from which to rule, used her heat, her fire. He made her fire his thrall. Euron makes his plea, voices his ability and plan to bind dragons to his will and is declared King of the Iron Islands in front of Nagga's ribs.

A random piece of foreshadowing for the Ironborn reaping reward from Drogon.
 

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The Isle of Cedars. Where were these cedars? Drowned four hundred years ago, it seemed. Victarion had gone ashore a dozen times, hunting fresh meat, and had yet to see a cedar.

The girlish master Euron had inflicted upon him back in Westeros claimed this place had once been called 'the Isle of a Hundred Battles,' but the men who had fought those battles had all gone to dust centuries ago. The Isle of Monkeys, that's what they should call it. There were pigs as well: the biggest, blackest boars that any ironborn had ever seen and plenty of squealing piglets in the brush, bold creatures that had no fear of man. They were learning, though. The larders of the Iron Fleet were filling up with smoked hams, salted pork, and bacon.

 

The biggest blackest boars that don't fear man represent Drogon. The Ironborn profit from them, have their fill of them. As the Ironborn will profit from Drogon. The boars are coming to fear man, loosely how Drogon will come to be hurt by Euron. Note monkey, smoke and salt, that's not for now though.

But Euron is not going to kill Dany and take Drogon from her. He is going to marry Dany, that is his plan afterall, and he's going to succeed. And then trick Drogon from her, betray her.

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A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly.

. . . mother of dragons, bride of fire . . .

This is of course the best foreshadowing for the union, and it is overwhelming.

Daario was of course a Stormcrow. The Crow's Eye claims to be the first and the last storm. She'll be drawn to him like Daario.

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. . . three mounts must you ride . . . one to bed and one to dread and one to love . . . 

Euron is the mount to dread.

The Bloodstone Emperor married a tiger-woman. The Grey King married a mermaid, fish-woman, so that his children may live on land or in water. I believe this is soft foreshadowing, Euron is going to take a dragon-woman, so he can live on land, and fly.

Now, the kings of House Hoare. In TWOIAF they come under the heading, The Black Blood.

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Archmaester Hake tells us that the kings of House Hoare were, "black of hair, black of eye, and black of heart." Their foes claimed their blood was black as well, darkened by the "Andal taint," for many of the early Hoare kings took maidens of that ilk to wife. True Ironborn had salt water in their veins, the priests of the Drowned Gods proclaimed; the black-blooded Hoares were false kings, ungodly usurpers who must be cast down.

Euron is black, symbolically and literally in many ways, his patched eye is black and that's how Moqorro sees him in his visions. Aeron despises him and his kingship because he believes him godless. When Euron takes an Andal wife, Dany, the foreshadowing will grow deeper.

Now for trickery and betrayal.

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Many tried to do just that over the centuries, as Haereg relates in some detail. None succeeded. What the Hoares lacked in valor they made up for in cunning and cruelty.

Someone has already tried marrying and tricking Dany out of a dragon.

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"Forgive me, my queen, but it is your dragons he dreams of."

"Xaro assures me that in Qarth, man and woman each retain their own property after they are wed. The dragons are mine." She smiled as Drogon came hopping and flapping across the marble floor to crawl up on the cushion beside her.

"He tells it true as far as it goes, but there's one thing he failed to mention. The Qartheen have a curious wedding custom, my queen. On the day of their union, a wife may ask a token of love from her husband. Whatsoever she desires of his worldly goods, he must grant. And he may ask the same of her. One thing only may be asked, but whatever is named may not be denied."

"One thing," she repeated. "And it may not be denied?"

"With one dragon, Xaro Xhoan Daxos would rule this city, but one ship will further our cause but little."

Xaro failed. But Euron is not Xaro, he likes women, is attractive, comes with the whole Iron Fleet and Ironborn, has a dragon horn and is especially charming and cunning.

Dany thinks about a horn, her need for one.

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The dragonlords of old Valyria had controlled their mounts with binding spells and sorcerous horns. Daenarys made do with a word and whip. Mounted on the dragon's back, she oft felt as if she were learning to ride all over again. When she whipped ...

Sometimes it did not seem to matter where she struck him though; sometimes he went where he would and took her with him. Neither whip nor words would turn Drogon if he did not wish to be turned. The whip annoyed him more than it hurt him ...

Euron intends to bind the dragons to his will with the horn. The horn reads.

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I am Dragonbinder ... No mortal man should sound me and live ... Blood for fire, fire for blood.

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. . . three treasons will you know . . . once for blood and once for gold and once for love . . .

The Bloodstone Emperor's betrayal was called the Blood Betrayal.

Some more Grey King.

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It was the Grey King who brought fire to the earth by taunting the Storm God until he lashed down with a thunderbolt, setting a tree ablaze.

The Storm God is Dany, the Stormborn. Euron is going trick Dany into giving him fire, Dragons, Drogon.

How Euron is going to make Drogon his thrall I'm not entirely sure, got a few theories. But I think part of it is he's going to make a wedding gift of the horn, and if we recall.

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That was his brother's way. Euron's gifts are poisoned, the captain had to remind himself.

And so it will prove to be.

 

In summary, Euron and Dany marry, Euron somehow tricks Dany out of Drogon.

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After Euron has done his treason for blood and is gone, Drogon will be left in a state that is of not much use to Dany, a state in which he can not be used to fight the Others. What precisely is that state I will theorise on later below, but Drogon in this state is symbolised in two ways, stone and without fire. It will be this state from which Dany must wake him, correct him, fix him, wake him from stone, return him to the way he was, return his fire.

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On the crown of the hill four-and-forty monstrous stone ribs rose from the earth like the trunks of great pale trees. The sight made Aeron's heart beat faster. Nagga had been the first sea dragon, the mightiest ever to rise from the waves. She fed on krakens and leviathans and drowned whole islands in her wrath, yet the Grey King had slain her and the Drowned God had changed her bones to stone so that men might never cease to wonder at the courage of the first of kings

The Drowned God turned Nagga's bones to stone. As per the above Nagga represents Drogon. What Euron does to Drogon will turn him to stone.

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When the daughter of the Opal Emperor succeeded him as the Amethyst Empress, her envious younger brother cast her down and slew her, proclaiming himself the Bloodstone Emperor and beginning a reign of terror. He practiced dark arts, torture, and necromancy, enslaved his people, took a tiger-woman for his bride, feasted on human flesh, and cast down the true gods to worship a black stone that had fallen from the sky.

The Bloodstone Emperor, a Euron parallel, worships a black stone from the sky. Drogon made stone.

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When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

The dragon must be woken from stone. Mel has seen it in her flames and read it in an ancient prophecy. It's Drogon, having been turned to stone, and he must be awakened.

Dany's fever dream after birth Rhaego in the shadow tent, begins with this.

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Wings shadowed her fever dreams.

“You don’t want to wake the dragon, do you?”

She was walking down a long hall beneath high stone arches. She could not look behind her, must not look behind her. There was a door ahead of her, tiny with distance, but even from afar, she saw that it was painted red. She walked faster, and her bare feet left bloody footprints on the stone.

 

Now this harkens back to Nagga, which is symbolic of stone Drogon.

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Nagga had been the first sea dragon, the mightiest ever to rise from the waves. She fed on krakens and leviathans and drowned whole islands in her wrath, yet the Grey King had slain her and the Drowned God had changed her bones to stone so that men might never cease to wonder at the courage of the first kings. Nagga's ribs became the beams and pillars of his longhall, just as her jaws became his throne.

Then her 'wake the dragon' fever dream progresses, the Long Night comes at her heels and Rhaego is sacrificed. Then comes the dragon.
 

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“ . . . want to wake the dragon . . . ”

Ghosts lined the hallway, dressed in the faded raiment of kings. In their hands were swords of pale fire. They had hair of silver and hair of gold and hair of platinum white, and their eyes were opal and amethyst, tourmaline and jade. “Faster,” they cried, “faster, faster.” She raced, her feet melting the stone wherever they touched. “Faster!” the ghosts cried as one, and she screamed and threw herself forward. A great knife of pain ripped down her back, and she felt her skin tear open and smelled the stench of burning blood and saw the shadow of wings. And Daenerys Targaryen flew.

“ . . . wake the dragon . . . ”

The door loomed before her, the red door, so close, so close, the hall was a blur around her, the cold receding behind. And now the stone was gone and she flew across the Dothraki sea, high and higher, the green rippling beneath, and all that lived and breathed fled in terror from the shadow of her wings. She could smell home, she could see it, there, just beyond that door, green fields and great stone houses and arms to keep her warm, there. She threw open the door.

 

She melts away the stone. It goes and she flies.

It's not specifically said, but she melts it with blood. It starts with her leaving bloody footprints on the stone, Rhaego is sacrificed in fire, and her blood now burns, and where her feet then touch the stone it melts away.

Now, the stone Drogon that Euron makes. This I propose is the great stone beast.

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From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire.

It's named a beast and not a dragon so people are sceptical about it being a dragon. Drogon has explicitly referred to as a beast and foreshadowed by beasts variously, but I don't think it's just a term used to obscure that it's Drogon. I think there's a point to it, what Euron does to him, makes him other than a dragon. A false dragon, with false flame, shadow flame.

This plays into one of the other Lightbringer lies Dany must slay.

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Glowing like sunset, a red sword was raised in the hand of a blue-eyed king who cast no shadow.

If we recall Maester Aemon's whole problem with Stannis' sword is that it produces no heat. This is the lie Dany must slay, that this fireless sword is not really Lightbringer, as will be her fireless dragon.

When MMD brings back Drogo he is a shadow of himself, he is without fire.

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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.”

He is a pale imitation of himself. He likes the sun, the fire he lost. Dany does not ask when will he return, she asks when he will be as he was. It's foreshadowing Drogon, foreshadowing Drogon losing his fire, which Dany must return.

Note his longing for the sun, and recall the story about the creation of dragons.

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"The moon?"

"He told me the moon was an egg, Khaleesi," the Lysene girl said. "Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire from the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return."

 

He is longing for his fire, and the fire comes from the sun. Drogon will be without his fire, he will need to drink from the sun.

The Black Pearls are courtesan's descended from a king Aegon. Black dragons. They are Drogon parallels. Arya has a run in with the current Black Pearl.

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"The Black Pearl," she told them. Merry claimed the Black Pearl was the most famous courtesan of all. "She's descended from the dragons, that one,"

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What did she say to you Cat?"

"She said 'I'll take three cockles,' and 'Do you have any hot sauce, little one?" the girl had answered.

 

The Black Pearl wants hot sauce. Drogon will need back his fire.

 

Back to what Euron does to Drogon, the corruption.

The Bloodstone Emperor, Euron.

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the Bloodstone Emperor and beginning a reign of terror. He practiced dark arts, torture, and necromancy, enslaved his people, took a tiger-woman for his bride, feasted on human flesh, and cast down the true gods to worship a black stone that had fallen from the sky.

Euron has enslaved necromancers, so dark arts, torture and necromancy is all par for the course. But the bolded is the most important.

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in such numbers that the men of the greenlands told each other that the ironborn were demons risen from some watery hell, protected by fell sorceries and possessed of foul black weapons that drank the very souls of those they slew.

Again the bolded.

Now, Euron is dead in this vision.

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A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly.

Dead and Grey. Grey like the Grey King, who made a thrall of Naggas fire.

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The hall had been warmed by Nagga's living fire, which the Grey had made his thrall.

Grey, dead, and remember, stone.

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From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire.

All three go together, overtly, as Val best explains.

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And the daughter ... her face ..."

"Greyscale."

"The grey death is what we call it."

 

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"The maesters may believe what they wish. Ask a woods witch if you would know the truth. The grey death sleeps, only to wake again. The child is not clean!"

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You cannot leave them in the same tower as the dead girl."

Jon shook her hand away. "She is not dead."

"She is. Her mother cannot see it. Nor you, it seems. Yet death is there."

 

And, how greyscale works via Tyrion.

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He had heard it said that there were three good cures for greyscale: axe and sword and cleaver. Hacking off afflicted parts did sometimes stop the spread of the disease, Tyrion knew, but not always. Many a man had sacrificed one arm or foot, only to find the other going grey. Once that happened, hope was gone. Blindness was common when the stone reached the face. In the final stages the curse turned inward, to muscles, bones, and inner organs.

Blind, like Drogo. It spreads, devouring the flesh, like the Bloodstone Emperor was said to feast on human flesh. Bones turn to stone, like the Drowned God turned Nagga's. And when a dragon's innards turn to stone, one would assume they'd go cold, they'd stop breathing fire. A stone beast, breathing shadowflame.

And like the weapons the Ironborn were said to possess, possibly Stone Drogon will breathe greyscale, a foul black weapon that drinks souls.

 

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Glowing like sunset, a red sword was raised in the hand of a blue-eyed king who cast no shadow.

A cloth dragon swayed on poles amidst a cheering crowd.

From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire.

. . . mother of dragons, slayer of lies . . .

Now, like Stannis and his fake Lightbringer, and Aegon the fake dragon, stone Drogon is a lie Dany must slay. Which goes hand in hand with how Nagga's sacred fire is extinguished.

The Grey King made Nagga's fire his thrall, it wasn't he that snuffed it out, nor was it the Drowned God.

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The Storm God drowned Nagga's fire after the Grey King's death,

The Storm God did, after the Grey King died. Again, Storm God = Dany Stormborn. Dany will defeat/destroy/extinguish the corrupted fire of Stone Drogon that was Euron's thrall, after Euron returns to the sea.

Like she smothered a fireless Drogo.

It may be this is all foreshadowing for when she returns Drogon's fire, wakes him from stone, or it may be she does something to prevent him doing further corrupted Greyscale harm. Perhaps simply chaining him, maybe even killing him, then she'll really have to wake him.

Whatever, Drogon is going to be stuffed as a useful weapon to her, she'll want to fix it, and eventually she'll learn she really needs to fix it or Westeros is doomed come the Others. Before that though, she's going to start working out why Drogon has turned the way he did, how this dragon waking shit works.

She married Drogo, conceived a child by him, Drogo died, the child died, she saw him burn in her dream, maybe they burnt his body, dunno, but she did burn Drogo in the pyre, and from it were born her dragons and her particular dragon Drogon, with the fiery soul of Drogo.

She will marry Euron, and a queen must have a heir, so she will conceive a child by him. A dead child, a greyscale child, a monster. And the child will die, perhaps Euron too. He's dead anyway, and all he dreams of is flying, and he's not going to know unless he tries, as he explains in his seemingly single moment of sincerity.

So why not a second life as a dragon, supplanting Drogo in Drogon, a life fit for a king, as a dying Varamyr thought of stealing Ghost from Jon.

The great stone beast.

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From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire.

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"I can. You know nothing, Jon Snow." Val seized his arm. "I want the monster out of there. Him and his wet nurses. You cannot leave them in that same tower as the dead girl."

Don't leave the dead girl (greyscaled shireen) and the monster in the tower.

Maybe Euron gets around the whole having to die to infect Drogon's soul, with his cunning and horn, and he lives to ride him as well as half becomes him. I lean towards no though, that he's going all in. Getting Dany, pregnant with his child, Drogon and himself all on a tower, setting it on fire and blowing the horn or having Dany blow it. Maybe that's how he gets Dany to blow the horn, sets a tower she's in on fire, and so Dany blows it to call Drogon to save her. Anyway, Dany is going to miscarriage when that horn is blown or she's going to miscarriage and the horn will be blown, and whether he has to die for it or not, Drogon will be Euron's, his corrupted, stoned, blacked blooded shadow soul will supplant Drogo's inside the dragon. The blood betrayal, the treason for blood.

(Some comedy here, I think Summerhall would have worked, was going to work, but for the valour of the Lord Commander, Dunk saved baby Rhaegar from the flames and thus the second sacrifice was not met, no dragons. Perhaps Euron learns of the story from the citadel, perhaps even that's why he's going there, seeking information.)

And Dany is going to catch wind of how it happened.  Piece together how it went with Drogo and then with Euron. Conceive a child by Drogo, Drogo dies, child dies, Drogon = Drogo. Conceive a child by Euron, Euron dies, child dies, Drogon = Euron. It is as Mel has seen and has been saying.

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Two kings to wake the dragon. The father first, and then the son, so both die kings.

So, she needs to supplant Euron in Drogo, to wake the dragon again, cure Drogon of his stone and get him back his fire. Which means, she needs to at least get preggers again, she probably hasn't worked out the king and marriage part. So who the likely daddy? It can't just be anyone, she's trying to forge Lightbringer here, they need to have the fire of Drogo.
 

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“A burning sword,” corrected Davos.

“Burnt,” said Salladhor Saan, “and be glad of that, my friend. Do you know the tale of the forging of Lightbringer? I shall tell it to you. It was a time when darkness lay heavy on the world. To oppose it, the hero must have a hero’s blade, oh, like none that had ever been. And so for thirty days and thirty nights Azor Ahai labored sleepless in the temple, forging a blade in the sacred fires. Heat and hammer and fold, heat and hammer and fold, oh, yes, until the sword was done. Yet when he plunged it into water to temper the steel it burst asunder.

Those sacred fires are Dany's womb.

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She could feel the heat inside her, a terrible burning in her womb. Her son was tall and proud ...

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"You woke the dragon, you woke the dragon." Her thighs were slick with blood. She closed her eyes and whimpered. As if in answer, there was a hideous ripping sound and the crackling of some great fire. When she looked again, Viserys was gone, great columns of flame rose all around, and in the midst of them was the dragon.

To try to create Lightbringer AA first tried water. Dany's first attempt at this, I propose, is going to be with the last remaining Old Blood of Valyria.

The Lord of Waters, Aurane Waters.

But while he'll be pretty, he is no dragon, no more than pretty Daario. It will fail. She will miscarriage, barely a foetus. The Water will not temper Lightbringer. So she will try again.

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“Being a hero, it was not for him to shrug and go in search of excellent grapes such as these, so again he began. The second time it took him fifty days and fifty nights, and this sword seemed even finer than the first. Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast’s red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he must do.

Gerion? Nah. Lancel? Barely a lion. Jaime? Hmmmm. Maybe, though a dragon without a right wing wouldn't be a good flyer. Tyrion? Viserion's rider ... probably. But, though he might be a dragon, he's not the dragon. It will fail again. The child will last longer than Waters', but she will miscarriage and Drogon will not change.

By now, we're up to Dany's sixth attempt at bearing a child. Drogo, Daario, Euron, Waters and a lion. Which is fitting. From the wiki.

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At the time of her father's death, Rhaenyra was on Dragonstone awaiting the birth of her sixth child

And ofcourse, the last attempt, successful, Nissa Nissa.

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Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he must do.

“A hundred days and a hundred nights he labored on the third blade, and as it glowed white-hot in the sacred fires, he summoned his wife. ‘Nissa Nissa’ he said to her, for that was her name, ‘bare your breast, and know that I love you best of all that is in this world.’ She did this thing, why I cannot say, and Azor Ahai thrust the smoking sword through her living heart. It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel. Such is the tale of the forging of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.

The successful husbands/lovers, those that become Drogon, the mounts.

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Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars.

A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly.

A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness.

. . . mother of dragons, bride of fire . . .

Drogo, Euron and Jon. So north, to the wall or WF or wherever he is now, to the blood of her blood, the last dragon, Rhaegar's. Why is Jon Nissa Nissa? Well he's Rhaegar's son, that will probably be enough for Dany. And he's Jon, so really that's enough for us to go on. But, there's an explanation for why Jon will work where others failed. Dany's womb is Lightbringer's sacred flames, it burns hot brewing up a dragon, too hot for Waters' and a Lion's seed, the babes fail, come too quickly, consumed in the fire of Dany's womb. The blade needs something more, the Old Blood of Jon's mother, the ice, the cold. Maester Aemon to explain.

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Fire consumes, but cold preserves.

So ...

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. . . three mounts must you ride . . . one to bed and one to dread and one to love . . .

Drogo was love. Euron will be dread. And Jon will be to ... bed. This isn't a love story, well maybe she'll fall in love with him, but she's coming to Jon for one thing first and foremost. The fate of the world will depend upon Dany seducing Jon from his vows. And Jon will hold firm.

The whore Dancy made a bet with Marei that she could get Tyrion to choose her, or ...

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As the black-skinned girl led him up the stairs, she said, "Poor Dancy. She has a fortnight to get my lord to choose her. Otherwise she loses her black pearls to Marei."

Black pearls, again, = Drogon. Dancy = Dany. Marei = Euron. Dany must get her lord, Jon, her king actually, to choose (bed) her, or she loses Drogon to Euron.

Black pearls as Drogon is self explanatory.

Marei's description fits Euron. The solemness harks back to the grey corpse with a sad smile.

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Marie was a cool, pale, delicate girl Tyrion had noticed once or twice. Green eyes and porcelain skin, long straight silvery hair, very lovely, but too solemn by half.

Green is probably wildfire, used to set the tower the stone beast takes wing from aflame. But also, on the strength of this I'm going to predict Stone Drogon will turn green eyed.

Dancy's description however does not fit Dany.

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Tyrion had no doubt that Dancy would be a lively handful. She was pug nosed and bouncy, with freckles and a mane of thick red hair that tumbled down past her waist.

She's Ygritte.

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with a small round face, small hands, and a pug nose. Her shaggy mop of red hair stuck out in all directions.

And for good reason, but another little nod first.

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Two other girls sat playing at tiles before a leaded glass window. The freckles one wore a chain of blue flowers in her honeyed hair.

She's not named but we can tell it's Dancy based on the description. The blue flowers of course align with Dany's Mount/Jon vision, which we know to mean Jon via Lyanna's love of the flowers. And it means Bael the Bard's song, which I'll get to.

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A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness.

Honeyed hair, sweet air.

So, why does Dancy look like Ygritte when she's supposed to be Dany? Because Dany is going to cheat, she's going to glamour as Ygritte, Jon's love, and seduce Jon from his vows. And it will work.

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. . . three treasons will you know . . . once for blood and once for gold and once for love . . .

The treason for blood is Euron against Dany for Drogon, the blood betrayal as explained.

The treason for gold, maybe Tyrion, maybe Illyrio stealing Rhaegal for Aegon so he'd become the master of coin. I don't know, doesn't really matter.

The treason for love though, Dany will commit herself against Jon her king. Taking the appearance of his dead love to bed him.

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When he turned he saw Ygritte.

She stood beneath the scorched stones of the Lord Commander's Tower, cloaked in the darkness and in memory. The light of the moon was in her hair, her red hair kissed by fire. When he saw that, Jon's heart leapt into his mouth. "Ygritte," he said.

Melisandre appears to Jon as Ygritte. Later she uses Ygritte's line. Mel knows about Ygritte, what she means to him, and Mel is capable of appearing like Ygritte. She is also capable of making other people appear like someone they are not, as per Mance and Rattle.

Dancy, Dany, Mance, a little name association.

She doesn't know it yet, but this is what Mel has been waiting for, for however many centuries she's lingered around. To Jon, the purple eyed genocidal maniac aunt coming to him with crazy rantings about how he needs to fuck her to wake dragons, kings blood and other bizarre junk won't mean shit, and he won't be up for breaking any oaths on her account. To Mel however, Dany's arrival and rantings will make total sense, like music to her ears, and so, she'll help her get the leg over.

The ruby choker at the neck seems to be how it's done. When Jon first meets Ygritte there is the below scene, foreshadowing the choker. (and from there goes a whole load of foreshadowing with Stonesnake (Stone Drogon) and shadow cats (more Drogon) to feast on the dead, fires, the need to burn bodies and what not, that's for another reply). 

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"Ygritte." Her hand rubbed at her throat and came away bloody.

And she tells Jon the Bael the Bard song. What Bael did is essentially what Dany is coming to do. This is what the story is about.

Bael did not need a disguise but he used a false identity (the deceiver). He stole the blue flower of Winterfell, the daughter of Winterfell. The girl became pregnant. Dany will deceive, use a false identity and appearance, a glamour of Ygritte. With it she will 'steal' the blue WF flower, deceive Jon into bedding her. And she will become pregnant.

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[aryagonnakill#2]

You lost me with a lot of it, but I like the concept of mountains blowing in the wind being a volcanic eruption.

[Princess of Dragonflies]

I was with you all the way until the treason for love and Ygritte... I'm interested in knowing where you're headed with that one.