Things made out of Blue Crystal

[Gramse]

Inspired by this thread:

 

I found "Blue Crystal" to match some interesting objects

Quotes from all the books:

"The Other slid forward on silent feet. In its hand was a longsword like none that Will had ever seen. No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed almost to vanish when seen edge-on. There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing, a ghost-light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew it was sharper than any razor."

So the swords of the Others look like blue crystal.

 

"Finally, he looked north. He saw the Wall shining like blue crystal, and his bastard brother Jon sleeping alone in a cold bed, his skin growing pale and hard as the memory of all warmth fled from him. And he looked past the Wall, past endless forests cloaked in snow, past the frozen shore and the great blue-white rivers of ice and the dead plains where nothing grew or lived. North and north and north he looked, to the curtain of light at the end of the world, and then beyond that curtain. He looked deep into the heart of winter, and then he cried out, afraid, and the heat of his tears burned on his cheeks."

The wall looks like blue crystal

 

"When they reached the door—a tall oval mouth, set in a wall fashioned in the likeness of a human face—the smallest dwarf Dany had ever seen was waiting on the threshold. He stood no higher than her knee, his faced pinched and pointed, snoutish, but he was dressed in delicate livery of purple and blue, and his tiny pink hands held a silver tray. Upon it rested a slender crystal glass filled with a thick blue liquid: shade of the evening, the wine of warlocks. "Take and drink," urged Pyat Pree."

Shade of the evening is served in a crystal glass with a blue liquid. 

 

"Outside the day was bright and cloudless. The sun had returned to the sky after a fortnight's absence, and to the south the Wall rose blue-white and glittering. There was a saying Jon had heard from the older men at Castle Black: the Wall has more moods than Mad King Aerys, they'd say, or sometimes, the Wall has more moods than a woman. On cloudy days it looked to be white rock. On moonless nights it was as black as coal. In snowstorms it seemed carved of snow. But on days like this, there was no mistaking it for anything but ice. On days like this the Wall shimmered bright as a septon's crystal, every crack and crevasse limned by sunlight, as frozen rainbows danced and died behind translucent ripples. On days like this the Wall was beautiful."

Jon describes the wall looking blue-white like a septon's crystal

 

"Of all the queer and fabulous denizens of the Shivering Sea, however, the greatest are the ice dragons. These colossal beasts, many times larger than the dragons of Valyria, are said to be made of living ice, with eyes of pale blue crystal and vast translucent wings through which the moon and stars can be glimpsed as they wheel across the sky. Whereas common dragons (if any dragon can truly be said to be common) breathe flame, ice dragons supposedly breathe cold, a chill so terrible that it can freeze a man solid in half a heartbeat."

And lastly from TWOIAF ice dragons have eyes of blue crystal

 

Coincidence? I think not.

It seems blue crystal means some kind of blue/ice magic is at work.

Who raised The Wall if it is made of Blue Crystal magic? 

I have read topics on the forum before claiming The Others made the Wall to keep humans out. This theory sounds a lot more plausible now to me.

 

 

[Gramse]

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[Lollygag]

I would look at things connected to eyes and stars in conjunction with crystal. There's some interchangeable usage. 

 

AGOT Jon VII

The hooded man lifted his pale moon face, and Jon slashed at it without hesitation. The sword laid the intruder open to the bone, taking off half his nose and opening a gash cheek to cheek under those eyes, eyes, eyes like blue stars burning. Jon knew that face. Othor, he thought, reeling back. Gods, he's dead, he's dead, I saw him dead.

…

Jon's breath went out of him as the fallen table caught him between his shoulder blades. The sword, where was the sword? He'd lost the damned sword! When he opened his mouth to scream, the wight jammed its black corpse fingers into Jon's mouth. Gagging, he tried to shove it off, but the dead man was too heavy. Its hand forced itself farther down his throat, icy cold, choking him. Its face was against his own, filling the world. Frost covered its eyes, sparkling blue. Jon raked cold flesh with his nails and kicked at the thing's legs. He tried to bite, tried to punch, tried to breathe …

 

AGOT Eddard VI

Ned touched the boy's head, fingering the thick black hair. "Look at me, Gendry." The apprentice lifted his face. Ned studied the shape of his jaw, the eyes like blue ice. Yes, he thought, I see it. "Go back to your work, lad. I'm sorry to have bothered you." He walked back to the house with the master. "Who paid the boy's apprentice fee?" he asked lightly.

 

AGOT Bran VII

"Symeon Star-Eyes," Luwin said as he marked numbers in a book. "When he lost his eyes, he put star sapphires in the empty sockets, or so the singers claim. Bran, that is only a story, like the tales of Florian the Fool. A fable from the Age of Heroes." The maester tsked. "You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart."

 

ACOK Bran V

"The way's easy. Look for the Ice Dragon, and chase the blue star in the rider's eye." She backed through a door and started up the winding steps.

 

2 hours ago, Gramse said:

"Outside the day was bright and cloudless. The sun had returned to the sky after a fortnight's absence, and to the south the Wall rose blue-white and glittering. There was a saying Jon had heard from the older men at Castle Black: the Wall has more moods than Mad King Aerys, they'd say, or sometimes, the Wall has more moods than a woman. On cloudy days it looked to be white rock. On moonless nights it was as black as coal. In snowstorms it seemed carved of snow. But on days like this, there was no mistaking it for anything but ice. On days like this the Wall shimmered bright as a septon's crystal, every crack and crevasse limned by sunlight, as frozen rainbows danced and died behind translucent ripples. On days like this the Wall was beautiful."

[Highlights mine]

 

The links to the Seven are interesting. Never really noticed them before. Crystal is mentioned with the Sept/Septon/Faith/etc. a lot more than I realized which makes me think it's more important than I thought. Maybe an implication that rainbows and light (on moonless nights it was black as coal) might be part of the strength of the Wall.

ADWD Jon XIII

Hundreds of knights meant hundreds of shields. Hawks and eagles, dragons and griffins, suns and stags, wolves and wyverns, manticores, bulls, trees and flowers, harps, spears, crabs and krakens, red lions and golden lions and chequy lions, owls, lambs, maids and mermen, stallions, stars, buckets and buckles, flayed men and hanged men and burning men, axes, longswords, turtles, unicorns, bears, quills, spiders and snakes and scorpions, and a hundred other heraldic charges had adorned the Shieldhall walls, blazoned in more colors than any rainbow ever dreamed of.

But when a knight died, his shield was taken down, that it might go with him to his pyre or his tomb, and over the years and centuries fewer and fewer knights had taken the black. A day came when it no longer made sense for the knights of Castle Black to dine apart. The Shieldhall was abandoned. In the last hundred years, it had been used only infrequently. As a dining hall, it left much to be desired—it was dark, dirty, drafty, and hard to heat in winter, its cellars infested with rats, its massive wooden rafters worm-eaten and festooned with cobwebs.

 

 

[OtherFromAnotherMother]

@Lollygag

Also Aemond Targaryen with his sapphire eye.

[chrisdaw]

There will be an Ice dragon, it will emerge from the ice of the shattered fallen wall, it will be Stannis's second life, his soul the dragon's blue crystal eye(s), symbolically the heart of winter, his because he will sacrifice Shireen.

[Curled Finger]

Gads, all I got was the Others' swords are made of the same substance as the Wall. 

[H Wadsworth Longfellow]

9 hours ago, Gramse said:

Inspired by this thread:

 

I found "Blue Crystal" to match some interesting objects

Quotes from all the books:

"The Other slid forward on silent feet. In its hand was a longsword like none that Will had ever seen. No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed almost to vanish when seen edge-on. There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing, a ghost-light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew it was sharper than any razor."

So the swords of the Others look like blue crystal.

 

"Finally, he looked north. He saw the Wall shining like blue crystal, and his bastard brother Jon sleeping alone in a cold bed, his skin growing pale and hard as the memory of all warmth fled from him. And he looked past the Wall, past endless forests cloaked in snow, past the frozen shore and the great blue-white rivers of ice and the dead plains where nothing grew or lived. North and north and north he looked, to the curtain of light at the end of the world, and then beyond that curtain. He looked deep into the heart of winter, and then he cried out, afraid, and the heat of his tears burned on his cheeks."

The wall looks like blue crystal

 

"When they reached the door—a tall oval mouth, set in a wall fashioned in the likeness of a human face—the smallest dwarf Dany had ever seen was waiting on the threshold. He stood no higher than her knee, his faced pinched and pointed, snoutish, but he was dressed in delicate livery of purple and blue, and his tiny pink hands held a silver tray. Upon it rested a slender crystal glass filled with a thick blue liquid: shade of the evening, the wine of warlocks. "Take and drink," urged Pyat Pree."

Shade of the evening is served in a crystal glass with a blue liquid. 

 

"Outside the day was bright and cloudless. The sun had returned to the sky after a fortnight's absence, and to the south the Wall rose blue-white and glittering. There was a saying Jon had heard from the older men at Castle Black: the Wall has more moods than Mad King Aerys, they'd say, or sometimes, the Wall has more moods than a woman. On cloudy days it looked to be white rock. On moonless nights it was as black as coal. In snowstorms it seemed carved of snow. But on days like this, there was no mistaking it for anything but ice. On days like this the Wall shimmered bright as a septon's crystal, every crack and crevasse limned by sunlight, as frozen rainbows danced and died behind translucent ripples. On days like this the Wall was beautiful."

Jon describes the wall looking blue-white like a septon's crystal

 

"Of all the queer and fabulous denizens of the Shivering Sea, however, the greatest are the ice dragons. These colossal beasts, many times larger than the dragons of Valyria, are said to be made of living ice, with eyes of pale blue crystal and vast translucent wings through which the moon and stars can be glimpsed as they wheel across the sky. Whereas common dragons (if any dragon can truly be said to be common) breathe flame, ice dragons supposedly breathe cold, a chill so terrible that it can freeze a man solid in half a heartbeat."

And lastly from TWOIAF ice dragons have eyes of blue crystal

 

Coincidence? I think not.

It seems blue crystal means some kind of blue/ice magic is at work.

Who raised The Wall if it is made of Blue Crystal magic? 

I have read topics on the forum before claiming The Others made the Wall to keep humans out. This theory sounds a lot more plausible now to me.

 

 

The usage of blue and crystal are not necessarily related.  I don't find the connection between the usage and context of the occurrences of the words.  I however understand your theory about the wall.  Silverwing refused to cross the wall in FnB.  This is a good argument for the wall having been constructed by the white walkers.  

[Dorian Martell's son]

9 hours ago, Gramse said:

It seems blue crystal means some kind of blue/ice magic is at work.

yup 

9 hours ago, Gramse said:

Who raised The Wall if it is made of Blue Crystal magic?

Men and giants with magic from the children of the forest. Have you read the books? 

9 hours ago, Gramse said:

I have read topics on the forum before claiming The Others made the Wall to keep humans out. This theory sounds a lot more plausible now to me.

Lol, the big bad ice demons are going to build a huge wall that is magically warded and keeps them and their undead minions from crossing yet does nothing to restrict the humans who climb over, dig under, sail around and build castles and fortifications on it...........
Right

[Back door hodor]

Great topic and thanks for reading  my thread, glad I could inspire one of your own even if it's in a small way, that's what these forums are all about in my opinion.

I definitely did not realize the blue crystal metaphor was so prevalent, and there definitely could be something there relating to ice magic.

The blue crystal metaphor brings to my mind the pale blue eyes of the wights, anyone else see this connection?

[Back door hodor]

4 hours ago, Curled Finger said:

Gads, all I got was the Others' swords are made of the same substance as the Wall. 

It's a definite maybe finger...

Speaking of swords, isn't it about time you made a topic with all the new jnfor from FaB?

Or did I already miss it?

[Curled Finger]

On 1/28/2019 at 10:11 PM, Back door hodor said:

It's a definite maybe finger...

Speaking of swords, isn't it about time you made a topic with all the new jnfor from FaB?

Or did I already miss 

Aw that was nice man.  Thanks.  You missed it.  I tried to chat everyone up a few weeks back but the topic died  a very quick death.