Great Empire Blood Betrayal and the Daynes (Spoilers)

[Vaith]

23 hours ago, level52 said:

So why would early Daynes leave YiTi and travel so far away?  I’m guessing it’s a bit of a parallel with the Targaryeans leaving Valyria to settle Westeros, though more extreme.  I’m guessing early Daynes left around the same time the of the legendary slaying of the “Amethyst Empress”, which happened to precede the Empire of the Dawn’s equivalent of the Long Night.  They took some dragons, the sword Dawn, and took up residence in Westeros building a fortress on Battle Isle and playing a role in ending the Long Night. 

Dragonstone was a trading outpost of the Freehold, though, so it makes a lot of sense. What's Starfall to the Great Empire of the Dawn? It's half a world away, and there are much closer places to settle, e.g. Faros. The Great Empire of the Dawn never even reached Qarth according to legend.

1 hour ago, level52 said:

We should note that in Dany’s fever dream in GOT she sees the spirits of ancient YiTi kings, and the descriptions of their hair don’t exactly match those of East Asians:

“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.”

Why so? Nothing about skin tone or facial features are said. If European-looking people can have silver-gold hair and purple eyes in Martin's world, then there would be nothing preventing Asian-featured people from having more fantastical features.

[BalerionTheCat]

2 hours ago, level52 said:

In their hands were swords of pale fire

Pale fire, like the drgons. These swords seem more like Berric swords or Lightbringer. Lightbringer was fiery hot in battle. Maybe someone could fire on Dawn. Maybe not. But dawn means light, not fire.

Comparing Dawn and the swords of the Others:

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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.

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He unsheathed Dawn and held it with both hands. The blade was pale as milkglass, alive with light.