What happens when a pregnant woman blows Euron's horn?

[chrisdaw]

It is GRRM's intention to have the dragon horn Euron owns on the cover of TWOW. My point is, the dragon horn really matters, it is going to impact the story significantly.

Euron had his man Cragorn blow his horn at the Kingsmoot. This is Cragorn.

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All eyes turned toward the sound. It was one of Euron's mongrels winding the call, a monstrous man with a shaved head. Rings of gold and jade and jet glistened on his arms, and on his broad chest was tattooed some bird of prey, talons dripping blood.

This is what happened at the time.

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It was a terrible sound, a wail of pain and fury that seemed to burn the ears. Aeron Damphair covered his, and prayed for the Drowned God to raise a mighty wave and smash the horn to silence, yet still the shriek went on and on. It is the horn of hell, he wanted to scream, though no man would have heard him. The cheeks of the tattooed man were so puffed out they looked about to burst, and the muscles in his chest twitched in a way that it made it seem as if the bird were about to rip free of his flesh and take wing. And now the glyphs were burning brightly, every line and letter shimmering with white fire. On and on and on the sound went, echoing amongst the howling hills behind them and across the waters of Nagga's Cradle to ring against the mountains of Great Wyk, on and on and on until it filled the whole wet world.

And when it seemed the sound would never end, it did.

The hornblower's breath failed at last. He staggered and almost fell. The priest saw Orkwood of Orkmont catch him by one arm to hold him up, whilst Left-Hand Lucas Codd took the twisted black horn from his hands. A thin wisp of smoke was rising from the horn, and the priest saw blood and blisters upon the lips of the man who'd sounded it. The bird on his chest was bleeding too.

Cragorn died and Euron investigated further what the horn did to him.

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"The man who blew my dragon horn. When the maester cut him open, his lungs were charred as black as soot."

It is the most logical conclusion that blowing the horn caused the man to burn to death from the inside.

The horn is Valyrian and supposedly made out of a dragon's horn, in Valyrian glyphs it has written on it,

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

In Dany's wake the dragon dream preceding the dragons awakening in the funeral pyre she has this vision concerning her in the womb son Rhaego.

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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.

And Rhaego dies and the body taken from the tent where Dany birthed him and disposed of by Jorah at the time is rather dragon like. Note the parallel through the symbolism of the bird tattoo on Cragorn's chest.

I suggest the horn does deliberately what Dany did accidentally in the MMD tent of blood magic.

A pregnant woman blows the horn, she burns from the inside as per Cragorn and what Dany could feel in the vision, the human child in her womb dies, its soul becomes fire. The child's soul can then enter a dragon or dragon egg. Blood for fire, fire for blood. And the dragon is bound in blood to the child's mother (no mortal man may sound me and live, GRRM is probably playing the Tolkien I am no man game here and the mother will survive), or father, or seemingly whoever the child decides. Dragonbinder. Sacrifice the child, bind the dragon, blood for fire, fire for blood.

So suppose I'm right, what does Euron need to do for 'dragons'? The answer is exactly what he's doing as a first step, get a child on Dany. It has to be Dany because the bloodlines are assumed to matter, and as Euron himself says she's the last of her line, the blood of the dragon.

Next step would be to make the horn a gift to her and get her to blow it while pregnant. Any setup or foreshadowing for this?

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

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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.

 

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Euron's gifts are poisoned.

[chrisdaw]

The Grey King is a parallel/foreshadowing for Euron. Why particular the grey in the name is for something that hasn't yet happened, Euron is going to get the variety of greyscale that Jon Connington will spread to Westeros. It is the very reason why GRRM has named Greyjoys the Greyjoys, and why;

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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 . . .

he is a corpse, his face is dead and his lips are grey in the HOTU vision. The Ironborn side of things seems to lean heavily into Dany being associated with Storms, as she is the Stormborn and I suppose storms are the bane of sailors. So;

Grey King, associated with grey, legendary Ironborn king = Euron

Nagga, female sea dragon = Dany, mother of dragons and the Stormborn. (Although I hold out the possibility Arianne is at play here).

And the Storm God = Dany, the Stormborn.

And so,

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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 Grey King tricks the Storm God into giving him fire. Euron tricks Dany into giving him fire. Euron tricks Dany into blowing the horn while pregnant, sacrificing the child to the fire to bind the dragon to him.

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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.

Euron makes the dragon his seat, his home, and rules from there.

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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.

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 King had made his thrall.

The Grey King slays Nagga and makes her living fire his thrall. Euron tricks Dany into blowing the horn, the horn turns their child in Dany's womb into living fire, and allows Euron to make a dragon his thrall.

Later;

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

The Grey King dies and the Storm God drowns Nagga's fire. Dany defeats Euron and takes back her dragon.

[LynnS]

3 hours ago, chrisdaw said:

Nagga, female sea dragon = Dany, mother of dragons and the Stormborn. (Although I hold out the possibility Arianne is at play here).

Oh! This is good!  Sea dragons are volcanic sea mounts and Dragonstone is a volcanic sea mount.  Being born on Dragonstone makes Dany a "sea" dragon.  Likewise any dragons hatched on Dragonstone.  Implications for Old Wyk and the Iron Isles for old volcanic sea mounts.  

Nagga may well have been such a dragon.  I think GRRM said that dragons once inhabited Westeros or something like that?   Perhaps Nagga was the first to migrate across the ocean from Essos.

[Lord Lannister]

This topic title sounded dirty.

[Takiedevushkikakzvezdy]

6 minutes ago, Lord Lannister said:

This topic title sounded dirty.

I was about to write that Euron should logically get a release.

[Rondo]

A woman, say Sansa, blowing the horn will burn shortly after the horn gives a tiny toot.  Only Daenerys can sound the horn and live to produce a miracle.  

[Chancho]

she ain't gonna become any more pregnant by doing it, that's all i know.