BlueEyedCrow Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Can someone provide the textual evidence of the often--talked-about on the forums unicorns on Skagos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groat Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Nine -and -twenty ships had set sail from the Wall. If half of them were still afloat,Davos would be shocked. Black skies, bitter winds, and lashing rains had hounded them allthe way down the coast. The galleys Oledo and Old Mother’s Son had been driv en onto therocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had fearedto land; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggs Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 wow, how did you post that so quickly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groat Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I have every line of every book 100% memorized.OrI have the books right in front of my on PDF, and I remember they were mentioned in DWD, so a quick search for the word unicorn and I found the quote :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Winters Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 They're not normal Unicorns though, they are goats with only one horn. Which seems more realistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon crow Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 here's everything.AFFC Samwell IIOr so he thought, until Blackbird left the land behind and struck east across the bay for the shores of Skagos. The island sat at the mouth of the Bay of Seals, massive and mountainous, a stark and forbidding land peopled by savages. They lived in caves and grim mountain fastnesses, Sam had read, and rode great shaggy unicorns to war.Dareon knew the songs as well. When the bleak grey peaks of Skagos rose up from the sea, he joined Sam at Blackbird’s prow, and said, “If the gods are good, we may catch a glimpse of a unicorn.”ADWD Davos IThe galleys Oledo and Old Mother’s Son had been driven onto the rocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had feared to land; the great cog Saathos Saan had foundered off the Grey Cliffs.edit: i see someone has beaten me to the punch. ^_^pdf versions are so useful (i do own hard copies of the books as well, though. no worries). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God_made_me_do_it Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I wonder if they're more savage beasts, kind of like when Pratchett says in one of his books that the reality is it's just a horse with a ****-off horn on it's head. I'm starting to wonder if with Rickon almost certainly being on Skagos, his warg powers awaken more in relation to savage, wild animals, as befits his nature. I'm almost willing to bet money that when Davos catches up to the lad that he's riding on one haha. And he's probably worshipped by cannibals or something mad like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerys Frost Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Also, I don't remember if its in a Bran chapter with the children or what, but they mention that the unicorns are almost extinct like the lions that used to roam the West. Which really stuck out to me, only because it explained the Lannister sigil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Winters Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I wonder if they're more savage beasts, kind of like when Pratchett says in one of his books that the reality is it's just a horse with a ****-off horn on it's head. I'm starting to wonder if with Rickon almost certainly being on Skagos, his warg powers awaken more in relation to savage, wild animals, as befits his nature. I'm almost willing to bet money that when Davos catches up to the lad that he's riding on one haha. And he's probably worshipped by cannibals or something mad like that.I read a theory that Osha took Rickon to Skagos because she might have relatives there and that she's using his warging abilities to rally the Skagosi and they may worship him as a god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groat Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I read a theory that Osha took Rickon to Skagos because she might have relatives there and that she's using his warging abilities to rally the Skagosi and they may worship him as a god.I've also heard a theory that Ned's mother, Rickon's grandmother, was a Skagosi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beric Zoolander Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 They're not normal Unicorns though, they are goats with only one horn. Which seems more realistic.Or thats just how Jon / Ghost describes them because they don't know how else to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Winters Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Or thats just how Jon / Ghost describes them because they don't know how else to.They're described as goat-like animals. So maybe they're not entirely goats as we know know them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God_made_me_do_it Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I read a theory that Osha took Rickon to Skagos because she might have relatives there and that she's using his warging abilities to rally the Skagosi and they may worship him as a god.I can certainly see that working from a story side of things. It seems there's a house Magnar who are Skagosi, although there's little background on them. At least it certainly seems they're not totally mysterious and have had some kind of interactions with the rest of Westeros in the past. Maybe Rickon will be responsible for some form of attack on the white walkers when they finally breach the wall, Skagos seems best situated for being the cavalry to an attack on Eastwatch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Winters Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I can certainly see that working from a story side of things. It seems there's a house Magnar who are Skagosi, although there's little background on them. At least it certainly seems they're not totally mysterious and have had some kind of interactions with the rest of Westeros in the past. Maybe Rickon will be responsible for some form of attack on the white walkers when they finally breach the wall, Skagos seems best situated for being the cavalry to an attack on Eastwatch.Yeah, I think that they might get the Skagosi to sail to The North and help things put there, such as the Freys and Boltons or help secure Winterfell then maybe march to The Wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fourth Head Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Given Ghost's bloody vision of a wounded Shaggydog, the previous disloyalty of the Skagosi to the Starks, the cannibalistic, savage nature of the Skagosi, the unruly wild nature of Rickon and Shaggydog, and the perilous journey across Bolton/Karstark lands, I find it interesting that everyone assumes Rickon is alive and well, just because Manderley has made plans for him.This is totally speculative, but the blindness the rest of Westeros has to Skagos, and the time passed since we last saw Rickon, and the cannibalistic (sacrificial?) nature of the Skagosi which potentially aligns them with both Craster's blood-sacrifice behaviour, and therefore, with the Others, lends itself to, potentially, a rather sinister reveal.- just like we had with Theon/Reek.Could it be that a blood-sacrificed, reanimated Rickon, bent on savage misanthropic, hateful vengeance, could lead an army of reanimated Other-worshippers into the sea and out again (Patchface prophesy?) to storm the wall and open the gates to the wights amassing on the other side? The Starks have so many reasons for hatred now that an alliance with the Others almost makes sense- to be the Kings of Winter- the kings of the Others, and the Kings of Westeros- Roose Bolton, the men of the watch, the Freys, the Lannisters be damned. If I were a 6 year old orphaned kid having lost a mother, two brothers and a father to treachery, having a wild nature anyway, and having spent 3 years without any real parenting, well- that is a monster in the making, Stark idealism be damned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecryptile Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 real life unicorns, made by binding goathorns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Winters Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 real life unicorns, made by binding goathorns.Mmm, Skagos looks nicer than what people say about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenFleece Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Rickon is a big question mark. I don't think anyone knows what he is going to turn into. With Bran currently growing into a weirwood tree, he is the rightful heir of Winterfell, he does matter a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mother of The Others Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 a blood-sacrificed, reanimated Rickon, a monster in the making, Stark idealism be damned. Obviously, I'd love to see this, and George would love to write it. But I don't think he's willing to mistreat Osha like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angmar Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Didn't unicorns at one point in history said to resemble rhinos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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