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I don't think the morale of the story will be "well Dany just had to become a violent psycho-killer and then everything was ok." The morale of the story is that the smallfolk pay the price when the high lords play ther game of thrones (that's courtesy of Septon Maribald, the conscience of Westeros). A lot of people are rooting for Dany to embrace the dragon nature, fire and blood, "might makes right" - basically, violent authoritarianism. I think George is subtly planting the idea throughout the text that the dragons are bad news - "death and devastation" as Xaro puts it. That's an interesting notion which I am looking in to.īy the way great post, I really like you analysis of what waking the dragon actually costs. The fact that it was the Amethyst Empress who was betrayed kind of hints that Dany may be the fulfillment or return of the Amethyst Empress. I think the splendor of wizards and people with gemstone-bedazzled armor in the house of the undying were the same people - they offer to teach Dany dragonspeech. I think the people she needs to listen to are actually those gemstone emperors, if she can figure out how. Shadow is an aspect of fire, but I think Quaithe is more shadow and less fire. She's a 'shadow binder' - emphasis on shadow, not fire. She can't show her face in the sun - just like an Other. I for agree that Quaithe is bad business. Dany and the dragons are deeply connected to the Azor Ahai mythos. Interesting.Īs for the gemstone emperors in Dany's dream, Mithras is right that these are the Great Empire of the Dawn folks, the original dragonlords.

The other two speak in Dothraki and common Valyrian, but Quaithe knows Westerosi. Interesting note: Quaithe speaks to Dany in the common tongue of Westeros. It's possible - we don't know exactly when magic stated getting stronger again - but it's interesting she appears to Dany in person until she leaves Quarth, at which time she uses the candle. I agree with Mithras that Quaithe is planting dreams in Dany's mind, but I do not think this dream which you have broken down in excellent detail, Lost Melnibonean, is one of them. Quaithe was originally in Quarth, and we don't see her in person after that. I think the pre-dragon dreams were inspired by The Dragon.īut I do agree with the allusion to Quaithe. Quaithe is as misguided and twice as dangerous than Mel.I don't think the glass candles were burning before the birth of Daenerys's dragons. (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). 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. 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. The Jade Emperor, the Tourmaline Emperor, the Onyx Emperor, the Topaz Emperor, and the Opal Emperor followed in turn, each reigning for centuries yet every reign was shorter and more troubled than the one preceding it, for wild men and baleful beasts pressed at the borders of the Great Empire, lesser kings grew prideful and rebellious, and the common people gave themselves over to avarice, envy, lust, murder, incest, gluttony, and sloth. For ten thousand years the Great Empire of the Dawn flourished in peace and plenty under the God-on-Earth, until at last he ascended to the stars to join his forebears.ĭominion over mankind then passed to his eldest son, who was known as the Pearl Emperor and ruled for a thousand years. In the beginning, the priestly scribes of Yin declare, all the land between the Bones and the freezing desert called the Grey Waste, from the Shivering Sea to the Jade Sea (including even the great and holy isle of Leng), formed a single realm ruled by the God-on-Earth, the only begotten son of the Lion of Night and Maiden-Made-of-Light, who traveled about his domains in a palanquin carved from a single pearl and carried by a hundred queens, his wives. So, all of Dany's dreams seem to be planted by Quaithe using her glass candle. Remember who you are, Daenerys, the stars whispered in a womans voice. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow. She was flying once again, spinning, laughing, dancing, as the stars wheeled around her and whispered secrets in her ear. All her cares fell away from her, and all her pains as well, and she seemed to float upward into the sky. This points to Quaithe's presence in this dream.