One parent carrying two bloodlines and the other parent carrying only one. Joining to birth a child that would carry three 'special' abilities.
A child that has pure dragon blood(blue), Warg blood (red) and Green dreamer blood
(green).
A Greenseer and a Dragonlord
This may be mirrored in the three forks of the Trident- Blue, Red and Green, flowing together to form the
main River Trident.
The three branches of the Trident give the riverlands their name: the Red Fork, colored by the mud and silt that tumbles down from the western mountains; the Green Fork, whose mossy waters emerge from the swamps of the Neck; and the Blue Fork, named for the purity of its sparkling, spring-fed flow. The World of Ice and Fire - The Riverlands
Blue fork- Blue blood - Pure bloodline
...the Blue Fork, named for the purity of its sparkling, spring-fed flow. The World of Ice and Fire - The Riverlands
First Bloodline - A child of Aerys and Rhaella- Being brother and sister, would have pure Targaryen blood. The potential to hatch and control dragons along with potential "Dragon dreams"
Ser Barristan went on. “I saw your father and your mother wed as well. Forgive me, but
there was no fondness there, and the realm paid dearly for that, my queen.”
“Why did they wed if they did not love each other?”
“Your grandsire commanded it. A woods witch had told him that the prince was promised would be born of their line.” A Dance with Dragons - Daenerys IV
The Green Fork - Greensight/Greendreamer Bloodline (not a greenseer)
"My brother dreams as other boys do, and those dreams might mean anything," Meera said, "but the green dreams are different."
Jojen's eyes were the color of moss, and sometimes when he looked at you he seemed to be seeing something else. Like now. "
Jojen's has this gift,
"The gods give many gifts, Bran. My sister is a hunter. It is given to her to run swiftly, and
stand so still she seems to vanish. She has sharp ears, keen eyes, a steady hand with net and spear. She can breathe mud and fly through trees. I could not do these things, no more than you could. To me the gods gave the green dreams, and to you . . . you could be more than me, Bran. You are the winged wolf, and there is no saying how far and high you might fly . . . if you had someone to teach you. How can I help you master a gift I do not understand? We remember the First Men in the Neck, and the children of the forest who were their friends . . . but so much is forgotten, and so much we never knew." A Storm of Swords - Bran I
Lyarra Stark - Rickard Stark's wife, and mother to Brandon, Eddard, Lyanna and Benjen Stark.
Lyarra's Parents were - Rodrick Stark and Arya Flint,
House Flint of the Mountains or "the First Flint's" are an ancient First Men house with some
notable history- Lord Commander Rodrick Flint, Brave Danny Flint and possibly the Night's
King.
House Flint having possible green dreams isn't mentioned AT ALL but there is mention from
Old Nan that could link House Flint with the Children of the Forest.- told by Bran
His father's mother's mother had been a Flint of the mountains. Old Nan once said that it
was her blood in him that made Bran such a fool for climbing before his fall. A Storm of Swords - Bran II
This love of climbing is in Bran's blood.
As angry as he was, his father could not help but laugh. "You're not my son," he told Bran when they fetched him down, "you're a squirrel. So be it. If you must climb, then climb, but try not to let your mother see you." A Game of Thrones - Bran II
Bran gets his "squirrel blood" from his Flint great-grandmother.
And so does Arya,
"Little one," Greenbeard answered, "a peasant may skin a common squirrel for his pot, but if he finds a gold squirrel in his tree he takes it to his lord, or he will wish he did."
"I'm not a squirrel," Arya insisted.
"You are." Greenbeard laughed. "A little gold squirrel who's off to see the lightning lord, whether she wills it or not.
Who else were called squirrels?
"The First Men named us children," the little woman said. "The giants called us woh dak nag gran, the squirrel people, because we were small and quick and fond of trees, but we are no squirrels no children. Our name in the True Tongue means those who sing the song of earth. Before your Old Tongue was ever spoken, we had sung our songs ten thousand years." A Dance with Dragons - Bran II
All Greenseers are dreamers but not all dreamers are Greenseers
"You're a greenseer."
"No," said Jojen, "only a boy who dreams. The greenseers were more than that. They were wargs as well, as you are, and the greatest of them could wear the skins of any beast that flies or swims or crawls, and could look through the eyes of the weirwoods as well, and see the truth that lies beneath the world.
Red Fork- Skinchanger/Warg bloodline -
Some of the children born to Rickard Stark were said to have "the wolfblood".
"Ah, Arya. You have a wildness in you, child. 'The wolf blood,' my father used to call it.
Lyanna had a touch of it, and my brother Brandon more than a touch. It brought them both to an early grave." A Game of Thrones - Arya II
Some have it more than others
The Walders might be scared of them, but the Starks had wolf blood. Old Nan told him so.
"Though it is stronger in some than in others," she warned. A Clash of Kings - Bran I
Descendents of the marriage between Rickard and Lyarra would potentially be wargs or potentially have prophetic green dreams or potentially both. A Greenseer
"Only one man in a thousand is born a skinchanger," Lord Brynden said one day, after Bran had learned to fly, "and only one skinchanger in a thousand can be a greenseer."
"I thought the greenseers were the wizards of the children," Bran said. "The singers, I mean."
"In a sense. Those you call the children of the forest have eyes as golden as the sun, but once in a great while one is born amongst them with eyes as red as blood, or green as the moss on a tree in the heart of the forest. By these signs do the gods mark those they have chosen to receive the gift. The chosen ones are not robust, and their quick years upon the earth are few, for every song must have its balance. But once inside the wood they linger long indeed.
A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. Greenseers."
A Dance with Dragons - Bran III
Some mention of Greenseer blood or Green blood in a prophecy could have been mistaken for the
Greenblood river in Dorne and could be the reason Rhaegar was married to Elia Martell .
Realizing this mistake, Rhaegar would need someone born from a known (or alleged)
Skinchanger and Green dreamer bloodline. Lyanna Stark's blood was a mixture of the second
and third heads of the dragon.
The Targaryen ability to ride (and hatch) dragons is augmented with prophetic "Dragon
dreams" similar to greendreams.
Children born to Rhaegar and Lyanna would potentially have any of these abilities. Or all of
them.
A dragon with three heads. A Dragon rider and a Greenseer
"He has a song," the man replied. "He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire." A Clash of Kings - Daenerys IV
The legends of Azor Ahai being reborn and The Prince that was Promised seem to be the same legend. Or at least the are interpreted by some as the same.
Bran is a "byproduct" of one of the bloodlines that produced Jon Snow. The same blood that combined to birth the greenseeer potential in the Starks also produced Bran.
Could the Prince that was Promised be a byproduct of the rebirth of Azor Ahai? A Harbinger?
Melisandre believes or at least claims that Stannis is Azor Ahai reborn. The promised prince.
"It is the war for the dawn you speak of, my lady. But where is the prince that was promised?"
"He stands before you," Melisandre declared, "though you do not have the eyes to see. Stannis Baratheon is Azor Ahai come again, the warrior of fire. In him the prophecies are fulfilled. The red comet blazed across the sky to herald his coming, and he bears Lightbringer, the red sword of heroes."
But Stannis is a king not a prince. It just so happens that the same comet did herald the "birth"of a prince.
"MY LORDS!" he shouted, his voice booming off the rafters. "Here is what I say to these two kings!" He spat. "Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine, from some flowery seat in Highgarden or Dorne? What do they know of the Wall or the wolfswood or the barrows of the First Men? Even their gods are wrong. The Others take the Lannisters too, I've had a bellyful of them." He reached back over his shoulder and drew his immense two-handed greatsword. "Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? It was the dragons we married, and the dragons are all dead!" He pointed at Robb with the blade. "There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords," he thundered. "The King in the North!" A Game of Thrones - Catelyn XI
Near the end of A Game of Thrones,the final Catelyn chapter, Robb is declared the King in the North. This means Bran became a prince.
In the final Bran chapter, the comet is mentioned for the first time
"For a certainty," Maester Luwin agreed with a deep sigh. The maester was peering through his big Myrish lens tube, measuring shadows and noting the position of the comet that hung low in the morning sky. A Game of Thrones - Bran VII
We dont know what the real prophecy of Azor Ahai is. We only know how the characters interpret the prophecy.
"I see them in my dreams, Sam. I see a red star bleeding in the sky. I still remember red. I see their shadows on the snow, hear the crack of leathern wings, feel their hot breath. My brothers dreamed of dragons too, and the dreams killed them, every one. Sam, we tremble on the cusp of half-remembered prophecies, of wonders and terrors that no man now living could hope to comprehend . . . or . . ."
"Or?" said Sam. A Feast for Crows - Samwell III
This prophecy or a version of it, may have been misinterpreted in Westeros before the Targaryens arrived.
If there was something that was interpreted as "Blue blood" or "pure blood" This may be why Craster "weds" his daughters and "gifts" his sons to the Others.
Blue blood is associated with the others
When he opened his eyes the Other's armor was running down its legs in rivulets as pale blue blood hissed and steamed around the black dragonglass dagger in its throat. It reached down with two bone-white hands to pull out the knife, but where its fingers touched the obsidian they smoked. A Storm of Swords - Samwell I
Night's King was possibly (among others) a Flint or a Stark. Or a mixture of both.
"Some say he was a Bolton," Old Nan would always end. "Some say a Magnar out of Skagos, some say Umber, Flint, or Norrey. Some would have you think he was a Woodfoot, from them who ruled Bear Island before the ironmen came. He never was. He was a Stark, the brother of the man who brought him down." She always pinched Bran on the nose then, he would never forget it. "He was a Stark of Winterfell, and who can say? Mayhaps his name was Brandon. Mayhaps he slept in this very bed in this very room." A Storm of Swords - Bran IV
Was Night's King a Greenseer trying to fulfill an interpretation of this or a similar prophecy when he spied his Corpse Queen from atop the Wall?
A woman was his downfall; a woman glimpsed from atop the Wall, with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars. Fearing nothing, he chased her and caught her and loved her, though her skin was cold as ice, and when he gave his seed to her he gave his soul as well. A Storm of Swords - Bran IV
Was he a Greenseer trying to birth a child with this blue-eyed, blue-blooded woman?
I know the prophecy." Marwyn turned his head and spat a gob of red phlegm onto the floor. "Not that I would trust it. Gorghan of Old Ghis once wrote that a prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is . . . and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams. That is the nature of prophecy, said Gorghan. Prophecy will bite your prick off every time." He chewed a bit. "Still . . ." A Feast for Crows - Samwell V
When Aemon hears about Dany and her dragons he has a revelation about the prophecy.
On Braavos, it had seemed possible that Aemon might recover. Xhondo's talk of dragons had almost seemed to restore the old man to himself. That night he ate every bite Sam put before him. "No one ever looked for a girl," he said. "It was a prince that was promised, not a princess. Rhaegar, I thought . . . the smoke was from the fire that devoured Summerhall on the day of his birth, the salt from the tears shed for those who died. He shared my belief when he was young, but later he became persuaded that it was his own son who fulfilled the prophecy, for a comet had been seen above King's Landing on the night Aegon was conceived, and Rhaegar was certain the bleeding star had to be a comet. What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! A Feast for Crows - Samwell IV
Salt-
They called her Salty, since she'd come aboard at Saltpans, near the mouth of the Trident. It was as good a name as any, she supposed. A Feast for Crows - Arya I
Smoke-
Born amidst Salt and Smoke
The three forks of the Trident merge into one to form the main river. The River Trident flows out to sea between Saltpans and Harrenhal. A castle that Aegon I left a smoking ruin.
"No one ever looked for a girl," he said. A Feast for Crows - Samwell IV
"No one," she would answer, she who had been Arya of House Stark, Arya Underfoot, Arya Horseface. She had been Arry and Weasel too, and Squab and Salty, Nan the cupbearer, a grey mouse, a sheep, the ghost of Harrenhal . . . but not for true, not in her heart of hearts. In there she was Arya of Winterfell, the daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn, who had once had brothers named Robb and Bran and Rickon, a sister named Sansa, a direwolf called Nymeria, a half brother named Jon Snow. In there she was someone . . . but that was not the answer that he wanted. A Feast for Crows - Arya II
"It was a prince that was promised, not a princess. A Feast for Crows - Samwell IV
Arya became a princess.
(Unknowingly, Arya is the princess betrothed to the Elmar Frey.)
"What's wrong?" Arya asked him when she saw the tears shining on his cheeks.
"My princess," he sobbed. "We've been dishonored, Aenys says. There was a bird from the Twins. My lord father says I'll need to marry someone else, or be a septon."
A stupid princess, she thought, that's nothing to cry over. "My brothers might be dead," she confided. A Clash of Kings - Arya X
A stupid princess, she thought, that's nothing to cry over. "My brothers might be dead," she confided. A Clash of Kings - Arya X
Male And Female In The Vale Of Arryn
Who's Looking Through The Black Gate?
Aerys,Tywin And A Bride For Rhaegar
Davos's Thumb
Coin Well Spent
Valonqar - High Valyrian Or Bastard Valyrian?
Brandon's Bastards
No comments:
Post a Comment