I went to the Game of Thrones Behind The Scenes exhibit yesterday in NYC and did my best Stannis scowl on my rightful seat, wearing the Baratheon stag crown.
Old Gods be good!
My reign was not a long one. Thirty minutes after taking my throne, I held the door.
RIP, Daendrew.
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention Vice President Joe Biden gave a subtle nod to George R. R. Martin and Dorne in his speech, which starts at the 16:30 mark.
He said:
We’ve had candidates before attempted to get elected to appealing to our fears, but they never succeeded, because we do not scare easily. We never bow, we never bend, we never break when confronted with crisis. No, we endure, we overcome and we always, always, always move forward.
I think it was a very nice touch and a testament to GRRM’s tremendous talent and contribution.
Like all good things this blog has come to its end. It’s been fun, but I just don’t have the time for it anymore.
I wrote these theories over the span of four months, yet it feels so much longer. It’s astonishing how rich this world is and how much there is to explore in it.
Before these books I didn’t read any fiction, nor have I written much since college.
I was a show watcher and dumbstruck when (spoiler alert) Ned was killed and that was when I decided I had to read these books.
It has been the literary ride of my life.
Through this journey, it inspired me to learn the craft of writing myself. But before becoming a writer, I must become a reader. There is so much to learn, read and catch up on.
Thank you GRRM. If I ever get the chance to meet you someday, provided I remember how to breathe, I hope to tell you how much your work means to me.
Seven blessings,
Daendrew
P.S. I don’t post theories anymore, just bad jokes, but if you want to keep in touch or message me, my username is Daendrew at the Westeros.org and reddit forums.
Fire and Plush
I just received a package from Fantasy & Science Fiction with an autographed talking GRRM plush doll. With fire and plush, I took first place in their last paragraph of A Dream of Spring competition.
I asked the doll for spoilers but he only told me to keep reading.
As I was opening the box, my direpup went in for George’s jugular and almost ran off with him.
How many fans can say they saved George R. R. Martin? Who can say.
My Direpup
I just opened the latest edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction (print only) where they held a “game of prose” competition to guess how GRRM would finish the last paragraph of A Dream of Spring.
I won first place.
A Feast for Spring
They feasted on jellied calf-brain soup, honeyed chicken and an emerald green salad with sundried mulberries drizzled atop slices of swan. Rivulets of red and brown gravy meandered the contours of the greens. In the center was a whiskerfish, with its eyes of onyx and jet starring blankly at the men who ate of its flesh. To the left Tyrion could see Queen Sansa, First of Her Name, reaching for a tray of blood oranges and Dornish plums arranged in the shape of a direwolf; its jaws were dripping with juices of sweetblood.
Dinner had come.
Donald Trump is King Joffrey; a petulant little child who wants to be feared, loved and have have the world swear fealty to His Grace. “I am the King!”, said no true king.
Make Westeros Great Again!
We need to build a Wall and it will be a great wall. It will be a beautiful wall with a great big door to allow Others to come in legally. But they need to wait their turn.
We need to ban all R’hllorists. They are blood sacrificers. They are shadow babymakers. It’s a disaster. This is a temporary measure until our king figures out what is going on and the seasons operate normally.
Jafer Flowers is…. Gennifer Flowers?
GRRM published A Game of Thrones in 1996, when the Gennifer Flowers Clinton scandal was at its peak.
All of Bill’s women suddenly were resurrected, rising from the the dead, feasting on the blood of a red hot press. But for some reason they did not fear the light and heat of the cameras.
Jafer came back to life and was killed by cutting him into pieces
Much shade and shadow was cast, on both sides. But the dead do not stay dead. By the darkness of the Fifteen Minutes, they will rise again.
Brace yourself….elections are coming. And with the elections come the Wight Voters.
Make Westeros Great Again!
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“Samwell Tarly” -Blog of Thrones
The Last Goodbye by Billie Boyd
I saw the light fade from the sky
On the wind I heard a sigh
As the snowflakes cover
My fallen brothers
I will say this last goodbye
Night is now falling
So ends this day
The road is now calling
And I must away
Over hill and under tree
Through lands where never light has shone
By silver streams that run down to the sea
Under cloud, beneath the stars
Over snow and winter’s morn
I turn at last to paths that lead home
And though where the road then takes me,
I cannot tell
We came all this way
But now comes the day
To bid you farewell
Many places I have been
Many sorrows I have seen
But I don’t regret
Nor will I forget
All who took that road with me
Night is now falling
So ends this day
The road is now calling
And I must away
Over hill, and under tree
Through lands where never light has shone
By silver streams that run down to the sea
To these memories I will hold
With your blessing I will go
To turn at last to paths that lead home
And though where the road then takes me,
I cannot tell
We came all this way
But now comes the day
To bid you farewell
I bid you all a very fond farewell.
IceDragon by xDeathwingx
I am taking a break from posting theories as I go into the theory-blogging sunless sea to float serenely at peace atop black waters that knew no troll.
For how long? A night, day, a year? Time that is beyond time? Daendrew could not say.
But before I go. I bequeath my readers this IceBrandon primer and a show-nugget with a clip with the biggest clues that IceBrandon is coming after the primer below.
The IceBrandon Theory Primer
CGIceBrandon
The producers of Game of Thrones have been very subtly hinting of the ice dragon to come. They had a CGI flying dragon in the background in the Hardhome episode. That is very expensive to produce and would not be thrown out like that willy nilly.
Keep your eyes in this red region below to see the shadow dragon flying behind the clouds. It’s very subtle.
https://gfycat.com/UnawareFakeAlpaca
Before I say “so Long Night…”
Here is the biggest clue and my parting gift.
The biggest hint for those with the eyes to see or the spring fevre dream to believe, is found in the opening scene of the season five finale.
This is the opening of the episode immediately following Shireen being sacrificed. This sacrifice traumatized us all and left purpose of her death fresh in our memory. The first thing Melisande looks at are icicles… and then Melisandre gives a very eerie smile and walks out.
Stannis was never her champion, it was through him, through his blood sacrifices that the champion of ice is born. In front of her is a puddle of black water. She walked into a black pool. She didn’t just casually step into the black puddle, they did a dramatic close up of it.
GRRM has mentioned many, many times that the black water is incredibly still and unmoving. So moments of unstill black waters, such as when Osha went into it are a big deal.
At the heart of the godswood, the great white weirwood brooded over its reflection in the black pool, its leaves rustling in a chill wind. When it felt Bran watching, it lifted its eyes from the still waters and stared back at him knowingly.
-A Game of Thrones – Bran III
The godswood was an island of peace in the sea of chaos that Winterfell had become. Hodor made his way through the dense stands of oak and ironwood and sentinels, to the still pool beside the heart tree.
-A Game of Thrones – Bran VI
Jon watched them leave, and Arya watched Jon. His face had grown as still as the pool at the heart of the godswood.
-A Game of Thrones – Arya I
With iceicles at hand, and the still black pool now unstill, her work there was done. Melisandre got the hell out of Dodge and rode to The Wall as fast as she possibly could. She went to Jon, who upon her arrival curiously died that night.
In the books Jon announced that Stannis is dead and Melisandre quickly leaves the room. I think that Shireen may have been sacrificed off-book screen and that paid for the Nightwalker’s glass candle magic.
Stannis was never her champion, it is through him and his blood and the Baratheon sacrifices and the help of Bran via Bloodraven that she could wake her dragon… the ice dragon Winter, the stone dragon made of ice.
Shireen is sacrificed. Jon is sacrificed. The still black pool is unstill.
Brace yourself… Winter is birthing.
Endgame of Thrones 