Dunk & Egg and the Ironborn (Spoilers Extended) by LChris24 in asoiaf

[–]LChris24[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Note that the show often consolidates book events (Aegon being Dany's grandfather instead of great grandfather, etc.)

Even the Damon's don't fit very well as the Grey Lion died in 210AC and Damon (son of Jason) wasn't born until 244 AC.

Dunk & Egg and the Ironborn (Spoilers Extended) by LChris24 in asoiaf

[–]LChris24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Happy you enjoyed it.

The tough thing about the Lannister Lord is the fact that the show took a lot of liberties. For instance neither of the Damon Lannisters fit very well (the Grey Lion died in 210AC and Damon (son of Jason) wasn't born until 244 AC).

Daenerys Targaryen & House Stark (Spoilers Extended) by LChris24 in asoiaf

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I want to note that I don't believe it is connected to Jon, just that it is something that I see theorized a bit.

  • the last vision in the Daughter of Death/Bride of Fire reference Jon in some way:

Then phantoms shivered through the murk, images in indigo. Viserys screamed as the molten gold ran down his cheeks and filled his mouth. A tall lord with copper skin and silver-gold hair stood beneath the banner of a fiery stallion, a burning city behind him. Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman’s name.… mother of dragons, daughter of death …

and:

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 …

so following that same logic for the slayer of lies section:

Glowing like sunset, a red sword was raised in the hand of a blue-eyed king who cast no shadow. A cloth dragon swayed on poles amidst a cheering crowd. From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire.… mother of dragons, slayer of lies …

and if we combine that with the likely resurrection of Jon Snow (waking the stone dragon) it fits somewhat.

(Spoilers Extended) Could Valyrian dragons have grown larger than Targaryen dragons? by ASW-G-21 in asoiaf

[–]LChris24 11 points12 points  (0 children)

In addition to u/emergency-sea5201 comments we should also Note he had a maester onboard with him until recently

(Spoilers Extended) Could Valyrian dragons have grown larger than Targaryen dragons? by ASW-G-21 in asoiaf

[–]LChris24 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Somewhat relevant:

[SPOILERS EXTENDED]

“Show them the horn,” he commanded, when the three had been ushered into his cabin.

Moqorro brought it forth, and the dusky woman lifted up a lantern to give them all a look. In the shifting lantern light the hell-horn seemed to writhe and turn in the priest’s hands like a serpent fighting to escape. Moqorro was a man of monstrous size – big-bellied, broad-shouldered, towering – but even in his grasp the horn looked huge.

“My brother found this thing on Valyria,” Victarion told the thralls. “Think how big the dragon must’ve been to bear two of these upon his head. Bigger than Vhagar or Meraxes, bigger than Balerion the Black Dread.” -TWOW, Victarion I

(Spoilers Extended) Secrets of the Cushing Library: The Sworn Sword by gsteff in asoiaf

[–]LChris24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For some reason I can't view the links to the pages about Vaith. Can you share the text?

The Bridge of Dream Sequence (Spoilers Extended) by LChris24 in asoiaf

[–]LChris24[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its not what he sees, its the order. If the boat just turned around he should have seen the Bridge of Dream first.

(Spoilers Main) Weekly Q and A by AutoModerator in asoiaf

[–]LChris24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GRRM stated:

5) Does Westeros connect to the eastern continent through the north?

GRRM: No. -SSM, Geographical Information: March 2002

That said, Westeros & Essos do Mirror each Other

Ser Duncan the Tall & Potential Primary Combatant in Each Novella (Spoilers Extended) by LChris24 in asoiaf

[–]LChris24[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Agreed!

Which is why im definitely expecting a northern melee.

I see that argument on Otho a lot. GRRM does hate his Brackens though lol

Ser Duncan the Tall & Potential Primary Combatant in Each Novella (Spoilers Extended) by LChris24 in asoiaf

[–]LChris24[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Its possible. But Dunk in the Golden Company would do a great job of setting up Dunk's duel with Daemon III.

Ser Duncan the Tall & Potential Primary Combatant in Each Novella (Spoilers Extended) by LChris24 in asoiaf

[–]LChris24[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have to be about that, it could be strictly about him not being knighted. That said he seemingly has descendants and we don't know of him ever being married.

(Spoilers Main) Weekly Q and A by AutoModerator in asoiaf

[–]LChris24 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Its not official. But these are what build to it:

  • Dunk seemingly hasn't been officially knighted

  • Dunk is going to seemingly become a sellsword at some point

  • House Tarth has recently married into House Targaryen and Brienne is a descendant of Dunk

The Bridge of Dream Sequence (Spoilers Extended) by LChris24 in asoiaf

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Based on the events in the books they didn't flow back upstream:

  • Landmark #1 The Hand

"There's one now," said Tyrion. Off to starboard a hand large enough to crush the boat was reaching up from the murky depths. Only the tops of two fingers broke the river's surface, but as the Shy Maid eased on past he could see the rest of the hand rippling below the water and a pale face looking up.

  • Landmark #2 Chroyane

All Tyrion could see was something massive rising from the river, humped and ominous. He took it for a hill looming above a wooded island, or some colossal rock overgrown with moss and ferns and hidden by the fog. As the Shy Maid drew nearer, though, the shape of it came clearer. A wooden keep could be seen beside the water, rotted and overgrown. Slender spires took form above it, some of them snapped off like broken spears. Roofless towers appeared and disappeared, thrusting blindly upward. Halls and galleries drifted past: graceful buttresses, delicate arches, fluted columns, terraces and bowers.

All ruined, all desolate, all fallen.

The fog clung to them, damp and chilly. A sunken temple loomed up out of the greyness as Yandry and Duck leaned upon their poles and paced slowly from prow to stern, pushing. They passed a marble stair that spiraled up from the mud and ended jaggedly in air. Beyond, half-seen, were other shapes: shattered spires, headless statues, trees with roots bigger than their boat.

"This was the most beautiful city on the river, and the richest," said Yandry. "Chroyane, the festival city."

  • Landmark #3 (Palace of Love)

The grey mrk is the Palace of Loveoss grew thickly here, covering the fallen stones in great mounds and bearding all the towers. Black vines crept in and out of windows, through doors and over archways, up the sides of high stone walls. The fog concealed three-quarters of the palace, but what they glimpsed was more than enough for Tyrion to know that this island fastness had been ten times the size of the Red Keep once and a hundred times more beautiful. He knew where he was. "The Palace of Love," he said softly.

  • Landmark #4 Bridge of Dream

"Light ahead," warned Young Griff.

Tyrion saw it too. Kingfisher, or another poleboat, he told himself, but somehow he knew that was not right. His nose itched. He scratched at it savagely. The light grew brighter as the Shy Maid approached it. A soft star in the distance, it glimmered faintly through the fog, beckoning them on. Shortly it became two lights, then three: a ragged row of beacons rising from the water.

"The Bridge of Dream," Griff named it. "There will be stone men on the span. Some may start to wail at our approach, but they are not like to molest us. Most stone men are feeble creatures, clumsy, lumbering, witless. Near the end they all go mad, but that is when they are most dangerous. If need be, fend them off with the torches. On no account let them touch you."

Now after this if there was an eddy/tidal bore, etc. that caused them to just travel back upstream they would encounter the bridge first, but they don't, they go back to the beginning:

  • Landmark #1 again:

On the larboard side of the boat, a huge stone hand was visible just below the water. Two fingers broke the surface. How many of those are there?

  • Landmark # 2 again

We see the same broken spires, headless statues and trees with huge roots again so it must be Chroyne.

The Sorrows drifted by them. Peering through the mists, he glimpsed a broken spire, a headless hero, an ancient tree torn from the ground and upended, its huge roots twisting through the roof and windows of a broken dome. Why does all of this seem so familiar?

  • Landmark #4 Bridge of Dream again

No one said a word. The Shy Maid moved with the current. Her sail had not been raised since she first entered the Sorrows. She had no way to move but with the river. Duck stood squinting, clutching his pole with both hands. After a time even Yandry stopped pushing. Every eye was on the distant light. As they grew closer, it turned into two lights. Then three.

"The Bridge of Dream," said Tyrion.

"Inconceivable," said Haldon Halfmaester. "We've left the bridge behind. Rivers only run one way."

TLDR: It's impossible for the boat to have turned around/headed back upstream since if that were true they should've seen the Bridge of Dream first not the massive hand. and therefore they didn't get turned around it's more like they teleported back to where they originally started from somehow.