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Post by freyfamilyreunion on Jul 11, 2017 18:24:19 GMT
Lyanna and Benjen may be Jon's parents, Wouldn't Benjen be too young? Isn't he younger than Lyanna? Different topic regarding Wyman Manderly...IMO he's the inversion of Robert Baratheon, and that is why you, Some Pig, think he's going to backstab the Starks, but I think what you're seeing is a betrayal of the Lord of Winterfell who is currently a Bolton. I think Wyman's description is symbolic of Robert's hidden debauchery...maybe that's not the best word, but I will revisit this thought later. Meant Brandon, not Benjen.
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Jul 11, 2017 20:46:48 GMT
Part 2One minor item of interest here is that Aerys had sent his command to the Eyrie. This stood out to me, because the World Book tells us that by the end of 281/beginning of 282, “ winter had returned with a vengeance”, snow had blanketed King’s Landing, the Blackwater had frozen, etc. I assume that if it’s deep winter in King’s Landing, it is also deep winter in the Vale…which means that Jon Arryn would have already departed the Eyrie and taken up residence at the Gates of the Moon on the valley floor. On face this may not be a big deal and possibly just an oversight, but if this is true and Jon Arryn had already relocated to the Gates, Ned’s starting point is in slightly less treacherous territory (in terms of landscape) right off the bat. I’ll delve further into this point in a moment. This is my only comment for part 2 since I really have no objections to what you've already, very thoroughly, thought through. If the Year of the False Spring had winter returning unexpectedly, then it is possible that they were living up in the Eyrie. The quoting feature for this forum has changed... I hate it. Real quick, Winter had already returned to westeros by this time- kings landing was buried in snow by time Lyanna went missing. Assuming eyrie was too and they had already left, but it's possible they got caught unawares and were stuck there. If so, it makes Ned's journey even more stupid.
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Post by freyfamilyreunion on Jul 11, 2017 22:02:17 GMT
Here is a fun puzzle for us. Look at this passage from ADWD:
Based on what we've discussed let's assume that Sloey is our sloe eyed maid, Ashara. We know that she was allegedly "dishonored" by someone at Harrenhal. And that she turned to Stark afterwards. Playing along, who do we think Quence and Allaquo would be?
Here are some possible hints. I'm not sure what Quence means, but there is a word "quince". It is a pear shaped fruit, that apparently leaves a bitter taste in one's mouth. It's been speculated that the quince fruit was the fruit of forbidden knowledge in the Garden of Eden. There is a Turkish expression, "to eat the quince". Which apparently refers to an upleasant situation or malevolent incident to avoid. It references the bitter taste that the quince leaves in one's mouth.
While it is not the same thing as the Bael fruit, another name for the Bael fruit is the Bengal Quince.
(It is also a derogatory name for someone with homosexual tendencies).
Allaquo. The closest word I found was Alaqua, which is a Native American word for the American Sweet Gum Tree. A tree which has five pointed star shaped leaves and round spiky balls as fruit. It's also known as hazel pine, blisted, redgum, satin-walnut, star leaved gum, and alligatorwood (because the bark resembles the skin of an alligator). It also has a distinctive red sap.
Also if you just use the base aquo, it means a chemical compound derived from water, or a chemical compound that has a molecule of water as part of the compound.
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Jul 12, 2017 1:09:49 GMT
You may disagree with me on this point, but I take "Storms" more literally. IMO Robert Baratheon plays more of a part in Lyanna's disappearance than most believe. The Soiled Knight chapter has parallels to many characters, but Jaime Lannister and Robert Baratheon in particular. Both men "colluded" with Cersei. Jaime did it for love of his "sweet sister", and Robert did it to gain Tywin Lannister as an ally. Yeah, I'm still not quite there on Bob, although I won't rule it out - you never know! I need to do a reread of that chapter to see if it hits me. I absolutely will agree that "storms" brought about the down fall of both men in terms of their basic character: both Ned and Davos are at heart good decent men who found themselves caught up in "Stormy" drama and had to more or less ignore their better angels to carry out the wishes of these Storm Lords that they deeply admire. My favorite part of the opening quote is Davos being "worn thin by grief and betrayal, and sick to death of storms" - remember that Davos too has recently lost family (his four sons that died on the Blackwater), just like Ned had recently lost family, and I think we'll find that Ned too was betrayed by someone he trusted just as Davos was backstabbed by Saan...and all because of some fancy of Baratheon kings. Sick of storms, indeed. IMO "Sweetsister" is Cersei. I think she played a big part in Lyanna's disappearance, so even though you make a great point about Ned landing on Sweetsister, I think this also hints at Cersei's culpability. There very well may be that extra level of symbolism - and I don't doubt for a single second that Cersei did something, arranged something, told something that exacerbated whatever was going on. We know that she's good about undermining her father's larger plans to get something she wants (see: Jaime's KG appointment and the murder of Harlan Grandison) and taking matters into her own hands to spare herself trouble (see: just about every Cersei-related matter out there), and there's still this mysterious matter to ponder: They couldn't let Cersei know about the rejection of the proposal of marriage between her and Willas Tyrell. I still want to know why, and what happened as a result of the rejection of the proposal she DID know about - the one between her and Rhaegar. Bring in the connections I mention in the essay to Aphrodite, and yes...I absolutely think she was involved. Cersei also refers to Lyanna as "insipid" at one point, which tells me that she knew her - that's not really a term you use to describe someone you've never met. My gut tells me that Lyanna had been sent to court to serve as handmaid to someone - Elia (likely), Rhaella, or even Lady Whent (the Whents during tourney planning would likely have had numerous dealings with those in King's Landing at the time). Cersei would certainly have known her, Lyanna and Ashara would have known each other, and it semi-explains why the heck Lyanna was in the Riverlands at time of her disappearance. My next theory (not the Trees, a different one) is going to go into more detail on that last part...I haven't started it yet though. Can a parallel to Littlefinger be drawn here? Didn't he basically play the role of the "pirate" that picked up Sansa after Ser Dontos rowed her out into the Blackwater? Then the pirate deserts the ally after he outlived his use. There must have been another "pirate" that helped either Lyanna or Ashara. The smuggling aspect seems to apply more so to Ashara. I don't think I'm alone in thinking Arya and Sansa parallel Lyanna and Ashara, that the former retraced the paths of the latter, and that they switch places somehow. I'm wondering if Ashara hid her hair color or assumed another's identity (Rhaella's perhaps?) in order to sneak out of Kings Landing? yep...totally an inverse scenario, right? Davos gets kicked off the waiting ship out at sea and has to row to shore after Salla betrays Stannis, and Sansa gets ferried from shore to a waiting boat out at sea after Littlefinger betrays Cersei. I wonder if the Ned scenario is somewhere in the middle - perhaps he was rowing away from the boat (Davos) but with the maiden (Sansa), with a betrayal of some sort in the mix. Re: Ashara - I am 95% certain that we are going to find out that Rhaella (and her mother Shaera) didn't have the typical Targaryen looks, and that she took after her Blackwood grandmother - same as her dead Uncle Duncan. If Rhaella had dark hair instead of the silver that everyone assumes, it could be very easy for a dark-haired Ashara to pass herself off as the Queen. BUT....the same could possibly be said for Lyanna, too! More likely, they could even pass off as each other - something I hinted at in the essay. The fisherman drowned, but his daughter got Stark to the Sisters...so are we thinking the "fisherman" in this story is the pirate? A role much like Littlefinger played with Sansa, who also is pretending to be his daughter. If Sansa is reprising Ashara here on her journey out of Kings Landing, the smuggler pirate pretended to be her father, but ultimately somehow brings Ned his sister or brought Ned to his sister. Something like that...will add my thoughts on this momentarily.
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Jul 12, 2017 2:08:45 GMT
As for your tree essay, I would look up the Asherah poles. These are either poles or trees used to worship Asherah by the Israelis. They were ordered to cut them down, along with any shrines to the god Baal (a bull headed god who was associated with the sacrifice of children, cough tower of joy cough). Anyway Asherah was lumped in with Baal as a forbidden idol. A book came out in 1967, called The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai. The book's theory was that the Israeli's originally worshipped two gods Yaweh and his bride Asherah. Later it became forbidden to worship the female goddess and her trees or poles were cut down.
There is also a biblical passage regarding Elijah. After Elijah slays the prophets of both Baal (the bull headed god) and Asherah, he sits under a Juniper tree and asks for God to take his life. I don't know why but the image reminds me of Ned sitting under the Weirwood after he takes the life of the Night's Watch deserter. My Trees essay focuses primarily on only two "sister" trees of Celtic lore, but given all the shared traits among various cultures' myths and gods, I have no doubt that there are other examples that tie in with 'my' trees. The bolded is really interesting - first thing I thought of was dying Maester Luwin asking Osha to take him to the heart tree and do what needed to be done. Wonder if there's a connection to be made there as well. Here are some possible hints. I'm not sure what Quence means, but there is a word "quince". It is a pear shaped fruit, that apparently leaves a bitter taste in one's mouth. It's been speculated that the quince fruit was the fruit of forbidden knowledge in the Garden of Eden. There is a Turkish expression, "to eat the quince". Which apparently refers to an upleasant situation or malevolent incident to avoid. It references the bitter taste that the quince leaves in one's mouth. While it is not the same thing as the Bael fruit, another name for the Bael fruit is the Bengal Quince. (It is also a derogatory name for someone with homosexual tendencies). Allaquo. The closest word I found was Alaqua, which is a Native American word for the American Sweet Gum Tree. A tree which has five pointed star shaped leaves and round spiky balls as fruit. It's also known as hazel pine, blisted, redgum, satin-walnut, star leaved gum, and alligatorwood (because the bark resembles the skin of an alligator). It also has a distinctive red sap. I think I may just rope you in to work on the Trees! This is good stuff. We clearly like pulling the same threads to see what unravels. Again though, fascinating that all these plants correlating to the story share similar characteristics.
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Post by Melifeather on Jul 12, 2017 3:06:32 GMT
Didn't snowfyre do a lot of work drawing parallels via botany? I seem to recall the stone apple discussion as standing out in my memory, which your stone fruit discussion brought to mind.
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Post by Melifeather on Jul 12, 2017 3:29:23 GMT
Part 3
**”The fisherman drowned” : this was covered in Part I, but to recap: there is no proof of the fisherman’s existence. **”his daughter got Stark to the Sisters before the boat went down.”: This is verification that Ned Stark had a woman physically with him. The fisherman’s daughter was a real person – a person that was not known to the people on Sweetsister who met her. **” They say he left her with a … bastard in her belly”: ** "They say he left her with a bag of silver”: The purpose of this chapter, the introduction of the Fisherman's Daughter, and the the reason we are given this tale through Davos, a former smuggler, is to draw attention to the finer details that point to an attempt by Ned Stark to knowingly smuggle a woman through/out of Westeros in the early days of the Rebellion. This woman was someone Ned knew well, yet someone whose identity and whereabouts needed to remain secret.
So....who could it be?? Who indeed? I agree a woman was brought to Ned by a smuggler/pirate pretending to be her father. This woman ultimately shared a room with Ned thus starting the rumors of the bastard belly, and ends up separated or left behind by Ned Stark. That person used the silver and booked passage on a ship just like Arya. IMO whoever that person was is now quite possibly Septa Lemore. I'd like to tie this up with a bow and state that Ned was expecting his sister and got Ashara. If not as the Fisherman's Daughter then later at the tower of joy. It is also my opinion that Arya retraced Lyanna's steps and that Sansa retraced Ashara's, but somewhere in the riverlands on the way to the Eyrie the two women trade places. I'd like to point out that Arya was on her way to the Eyrie, but never made it there while Sansa did. I'd also like to insert Arthur Dayne into the mix as the parallel to Sandor Clegane, so at one time Arthur was with Lyanna, and I'm thinking he fully intended to take her to Ned, but she gets injured. Around the time of her injury Ashara meets up with Lyanna and Arthur and Arthur decides to have Ashara take on Lyanna's identity for safety, brings her to Ned and Ned gives her the money and she takes a ship to Braavos effectively trading Sansa for Arya. Ned meanwhile goes to his sister. Arthur was the one to tell Ned where to find her. She's dying of her wounds somewhere, likely near the spot where Sandor was dying of his wounds when the septon found him and brought him to Saltpans. Perhaps Lyanna was brought to the Saltpans as well?
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Post by Melifeather on Jul 12, 2017 10:50:59 GMT
Part 3aIn addition, though I have absolutely nothing to base this on, Ned doesn’t strike me as a a guy prone to sexual proclivity. My gut says that Ned may have even been a virgin when he met up with this Fisherman’s Daughter - saving himself for his bride despite his "man's needs". I’m reminded of Sam Tarly with Gilly on their journey to Oldtown – forsaking his vows to the Night’s Watch in the presence of a young girl in his charge…as he is ferrying a king’s son to safety, I might add. Could Ned have also succumbed to his lesser angels with the young and beautiful Ashara Dayne while cooped up in the hull of a ship? Given himself and his honor (in the form of his virginity that should have been reserved for Catelyn, as Sam’s virginity should have been reserved for the Watch) to the maid in his care? Extra bonus points if there's also smuggling of a baby in the mix too, one that could be sheltered at White Harbor. Combine that with what we see unfold with son Robb and Jeyne Westerling - you know, where he kindof 'accidentally' sleeps with her while she's nursemaiding him and then promptly marries her afterward to preserve her name and dignity - and I think there may be something to the crackpot idea that Ned married Ashara Dayne "in sight of gods and men" while pledged to Catelyn Tully. (This adds an extra layer of deception on Ashara's part that I will go over later as well as discuss in the comments.) I like the comparisons between Ned and Sam Tarly, because if a baby swap occurred this is likely the time period in which it happened. I wonder what parallels we might find if we looked at the two accounts of Sam/Gilly on the ship and Ned/FD voyage. Sam/Gilly had Maester Aemon with them, but he died in port. Maester Aemon was like a father to Sam, so he could be the parallel to whomever was with Ned and the FD. I had attempted to match the parallels between Ned's journey with a pregnant female to Sam's journey with Gilly and came up with this: Lord Commander Jon Snow “Lord Commander” Bloodraven or perhaps Tywin Lannister Maester Aemon - father-figure Fisherman - (faux) father of daughter North of the Wall South in Kings Landing Mance Raydar - King Beyond the Wall Rhaegar Targaryen - the King of the South who never was Gilly Wylla (Lyanna or Ashara) Mance’s son Rhaegar’s son Gilly’s son - not a bastard - yet a child of incest Wylla’s son - bastard child - may or may not be child of incest Samwell Tarly - not the father, but had sex with the mother Ned Stark - either the real father or believes he's the father, outsiders believed he had sex with the mother Jon swapped Mance's son for Gilly’s son to protect Mance’s son. Bloodraven/Tywin swapped Rhaegar's son for Wylla’s son to protect Rhaegar’s son. Mance’s son went with Sam to keep him safe away from the Wall. Rhaegar’s son went or was supposed to go with Ned to keep him safe and eventually go to the Wall.
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Jul 12, 2017 15:39:30 GMT
Have thoughts along these lines as well- will address tonight from my desktop!
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Post by Melifeather on Jul 12, 2017 15:40:28 GMT
Have thoughts along these lines as well- will address tonight from my desktop! It just occurred to me that the Fisherman could have been Maester Walys, which would parallel Maester Aemon quite nicely! Adding to the inversion... Sam and Gilly were sent on their merry way by the Lord Commander, whereas Ned and Wylla were fleeing a lord commander. Sam brought Gilly to his father's house, and Ned brought Wylla to his father's house. With Sam, the baby swap occurred before he and Gilly left, and he didn't know the child was Mance's until Maester Aemon clued him in on the ship. With Ned, did the baby swap also occur before he and Wylla left? And did he know for sure the identity of the child and who the father was? I think the key is that Jon was said to have strong Stark features. It would help if we knew for sure that Jon was a bastard child born of incest. Then we could be relatively sure that Lyanna was his mother and Ashara was the Fisherman's Daughter. The "father" was played by Maester Walys. Jon is born on the Quiet Isle, Lyanna dies, but Arthur Dayne is there as well as Ashara who is nursing a baby. Ashara is physically able to become Wylla - wet-nurse to Jon. Her baby was swapped for Rhaegar's son Aegon. Her baby-daddy was Brandon, and the baby was the "Pisswater Prince" that Varys mentioned. Ashara tells Ned that she had given birth to Brandon's (or Ned's) son, but he was swapped for Aegon, and that her child was likely dead, and this may be the reason Ned may have gone south...to look for this child. Ned helps Ashara buy passage on a ship, spiriting away Rhaegar's son with her. This would mean Aegon is the real deal, and Septa Lemore is Ashara. So how in the heck did Arthur get there you may ask? I am using the information that is in The Queenmaker chapter that describes how Ser Arys brought Myrcella to meet with Arianne at the well where she is attacked by GEROLD Dayne aka Darkstar. Myrcella is a parallel to Lyanna (as well as Arya), and I suspect Lyanna was injured by Ser GEROLD Hightower before Arthur is able to save her. In this parallel Ser Arys is Arthur Dayne, and it is telling that Ser Arys was killed by Areo Hotah who was the Captain of Guards for Doran Martell. The Captain of Guards in Lyanna's day was likely Ser Ilyn Payne. The question is why would Ser Gerold Hightower try to kill Lyanna? Jaime gives us two tiny peeks into Hightower's persona. 1) He's not a person to question why, "You swore a vow to guard the king, not to judge him.", and 2) Jaime sarcastically says, "That was the White Bull, loyal to the end and a better man than me, all agree." So here's what I'm thinking. Cersei organized Lyanna's capture. It's staged to make it appear it was done by Rhaegar with Jaime or alternately with Robert Baratheon dressed in a copy of Rhaegar's armor, something that would not be out of reach for a Lannister to pay for. Somehow Hightower is convinced he is acting on King's orders to kill Lyanna. Is it possible that Hightower also believed the man in the armor was Rhaegar? Arthur Dayne, knowing it/he couldn't possibly be Rhaegar, swoops in and rescues Lyanna along with Maester Walys, but not before she suffers a sword wound. Arthur came upon the kidnapping party while on his own smuggling mission to get his sister Ashara out of Kings Landing. The four of them then travel towards the Eyrie to get to Ned.
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Jul 13, 2017 0:07:09 GMT
Didn't snowfyre do a lot of work drawing parallels via botany? snowfyre wrote up the wonderful essay on the Gillyflower and the apples, yes. In fact, I believe the Trees essay will delve into a couple of the topics he was exploring in relation to the gillyflower.
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Post by Melifeather on Jul 13, 2017 0:08:32 GMT
Sorry...I'm still editing my last post. Re-read it now for the most current update.
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Jul 13, 2017 1:06:15 GMT
I'd like to tie this up with a bow and state that Ned was expecting his sister and got Ashara. I will go along with this...I think my bow is going to be very messy and loose enough to fall apart at any moment, though. This may take a while to lay out, so bear with me - I haven't organized my thoughts on this yet! Overall, yes, I think this is probably the scenario - my suspicion is that we have a similar situation as with Cat and Tyrion. Like Cat's 'abduction' of Tyrion a the Inn of the Crossroads, Lyanna went missing (supposedly 'abducted' by Rhaegar) in the Riverlands. Given that the IotC is approximately "10 leagues from Harrenhal", it may have even been at the same place, I dunno. Cat drags Tyrion to the Eyrie in secret, and later Jaime - older brother to the abducted party - races back to King's Landing to demand that Ned 'come out and die', basically. Parallel there is pretty clear. However, there are three parts that are overlooked here: 1) Catelyn, the 'abductor', is the spouse of the person that gets threatened in King's Landing. 2) Tyrion, the 'abductee' and 'little brother', was taken and accused of a crime he didn't commit. 3) The crime of which he was accused was the attempted murder-for-hire of the abductor's child. This leads to an interesting conundrum, no? IMO, this is where the inversions come in to play - except that I don't believe GRRM is going to make the pre-Rebellion scenario an exact match or an exact flip. There will be some tailored substitution, which I'll come back to after I get kids to bed.
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Post by Melifeather on Jul 13, 2017 1:16:57 GMT
I'd like to tie this up with a bow and state that Ned was expecting his sister and got Ashara. I will go along with this...I think my bow is going to be very messy and loose enough to fall apart at any moment, though. This may take a while to lay out, so bear with me - I haven't organized my thoughts on this yet! Overall, yes, I think this is probably the scenario - my suspicion is that we have a similar situation as with Cat and Tyrion. Like Cat's 'abduction' of Tyrion a the Inn of the Crossroads, Lyanna went missing (supposedly 'abducted' by Rhaegar) in the Riverlands. Given that the IotC is approximately "10 leagues from Harrenhal", it may have even been at the same place, I dunno. Cat drags Tyrion to the Eyrie in secret, and later Jaime - older brother to the abducted party - races back to King's Landing to demand that Ned 'come out and die', basically. Parallel there is pretty clear. However, there are three parts that are overlooked here: 1) Catelyn, the 'abductor', is the spouse of the person that gets threatened in King's Landing. 2) Tyrion, the 'abductee' and 'little brother', was taken and accused of a crime he didn't commit. 3) The crime of which he was accused was the attempted murder-for-hire of the abductor's child. This leads to an interesting conundrum, no? IMO, this is where the inversions come in to play - except that I don't believe GRRM is going to make the pre-Rebellion scenario an exact match or an exact flip. There will be some tailored substitution, which I'll come back to after I get kids to bed. OK, I'll play. Cersei is ultimately the abductor whether she was there in person or not, so she's Catelyn's parallel. Her "spouse" is/was Jaime, so this would help solidify that he was the one wearing the armor. The murder-for-hire were the people involved in kidnapping Lyanna. The kidnappers meant to drag Lyanna (and Maester Walys) west towards Casterly Rock. Catelyn holding Tyrion, evades capture, the pursuers heading north towards Winterfell while Catelyn continues to the Eyrie. The kidnappers are foiled by pursuers, namely Arthur Dayne, who recaptures Lyanna and takes her east towards the Eyrie. Brandon races to King's Landing to demand Rhaegar-Jaime to come out and die. Rhaegar is actually the one accused of a crime that he didn't commit, and Rhaegar is the child of the King who is also blameless. And that is why Aerys was so angry.
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Jul 13, 2017 4:46:54 GMT
"Mom, will another asteroid like the one that killed the dinosaurs ever hit Earth again?" "Uhhhhh...well, um, you know, our moon does a pretty good job at blocking those, actually..." "What about the asteroids that it doesn't block? It didn't block the one that killed the dinosaurs." "Go to bed." Oy. Anyway, back to the abduction. I want to tie Ashara Dayne into this, so let me back up just a second and recap two thoughts - these are my speculations and they may or may not be true or worth anything, but it explains my line of reasoning. 1) As per the FD essay, Ashara is the Dark Sister - the seductress, the sorceress, the bringer of plague, the tree of strife. Not a good girl, in other words. 2) It is my opinion that Lyanna was the Stark that Ashara "looked to" after the Tourney of Harrenhal. See most recent version at Westeros HERE . *warning - digression ahead * So, I wanted to think about those ideas in tandem and how they would tie in with an abduction parallel. I was also considering freyfamilyreunion's theory about child sacrifice and creating the dragon/chimera with human consciousness, and his idea that Rhaegar was planning something using child's blood for a "three heads of the dragon" mind-bind experiment. This also ties into House Dayne, believe it or not: did some quick digging, and confirmed my suspicions - the only Targaryen-Dayne marriage in Westeros history was between Maekar and Dyanna Dayne...who are of course the parents of Aegon V, probable mastermind of Summerhall, the last known attempt to wake a dragon. Why is that important? Well, it may not be, but it is suspicious that the only Targ/Dayne union we have produced 6 kids: Daeron the Drunk, Aerion Brightflame, Aemon, Aegon, Daella, and Rhae. These 6 people are the only ones on Planetos that possess specifically this bloodline. Daeron died relatively young after having a feeble-minded daughter with Kiera of Tyrosh; Aerion wildfire'd himself after having a son with cousin Daenora; we know about Aemon; we know about Aegon; we know that Rhae and Daella married and had kids, but no other details on them.** **Personally, I think they are dead - this quote from Aemon leads me to believe that they died along with their young children: If Egg and Daeron are dead and Aemon wonders if he will see them again when he passes, I think it's safe to say that Rhae and Daella and the children that they would be singing to are dead as well. Summerhall would be my guess. Point being, it's unique, and the only person currently ALIVE in the story (or was, anyway) that has it is Maester Aemon. Or so we think....but what if there's another? Aemon is talking about Dany, obviously. To backtrack a sec, let's think about Aemon's famous sibling, Egg. (Sorry, I know I'm all over the place - I told you I hadn't organized this yet!) Aegon became dragon-happy toward the end of his reign, with that obsession culminating in Summerhall. Although we don't know what the true intent or the process was, it was widely agreed that Summerhall was an attempt to hatch a dragon. And he did - the dragon was Rhaegar. Of course, Aegon and his eldest son Duncan both died in the fire - first the father and then the son, so both die kings, right? But here's the thing - Aegon was not only a unique blood mix himself - so was HIS father Maekar, as the product of the first-ever union between Targaryen and Martell, and so was Duncan the Small - child of Targaryen ( mixed with Martell and Dayne) and Blackwood - a line rumored to have skinchanging ability. Although Egg's kids are not the FIRST offspring of Targ and Blackwood (looking at you, Bloodraven), they were the only ones AROUND at the time of Summerhall. So when the tragedy of Summerhall occurred, individuals representing three unique bloodlines of varying dilution were present - and a child possessing all three bloodlines in one was born that day, and he became known as the Last Dragon...and he became the Last Dragon because those three bloodlines were given to the fire. However, I don't think the last dragon as a person was what the Targaryens were going for, or what Aegon had in mind when he set up that ceremony. I think Rhaegar believed he found a way to tweak the recipe. Fast-forward to the Rebellion and a Crown Prince who was up to something regarding a prophecy involving three heads of the dragon. This Crown Prince is married to a Martell and has children by her - Targaryen/Martell. The important ingredients are still missing though - a Dayne and a bloodline of skinchangers. My crackpot is that House Dayne was totally down with the plan, whereas the skinchanger house was not. And since it is late, I will continue with my total conjecture and how Ashara (and Arthur) may be involved tomorrow.
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