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The Hous of the Undying

 

During the lapse of time passed in the House of the Undying, Dany hears and watches many things. Some of those visions are prophetic, some are reflexes from her past, some others are portrayals of a future that will never be real.

“In one room, a beautiful woman sprawled naked on the floor while four little men crawled over her...One was pumping between her thighs. Another savaged her breasts, worrying at the nipples with his red wet mouth, tearing and chewing.”

This one in commonly considered like a representation of the beautiful Westeros continent, “tormented” and “raped” by the four remaining kings that are fighting over it (Renly is already dead at this time of the story).

 


“Farther on she came upon a feast of corpses. Savagely slaughtered, the feasters lay strewn across overturned chairs and hacked trestle tables, asprawl in pools of congealing blood. Some had lost limbs, even heads. Savaged limbs clutched bloody cups, wooden spoons, roast fowl, heels of bread. On a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with mute appeal.”


This one is clearly a description of the Red Wedding. The man with the wolf head and the iron crown is Robb, depicted in the way Freys sewed the head of Gray Wind on his body.


“I know this room, she thought. She remembered those great wooden beams and the carved animal faces that adorned them. And there outside the window, a lemon tree!”


This is the house with the red door in Braavos where Dany and Viserys lived with Ser Willem Darry.


“Beyond loomed a cavernous stone hall, the largest she had seen. The skulls of dead dragons looked down from its walls. Upon a towering barbed throne sat an old man in rich robes, an old man with dark eyes and long silver-gray hair. “Let him be king over charred bones and cooked meat,” he said to a man below him. “Let him be the king of ashes.”


This one is Aerys, who's ordering Rossart to burn King's Landing with wildfire. This is the scene Jaime described to Brienne in “A Storm of Swords”.


“The man had her brother’s hair, but he was taller, and his eyes were a dark indigo rather than lilac. “Aegon,” he said to a woman nursing a newborn babe in a great wooden bed. “What better name for a king?”

“Will you make a song for him?” the woman asked.

“He has a song,” the man replied. “He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.”

He looked up when he said it and his eyes met Dany, and it seemed as if he saw her standing there beyond the door.

“There must be one more,” he said, though whether he was speaking to her or the woman in bed she could not say. “The dragon has three heads.”


This man is Rhaegar, the woman Elia, the baby Aegon. It seems like Rhaegar knows some kind of prophecy about the Prince who was Promised and a dragon with three heads. Rhaegar seems to believe that two of the three heads are represented by his sons Rhaenys and Aegon, but maybe he could be mistaken, because Rhaenys was killed. There is some chance that Aegon is still alive, and Daenerys could take Rhaenys' place. Jon Snow could be the third head of the dragon, if it should turn out that he is Rhaegar and Lyanna's son, even if it was never certainly proved.The song of Ice and Fire is misterious in the same way, probably a passage of the prophecy Rhaegar discovered.


...Mother of dragons...child of three...three heads has the dragon...mother of dragons...child of storm...


“Three heads has the dragon” is the same thing that Rhaegar stated.
“Mother of Dragons”refers to the fact that Dany has awaken her three dragons from the stone eggs. “Child of Storm” refers to the storm in which Dany was born. “Child of three” is a bit more misterious. It could refer to the fact she was re-born with her three dragons, or it could be due to the repetition of number three, that occurs in the following prophecies.


“...three fires must you light...one for life and one for death and one to love...”


The first fire is the one Dany lit on Drogo's funeral pyre, in which the dragons came to life.

The fire for death could point out the one Drogon unleashed against the Undying Ones, killing them all. Or it could represent the dragons' fire that will be used against the Others. There is still something uncertain.

At the end, the third fire is “ a fire to love”. Its meaning remains uncertain: maybe she will light a fire to kill her enemies or the Others, and she's going to love it...

 

 


“...three mounts must you ride...one to bed and one to dread and one to love...”


The one mounted to pleasure is probably Drogo. The one to dread could be any of her dragons, which her enemies will fear, or a person whom Dany will come to fear. Some readers believe, at the end, that the mount to love shows that Dany will fall in love with Jon Snow, but this is only a mere conjecture.

 


“...three treasons will you know...once for blood and once for gold and once for love...”


The treason for blood could seem the one commited by Mirri Maz Duur, who causes the death of Rhaego, Dany's child. The other treasons aren't happened yet (in fact Jorah didn't accepted the gold for his betrayal and the reason that claims he did it for his House's sake doesn't seem so likely).
If we assume that Dany will fall in love with Jon and she wil desire to marry him, the treason for love could be commited by Jon who, in Dany's sake, will betray his oath as Night Watch's member.

 

 


“Viserys screamed as the molten gold ran down his cheeks and into his mouth. A tall lord with copper-gold skin and silvery 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...”


“Daughter of death” suggests that these are three important deaths in Dany's life. The first is the Viserys's one; the second person is Rhaego, or Rhaego as he could have become if he had lived. The third is Rhaegar, killed by Robert at Ruby Ford. It remains a doubt about the woman's name the Prince of Dragonstone uttered: Elia or Lyanna?

 


“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 amid a cheering crowd. From a stone tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire...mother of dragons...slayer of lies...”


Again, “slayer of lies” involves the fact that these are three lies Dany will prove wrong. The first vision shows Stannis holding Lightbringer in his hand. It seems like Dany will prove Stannis is not Azor Ahai reborn. The second vision depict a mummer's dragon. Dany explains later to Jorah that it is a cloth on some wooden stakes mummers use in their exhibitions in order to give the hero something to fight against. Perhaps it's the war Littlefinger seems to foment, or one of Varys and Illyrio's plots.

The dragon seems to be the one Melisandre want Stannis to raise; Dany will prove this one is a lie as well.




“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 on his dead face, gray 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 death...”


In this occasion the italian translation is wrong, seeing that the original version is “bride of death”, by the way the main word is “bride”...are these the three husbands of Dany? The first scene represents Dany riding to the river where she consummated the marriage with Drogo. The second is harder to figure out. It has been suggested that “the gray lips smiling sadly” may be translated with gray+joy, pointing out that Dany will start a relationship with Theon or Euron. The third vision is a blue rose that's growing on the Wall. Seeing that the blue rose is Lyanna's favourite flower, this could suggest that Jon is her son and Dany will fall in love with him. What's more, if we compare this passage with the one about the three mounts it could be possible they represent the same people.

 


“Shadows whirled and danced inside a tent, boneless and terrible.”

Mirri Maz Duur who's summoning the shadows to try and revive Drogo.

 


“A little girl ran barefoot toward a big house with a red door.”

Dany and her house in Braavos with Willem Darry.

 


“Mirri Maz Duur shrieked in the flames, a dragon bursting from her brow.”

Dany burning alive Mirri Maz Duur on Drogo's funeral pile, generating ther three dragons.

 


“Behind a silver horse the bloody corpse of a man bounced and dragged.”

This is what happened to the wine seller who tried to poison Dany.

 


“A white lion ran through grass taller than a man.”

It has been suggested that the lion represents Jaime or Tyrion – Jaime because the lion is white, or Tyrion because seems to be smaller than grass. By the way, according to the other scenes in this section, that are all parts of Dany's life, it seems more likely that the white lion is simply the hrakkar, killed by Drogo to make a coat for Dany out of it.

 


“Beneath the Mother of Mountains, a line of naked crones crept from a great lake and knelt shivering before her, gray heads bowed.”

That's when the dosh khaleen ploclaimed that Dany is carrying in her womb the stallion who mounts the world.

 


“Ten thousand slaves lifted bloodstained hands as she raced by on her silver, riding like the wind. “Mother!” they cried. “Mother, Mother!”

That's Dany's liberation of the slaves in Yunkai, later in the story.


 

Quaithie's Prophecy


Quaithe, the enigmatic woman in the red lacquer mask, says to Dany a strange phrase, that colud be prophetic:

"To go north, you must go south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow."
Asshai, Dany thought. She would have me go to Asshai. "Will the Asshai'i give me an army?" she demanded. "Will there be gold for me in Asshai? Will there be ships? What is there in Asshai that I will not find in Qarth?"
"Truth," said the woman in the mask. And bowing, she faded back into the crowd.

It's a strange quote: some readers believe that Dany should journey to Asshai for some reason before she decides to invade Westeros. Others claims that Dany will sail all around the world, a never before accomplished endeavour, and attack Westeros from the West.

 

 

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