How Ice Became Dawn (Updated)
Feb 6, 2016 18:19:30 GMT
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Post by voice on Feb 6, 2016 18:19:30 GMT
[HASH]Dawn=[HASH]Ice
Here's how it all went down... except for the origin of the Others, which is covered in the thread A Weirwood Ghost.
In my thinking, Ned returned Dawn to Starfall because he knew his House no longer had any claim to it. Dawn/Ice represents the dark history of House (Star+Dark) Stark. And that shamed Ned. That sword now belongs to House (Day+Dawn) Dayne.
UPDATE:
Here's how it all went down... except for the origin of the Others, which is covered in the thread A Weirwood Ghost.
- A winter that lasts a generation comes, the people name it "the Long Night"
- In that darkness the Others came for the first time
- The Others sweep over the many kingdoms (and walls) of the First Men (with their ice spiders )
- The armies of men lost the North, including what is now Winterfell...
- A greenseer reached out to a man named Brandon from the roots of the heart tree, located in what has since become Winterfell's godswood...
- A man named Brandon called together many "watchers" from many walls, and consolidated them into a brotherhood named "the Night's Watch"
- This man set out into the frozen dead lands, with his fellow 12 leaders of the Night's Watch, who were all destroyed, along with his horse, dog, and sword
- He was desperate, like a direwolf running across an ice-white field (see sigil of House Stark), when the cotf rescued him...
- There, the place where it will soon be said that The Winter, fell, he learned ancient magics from the greenseer
- When he returned to the Night's Watch, the Others could not stand against him
- He won back some of the frozen dead lands (the North)
- He set about building a great wall of ice along the northern boundary of the lands he saved (to protect the godswood of his mentor)
- This man named Brandon became known as "the Builder"
- By day, he became known as the (last) Hero, and the 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch
- One night, as he was building, he glimpsed a woman with skin as pale as the moon and eyes like bright glowing stars
- Fearless, he took her and gave her his seed, and his soul as well
- Brandon develops split personalities, and becomes a double agent...
- By day: he was a man like any other, a father to his trueborn children, a husband to his wife, a hero of the First Men, and a leader of his sworn brothers (note the vow repeated at the Black Gate does not include the 'father no children' admonition)
- By night: he was a man unlike any other, he named himself king and his pale woman queen, made sacrifices to the Others, and bound his sworn brothers with sorcery
- It was discovered he had been making sacrifices to the Others (most likely in secret, through the Black Gate)
- A sworn brother disarmed this Long Night's King of Winter, freed his brothers from bondage, and claimed his pale, milkglass sword, and it became known as Dawn [Dawn of the Day(ne)]
- Exiled, Night's King retreated with the Others and the Long Night came to an end.
- The sworn brother that cast him down became known as he who ended the long night, he who "brought the dawn" (Lightbringer) and the "sword of the morning."
- The descendants of Brandon the Builder say that Winter is Coming, and name their new ancestral sword Ice in remembrance of the shame of their House, the origin of their House, or, as a reminder that their House will return to power with the coming winter.
In my thinking, Ned returned Dawn to Starfall because he knew his House no longer had any claim to it. Dawn/Ice represents the dark history of House (Star+Dark) Stark. And that shamed Ned. That sword now belongs to House (Day+Dawn) Dayne.
UPDATE:
- There has not been a Sword of the Morning for seventeen conspicuous years.
- We have a bastard of questionable parentage who is now seventeen.
- Clearly, Jon is at least half Stark. (see weirwood-colored direwolf)
- Only a Dayne can wield Dawn.
- Jon is half Stark, half Dayne. (Either by Arthur+Lyanna, or Eddard+Ashara)