Ned is dreaming of the undoing of the Sword of the Morning and the release of the Others to come again, the return of the Long Night due to the killing of Arthur Dayne.
Are you suggesting that was the catalyst for the Others return????
The blade was Valyrian steel, spell-forged and dark as smoke. Nothing held an edge like Valyrian steel.
The timing works out pretty well. We know that Waymar Royce was not the first ranger to go missing, we know that Gared was the fourth black brother that year whom Ned executed for abandoning his post, and we know that Mance rose to power and was able to unify far different groups of wildlings mainly due to the threat of the Others. And, we know that Mance accomplished those things only after Jon was born, because Mance saw Jon as a boy at Winterfell before he went awol.
So I'm thinking the killing of the Sword of the Morning, by a Stark King of Winter, undid a balance that had been maintained since the Long Night when the First Sword of the Morning cast down the First King of Winter (Night's King). And the latter's sword, once known as Ice, thenceforth became associated with the end of the Long Night: Dawn.
Check out my Ice=Dawn theory sometime and let me know what you think!
"I can see it. You have more of the north in you than your brothers."
The timing works out pretty well. We know that Waymar Royce was not the first ranger to go missing, we know that Gared was the fourth black brother that year whom Ned executed for abandoning his post, and we know that Mance rose to power and was able to unify far different groups of wildlings mainly due to the threat of the Others. And, we know that Mance accomplished those things only after Jon was born, because Mance saw Jon as a boy at Winterfell before he went awol.
So I'm thinking the killing of the Sword of the Morning, by a Stark King of Winter, undid a balance that had been maintained since the Long Night when the First Sword of the Morning cast down the First King of Winter (Night's King). And the latter's sword, once known as Ice, thenceforth became associated with the end of the Long Night: Dawn.
Check out my Ice=Dawn theory sometime and let me know what you think!
I'm on it.
The blade was Valyrian steel, spell-forged and dark as smoke. Nothing held an edge like Valyrian steel.