Post by freyfamilyreunion on Oct 18, 2015 19:10:50 GMT
I pretty much agree with the idea of Targaryen sacrifice at Summerhall. And my general thought is, Lord Commander Duncan the tall put the kibosh on everything.
If you start looking at the various prophecies surrounding dragons, I think we can start to piece things together. First, two kings to wake the dragon, first the father, then the son so both die kings. At Summerhall the two Targaryens who were killed were Aegon V and his eldest son, Duncan the Small. We don't associate their deaths with the prophecy because Duncan the Small had previously renounced the throne. However, he's still the eldest son of the King and I wonder if one can escape prophecy that easily? Plus we really don't know whether Aegon V renamed Duncan the Small his heir at Summerhall keeping his eye on the prophecy. No one speaks of the events of Summerhall and the only one still alive at the time of Robert's rebellion would have been Aerys, Rahella, and perhaps Gerold Hightower.
Then we get to the Prince that was Promised. I think that this might have been the intended third sacrifice at Summerhall. In the House of the Undying vision, Rhaegar names his son Aegon as the Prince that was Promised, and Elia asks Rhaegar if he is going to make a song about their son. Elia's question raises a big red flag to me. In almost every instance, when someone mentions making a song for someone, it serves as a way to memoraliaze their legacy after their death. So I wonder, if Elia thought that her son's status as Rhaegar's Prince that was Promised meant he was due to be sacrificed.
Then we get to the three heads of the dragon. Everyone interprets this as three dragon riders, but it doesn't really make much sense. Dany happened to have three dragon eggs that hatched, but we don't know the number of dragon eggs that Rhaegar may have had (if any) that he hoped to use to make dragon riders of his descendants. Now of course, it could just mean three ruling Targaryens kind of sort of like Aegon the conqueror and his two sisters. But I have a different interpretation. Two kings to "wake" or hatch the dragon, then what's the purpose of a third sacrifice?
My guess is the three sacrifices, are needed to not only "wake" a dragon, but to fulfill a prophecy, that as far as we know has never been done in the history of Valyrian dragon riders. When Aemon said the riddle is the sphinx, I think he was referring to Valyrian sphinxes. The bodies of a dragon with the head of a man. I think they were looking to create a dragon controlled by the psyche/mind of the Targaryens. Much like the Stark direwolves (especially Ghost) seem to almost have a human equivelant intellect, my guess is the Targaryens were looking to create a dragon with similar or greater intellect.
I think we see this line of thinking with the psychosis of both Aerion and Aerys. Both were obsessed with the death of their human form only to be reborn in the body of a dragon.
If you start looking at the various prophecies surrounding dragons, I think we can start to piece things together. First, two kings to wake the dragon, first the father, then the son so both die kings. At Summerhall the two Targaryens who were killed were Aegon V and his eldest son, Duncan the Small. We don't associate their deaths with the prophecy because Duncan the Small had previously renounced the throne. However, he's still the eldest son of the King and I wonder if one can escape prophecy that easily? Plus we really don't know whether Aegon V renamed Duncan the Small his heir at Summerhall keeping his eye on the prophecy. No one speaks of the events of Summerhall and the only one still alive at the time of Robert's rebellion would have been Aerys, Rahella, and perhaps Gerold Hightower.
Then we get to the Prince that was Promised. I think that this might have been the intended third sacrifice at Summerhall. In the House of the Undying vision, Rhaegar names his son Aegon as the Prince that was Promised, and Elia asks Rhaegar if he is going to make a song about their son. Elia's question raises a big red flag to me. In almost every instance, when someone mentions making a song for someone, it serves as a way to memoraliaze their legacy after their death. So I wonder, if Elia thought that her son's status as Rhaegar's Prince that was Promised meant he was due to be sacrificed.
Then we get to the three heads of the dragon. Everyone interprets this as three dragon riders, but it doesn't really make much sense. Dany happened to have three dragon eggs that hatched, but we don't know the number of dragon eggs that Rhaegar may have had (if any) that he hoped to use to make dragon riders of his descendants. Now of course, it could just mean three ruling Targaryens kind of sort of like Aegon the conqueror and his two sisters. But I have a different interpretation. Two kings to "wake" or hatch the dragon, then what's the purpose of a third sacrifice?
My guess is the three sacrifices, are needed to not only "wake" a dragon, but to fulfill a prophecy, that as far as we know has never been done in the history of Valyrian dragon riders. When Aemon said the riddle is the sphinx, I think he was referring to Valyrian sphinxes. The bodies of a dragon with the head of a man. I think they were looking to create a dragon controlled by the psyche/mind of the Targaryens. Much like the Stark direwolves (especially Ghost) seem to almost have a human equivelant intellect, my guess is the Targaryens were looking to create a dragon with similar or greater intellect.
I think we see this line of thinking with the psychosis of both Aerion and Aerys. Both were obsessed with the death of their human form only to be reborn in the body of a dragon.