Post by danl on Oct 11, 2018 20:17:10 GMT
And if there is a third entity in play?
My theory is third entity. Maybe a person, maybe something else. It seems likely that someone (or something) is sending dreams, visions, prophecies. Some force is re-animating the dead, then they retain much of themselves but lose something of themselves. I can't get much beyond this and am not satisfied with any theory of who, what, or how many. I think it is more than one and I suspect that there are opposed forces at work. I hadn't noticed signs of possession in Gregor's "healing" process, but it fits the notion that re-animation involves possession.
If not a physical connection, what kind of connection are you thinking for this?
It is possible that it is just a literary parallel. But I suspect that the various tunnels around the world have some function that we have not yet discovered. Maybe people were trying to access something below the surface of the earth. Maybe something that lives underground was trying to access the surface. Maybe some combination of those. Maybe underground shelters were needed (similar to Byzantium). The connection I am looking for is a common purpose
That sounds like a July type of enterprise!
Oh, that sounds wonderful! Cold and all!
I spend time on rivers in summer. But the cooler months have their own joys. The colors were amazing. And the cooler the weather, the greater the liklihood of avoiding people. We do tend to avoid any serious whitewater in the cooler months, though.
Dany might not think out loud what she was doing, but hatching was certainly my impression on my first read and the subsequent ones.
There is a definite odd feeling to her thoughts as she handles the eggs. It seems possible that she is trying to hatch the eggs, but it is almost as if she is simply acting under some compulsion, as if she heats the eggs because she thinks they need to be heated. Even the elaborate ritual around Drogo's funeral pyre, it is not at all clear that she was doing it to hatch eggs
That said, I think there is an oddness to Dany overall and I am not sure that she is who she claims to be. So she may have been taught some things about dragon eggs. When people are role-playing, GRRM doesn't alway have them thinking "I am really ***, not ***." But that is a matter for another thread