Post by voice on Nov 27, 2015 20:38:22 GMT
Yeah--I was re-reading the "Cat takes a Lion" ( vs. ) and Cat's just fine until she sees Tyrion flinging gold coins about. It says something like all she can see is Bran choking on blood--literally seeing red. I really think Marillion is the echo for Rhaegar in that scene--a Bard (who Rodrick thinks is a fool to prefer harps to swords), talking about earning so much money at a tournament, until he lost it all betting on Jaime Lannister instead of the Knight of the Flowers--flowers/roses cost him everything. But if Rhaegar is the bard, who's seeing red? Was he sent by one seeing red? And got caught up, as does Marillion? We need to know who were Rhaegar's "half a dozen companions." Note that even in the Inn scene, Tyrion, who really can't fight effectively, only has two guards/servants. And Yoren. Why did Rhaegar need "half a dozen?"
Along this same parallel, I'd think Tyrion is the one seeing red. Cat wonders more than once if he is actually her prisoner by journey's end. He began bound, and ended up armed and leading his own guard. And, we know from Tyrion's POV he was seeing red. He vowed to repay the debt owed Catelyn and Lysa, and LF. Both Tyrion and Marillion end up in the sky cells, where it just so happens there is writing on the wall that appears to have been streaked in blood.
A Game of Thrones - Eddard X
"And now it begins," said Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning. He unsheathed Dawn and held it with both hands. The blade was pale as milkglass, alive with light.
"No," Ned said with sadness in his voice. "Now it ends." As they came together in a rush of steel and shadow, he could hear Lyanna screaming. "Eddard!" she called. A storm of rose petals blew across a blood-streaked sky, as blue as the eyes of death.
"And now it begins," said Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning. He unsheathed Dawn and held it with both hands. The blade was pale as milkglass, alive with light.
"No," Ned said with sadness in his voice. "Now it ends." As they came together in a rush of steel and shadow, he could hear Lyanna screaming. "Eddard!" she called. A storm of rose petals blew across a blood-streaked sky, as blue as the eyes of death.
In the sky cell, Tyrion fears the blue will begin calling to him as well...blue as the eyes of death. The similarities between the Eyrie and Dawn should also be mentioned. Fair warning, you will notice my own Dawn=NK's Ice bias here:
From the wiki
It is situated in the Mountains of the Moon astride the peak known as the Giant's Lance, several thousand feet above the valley below. Although small compared to the seats of other Great Houses in Westeros, the Eyrie is considered impregnable to attack. During winter years, the Arryns seek refuge against the cold at the base of the mountain in the Gates of the Moon.
So we have a swordlike house in the Mountains of the Moon (pale queen of NK), astride a peak (pointy end, needle = sword) known as the Giant's Lance (an old race member possessing another pointy end), several thousand feet above the valley below...(Bran looked at the crow on his shoulder, and the crow looked back. It had three eyes, and the third eye was full of a terrible knowledge. Bran looked down. There was nothing below him now but snow and cold and death, a frozen wasteland where jagged blue-white spires of ice waited to embrace him. They flew up at him like spears. He saw the bones of a thousand other dreamers impaled upon their points. He was desperately afraid.)
Although small compared to the seats (swords? weirwood thrones? political power? not sure...) of other great houses, the Eyrie (Dawn) is considered impregnable to attack...(The Smiling Knight was a madman, cruelty and chivalry all jumbled up together, but he did not know the meaning of fear. And Dayne, with Dawn in hand . . . The outlaw's longsword had so many notches by the end that Ser Arthur had stopped to let him fetch a new one. "It's that white sword of yours I want," the robber knight told him as they resumed, though he was bleeding from a dozen wounds by then. "Then you shall have it, ser," the Sword of the Morning replied, and made an end of it.)
During winter years, the Arryns seek refuge "against the cold" below the hilt of the wintery blade.
The whole Gates of the Moon thing reminds me of the Black Gate, and NK and his Moon Queen making secret sacrifices to the Others... as does the "Moon Door."
Possibly, but the false springs ends BEFROE Rhaegar takes Lyanna. That's why Aerys is Burning away the Cold.
Small quibble: though it is canonical to state so, I'm not convinced Rhaegar ever took Lyanna.
Back to our train of thought... if Aerys is burning away the cold, dampening the powers of winter, seeking to halt the winds, etc... might Lyanna's trek have been an instinctual/wolf-blooded reaction? She was the girl who liked the winter roses after all, those who bloom with the cold.
I wonder if it comes back to freyfamilyreunion's analysis of Howland and Lyanna as May Queen and Green Man. The Starks and the Reeds allying to deal with Winter can result in a spring. But. . . didn't go right there. So, Meera and Jojen now seeking out Bran?