AFFC Prologue: Pate (a Novice at the Citadel)

Apr 23, 2016 17:40:19 GMT SlyWren said:

Is this the parallel you are thinking for Lyanna? Either Arthur or Rhaegar?

• not smart
  
• only sees the girl's beauty
  
• he never really knew her
  
• poisoned
  
• dies thinking of her
  

• threatens to take the Rose(y) maiden from Pate (Robert).
  
• is a fan of the higher mysteries
• higher-born than Pate (Robert)
  
• handsome
• believes in dragons
  

• "the sphinx was the riddle, not the riddler"
  
• Dornish
  
• a clue as to gender swap (again, if Sarella)
• (if Sarella,) is a clue that the answer to a riddle it is not a man, but a woman (Jon's connection to WF)
• keeper of secrets (smiling at a jape only "he" knows)
• missed the last shot (died at the tower of joy)
• slim, slight (like a sword)
• eyes of onyx (might fit Arthur, might not, but it fits Jon)
  
• A Dance with Dragons - Tyrion XI
  That seemed to amuse the sellsword.¹ "Who told you that?"
  "No one. Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.² Talking dragons, dragons hoarding gold and gems³, dragons with four legs⁴ and bellies big as elephants, dragons riddling with sphinxes⁵ … nonsense, all of it.⁶ But there are truths in the old books as well.⁷ Not only do I know that the queen's dragons took to you, but I know why."⁸
  
  1. A swordsman
     
  2. False stories about dragons? Sounds familiar to me.
  3. False stories about dragons hoarding precious property? Sounds familiar to me.
  4. False stories about dragons with four legs (like a wolf)? Aye, I've heard that one afore too, George.
     
  5. dragons (Rhaegar) "riddling" with sphinxes (runaway women playing their own game, not where they are supposed to be)
  6. Yup.
  7. "truths" ...the riddle, not the riddler... an answer to a deeper question... one that relates to the swordsman.
     
  8. Relatively off topic (for me anyway), but one of the most intriguing sentences in all the books. Why did the dragons take to Brown Ben Plumm? And why was it knowledge Tyrion could learn from a book, but Ben could not learn from his mother? And why did it surprise Dany? -- yet -- it made her take to Brown Ben the same as her dragons...
     
  
  

Edit:  Sorry to go off topic. I haven't read this chapter is a while. These echoes were floating around in my head. Just had to get those out before sleep claimed me. And I should tag Maester Sam into the convo before we get too far in the reread.