Post by SlyWren on May 4, 2016 4:26:24 GMT
May 1, 2016 4:13:59 GMT voice said:
We're overdue for a clink SlyWren... I don't like disagreeing with you! LOLWe're not disagreeing all that much. We're just debating. Which is fun!
May 1, 2016 4:13:59 GMT voice said:
Yet the Others are not mere weapons. Like trees, they are another form of life. Elegant and beautiful. Very true. Like the Sidhe. Who were both gods and people. And not spontaneously generated. If anything, the Sidhe, especially the Tuatha de Danaan, USED the trees as warriors. Or at least Gwydion used trees against the underworld god.
So, warriors with weapons. Living. So far, such creatures in world are not engendered via reaction to other creatures. They are engendered BY creatures. So far, at least. But I fully admit that could change.
May 1, 2016 4:13:59 GMT voice said:
Exactly. Asclepius was eventually warned to stop raising the dead, because they were meant to stay dead. So. when the dead rose, it was because a person raised them?
May 1, 2016 4:13:59 GMT voice said:
Bingo. And Weirwoods seem to be a combination of both: gods and space. But, so far, we've not seen the weirwoods behave like the gods. Just like their space and eyes.
And the Children and the Others both have strong references to the Sidhe--the gods in some Irish Myths. The people Amergin helped drive back. Key word being "people."
May 1, 2016 4:13:59 GMT voice said:
And let us not forget that his mirror shield sounds a lot like the Others' armor. And like Serwyn vs the dragon, the Other that killed Ser Waymar took him by surprise with the aid of reflective surfaces and then took out his eye. Yes, the reflective armor. It doesn't hide by reflecting Waymar back to him. It hides them in the shadows of the wood. At least that's what the prologue says. Sherwin's technique seems. . . specific.
May 1, 2016 4:13:59 GMT voice said:
Eat their fruit, face the stored, recorded history of endless generations of life. Burn their bodies, face your cold, implacable reflection for endless generations of life.
And, since being married to the trees requires the help of the children (in Bran's case) might not the trees's being destroyed need an assist in vengeance from same children?