Post by DarkSister1001 on Jun 1, 2016 22:12:11 GMT
I started working on this last year and finally got it up in March on another site. I was encouraged to share it here with you fine folks. I believe that the recent Balticon reading adds credence to this theory.
TLDR: Euron is a skinchanger and was contacted by the Three-Eyed-Crow, like Bran. He tried, perhaps successfully, to enter the mind of his brother Aeron Damphair scarring him for life.
Gifts from the Gods
Varamyr regularly refers to his power to warg and skinchange as a gift. More on this will come up later, but keep in mind that this ability is a gift.
Blood of the First Men
The power to be a warg/skinchanger is bestowed on descendants of the First Men. This is evident by the powers in the Stark children, Bloodraven (via his Blackwood mother) and Wildlings. Thus far all that we’ve met that have the Gift also have the blood of the First Men.
It is likely that the people of the Iron Islands are descendants of the First Men.
Even if the First Men were not the initial inhabitants of the Iron Islands their finding of the Seastone Chair when they came to Old Wyk tells us that they eventually settled the islands.
Nagga’s Ribs on Old Wyk is more than likely a petrified weirwood tree, an absolute connection to the First Men and Old Gods.
Despite the Andal invasion, the blood of the First Men would have survived given that the invasion was facilitated by Houses Greyjoy, Drumm, Orkwood and Hoare of the Iron Islands.
House Farwynd on Lonely Light Island rumored to have the Gift and their latitude is closer to that of the North, where the blood of the First Men runs strong, than that of the Iron Islands or Riverlands.
The Stark children are wargs. They are bonded with their direwolves. It is interesting that the Farwynds are rumored to turn into spotted whales and that the spotted whales are called the wolves of the sea in two books.
The Ironmen spent many, many years reaving the western coast of the North. In places like the Stony Shore, Sea Dragon Point and Bear Island and took home countless salt wives. It was common for Ironmen to reproduce with their salt wives and women they raped combining their bloodlines (even if it doesn't mean high born, it is still a intermingling that is important).
Sea Dragon Point, a peninsula in the North that extends into the Bay of Ice was even previously held by the Ironmen. It is Northwest of Winterfell and Southwest of Bear Island.
The story of the Warg King confirms that those with the Gift, at least once, ruled Sea Dragon Point. The Warg King, allied with the Children of the Forest, ruled from Sea Dragon Point after the Long Night. An unknown Stark King of Winter from Winterfell defeated the Warg King. They killed his sons, beasts and greenseers but took his daughters as captives.
Though we do not have a full account of the Greryjoy Family Tree It is very likely that they have FM blood in their veins making them capable of possessing the Gift.
Bran, Crow’s Eye and the Three-Eyed-Crow
In a coma, after his push from the tower, Bran has his first dream with the Three-Eyed-Crow and takes flight. After awakening from his coma he’s distraught to learn that consciously he’s unable to fly.
When Euron is talking to Victarion about his plans to take over Westeros he tells of a dream he had, eerily similar to Bran’s.
Bran and Euron both had dreams of flying but were unable to do so when they woke and they both sought council in their maesters. Bran is told that every flight begins with a fall and Euron tells Vic that leaping from a tower might help them fly. It sounds like Euron is repeating some training he received.
In many of Bran’s dreams the crow is pecking at his forehead and Jojen often urges him to open his third eye. Euron tries to open Vic’s eyes with shade-of-the-evening.
Euron being called “Crow’s Eye” is a much more obvious clue. Bloodraven, the Three-Eyed-Crow, lost an eye during the First Blackfyre Rebellion and was said to have had a “thousand eyes and one”. There is no information on how or why Euron lost his eye of received his moniker.
Bran is not the only protégé’ of the Greenseers. There have been others but there is indication of when or who their teacher was.
This passage tells us that thousands have been unsuccessful for one reason or another. Were they not powerful enough? Or were they unworthy?
Theon says that his eye patch hides a black eye shining with malice. His “smiling eye” is described as
I suspect that Euron lost his eye when he was impaled through the eye on one of the spires during a dream/training session with the 3EC. I suspect his trainer learned of his attempts with his brother.
Poisoned Gifts
Euron’s does not give without expecting something in return or without an ulterior motive. More than that the gifts he possesses are wicked and as full of malice as his eye.
Abomination
Through Varamyr we learn of the code of wargs and skinchangers. Rules they have to keep order. I wrote a more in-depth analysis of Varamyr’s chapter during our Bran re-read project last year. I’ll provide a more condensed version for this topic.
Talking control of another person is prohibited. It directly affects their free will. Even some animals don’t like it.
Thistle fought Varamyr fiercely when he tried to take control of her.
When Bran slips into Hodor it has an effect on the simple-minded stable boy and Hodor does not like it. Since the first time he seems to have grown used to the intrusion though it does not mean he consents to it.
Being a descendant of the First Men, Euron, has the gift to skinchange and his gift is used in ill-intentioned ways. He is an abomination. Despite the rusty iron hinges of Aeron’s mind screaming in protest, Euron tried to open and enter his brother’s mind.
Screaming in Protest
There are plenty of times when the books tells us of hinges that scream in protest. Doors that for one reason or another are fighting being opened.
Davos should not be in the cell. He's an honest man and tried to save his King from a sorceress. Dungeons are for criminals.
Bran should not be there, he should be in Winterfell as there must always be a Stark in Winterfell.
This instance seems a warning for Brienne. She's searching for the Stark girls and neither of them are here. Only danger.
The dragons should not be chained up. Dany is the Breaker of Chains and chaining away her children is hypocritical and detrimental to her cause. They lacked training, but should not be punished for that.
It's easy to see why they should not be there. Not only does opening this door cost Quent his life, it releases the dragons without their mother. Without any control at all and creates a VERY dangerous situation for Meereen.
Rusted Iron Hinges
Even with the trust, love and closeness between Hodor and Bran, Bran’s intrusion is unwelcome. It’s not difficult to understand that an invasion from someone with a lesser connection would scar the victim for life. Aeron's mind screams in protest like the rusty iron hinges we've seen mentioned time and time again in the series.
Aeron’s mind does not want to open for Euron. He forces his way in. His attempts left The Damphair traumatized for the rest of his life. Perhaps even paving the way for him to become as religiously fanatic as he does after his drowning.
TLDR: Euron is a skinchanger and was contacted by the Three-Eyed-Crow, like Bran. He tried, perhaps successfully, to enter the mind of his brother Aeron Damphair scarring him for life.
Gifts from the Gods
Varamyr regularly refers to his power to warg and skinchange as a gift. More on this will come up later, but keep in mind that this ability is a gift.
And he taught me the way of the warg and the secrets of the skinchanger, though my gift was stronger than his own.
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Some he even blessed with children. Runts. Small, puny things, like Lump, and not one with the gift.
<snip>
His gift would perish with his body, he expected.
<snip>
One skinchanger can always sense another. Mance should have let me take the direwolf. There would be a second life worthy of a king. He could have done it, he did not doubt. The gift was strong in Snow, but the youth was untaught, still fighting his nature when he should have glorified in it.
<snip>
“That was the beast, not me,” he said in a hoarse whisper. “That was the gift you gave me.”
The gods made no reply.
ADwD, Prologue
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Some he even blessed with children. Runts. Small, puny things, like Lump, and not one with the gift.
<snip>
His gift would perish with his body, he expected.
<snip>
One skinchanger can always sense another. Mance should have let me take the direwolf. There would be a second life worthy of a king. He could have done it, he did not doubt. The gift was strong in Snow, but the youth was untaught, still fighting his nature when he should have glorified in it.
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“That was the beast, not me,” he said in a hoarse whisper. “That was the gift you gave me.”
The gods made no reply.
ADwD, Prologue
Blood of the First Men
The power to be a warg/skinchanger is bestowed on descendants of the First Men. This is evident by the powers in the Stark children, Bloodraven (via his Blackwood mother) and Wildlings. Thus far all that we’ve met that have the Gift also have the blood of the First Men.
It is likely that the people of the Iron Islands are descendants of the First Men.
Archmaester Haereg once advanced the interesting notion that the ancestors of the ironborn came from some unknown land west of the Sunset Sea, citing the legend of the Seastone Chair. The throne of the Greyjoys, carved into the shape of a kraken from an oily black stone, was said to have been found by the First Men when they came to Old Wyk. Haereg argued that the chair was a product of the first inhabitants of the islands, and only the later histories of maesters and septons alike began to claim that they were in fact descended of the First Men. But this is the purest speculation and, in the end, Haereg himself dismissed the idea, and so must we.
The World of Ice and Fire, The Iron Islands
The World of Ice and Fire, The Iron Islands
Even if the First Men were not the initial inhabitants of the Iron Islands their finding of the Seastone Chair when they came to Old Wyk tells us that they eventually settled the islands.
Nagga’s Ribs on Old Wyk is more than likely a petrified weirwood tree, an absolute connection to the First Men and Old Gods.
The wind was blowing from the north as the Iron Victory came round the point and entered the holy bay called Nagga’s Cradle.
Victarion joined Nute the Barber at her prow. Ahead loomed the sacred shore of Old Wyk and the grassy hill above it, where the ribs of Nagga rose from the earth like the trunks of great white trees, as wide around as a dromond’s mast and twice as tall.
The bones of the Grey King’s hall. Victarion could feel the magic of this place.
AFfC, Chapter 18, The Iron Captain
On the crown of the hill four-and-forty monstrous stone ribs rose from the earth like the trunks of great pale trees. The sight made Aeron’s heart beat faster. Nagga had been the first sea dragon, the mightiest ever to rise from the waves. She fed on krakens and leviathans and drowned whole islands in her wrath, yet the Grey King had slain her and the Drowned God had changed her bones to stone so that men might never cease to wonder at the courage of the first of kings. Nagga’s ribs became the beams and pillars of his longhall, just as her jaw became his throne. For a thousand years and seven he reigned here, Aeron recalled. Here he took his mermaid wife and planned wars against the Storm God. From here he ruled both stone and salt, wearing robes of woven seaweed and a tale pale crown made from Nagga’s teeth.
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
Victarion joined Nute the Barber at her prow. Ahead loomed the sacred shore of Old Wyk and the grassy hill above it, where the ribs of Nagga rose from the earth like the trunks of great white trees, as wide around as a dromond’s mast and twice as tall.
The bones of the Grey King’s hall. Victarion could feel the magic of this place.
AFfC, Chapter 18, The Iron Captain
On the crown of the hill four-and-forty monstrous stone ribs rose from the earth like the trunks of great pale trees. The sight made Aeron’s heart beat faster. Nagga had been the first sea dragon, the mightiest ever to rise from the waves. She fed on krakens and leviathans and drowned whole islands in her wrath, yet the Grey King had slain her and the Drowned God had changed her bones to stone so that men might never cease to wonder at the courage of the first of kings. Nagga’s ribs became the beams and pillars of his longhall, just as her jaw became his throne. For a thousand years and seven he reigned here, Aeron recalled. Here he took his mermaid wife and planned wars against the Storm God. From here he ruled both stone and salt, wearing robes of woven seaweed and a tale pale crown made from Nagga’s teeth.
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
House Farwynd on Lonely Light Island rumored to have the Gift and their latitude is closer to that of the North, where the blood of the First Men runs strong, than that of the Iron Islands or Riverlands.
Mapmakers tells us that there are thirty-one Iron Islands in the main grouping off Ironman’s Bay west of the Cape of Eagles, and thirteen more clustered around the Lonely Light, far out in the vastness of the Sunset Sea.
The World of Ice and Fire, The Iron Islands
A second island grouping lies eight days’ sail to the northwest in the Sunset Sea. There seals and sea lions make their rookeries on windswept rocks too small to support even a single household. ON the largest rock stands the keep of House Farwynd, named the Lonely Light for the beacon that blazes atop it’s roof day and night. Queer things are said of the Farwynds and the smallfolk they rule. Some say they lie with seal to bring forth half-human children whilst others whisper that they are skinchangers who can take the forms of sea lions, walrus, even spotted whales, the wolves of the seas.
Strange tales like this are common at the edges of the world, however, and the Lonely Light stands farthest west of all the lands known to us. Many a bold mariner has sailed beyond the light of its beacon over the centuries, seeking the fabled paradise said to lie over the horizon, but the sailors who return (many do not) speak only of boundless grey oceans stretching on and on forever.
The World of Ice and Fire, The Iron Islands
The Farwynds there were even queerer than the rest. Some said they were skinchangers, unholy creatures who could take on the forms of sea lions, walruses, even spotted whales, the wolves of the wild sea.
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
The World of Ice and Fire, The Iron Islands
A second island grouping lies eight days’ sail to the northwest in the Sunset Sea. There seals and sea lions make their rookeries on windswept rocks too small to support even a single household. ON the largest rock stands the keep of House Farwynd, named the Lonely Light for the beacon that blazes atop it’s roof day and night. Queer things are said of the Farwynds and the smallfolk they rule. Some say they lie with seal to bring forth half-human children whilst others whisper that they are skinchangers who can take the forms of sea lions, walrus, even spotted whales, the wolves of the seas.
Strange tales like this are common at the edges of the world, however, and the Lonely Light stands farthest west of all the lands known to us. Many a bold mariner has sailed beyond the light of its beacon over the centuries, seeking the fabled paradise said to lie over the horizon, but the sailors who return (many do not) speak only of boundless grey oceans stretching on and on forever.
The World of Ice and Fire, The Iron Islands
The Farwynds there were even queerer than the rest. Some said they were skinchangers, unholy creatures who could take on the forms of sea lions, walruses, even spotted whales, the wolves of the wild sea.
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
The Stark children are wargs. They are bonded with their direwolves. It is interesting that the Farwynds are rumored to turn into spotted whales and that the spotted whales are called the wolves of the sea in two books.
The Ironmen spent many, many years reaving the western coast of the North. In places like the Stony Shore, Sea Dragon Point and Bear Island and took home countless salt wives. It was common for Ironmen to reproduce with their salt wives and women they raped combining their bloodlines (even if it doesn't mean high born, it is still a intermingling that is important).
“We shall no king but from the kingsmoot.” The Damphair sttod. “No godless man-“
“-may sit the Seastone Chair, aye.” Euron glanced about the tent. “As it happens I have oft sat the Seastone Chair of late. It raises no objections.” His smiling eye was glittering. “Who knows more of gods than I? Horse gods and fire gods, golds made of gold with gemstone eyes, gods carved of cedar wood, gods chiseled into mountains, gods of empty air…I know them all. I have seen their peoples garland them with flowers and shed blood of goats and bulls and children in their names. And I have heard the prayers in half a hundred tongues. Cure my withered leg, make the maiden love me, grant me a healthy son. Save me, succor me, make me wealthy…protect me! Protect me from mine enemies, protect me from the darkness, protect me from the crabs inside my belly, from the horselords, from the slavers, from the sellswords at my door. Protect me from the Silence.” He laughed. “Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray.”
The priest raised a bony finger. “They pray to trees and golden idols and goat-headed abominations. False gods…”
“Just so,” said Euron, “and for that sin I kill them all. I spill their blood upon the sea and sow their screaming women with my seed. Their little gods cannot stop me, so plainly they are false gods. I am more devout than even you, Aeron. Perhaps it should be you who kneels to me for blessing.”
AFfC, Chapter 18, The Iron Captain
“-may sit the Seastone Chair, aye.” Euron glanced about the tent. “As it happens I have oft sat the Seastone Chair of late. It raises no objections.” His smiling eye was glittering. “Who knows more of gods than I? Horse gods and fire gods, golds made of gold with gemstone eyes, gods carved of cedar wood, gods chiseled into mountains, gods of empty air…I know them all. I have seen their peoples garland them with flowers and shed blood of goats and bulls and children in their names. And I have heard the prayers in half a hundred tongues. Cure my withered leg, make the maiden love me, grant me a healthy son. Save me, succor me, make me wealthy…protect me! Protect me from mine enemies, protect me from the darkness, protect me from the crabs inside my belly, from the horselords, from the slavers, from the sellswords at my door. Protect me from the Silence.” He laughed. “Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray.”
The priest raised a bony finger. “They pray to trees and golden idols and goat-headed abominations. False gods…”
“Just so,” said Euron, “and for that sin I kill them all. I spill their blood upon the sea and sow their screaming women with my seed. Their little gods cannot stop me, so plainly they are false gods. I am more devout than even you, Aeron. Perhaps it should be you who kneels to me for blessing.”
AFfC, Chapter 18, The Iron Captain
The story of the Warg King confirms that those with the Gift, at least once, ruled Sea Dragon Point. The Warg King, allied with the Children of the Forest, ruled from Sea Dragon Point after the Long Night. An unknown Stark King of Winter from Winterfell defeated the Warg King. They killed his sons, beasts and greenseers but took his daughters as captives.
Though we do not have a full account of the Greryjoy Family Tree It is very likely that they have FM blood in their veins making them capable of possessing the Gift.
Bran, Crow’s Eye and the Three-Eyed-Crow
In a coma, after his push from the tower, Bran has his first dream with the Three-Eyed-Crow and takes flight. After awakening from his coma he’s distraught to learn that consciously he’s unable to fly.
Bran was falling faster than ever. The grey mists howled around him as he plunged toward the earth below. “What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful.
Teaching you how to fly.
“I can’t fly!”
You’re flying right now.
“I’m falling!”
Every flight beings with a fall, the crow said. Look down.
AGoT, Chapter 17, Bran
“It was just a lie,” he said bitterly, remembering the crow from his dream. “I can’t fly. I can’t even run.”
“Crows are all liars,” Old Nan agreed, from the chair where she sat doing her needlework.
AGoT, Chapter 24, Bran
Teaching you how to fly.
“I can’t fly!”
You’re flying right now.
“I’m falling!”
Every flight beings with a fall, the crow said. Look down.
AGoT, Chapter 17, Bran
“It was just a lie,” he said bitterly, remembering the crow from his dream. “I can’t fly. I can’t even run.”
“Crows are all liars,” Old Nan agreed, from the chair where she sat doing her needlework.
AGoT, Chapter 24, Bran
The Crow’s Eye had taken Lord Hewett’s bedchamber along with his bastard daughter. When he entered, the girl was sprawled naked on the bed, snoring softly. Euron stood by the window, drinking from a silver cup. He wore the sable cloak he took from Blacktyde, his red leather eye patch, and nothing else. “When I was a boy, I dreamt I could fly,” he announced. “When I woke, I couldn’t…or so the maester said. But what if he lied?”
AffC, Chapter 29, The Reaver
Euron turned to face him, his bruised blue lips curled in a half smile. “Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower?” The wind came gusting through the window and stirred his sable cloak. There was something obscene and disturbing about his nakedness. “No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”
AffC, Chapter 29, The Reaver
AffC, Chapter 29, The Reaver
Euron turned to face him, his bruised blue lips curled in a half smile. “Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower?” The wind came gusting through the window and stirred his sable cloak. There was something obscene and disturbing about his nakedness. “No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”
AffC, Chapter 29, The Reaver
Bran and Euron both had dreams of flying but were unable to do so when they woke and they both sought council in their maesters. Bran is told that every flight begins with a fall and Euron tells Vic that leaping from a tower might help them fly. It sounds like Euron is repeating some training he received.
In many of Bran’s dreams the crow is pecking at his forehead and Jojen often urges him to open his third eye. Euron tries to open Vic’s eyes with shade-of-the-evening.
“I mean to open your eyes.” Euron drank deep from his own cup and smiled. “Shade-of-the-evening, the wine of the warlocks. I came upon a cask when I captured a certain galleas out of Qarth, along with come cloves and nutmeg, forty bolts of green silk, and four warlocks who told a curious tale. One presumed to threaten me so I killed him and fed him to the other three. They refused to eat of their friend’s flesh at first, but when they grew hungry enough they had a change of heart. Men are meat.”
AffC, Chapter 29, The Reaver
AffC, Chapter 29, The Reaver
Euron being called “Crow’s Eye” is a much more obvious clue. Bloodraven, the Three-Eyed-Crow, lost an eye during the First Blackfyre Rebellion and was said to have had a “thousand eyes and one”. There is no information on how or why Euron lost his eye of received his moniker.
Bran is not the only protégé’ of the Greenseers. There have been others but there is indication of when or who their teacher was.
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.
“Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid? He heard his own voice saying, small and far away.
And his father’s voice replied to him. “That is the only time a man can be brave.”
Now, Bran, the crow urged. Choose. Fly or Die.
Death reached for him, screaming.
Bran spread his arms and flew.
AGoT, Chapter 17, Bran
“Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid? He heard his own voice saying, small and far away.
And his father’s voice replied to him. “That is the only time a man can be brave.”
Now, Bran, the crow urged. Choose. Fly or Die.
Death reached for him, screaming.
Bran spread his arms and flew.
AGoT, Chapter 17, Bran
This passage tells us that thousands have been unsuccessful for one reason or another. Were they not powerful enough? Or were they unworthy?
Theon says that his eye patch hides a black eye shining with malice. His “smiling eye” is described as
His [Euron] eyes, Aeron saw, were now grey, now blue, as changeable as the seas.
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
I suspect that Euron lost his eye when he was impaled through the eye on one of the spires during a dream/training session with the 3EC. I suspect his trainer learned of his attempts with his brother.
Poisoned Gifts
Euron’s does not give without expecting something in return or without an ulterior motive. More than that the gifts he possesses are wicked and as full of malice as his eye.
As a reward for his leal service, the new-crowned king had given Victarion the dusky woman, taken off some slaver bound for Lys. “I want none of your leavings,” he had told his brother scornfully, but when the Crow’s Eye said that the woman would be killed unless he took her, he had weakened. Her tongue had been torn out, but elsewise she was undamaged, and beautiful besides, with skin as brown as oiled teak. Yet sometimes when he looked at her he found himself remembering the woman his brother had given him, to make a man of him.
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A king must needs be open-handed, he tried to tell himself, but another voice whispered Euron’s gifts are poisoned.
AffC, Chapter 29, The Reaver
Victarion did not doubt that the Crow’s Eye had bedded her as well. That was his brother’s way. Euron’s gifts are poisoned, the captain had reminded himself the day the dusky woman came aboard. I want none of his leavings. He had decided then that he would slit her throat and toss her in the sea, a blood sacrifice to the Drowned God. Somehow, though, he had never quite gotten around to it.
ADwD, Chapter 56, The Iron Suitor
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A king must needs be open-handed, he tried to tell himself, but another voice whispered Euron’s gifts are poisoned.
AffC, Chapter 29, The Reaver
Victarion did not doubt that the Crow’s Eye had bedded her as well. That was his brother’s way. Euron’s gifts are poisoned, the captain had reminded himself the day the dusky woman came aboard. I want none of his leavings. He had decided then that he would slit her throat and toss her in the sea, a blood sacrifice to the Drowned God. Somehow, though, he had never quite gotten around to it.
ADwD, Chapter 56, The Iron Suitor
Abomination
Through Varamyr we learn of the code of wargs and skinchangers. Rules they have to keep order. I wrote a more in-depth analysis of Varamyr’s chapter during our Bran re-read project last year. I’ll provide a more condensed version for this topic.
Abomination. That had always been Haggon’s favorite word. Abomination, abomination, abomination. To eat of human meat was an abomination, to mate as wolf with wolf was abomination, and to seize the body of another man was to worst abomination of all.
ADwD, Prologue
ADwD, Prologue
She would have slain Varamyr had he come within her reach. The bear hated him, had raged each time he wore her skin or climbed on her back.
ADwD, Prologue
ADwD, Prologue
He summoned all the strength still in him, leapt out of his own skin, and forced himself inside her.
Thistle arched her back and screamed.
Abomination. Was that her, or him or Haggon? He never knew. His old flesh fell back into the snowdrift as her fingers loosened. The spearwife twisted violently, shrieking. His shadowcat used to fight him wildly, and the snow bear had gone half-mad for a time, snapping at trees and rocks and empty air, but this was worse.
ADwD, Prologue
Thistle arched her back and screamed.
Abomination. Was that her, or him or Haggon? He never knew. His old flesh fell back into the snowdrift as her fingers loosened. The spearwife twisted violently, shrieking. His shadowcat used to fight him wildly, and the snow bear had gone half-mad for a time, snapping at trees and rocks and empty air, but this was worse.
ADwD, Prologue
When Bran slips into Hodor it has an effect on the simple-minded stable boy and Hodor does not like it. Since the first time he seems to have grown used to the intrusion though it does not mean he consents to it.
“But after they were gone he slipped inside Hodor’s skin and followed them. The big stableboy no longer fought him as he had the first time, back in the lake tower during the storm. Like a dog who has had all the fight whipped out of him, Hodor would curl up and hide whenever Bran reached out for him.”
ADwD, Chapter 43, Bran
ADwD, Chapter 43, Bran
Being a descendant of the First Men, Euron, has the gift to skinchange and his gift is used in ill-intentioned ways. He is an abomination. Despite the rusty iron hinges of Aeron’s mind screaming in protest, Euron tried to open and enter his brother’s mind.
Screaming in Protest
There are plenty of times when the books tells us of hinges that scream in protest. Doors that for one reason or another are fighting being opened.
Lamprey thrust a great iron key into the lock, turned it, and pulled open the cell. The rusted hinges screamed in protest. “You,” he said to Davos. “Come.”
“Where?” Davos looked to Ser Axell. “Tell me true, ser, do you mean to burn me?”
“You are sent for. Can you walk?”
“I can walk.” Davos stepped from the cell. Lord Alester gave a cry of dismay as Lamprey slammed the door shut once more.
ASoS, Chapter 36, Davos
“Where?” Davos looked to Ser Axell. “Tell me true, ser, do you mean to burn me?”
“You are sent for. Can you walk?”
“I can walk.” Davos stepped from the cell. Lord Alester gave a cry of dismay as Lamprey slammed the door shut once more.
ASoS, Chapter 36, Davos
Davos should not be in the cell. He's an honest man and tried to save his King from a sorceress. Dungeons are for criminals.
Thankfully there was no third time and the water never got up past Hodor’s waist, though the Reeds were in it to their chests. And before long they were on the island, climbing the steps to the holdfast. The door was still stout, though its heavy oak planks had warped over the years and it could no longer be closed completely. Meera shoved it open all the way, the rusted iron hinges screaming. The lintel was low. “Duck down, Hodor,” Bran said, and he did, but not enough to keep Bran from hitting his head. “That hurt,” he complained.
ASoS, Chapter 40, Bran
ASoS, Chapter 40, Bran
Bran should not be there, he should be in Winterfell as there must always be a Stark in Winterfell.
She shouldered through the blackberries and pulled as a rusted iron ring. The postern door resisted for a moment, then jerked open, its hinges screaming in protest. The sound make the hairs on the back of Brienne’s neck stand up. She drew her sword. Even in mail and boiled leather, she felt naked.
AFfC, Chapter 20, Brienne
AFfC, Chapter 20, Brienne
This instance seems a warning for Brienne. She's searching for the Stark girls and neither of them are here. Only danger.
At ground level the Great Pyramid of Meereen was a hushed place, full of dust and shadows. Its outer walls were thirty feet thick. Within them, sounds echoed off arches of many-colored bricks, and amongst the stables, stalls, and storerooms. They passed beneath three massive arches, down a torchlit ramp into the vaults beneath the pyramid, past cisterns, dungeons and torture chambers where slaves had been scourged and skinned and burned with red-hot irons. Finally they came to a pair of huge iron doors with rusted hinges, guarded by the Unsullied.
At her command, one produced an iron key. The door opened, hinges shrieking. Daenerys Targaryen stepped into the hot heart of darkness and stopped at the lip of a deep pit. Forty feet below , her dragons raised their heads. Four eyes burned through the shadows-two of molten gold and two of bronze.
ADwD, Chapter 11, Dany
At her command, one produced an iron key. The door opened, hinges shrieking. Daenerys Targaryen stepped into the hot heart of darkness and stopped at the lip of a deep pit. Forty feet below , her dragons raised their heads. Four eyes burned through the shadows-two of molten gold and two of bronze.
ADwD, Chapter 11, Dany
The dragons should not be chained up. Dany is the Breaker of Chains and chaining away her children is hypocritical and detrimental to her cause. They lacked training, but should not be punished for that.
Arch said, “I have the key.” He swung his Warhammer hard and fast. Sparks flew when the hammerhead struck the lock. And then again, again, again. On his fifth swing the lock shattered, and the chains fell away in a rattling clatter so loud Quentyn was certain half the pyramid must have heard them. “Bring the cart.” The dragons would be more docile once fed. Let them gorge themselves on charred mutton.
Archibald Yronwood grasped the iron doors and pulled them apart. Their rusted iron hinges let out a pair of screams, for all those who might have slept through the breaking of the lock. A wash of sudden heat assaulted them, heavy with the odors of ash, brimstone, and burnt meat.
ADwD, Chapter 68, The Dragontamer
Archibald Yronwood grasped the iron doors and pulled them apart. Their rusted iron hinges let out a pair of screams, for all those who might have slept through the breaking of the lock. A wash of sudden heat assaulted them, heavy with the odors of ash, brimstone, and burnt meat.
ADwD, Chapter 68, The Dragontamer
It's easy to see why they should not be there. Not only does opening this door cost Quent his life, it releases the dragons without their mother. Without any control at all and creates a VERY dangerous situation for Meereen.
Rusted Iron Hinges
Even with the trust, love and closeness between Hodor and Bran, Bran’s intrusion is unwelcome. It’s not difficult to understand that an invasion from someone with a lesser connection would scar the victim for life. Aeron's mind screams in protest like the rusty iron hinges we've seen mentioned time and time again in the series.
Dawn was still an hour off when they set forth, but their mounts were hardy and surefooted, and they made good time despite the darkness. Aeron closed his eyes and said a silent prayer, and after a while began to drowse in the saddle.
The sound came softly, the scream of a rusted hinge. “Urri,” he muttered, and woke, fearful. There is no hinge here, no door, no Urri.
AFfC, Chapter 1, The Prophet
That man is dead. Aeron had drowned and been reborn from the sea, the god’s own prophet. No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could…nor memories, the bones of the soul. The sound of a door opening, the scream of a rusted iron hinge. Euron has come again. It did not matter. He was the Damphair priest, beloved of the god.
AFfC, Chapter 1, The Prophet
And gaunt and pale and shivering, Aeron Damphair struggled back to the shore, a wiser man than he had been when he stepped into the sea. For he had found his answer in his bones, and the way was plain before him. The night was so cold that hid body seemed to steam as he stalked back toward his shelter, but there was a fire burning in his heart, and sleep came easily for once, unbroken by the scream of iron hinges.
AFfC, Chapter 1, The Prophet
Only when his arms and legs were numb from the cold did Aeron Greyjoy struggle back to shore and don his robes again.
He had run before the Crow’s Eye as if he were still the weak thing he had been, but when the waves broke over his head they reminded him once more that that man was dead. I was reborn from the sea, a harder man and stronger. No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul. The sound of a door opening, the scream of a rusted iron hinge.
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence. As a thousand voices shouted out his brother’s name, all he could hear was the scream of a rusted iron hinge.
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
The sound came softly, the scream of a rusted hinge. “Urri,” he muttered, and woke, fearful. There is no hinge here, no door, no Urri.
AFfC, Chapter 1, The Prophet
That man is dead. Aeron had drowned and been reborn from the sea, the god’s own prophet. No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could…nor memories, the bones of the soul. The sound of a door opening, the scream of a rusted iron hinge. Euron has come again. It did not matter. He was the Damphair priest, beloved of the god.
AFfC, Chapter 1, The Prophet
And gaunt and pale and shivering, Aeron Damphair struggled back to the shore, a wiser man than he had been when he stepped into the sea. For he had found his answer in his bones, and the way was plain before him. The night was so cold that hid body seemed to steam as he stalked back toward his shelter, but there was a fire burning in his heart, and sleep came easily for once, unbroken by the scream of iron hinges.
AFfC, Chapter 1, The Prophet
Only when his arms and legs were numb from the cold did Aeron Greyjoy struggle back to shore and don his robes again.
He had run before the Crow’s Eye as if he were still the weak thing he had been, but when the waves broke over his head they reminded him once more that that man was dead. I was reborn from the sea, a harder man and stronger. No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul. The sound of a door opening, the scream of a rusted iron hinge.
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence. As a thousand voices shouted out his brother’s name, all he could hear was the scream of a rusted iron hinge.
AFfC, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man
Aeron’s mind does not want to open for Euron. He forces his way in. His attempts left The Damphair traumatized for the rest of his life. Perhaps even paving the way for him to become as religiously fanatic as he does after his drowning.