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here was my friend's insight
So instead of writing my essay about masculinity in American cinema I have decided to read parts of A Song of Ice and Fire again. And the more I read and think, the more I am inclined to believe that what I am saying right from the start is actually the truth. I keep talking about the bloodlines but I keep forgetting about the blood magic. So once I added the blood magic into the equation it all fell into its place. The funniest thing is that we have the layout for the Lands of Always Winter narrative but we take it as granted. Targaryens were once sheepherders who stumbled upon a dragon lair. Over time these dragons became their…not because they learned how to train them (anyone could do that) but because they have bound them to their blood, hence the words "Fire and Blood"…Therefore, dragons respond only to the blood of Valyria, i.e., Targaryen blood. And that's it. Bran sees the blood sacrifice in the weirwood by the means of green seeing, ability inherent to the Children of the Forest and not the First Men…which means that the First Men somehow acquired these abilities in the distant past, way before Targaryens stumbled upon the dragons. After the Long Night Starks were called The Kings of Winter. The Wall was built seemingly out of nowhere. And Winterfell was built. And WW were not killed. Instead, it is the blood magic that is the key here. I proposed that Bran the Builder was a demigod a product of First Men and White Walkers but I was wrong. He bound his blood (which will produce the Stark lineage) to the White Walkers. Same way Targaryens bound their blood to the dragons. It is the exact same thing just slightly different in the sense that one is Light (not good, just bright as summer) and one is Dark (not evil just grim as winter), i.e. ice and fire. Jon Snow is the product of both and his is The Song of Ice and Fire. Just like Daenerys had to step into the fire to hatch the dragons in a blood sacrifice, Jon will have to "die" in an ice sacrifice in order to bring the WW to him and unleash his abilities. As the only human being able to control both WW and dragons Jon will be the all powerful person in the world that will bring balance and order to it. Will he fight Daenerys or not depends solely on Daenerys and her ego. But if they do, she will perish, of that I am sure. So, to sum it up, Starks are bound to White Walkers by blood magic, they control the winter and ice and are considerably more immune to it, just like Targaryens are to fire. Neither is good or bad…This aspect depends solely on the person currently in charge. And Jon has the advantage over Daenerys here, due to many facts we have read or seen. This is what the show is currently trying to establish - dichotomy between these two characters.
So instead of writing my essay about masculinity in American cinema I have decided to read parts of A Song of Ice and Fire again. And the more I read and think, the more I am inclined to believe that what I am saying right from the start is actually the truth. I keep talking about the bloodlines but I keep forgetting about the blood magic. So once I added the blood magic into the equation it all fell into its place. The funniest thing is that we have the layout for the Lands of Always Winter narrative but we take it as granted. Targaryens were once sheepherders who stumbled upon a dragon lair. Over time these dragons became their…not because they learned how to train them (anyone could do that) but because they have bound them to their blood, hence the words "Fire and Blood"…Therefore, dragons respond only to the blood of Valyria, i.e., Targaryen blood. And that's it. Bran sees the blood sacrifice in the weirwood by the means of green seeing, ability inherent to the Children of the Forest and not the First Men…which means that the First Men somehow acquired these abilities in the distant past, way before Targaryens stumbled upon the dragons. After the Long Night Starks were called The Kings of Winter. The Wall was built seemingly out of nowhere. And Winterfell was built. And WW were not killed. Instead, it is the blood magic that is the key here. I proposed that Bran the Builder was a demigod a product of First Men and White Walkers but I was wrong. He bound his blood (which will produce the Stark lineage) to the White Walkers. Same way Targaryens bound their blood to the dragons. It is the exact same thing just slightly different in the sense that one is Light (not good, just bright as summer) and one is Dark (not evil just grim as winter), i.e. ice and fire. Jon Snow is the product of both and his is The Song of Ice and Fire. Just like Daenerys had to step into the fire to hatch the dragons in a blood sacrifice, Jon will have to "die" in an ice sacrifice in order to bring the WW to him and unleash his abilities. As the only human being able to control both WW and dragons Jon will be the all powerful person in the world that will bring balance and order to it. Will he fight Daenerys or not depends solely on Daenerys and her ego. But if they do, she will perish, of that I am sure. So, to sum it up, Starks are bound to White Walkers by blood magic, they control the winter and ice and are considerably more immune to it, just like Targaryens are to fire. Neither is good or bad…This aspect depends solely on the person currently in charge. And Jon has the advantage over Daenerys here, due to many facts we have read or seen. This is what the show is currently trying to establish - dichotomy between these two characters.
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I like book Dorne better than show Dorne so far.
