Narkalui's Grand Theory: Addendum

[Narkalui]

Thread necromancer strikes again!

I was going to start a new thread, but this seems the right place here.

I think we are looking at a battle between balance and imbalance. Use of magic creates imbalance and the future of the world looks to me to be either destruction at the hands of two opposing forces of magic (ice and fire, shadow and light) who have become so mighty their conflict will destroy the world. Or salvation through the complete and permanent nullification of aforementioned opposing forces of magic.

I believe that the forces of magic are represented in two ways. Firstly, Dragons. Beasts of raw elemental magic which have taken corporeal form. I am now utterly convinced of Ice Dragons and I think they will appear at the end of the penultimate book. Secondly, anthropomorphic elemental beings ie The Others. In TWOIAF there is a theory mentioned (but discounted by the 'author') that the Vayrians were taught their arts and given dragons by a people far more ancient who subsequently disappeared. What if these were anthropomorphic fire elementals? And the Valyrians were their half human children? Hence the need, through inbreeding, to keep the blood as pure as possible. And also the reason why this inbreeding appears to have no negative impact on their very limited gene pool.

This brings me quite nicely to The Nights King and the men of The North. I believe this was an instigated response by The Others to their Fire enemies creating the Valyrians: the creation of a similar race of Ice people. (Hence why, looking at the Stark genealogy, only Cregan Stark took a Southern bride and that marriage bore no fruit ie The Northmen would only marry amongst themselves to keep the blood as pure as possible. But since The Nights King and his bride were defeated they were unable to instruct their legacy in icy magical arts, and perhaps this overthrow is also why the blood of the Others is more diluted than the Valyrian blood: they knew to keep their blood pure but thought it applied to The North.)

I think that The Long Night was a victory, but not total, for Fire. The First Hero was a champion of Fire and Light (the first Dayne wielding the sword Dawn?) and I think Dany is the Fire champion for this war. And I believe that a champion of Ice will be revealed (Ramsey Snow? Bran?) But this time the Fire and Ice Champions must face a champion of balance. Jon Snow.

The ******* of Winterfell is a union between the powers of Ice and Fire and I think it is somehow his ability to end the destructive magical powers and dispel them for good. This will mean his death however. Long live Rickon Stark, King of Winter.

Addendum arriving this evening.

 

[Narkalui]

After about a year of this theory bouncing around my head I have a few amendments and perhaps a fresh conclusion or two:

Firstly is the functionality of magic. I am now of the thought that the water worship of the Iron Born is linked to the Others, Darkness, Cold and Ice. The Iron Born practice of drowning captives as sacrifices, I believe, is linked (although disconnected by many centuries) to the ancient practice of the First Men of making blood sacrifices to weirwood trees in that I believe they are both sacrificing to The Great Other. This, I think, is evidenced by Craster's practice of literally sacrificing his sons to The Others. The Iron Born practice and ancient First Men practice, I think, are crude corruptions of the true sacrificial rite.

The followers of Rhlor however, also carry out human sacrifice. I think both sides are villains, the baddies if you will. The goodies are on the side of balance, on the side of Green. In order for nature to work is requires day to follow night and a certain 'Goldilocks' level of heat. I believe that in the war that was the Long Night the First Men of the South were on the Green side, as evidenced by the long worship of Garth Greenhand in The Reach. Garth himself I think was probably a subsequent deification of The First Hero.

And I think that the First Men of The North were allied with The Others. My evidence for this is firstly the threat contained in the Stark words "Winter Is Coming" and also in Moat Cailin which I think was the most important battleground of The Long Night. I reckon that the men of The North worshipped The Others and their reward for their loyalty and for the sacrifice of a son from each house (like Craster) was 'eternal life' in the guise of a Wight.

I think the First Hero (A Lord of Starfall) ended the war not by force of arms, but by marriage pact. To a female Other. It's true people. The First Hero and the Nights King are one and the same ! I think that Brandon The Builder was their first son and he built the Wall with knowledge and magic from his mother out of loyalty to his father. After this, he and his descendants began a campaign of liberation of the rest of The North, bringing the other petty kings who clung to the old ways under their control one by one until the last of them, The Red Kings of The Dreadfort, bent the knee.

More to follow.

 

[The Imp]

Lots to think about. I think it's time for a total reread.