All three have one eye and a tie to dragons and/or fire magic. Euron doesn't have the sword, but he has the Valyrian horn which splits the air like a sword and whose inscription is a recipe for making Lightbringer - blood for fire. That's why Beric and BR and Euron have similar bits of symbolism, but they don't have everything in common. In my view, this is the story of the BSE AA - transforming himself to gain the fire of the gods. He gives up an eye to gain magical sight, and that's certainly the implication of Euron, Bloodraven, and Beric, all of whom undergo transformations which bestow them with magic. The on-eyed seer motif is well known in mythology, with Odin being the most famous. The BSE AA was, according to my research, a greenseer who transformed himself with the fire magic of the black meteor he was said to worshipped (a moon meteor in my view, and the same greasy stone the Seastone Chair is made from). In my opinion, Euron and Bloodraven and Beric are referring to a much deeper and older truth, an original archetype-setting character, who is none other than the Bloodstone Emperor Azor Ahai (it's only my theory that they are the same person, of course, not cannon, to be clear). Beric has a flaming sword and Bloodraven has a Valyrian steel sword, fwiw, although that's not a strong as the other stuff. Beric sits in a weirwood throne, is called a scarecrow, has one red eye, is half dead / a ghost, and overall combines fire magic and old gods magic. I'll keep reading.īloodraven and Euron have clear symbolic parallels as well, but so do Beric and Bloodraven, and Bloodraven is not a skinchanger or greenseer. This parallel is tantalizing, I'll admit, but we simply need something more concrete to confirm it. It sounds like Euron is repeating some training he received. Bran is told that every flight begins with a fall and Euron tells Vic that leaping from a tower might help them fly. When he tried to scream, she spat their tongue out.īran and Euron both had dreams of flying but were unable to do so when they woke and they both sought council in their maesters. Abomination, he remembered, drowning in blood and pain and madness. He tried to push them down again, but the hands would not obey, and she was clawing at his eyes.
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She sucked down a mouthful of the frigid air, and Varamyr had half a heartbeat to glory in the taste of it and the strength of this young body before her teeth snapped together and filled his mouth with blood.
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Her body staggered, fell, and rose again, her hands flailed, her legs jerked this way and that in some grotesque dance as his spirit and her own fought for the flesh. "Get out, get out!" he heard her own mouth shouting. 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.
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The spearwife twisted violently, shrieking. His old flesh fell back into the snowdrift as her fingers loosened. Was that her, or him, or Haggon? He never knew.