Hey youtubers it's Charlie, only two more episodes of Game of Thrones this season. So
because we spend so much time during the hiatus theorycrafting I wanted to do a bonus video
for my favorite prophecies. I'm only including things that are put forth as prophecy, so
like if Tyrion suffered a wine induced nightmare that he was forcibly married to The Mountain
as punishment for losing trial by combat, it's not a real prophecy. There's over fifty
that I know of, but this will just be my TOP 5. So if you guys want I can always do a follow
up with a longer breakdown later this summer.
Don't forget that the next round of the weekly giveaway starts when I post my Episode 9 review
tonight. I pick a random subscriber from the comments on that video. It's not a contest
or anything. It's just a way for me to say thank you to you guys for being so awesome.
For all the prophecies I'm including the character that it's given to and when they learned it
in the books if anyone wants to read the whole thing. Here we go Number 5 - Maggy The Frog
So Cersei casually mentions her name on the show out of context. In the books Maggy was
a fortune teller in Lannisport that Cersei visited when she was 10 with 2 of her childhood
friends during a tournament for King Aerys.
Maggy let Cersei ask 3 questions but gave her four answers. She predicted who Cersei
would marry, Robert not Rhaegar who had actually just been knighted, Rhaegar that is. He was
about 7 years older than Cersei.
Maggy also predicted Cersei would be Queen, but that a younger more beautiful queen would
come and cast down and take all she held dear. The theories behind this are that the younger
queen is either Maergary or Daenerys. In the books Maergary isn't supposed to be more beautiful
than Cersei but because of the Purple Wedding and Cersei's suggestion that she marry Tommen
it's still a pretty even guess as to who the younger more beautiful queen is.
Maggy then predicted the total number of living children she and Robert would have, separately.
She predicted the total number of Robert's bastards. Remember there were a lot, and Gendry
is still floating somewhere south of Dragonstone. And the total number of Cersei's living children,
3. Remember she had a stillborn child with Robert. Maggy didn't say she would lose a
child but she predicted the total number and Her 3 plus Robert's bastards hit the number.
I won't say what the total number of Robert's bastards is just in case the show changes
something.
There was one more big part that relates to the Valonqar which is High Valyrian for little
brother. But I'm not going to include it in this video just because I think it's kind
of spoilery.
If you want to read the whole prophecy it's in Feast for Crows pages 540 to 541.
Number 4 - The Winged Snake
This is one of Bran's visions at the end of book 2. In it his eyes are clouded with smoke
and ash and he sees a winged snake breathing a river of flame in the sky. Behind the cliffs
tall fires were eating the stars.
Because of the timing most people interpret the smoke and ash to be the burning of Winterfell.
Like we see it burning in the opening credits every week. As for the dragon, there's a couple
theories. The craziest is that there's a dragon underneath Winterfell that has just laid dormant
forever and the destruction of winterfell woke it. There are hot springs beneath winterfell,
so it's possible but not probable.
The other theory is that the dragon is supporting evidence of Jon Snow being a Targaryen. He's
the dragon rising from Winterfell.
It's open to interpretation, but as a tangent, Jojen claims that visions can be wrong but
greensight is not. And Bran and Jojen both have the power of greensight. Which implies
that all of Bran's visions are much closer to the truth than other characters.
Of course Jojen could also be misinterpreting the claim about greensight too.
You can read this one in Book 2 page 699
Number 3 - Azor Ahai
This prophecy comes from Melisandre and is always mentioned in the same sentence with
the sword Lightbringer. But Azor and Lightbringer are actually two separate prophecies.
The Azor prophecy says that when the Red Star Bleeds and Darkness Gathers Azor Ahai shall
be born again amidst Smoke and Salt. Azor Ahai is the mythical champion of the Red God,
Melisandre believes that he or she will lead the army of the Red God against the Great
Other and his host of white walkers.
The Red Star is the comet, which the show has done already but it was more of a visual.
Characters don't talk a lot about astronomy.
The Darkness Gathering is a reference to the coming battle with the Great Other. Like the
Long Night, the last great battle with the white walkers. I'll have a link to that video
at the end of this if you want to learn more about it.
I mentioned that Melisandre tells Stannis he is Azor Ahai because they are on Dragonstone,
the place of Smoke and Salt. But alternatively, that person could be Daenerys who was literally
born as a child at Dragonstone. For anyone that's not a book reader, Dragonstone
is the Westerosi based ancestral home of the Targaryens. Their true ancestral home was
the Valyrian Freehold but you get the idea.
The important thing to remember about Azor Ahai is that the person has to be RE-Born.
So if you want to think Daenerys is Azor Ahai, you have to look at that scene from season
1 where she stepped into Drogo's funeral pyre and emerged with the dragons. That was when
the comet first appeared, she wept salt tears, you get the smoke from Drogo's flames and
she was reborn as the mother of dragons.
It doesn't mean she's Azor Ahai, but I think it's a very strong case if you ever wanted
to argue it with your friends.
If you want to read the passage it's in Book 3 page 289.
Number 2 - Daughter of Death
This is another Daenerys prophecy that's super long so I'm going to condense. The title of
the prophecy comes from a passage that reads "mother of dragons, daughter of death..."
She has visions that represent the deaths of all those close to her including her brother
Rhaegar and what his dying words were. Robert killed him at the Ruby Ford in the Trident.
We don't actually know what his last words were, but the prophecy says that he whispered
a woman's name. The best theory being Lyanna Stark's name. If Robert heard him say it,
it's not something he would have ever told anyone. Since he was in love with Lyanna himself.
Daenerys then has a vision of Lightbringer, the mythical flaming sword of Azor Ahai but
it was being held by a blue eyed king that cast no shadow. Yes it sounds a lot like the
white walker we saw at the end of episode 4. But the stronger theory I think is that
it represented the shadow baby that killed Renly, since that was happening around the
same time Daenerys had these visions.
It also suggests that Daenerys and Stannis might meet for better or worse at some point.
There's a lot of potential spoilery parts to her visions that relate to the Mummer's
Dragon and the Stone Dragon so I'm going to skip over those parts. Please if you're a
book reader use the spoiler tag if you want to talk about it in the comments.
But the rest of her visions are a mixture of things that might have happened had her
child Rhaego lived and things that we've seen happen. Like the liberation of her army in
Yunkai.
The whole prophecy is a collection of like 17 different passages that deal with stuff
from Book 1 to potentially the end of the series. Visions could always be things that
we haven't seen in the books yet. So if you do want to read the whole thing be careful
for potential spoilers. But it's in Book 2 pages 515 to 516, my final one is also part
of this House of the Undying epic montage.
and my Number 1 favorite Prophecy - The Dragon Has 3 Heads
A lot of people refer to this as the 3 heads of the Dragon as if they're three different
characters.
One of the rooms Daenerys sees in her visions is of Rhaegar and Elia of Dorne with a newborn
baby Aegon. The one the Mountain is supposed to have killed. She learns that Rhaegar believed
that his children were the fulfilment of the Azor Ahai prophecy, and in Daenerys vision
Elia asks Rheagar to play a song and he says this is the "prince who was promised", "and
his is a song of ice and fire."
he turned, looked at Daenerys and said, "there must be one more." "The Dragon has three heads".
Rhaegar was naming his children after Aegon the conqueror, Elia was pregnant with Rhaenys
when she was killed by the mountain. Implying that Rhaegar intended to have one more baby
girl at a future date.
So the 3 heads of the Dragon is really just one piece of the fulfilment of the Azor Ahai
prophecy.
But that doesn't mean Rhaegar's dead children were the 3 heads of the dragon. George RR
Martin has said that the three heads of the Dragon need not all be Targaryens.
But a lot of people, myself included, think that Martin is just speaking cleverly without
lying. Meaning that there are characters alive on the show that belong to other houses that
don't know they're Targaryens.
If anything is clear on Game of Thrones, it's that even highborn people sleep around.
Jon Snow is the most famous theorized Targaryen, but I don't want to name the other one just
because I haven't seen any of you guys comment on them so I don't want to spoil the surprise
if it comes true.
But if you do want to comment on who you think the three heads of the dragon are. Just use
the spoiler tag. In my opinion, it's one of the most popular things to theorycraft in
the fandom.
So I'll be posting my episode 9 video after it airs tonight. I'm usually pretty good about
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Right now click here for that episode 9 video. I'll add the annotation as soon as I post
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Thanks for watching, see you guys tonight. High Fives!