It is the same with the war of the Five Kings, the Red Wedding, the birth of Aegon (“There is one more. She has downloaded, as it were, this memory from its source, Jaime. Daenerys has become connected to the weirwood net as a result of her opening her mind’s eye (a concept taken from Buddhist and Hindu traditions, more recently featured in the MCU’s “Doctor Strange”). The doors to the House of the Undying are weirwood. The heartwood trees are a set of interlocking repositories of memories from the Children of the Forest and those who have perished by them, their blood carrying their beings into the hive mind of what some writers have dubbed the weirwood net. How does Daenerys access this? The answer lies in Jaime’s sleeping on the stump of a heartwood tree before having his dream of being beneath Casterly Rock with Brienne, which prompts him to go back to rescue her from Harrenhal and the Brave Companions. Jaime Lannister is our only known source for this scene. It is the gathering of information through suggestion and telepathy.įor example, Daenerys sees Aerys the Mad King ordering “Burn them. There is magic in this world, but it is not supernatural spells or glimpses of the future. Martin’s baby boomer experiences are never more pronounced than in this psychedelic kaleidoscope of suggestions and real-time telepathy. In other words, she has dropped acid and is on the electric kool-aid acid trip. Or, is it? In point of fact, none of the visions and auditory hallucinations are the future, but instead are the creations of Daenerys’ mind after her draught of Shade of the Evening. In Qarth, Daenerys (with Drogon) goes on a magical mystery tour of the House of the Undying, from the outside an unprepossessing, dilapidated structure, but on the inside a vast reservoir of images and predictions. What we will find is that none of them are actually prophetic. If the preceding is insufficient to convince you, we should look at the prophecies one by one. (Incidentally, this is one of the fundamental points about Roman Catholic theology in which God has given humanity free will.) It is the same message that is in the “Terminator 2” film: There is no fate but what we make. In the two time travelling tales available in his collection, Dreamsongs, “Under Siege” and “Unsound Variations”, the take-away message is that there are multiple timelines all delineated by human choice. He has said so in interviews where he has noted their misleading, obscure nature, and asserted his own doubt in fate. Martin, the author, does not believe in them except as a tool for motivating his characters. There are no prophecies in “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Fan speculation about the prophecies in “A Song of Ice and Fire” is almost as popular, if not more, as theories about the mysteries in the story.
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