re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

Strong Belwas, before he was poisoned, deserves a place on the list as well IMO.

Living? The Hound for me as well. Even though if Howland Reed is still alive he could take the cake for me.

No longer with us? Arthur Dayne. When a Stark, a Lannister, and another one of the arguably biggest badasses in Westeros (Selmy) thinks that highly of you you're the real deal.

I agree with Belle

Hound currently - Selmy #2 only because of current age, and he still may be the better fighter / swordsman. Remember that GRRM says that Selmy was Arthur Daynes equal - Dawn was the only thing that gave Dayne the edge.

Let's get some conversation going about Dany, said no one ever, but seriously I have a thought here. I am expecting her to roll up on Mereen, with a giant khalasar of Dothraki screamers, and a over aggressive dragon that she has somewhat tamed. Upon arriving and minutes before unleashing hell, Victarion sounds the Dragon Horn and it actually works. Then what? Who has control of the dragons? If it is Victarion, does he just command them to destroy all of Dany's foes as some sort of proposal gift? Does Euron have some spell worked in where the dragons will fall under his will despite not being there? (I have a storng suspicion that Crow's Eye is actually on board one of the ships) If the dragon horn works, I have zero clue what will actually go down.

I think Danny can/will win Victarion over. She is the type of woman he likes, and he is the type of man she likes. He can also giver her the kick in the arse she needs to get going and bust some heads.

I do not know how or even if the horn will work they way we have been told. I doubt that Euron would just give Victarion the dragon binding horn without some other motive. Maybe Euron believes he will control the dragons becasue he is Victarion's master , but something is going on there.

Victarion has three horn blowers for each of the dragons. My guess would be that the first two dragons hear the call. The third horn blower, which would have called drogon, sees that he will die and does not blow the horn. Thus Drogon stays with Dany.

However, I don't think the horn works for Victarion the way he has planned. The instructions for the horn are:

1. "Blood for Fire. Fire for Blood" and
2. "No mortal man may blow the horn and live."

I think this means that Victarion is going to have to die and be revivied by the red priest in order to bound the horn.

So, what happens? When the horn is blown in the opening of TWOW, it attracks the two dragons in Meereen. Those two dragons get pissed and start burning ships, armies, and Meereen.

I think someone needs to pour blood on that horn and throw it in a fire and it'll blow itself

yes.... other thread

Can the dragons' attraction to the Targs be traced back to a similar horn in the past? Will the horn bind dragons to the Greyjoy bloodline the way they seem bound to the Targs? That could explain Euron's motivation.

Leigh Butler over on Tor.com has been reading the series for the first time and then commenting on each chapter. She averages 2/3 chapters a week. It brings me back to when I first read the books and the ideas that I had.
She just finished Clash of Kings and will be starting Storm of Swords next week. I have no idea how she will only reach 2 or 3 chapters a week reading it. I flew through that book because I wanted to know what was going to happen next.
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