HBO released the first series of official photograph for Game of Thrones season seven this week . They did n’t spoil much , but there was one reveal that wind at a major plot development next season . We ’re talking , of course , about Azor Ahai .
Asio9 reportedearlier this workweek , a season seven photo of Samwell and Gilly at the Citadel shows Gilly read the legend of Azor Ahai , a mythic Heron whose Christ’s Resurrection was prophesied by Melisandre . According to aRedditpost , the passage is pull almost verbatim from George R.R. Martin ’s series collection , A World of Ice and Fire .
Here is the passage in its integrality :
“ It is also compose that there are annals in Asshai of such a shadow , and of a fighter who campaign against it with a red sword . His human activity are said to have been performed before the raise of Valyria , in the earliest age when Old Ghis was first forming its empire . This fable has spread west from Asshai , and the following of R’hllor [ the Lord of Light ] claim that this hero was named Azor Ahai , and preach his take . In the Jade Compendium , Colloquo Votar recite a curious legend from Yi Ti , which states that the sunlight hide its face from the earth for a life-time , ashamed at something none could discover , and that disaster was ward off only by the deeds of a woman with a monkey ’s keister . ”
The fable of Azor Ahai , like many others in the A Song of Ice and Fire existence , is fractured and open to rendition . It acquire station about 8,300 yr before the issue of Game of Thrones , during the previous White Walker invasion . Legends assign the White Walkers ’ licking to an alliance between the Children and the First Men , but eastern tradition ( include followers of the Lord of Light ) assert those force were led by a fabled warrior identify Azor Ahai . He is not included in Westerosi version of the tale .
Azor Ahai was the wielder of Lightbringer , a burn steel that fought the darkness and helped motor back the White Walkers . In the books , Salladhor Saan ( that sea robber guy we have n’t seen in a few years ) told Davos Seaworth all about how Lightbringer , a.k.a . the Red Sword of Heroes , came into being ; it require three attempt to successfully make it , and in the end it involve a great forfeit . The first time , Azor spend 30 days and nights on it , but it shattered when placed in water . The second time , Azor devote 50 twenty-four hours and night , but it shatter when he used it to strike a Leo . Then , the third time , he took 100 days to make the steel , plunging it into his wife Nissa Nissa ’s heart , thus craft Lightbringer .
There are sight of theory on which character is the reincarnated liveliness of Azor Ahai , including Tyrion Lannister , Jaime Lannister , and evenKhal Drogo . One of the strong character is for Jon Snow . In the last season , not only was Snow brought back to lifetime thanks to Melisandre ’s magic “ for a reason , ” it was revealed that Snow is the Secret Targaryen who was born under a bleeding headliner — i.e. , the blood - cover sword of House Dayne , take up by Ned after kill Arthur Dayne so as to rescue his baby Lyanna , which he was still comprehend when Lyanna show him Jon for the first time . ( Also , the Dayne ’s sword , call Dawn , was created from a falling champion , just to hammer it home . ) Plus , in the Holy Writ , when Melisandre would look into the fires for Azor Ahai , she see Snow , although admittedly her cut phonograph recording is n’t great .
However , there ’s an even stronger case for Daenerys Targaryen being Azor Ahai — at least according to Maester Aemon and Kinvara the Red Priestess ( who is the show ’s replacement for Benerro of Volantis ) . The prophecy of the Prince That Was Promised , a title Maester Aemon said was n’t restrict to sexuality , says the prince would be carry amidst smoke and salt , which has been interpreted as Dragonstone . The bleed star in Azor ’s prophecy could refer to what happened after Dany ’s “ spiritual rebirth ” in fire at the end of the first season . soon after Dany go forth from the funeral funeral pyre , a red comet was seen throughout Westeros .
Then , there ’s the 2nd part of that divination , as shared by Melisandre in A Song of Swords : “ Azor Ahai shall be born again … to wake dragon out of stone . ” There ’s only one individual who ’s done that so far , and that ’s Daenerys . In fact , there are those who believe the dragons themselves are Lightbringer , alternatively of a forcible steel . Thisinteresting postexplains how , in the books , Daenerys test three times to revive the tartar eggs . It was n’t until the third meter , when Daenerys unknowingly sacrificed her unborn son ( in an elbow grease to economize Khal Drogo , who she by and by mercifulness killed and burned on a funeral pyre ) that the tartar emerged , much like how Azor Ahai sacrifice Nissa Nissa to make Lightbringer .
Since the showrunners only have two abridge season of Game of Thrones leave behind to make , chances are they knowwho Azor Ahai is , and it ’s most likely a reveal they have been put down the fundament on for some time now .
Game of Thrones finally returns on July 16 , but somehow I doubt we ’ll get the answer to Azor Ahai ’s identity operator that quick . But at least it will give Sam and Gilly more time to enquiry .
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