Wednesday, February 1, 2017

ASOIAF: What is the story of Daenerys' fertility?

 She was diagnosed as being unable to get pregnant again after what Mirri did to her in season 1, but in the books, with the berries and all, it’s conspicuous that she had a MISCARRIAGE. She’d been doing the glory with Hizdahr WTF? She can either can have a child or not.
If there is one thing I have learned from reading fantasy it is that prophecies never make any sense. Prophets are seemingly unable to just speak in plain old English. They have to be all cryptic. Even if they are about to be tied to a funeral pyre and lit on fire.
Mirri didn’t say Daenerys couldn’t get pregnant. That is just how Dany interpreted it. What Daenerys actually asks about, though, is when Drogo will return.
"When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," said Mirri Maz Duur. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.
A Game of Thrones
Dany interprets this as meaning that he will never return and furthermore interprets it as meaning she will never have a baby.
Yet it seems she had a miscarriage.
So…here are your possibilities.
  • Mirri Maaz Duur was wrong. Or full of it.
  • Mirri Maaz Duur was lying.
  • Mirri Maaz Duur was not lying but something has intervened to lift the curse of barren-ness from Dany’s womb.
  • Mirri Maaz Duur was talking symbolically and the things she said have actually occurred. And Dany just misinterpreted her. A fundamental misunderstanding. Understandably, as Dany speaks High Valyrian and Common but does not speak Mumbo-Jumbo.

    Some possible interpretations of MMD’s words include:
    • The Sun rising in the West might refer to Quentyn Martell’s(sigil, Sun and Spear) arrival in Meereen(the East.)
    • When the Seas go dry,” could refer to the (dry) Dothraki sea of grass, which Dany has recently returned to when she has the apparent miscarriage.
    • When the mountains blow in the wind like leaves. This has been guessed to refer to the pyramids of Meereen being destroyed, probably by dragons.
But do we really think Drogo is going to be resurrected? No.
I believe she was talking symbolically and now these things, or most of them, have already occurred. The return of Drogo is also symbolic.
The return of Drogo (I believe) refers to Drogon the dragon, along with Dany herself , uniting the disparate tribes of the Dothraki into one mega-khalasar that will come with her to conquer Westeros.

Written December 15th, 2016

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