Dany met from Qarth in a Clash of Kings. Since then, for some reason, she sends visions to Dany to manipulate her but no one seems to know why. Her messages and visions (which I assume are sent by by glass candle) are couched in fantasy-mystic crypto-speak that seem designed to drive Dany (and the reader) insane.
Some theories about who she really is (since she wears a wooden mask that obscures her face) include:
- Shiera SeaStar (legendary old Targaryen woman, Bloodraven’s lover. Some kind of sorceress, but would be way old by now.)
- Ashara Dayne (no evidence)
- Alleras/Sarella, using Archmaester Marwyn’s glass candle (I guess because she is called the Spinx, who speaks in riddles, as Quaithe does)
- Daenerys from the distant future. (Yes, I have read this.)
- a figment of Daenerys’s mad-Targaryen imagination.
For all I know she is none of these things, but she clearly has an agenda. But it is impossible to say what it is, or even if she is on Dany’s side or not.
As to why the show cut her out after Season 2….well.
- They really cut out a LOT of MUCH MORE IMPORTANT things than that.
- I assume that whatever Quaithe is, and whoever she is, her role in the books dovetails with something they have cut from the show, thus rendering her character and its role meaningless. Back in Season 2 they had not planned so far and didn’t quite know what they were going to cut: I don’t care what they say, that is obvious.
- Also they seem to have some kind of hangup with characters seeing visions, having dreams or flashbacks other than Bran. They’ve had a few, but for the most part they think that kind of storytelling is “lame” even though it is used in most shows and stories.
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