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so something in the game of thrones booksthat mostly don’t appear in the show are the many dreams and visions that charactershave. they have regular dreams and nightmares abouttheir hopes and fears and memories, but dreams can also be connected to magic and prophecy. some starks have wolf dreams, inside the mindsof direwolves, and targaryens have dragon dreams, of fire and blood. red priests see the future and the past intheir flames, bran and jojen have greendreams with magic trees, and quaithe uses glass candlesto enter peoples’ dreams – point being, lots of characters in game of thrones haveweird visions, often connecting to the future,

past, magic and prophecy, and this is especiallytrue of daenerys targaryen. she has dragon dreams, fever dreams, propheticdreams, glass candle dreams, she has a whole vision quest in the dothraki sea after eatingsome funny berries – but some of the most important and interesting visions in the wholeseries are the visions dany has in the house of the undying. in book and season 2, daenerys comes to thecity of qarth and meets a warlock called pyat pree. he invites her to the house of the undying, where he and his warlock buddies live, promising to give dany great “truth and wisdom”. in the show, pyat pree steals dany’s dragons

to force her to come, but in the books shegoes willingly. she comes the entrance and is offered a potioncalled shade of the evening, which pyat says will open her mind to the truths within . sodany takes the drugs offered by the strange man and enters the house. it’s a strange, magical place, full of passagewaysarranged in impossible ways , and there are “endless” rooms where dany begins to seevisions. the first vision is the weirdest – danysees “a beautiful woman sprawled naked on the floor while four little men crawl” overher, biting and fucking her body . this way this is usually interpreted, the woman representswesteros, and the four men represent the four

kings who are ravaging the country with war. it’s kind of a gross metaphor, but it getsthe point across – war is terrible, and so, perhaps, are the men who wage it. the reason why there are four men here insteadof all five kings of the war of the five kings is probably that king renly is dead at thispoint in the story. anyway, dany’s second vision is of “afeast of corpses”. she sees savagely slaughtered feasters strewnacross overturned furniture, and a dead man with the head of a wolf and an iron crown. this is pretty clearly the red wedding. the dead man is robb stark, after the freyssew his direwolf’s head onto his corpse.

interestingly, this vision happens a wholebook before the red wedding does, so this is a great example of a vision that accuratelyshows the future of the story before it happens. dany’s next vision is of the past – shesees inside “the house with the red door”, which was a “house in braavos” where daenerysand viserys lived for a while after they fled westeros when robert baratheon took over. in braavos, dany and her brother were protectedby ser willem darry, a knight who stayed loyal to the targaryens until he died of some sickness. the house with the red door is the closest place dany has known to a home , and she dreamsof it often as a place of safety and comfort and a happy simple life.

but the house with the red door is also thesubject of conspiracy theories – there’s this whole thing about how the house withthe red door had a lemon tree outside , when trees are very rare in braavos – so somepeople believe the house might actually have been in dorne, as part of some martell conspiracy,though the evidence for this isn’t very convincing. dany’s fourth vision is of her father, themad king aerys targaryen, sitting the iron throne. aerys says “let him be the king of ashes”, and what’s going on here is that, aerys’ army, and son, have just been destroyed byrobert baratheon at the battle of the trident,

so aerys is giving the order to burn downking’s landing so that robert can’t have it . he would have got away with it too ifit weren’t for – a young jaime lannister killing the king and saving the city. dany’s fifth vision is of another dead targaryen– her brother rhaegar, the eldest child of king aerys. in the vision, rhaegar’s with his wife,elia martell, and their newborn son, who they name aegon. rhaegar says that this child aegon “is theprince that was promised” . the prince that was promised, or azor ahai, is a hero prophesiedto save “the world” . when he was young,

rhaegar believed that he was this hero, buthe later comes to believe it would be his son aegon . rhaegar also says “the dragonhas three heads” and “there must be one more”. so at this time, rhaegar has two kids – ayoung daughter, rhaenys, and now the infant aegon. aegon is the name of aegon the conqueror,the original targaryen who took over westeros three hundred years ago. this aegon had two sister-wives – rhaenysand visenya – so it looks like rhaegar was naming his kids after these original threetargaryens – he just needed a third child,

visenya, to complete set – so that seemsto be what he means when he says “there must be one more” . a problem, though, isthat rhaegar’s wife elia was “frail and sickly”, and after the birth of aegon, themaesters said she couldn’t have more kids . so rhaegar had a problem – how was hegonna have his third child, his third head of the dragon, if elia couldn’t give birth? maybe this is part of the reason why rhaegarran off with lyanna stark. of course, that led to robert’s rebellion,and the death of rhaegar, and the deaths of elia and rhaenys and aegon – so, so muchfor the prince that was promised and the three heads of the dragon, but with lyanna, rhaegardid get to have his third child – jon snow.

dany keeps moving. she encounters strange phantoms that try tolure her into the wrong room, but she gets through and arrives at the true chamber ofthe undying ones themselves, a group of immortal warlocks who turn out to look like creepyblue corpses, there’s a human heart floating above, it’s like some scene from the bindingof isaac . and the undying whisper prophesies to dany – they say “three fires must youlight … one for life and one for death and one to love”. “three mounts must you ride … one to bedand one to dread and one to love”. and “three treasons will you know … oncefor blood and once for gold and once for love”.

there are lots of different ways to interpretthese lines, but here are some likely answers – the fire to light for life is probablythe fire dany lights to hatch her dragons, to give life to them. the fire for death could be a bunch of things,cause dany often kills people with fire – but it’s probably the fire that dany’s justabout to use to kill the undying, to bring death to the deathless. the mount to bed is probably “the silver”horse dany rides to her first night with drogo. the mount to dread is probably her dragondrogon – who causes such dread in dany’s enemies.

some people interpret this mount thing differently,arguing that the mounts aren’t literal animals that dany rides, but they’re the men dany’shad sex with – so you could say hizdahr, or even, potentially, euron is a mount todread, maybe drogo is the mount to love and hizdahr is to bed, or something – thereare lots of different arrangements, but what seems to make the most sense is just the silverand drogon as dany’s mounts so far. now the treasons – the treason for blood,according to dany, is when mirri maz duur kills dany’s unborn child rhaego to avengeher people who were killed by the dothraki . the treason for gold, dany believes, iswhen jorah reports on her to varys – but thing is, jorah doesn’t betray her for gold,he just wanted a pardon so that he could go

home to westeros . dany later thinks thistreason is from brown ben plumm, a sellsword captain who betrays her in the books , buthe doesn’t do it for gold either . so maybe the treason for gold is yet to come – maybefrom daario , or illyrio , or the shavepate. regardless, this leaves a fire to love, amount to love and a treason for love. a fire “to love” is interesting wording,cause the other fires were “for life”, “for death”, this is to love. does this mean dany will love a fire? what could that mean? well there’s a lot of speculation that danyand jon snow might fall in love.

and jon could represent fire in that he maybe azor ahai, who is said to wield a flaming sword , and represents light against darkness. the full wording here is that dany must lighta fire to love. so maybe dany will light the fire that makesjon azor ahai. this could connect to the story of nissa nissa– apparently the original azor ahai created his burning sword lightbringer by plunginghis sword into the body of his wife . if jon snow is azor ahai, maybe he’ll have to dosomething similar with daenerys, maybe this could be the treason “for love”. this is all very vague, but however you lookat it, love and fire and treason seem to be

in dany’s future, and jon snow could easilybe a big part of that. and there’s also a mount – so maybe danycould ride ghost? the undying say some more stuff – they calldany “child of storm” and “daughter of death”, which refers to dany’s birth– she was born during a storm, and her mother died giving birth to her. the undying call her “bride of fire” – whichagain could connect to dany loving someone who symbolically is fire, and they call her“slayer of lies”, which is an interesting one – we’ll get back to this. they call dany “child of three” whichcould just refer to the fact that she’s

the youngest of three children, but it couldalso connect to more general targaryen number three shenanigans cause the undying also say“three heads has the dragon”. then the undying give dany a bunch more visionsat high speed. she sees her brother viserys killed with moltengold by drogo. she sees “a tall lord with copper skin andsilver-gold hair” standing “beneath the banner of a fiery stallion, a burning citybehind him”. this is a cool one – with the skin of adothraki, and hair of a targaryen, and a sigil with both a horse and fire, this guy mustbe rhaego, the son of daenerys and drogo who was never born cause he was killed in thewomb by the magic of mirri maz duur.

this vision is of what dany’s son wouldhave become had he lived – because rhaego was connected to a prophecy of his own – thedosh khaleen tell daenerys that her son would be the “the stallion who mounts the world”,a great dothraki warrior who’d unite the khalasars and take over the world . but rhaegodied and the prophecy didn’t come true . dany then sees “rubies” flying “likedrops of blood from the chest of a dying prince”. he sinks “to his knees in the water andwith his last breath” murmurs “a woman’s name”. so this guy is rhaegar targaryen again, dany’sbrother. here he’s dying at the battle of the trident,killed by robert baratheon during his rebellion.

the big question here is whose name does rhaegarmurmur? maybe he named his wife, elia martell. but maybe he named lyanna stark, the womanhe had just run off with and started this war over in the first place . we’re toldby some characters that rhaegar abducted and raped lyanna, but many readers suspect thatrhaegar and lyanna were actually in love . for now it’s a mystery, but rhaegar saying lyanna’sname with his last breath would add something beautiful and tragic to this vision. dany sees a “blue-eyed king” raise a “redsword” that glows “like sunset”. this is probably the blue-eyed king stannisbaratheon raising his burning sword on the

beach at dragonstone, back when melisandrewas trying to convince everyone that stannis was azor ahai. the king in the vision casts “no shadow”,which probably hints at the magic shadow creature with stannis’ face that melisandre conjuresto kill renly. a second way to interpret this vision is thatit could be an image of the future, of the true azor ahai – like, maybe jon snow inthe books will be resurrected not as the same guy he was before like in the show, but assomething different. he could have the blue eyes of a wight, hissword could burn, transformed as lightbringer, and he could be a king as the king in thenorth – so maybe he could fit this vision

– it’s not super likely though. dany sees “a cloth dragon” swaying “onpoles amidst a cheering crowd”, which dany later says is called “a mummer’s dragon”. so remember aegon, rhaegar’s infant sonwho died in robert’s rebellion? well in the books, varys and illyrio claimto have secretly saved aegon and to’ve raised him to be a perfect king – there’s thiswhole big conspiracy to put aegon on the iron throne – but the thing is, the evidencesuggests that this aegon targaryen isn’t aegon targaryen at all – the kid’s a fake– making him, symbolically, a mummer’s dragon – a fake targaryen.

so it’s very interesting that the undyingcall dany “slayer of lies”. maybe dany will be the one to reveal varysand illyrio’s deceptions. check out the varys video for more on thisconspiracy. then dany sees “a great stone beast” takingwing “from a smoking tower” and “breathing shadow fire”. this one is tricky but it’s probably relatedto melisandre’s talk of waking a dragon from stone at the island of dragonstone . melwanted to sacrifice a young boy called edric storm, use his kingsblood to wake a stonedragon , but edric is saved by davos and it doesn’t end up happening, so perhaps thisis another example of a prophecy averted.

dany sees “her silver” “trotting throughthe grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars”, which seems to be dany onher horse on her wedding night to drogo. dany sees “a corpse” standing “at theprow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly”. this could be a bunch of people. theon greyjoy comes to mind – standing ona ship, looking like a corpse after his torture by ramsay, which was much worse in the books. it could also be book character victarion,a corpse in the sense that he’s probably doomed to die in slaver’s bay.

or it could be jon connington, looking deadand grey because of the greyscale taking over his body. it’s hard to be sure with this vision. dany sees “a blue flower” growing “froma chink in a wall of ice”, filling “the air with sweetness”. the “wall of ice” has gotta be the wall,right? as for the flower, blue “winter roses”are often associated with lyanna stark . what’s at the wall that’s connected to lyanna? lyanna’s son, jon snow.

the imagery of jon filling the air with sweetnessin dany’s vision might again support the idea of a romance between the two. dany sees “shadows” whirling and dancing“inside a tent, boneless and terrible”, and this is the tent where mirri maz duurperforms the magic that kills the unborn rhaego and leaves drogo living but mindlessdany sees “a little girl” running “barefoot toward a big house with a red door” , sothis is that house in braavos again. dany sees “mirri maz duur” shrieking inflames, “a dragon bursting from her brow”. so this is the fire where dany hatches herdragons – leaving mirri to burn inside the pyre.

dany sees “the bloody corpse of a nakedman” bouncing and dragging “behind a silver horse”. the corpse is the wineseller who tries topoison dany under the orders of varys in book and season 1. when he’s caught, as punishment, he’sdragged behind dany’s horse until he dies .dany sees “a white lion” running “through grass taller than a man”. this one’s kinda obscure. in book 1, khal drogo hunts for a hrakkar,a “great white lion” that lives in the

dothraki sea . drogo succeeds, brings backa dead lion , and makes a big cloak out of it for dany to wear. the cloak makes dany feel closer to drogoafter his death . so this lion running in the vision is presumably that same lion. there is a different interpretation, though– some people argue that jaime is a lannister lion and he wears the white cloak of a kingsguard,so maybe he also symbolically fits with this vision. “beneath the mother of mountains, a lineof naked crones” creep “from a great lake and” kneel “shivering before [daenerys],their grey heads bowed”.

these crones are the dosh khaleen of vaesdothrak, the dothraki city. in the show, dany has already visited heretwice, but in the books she hasn’t made her second visit yet. there’ll surely be differences between theshow and book versions, but this vision sounds pretty similar to the show, with the dothrakikneeling before daenerys. in her final vision, dany sees “ten thousandslaves lift[ing] bloodstained hands as she race[s] by on her silver, riding like thewind”, with the slaves crying “mother!”. this is the scene from book and season 3 wheredany is crowded by the freed slaves of yunkai. in the vision they reach for her, touch her,tug at her cloak, the hem of her skirt, wanting

her fire her life and then dany snaps outof it and sees all the corpsy gross undying warlocks swarming her , grabbing her, apparentlytrying to kill her to take her power and her dragons , so dany’s dragon drogon killsthem all and burns down the house of the undying – which may be the fire for death. but yeah those are the visions in the books,but let’s also have a look at the visions in the show. in the show, dany has three quick visionsin the house of the undying – first, dany sees the throne room in king’s landing,which appears to have been burned. the roof’s gone, and snow is falling ontothe iron throne.

in the books, it may be cersei’s wildfireexplosion that burns the red keep, though in the show the wildfire only burns the septso, at least in the show, we might have a second burning, caused, perhaps, by dany’sdragons. also we have this moment of dany reachingout to touch the throne, but then leaving just before she grabs it – maybe hintingthat dany might never quite take the throne. dany then sees the wall, and it does seemlikely that dany will go there some time – cause someone needs to destroy the white walkers’army of the dead, and dany’s dragons do seem the perfect weapon. finally, dany enters a tent, and sees herlove drogo, and the son they never had, rhaego.

it’s a touching moment where dany pausesto reconnect with her past, but she soon moves on and faces the future. her visions end, and she kills pyat pree withfire, much like the books. so. what have we learned from all this? we’ve seen that visions and dreams in thronescan accurately predict the future – like this vision of the red wedding, and this oneof the slaves of yunkai. but we’ve also seen that visions and propheciescan be wrong – the prophecy of the stallion who mounts the world failed, and rhaegar waswrong about the prince that was promised,

and this thing with the stone dragon seemsnot to have happened. even when they are true, visions and propheciescan be so vague, and interpreted in so many ways, that they’re usually not helpful forthe characters of the story, in fact they can be harmful – would mirri have killedrhaego if it weren’t for the prophecy of the stallion that mounts the world? would rhaegar have run off with lyanna ifit weren’t for the prince that was promised? . chasing after prophecies has caused allsorts of madness and death – as one character puts it, “prophecy will bite your prickoff every time”. but, “still…”, there are some tantalisinghints here.

it looks like love and fire and treason arein dany’s future, which could very well connect to azor ahai, maybe jon snow. as a slayer of lies, dany may be an enemyof varys and his supposed aegon targaryen. and it seems likely that she’ll go to thewall to fight against the white walkers. and, if nothing else, it’s pretty cool toget these glimpses of the past with rhaegar and elia and aerys. so thanks for watching! this video topic was chosen by patrons onpatreon, we hold a big vote for a video topic every now and then.

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