Said another way, they were the ancestors of Valyria itself – all of the evidence points to this.Ĭonsider the vision that Daenerys had in AGOT of the kingly ghosts with hair of silver, gold, and platinum white and gemstone eyes matching 4 of the 8 gemstones associated with the rulers of the Great Empire, the ones holding swords of pale fire and urging her to wake the dragon. I’ll refer to some of her points later today, but make sure you watch them as there’s more info there than I can sum up here.Īlright, so in Great Empire of the Dawn: Dragonlords of Ancient Asshai, we saw that there is a lot of evidence to support the idea that, well, the Great Empire of the Dawn was an ancient race of dragonlords from Asshai (good title, right?). Anyway, you’ll enjoy these vids – they’re some of my favorite ASOIAF analysis, actually, and they compliment the discussion we’re about to have. She was actually the person who first pointed out to me that Garth the Green… looks a lot like this figure from European myth called Cernunnos! I didn’t even know who Cernunnos was at the time, if you can believe that. This video today will build on some of her ideas, which in turn built on some of my ideas about the Great Empire, and back and back… Amanda is one of the folks who goes all the way back to the forum days, before I ever had a podcast, so we’ve been trading ideas for years now. In these videos, Crowfood’s Daughter lays out the best proof possible that Septon Barth was right about dragons having been bred from firewyrms and wyverns. She’s not actively making videos right now and she only has a few vids on her channel, but they are all mind-blowing and in particular, you need to watch “The Secret Origin of Dragons” Part 1 and 2: And I do mean…into the guts.īefore we go any further, I want to make sure to recommend to everyone watching live and on replay that you go and watch a pair of videos on a YouTube channel call The Disputed Lands, run by Crowfood’s Daughter. Not only are we going to show the lines of transmission between the Great Empire and Valyria, but we are going to drill down in to the guts of just how dark this sorcery was. But today, we are going to tackle another important child of the Great Empire, the one who inherited more of their sorcery than anyone else – Valyria.
Westeros is the center of the ASOIAF story, and ultimately this “long lost race of dragonlords” stuff is leading us back to the last hero and the defeat of the Others in Westeros. In my next scripted Great Empire of the Dawn video, I’ll be tackling the most important of these scatterings – namely, the evidence that points to the Great Empire of the Dawn having left a mark on Westeros. At least, that’s the official record, but we’ve discovered that the fingerprints of this Dawn Age empire can be found all over the world, as the surviving peoples of that large, multi-ethnic empire scattered in all directions after the Long Night apocalypse.
They disappeared in the smoke of the of the Long Night, leaving behind only their fused stone fortresses and some scattered myths in the Further East. The tales of the Great Empire of the Dawn follow this track – they were some sort of Atlantis-like or Numenor-like high civilization whose practice of sorcery eventually came to bite them in the ass. A great deal of powerful magic occurred at the time of the Long Night – the Long Night cataclysm itself having been almost certainly brought down by humans practicing magic – and the time before the Long Night, known as the Dawn Age, seems to have been a time where magic thrived in the open. Valyria was a 5,000 year-long empire built on powerful sorcery, but they’re gone now and Dany only has a small fraction of their magical capabilities, as of yet. There is “high magic” in ASOIAF, but it’s kept around the margins and it always serves the centerpiece of the story, which is the characters’ “hearts in conflict.” George is, however, totally into leaving breadcrumbs of world-building for us to follow, and he loves to hint as more powerful magic lurking just out of sight. Martin loves to hint at dark sorcery without telling us enough to spoil the mystery – it’s a hallmark of his “low-magic” fantasy writing approach. NOTE: the script below is performed in this livestream, but there’s also some stuff about the Church of Starry Wisdom and the Bloodstone Emperor first to set things up which is NOT in the script below.
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