![]() ![]() If anyone is interested in a more in-depth discussion of the influences that the myth and symbolism of Azor Ahai has on the narrative of A Song of Ice and Fire, I’d recommend reading The Mythical Astronomy of Ice and Fire blog – or listen to its attendant podcast It’s not a hard stretch to identify the cracked second moon with the moon likewise cracked by Nissa Nissa’s cry. And that one day in the future, the remaining moon will likewise crack and bring dragons again. One ventured too close to the sun and cracked, releasing a thousand dragons who fell to Earth. In A Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen’s handmaiden Doreah tells the Khaleesi a tale that once upon a time there were two moons. Their return signals the approach of another Long Night, and Azor Ahai has the ghostbusting rep to take them on.Īlong with the establishment of this archetypal hero, the cracking of the moon from Nissa Nissa’s death cry ties dragons into Azor Ahai’s story. This idea of Azor Ahai reborn, a prophesied reincarnation of the flaming sword wielder, is a significant one now that the White Walkers north of the Wall are active again. ![]() As the hero plunged the sword into his wife’s breast (for reasons) her cry was so powerful that it broke the moon.Īzor Ahai is an important figure in the mythology of R’hllor, the Lord of Light that Melisandre serves. After some early failed attempts at forging the sword, Azor Ahai’s wife Nissa Nissa sacrificed herself to enable her husband to finally temper the blade. ![]() To summarize the legend, in the distant past age around the time of the first Long Night, the hero Azor Ahai forged Lightbringer, a flaming sword that was used (somehow) to dispel the evil of the Long Night. Then Melisandre shifted over to the viewpoint that the resurrected Jon Snow was really this prince that was promised.) She often declared that Stannis Baratheon was Azor Ahai reborn. Afterwords they forge a bright red sword for Stannis, in order to match Lightbringer.For those who just have a passing familiarity with Azor Ahai from Game of Thrones or the source book series A Song of Ice and Fire, we mostly hear about the legend from the sorceress Melisandre of Asshai. She manages to convince him to burn all the statues of The Seven at Dragonstone. Melisandre of Asshai proclaims that Stannis Baratheon is Azor Ahai come again. It is said that wielding Lightbringer once again, Azor Ahai will stand against the Others and if he fails, the world fails with him. This will occur after a long summer when an evil, cold darkness descends upon the world. He drove his sword into her living heart, her soul combining with the steel of the sword, creating Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.Īccording to prophecy, in ancient books of Asshai from over five thousand years ago, Azor Ahai is to be reborn again to challenge the Others. This time, he called for his wife, Nissa Nissa, and asked her to bare her breast. ![]() The third time, he worked for a hundred days and nights until it was finished. To temper it this time, he drove the sword into a lion's heart, but once more the steel shattered. It took him fifty days and fifty nights to forge the sword the second time, even better than the first. But he was not one to give up easily, so he started over. However, when he went to temper it in water, the sword broke. To fight the darkness that lay in the world, Azor Ahai needed to forge a hero's sword. He labored for thirty days and thirty nights until it was done. ![]()
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