![]() Another difference is that we aren’t at the Night King weirwood in the far north, but at Winterfell, but recall that the two times Bran visited the Night King tree, he did so on the astral plane, using the magic of the weirwoods. All the ingredients of my theory are in place, save that our Azor Ahai people are armed with dragons as opposed to flaming swords, which is fine because they are both Lightbringer symbols. In other words… we will probably have, all gathered together: the Night King, Bran, a weirwood tree, and Azor Ahai people wielding lots of fire. Now here we are, waiting for the big battle at Winterfell that’s coming in Episode 3, and look – Bran is planning to use himself as bait to lure the Night King into the godswood, where Jon and Dany hope to use their dragons to spring a trap. The implication is that the weirwoods can be a trap which contain and consume the Night King, and that is because, in my opinion, the power of the show-version Night King is tied to that weirwood tree where he was transformed, and in the books, we can say that all signs point to the White Walkers as a whole having been created with weirwood magic. The weirwood cage is a book-only detail, but it’s especially important because both the Lord of Bones and Mance Raydar are symbolic Night King figures, and burning the Night King in a weirwood cage is simply another way of talking about the general idea of burning the weirwoods to destroy the White Walkers. Perhaps the most telling of all the examples we looked at was burning the Lord of Bones, who was glamoured up to look like Mance Raydar, in a weirwood cage at the Wall. We mostly looked at scenes with Stannis burning weirwoods and symbolic weirwoods, though we also mentioned Stannis offering to make Jon Snow an official Stark and the Lord of Winterfell, if only he will burn down the Winterfell heart tree. In Part 2, we began to get into examples from the books which back up the main theory – scenes which depict an Azor Ahai person burning or stabbing weirwoods or things which symbolize weirwoods, and always with the goal of defeating the White Walkers and ending the Long Night. The idea is that spiral shapes seem to represent that Night King tree, which has those spiral arms of standing stones, so using a Lightbringer sword to burn such a spiral struck me (and a few others) as heavy foreshadowing. In part one we laid out the basic theory of this series – that Beric stabbing and burning the corpse spiral at Last Hearth represents the idea of an Azor Ahai figure burning the weirwood tree in the far north where the Night King was created, or even burning the weirwoodnet as a whole. Hey there friends! LmL here, and thanks for checking out part 3 of our End of Ice and Fire series, and if you haven’t seen the first two you will definitely want to watch those before this one.
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