![]() She also declares that Stannis's sword is Lightbringer. While burning statues of the Seven at Dragonstone, Melisandre, a red priestess from Asshai, proclaims that Stannis Baratheon is Azor Ahai come again. Recent EventsĪzor Ahai thrusts Lightbringer into Nissa Nissa's breast, by Amok A Clash of Kings When he was older, Rhaegar came to believe that his infant son, Prince Aegon, fit the prophecy, since a comet was seen above King's Landing when the boy was born. ![]() ![]() When Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was young, he and Maester Aemon believed that Rhaegar was the prince that was promised. It is said that wielding Lightbringer once again, Azor Ahai will stand against the darkness 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. Īccording to prophecy, in ancient books of Asshai from over five thousand years ago, Azor Ahai is to be reborn again as a champion sent by R'hllor. The Jade Compendium mentions that when the hero thrust the blade through a monster, the creature burst into flame. Īlthough he had Lightbringer, Azor Ahai did not fight alone, instead leading virtuous men into battle so that the darkness could be routed. Lightbringer was henceforth always warm to the touch. He drove his sword into her living heart, her soul combining with the steel of the sword, creating Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes. This time, he called for his wife, Nissa Nissa, and asked her to bare her breast. The third time, with a heavy heart, for he knew beforehand what he must do to finish the blade, Azor Ahai worked for a hundred days and nights until it was finished. To temper it this time, he captured a lion and drove the sword into its heart, but once more the steel shattered. Azor Ahai took fifty days and fifty nights to make another sword better than the first. He was not one to give up easily, so he started over. However, when he went to temper it in water, the sword broke. Īzor Ahai needed to forge a hero's sword, so he labored for thirty days and thirty nights at the sacred fires of a temple until it was done. Tales from Yi Ti speak of a heroic woman with a monkey's tail, and legends from the north regale about a last hero who gained the aid of the children of the forest. Followers of R'hllor say the hero's name was Azor Ahai, while other cultures call him Hyrkoon the Hero, Yin Tar, Neferion, and Eldric Shadowchaser. ![]() A great warrior rose to fight this darkness lying over the world, according to a legend which spread from Asshai. Hyrkoon the Hero with Lightbringer, by Jordi Gonzalez EscamillaĪccording to legends from the Further East, the Blood Betrayal of the Bloodstone Emperor began an age of darkness-which Westerosi call the Long Night -in ancient times when the Old Empire of Ghis was still forming. ![]()
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