Who is the Azor Ahai and/or the SONg of Ice and Fire?

The Azor Ahai prophecy is so confusing, isn't it?! First of all, we aren't even sure if the Azor Ahai and the prince that was promised (the SONg of ice and fire) are the same. I tend to believe - and I guess that most of you as well - that they are indeed the same, or, at least, strongly related to each other (you will understand it at the end of the post). Anyway, let's discuss.........

 According to the prophecy, the Azor Ahai:

- is coming after a long summer, when the star bleeds and the cold breath of darkness falls heavy on the world / when the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers (variant);

- shall be born again amidst smoke and salt;

- shall wake dragons out of stone;

- shall draw from the fire a burning sword, the Lightbringer (which, according to the legend, was created after the Azor Ahai drove the sword into his wife's breast)

If the Azor Ahai is the same as the prince/princess that was promised, so he/she:

- is born of the line of Aerys II and Rhaella;

- is the song of ice and fire;

So, having that in mind, there are a few theories concerning who is the Azor Ahai and/or the prince or princess that was promised:

Jaime Lannister

As crazy as it seems, some people believe that Jaime can be the one. Lots of fans have long speculated that Tyrion Lannister wasn't really Tywin's son, but the bastard child of Joanna Lannister and the Mad King Aerys Targaryen (who seemed to be obsessed with Joanna and possibly raped her). However, this new theory says that things can turn out to be the opposite: Jaime and Cersei are the bastards with Targaryen blood (when we think about it, there are indeed some similarities between the twins and the Targaryens: they have light hair and commit incest, Cersei is a little bit crazy.....) and Tyrion is the only true son of Tywin.

So, if Jamie turns out to be a Targaryen, he will be able to ride a dragon and save the world from the White Walkers, fulfilling his destiny as the Azor Ahai (and/or as the prince that was promised).

It's possible that his "rebirth" happens after he survives Drogon's attack in the battle between the Lannister's and the Dothraki: he survives the attack and reappears from the salt water (it might be sault, why not?!) he nearly drowned into, surrounded by the air full of smoke from the dragon fire..........

And the "red star bleeding" might be a metaphor for the fact that the Lannister's army, one of the strongest armies of all times, now is totally defeated, the red Lannisters' flags are ripped up and covered with blood......

After his rebirth, Jaime will bring up a sword, the Lightbringer, which will be made by his true love's soul, according to the legend:

"Darkness lay over the world and a hero, Azor Ahai, was chosen to fight against it. To fight the darkness, Azor Ahai needed to forge a hero's sword. He labored for thirty days and thirty nights until it was done. However, when he went to temper it in water, the sword broke. He was not one to give up easily, so he started over. The second time he took fifty days and fifty nights to make the sword, even better than the first. To temper it this time, he captured a lion and drove the sword into its heart, but once more the steel shattered. The third time, with a heavy heart, for he knew beforehand what he must do to finish the blade, he worked for a hundred days and nights until it was finished. This time, he called for his wife, Nissa Nissa, and asked her to bare her breast. He drove his sword into her breast, her soul combining with the steel of the sword, creating Lightbringer."

An interesting thing about this quote is that the Azor Ahai will test the sword in a lion........what if it turns out to be Tyrion, the only true lion from the three Lannisters? Isn't it possible that Jaime captures his brother and droves the sword into his heart? And, after the steel shatters, he knows what to do next: drive the sword into the heart of his true love, Cersei, and create Lightbringer. This also fits the prophecy according to which Cersei is going to die at the hand of the valonqer (which means "younger brother" in Valyrian), and Jaime is younger than her by a few minutes........

And what about the "wake dragons out of stone" part? Well, I can't see how this will fit the "Jaime Azor Ahai" theory, but we never know, right?! After all, prophecys aren't literal, so we can't be sure of what the words exactly means.......

Besides, if the Azor Ahai turns out to be the prince that is promissed, Jaime should be the SONg of ice and fire as well and, according to the theory, Jaime only seems to have the "fire side"........

Anyway, I confess that I don't like the idea of Jaime being the Azor Ahai. I mean, he has nothing to do with the "ice and fire" battle and it wouldn't be natural to make him play such an important role in this conflict. Besides, the Azor Ahai must complete the Lightbringer with a pure soul, and I can't see Cersei being this "pure heroic soul that completes the sword that is going to save the world". It would be very pathetic, don't you agree?!

Daenerys Targaryen

Even though the prophecy was believed to referer to a man, it might actually refers to a woman, since the word used to describe the prince in the legend was a gender-neutral word. So, there's a great chance that the "Daenerys Azor Ahai" theory turns out to be truth. After all:

- she literally awoke dragons out of stone and she was born surrounded by salt (since Dragonstone is by the sea);

- she was "reborn" from the flames (surrounded by smoke and ashes) on Khal Drogo's burning funeral pyre, where the dragons were born and she became The Mother of Dragons;

- the red comet appears in the sky, indicating that the dragons are back (Osha affirms to Brandon that the red comet means one thing: dragons), which is an allusion to the prophecy quote "when the stars bleed".

Daenerys complies almost all the requirements for being the Azor Ahai, but the part envolving the Lightbringer still doesn't seem to fit. First, Daenerys doesn't fight with swords and I don't even remember ever seeing her using one in the first place. Second, who is going to be the true love that she has to kill in order to creat the Lightbringer? Drogo has already died and she didn't even care about Daario..........maybe her true love turns out to be Jorah? I don't think she loves him in a romantic way, but she definitely has strong feelings for him.......

Besides, if the Azor Ahai and the prince that is promised (the SONg of a ice and fire) turn out to be the same, I don't see how Daenerys will fit into the prophecy, since she only seems to have the "fire side"........ 

Jon Snow

The "Jon Snow Azor Ahai" theory is one of the most popular theories concerning the matter, since it is the one that most makes sense: 

- he was born under a bleeding star, since Ned Stark enters the Tower of Joy with a bloodied Dawn, the ancestral sword of House Dayne which was forged from a fallen star;

- he is the son of ice (Lyanna Stark) and fire (Rhaegar Targaryen), so, if the Azor Ahai and the prince that is promised (the SONg of ice and fire) are the same, Jon will fit the prophecy;

- he was ressurected from the dead, which was like a "rebirth" and there was smoke (from the nearby fire where Melisandre burned some of his hairs) and salt (from the blood that was cleaned off his chest or maybe it was from the tears of the ones who cried over his death);

- he has always played an important role in the White Walker issue and it makes sense that he turns out to play the most important role in the battle.

The only things that aren't very clear yet is the "wake dragons out of stone" part - which might be an allusion to the fact that he could convince Daenerys to join him in the fight against the White Walkers - and the part concerning the sword, which must be drawn into his true love's chest so as to create Lightbringer.........

Well, when we think about it, it's possible that the prophecy isn't literal at all and that it actually means that the Azor Ahai lost his lover in the journey for becoming the hero he is supposed to be. And that's what happened to Jon: he chose his duty to the Night's Watch over his love for Ygritte and indirectly caused her death by warning Castle Black of the incoming wildling raid. 

To be sincere, I think that the biggest mark against the "Jon Snow Azor Ahai" theory is that it's too obvious and that word doesn't suit George Martin........

The TRUE SONg of ice and fire

What if the Azor Ahai and/or the prince that is promised is someone else? Someone outside this "comfort zone"? As we have discussed before, there is a great chance that the Azor Ahai and the prince that is promised are the same.......so, the one that we are looking for must be a true SONg of the ice and fire and I don't thing Jon Snow represents ice and fire so well. After all, his mother, Lyanna Stark, wasn't a very important representative of the North.........and Rhaegar Targaryen, his father, wasn't such an important leader as well......

I believe that the true SONg of ice and fire have parents that are true leaders and representatives of their houses..........so, what if the Azor Ahai reincarnates (reborns) as the son of Daenerys and Jon Snow? They are true leaders and important representatives of the "fire side" and the "ice side" respectively.........Melisandre even said, while she watched Jon Snow arriving at Dragonstone, that "I have done my part, I have brought ice and fire together".

Besides, the series is already indicating us that the two of them might get married. First, we have Daenerys saying to Daario that she can't take a lover to Westeros, since she'll probably need to make alliances by getting married.........

Now we see that Jon Snow needs to find a way to make Daenerys his ally, but without losing support from the North.........maybe marriage is the answer. After all, the North people would hate to have a South Targaryen Queen they don't even know, BUT if she marries Jon Snow and both govern together, the North people would accept it more.......

And I guess Sor Davos is already thinking about it, he even had that suspicious conversation with Jon, in which he asks "What do you think of her?" and Jon says that "she has a good heart"........so, I think Jon might consider the idea soon......

And then you ask me: but GOT isn't a fairy tale and it would be too pathetic if they two follow for each other............yeah, I agree with you, a true romance would be very pathetic, but who is talking about love? If they end up getting married, it will only be for political reasons.........

And then you ask me again: but if they are getting married only for political reasons, they won't be physically involved, so how are they going to have a son? Well, just because it isn't true love, that doesn't mean they don't like each other.........and if they marry, it's totally possible they end up having sex......

Yeah, I know that the book indicates that Daenerys became infertile after the ritual the Witch made to "bring Khal Drogo back to life", in which Dany end up paying with her son's life..........

In the series, after the ritual ends and Dany sees Drogo quiet and looking at nothing, we have the following dialogue:

When will he (Drogo) be as he was? —Dany asked

"When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," said Mirri Maz Duur, "When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves."

But in the book, Mirri's line is a little bit longer. In addition to the three conditions mentioned above, she also says another one:

" (...) When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before."

So, things aren't very clear.......the book indicates that she became infertile, but the series omits it, and what can we conclude from that? Well, I don't think that the book and the series are going to take a different course on this matter, because it's a very important thing to be changed. However, it's possible that the series omitted the indication of her infertility because it wasn't something permanent. Maybe The Lord of Light will cure her and make her capable of getting pregnant again.........

I know you probably have other doubts, such as: but the White Walkers are soon going to attack Westeros, it won't have time for Dany and Jon's son to grow up and become the Azor Ahai........yeah, but let's think about some possibilities:


- It's possible that the world will be a chaos for years, dominated by the White Walkers, and the remained humans will have to live their lives hiding from the evil..........yeah, it will be something similar to what happens in The Walking Dead, but of course we wouldn't watch the events of these years, the season would end with the White Walkers dominating everything and the next season would happen roughly twenty years later, when the Azor Ahai is old enough to fulfill his destiny.

- It's possible that Dany won't bear a child, maybe she will bear a powerful illuminated inhuman being, which is the Azor Ahai........do you think I am crazy for saying this? Well, considering that Melisandre gave birth to a shadow that killed Renly Baratheon, I think that it's totally possible that Dany gives birth to something inhuman, which turns out to be the Azor Ahai.

- Maybe Jon Snow is the Azor Ahai, who is going to defeat the White Walkers and save the world, and his son with Dany is the prince that is promised (the SONg of a ice and fire), who is going to play another important role in the future......




So that's it guys, I do hope you liked the post. Don't forget to leave your comment below saying which one is your favorite theory or tell us about another theory you have heard or created =)

Azor Ahai Kisses,

Tati