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Davos azor ahai4/1/2023 ![]() Put that all together, and it spells bad news should Stannis ever decide that the fate of the world rests on the ultimate sacrifice. ![]() Stannis, I think it’s safe to say loves Shireen more than he loves any other person in the world Stannis considers her the first of his priorities, “ine only child”, his rightful heiress to whom his lieutenants owe their unquestioning obedience. Stannis has sacrificed gods (the statues of the Seven at Dragonstone and the godswood at Storm’s End) and other people (like Alester Florent and the Peasebury men) to R’hllor, but none of these has stopped the Others or truly activated his blade as Lightbringer. Stannis has a sword called Lightbringer, but it is a counterfeit it has light but no heat, not “warm as Nissa Nissa had been warm”. Stannis knows that he (and everyone else) is living in “a time when darkness lay heavy upon the world” (or soon enough, at least), as (so Stannis puts it) “the cold winds rise” and humanity’s “common foe” bears down on the realm. Stannis believes himself to be Azor Ahai Reborn, quite literally the “stuff of heroes” in Melisandre’s eyes. He is disgusted by the thought of murdering the woman he loves most in the world, and pointedly decides that “ I am not made of the stuff of heroes” because “f that was the price of a magic sword, it was more than he cared to pay”. This is a story that deeply troubles Davos, specifically because of the cost to make that blade. Azor Ahai declares to Nissa Nissa (importantly, the only family he appears to have in this story) that he “love you best of all that is in this world”, then immediately murders her from “her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage” comes Lightbringer. This realization makes Azor Ahai sad - “Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he must do”. Azor Ahai realizes that both ordinary labor and animal sacrifice will not provide him this necessary blade. ![]() Azor Ahai lives in “a time when darkness lay heavy upon the world”, which only “a hero’s blade” can oppose. The story is thinly detailed, but the few points it does provide set the foundations for the eventual reveal. ![]() Indeed, I think the story of Nissa Nissa is there for the setup-reminder-payoff of Stannis sacrificing Shireen.įirst, the setup - the story of Nissa Nissa as told in “Davos I” ACOK. ![]()
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