HOTU - "Viserys screamed as the molten gold ran down his cheeks and filled his mouth. A tall lord with copper skin and silver-gold hair stood beneath the banner of a fiery stallion, a burning city behind him. Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman's name ... " -ACOK -Dany IV
I haven't post it in a while ...because of work and also because I didn't know how to draw this visions that Dany has in the warlock's chamber ...because they feel different from the first ones that she has ..when she enters in HOTU..meaning ...the first ones feels more like choices that she will have to make ...and these ones feels more like "destiny" ..I think ...meaning things that happened, happens and will happened without her choice....
It's really strange...because the first ones are like a game...she can choose to interact with the characters that she meets along the way ...but -she is warned by Pyat Pree - if she chooses to do so and enters one the rooms she will be trapped in HOTU. So she can choose to help the woman assaulted by the dwarfs , or the Wolf King surrounded by dead people , or she can remain in the house with red door together with Willem Darry....but in this visions that she has in the warlock's chamber ...she sits in a chair and feels like she is just registering what she sees without any input..like it wasn't her choice to kill Viserys by molted gold, or to sacrifice her unborn child, or to move to Bravoos in the house with a red door, or to have a flaming sword like Stannis...and so on and on...so all of those things that she is seeing here ...are other people choices that had or will have a great impact on her...and I really love how they are written...all of this visions...because it's like in real life ...some things we can choose some we can't but we are influenced by other people choices...and you have to find balance in your life between all of this...
Also what I find interesting is that the first visions feels like a game of cat and mouse...meaning ..the Undying Ones ...they don't know her...and they are throwing a lot of stuff at her ...trying to trap her...I mean ...she walks a long time on that corridor opening a lot of different doors ...with a lot of visions ...but she is interested in only some of them..😊it's really funny actually...how they are bargaining with her...maybe this...maybe the other...maybe she will forfeit for compassion ( vision with the woman and Wolf King) , maybe for power( vision with the throne room and Barbed King) , maybe for longing and peace( vision of the house with red door and Willem Darry) , maybe for knowledge ( vision with Singer and his wife) ...On a side note I think the strangest visions are the ones with Wolf King and the one with the Singer and his wife...I mean for us , the reader , the Wolf King vision is a foreshadowing of the Red Wedding...but for her , for Dany ...🤷♀️I don't know ...I don't think it's the same...why is it important for her to see the Red Wedding...and also she can choose to help...how ? she is a continent away when it happens...no...I think for her it's about another Wolf King ...and other dead people...and she will have to make a choice...to help the King or not ... Also the vision with the Singer and his wife..Rhaegar ...it's really strange ...because it's the only vision that finishes before she is leaving ...she finally decides to stay - she doesn't enter the room- but she wants to hear the song...but the characters are turned into mist and she doesn't hear the ending of the song🤷♀️strange ...right? I mean it feels almost like ...an oops moment...like Rhaegar when he tells her about " the dragon must have three heads" ...I don't know ...feels like he slipped away something that he shouldn't have...and the Undying Ones are ..like 😊"ooops you shouldn't have heard that" ..and they are turning Rhaegar into a mist before he finishes the song...really strange...
So....because of all of this thoughts ...I didn't know how to draw this visions ...this ones from the warlock's chamber ...but then I've noticed that ...in the text they are grouped as 3 visions...3 times ...and after each group of visions ..there is this interlude when the Undying Ones are saying " mother of dragons...daughter of death" etc...so I've decided to draw them like this ...so here they are ...the first 3 ...her brother Viserys and his golden crown, her stillborn child Rhaego and the death of her brother Rhaegar....
And I will stop here for now...😊
