Sweet blue flower on the wall = Death
There are many theories about how this vision foreshadows Daenerys’ doom/death.
A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness… mother of dragons, bride of fire…
[ACOK; Daenerys IV]
I want to show that how some symbols in this vision are bad omens for Daenerys.
COLOR BLUE:
The merchant prince sat up sharply. “Pyat Pree has blue lips, and it is truly said that blue lips speak only lies. Heed the wisdom of one who loves you. Warlocks are bitter creatures who eat dust and drink of shadows. They will give you naught. They have naught to give.”
[ACOK; Daenerys III]
“Blue lips speak only lies, isn’t that what Xaro told you? Why do you care what the warlocks whispered? All they wanted was to suck the life from you, you know that now.”
[ACOK; Daenerys V]
“Not all your enemies are in the Yellow City. Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips. You had not been gone from Qarth a fortnight when Pyat Pree set out with three of his fellow warlocks, to seek for you in Pentos.”
[ADWD; Daenerys III]
THE WALL (WHICH IS A WALL OF ICE):
The next morning she woke stiff and sore and aching, with ants crawling on her arms and legs and face. When she realized what they were, she kicked aside the stalks of dry brown grass that had served as her bed and blanket and struggled to her feet. She had bites all over her, little red bumps, itchy and inflamed. Where did all the ants come from? Dany brushed them from her arms and legs and belly. She ran a hand across her stubbly scalp where her hair had burned away, and felt more ants on her head, and one crawling down the back of her neck. She knocked them off and crushed them under her bare feet. There were so many…
It turned out that their anthill was on the other side of her wall. She wondered how the ants had managed to climb over it and find her. To them these tumbledown stones must loom as huge as the Wall of Westeros. The biggest wall in all the world, her brother Viserys used to say, as proud as if he’d built it himself.
[ADWD; Daenerys X]
SWEET SMELL:
“Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.”
[ACOK; Daenerys II]
A foul, sweet smell rose from the wound, so thick it almost choked her.
[AGOT; Daenerys VIII]
While I was looking at the last example with sweet smell, I realized that this is the chapter that Drogo falls ill. And I started to read it for further clues…
And I’ve found this:
When they were alone, Ser Jorah drew his dagger. Deftly, with a delicacy surprising in such a big man, he began to scrape away the black leaves and dried blue mud from Drogo’s chest. The plaster had caked hard as the mud walls of the Lamb Men, and like those walls it cracked easily. Ser Jorah broke the dry mud with his knife, pried thechunks from the flesh, peeled off the leaves one by one. A foul, sweet smell rose from the wound, so thick it almost choked her. The leaves were crusted with blood and pus, Drogo’s breast black and glistening with corruption.
“No," Dany whispered as tears ran down her cheeks. "No, please, gods hear me, no.”
[AGOT; Daenerys VIII]
LET’S LOOK:
Blue wall of mud
It cracks and leaves chunks on Drogo’s body
A sweet smell rose from his wound which chokes Daenerys.
In this list of Jon x Sansa book hints , I try to tell (with the help of other metas in the fandom) that this vision is about Jon and Sansa being Daenerys’ doom.
(You can check: B4 & B5 for this theory)
BECAUSE THESE IMAGES ARE LINKED WITH JON AND SANSA TOO.
The flower in the Dany’s vision is blue so fans believe that this flower is a blue winter rose.
Therefore this vision might be about Lyanna’s boy Jon who is at the Wall.
But winter roses and (roses especially) are linked with Sansa too.
[*Roses and Sansa is examined here in this Lyanna//Sansa meta]
SANSA IS THE BLUE FLOWER THAT BLOOMED FROM THE NORTH.
Ygritte tells about the song of:
Bael the Bard and the Winterfell’s Blue Rose in ACOK; Jon VI
In the story the blue roses of Winterfell just bloom
and they represent a love between
King Beyond the Wall and Winterfell’s maiden heir
Next chapter is Sansa (ACOK; Sansa IV)
and she flowers for the first time,
next chapter is Jon again. (Jon-Sansa-Jon)
Also both Jon and Sansa have these other symbols as well in their stories; such as Wall and sweet smells:
SANSA’S COURTESY (ARMOR) IS WALL
He had always had a yen to see the Titan of Braavos. Perhaps that would please Sansa. Gently, he spoke of Braavos, and met a wall of sullen courtesy as icy and unyielding as the Wall he had walked once in the north.
[ASOS; Tyrion VIII]
Sansa should take it off only for her husband
“Courtesy is a lady’s armor,” Sansa said. Her septa had always told her that.
“I am your husband. You can take off your armor now.”
[ASOS; Sansa III]
But the Wall belongs to Jon
The Wall is mine, Jon reminded himself whenever he felt his strength flagging.
[ASOS; Jon VIII]
The Wall is mine, he reminded himself.
[ASOS; Jon IX]
The Wall was his, the night was dark, and he had a king to face.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
Never. “I cannot speak to what my father might have done. I took an oath, Your Grace. The Wall is mine.”
[ADWD; Jon I]
The Wall is mine, and the Watch as well. The Night’s Watch takes no part.
[ADWD; Jon II]
I should be walking the ice. The Wall is mine.
[ADWD; Jon III]
The Wall is mine, Jon reminded himself as the winchmen were swinging in the cage, for two more days, at least.
[ADWD; Jon XI]
“I must do as I think best. With respect, Your Grace, the Wall is mine,and so is this decision.”
[ADWD; Jon XIII]
SANSA IS SWEET SMELLING
Sansa Stark, he mused. Soft-spoken sweet-smelling Sansa, who loved silks, songs, chivalry and tall gallant knights with handsome faces.
[ASOS; Tyrion III]
She brought a dozen of the queen’s favorite scents as well. Sansa chose a sharp sweet fragrance with a hint of lemon in it under the smell of flowers. The maid dabbed some on her finger and touched Sansa behind each ear, and under her chin, and then lightly on her nipples.
[ASOS; Sansa III]
IN CONCLUSION:
Sansa is the SWEET-SMELLING BLUE ROSE and she is armored with icy WALL of courtesy and that Wall belongs to Jon. (Jon is Sansa’s armor)
SO:
The symbols in Dany’s visions are bad omen for her.
These symbols are: Blue, Wall, Sweetness
We see these words when Dany tells us Drogo’s falling ill and later he dies…
What about the FLOWER? Where is the flower in that Drogo chapter?
We said that the flower in the vision is most likely a ROSE.
(And I showed how blue roses are linked with Jon and Sansa.)
But @kellyvela @butterflies-dragons pointed out the greatest word play in that Drogo chapter:
A foul, sweet smell ROSE from the wound, so thick it almost choked her.
Grrm really said: PUN INTENDED!!
SWEET (SMELL) ROSE CHOKED HER…
I think it is obvious that Drogo’s death and that vision is linked.
But also look at this:
A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness… mother of dragons, bride of fire…
When did she become mother of dragons and bride of fire?
During: Drogo’s funeral pyre!!
(Please read this meta: Daenerys: Mother of Dragons, Bride of Fire )
She had sensed the truth of it long ago, Dany thought as she took a step closer to the conflagration, but the brazier had not been hot enough. The flames writhed before her like the women who had danced at her wedding, whirling and singing and spinning their yellow and orange and crimson veils, fearsome to behold, yet lovely, so lovely, alive with heat. Dany opened her arms to them, her skin flushed and glowing. This is a wedding, too, she thought.
[…]
And now the flames reached her Drogo, and now they were all around him. His clothing took fire, and for an instant the khal was clad in wisps of floating orange silk and tendrils of curling smoke, grey and greasy. Dany’s lips parted and she found herself holding her breath. Part of herwanted to go to him as Ser Jorah had feared, to rush into the flames to beg for his forgiveness and take him inside her one last time, the fire melting the flesh from their bones until they were as one, forever.
[…]
Now, she thought, now, and for an instant she glimpsed Khal Drogobefore her, mounted on his smoky stallion, a flaming lash in his hand. He smiled, and the whip snaked down at the pyre, hissing.
[…]
A rising heat puffed at her face, soft and sudden as a lover’s breath…
[…]
I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don’t you see? Don’t you SEE? With a belch of flame and smoke that reached thirty feet into the sky, the pyre collapsed and came down around her. Unafraid, Dany stepped forward into the firestorm, calling to her children.
The third crack was as loud and sharp as the breaking of the world.
[AGOT; Daenerys X]
IN SUMMARY:
The symbols in HOU vision are similar with the words that Daenerys uses while describing Drogo’s illness. Drogo dies and Dany starts a funeral pyre.
Blue, Wall, sweet, flower (rose) symbols are present in these both chapters (AGOT; Daenerys VIII & ACOK; Daenerys IV)
Even the words “mother of dragons and bride of fire” point out Drogo’s funeral pyre where she became MOD & BOF.
We can assume that this vision hints something really bad for Daenerys (death?)
These symbols also surround Jon and Sansa… and Dany is still waiting for the betrayal for love.
three treasons will you know… once for blood and once for gold and once for love…
Dany thinks about her promised betrayals in her last ADWD chapter and look what happens: (*For Jon vs Daenerys meta you can read this!)
Yet who else could it have been? Reznak, her perfumed seneschal? The Yunkai’i? The Sons of the Harpy? Off in the distance, a wolf howled. The sound made her feel sad and lonely, but no less hungry. As the moon rose above the grasslands, Dany slipped at last into a restless sleep.
[ADWD; Daenerys X]
Jon and Sansa are two wolves… and Dany slips into a sleep..
AND
Let’s not forget that Drogo will return to Daenerys only in death. So it makes sense that hinting Daenerys’ death with Drogo’s… (she kills him in this chapter… kills him for love)
“When will he be as he was?” Dany demanded.
“When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east,” said Mirri Maz Duur. “When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child.Then he will return, and not before.”
[…]
And when the bleak dawn broke over an empty horizon, Dany knew that he was truly lost to her. “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east,” she said sadly. “When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before.”
Never, the darkness cried, never never never.
[…]
If I look back I am lost. It hurt even to walk, and she wanted to sleep, to sleep and not to dream. She knelt, kissed Drogo on the lips, and pressed the cushion down across his face.
[AGOT; Daenerys IX]
SHOW BONUS:
In this post this vision is discussed also in show verse and it makes great points. I also want to point out that how Dany reunites with Drogo AFTER she passes the throne room with BLUE FLOWER (Sansa) and the WALL (Jon).
Because in my meta I examine how blue, rose, wall and sweetness are linked with Jon/Sansa AND Drogo’s death…
And how it is probably hinting Dany’s own death because it means reuniting with Drogo and Rhaego …
And when the bleak dawn broke over an empty horizon, Dany knew that he was truly lost to her. “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east,” she said sadly. “When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before.”
Never, the darkness cried, never never never.
[AGOT; Daenerys IX]
She passes the BLUE FLOWER (?) ON THE WALL:
She passes through the WALL OF ICE:
She reaches END OF THE WORLD:
She REUNITES with Drogo and Rhaego:
Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before.”
Never, the darkness cried, never never never.
[AGOT; Daenerys IX]
