I want to be Good, I yearn to be Good and yet I'm still me
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What with all the Ghost wolf Eyrie stuff on my dash... why do antis ignore that yes, obviously there is a connection between Cat and Jon there, but no, it does not erase the Jonsa aspect in the slightest? The connection is death and resurrection. But their directions are opposite.
Cat hears the wind wolf before she reaches the stone saddle bridge (on her way up to the underworld-Eyrie) where she freezes up and believes she will die. (Incidentally, she will die on a bridge..?) But she cannot move forward (!) until a short-haired girl gently encourages her to cross over. Ahem.
Which short-haired girl had her wolf not only pull Catelyn's body from the River (leading to her being stalled in her journey to the afterlife) but also has been practicing how to help people "cross over" peacefully at the HOBAW and also has strong foreshadowing for "saving" her mother?
The resurrection happens while they are apart. The resolution will happen when they finally reunite.
Meanwhile, Jon in the Frostfangs not only encounters a stone saddle bridge and landscape eerily similar to the Giant's Lance, he also hears Ghost howling in a warg dream. His mute wolf. Just before meeting a redheaded "girl".
Sansa hears a Ghost wind wolf directly on the stone saddle bridge while leading her (almost betrothed) cousin away from the underworld-Eyrie, gently encouraging him to be a brave knight and saving his life.
Coincidentally, this is her final AFFC chapter, the book preceeding ADWD, where a certain cousin with a Ghost wolf ends his final chapter knocking on the door of the underworld?
The "resurrection" will happen while they are apart, the resolution will happen when they reunite.
Dany chapters had wolves imaginary. Like she heard wolf howling in adwd n felt lonely n hungry. Do you think wolves are negative commotion in Dany chapters?
2) What are your opinions on wolves mention in Dany chapters?
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3) People think wolves are positive in Dany chapters when she heard wolf howling n feel sad. They forget that the lines come after Dany thinking of betrayal. Do you think wolves have negative impact in her chapters?
Hi, wolf anon(s)!
I am positive that smarter people than me have written extensively about wolf imagery in Dany’s chapters. If someone has a link at hand, I would be grateful!
But I checked and it’s only 13 mentions in the books for Dany. That’s not too much.
She buys sausages in at Vaes Dothrak that bother her bloodriders but not her wolfing handmaids:
Delighted with her discovery, Dany insisted the others join her for a sausage. Her handmaids wolfed theirs down giggling and grinning, though the men of her khas sniffed at the grilled meat suspiciously. "They taste different than I remember," Dany said after her first few bites. (AGOT, Daenerys VI)
She goes into labor during Drogo’s blood magic ceremony. No good things happen in that tent.
Inside the tent the shapes were dancing, circling the brazier and the bloody bath, dark against the sandsilk, and some did not look human. She glimpsed the shadow of a great wolf, and another like a man wreathed in flames. (AGOT, Daenerys VIII)
Stepping into the flames at Drogo’s pyre:
The flames were so beautiful, the loveliest things she had ever seen, each one a sorcerer robed in yellow and orange and scarlet, swirling long smoky cloaks. She saw crimson firelions and great yellow serpents and unicorns made of pale blue flame; she saw fish and foxes and monsters, wolves and bright birds and flowering trees, each more beautiful than the last. She saw a horse, a great grey stallion limned in smoke, its flowing mane a nimbus of blue flame. Yes, my love, my sun-and-stars, yes, mount now, ride now. (AGOT, Daenerys X)
The outer wall of Qarth, followed by war scenes (middle wall) which do not faze Dany, and sex scenes (inner wall) which do faze her:
Dany took the warlock's words well salted, but the magnificence of the great city was not to be denied. Three thick walls encircled Qarth, elaborately carved. The outer was red sandstone, thirty feet high and decorated with animals: snakes slithering, kites flying, fish swimming, intermingled with wolves of the red waste and striped zorses and monstrous elephants. (ACOK, Daenerys II)
A vision in the House of the Undying, running from the specter of a mute crowned wolf:
In a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with mute appeal.
She fled from him, but only as far as the next open door. (ACOK, Daenerys IV)
A story of Unsullied v. Dothraki. Wolves and crows dine together on the remains of a horse-based, defeated army.
"By the time the Unsullied reached the city the sun had set. Crows and wolves were feasting beneath the walls on what remained of the Qohorik heavy horse. The Bright Banners and Second Sons had fled, as sellswords are wont to do in the face of hopeless odds. (ASOS, Daenerys I)
Dany blaming wolves for missing sheep:
"Men make fires. Men cook mutton. Burnt bones prove nothing. Brown Ben says there are red wolves in the hills outside the city, and jackals and wild dogs. Must we pay good silver for every lamb that goes astray between Yunkai and the Skahazadhan?" (ADWD, Daenerys I)
They also want to blame Hazzea’s death on a wolf:
"Men will ask," the grieving father had said. "They will ask me where Hazzea is and how she died."
"She died of a snakebite," Reznak mo Reznak insisted. "A ravening wolf carried her off. A sudden sickness took her. Tell them what you will, but never speak of dragons." (ADWD, Daenerys II)
Wishing her allies were a bit more vicious:
And you will have the friendship of Lhazar.”
Daario won that for me, for all that it is worth. “The Lamb Men. Would that lambs had teeth.”
“That would make the wolves more cautious, no doubt.”
That made her laugh. (ADWD, Daenerys V)
The fighting pits. Six wolves defeated by an elephant make food for the hungry.
Beasts were still allowed, though. Dany watched an elephant make short work of a pack of six red wolves. Next a bull was set against a bear in a bloody battle that left both animals torn and dying. "The flesh is not wasted," said Hizdahr. "The butchers use the carcasses to make a healthful stew for the hungry. Any man who presents himself at the Gates of Fate may have a bowl."
"A good law," Dany said. You have so few of them. "We must make certain that this tradition is continued." (ADWD, Daenerys IX)
Who is hungry? Someone who is also wondering about who tried to poison her:
Poison. It had to be poison. The honeyed locusts. Hizdahr urged them on me, but Belwas ate them all. She had made Hizdahr her king, taken him into her bed, opened the fighting pits for him, he had no reason to want her dead. 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)
From eating wolves to food for wolves:
"My friend," she said aloud. "If I stay close to my friend I won't get lost." She would have slept beside the water if she dared, but there were animals who came down to the stream to drink at night. She had seen their tracks. Dany would make a poor meal for a wolf or lion, but even a poor meal was better than none. (ADWD, Daenerys X)
And, finally, between retching and dysentery, she expects to share the fate of that Qohorik heavy horse:
My flesh will feed the wolves and carrion crows, she thought sadly, and worms will burrow through my womb. Her eyes went back to Dragonstone. It looked smaller. She could see smoke rising from its wind-carved summit, miles away. Drogon has returned from hunting. (ADWD, Daenerys X)
Well. I think, without adding anything further, the quotes speak for themselves, don’t they? Enemies, scapegoats, eat or be eaten. Things to run from, things that harm her, things that poison. Beautiful exactly once: when the flames engulf her, when Drogo rides again.
