Ooh, I like that idea about Rhaegar and the prophecies. If only people in fantasy series could learn to LEAVE PROPHECIES THE HELL ALONE. They're bad news!
I was just surfing around and came across the theory that the sword is Dany's dragons (they came out of a fire, and they make things burn - don't know whether you could call Dany a warrior, exactly, though). Now, this also sounds good, but so does the "sword = Night's Watch > Jon = Azor Ahai?" Soooo.... going even further into wild theory territory, who says Azor Ahai reborn has to be just one person, and the sword has to be just one sword? The dragon has three heads, right? They could both be the prophecy-figure.
This leaves the question of who's the third. Maybe it was Rhaegar. Prophecies don't guarantee success, as the Stallion Who Didn't Mount the World seems to show. Or - another unsupported theory here: we have an example of a royal baby switcheroo with Mance Rayder's son and Gilly's son. Maybe the same thing happened with baby Aegon, and he's still out there somewhere. Are there any boys about 16 or 17 we know of with purple eyes or silvery hair? (Not that that's proof either way, since he could be someone we haven't met yet if he exists.)
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I was just surfing around and came across the theory that the sword is Dany's dragons (they came out of a fire, and they make things burn - don't know whether you could call Dany a warrior, exactly, though). Now, this also sounds good, but so does the "sword = Night's Watch > Jon = Azor Ahai?" Soooo.... going even further into wild theory territory, who says Azor Ahai reborn has to be just one person, and the sword has to be just one sword? The dragon has three heads, right? They could both be the prophecy-figure.
This leaves the question of who's the third. Maybe it was Rhaegar. Prophecies don't guarantee success, as the Stallion Who Didn't Mount the World seems to show. Or - another unsupported theory here: we have an example of a royal baby switcheroo with Mance Rayder's son and Gilly's son. Maybe the same thing happened with baby Aegon, and he's still out there somewhere. Are there any boys about 16 or 17 we know of with purple eyes or silvery hair? (Not that that's proof either way, since he could be someone we haven't met yet if he exists.)