Asshai: Dany's Greatest Mystery in ASOIAF

This video covers the mystery of Asshai, how it's relevant to Daenerys Targaryen's past & future, and how GRRM continuously changes the story of ASOIAF. Watch how I expertly connect Lemongate, Elissa Farman, the Tattered Prince, Euron Greyjoy, and the Meereenese Knot in a video that's supposed to be about Dany and Asshai. If there's one thing I know how to do, it's taking one quote from TWOIAF that states the Azor Ahai prophecy spread west from Asshai and make it loosely tie in with Rhaegar and Aegon the Conqueror's dreams culminating in a Daenerys / Jon Snow Azor Ahai combo meal.

GRRM RE: Meerenese Knot

Timestamps:
0:00 Asshai & the Shadow
7:46 GRRM's evolving story
11:25 Asshai's role so far
15:09 Dany heading west?
20:24 GRRM talks Asshai
22:24 Other ways Asshai can appear
27:42 Lessons from Asshai

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[behurastudio]

The line of “there are no children in Asshai” remains one of the most ominous bits of worldbuilding in all of fiction. And this is coming from a world where there are like 8 different diseases that “make your flesh slough off your bones as you piss blood”

[johnmitchell]

in a feast for crow prince doran tellhis daughter he planned to send her to Tyrosh when she was younger to meet danny and her bro. this mean the targs were in tyrosh and so was the house with the red door and all its lemons. also in a game of thrones, the wine merchant who tries to poison danny hears her accent and asks if she's from Tyrosh and she says 'my accent is Tyroshy but I am from Westeros' She grew up in Tyrosh...

[HouseoftheWerewolf]

I believe Asshai is one of those thing that GRRM will never fully explain and to be remain as mysterious as the Doom of Valyria.

[KingKong]

The show really nailed Tyrion’s acrobatics in later seasons. His character flipped and flopped all over the place

[Fire_Summoner]

Asshai's description is closely in line with the Red Waste being irradiated. The irradiated water damages cells of fish mutating them and the harm to the reproductive system of residence prevents them from having kids.

[rafanando]

Just a side thought, Volantis is the first daughter of Valyria while Daenerys could be considered the Last Daughter of Valyiria, their conflict would reflect the refusal to change and the inevitability of change.

[sblinder]

Tyrion's acrobatics are still a thing: he does a cartwheel at the brothel just before he gets grabbed by Jorah Mormont.

[Ryan-vlnn]

It would be so cool to see locations such as Assha’i, Yi Ti, Leng, the 5 Forts and Sothoryos.

[heloisavillela]

I always felt that Daenerys’ "lightbringer" would be the dragons. She didn’t sacrifice Drogo and Rhaego to get them, but they were hatched out of the pire Drogo was burned in, and she would probably never perform that ritual if she hadn’t lost Drogo and Rhaego in the first place

[JaceMorley]

I think Dani going to Ashai is possible, but maybe not bringing her POV with her. Instead we'll get a post-Ashai Dani with a reluctance to go into detail even in her memory about what happened.

[williamhermann]

I think the bit about there being no children in Asshai has a double meaning: no children of the forest

[CapitanaSheep]

i love that you give Dany purple eyes, such a waste for them not to do it in the show tbh

[noeraldinkabam]

If the eggs were from Dragonstone Illyrio gave her a gift that was hers already, stolen from her family. He could hardly tell her that. I feel Asshai is so foreign, so out of reach for anybody, it is easy to claim something is from Asshai. Who’s gonna correct you?

[ghostranger]

Speaking of Glass Candles, imagine if Marwyn actually taught Daenerys how to create one? Maybe he found some insights and knowledge through the lost pages of Signs and Portents, or maybe learned something in Ashai. But without dragons, such a creation was impossible. It would be cool to see the return of magic personified, in a way, by the creation of a piece of magical technology not forge from scratch in centuries.

[Yvario]

“To go west, you must pass under the shadow, ” the shadow city, the city that is a shadow of itself: Volantis.

[queenxx]

We will see it through glass candle that Marywn will bring to Daenerys what we will see maybe finally truth about Dany past and maybe some events from future

[umwha]

Theory! Danys eggs come from the dragon Dreamfyre. Dreamfyre is literally the mother of the dragons. So Daenerys is symbolically taking the role of Dreamfyre. Maybe the name ‘Daenerys’ means dream fire in Valyrian. ‘Dae’ can mean dream (Daenys the dreamer suits this) and ‘Erys’ or ‘Nerys’ can mean fire . The idea of dream-fire seems to fit, in the sense that it represents psychic power, and resonates with the idea that within the weirnet there is a magical godhead of dreams/ dreamers and their power is symbolically a type of divine fire within trees.

[jordanford]

Holy shit! Great fucking video. I know you condescend yourself sometimes saying you're not as good as so and so YouTuber but stop that shit cuz you're doing fucking fantastic work my dude

[emrek]

13:49 Jorah is an idiot. If dragons and dragon eggs come from Asshai, then why would they want more dragon eggs? If they trade dragon eggs for food and water then the eggs aren't as useful to them and won't fetch a very high price there.

[seanohalloran]

Daenerys is a Targaryen and if she’s reborn in Asshai she’ll be the Princess who was promised. Right? Where else would Drogon take her? Not only that Asshai is the alleged home of dragons. Drogon has no siblings left. He’s going where the dragons are. They almost certainly went there. Great video!