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Welcome to!News and discussions relating to George R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, his Westeros-based short stories, 'Game of Thrones' and all things ASOIAF - but with particular emphasis on the written series. Eastwatch in the Sidebar-Removes Unofficial Game of Thrones S8 Spoilers -No Spoilers: No Spoilers allowed. Tl;dr Are Dawn and House Dayne of Starfall really that important to the story?So, if you're not aware, the Daynes of Starfall are a minor family in Dorne. They don't feature very prominently in the story proper.
Edric Dayne, their young lord is a squire in service of Beric Dondarrion, the Lightning Lord of Blackhaven and later the leader of the Brotherhood without Banners. Allyria Dayne is his aunt, betrothed to the late Lighting Lord.
We don't see her at all, though. Finally, Ser Gerold Dayne, the Darkstar, is everyone's favorite character. He's of a cadet branch of the family: the Daynes of High Hermitage.The living Daynes aren't all thar important. We never meet Allyria. Edric only really features during Arya's journey in the Riverlands with the BwB. We know he's among the members of the Brotherhood who leave after Lady Stoneheart takes control.
Dawn is the ancestral Valyrian steel sword of House Dayne. It is said to be made from the metal of the heart of a fallen star.
After that, we don't know what he's up to. The most impactful Dayne, funnily enough, is the Darkstar.
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Allegedly he maims and nearly kills Princess Myrcella after Arianne's Queenmaker plot fails. He's also blamed for the death of Ser Arys Oakheart and since fled, pursued by Areo Hotah, Balon Swann, and Obara Sand. But none of those are as important as the members of, say, House Tarly House Bolton, House Umber, House Frey, House Connongton, House Swyft, etc. All those minor Houses have members who do things of far more importance, so why do we care about House Dayne?There are two reasons. The first concerns two members of House Dayne: Arthur and Ashara. They're Allyria's late siblings and everyone knows their names. Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, was a famous contemporary of Barristan and Jaime and was Rhaegar's closest friend.
To hear Jaime say it, Arthur Dayne was the greatest knight who ever lived. Even Ned seems to think highly of the man who as far as Westeros knows died keeping Lyanna imprisoned in the Tower of Joy. Weirdly enough, Ned seems to think rather highly of Rhaegar too, and isn't that interesting.Ashara was a tragic beauty, a close friend of Princess Elia Martell. She fell for one of the Stark brothers and got pregnant. The official story is that after losing the child and learning of her brother's death, Ashara threw herself off of a tower of Starfall, taking her own life. Multiple theories exist regarding the fates of her, her child, and her brother. So the first reason people care about the Daynes is that there are two famous Daynes who died right before the events of the story proper.The second reason people care about the Daynes is their famous sword, Dawn.
The arms of House Dayne feature a sword crossed by a fallen star, a reference to their founding in the Dawn age. The first Dayne followed a falling star to an island in the mouth of the Torrentine River and raised a castle there. He crafted a sword out of the magic metal found in the core of the star, and named it Dawn. Once upon a time undertale lyrics. It was rarer that Valyrian Steel and just as valuable. Thereafter, all who bore Dawn were given the title Sword of the Morning.
It's a cool origin story. It feels like the beginning of a fantasy novel, not a tidbit of info on some minor characters.Consider the legend of Azor Ahai and his shining sword Lightbringer, which he used to end the Long Night. A shining sword called Dawn feels an awful lot like Lightbringer, right?I don't know.
It feels kinda trite to have this sword we've literally never seen suddenly be so important. And who's gonna wield it? Darkstar and Edric are the only Daynes, unless you think Jon's actually Ashara's son. Darkstar is a villain and Edric is a kid.Maybe someone else who isn't a Dayne? He already wields a Valyrian sword, Longclaw. Maybe he takes up another sword to symbolize his leaving the Night's Watch?
That sounds well and good, but if he did, why would it be the sword of a house he doesn't belong to instead of Dark Sister, one of the lost swords of House Targaryen and taken North of the wall by none other than Bloodraven? Maybe Jaime wields Dawn, living up to his dream of Arthur Dayne's legacy?
Jaime has only one hand, firstly, and secondly, it kinda goes against his character arc. Jaime isn't a swordsman anymore, and that drives his redemption arc. Having him wield a magic sword and save the world would seem counter to all that, I think.All of this came from me reading through PoorQuentyn's Tumblr.
He made passing references to Gurm introducing Dawn into the story and maybe Jon Snow making a pilgrimage to the Tower of Joy and Starfall to learn the truth about his birth. Honestly, I don't see the point.
Maybe I'm missing something, but Dawn and the Daynes of Starfall seem like footnotes in the story, albeit really cool footnotes.I don't know. What do you think?. I wouldn't get my hopes up. GRRM has said he writes his world like tending a garden. Things grow as they will, etc. The result is we get some amazing world-building and cool features throughout but they don't necessarily hold a critical role in the story.Like the references to the oily-black structures in the WoIaF book.
Very cool details and make the world lore richer, but likely won't have much impact in the main story.The Daynes are cool as hell and all. But they feel like dressing to me, not a critical component of the story to come.I could be wrong of course.
We will have to see. See idk about that.
The characters in our current story seem to be living out the paths their ancestors took, and seem to be reenacting legends and myths also. For instance the story of the moon getting too close to the sun and cracking, pouring dragons into the world.
Well Dany (The Moon of my life) light Drogo (Sun and Stars) on fire, basically making him a sun. She then as the moon walks into the suns fire, rocks crack, and dragons are born.“The night was black and MOONLESS, but overhead a million stars burned bright. She took that for an omen.”Then she walks into the fire.You can talk for hours about other things, there’s too much symbolism surrounding some of this stuff for it to just be world building filler.