So I haven’t checked in on the WOIAF app for a while, but I came across a r/asoiaf post that rounded up some stuff. This quote grabbed my eye especially:
“The warlocks under Pyat Pree attempt to pursue and avenge themselves on Daenerys, but their ship is taken by Euron Greyjoy, who seizes their alleged dragon-binding horn from Valyria and takes them as slaves.”
So the dragon horn belonged to Pyat Pree! Makes sense, I guess that they would try to use it to revenge themselves on Dany.
Does this mean that Euron-the-liar is potentially back on? @poorquentyn, your thoughts?
Woah! This is a big deal!!!
On the one hand, yeah, that definitely makes Euron’s claim much shakier. On the other, he does have the Valyrian steel armor, and we hadn’t even heard about anything like that before. I also still believe him when he says he had a dragon egg at one point, because that fits so well as his payment to the FM for Balon’s death (right down to the poetic license of saying he tossed it into the sea, given what happened to Balon).
So the question becomes, if he never went to Valyria, where did he get his other artifacts? There are of course many possibilities across Essos, but one candidate which would fit Euron’s character and speak to a similar mad reckless ambition on his part leaps to my mind:
“What are they?” she asked, her voice hushed and full of wonder.
“Dragon’s eggs, from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai,” said Magister Illyrio.
Despite its forbidding aspects, Asshai-by-the-Shadow has for many centuries been a thriving port, where ships from all over the known world come to trade, crossing vast and stormy seas.
The ships come nonetheless. For gold, for gems, and for other treasures, for certain things spoken of only in whispers, things that cannot be found anywhere upon the earth save in the black bazaars of Asshai.
The dark city by the Shadow is a city steeped in sorcery. Warlocks, wizards, alchemists, moonsingers, red priests, black alchemists, necromancers, aeromancers, pyromancers, bloodmages, torturers, inquisitors, poisoners, godswives, night-walkers [remember Urrathon Night-Walker, argued by many to be an alias of Euron’s?] shapechangers [of which Euron is probably one, given Bloodraven’s interest in him], worshippers of the Black Goat and the Pale Child and the Lion of Night, all find welcome in Asshai-by-the-Shadow, where nothing is forbidden. Here they are free to practice their spells without restraint or censure, conduct their obscene rites, and fornicate with demons if that is their desire.
I saw this the other day on the Wiki of Ice and Fire and didn’t think anything of it… One part AFFC section reads:
According to a semi-canon source, he captured and holds hostage four warlocks of Qarth, including Pyat Pree, and seizes their dragon horn.
I cocked my head to the side thinking, “Wait, that’s not right. Huh.” and moved on. Honestly, I wonder if it’s a mistake. It doesn’t make a ton of sense to me that he seizes Dragonbinder from the warlocks, simply because if they had Dragonbinder in their possession, why didn’t they simply use the horn to take control of the dragons when she arrived in Qarth with them? Why send her through the House of the Undying? Or, why not immediately use it once she emerges with Drogon having killed the Undying Ones? It doesn’t make a lot of sense within the context of the story to me.
I can think of a couple reasons:
Dragonbinder kills people, they might not have wanted to draw straws to die.
The warlocks in the HOTU clearly wanted Dany’s life essence as well as her dragons. If they steal one or more of her dragons, no way is Dany drinking the shade of the evening willingly.
Ego. The mental whammy of the HOTU has clearly worked on everyone else who’s ever come by, so they’re pretty sure it’ll work on her.
When Dany emerges, the House is on very real fire. I imagine they’d have to wait for the fire to be put out at the very least to go rooting around for artifacts.
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