What if the Hammer of the Waters was a horn?

The Hammerhorn of the Waters may be sounded by Daenerys “the Unburnt” who is the only one who wouldn’t burn from the inside after sounding Euron’s Hammerhorn. It is also a dragonhorn because it is for Dany the dragon. Dany sounds it it three times symbolizing the coming of the Others. She summons the red comet to strike the moon which simultaneously blocks out the sun and brings darkness in the form of plumes of smoke from the debris striking Earthos.

Then comes the flood.

Debris from the moon strike crashes into the oceans as well as continents. This causes massive tsunamis. But we don’t even need a single piece of debris to hit the water. All we need is the moon.

By striking the moon, the comet can change its axis; bringing it closer to the planet with disastrous effect. This would dramatically increase the moon’s gravitational pull on the bodies of water which can cause cause massive tsunami’s and flooding.

But wait… there’s more.

Because of the global cooling from the plumes of smoke in the air, the flooded water freezes over. Westeros and the entire worldos has becomes frozen Land of Always Winter. Humanities last stand is in the mountanous Vale, under the leadership of none other than Lord Petyr Baelish, Protector of the Realm.

One of the manifestations of the various prophesied heroes like Azor Ahai’s sword Lightbringer may also be a horn. The Hammerhorn of the Waters may be Nightbringer as comet strike would bring one big lightshow, until the darkness comes.

The Stallion Who Mounts the Moon

The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night.

-A Game of Thrones – Daenerys V

The stallion mounting the world may look something like this:

The world goes black.

Then comes the flood.

Tsunami’s submerge all the land at low elevation after the moon rocks (flaming dragons pouring from the moon) hit the sea. The Vale, led by Petyr, is one of the very few places left standing.

The increased pull of gravity brings the waters from beneath the earthos gushing out from it’s depths.

If the tsunami’s weren’t bad enough, the moon is brought closer to earthos and we have gravity-induced flooding sending up sudden plumes of water-walls inundating Westeros and Essos.

The world is submerged.

Then comes the cold as it all freezes over.

Westeros becomes the Land of Always Winter. Winter has come.

I would want to fly too, Dany thought… If I flew high enough, I could even see the Seven Kingdoms, and reach up and touch the comet. -A Clash of Kings – Daenerys I

The hammer of the waters is a Westerosi legend. According to this legend the Children of the Forest twice used some magic called the hammer of the waters to attempt to stop invading humans. The first attempt occurred sometime during the migration of the First Men and resulted in the shattering of the Arm of Dorne into the Stepstones and the Broken Arm.

The hammer of the waters may have been a horn. I think it was the Hammerhorn of The Waters, Euron’s horn. The Hammerhorn may may also be Lightbringer.

The cause of the Long Night may also be the same cause of the Broken Arm of Dorne. It is also why Oldstones is a ruin and why the Neck was flooded. The person who will cause another cataclysmic calamity like to happen once more may surprise you.

I think Daenerys Targaryen, “the Unburnt” is the direct cause of the coming Long Night because she will sound the Hammerhorn which is the Horn of Joramun, which is Euron’s dragonhorn.

Daenerys may be Joramun, more specifically Jörmungandr in Norse mythology. If she is Joramun, the horn she will sound is the Horn of Joramun. Her horn will rain down cataclysm on the planet and bring down portions of the The Wall with it to create the cataclysm we call the Long Night.

The Hammerhorn may also be the horn that wakes the sleepers. They are not mutually exclusive. Previously I speculated that the horn that wakes the sleepers will magically wake enormous giants.

The Hammer of The Waters may not be a spell, it may not not have been cast by the Children of The Forest, nor is it a hammer.

The Hammerhorn of House Goodbrother, is the true Hammer of The Waters. It was used against the Children of The Forrest not by them. The hammer is the Red Comet. Once Daenerys, The Unburnt sounds the horn that kills mortal men, the Red Comet is summoned… becoming the Red Meteor.

That meteor may then directly hit Planetos or I like this idea suggested to me by “Lucifer means Lightbringer”, it may hit the moon. This play on dragons coming from the moon as pieces of moon would come shooting out, burning upon impact with a large chunk taking out the Arm of Dorne, and smaller parts causing tsunamis that destroyed Oldstones and Flooded the Neck. I like the moon idea In Braavos (read this first to understand why it is a holy city of the true enemy) the most popular religion are the Moonsingers. The Moonsingers may be the ones that steer it towards the moon. Changes in the motions of the moon can also cause flooding.

If all this wasn’t enough, Daenerys may get a new husband. Not one I would have wanted for her.

As we discussed in The Purpose of Duskendale article, things mentioned from The Age of Heroes are usually made up of lies and purposeful misdirections that GRRM only subtly in other places tells you is wrong. But this is not the case with the Hammer of The Waters. For good reason he purposefully instills doubts in the readers minds on it not being caused by The Children of The Forest.

Summer’s howls were long and sad, full of grief and longing. Shaggydog’s were more savage. … “Wolves often howl at the moon. These are howling at the comet. See how bright it is, Bran? Perchance they think it is the moon.”

When Bran repeated that to Osha, she laughed aloud. “Your wolves have more wit than your maester,” the wildling woman said. “They know truths the grey man has forgotten.” The way she said it made him shiver, and when he asked what the comet meant, she answered, “Blood and fire, boy, and nothing sweet.” Bran asked Septon Chayle about the comet while they were sorting through some scrolls snatched from the library fire. “It is the sword that slays the season,” he replied, and soon after the white raven came from Oldtown bringing word of autumn, so doubtless he was right. – Bran, A Clash of Kings

The howls symbolize the blowing of the horn.

The Horn

Euron has a horn that has two names: dragonbinder and hellhorn. Both are accurate names. But not how you might think. It is a hellhorn because it will bring hell and it is a dragon horn to bind one specific dragon, Daenerys Targaryen.

Dragonbinder

“With this horn, Ironmen, I can bind dragons to my will.” –Euron Greyjoy

It is true. The horn will bind dragons to his will. The kind of dragons with purple eyes.

Hellhorn

Bitterly Victarion brooded on the treachery of brothers. Euron’s gifts are always poisoned. “The Crow’s Eye swore this horn would bind dragons to my will. But how will that serve me if the price is death?” “Your brother did not sound the horn himself. Nor must you.” Moqorro pointed to the band of steel. “Here. ‘Blood for fire, fire for blood.‘ Who blows the hellhorn matters not. The dragons will come to the horn’s master. You must claim the horn. With blood.” -A Dance with Dragons – Victarion I

Will Daenerys come to the horn’s master? Will binding dragons to your will mean being a blood of the dragon bound in matrimony?

Blood and fire those are the words of House Targaryen. They are also the words that unVictarion hears and keeps him going around the world to see Queen Daenerys. Her magical ability for being unburnt seems to be something they uniquely seek to use in the sounding of the horn. It may need to be sounded thrice and no mortal man can live through even the second sounding.

In this post, we explored how “Urrathon Goodbrother” is “Euron.” I put Euron in quotes because we don’t know what the hell he is. He is certainly not the man who was exiled from Pyke and The Iron Islands many years ago.

Here is how Euron’s horn is described:

That night, for the first time, he brought forth the dragon horn that the Crow’s Eye had found amongst the smoking wastes of great Valyria. A twisted thing it was, six feet long from end to end, gleaming black and banded with red gold and dark Valyrian steel. Euron’s hellhorn.

Now let’s look at how the House Goodbrother’s Hammerhorn is described:

“An ornate brooch that showed the black-and-gold warhorn of the Goodbrothers.” A Feast for Crows – The Prophet

They are the same horn. “Urrathon Goodbrother” is “Euron” and the Goodbrother warhorn is Eurons hellhorn/dragonhorn.

The Badbrothers

The Goodbrothers were the among the very first to call for Euron and were the ones to inform Aerion Damphair of Euron’s coming, showing they have a connection with Euron.

Gorold Goodbrother shouted out as well, and Erik Anvil-Breaker. “EURON! EURON! EURON!” The cry swelled, became a roar. “EURON! EURON! CROW’S EYE! EURON KING!” It rolled up Nagga’s hill, like the Storm God rattling the clouds. “EURON! EURON! EURON! EURON! EURON! EURON!”

Some small background on House Goodbrother of Hammerhorn and other branches before we get into why The Hammer of The Water’s is a horn.

All the great houses of the Ironborn claim descent from the Grey King and his sons save, curiously, the Goodbrothers of Old Wyk and Great Wyk, who supposedly derive from the Grey King’s leal eldest brother.

The main seat of House Goodbrother is Hammerhorn. That is where they get their sigil.

They are mentioned several times in the series:

The Goodbrothers of Old Wyk, the Goodbrothers of Great Wyk, and the Goodbrothers of Orkmont

Notice how GRRM mentioned Goodbrothers three times in a single sentence. He could have said The Goodbrothers of Old Wyk, Great Wyk and Orkmont. Instead he pointed out that name three times. That is a clue when he repeats these things.

In my article mentioned above we talked about how they were horrible kings. What stood out for me was the names of their cadet branches:

House Goodbrother has at least three cadet branches on Great Wyk, the Goodbrothers of Corpse Lake, the Goodbrothers of Crow Spike Keep, and the Goodbrothers of Downdelving. Other branches include the Goodbrothers of Shatterstone on Old Wyk and the Goodbrothers of Orkmont.

Let’s look at a few of those names

Corpse Lake

:

Crow Spike Keep

Symbolizes a different kind of dead crow that had spikes through their heads.

Downdelving

Which evokes a massive flood and “people” like the deep ones delving down there and living while man is drowned and food for the fish. Downdelving is where the Deep Ones live. Deep Ones are can be roughly defined as “Sea Others” as Others cannot cross water as the HBO show has hinted by not going after Jon and the boats.

The Hammerhorn of The Waters

AHooooooooooooooooooooooo, the warhorn cried, long and low, a sound to curdle blood. Asha had begun to hate the sound of horns. On Old Wyk her uncle’s hellhorn had blown a death knell for her dreams, and now Hagen was sounding what might well be her last hour on earth. If I must die, I will die with an axe in my hand and a curse upon my lips.

GRRM gives us huge foreshadowing with words like Death knell but the kicker is calling the hellhorn the sound that would be Asha’s last hour on earth. This is a horn that will bring hell.

And the old gods stirred, and giants awoke in the earth, and all of Westeros shook and trembled. Great cracks appeared in the earth, and hills and mountains collapsed and were swallowed up. And then the seas came rushing in, and the Arm of Dorne was broken and shattered by the force of the water, until only a few bare rocky islands remained above the waves. The Summer Sea joined the narrow sea, and the bridge between Essos and Westeros vanished for all time. Did it happen in the space of a single day, however, as the songs would have it? Was it the work of the children of the forest and the sorcery of their greenseers? These things are less certain. Archmaester Cassander suggests elsewise in his Song of the Sea: How the Lands Were Severed, arguing that it was not the singing of greenseers that parted Westeros from Essos but rather what he calls the Song of the Seaa slow rising of the waters that took place over centuries, not in a single day, and was caused by a series of long, hot summers and short, warm winters that melted the ice in the frozen lands beyond the Shivering Sea, causing the oceans to rise. – The World of Ice and Fire – Dorne: The Breaking

GRRM consciously works to plant doubts in our minds, that it wasn’t the Children. He then made a deliberate point to make us look at the Song of The Sea. The Sea = Ironborn. The Drowned God and The Deep Ones are also old gods. But they are not The Old Gods of The North.

Their gods were the gods of the forest, stream, and stone. -A Game of Thrones – Bran VII

The gods of the forest, stream, and stone. Not of the sea. They don’t have spells like the Hammer of The Waters. They have tree, earth and animal magic. The Children do not sing the Song of The Sea.

And here in TWOIF look at the use of “drowned” and “salt”

Many maesters find Cassander’s arguments plausible and have come to accept his views. But whether the Breaking took place in a single night, or over the course of centuries, there can be no doubt that it occurred; the Stepstones and the Broken Arm of Dorne give mute but eloquent testimony to its effects. There is also much to suggest that the Sea of Dorne was once an inland freshwater sea, fed by mountain streams and much smaller than it is today, until the narrow sea burst its bounds and drowned the salt marshes that lay between. Even if we accept that the old gods broke the Arm of Dorne with the Hammer of the Waters, as the legends claim, the greenseers sang their song too late. No more wanderers crossed to Westeros after the Breaking, it is true, for the First Men were no seafarers…but so many of their forebears had already made the crossing that they outnumbered the dwindling elder races almost three to one by the time the lands were severed, and that disparity only grew in the centuries that followed, for the women of the First Men brought forth sons and daughters with much greater frequency than the females of the elder races. And thus the children and the giants faded, whilst the race of men spread and multiplied and claimed the fields and forests for their own, raising villages and forts and kingdoms. -The World of Ice and Fire – Dorne: The Breaking

Here GRRM plants another huge clue that a massive water magic was not done by the Children but the Ironborn with the words drowned and salt. Drowned for the Drowned God and salt for the Salt King/Rock King of the Ironborn.

Here was the exchange Dany had in The House of The Undying:

“Long have we awaited you,” said a woman beside him, clad in rose and silver. The breast she had left bare in the Qartheen fashion was as perfect as a breast could be. “We knew you were to come to us,” the wizard king said. “A thousand years ago we knew, and have been waiting all this time. We sent the comet to show you the way.”

They did not send the comet for her. They sen’t the comet because of her. She may be one of the five manifestations of Azor Ahai come again (Jamie, Dany, Samwell, Davos and Theon) and the Hammerhorn may be one of the Lightbringers. More on that below.

There is something unique in her blood that makes her a candidate to blow the horn to turn the comet into a meteor.

Shortly afterwords she was almost killed and raped by the “other” Children of The Ironwood Forrest. They wanted her blood. They wanted her dead. They wanted to use her for some purpose.

Here is how Maester Luwin described the comet to Bran, and Osha’s response:

“Wolves often howl at the moon. These are howling at the comet. See how bright it is, Bran? Perchance they think it is the moon.”

When Bran repeated that to Osha, she laughed aloud. “Your wolves have more wit than your maester,” the wildling woman said. “They know truths the grey man has forgotten.” The way she said it made him shiver, and when he asked what the comet meant, she answered, “Blood and fire, boy, and nothing sweet.” -A Clash of Kings – Bran I

This echos the quote from Moqorro to Victarion above:

‘Blood for fire, fire for blood.‘ Who blows the hellhorn matters not. The dragons will come to the horn’s master. You must claim the horn. With blood.”

Victarion had this to say to Moqorro in that conversation:

“He died. There were blisters on his lips, after. His bird was bleeding too.” The captain thumped his chest. “The hawk, just here. Every feather dripping blood. I heard the man was all burned up inside, but that might just have been some tale.” “A true tale.” Moqorro turned the hellhorn, examining the queer letters that crawled across a second of the golden bands. “Here it says, ‘No mortal man shall sound me and live.’ “

Daenerys is firstly not a man but I do not think GRRM will play this well-played Tolkien card. She doesn’t know even even know it herself. Daenerys is a goddess or some other form of magical being. Dany has eaten of the peach from the “Western Wall”, a taste so sweet it brought tears to her eyes and she also drank wine of the warlocks, the shade of the (long) evening. Thus by eating of the Tree of Knowledge and The Tree of Eternal Life. She is no longer a mortal woman.

That does not mean she cannot be killed. It means she won’t die of a stroke jogging on the treadmill at age 56 watching the morning news. Magic may still kill her. Read The Garden of Edenos and The True Enemy to understand what I mean by Dany being a Goddess. By goddess I do not mean she is like Zeus of Hera. I mean she is like Bloodraven and Bloodraven is as close to a Zeus as we have in the story thus far. She is also like the king wizard of the House of The Undying and somewhat similar to Bran as he is now an Old God, but Bran has eaten “the paste” of only one tree.

Joramun’s Horn and The Bride of Fire

“When the kraken weds the dragon, brother, let all the world beware.” –Euron Greyjoy

When the kraken weds the dragon, the world will also tremble. And krakens will arise from the depths.

Danerys is The Unburnt but GRRM has gone to great lengths in interviews to say that Targaryen’s are not fireproof. Summerhall is Exhibit A. GRRM has curiously placed The Unburnt as her first title in her string of titles, mentioning it no less than nine times. My guess is that she will personally sound the horn. Daenerys Stormborn, The Burnt. It would kill the Daenerys we know, leaving only unDaenerys left. It may be in a similar way that Victarion became unVictarion. Perhaps by Moqorro’s hand as well. unDaenerys would be changed, making her kill him or perhaps even marrying him. I lean towards marrying him. But it can go either way.

Daenerys and Euron both fit the profile of Jörmungandr the world-wide World Serpent in the Ragnarok, story in Norse mythology. Jörmungandr is a sea serpent.,This points to unDaenerys’ potential unmarriage union with unVictatrion or her blowing of Euron horn singlaing the begining of hell on earth.

This Hellhorn may not just bring the comet, but it could potentially bring down The Wall as Well with a meteor blast. Jörmungandr is where GRRM gets the name Joramun from. If Daenerys is Jörmungandr or simply sounding his horn, in either case the horn of Joramun is sounded by Daenerys.

Jörmungandr is the World Serpent is also why Daenerys spends so much time in other parts of the world we couldn’t care less about. First traveling as a child from city to city and then to Meereen and Astapor, this clearly establishes her as a candidate for the World Serpent. By marrying unVictarion that can wake krakens from the sea.However Euron is also a very strong candidate for Jörmungandr has he has traveled the world supposedly even to Valyria. GRRM can be influenced by multiple characters, multiple archetypes from many different sources or duplicate archetypes them as well.

In the House of The Undying Dany experiences this:

Mother of dragons, slayer of lies . . . Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars. A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly. A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness. . . . mother of dragons, bride of fire . . .

First Dany is slayer of lies. Does that mean that she kills Victarion, the corpse at the prow of the ship? And then later on she is called Bride of Fire after the mention of the blue flower on The Wall representing Jon. Is GRRM trying to make us think Daenerys will be with Jon so we do not connect her being the bride of unVictatrion, when she becomes unDaenerys. Jon and Dany getting together seems unGRRM-like, pardon the pun. If they do, It won’t be in a way we would expect. The unexpected is what I have come to expect anyway.

Below was a curious chapter where GRRM goes from the first person POV, to the third person. Hinting that the POV character is no longer “there” anymore.

“The iron captain was not seen again that day, but as the hours passed the crew of his Iron Victory reported hearing the sound of wild laughter coming from the captain’s cabin, laughter deep and dark and mad, and when Longwater Pyke and Wulfe One-Eye tried the cabin door they found it barred. Later singing was heard, a strange high wailing song in a tongue the maester said was High Valyrian. That was when the monkeys left the ship, screeching as they leapt into the water.” -A Dance with Dragons – The Iron Suitor

Those monkeys leapt to their actual deaths… just to avoid the undeath surrounding Victarion.

Lightbringer: The Hammerhorn of The Waters?

The point of land on which the Greyjoys had raised their fortress had once thrust like a sword into the bowels of the ocean, but the waves had hammered at it day and night until the land broke and shattered, thousands of years past. All that remained were three bare and barren islands and a dozen towering stacks of rock that rose from the water like the pillars of some sea god’s temple, while the angry waves foamed and crashed among them. -A Clash of Kings – Theon I

The junks of moonbit space debris and/or the comet can be the sword striking the earth in a great blaze of fire. With that light comes the darkness. The crash was thrust into the bowels of Earthos as well as the heart of Nissa Nissa.

Here is an Ironborn horn mentioned as a sword again with a very curious metaphor about the moon:

“Hagen, blow your horn and make the forest shake. Tris, don some mail, it’s time you tried out that sweet sword of yours.” When she saw how pale he was, she pinched his cheek. “Splash some blood upon the moon with me, and I promise you a kiss for every kill.” -A Dance with Dragons – The Wayward Bride

One of his brother’s mongrels had sounded the hellhorn at the kingsmoot on Old Wyk. A monster of a man he had been, huge and shaven-headed, with rings of gold and jet and jade around arms thick with muscle, and a great hawk tattooed across his chest. “The sound it made … it burned , somehow.As if my bones were on fire , searing my flesh from within . Those writings glowed red-hot, then white-hot and painful to look upon. It seemed as if the sound would never end. It was like some long scream. A thousand screams, all melted into one.” “And the man who blew the horn, what of him?” “He died. There were blisters on his lips, after. His bird was bleeding too.” The captain thumped his chest. “The hawk, just here. Every feather dripping blood . I heard the man was all burned up inside , but that might just have been some tale.” “A true tale.” Moqorro turned the hellhorn, examining the queer letters that crawled across a second of the golden bands. “Here it says, ‘No mortal man shall sound me and live.’ “

The great hawk may be a reference to dragons, the burning inside may be Daenery’s heart bursting into flame when the Hammerhorn is sounded with the chunks of moon thrusting into the earth being a sword of flame. Thus Dany will be another Nissa Nissa and the extremely(!) surprising man who hands it to her will be another inflection or name of Azor Ahai.

Previously in The Others Are Not The True Enemy we explored how I beleive Dany is no longer a mortal as she as eaten of both trees, of the tree of immortality and the tree of knowlege, in the Garden of Edenos . She ate the peach from the Highgarden of Edenos as well as shade of the evening from the ironwood trees of the House of the Undying.

Here again is Dany in the House of the Undying connecting the comet with a magic weapon:

“Long have we awaited you,” said a woman beside him, clad in rose and silver. The breast she had left bare in the Qartheen fashion was as perfect as a breast could be. “We knew you were to come to us,” the wizard king said. “A thousand years ago we knew, and have been waiting all this time. We sent the comet to show you the way .” “We have knowledge to share with you,” said a warrior in shining emerald armor, “and magic weapons to arm you with. You have passed every trial. Now come and sit with us.” -A Clash of Kings – Daenerys IV

The End of The Worldos

It is done.

The Hammerhorn of the Waters as been sounded.

The meteor or moon rocks come flying towards the earth, hitting towns and ocean, devastating everything in it’s wake. As Oldstones was destroyed before, my guess is Seaguard will be involved or decimated as it is the nemesis of the Ironborn. The world will be devastated by tsunami after tsunami. At the same time plumes of ash and debris little the air, blocking the sunlight. For years. And years. And years.The Long Night has come.

This would do far more than just devastate the lands. The water from the tsunami does not stay water in the freezing Long Night. It freezes over turning Planetos into the Land of Always Winter. With the Narrow Sea frozen over Daenerys and an army of Dothraki can walk over to Westeros. But this is no longer Westeros.

Westeros has become the Land of Always Winter.

Events from this cataclysm probably break down the Wall as well, either literally or metaphorically.

There is only once place that is safe from the tsunami that turns to ice. It just so happens to be located exactly where the secret Night’s Watch is located. “I am the watcher on the walls“, plural, is in the Nights Watch oath. The “Second Wall” of the Nights Watch is high up in the Mountains of The Vale by House Royce that hold the runes with the secrets of the Long Night. House Royce’s words are We Remember. They will be the keys to defeating The Others and Deep Ones (Ironborn associated “sea-Others”).

This second wall, led by Commander Brynden Tully “the black goat of the Tully’s”, armored in black obsidian is humanity’s last hope. He will sacrifice his life but his death will not be in vain. These events will wake the giants from the earth.

Ragnarok is now upon us. The Game of Thrones is over. The Song of Ice and Fire has begun.

Winter has come.