Okay, so DO NOT read this post if you don’t want to know spoilers about the books! If you have read through ‘A Dance With Dragons’, though, please do read, and tell me what you think.
This is a theory about Greyscale
This is a theory about dragons, Dragonstone, the stone workings of old Valyria, and the fate of Westeros!!! Now that I’ve sufficiently talked this up, let’s go on to my ideas. Let’s start with a prophecy, shall we? This is from Danaerys’ visions in the house of the Undying.
“From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire.”
What is the smoking tower?
I think Dragonstone. Smoking from the crashing mist of the sea and from Dragonmont, the volcano of the island.
How about the great stone beast and the shadow fire?
I believe that the great stone beast is a dragon out of Dragonstone and the shadow fire is Greyscale, a plague spreading from Dragonstone across the seven kingdoms of Westeros.
But how would a literal dragon spread Greyscale from Dragonstone???
I certainly don’t believe that any of the stone dragons are waking up, but I do think they are real dragons. I believe they are dragons which are infected with Greyscale by Valyrians before they lost their control of this magic in the Doom (note that Davos points out the Valyrians had strange stone working magics since lost to men). I think that when Dany arrives in Westeros (I like the go around the world to the East theory here) she will have brought only Drogon, perhaps Rhaegal will get there with Brown Ben Plumm, as he showed a strong liking for him when Plumm was still with Dany, and it is hinted he has Targaryen blood. His riding Rhaegal, I think, will be much like Nettle who rode one of the dragons in the first Dance of Dragons, a few hundred years back, a little sneaky girl-woman.
It is up in the air whether the sell-sword will be with Dany or not. I do think he will die and a new head of the dragon will become Rhaegal’s next rider. Viseryon, someone will ride, I don’t know who, but I’ve got a sort-of idea coming soon. I think Viseryon will end up on Dragonstone and catch Greyscale, just as Shireen did as a babe (yes, I think Shireen Baratheon got Greyscale from the castle as a babe). Griff is also an option and a Greyscale hazard, so I believe these should both rise from Dragonstone when “Aegon”, Young Griff, travels there and perhaps claims Viseryon as his mount. When the infected dragon rises from Dragonstone, the flame he spreads across the realm will be a shadow fire of plague.
So there we go, I hope you enjoyed it and do let me know what you think.
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