Azor Ahai, Nissa Nissa, and the treason for love
I was sitting around thinking about part of the prophecy from the House of the Undying that says “three treasons will you know,” and how the heck a treason for love would work. First off, I’m assuming that these are treasons committed against Dany, not by Dany; I know that is in fact an assumption. Anyway, if someone is to betray her for love, you’d think it’d be love for one of her enemies. But in that case, how could the traitor get close enough to Dany to even be able to betray her without her or one of her advisors discovering that relationship first? And if the traitor is someone who loves her, then why would they betray her at all, especially if that love itself is the motivating factor? How would that even make sense?
A few minutes later, I was browsing through the Wiki of Ice and Fire and got to the section on Azor Ahai, and saw that one of the possible candidates for AA Reborn is Victarion Greyjoy. I’ve always found this ridiculous because the guy is totally repugnant, but okay, whatever, let me see why people think that’s a possibility. And in addition to the Moqorro business supposedly fulfilling the salt-and-smoke bit, the entry cites the fact that he beat his wife to death as a possible parallel with AA tempering Lightbringer by stabbing his beloved wife Nissa Nissa through the heart with it. I thought “Hold the phone—murdering a woman because she slept with your brother is a lot different than sacrificing the person you love most in the world in order to make a magic sword to defeat an army of monsters and zombies, I don’t care how much you mentally whine about how your brother ‘made’ you do it.” Not that I’m into wife-killing for any purpose, but Victarion Greyjoy is no Azor Ahai.
So then I got to thinking that if AA’s thought process wasn’t like Victarion’s—I think it’s safe to presume that hell no it wasn’t—then what was it like? How can someone bring themselves to kill their beloved for the greater good? And then it hit me—there’s your treason for love.
