I don’t usually talk about the show, but in this case, it’s hard to ignore, so we’ll be doing a little show talk today. Today we will be discussing episode 2 of the newest season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, season 6, so fair warning for people trying to ignore the show. I generally write from the standpoint which assumes that most listeners and readers will be intaking all of the Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire media – show and books. Warning: there will be spoilers of all types. The matching text of these podcasts can always be found at, where you’ll also get a few images and links. Martin for writing us these wonderful novels, and thanks most of all to you, the listener, reader, and downloader. On the way we’ll deviate into talk of Winterfell and young Brandon Stark, and we’ll start to get to the heart of a burning question that everyone should have asked themselves at one point or another: what do Azor Ahai, dragons, and Lightbringer, which are all from the far east, have to do with a story that is fundamentally about Westeros and the Starks? As well as the related question of: is there a connection between Azor Ahai wielding Lightbringer and the Last Hero wielding “dragonsteel?” We’ll talk about demon-monkeys and hellish gargoyles, and we’ll consider what Tyrion’s symbolism says about his eventual role in the end game of the series. Instead what we will be doing is attempting to provide evidence in support of the theory that Tyrion is half Targaryen through the use of mythical astronomy and spiced with a little study of those meta-textual hints which Martin is so fond of. I won’t be covering all the logistical elements of the theory, except to say that The World of Ice and Fire seems to have gone out of its way to suggest that Joanna and Aerys were in the same location sometime in the right window for Tyrion’s conception, and that Aerys was often said to have a thing for Joanna and to have taken” liberties” at the bedding during her wedding to Tywin. There is a terrific “Aerys + Joanna = Tyrion (A + J = T)” thread on which covers all the basics of the theory, and I highly recommend that as supplemental reading material. What we’ll be doing today is examining all of Tyrion’s personal symbolism, with a particular eye on anything that could be a clue about Tyrion’s potential Targaryen lineage. The quote you just heard from A Dance with Dragons is basically slapping us about the face with a rubber chicken that looks like a dragon, and it’s not the only one. Two more than even a Targaryen should require. Yet if the lord of cheese could be believed, the Mad King’s daughter had hatched three living dragons. It could be little, like I am.” His uncle Gerion thought that was the funniest thing he had ever heard, but his uncle Tygett said, “The last dragon died a century ago, lad.” That had seemed so monstrously unfair that the boy had cried himself to sleep that night.
Once, when his uncles asked him what gift he wanted for his nameday, he begged them for a dragon. When he was still a lonely child in the depths of Casterly Rock, he oft rode dragons through the nights, pretending he was some lost Targaryen princeling, or a Valyrian dragonlord soaring high o’er fields and mountains. If I drink enough fire wine, he told himself, perhaps I’ll dream of dragons. He drained it down, and yawned, and filled it once again.
When the magister drifted off to sleep with the wine jar at his elbow, Tyrion crept across the pillows to work it loose from its fleshy prison and pour himself a cup. Why do I think this is so? Well, for a start, because of passages like this: Hello everyone and welcome! We’re experimenting with format again last time we tried a chapter-centric episode, and this time we’ll keeping the focus primarily on one character, Tyrion Lannister – who, for my money, is a Targaryen bastard, born of King Aerys II Targaryen and Joanna Lannister.
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