And thanks to a move that Arya practiced in season 7 while sparring with Brienne. It was given to her by Bran, telling us, thanks to hindsight, that Bran always knew this is how the battle was always going to end. And after the battle is done, Melisandre dies, telling us that her mission for the Lord of Light is complete. They repeat these words again in this episode. Way back in season 3, when Melisandre and Arya meets the Red Woman tells Arya she will shut many eyes, including blue eyes. The seeds were planted for a while and both Beric and Melisandre seemed to understand the importance of Arya to the battle. For the purposes of Game of Thrones, Arya is the one destined to defeat the Night King. show prophecy and carrying over one from the other. What this shows is that we should stop comparing book vs. Eternal winter may have been stopped, but there is still another war to come. ![]() And defeating the army of the dead would not bring peace to the land. Turns out Jon would not need to sacrifice Dany to become the savior of Westeros. Years of fan theories went out the window in an instant when the Night King shattered at Arya’s hand. It has been a part of the series since season 2, when Melisandre thought Stannis was Azor Ahai. Prophecy plays much less of a role in Game of Thrones than it does in the books, but the Prince That Was Promised is the exception. All the chips were out on Daenerys or Jon to be Azor Ahai reborn. As great of a warrior that Arya is, she never came up in the conversation for the Prince That Was Promised role that was meant to beat back The Long Night. While exciting to see a much loved character get this moment, it raised some questions about where this series is going and the role of prophecy in the story. Arya Stark was the one to save her brother and by extension all of humanity. When the final blow was delivered to the Night King to end the Battle of Winterfell on Game of Thrones, it came from a very satisfying yet surprising source. In fact, they predict, that there's another Night King that could be resurrected by the real villain of GoT, Cersei Lannister, which could lead to the real Azor Ahai standing up.Game of Thrones has long set up that the one to defeat the Night King will be the prophesied Prince That Was Promised, but did the show follow through on this? Eyes sealed shut forever.” And Arya has been training for this exact of moment as long as Game of Thrones has existed, even repeating her teacher Syrio Forel's favorite catchphrase, “not today,” when Melisandre asked her, "What do we say to the god of Death?"īut, the fact that Game Of Thrones has focused so heavily on Melisandre's words is why a fan on Twitter predicted that Arya isn't Azor Ahai, and that the Night King isn't really dead. But, Melisandre did tell Arya that she would “ Brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes. Now, this certainly isn't Arya, who killed the Night King with a small dagger and was born of Ned and Catelyn Stark - and, as far as we know, cannot ride a dragon. Specifically, her saying this promised being's resurrection would involve a burning sword called Lightbringer, a birth from "smoke and stone" underneath a fallen star, and waking dragons from stone. However, as many fans pointed out, Arya doesn't exactly fit the description Melisandre gave for Azor Ahai. After the battle was won, she stripped off her necklace and her clothes and died in the snow in the final shot of the episode, just as she's always said she would. Melisandre's prophecy also stated that he (or she) will come again to defend the world from the coming darkness, which Arya certainly did by stabbing the Night King with a Valyrian steel dagger, right as he was getting ready to kill Bran, aka The Three-Eyed Raven, the one with all the information.Īnother sign that Arya fulfilled this prophecy of the second coming of this ancient savior is what Melisandre did next. ![]() Episode 3's title was "The Long Night," another name for the event in which the Night King would lead his White Walkers to war, a clue that Azor Ahai was bound to be revealed in this episode. The Red Priestess had said time and time again that Azor Ahai, the Prince (or Princess) that was Promised would save Westeros from the eternal night. In this Game Of Thrones episode, Azor Ahai's name was never spoken, but Arya seemed to fulfill the Azor Ahai prophecy that Melisandre laid out. And the fact that this particular member of the Stark family was the one to defeat the Night King could open up the possibility that Arya is the Prince That Was Promised? While his Army of the Dead did cause a lot of damage during Game Of Thrones' biggest battle, in the end Arya killed the Night King with a little help from Melisandre. The Night King came, he saw, but he didn't conquer Winterfell. Spoilers ahead for Game Of Thrones Season 8 Episode 3.
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