06-14-2016, 03:48 PM
(06-14-2016, 02:20 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: One thing I have been thinking about Melissandre is she really that old? or is her bodys state a result of her use of blood magic earlier in the series. Magic always comes with a price.
But there is a lot of the world we never see... And most is only based on characters points of view. and their views of the world.
We've been told Mellisandre is as much as 400 years old (several centuries old, according to RR as relayed thru the show runner).
You're second point is an important one. Was magic really gone significantly, or is that the perception of the POV characters we have?
Also, as for the WW isn't this the worst winter in a long, long time? If it didn't get cold enough to come way down, then perhaps they just stayed in very remote parts. Plus, it's been like 1000 years - so they've been gone way longer than dragons.
Just seems silly to me, and perhaps a distinction without a difference, to say there's magic but no real gods or vice versa. And none of that really answers my question of how, if there was no magic, did the dragons have a magical rebirth? Through a spiritual, not magical, ritual nonetheless.
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