For the night is dark and full of terrors.
This is a blog dedicated to the flawless shadowbinder Melisandre of Asshai from George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Melisandre is introduced in the second book, A Clash of Kings, and quickly grows in importance. She is the main advisor to Stannis Baratheon, and proclaims him to be Azor Ahai reborn. With her magic Melisandre influences many events in the series, and is feared by many. She is a servant of R'Hllor, the Lord of Light and God of Flame and Shadow.
In the second season of Game of Thrones, Melisandre will be played by Carice van Houten.
After the battle, when I was lost to despair, the Lady Melisandre bid me gaze into the hearthfire. The chimney was drawing strongly, and bits of ash were rising from the fire. I stared at them, feeling half a fool, but she bid me look deeper, and…the ashes were white, rising in the updraft, yet all at once it seemed as if they were falling. Snow, I thought. Then the sparks in the air seemed to circle, to become a ring of torches, and I was looking through the fire down on some high hill in a forest. The cinders had become men in black behind the torches, and there were shapes moving through the snow. For all the heat of the fire, I felt a cold so terrible I shivered, and when I did the sight was gone, the fire but a fire once again. But what I saw was real, I’d stake my kingdom on it.
A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin
30 Days of ASOIAF: Day 17 | Faith You’d Worship | The Lord of Light
There are no gods but R’hllor and the Other, whose name may not be said.
I have seen him leading the fight against the dark, I have seen it in the flames.
