9/16/2023 0 Comments Chapter 4 to kill a mockingbird![]() ![]() ![]() She calls Stannis forward and he withdraws a flaming sword from the statue of the Mother with a gloved hand. She continues her preaching with the story of the burning sword Lightbringer. Melisandre dismisses Cressen as old and fearful and challenges him to stop her. Melisandre hails Stannis Baratheon as The Prince That Was Promised during the ceremony. Maester Cressen steps in front of her and interrupts the ceremony, reminding the crowd that they were "named in the light of the Seven." ![]() Melisandre predicts that a heavy darkness will fall on the world in the wake of the long summer, that stars will bleed while the cold breath of winter will freeze the seas and that the dead will rise in the north. She intones "The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors" and the crowd of onlookers repeat her words. Behind her, statues of the Seven, widely worshiped in Westeros, are burning as offerings. On a beach in the island of Dragonstone, Melisandre conducts a ceremony for her god, the Lord of Light. Melisandre burns the statues of the Seven. Stannis and the majority of his household converted to her religion, and she became a close adviser to Stannis himself, believing him to be the the Prince that was Promised of ancient prophecy the reincarnation of Azor Ahai. At some point before (or right at the start of) the War of the Five Kings, she crossed the Narrow Sea and came to the court of Lord Stannis Baratheon on the island stronghold of Dragonstone, to preach her faith. This same necklace also hides her ageing, prolonging her life in the process. Melisandre wears a large ruby necklace that seems to glow whenever she performs her magic. Eventually becoming a Red Priestess of the Lord of Light, she claims to wield powerful magical abilities, particularly the power of prophecy by looking into the flames of fire. She claimed to know nothing but hunger as a child, and as a young woman she subsisted on a single bowl of unpalatable stew a day. Originally from the city of Asshai, located in the far east of Essos, Melisandre was raised by her mother, a slave, living in poverty. ![]()
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