I slutet av Garden of Bones (säsong 2 avsnitt 4) Melisandre (den röda kvinna / prästinna) föder:
At night, Stannis orders Davos (Liam Cunningham) to take Melisandre to shore, and to be sure they are not seen. Once ashore, Melisandre reveals she is, impossibly, in late-stage pregnancy, and gives birth to a horrific, shadowy figure, which disappears in a cloud of smoke.
Vad var det? Två episoder tidigare , lovade hon en son till Stannis innan de hade sex. Var detta produkten av deras fackförening?
Ansvarsbegränsning: Jag har ännu inte sett den episoden av showen, men i allmänhet är showen anmärkningsvärt trogen mot böckerna, så jag ska ge ett boksvar.
Melisandres graviditet är resultatet av den magiska hon (enligt uppgift) drar från sin gud, R'hllor.
Varning: Spoilers framåt:
The shadowy figure is a magical assassin. It is implied in the books that she draws the energy to create it from Stannis through sexual intercourse.
Jag minns inte om en son från böckerna, men jag tvivlar ganska på att det här är vad Melisandre hänvisade till.
Det verkar som om det är en slags demon skapad av Stannis och prästessen som kanaliserar ljusets herre och det är därför den är född fullvuxen och är gjord av rök. Det är som samma typ av eld och sexritual för att ge dem kraftfulla nya barn som Daenerys gjorde med drakarna.
Thrones spelet wikia hänvisar helt enkelt till det som Shadow . I en intervju med Carice Van Houten (Melisandre) och Liam Cunningham (Davos) hänvisar Carice till det som en "Shadow Baby".
Can you single out your weirdest or most challening scene?
Carice: Giving birth to the shadow baby would be the answer for both of us. We were there together.
Liam: Yeah, I had a few pains… I felt your pain, darlin’.
SEASON 4 INTERVIEW: CARICE VAN HOUTEN & LIAM CUNNINGHAM
If your character meets an ending like Ned Stark… what memory would you best remember from your time on Game of Thrones?
Carice: The shadow baby! But mostly just being around Stephen [Dillane] and Liam. They couldn’t be more different as actors, and as people. You could see a sitcom about these two guys. It’s a very funny threesome, I would say.
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Bryan Cogman en av författarnas författare har också refererat till det som ett "Shadow Monster".
When was it decided that they were finally going to appear? Well, you had a stand-in for Selyse in the opening of S2, and I think Melisandre makes a passing reference to her, but this is quite a bump up in visibility.
“It was an evolving thing. Season 2, as ever, we had to be judicious about how many characters to introduce. It was decided that, dramatically, it made sense for the S2 Stannis scenes to involve this triangle of characters, if you will—Davos on one side, Melisandre on the other, Stannis being pulled between the two. In the book, you have Selyse on the Mel side but we decided to pull her out of the political discussion, at least for now. But when the decision was made to dramatize the conception of the shadow monster…”
SEASON 3 INTERVIEW: BRYAN COGMAN
Davos verkar hänvisa till monsteret som "Shadow" eller "a horror" i hans POV-kapitel från böckerna också.
He could not behold the fiery heart without thinking of the shadow Melisandre had birthed in the gloom beneath Storm's End.
A Clash of Kings, Davos III
"The Mother. She blessed me with seven sons, and yet I let them burn her. She spoke to me. We called the fire, she said. We called the shadows too. I rowed Melisandre into the bowels of Storm's End and watched her birth a horror." He saw it still in his nightmares, the gaunt black hands pushing against her thighs as it wriggled free of her swollen womb. "She killed Cressen and Lord Renly and a brave man named Cortnay Penrose, and she killed my sons as well. Now it is time someone killed her."
A Storm of Swords, Davos II
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