He forged a new sign for the yard, a three-headed dragon of black iron that he hung from a wooden post. The beast was so big it had to be made in a dozen pieces, joined with rope and wire. When the wind blew it would clank and clatter, so the inn became known far and wide as the Clanking Dragon. Is the dragon sign still there? asked Podrick. No, said Septon Meribald. When the smiths son was an old man, a bastard son of the fourth Aegon rose up in rebellion against his trueborn brother and took for his sigil a black dragon. These lands belonged to Lord Darry then, and his lordship was fiercely loyal to the king. The sign of the black iron dragon made him wroth, so he cut down the post, hacked the sign to pieces, and cast them into the river. One of the dragons heads washed up on the Quiet Isle many years later, though by that time it was red with rust. Targaryens use a red dragon as their sigil; a black dragon is the sigil of house Blackfyre. After their defeat, the Blackfyres were diminished in number and forced across the narrow sea ([he] hacked the [black dragon] to pieces, and cast them into the river). Could this passage foreshadow the reappearance of a Blackfyre heir (one of the dragons heads) on Westeross Western shore, whom - given the amount of time since Blackfyres were defeated - everyone takes for a Targaryen instead (by that time it was red with rust)?
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:46:06 +0000
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