Lightbringer is obviously a crucial “weapon”, literal or metaphorical, to defeat the NK/Long Night. No need for a second Nissa Nissa moment, it isn’t mentioned in the AAR prophecy.Īlso, I don’t think Lightbringer need to be a literal sword (that was Mel’s interpretation, and we all know how wrong she can be). The way I see it, Lightbringer has already been made (with the help pf Nissa Nissa), now somebody just needs to claim it. For Lightbringer, we even have the origins story. Excalibur was already made, Arthur just needed to pull it out. The Azor Ahai Reborn prophecy sounds a lot like the Arthurian legend: pull a sword from stone.
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Mel even staged a little show for Stannis to pull a sword from one of the burning statues of the Seven (the Mother, IIRC). Born amidst salt and smoke, bleeding star, wake dragons from stone yadda yadda, and pull a sword = Lightbringer from fire. (In the books, Salladhor Saan tells it to Davos.)īoth show and books, Mel has recounted the Azor Ahai Reborn PROPHECY.
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The show, as far as I can remember, has not recounted the full Azor Ahai LEGEND, of which Nissa Nissa is part. I don’t understand the obsession with a “Nissa Nissa moment”. Still, Dormer can’t complain: “Let’s face it, I have the coolest weapon on the show. “Every time I hit them they’d go whumpf and guys would charge in with extinguishers.” “Because Beric only has one eye, I’d be temporarily blind and swinging the flaming sword – which is real, not CGI,” he said. “He would just sit there going ‘Noooo why? Why are you all attacking me?’” According to Dormer, by the way, Kit Harington was easily the best Risk player of the group.Īnd then, of course, there’s Beric’s wonderful flaming sword, which was slightly tougher to wield in reality than on screen. “There were a lot of arguments, mainly because Iain Glen is so competitive,” Dormer said. Though Dormer failed to mention guitar sing alongs, he did say that the cast spent a lot of their down time playing Risk. “It’s not nice being soaking wet and very hot and yet very cold at the same time and trudging up and down the most beautiful glaciers in the world – but not even being able to look because you feel so tired.”Īll that said, there were some fun moments on set. “Just climbing on the dragon took maybe a month – and on screen it’s an eye-blink.”ĭormer didn’t exactly mince words about what filming the “magnificent seven” scenes was like (though, for the record, he did mention that the lovely cast and crew kept the experience from being completely intolerable). “The fight sequence took five weeks to film and lasts five minutes,” he said. “It’s true! Dan is destroyed, Terri had problems, and every time Beric dies he loses a part of himself so he’s constantly mourning the human he used to be …”ĭormer went on to discuss the arduous five month long process of filming “Beyond the Wall.” Dormer noted, with perhaps a little annoyance, how quickly scenes that were physically and emotionally taxing to film go by on screen.
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Dormer conceded that he tends to play pretty damaged characters. In one of his first post- Game of Thrones season 7 interviews, Richard Dormer chatted about his grisly body of work and the strenuous process of filming those spectacular sequences from “Beyond the Wall.”ĭormer recently interviewed with The Guardian to promote his new BBC drama, Rellik, in which he plays a cop disfigured from an acid attack.