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2 years agoThe Iron Islands is a collection of 31 islands, though there are only 8 that are considered the major islands, as the others are tiny and mostly uninhabited. Of the major Iron Islands, Lonely Light is the westernmost. In fact, it's not even located in Ironman's Bay. 8 days sailing north-west of Great Wyk (the westernmost of the major islands in Ironman's Bay), Lonely Light is a small, inhabited island at the centre of a cluster of 13 tiny islands, and it is the westernmost point of the known world, far from the Westerosi coast, way out into the Sunset Sea. House Farwynd of the Lonely Light rule the island and its smallfolk, led by Lord Gylbert Farwynd, the Lord of the Lonely Light.
The Ironborn, who are already considered a bit of an odd bunch by the other Westerosi and many of whom consider themselves a separate race altogether, exchange myths and stories about what goes on on the Lonely Light, and strongly dislike their people, whom they consider to be a weird and creepy bunch. Many claim the Farwynds are skinchangers who can take the forms of sea lions, walruses, and whales. They say the people of the Lonely Light have sex with seals and walruses to create half-human, half-animal offspring. Aeron Greyjoy certainly isn't a fan of theirs, for one.
While all the Ironborn who have tried to sail west to see what lies beyond the Lonely Light either never returned or came back and said there was nothing but never-ending ocean, Lord Gylbert Farwynd of the Lonely Light claims that he has found land to the west, and that beyond the Sunset Sea there lies a land where every man would be a king and every wife a queen. He presents his claim to rule the Ironborn during the Kingsmoot, promising to take them west across the Sunset Sea to new lands, to 'a better place', but he's quickly dismissed.
It isn't known for sure how the Ironborn even settled the Iron Islands in the first place, most believe it was settled by First Men who sailed there. But the First Men weren't exactly known for being sea-faring, yet the Iron Islands were inhabited since at least as long ago as the First Men invasion of Westeros, if not longer. Their throne is made of a mysterious type of stone found in other mysterious, ancient places in this world, and nothing about their culture or religion seems to really fit with the notion that they're First Men descendants (though they do live in a remote, isolated, and rough part of the world, so it's to be expected that they're a bit unique, regardless). The Ironborn claim that they rose from the seas (hence why they think of themselves as a separate race, neither First Men nor Andal) along with the strange Seastone Chair that is their throne.
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The Farwynds are also the only remaining worshippers of the Merlings (an aspect of the religion of the Drowned God that even the other Ironborn consider too dark to practice). Merling worship is one of the darker religions in Planetos, which involves regular blood sacrifice, and which is said to give them supernatural abilities in return. The Andals wiped out all the other Merling worshippers, but never quite got to the Lonely Light.
Brandon the Shipwright, who was a Stark king, famously sailed the Sunset Sea to reach and explore the lands beyond, but never returned. We know the Starks are First Men descendants, and skinchanging/warging is a common trait in their bloodline. Some speculate that, if the people of Lonely Light really are skinchangers (which is something not found in any of the other Ironborn), they might be the descendants of Brandon the Shipwright (the Farwynds of the Lonely Light are also nicknamed 'Wolves of the wild sea', after the whales they can supposedly skinchange/warg into). Some also say that Aeron Greyjoy's statements about the Farwynds, whom he doesn't care for in general, and the Farwynd branch of the Lonely Light, whom he appreciates even less, provide a clue:
Aeron knew some Farwynds, a queer folk who held lands on the westernmost shores of Great Wyk and the scattered isles beyond, rocks so small that most could support but a single household. Of those, the Lonely Light was the most distant, eight days’ sail to the northwest amongst rookeries of seals and sea lions and the boundless grey oceans. The Farwynds there were even queerer than the rest. Some said they were skinchangers, unholy creatures who could take on the forms of sea lions, walruses, even spotted whales, the wolves of the wild sea.
Lord Gylbert began to speak. He told of a wondrous land beyond the Sunset Sea, a land without winter or want, where death had no dominion. “Make me your king, and I shall lead you there,” he cried. “We will build ten thousand ships as Nymeria once did and take sail with all our people to the land beyond the sunset. There every man shall be a king and every wife a queen.”
His eyes, Aeron saw, were now grey, now blue, as changeable as the seas.
Could the people of Lonely Light really be skinchangers? Might the Farwynds of the Lonely Light, and maybe even the smallfolk they rule, be descendants of Brandon the Shipwright? Is there really some land of plenty to the west? Or is it all just stories made up by the other Ironborn to make the people from the far away place seem different and scary?
THIS IS AN X-POST
Game Of Thrones Lonely Light Of Life
Link to the original post by /u/savois-faire is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/4zu1f3/everything_the_lonely_light_what_the_hell_is/
I thought this was a good post for this sub however, so what's up with the Lonely Light?
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