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Blood Magic
🕑 Added 2023-01-30 11:58:23 +0000 UTCA deep dive into the forbidden... though in some places it is practiced openly! What it is, who practices it, and how it fits into various stories.
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Ducktownfc
Do you think we could see the skulls on the Golden Company banners used in a blood magic ritual? Iirc thereβs a few blackfyre/Targ skulls on there and there is power in kings blood. I donβt think FAegon would ever try and do a ritual but a desperate Jon Con might facing a Grey Scale plague
Cat o'Vivas
I want to support from a medical point of view Ninas suggestion that Mirri Maz Duur planned to murder Khal Drogo from the beginning. She smeared some paste onto his wound and then stitched the severed skin back on to it. A treatment like this will inevitably lead to wound infection, festering and probably lethal sepsis. If we do not suppose that GRRM is completely ignoring real world medicine there - which he does nowhere else - then she was planning for him to die of wound infection all the time.
