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For all of its fantasy tropes, A Song of Ice and Fire doesn't have too many ultra-magical items kicking around. Sure, there are special swords made of Fancy Metal, and there are poisoned hairnets and golden hands. There are dragon eggs which eventually hatch into sweet lil' dragon babies. But there is no One Ring that can be hurled into a volcano to stop all the evil nonsense from happening. There's no unbeatable Elder Wand. There's no Infinity Gauntlet. There's essentially no single quest object that can neatly tie up the loose ends of any one of George R.R. Martin's many (many) subplots.

Except for maybe the Horn of Winter.

OK, so maybe the horn can't tie up every subplot. But if the true struggle of A Song of Ice and Fire is finding balance between the titular forces of ice and fire, then the Horn of Winter could play a huge role. That's because the Horn of Winter, also called the Horn of Joramun, might be able to bring down the Wall.

It seems like the HBO adaptation has maybe just given up on the horn entirely, seeing that they (spoiler alert) decided to have a big ol' zombie dragon just bust on through the wall on its own. But in the books, at least, the horn has been set up as a mythical force capable of bringing down the Wall and 'waking giants from the earth.' Depending on who wields it, the horn could spell the end for the White Walkersor for the Seven Kingdoms. It seems pretty essential, especially since it made the cover of the next book in the series.

And Sam Tarly may have taken it to grad school by mistake.

Supposedly, way back in the ancient past of George R.R. Martin's imagination, the Wall was built from ice and magic to keep the White Walkers at bay. By the time our story begins, though, most people have stopped believing in White Walkers, and the Wall is treated as a border against the human wildlings who live up North, staffed mostly by bastards and criminals.

But we know that there is some legit magic still alive and well in the Wall—Sam and Gilly are able to pass through a creepy talking gate in the Wall to get back into the Seven Kingdoms, but their friendly zombie buddy Coldhands is not. It seems like the Wall is more than just a physical obstacle: it's full of protective magicks and whatnot.

Not long after the Wall was built, though, a Lord Commander of the Night's Watch went a little off the rails. He married a woman 'with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars' who may have been a lady White Walker (side note: why are all your White Walkers dudes, HBO? Women can't be terrifying ice monsters?). Then he declared himself the Night's King, and starting ruling from one of the castles on the Wall.

(This is not to be confused with the TV character 'The Night King,' who seems to just be a.. super White Walker?)

According to legend, the Night's King and his icy queen committed terrible atrocities as rulers of the Wall. So the reigning Stark king teamed up with Joramun, the King Beyond the Wall, to take him down. They accomplished this with the help of a handy horn that Joramun had (made? purchased?). Blowing it once woke giants from the earth.

Blowing it again is supposed to take down the Wall itself. Sites forf ree mac games reddit.

Fast forward to when our story takes place, and the wildlings have been searching for this Horn of Winter. Mance Rayder, the current King Beyond the Wall, claims that he's found it. He and his wildlings just want safe passage to the other side of the Wall, where they'll be protected from the White Walkers' army of snow zombies. But if the Night's Watch won't let them through, Mance threatens to blow the horn and take down the Wall entirely, leaving everyone in danger.

Of course, our good ol' boys in black capture Mance before he can blow the horn, with the help of Stannis 'Killjoy' Baratheon. Stannis's girlfriend Melisandre then burns Mance's big, fancy horn, along with Mance himself. So.. I guess that's the end of the Horn of Winter?

Not quite. Firstly, Melisandre doesn't actually burn Mance because our girl Mel always likes to have an extra supply of king's blood on hand. Secondly, our best friend Tormund admits to Jon Snow that the huge, fancy horn was probably not the horn of legend:

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'She burned that fine big horn, aye. A bloody sin, I call it. A thousand years old, that was. We found it in a giant's grave, and no man o' us had ever seen a horn so big. That must have been why Mance got the notion to tell you it were Joramun's. He wanted you crows to think he had it in his power to blow your bloody Wall down about your knees. But we never found the true horn, not for all our digging.'

So where's the real horn? George R. R. Martin wouldn't make us listen to all that backstory and then never give us the real Horn of Winter, right?

Well, first of all, he totally would. Second of all, there have been two other horn sightings in A Song of Ice and Fire: Euron Greyjoy, professional Creepy Uncle, has a huge 'Dragon Horn,' which he claims can be used to control actual dragons. Blowing it can also literallykill you, but Euron still plans to use it to swipe one of Dany's dragons when she's not looking.

It seems like Euron's Dragonbinder horn might be the 'fire' horn to Joramun's 'ice' horn, though, so they're probably not the same thing.

And then there's the old, cracked warhorn that Jon's doggie Ghost found beyond the wall. It was buried in the snow with a whole mess of dragonglass, which suggests it was used to fight White Walkers back in the day. But the horn is too cracked to make a sound, so Jon gives it to his nerdy friend Sam for safe keeping.

Sam thinks that the horn is probably useless, but he still makes a point of keeping it even when he barters away most of his other possessions.Last we saw him, Sam was getting settled in at the Citadel, and he still had the horn. Hopefully, if he's really at grad school to learn about White Walkers, Sam will realize that this simple, cracked horn is far more than meets the eye. Because if the third Indiana Jones movie has taught us anything, it's that the Ultra Magical Item is alwaysmore plain and unassuming than you'd expect.

So Sam almost certainly has the trueHorn of Winter. And he's studying to learn how to defeat the White Walkers. But he's also very, very far from the Wall, with a broken horn, in a Citadel infested with Faceless Men.

Let's just hope that Sam figures out the power he's holding before it's far too late.

Winter has come. The seventh season of Game of Thrones is off and running and with only seven episodes, HBO doesn’t have time to hold our hands and explain things like where characters are, the history of new locations, or how the actions of one character affect the powder keg that is Westeros’ political climate. Luckily, between all of George R.R. Martin’s novels, and The World of Ice and Fire historical tome, there’s plenty of ways to fill in the blanks and we’re here to help. Obviously spoilers will abound, so proceed at your own peril.

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Over the years, readers of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga have had to come to grips with the fact that people, places, and events that are important in the novels have been excised from the HBO adaptation. Characters such as Lady Stoneheart have been cut entirely while others such as Jeyne Poole or Arianne Martell had their storylines given to more prominent players in the game. Plots involving everyone from Mance Rayder and Victarian Greyjoy to Quentyn Martell and Young Griff have been left on the cutting room floor. This is not to say these characters won’t have major parts to play in Martin’s novels, but the tale Game of Thrones is telling doesn’t need this many tertiary characters rolling around, bumping into each other and extending the story.

So while Game of Thrones will never see the living corpse of Catelyn Stark hand Dondarrion’s flaming sword to Jon Snow, that sword is still in the show. Dondarrion has it and — based on the trailer — will be using it sooner rather than later. But that isn’t the case for two crucial artifacts that Martin has set in motion in his novels: the two horns. The first is the Horn of Winter, a legendary horn known to the Wildings. The second is the Dragonbinder, a horn in the possession of Victarion Greyjoy in the novel but not even a blip on the radar on the show. While it’s entirely possible neither or these horns will appear in the show, the sheer power they possess would propel the series along towards the inevitable war with the Night King, which makes them candidates to show up as deus ex machinas when the time is right. But first, what are these horns?

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The Horn of Winter, otherwise known as Joramun’s Horn, is an ancient magical artifact with the power to bring down the Wall. In the “Age of Heroes” Joramun became the first King-Beyond-The-Wall. Like all good legends lost to the mists of time, no one knows how Joramun came into the possession of such a powerful weapon. I’d say we don’t know if it even exists, but if Martin has hammered home anything it’s that skepticism of magic is the road to death in Game of Thrones. Also lost in the thousands of years of retelling is how the Horn is supposed to bring down the Wall. All the stories say is that blowing the Horn will “wake the giants from the earth.” While some would say that is merely a metaphor of the massive earthquake that would be necessary to bring down 700 vertical feet of ice, I have to wonder if the “giants” are the mythical ice dragons that live beyond the Shivering Sea. Allegedly, ice dragons of old were larger than any Valyrian dragon and melted upon their death. If you were building a giant wall and needed more ice than could be conceivably hauled by sled, would you perhaps use the Horn to lure ice dragons to their deaths to become building material?

Which leads me directly into the second legendary horn: the Dragonbinder. Found in the smoking ruins of Valyria by Euron Greyjoy (if you believe him), this Horn is said to bind the will of any dragon that hears it to the master of said Horn. There’s only one problem: anyone who blows the Dragonbinder ends up cooked from the inside out. So whomever is blowing the Horn is not its master. In A Dance With Dragons, a red priest tells Victarion that he can become the Dragonbinder’s master but it will be paid with a blood price. Should Victarion master the Dragonbinder, Danerys and her dragons would be vulnerable. My personal take, however, is somehow the Dragonbinder will end up in Tyrion’s hands. Call it a hunch.

Now, both of these horns have been described in similar ways. The Dragonbinder is as real as anything, made from a six foot long black dragon’s horn and covered in both Valyrian glyphs and bands of red and gold Valyrian steel. Blowing into Dragonbinder causes the horn to glow red and then white as the heat inside increases. Meanwhile the Horn of Winter has yet to make an appearance in A Song of Ice and Fire, but it isn’t a large a leap to think it is similar in design to the Dragonbinder. The false horn that Mance showed Jon Snow and that Melisandre consequently burned was an eight-foot-long black horn with glyphs of the First Men and bands of gold. It seems reasonable that Mance and his people would base the false horn on stories they’ve heard of what the real one looked like. And if the Valyrian Dragonbinder is designed to bring fire dragons to heel, one could imagine the Horn of Winter might do the same for ice dragons. Of course, this makes me wonder if there’s a horn out there that could call to the mythical and allegedly extinct Sea Dragons…

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Should Game of Thrones need either artifact to hasten about the war with the Other, the question then becomes where are they? None of the principal players are still in Essos, meaning a jaunt to Old Valyria to retrieve the Dragonbinder is out of the question. The Horn of Winter is still out there somewhere, perhaps hidden in a secret area beyond the Wall by the Children of the Forest. But the easiest solution would be to combine the Dragonbinder and the Horn of Winter into a single entity and hide it deep within the confines of The Citadel. It’s an elegant solution. The Citadel is already where the most dangerous and exotic magic is kept on lockdown. Everything from glass candles to the secret mysteries of Asshai and Yi-Ti are somewhere in the bowels of Oldtown. And lucky for the North, Samwell Tarly is currently at the Citadel and isn’t afraid to break the rules to gain knowledge. It wouldn’t take much to imagine Sam finding mention of the horns in a forbidden book and going on a spelunking adventure to find it. Perhaps he’d even take greyscale-ridden Jorah along for the ride. After all, if Jorah is going to die, it might as well be because the blew the horn that would simultaneously wake the sleeping ice dragons and bind them to Dany’s will.