The

The The Archmaister Marwin, aka Marwin the Mage, told us that prophecy is a sword without a hilt.

He went on to use some very colorful language about how it can seem amazing and perfect

until it all goes horribly wrong.

The teeth slamming shut, so to speak.

The ghost of High Heart is perhaps the living embodiment of that warning.

Her association with prophecy is so deep it defines her life.

She doesn't really have another identity.

We don't even know her name.

That's really who she is.

And all the accompanying tragedy, because of her prophecies, is associated with her and

her character, and thus, you see what I mean.

She is the example of prophecy gone wrong.

When she was younger, she met Jenny of Oldstones, you know, the one with the song, Jenny's song,

the eventual love of Duncan the Small, Prince of Dragonflies.

Now, she was seen as a woods witch and or a child of the forest, the ghost of Highheart,

but she was not actually a ghost nor a resident of Highheart at the time.

She delivered prophecies, though, that had a massive

impact on House Targaryen. Impact may be the wrong word. That might be selling it short. There's a

strong case to be made that the Ghost of Highheart's prophecies are the spark that ended House

Targaryen's reign, the slow rolling stones that became the avalanche of Robert's

rebellion. It was the ghost of High Heart who told Jeharis and Chera before they became King

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