One of the things that "Game of Thrones" is very commendable is that whenever a huge conflict ends, there must be a lot of foreshadowing that you can't detect in the early stage.
For example, in order to make the little devil finally defect to the dragon mother, he slapped Joffrey from the second episode of the first season. The contradiction between the little devil and Qiao Dadi has been accumulating, so that when Qiao Dadi finally died Point your finger at the little devil.
And Erya's assassination of the Night King also started from the first season.
In the first season, Erya's sewing needle was discovered by Ned, and Ned not only did not confiscated it, but also hired a "dance teacher" for Erya - Braavos chief swordsman Syrio Fury Erlai to teach her sword practice.
The dance that Scilio taught Erya was called "Water Dance", and the swordsman who practiced the water dance was also called "Water Dancer". It is said that the real "Water Dancer" can fight on the water without general There was a ripple.
In the first volume of "A Song of Ice and Fire", "Game of Thrones", Scilio not only taught Erya how to practice the sword, but also taught her a formula: "Silence like a shadow, light like a feather, fast like a snake, still like water It is as soft as silk, as fast as a deer, as slippery as an eel, as strong as a bear, as fierce as a wolf, and as motionless as a stone.”
During the period of teaching Erya in Silio, she specially asked Erya to catch cats. Cats are animals with keen perception and very quick movements. "
Erya was killed by Kingsguard Ser Marin before Syrion, the Dance of Water, but during Erya's escape, she kept recalling Syrion's formula and used it to calm her heart.
The ups and downs on the way to escape, the last meal but not the next, made Erya grow rapidly, for example, she used a formula to approach the pigeon silently, and then caught it and exchanged it for bread.
The skills of the water dancer, Erya has been continuously strengthened in her escape journey in the future and her experience as an assassin trainee.
In Season 7, she started to become elusive, always appearing and disappearing all of a sudden. In the first episode of the eighth season, the director also specially arranged for Erya to slip by Jon Snow's side, but Jon didn't notice it at all!
And Erya's ability to sneak up to you without knowing it played a huge role in the assassination of the Night King.
Our little sneak attack expert, Jon Snow, also wanted to be a hero to sneak on the Night King, but he was discovered by the Night King before he ran a few steps. The Night King looked at Jon who ran to him and raised his hands, turning all the dead into ghouls to stop Jon.
But Erya was different. When Erya leaped to stab the Night King, the White Walker bodyguards beside the Night King turned their heads blankly to see where Erya ran.
"Light as a feather, swift as a snake, swift as a deer, slippery as an eel, strong as a bear, fierce as a wolf."
Two did it!
If Sirio is Erya's first teacher, then the Hound is the second.
The Hound taught Erya two crucial things:
1. The location of the heart
Hound and Er Ya met a dying old man during their journey. He personally saved the old man from his pain. Hound told Er Ya, "That's where the heart is."
Then Erya learned to use it happily, and pierced Fang Rorger's heart with a sewing needle.
2. The role of armor
When Erya and Hound are together, they start practicing "Water Dance" as soon as they are free, which is mercilessly ridiculed by Hound. Erya got angry, she stabbed the hound hard with a sewing needle, but was blocked by the hound's armor.
The hound educated Erya: "The reason why your friend Syrio was killed by Marin is because Marin has armor and a big sword, but your friend doesn't."
If we carefully observe Erya's assassination of the Night King, we will find that Erya's thorn is the Night King's heart , and it just stabbed at the position of the Night King's leather connecting the two armors!
Although for the Night King, as long as he is stabbed by a Valyrian dagger, he will hang, even if it is not the position of the heart.
But for Erya, her long-term killer skills allowed her to subconsciously find the right position at the most critical moment. As long as Erya's dagger was a little bit biased towards the armor, then her assassination failed.
If we are more careful, we will find that Erya's assassination routine was used in the seventh season against Brienne!
At that time, Erya's weapon sewing needle was knocked to the ground by Brienne, she pulled out her keel dagger, Brienne grabbed Erya's wrist with one hand, Erya very quickly changed the keel dagger to her left hand and very quickly Quickly stab Brienne.
This change of hands is a wonderful foreshadowing of Game of Thrones, just to make a gorgeous change of hands when Erya faces the Night King!
In addition to the above details, Game of Thrones also likes to use prophecies as a foreshadowing!
For example, the story of the king and the cook told by Bran, the cook was turned into a mouse by the gods because he trampled on the power of the guests, and he could only eat his own children to live forever.
Erya is the executor of the prophecy. She killed the son of Walder Frey, the mastermind of the bloody wedding, and made his son into a pie for Walder Frey to eat.
And another big prophet, the red-robed girl, also made a prediction after seeing Erya:
At that time, this prophecy was very magical, but in fact it was a big foreshadowing planted by the screenwriter of Game of Thrones. If the girl in the red robe reminded Erya again in the eighth season, Erya would not have the confidence to assassinate the Night King.
In addition, there is a very interesting foreshadowing in the seventh season. Game of Thrones likes to play causal symmetry, for example, soldier Pollive killed Erya's friend Romi with Erya's sewing needle, Erya also killed Pollive with a sewing needle, and used Pollive to kill Romi What he said was exactly the same to Polliver.
Littlefinger uses a keel dagger to send someone to assassinate Bran, but Erya kills him with a keel dagger in the end.
The Night King came all the way to kill Bran and erase the memory of this world. Bran, who can pierce the future, seems to have already expected this, and his eyes flickered when he handed the keel dagger to Erya in the seventh season.
It was a beautiful coincidence that someone tried to kill Bran, only to be killed by a keel dagger!
After the third episode of Season 8 of Game of Thrones, it was said that the Night King seemed to die too easily.
But in fact, his death was not easy at all, Erya is like a mirror image of the Night King, Erya has come this way, it is not easy! She didn't know how much hardship she had to endure before she developed an assassin's stunt!
And the screenwriter of Game of Thrones is also very difficult. In order to arrange the character Erya to play a decisive role at a critical moment, he began to pave the way from the first season to make Erya "light as a feather and fast as a deer!"
It is because of so many foreshadowings that the powerful villain of the Night King died so hard! From this point of view, the screenwriter of Game of Thrones once again embodies the word "brilliant", and this is also one of the joys of watching Game of Thrones. As long as you are careful, you can find a lot of foreshadowing!
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