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4. Maester Aemon First Explained The Prince/Princess Error

The Prince That Was Promised theory reared it's head again this week, with Melisandre relaying it to Daenerys, who has long been theorised as one of the most likely candidates. While Dany is initially skeptical, due to the reference to a Prince, Missandei steps in to explain that it isn't actually gender specific.

The Prince That Was Promised is typically conflated with Azor Ahai, with the hero being born of smoke and salt under a bleeding sky. Due to Dany's prominence in the story, and the fact she meets that criteria, many theorists looked past the notion of gender anyway in believing her to be the chosen one, but it was first spelled out by Maester Aemon in A Feast for Crows, who told Sam:

"What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! The error crept in from the translation. Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame. The language misled us all for a thousand years. Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it."