Game Of Thrones Season 7 Implications: What "Stormborn" Really Means

11. Dany Is Azor Ahai (Maybe)

At some point, we're all just going to have to accept that Melisandre is a rash that just won't go away. Despite being turned away by Jon Snow and watching her prophecies about Stannis Baratheon (and Gendry as an extension) evaporate into nonsense, she's back, this time offering her support to Daenerys.

For some reason, Dany doesn't immediately cast her into the sea off Dragonstone, instead entertaining her prophecies about the importance of Jon Snow (despite her also saying that prophecies don't really mean much any more) and welcoming her into her party. BE MORE SUSPICIOUS, DAENERYS.

Anyway, Melisandre's arrival also prompted a new - but long-held - theory that Dany is actually Azor Ahai, "the prince that was promised", with Missandei announcing that the High Valyrian word for "prince" isn't gendered, so it could in fact refer to a female figure. So is this how we'll see the return of the Lord Of Light's best warrior - in the shape of Dany? She seemed only mildly amused by the allusion herself.

Weirdly, Dany and Tyrion seemed to take Jon Snow's rule of the North as a surprise, despite the fact that Varys pretty much knows everything that's happening in Westeros at any time. Is the snake losing his touch? Have his little birds flown away?