This time, he called for his wife, Nissa Nissa, and asked her to bare her breast. The third time, with a heavy heart, for he knew beforehand what he must do to finish the blade, he worked for a hundred days and nights until it was finished. To temper it this time, he captured a lion and drove the sword into its heart, but once more the steel shattered. The second time he took fifty days and fifty nights to make the sword, even better than the first. He was not one to give up easily, so he started over. However, when he went to temper it in water, the sword broke. He labored for thirty days and thirty nights until it was done. To fight the darkness, Azor Ahai needed to forge a hero's sword. Stories of the Long Night, or a similar cataclysmic event, are also common across Essos: According to one version, a great darkness lay over the world, and Azor Ahai was the hero chosen to fight against it. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Azor Ahai was a legendary hero who lived approximately eight thousand years before Aegon's Landing. A prophecy foretells that he will be reborn as The Prince That Was Promised. This came at a price, however, as in order to unleash the sword's true powers he had to plunge it into the heart of his loving wife, Nissa Nissa. Thousands of years ago, he forged the sword Lightbringer which he used to defeat the darkness of the Great Other. That much at least the Lord of Light is clear on." ― Thoros of Myr Īzor Ahai is a legendary figure in the faith of R'hllor, the Lord of Light. Part of me thinks man was well rid of it, but great power requires great sacrifice. If the old tales are true, a terrible weapon forged with a loving wife's heart. " According to prophecy, our champion will be reborn to wake dragons from stone and reforge the great sword Lightbringer that defeated the darkness those thousands of years ago.
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