The House of the Undying Visions (Spoilers Extended)

Today is a pretty slow day at work, so I thought it would be fun to discuss Dany's visions in The House of the Undying.

The visions have been discussed so much already, I doubt there are any new theories out there that aren't of the tinfoil variety (those are okay too), but I still want to see if anyone can change my mind about what I believe the visions to mean or push me in a direction in one that I was on the fence about.

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#Rooms Before the Chamber of the Undying

War of the 5 Kings and a ravished Westeros

A beautiful, naked woman being ravished by four little men who resemble the dwarf servitor.

The Red Wedding

A feast of slaughtered corpses holding cups, spoons, and food, with a dead man with a wolf's head sitting on a throne wearing an iron crown

Dany's Childhood home (which she believes is in Braavos)

House with a Red Door, Ser Willem Darry

Aerys II giving the order to burn King's Landing during Robert's Rebellion

A throne room with dragon skulls on the walls where a king with valyrian features sits on a barbed throne

Rhaegar Targaryen with his wife Elia and son Aegon (confirmed by GRRM in an SSM)

A room where a silver-haired man names his son Aegon, says the child is "the prince that was promised", then plays a harp and seemingly looks at Dany when he says "the dragon must have 3 heads"

The Undying/Warlocks testing Dany

A "splendor of wizards" who falsely claim to be the Undying of Qarth and offer to teach Daenerys the secret speech of dragonkind

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#Chamber of the Undying

Upon reaching the chamber of the Undying, Daenerys is spoken to in a barely perceptible whisper. When she asks about the previous visions they respond:

. . . the shape of shadows . . . morrows not yet made . . . drink from the cup of ice . . . drink from the cup of fire . . .

• This implies (imo) that what she saw was not only past events, but also future ones as well

The Undying call her Mother of Dragons and Child of Three, while also telling her that they "live" and "know".

• Mother of Dragons (return of the dragons)

• Child of Three (while some tinfoil leads this to believe at least one of Dany's parents aren't actually her true parents, I think its more along the lines of "the dragon has 3 heads"

They then give her more prophecies saying:

. . . three heads has the dragon . . . the ghost chorus yammered inside her skull with never a lip moving, never a breath stirring the still blue air. . . . mother of dragons . . . child of storm . . . The whispers became a swirling song. . . . three fires must you light . . . one for life and one for death and one to love . . . Her own heart was beating in unison to the one that floated before her, blue and corrupt . . . three mounts must you ride . . . one to bed and one to dread and one to love . . . The voices were growing louder, she realized, and it seemed her heart was slowing, and even her breath. . . . three treasons will you know . . . once for blood and once for gold and once for love . . . -ACOK, Daenerys IV

Before this passage, I think its pretty straightforward, so this is where the real fun begins:

Three Fires (Life/Death/Love)

• Life = Drogo's Funeral Pyre

• Death = Burning a City (probably King's Landing if the show is correct)

• Love = ??? My best guess is if Jon does end up killing Daenerys it could be his "Nissa Nissa" moment and this fire being lit is the tempering of Lightbringer

Three Mounts (Bed/Dread/Love)

• Bed (I've seen this as anything from her Silver which she rode before bedding Drogo, to actual Drogo, etc.)

• Dread (Drogon who is Balerion the Black Dread come again)

The Dothraki looked at her hatchlings uneasily. The largest of her three was shiny black, his scales slashed with streaks of vivid scarlet to match his wings and horns. "Khaleesi," Aggo murmured, "there sits Balerion, come again." -ACOK, Daenerys I

• Love (Possibly Jon Snow, which would fit the pattern)

Three Treasons (Blood/Gold/Love)

• Blood (most likely Mirri Maaz Dur)

• Gold (possibly Jorah, or something that hasn't happened yet)

• Love (Jon Snow killing her is my best guess and continues the pattern, but I've seen Jorah and others theorized)

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#Chamber of the Undying Visions

After the Undying prophesy the above to her, she asks them to "show me" and they mock her repeating it, but then she sees:

Mother of Dragons, Daughter of Death

• Viserys' death from the molten gold

• a grown Rhaego becoming the Stallion who Mounts the World

• Rhaegar saying Lyanna on his dying breath

The Daughter of Death moniker seems to point out 3 of the major dragon deaths (siblings/son)

Mother of Dragons, Slayer of Lies

• Red Sword in the hand of a blue-eyed king who cast no shadow (Stannis)

• Cloth Dragon on poles amidst a cheering crowd (fAegon)

• Stone beast takes flight from a smoking tower breathing shadow fire (Euron)

All 3 are lies Dany must "slay". Stannis is the false AA. fAegon is a false dragon. Euron is a false king/god or has summoned false control over some type of beast.

Mother of Dragons, Bride of Fire

• Silver through the grass (wedding night with Drogo)

• Corpse at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly (This is easily the toughest one and I have seen it theorized from Euron to Jon Con to Victarion to Aeron to fAegon, even greyscale in general, etc.)

• Blue flower grew from aching in a wall of ice (Jon Snow)

As this section seems to be about marriages, it seems that Hizdahr should be the choice, but this passage was also written in 1998 and its also possible it doesn't mean literal "bride". I think Aeron can be discounted since he is lashed to the prow of Euron's Silence.

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#Final Visions

• Shadows whirling in a tent boneless/horrible (Mirri/Drogo, etc.)

• Little girl running (House with the Red Door)

• Mirri Maaz Dur shrieking (dragons hatch)

• Dead assassin tied to her silver

• White lion running through tall grass (H'rakkar that Drogo slays for her)

• Naked crowns bow (Vaes Dothrak, to go forward you must go back)

• 10,000 slaves "Mother" (Slaver's Bay, etc.)

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As I mentioned, this has been discussed a lot, but I'm interested to see if anyone can change my mind about anything, or push me in a direction on one of the ones I'm unsure about.

TLDR: How do you interpret the House of the Undying visions?