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Raevar

Dragonglass used in the wedding...

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In Rhaenyra and Daemon's marriage ceremony, they use a dragonglass dagger to cut their lips, and hands. I loved this small detail. It probably doesn't mean much, but it added to the feel of their Targaryen wedding being unique and different than other marriages we've seen. The traditions felt older and more foreign, probably the customs of old Valyria. The use of dragonglass, which we know to have magical properties...made their union more...magical.

Also from a practical standpoint, dragonglass, referred to by the maesters as Obsidian, is outrageously sharp and used even in the real world for scalpels, so just as the wound Rhaenyra received from the valyrian steel dagger "cut clean" and would heal, so too should the cuts made with obsidian.

Posted Oct 3, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

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ToilAndTummyTrouble•

I too loved the more mystical exoticness of their wedding. It felt like we were getting a forbidden peek into ancient Targaryen customs.

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FourLeafClover0•

What magical properties does dragonglass have?

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RaevarOP•

Kills white walkers, also was used in the creation of the first white walker.

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ThatBlackSwan•

Obsidian contains fire magic, it burns without being consumed and can kill White Walkers.

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Half a year gone, that man could scarcely wake fire from dragonglass."
A Clash of Kings - Daenerys III

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Sam rolled onto his side, eyes wide as the Other shrank and puddled, dissolving away. In twenty heartbeats its flesh was gone, swirling away in a fine white mist. Beneath were bones like milkglass, pale and shiny, and they were melting too. Finally only the dragonglass dagger remained, wreathed in steam as if it were alive and sweating. Grenn bent to scoop it up and flung it down again at once. "Mother, that's cold."

"Obsidian." Sam struggled to his knees. "Dragonglass, they call it. Dragonglass. Dragon glass." He giggled, and cried, and doubled over to heave his courage out onto the snow.
AStorm of Swords - Samwell I

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"Dragonglass." The red woman's laugh was music. "Frozen fire, in the tongue of old Valyria. Small wonder it is anathema to these cold children of the Other."
A Storm of Swords - Samwell V

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"... obsidian," said the other man in the room, a pale, fleshy, pasty-faced young fellow with round shoulders, soft hands, close-set eyes, and food stains on his robes.

"Call it dragonglass." Archmaester Marwyn glanced at the candle for a moment. "It burns but is not consumed."

"What feeds the flame?" asked Sam.

"What feeds a dragon's fire?" Marwyn seated himself upon a stool. "All Valyrian sorcery was rooted in blood or fire."
A Feast for Crows - Samwell V

So it's wedding with fire and blood.

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