"Elsewhere in the kingdom the rulers of mankind had long been on a pathway of self destruction. There were many men who laid false claim to the throne, many impostor kings clad in red, clad in the brown of a stag, and some even clad in the false colors of gold. It was a time when many mistreated high born woman disappeared into into a sisterhoods with vows silence. Kings bedded sisters and bedded whores outside the laws of natural marriage. Brothers fathered children with sisters as cousins did with cousins. Each and all unnatural little monsters of pureblooded lustful incest. Some felt that these incestuous bloodkin increased their magical powers, perhaps for some it did. But in the end none were truly important nor did they last as the earthly kings of mankind were on the King's Road of self destruction. Lies and deceit had been used for centuries to prop the power of several mummer King's until all those family bloodlines perished and our kingdom itself was effectively bought and came under rule of the Braavosi Pennycounters' puppet - the High Septan. Many followed this new ruler out of belief but others thought this High Septan as merely a ruse --a man without a face and possibly even a forefather of kraken kinblood who was dead and arosen stronger. Silly storytellers."
ASHA: "But Pyka, where does all the magic come from?"
'OL NANA: "Oh my child this is fiction and you just believe it. Plus, magic is the strangest of all things as it was said the magic of the Far North was generated through the extreme ice and cold of death itself, and in the North is where it is the strongest-- thus the reason why Winter was coming. In that world it must come for Winter brings death and it was told to all who would listen that all men must die. Just like a teeter totter there must be an up for every down and hot for cold there is a world way past a place Asshai (literally ass-high because this part of the story stinks) and Past the Shadow Lands called Stygai where all the red demons of the Red God R'hllr live. You see child they want the dragons because they need them to mold the rock into houses and to create dragonglass as the market for dragon glass hasbeen rising and they want to corner that market. And thus ALL MEN MUST DIE. ... Are you still awake child or must I continue making stuff up?"
ASHA: "But why? Why must all men die?"
'OL NANA: "This my dear was a great mystery but some speculate that the abhorrent sins of mankind required the punishment of the gods and the only way to clear the deck was for all men to perish and start anew. The time of man serving the gods had passed and the gods saw this and it made gods mad. You see my princess the gods are not to be fooled with. Back in the days of the old North, as Winter comes it increased the magical powers of the North-- a natural magic that were not only used by seers such as Bran, but also harnessed in ways unnatural by the Great Other, who some say is a former Commander of the Night's Watch or something but we already covered that part. Whether the Great Other be Stark or Bolton. Regardless, there was unnatural things occurring between man and the dead, sickly things not to be mentioned from parts of the world now doomed into eternity."
"In those days it was said that little people roamed the planet. They were called the Children of the Forest and it was these people who first tried to 'break the Neck' but their magic wasn't strong enough and they were unsuccessful. Later it was Brandon, before he was Brandon the Last Sailer, who was able to conger up great forces of the earth not known or seen for hundreds of generations. A thousand thousands of generations. It was he who fought the last dragon of the Red God R'hllr and of the Red God's savior Danaerys Targaryen here at the Isle of Man and God's Eye. Beneath the tall walls of this castle within the crypts you will find the skeleton remains of last great krakens and sharks sitting next to the bonely remains of our departed kings-- your ancestors."
"It was said that Danaerys was born to the purposes of the Red God, The Lord of Light R'hllr solely for the purpose of hatching the dragon eggs. It is known she spent years in the vast wastelands of a continent far away but she herself never returned to Westeros."
ASHA: "Why didn't she return? Surely there is a reason?"
'OL NANA: "Well my child to answer that question we must ask another. Why is it that some never come back? It is because they have lost their way. They feel what they are doing at the moment is more important than returning to their home. Or perhaps they never really knew where their home is or maybe they finally realize that their home is where they are at. This is not a part of the story I want to tell you as I haven't figured out the other parts yet."
ASHA: "Well ok, I didn't like her anyway. But I do like the dragon part. How did the dragons come about?"
'OL NANA: "In the old lore the dragons required a combination of magic, fire and blood in order to be conjurred to awakening. But this was no ordinary blood -it had to be magical blood only a few possessed-- maybe 1 out of a thousand thousands of people."
'OL NANA: *"Are you still awake child? Child? ... oh finally ... she is asleep." ('Ol Nana transports over to the next spaceship to talk to other children.)