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I'm sure others have speculated on this, and I'd like your input.

I was intrigued sejak Salladhor Saan's huraian of the forging of Lightbringer sejak Azor Ahai and its implications on Azor's return.

To summarize, the first sword he forged shattered when tempered with water. (This is not how a sword would actually be tempered, but I digress.) The saat shattered when plunged into the hati, tengah-tengah of a lion. The third, Lightbringer, was tempered when Azor Ahai plunged it into his wife's heart.

Martin loves threes. It seems to me that these three forgings refer to three different characters, and I've been...