What does “Bloodmoon” even mean? Let’s theorize

Game of Thrones fans, the break between theorizing was shorter than you may have thought. As of today, there’s a fancy Bloodmoon logo out in the world, suggesting quite heavily that it really is the name of HBO’s upcoming GoT prequel series. (At least for now, anyway. We commit to nothing.)

But the logo itself is rather intriguing. In case you missed it the first time around, behold, courtesy of Watchers on the Wall:

Now, it is time to journey into the realm of weird theories. First up, although my colleague Dan Selcke thinks the second moon in the logo — the first ‘O’ in the word ‘Moon’ is a reflection of the first moon — the second ‘O’ in the word ‘Blood’ I have another idea: we could be looking at two moons.

Actually, this wouldn’t be the first time a second moon has popped up in A Song of Ice and Fire mythology. A Wiki of Ice and Fire reminds us that there are legends of a second moon which broke apart after getting too close to the sun. Inside: dragons. Daenerys’ handmaiden even told this story to her in the first season of the show:

Presumably, this would involve superheating the moon, which may have caused it to turn red, thus creating a bloody-looking moon that birthed dragons into the world.

Let’s work from the assumption that this legend is true. If so, what caused the moon to veer off its axis and wander too close to the sun? Was it a simple natural phenomenon? The Children of the Forest, who seem to be playing a big role in this story based on all the caves the production is filming in, were said to have incredible magic powers. According to legend, they used magic to break the Arm of Dorne that once connected Westeros to Essos. What if they did this by bringing down that second moon, or breaking it apart in the air? Moons do more than hang in the sky, after all. On Earth, they influence the tides; what if losing this second moon is what brought the tides up to swallow the Arm?

As for the sun, it affects the seasons, which are famously off in Westeros. What if whatever was done to the moon affected the seasons? Actions, magical ones included, having unintended consequences is a theme of Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire. Extending it to Bloodmoon would be no surprise at all.

In other words, all of these things could be tied together. Somehow, we get the feeling that this will be something that’s either done in one fell swoop at the start of the series, or otherwise slowly unfolding during the first season, only for things to come to a head in the season finale, not unlike the hatching of the dragons in “Fire and Blood” at the end of the first season of Game of Thrones.

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That, of course, all assumes that Bloodmoon will get its first season. Right now, it’s only in the pilot stage, and a full series isn’t guaranteed — but if it does, look for all of this to perhaps play a part. What ideas do you have?

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