User blog comment:Shaneymike/How I would like to see the Prince that was Promised emerge/@comment-25371179-20160526170023

I kind of want to see Dany go mad because of how tragic it would be. She's been presented as a genuinely good-hearted person, something rare in Game of Thrones, but she was born into a family where insanity is a common trait. GRRM has said many times his stories and characters aren't black and white, and are more "grey" - this would certainly be a grey trait for Dany. Is it sad, emotional, conflicting? Yes, but GoT has always been that way. Obviously, it'd be sweet to see Dany sit on the Iron Throne in the end... but as GRRM said, it's going to be a bittersweet ending, and I just don't think it will end that sweetly.

I can see the last big battles before the war against the white walkers being Daenerys versus Jon Snow and all of them, and it would end with Jon being forced to kill Dany, who, if R+L=J is true, would be his aunt. It would be similar to the Azor Ahai prophecy in which Azor Ahai killed his wife so that he could bring out the true powers of his sword. I don't think the exact same thing will happen with Jon Snow's Longclaw, in which the "true powers of the sword" will be exposed, but I think it's all a sort of symbol for, once Dany is out of the picture, Jon&friends will be able to finally unite the living against the dead, man against white walker. GRRM has said that the prophecies are not necessarily literal, though they may still hold some merit.