The "Jade Compendium"

[Raul]

Again I didn't find out, has it been discussed before. The "Jade Compendium" was book Master Aemon left to Jon's room before he left Wall with Sam and Gilly.It was written by an adventurer who visited all the lands of the Jade Sea. Aemon mentioned something about "a passage you may find of interest", he let mark for Jon.
Now, when we look at the maps, then we can see, that if someone want to travel from Westeros to Jade Sea, must pass Slaver's Bay, where Dany is "playing" a queen. Is this that "interesting passage"?
Maybe he even wrote some commentaries in that book for Jon, to send someone there with message or... go himself?
Barely he left that book to Jon as a touring guide of a nice place where Jon sould go during vacation.
But in the other hand - Aemon seemed not to know about Dany's fate and location before they arrived to Braavos. Then maybe it was just an innocent farewell gift?

[TK-421]

Perhaps to tell him were Sam will be going to find Dany. I don't see Jon ever leaving the Wall.

[Boaz]

Originally Posted by TK-421

I don't see Jon ever leaving the Wall.

You're not looking hard enough. It'll happen, The Other may not come directly to Castle Black. Say The Other passes through the dark and frozen valleys west of the Shadow Tower... Say The Other descends upon "Arya" as Ramsay is trying to rebuild Winterfell... I think Jon goes south to fight. After The Other is defeated, the Wildlings are pacified, and the polar ice caps shrink, then the NW will be disbanded... i.e. the world as they have known it ends. Now Jon will leave the Wall for good. But where will he go?

He'll either retire to the Jade Sea or else good Queen Daenerys will dispense with the treacherous Queensguards and Kingsguards and will replace them with the Night's Watch.

Seriously, I don't know how this ancient Jade Compendium sheds light on Dany. I think it may rather refer to a location of a tremendous amount of obsidian. Slaver's Bay is between Westeros and the Jade Sea, but so is Valyria. If Jon could get his hands on thousands of dragonglass blades and hundreds of thousands of dragonglass arrowheads, then the NW would be in business.

[TK-421]

Well, call me blind but Jon will die at the Wall. I also think he will inherit the Iron Throne so I am somewhat bipolar when it comes to Jon.

The dragonglass is an interesting theory but I am thinking timelines tp the end of the series and I don't think there will be enough time to: a) figure it out, b) decide to send someone to get it, c) find it, and d) bring it back. Although the time is significantly shortened when done on dragonback

[Boaz]

Good job, TK. Don't ever take my posts as gospel. And... time does indeed fly when on dragonback...

[Aegon the Unworthy]

Mayhaps somewhere in this book it discusses ways to fight the Other....or points to signs of the last battle coming, or speaks of the Prince that Was Promised in a way Jon absolutely would recognize, or speaks of Lightbringer and Azor Ahai and absolutely demonstrates Stannis is not the guy, or references a story of a girl attempting to become a maester at Oldtown by pretending to be a boy, ....or....mayhaps....

I really want to know whats in that book....I really do. To me Aemon is the Batman of Westeros. He always has a plan, seems to see more than the others around him....if anyone can figure out the way the world works from a musty old tome its Aemon.

Boaz pointed out an important idea. The Wall and the Nights Watch are two different entities. So when the Horn of Winter is eventually blown, and the Wall comes down....the Nights Watch is still honor bound to defend the realms of men from those things that go bump in the night. I dont know if Jon can keep them in line at that point but as he is the stuff of legends we shall see.

I cant wait for the eventual Cersei chapter when she berates "those blind fools"....for not realizing the Wall has fallen and for sticking to their honor.

[lauren20062001]

Well...the Night's Watch has proven itself just as treacherous as the Kings or Queens guards. So Dany should probably just keep the unsullied.

[Charming Serpent]

Hm, my opinion is that the Jade Compendium perhaps might speak of the Ashaii or the Lands of Shadow. It also might contain things about Dragons, which I have read that Dragons came from the Shadow Lands. And also when the Bran had his vision of the 3 eyed crow he "looked to the east, of the jade sea, into the shadow land where dragons stirred beneath the rising sun" or something like that.

GRRM has reportedly mentioned at a convention to a question of Who knows Jon's parentage. His answer, while cryptic and perhaps a lie: "The Shadow knows." That could mean perhaps he will find some answers about this shadow?

Or, like stated above in the posts; It could be about Azor or Lightbringer.

Unfortunately we have no idea because GRRM has left us no clues as he has with other things like this.

[Boaz]

It has been postulated that Quaithe the Shadowbinder from Asshai (you remember her, she's Dany's enigmatic counselor) is actually Ashara Dayne.

The clues look something like this... Ashara is a Dayne, i.e. she might have silver hair and purple eyes. Eddard never saw Ashara commit suicide, he only got that story verbally. Ashara was an intimate of the royal family, espcially Elia and Rhaegar, i.e. she was in a good position to know what Rhaegar was doing. She escaped KL before it was sacked. She was not too far from the Tower of Joy when Eddard rescued Lya. Quaithe, in shocking contrast to the myriad of easterners that Dany encounters... Drogo, Pyat Pree, Xaro, Daario, Grey Worm, Belwas, and all the Grazdans, speaks in the Common Tongue of Westeros. She is very concerned regarding Dany's personal life when all others only care about her dragons. Quaithe hides her face to disguise her easily recognizable features. Also, Quaithe says that Dany must go east to go west. She must go to Asshai to get to Westeros. Dany need two more riders...and Quaithe has secret knowledge. Ashara sort of sounds like Asshai, the land of Shadow. Mayhaps Quaithe aka Ashara knows something about Jon to tell Dany.