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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
I've been wondering what Melisandre's real motivations are. Power for herself or for her god? It seems odd that she's involving herself in this dispute over a throne.
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She claims to believe that Stannis is fulfilling an old prophecy about being the promised hero that was born of salt and smoke and wields the magic sword lightbringer. At least that is what she said in the first episode when she had him pull the burning sword from the flames on the beach, and in this last episode when talking with Renly (to which Renly replied "salt and smoke, what is he, a ham?"). I won't expand more on the prophecy yet since this is spoiler free and that is all she has said about it on the show so far.