Editing Lightbringer (section)

==Legend==
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[[File:Azor Ahai by Mel Rubi.png|thumb|350px|right|[[Azor Ahai]] forging Lightbringer, by Mel Rubi © Dynamite Entertainment]]
Lightbringer is associated with a great warrior—most commonly called [[Azor Ahai]], but also Hyrkoon the Hero, Yin Tar, Neferion, and Eldric Shadowchaser in other cultures—who led the virtuous in battle when darkness lay over the [[known world]], possibly the [[Long Night]] recalled by [[Westeros]]i.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Bones and Beyond: Yi Ti}}

According to the legend of Azor Ahai, he labored for thirty days and thirty nights to create a hero's sword. However, when he went to temper it in water, the sword broke. Azor Ahai was not one to give up easily, so he started over. The second time he took fifty days and fifty nights to make the sword, even better than the first. To temper it this time, he captured a [[lion]] and drove the sword into its heart, but once more the [[steel]] shattered. The third time, with a heavy heart, for he knew beforehand what he must do to finish the blade, he worked for a hundred days and nights until it was finished. This time, Azor Ahai called for his wife, [[Nissa Nissa]], and asked her to bare her breast. He drove his sword into her breast, her soul combining with the steel of the sword, creating Lightbringer, while her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the [[moon]].{{ref|ACOK|10}}

According to the ''[[Jade Compendium]]'' by [[Colloquo Votar]], Lightbringer was henceforth always as warm as Nissa Nissa had been, and that the blade burned fiery hot during battles.{{ref|ADWD|10}} Lightbringer was able to boil the blood of a monster when Azor Ahai thrust the sword through the belly of the beast. After steam poured from the beast's mouth and its eyes melted, its body burst into flame.{{ref|ADWD|10}} Followers of [[R'hllor]] believe that Azor Ahai used the red sword to end the darkness.{{ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Long Night}}

It has been foretold in books from [[Asshai]] that when the stars bleed and the cold winds blow, Azor Ahai will be reborn as a warrior who draws the burning sword Lightbringer from a fire.{{ref|ACOK|10}}