As lágrimas de Alyssa são uma cachoeira no Vale de Arryn.
Tem o nome de Alyssa Arryn, cuja família foi assassinada na frente dela, mas ela não derramou uma lágrima. Por causa disso, os Deuses condenaram-na a não descansar na morte até que suas lágrimas atinjam o chão do Vale de Arryn; onde os que ela ama são enterrados.
Eu entendo porque a cachoeira nunca alcança o chão, mas como ela nunca alcança o chão?
A cachoeira cai em algum tipo de lago que teria que transbordar para finalmente deixar suas lágrimas fluirem?
O mais provável é que a água que sai da cachoeira se transforme em spray e se desvie no vento antes de atingir o solo. Isso não é incomum na natureza, dependendo do clima exato em que a cachoeira se encontra. Em particular, cachoeiras em climas tropicais que experimentam estações secas podem passar por períodos em que isso acontece. (Um exemplo popular é Angel Falls na Venezuela).
Quando Catelyn se depara com Alyssa's Tears, ela comenta que a névoa da cachoeira está chegando a ela e nenhuma gota chegou ao chão. Então, provavelmente por causa de sua altura, ele se transforma em névoa antes de atingir o chão.
The eastern sky was rose and gold as the sun broke over the Vale of Arryn. Catelyn Stark watched the light spread, her hands resting on the delicate carved stone of the balustrade outside her window. Below her the world turned from black to indigo to green as dawn crept across fields and forests. Pale white mists rose off Alyssa's Tears, where the ghost waters plunged over the shoulder of the*mountain to begin their long tumble down the face of the Giant's Lance. Catelyn could feel the faint touch of spray on her face.
Alyssa Arryn had seen her husband, her brothers, and all her children slain, and yet in life she had never shed a tear. So in death, the gods had decreed that she would know no rest until her weeping watered the black earth of the Vale, where the men she had loved were buried. Alyssa had been dead six thousand years now, and still no drop of the torrent had ever reached the valley floor far below. Catelyn wondered how large a waterfall her own tears would make when she died. "Tell me the rest of it," she said.
A Game of Thrones, Catelyn VII
Meistre Yandel escreve que as águas se transformam em névoa antes de atingirem o solo e, portanto, nenhuma gota regou o chão.
It is worth remarking on the statue that stands in the Eyrie's godswood, a fine likeness of the weeping Alyssa Arryn. Legend holds that six thousand years ago, Alyssa saw her husband, brothers, and sons all slain, and that she never shed a tear. Therefore, the gods punished her by not allowing her to rest until her tears fell upon the Vale below. The great waterfall that tumbles from the Giant's Lance is known as Alyssa's Tears, for the waters pour from such a height that they turn to mist long before they ever reach the ground.
The World of Ice and Fire, The Vale: The Eyrie
