Great stuff. So much to unpack. I’m going to have to listen to all of this again!
@chelsiec3819
15 күн бұрын
I've had such a great time watching this series and just wanted to thank you for your hard work. Such a refreshing, bold, and well thought out theory which touches just about everything throughout the entire series.
@Tgsva352
12 күн бұрын
23:40 The witchwood tree is also present in the memory, sorrow and thorn which has been an inspiration of george.
@lucaschapel7197
12 күн бұрын
I've thoroughly adored this video series! Very refreshing to see someone care as much about the ancient history of ASOIAF as me, it's my favourite part of the lore! I'd love nothing more than for all of this to be brought to the screen one day, even if it's an animated show. My only slight differences in options / txt interpretations is that I believe what you refer to the giants to be the original Green Men, and the black-eyed Great Empire rulers were the ancestors of the Jagos Nai and the Dothraki, as far as I previously worked out. I love Nathan's theories here though. I'm still not 100% convinced on the Andals being Westeros so far back in history, or the Starks originating from Adnal blood. I appreciate that Alyssa Arryn is probably important to the background story, but I'm not quite sold on her being the role that Nathan has described here. That being said, I'm coming around to the idea, particularly with all the times blue eyes and ginger hair are mentioned. I believe the Bloodstone Emporer, The Night's King and Azor Ahai are all the same person, from Ashai, but I'm not yet 100% convinced that Bran The Builder is also the same person. Nathan makes a superb argument for this here though. My understanding his the Brandon of the Bloody Blade was half Greenman (thus described as a "son of Garth the Green") and first man, and the text described as him taking his blade to the COTF is actually referring to him having sex with them, as a "blood sword" as this connotation in ASOIAF. Therefore, in my head cannon, Bran The Builder was part first man, part COTF and part Greenman. I previously believed that the Night's King aka Azor Ahai was from the Great Empire; thus had purple eyes and white hair; whereas the Night's Queen was a Stark. Their babies were sacrificed to The Others, except The Last Hero, who I believe was either a Hightower or a Dayne rescued the baby and brought it to Winterfell, where it grew up to become Bran The Breaker. I believe there's also some "dual sword" symbology mixed in there too, akin to Elric of Melniboné. The moon meteor was transformed into Light Bringer by House Dayne and was given to The Starks as their original Ice sword, used to defeat the Night's King and to send him back into the weirwood net. After the battle, Brandon The Breaker gave the sword back to House Dayne and it became Dawn. Other than those minor differences in interpretations, it's fantastic to see someone else has paid as much attention to detail with all the myths and history. It's honestly my favourite thing in the world! I'm about 95% aligned with Nathan, and his compelling arguments are quickly winning me over regarding the other 5%. I'd love to see Nathan do a podcast with David Lightbringer one day, it'd be incredible to get those two minds together on the same stream. Keep up all the great work!
@TheNeuroticnathan
12 күн бұрын
i love the feedback and i am planning on doing like a reread of the whole series to see if my theories line up with anything ive missed or if it enlightens me to anything that sways me that ive never noticed, can definitely see why george takes so long to write it all
@lucaschapel7197
9 күн бұрын
@@TheNeuroticnathan - I look forward to seeing more from you! :)
@csanadobsitos2169
13 күн бұрын
I have seen a video I couldn’t find at the moment that suggested Lann the clever was a child of the forest. Also here is an idea: all the Others are bound in the Wall except the Night King who is in the Stark crypts. Also also if you want real world parallels go back further the children of the forest are the neanderthals who inhabited Britain when there might actually have been a landbridge, the channel Uberboyo had a great video on the origin of the Irish people which goes through the many waves of conquest they show an astonishing amount of parallels. And look into Proto-Indo European mythology, it's all there, recommend the channel Crecganford.
@TheNeuroticnathan
13 күн бұрын
oh yeah irish mythology is fascinating due to most of it being erased or altered by invaders, notably george did say the others were like the sidhe of irish myth but with ice
@jeffyoung6616
16 күн бұрын
Amazing series, was so excited for this. What is brans role in the story then? Any thoughts on a video taking this info and making projections for WoW?
@TheNeuroticnathan
16 күн бұрын
ive not got round to full projections yet beyond that winds will most likely end with the cataclysm. as far as dream of spring goes im wondering if george will make it clear the true enemy was in fact the faith all along
@irislenore3485
15 күн бұрын
I’m sorry if you’ve already touched upon this but I’m curious where the Reed family fits into all of this. They are theorized to be genetically closer to the CotF.
@pyramidion5911
15 күн бұрын
They are anti-hobbits. They won't show up until the epilogue of dreams of spring where they are going to talk about how glad they are they never got involved. We will then learn from howlands dialog that they had several opportunities to prevent the tragedies that have taken place over the course of the books. Then someone will mention how howlands kids have been gone for some time, but Howland is sure they are doing just fine, he used to go missing all the time at that age, so no search party is sent.
@irislenore3485
15 күн бұрын
Can’t tell if you’re serious but I chuckled anyway. A totally possible outcome really.
@bobshoby
16 күн бұрын
Why are the white walkers attacking the wildlings per this theory?
@TheNeuroticnathan
16 күн бұрын
forgot to add that bit in but the idea is that mance is possibly orchestrating the attacks to trick them to unite as we never actually see the attacks
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