Valyrian steel: who has the swords that can defeat white walkers?

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  • It looks like white walkers are the big threat to Westeros in Game of Thrones Season 8 - and one of the only things that can stop white walkers are Valyrian steel swords. Where are all the Valyrian blades in Westeros, and how might they play into the future of Thrones?
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    0:00 Valyrian Steel
    1:24 Longclaw
    2:41 Heartsbane
    3:50 Ice, Oathkeeper & Widow's Wail
    5:54 Blackfyre & Lady Forlorn
    9:17 Dark Sister
    11:33 Brightroar
    12:25 Red Rain & Nightfall
    14:17 Catspaw's blade
    15:19 Lamentation, Orphan-Maker & Vigilance
    16:00 Misc
    16:55 Conclusion

Komentáře • 6K

  • @AltShiftX
    @AltShiftX  Před 5 lety +4534

    FAQ:
    - Wights (zombies) can be killed with fire, but we've never seen a white walker (icy blokes) killed by fire - only by dragonglass or Valyrian steel
    - Yes, in the real world, longswords are longer than bastard swords. But in ASOIAF, bastard swords are longer than longswords. (Jon VIII, AGOT)
    - Yes, in the tv show, Tywin hires a Volantene smith to reforge Ice. But in the books, it's Tobho Mott. (Tyrion IV, ASOS)
    - Yes, in the tv show, Brienne names Oathkeeper. But in the books, Jaime names Oathkeeper. (Jaime IX, ASOS)
    - No, Arya's sword Needle is not Valyrian steel. It's regular steel forged in Winterfell.
    - No, the Iron Throne isn't Valyrian steel
    - Yes, Dawn is cool as fuck, but it's never referred to as Valyrian steel.
    Yall can stop commenting about this stuff now 😶

    • @runevallesether2855
      @runevallesether2855 Před 5 lety +5

      `
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    • @mphylo2296
      @mphylo2296 Před 5 lety +218

      True. Dawn is made from a meteor

    • @michaelmay9946
      @michaelmay9946 Před 5 lety +66

      Where did this metal come to be because the white walkers know of this metal. When Longclaw conneted with the ice blade he knew what it was. The walkers know Varlarian steel.

    • @Nwakilla187
      @Nwakilla187 Před 5 lety +21

      They can get killed by fire if it's from the dragon.

    • @MsStevil
      @MsStevil Před 5 lety +65

      I thought the dagger now in the possession of Arya was valerian steel.

  • @TheRealSamPreece
    @TheRealSamPreece Před 5 lety +6023

    "Joffrey uses his sword to slay...a book, and then...a pie...and then he dies."
    lmao

    • @Divine_Chareka
      @Divine_Chareka Před 3 lety +116

      Joffrey was indeed a great figher

    • @pugasaurusrex8253
      @pugasaurusrex8253 Před 3 lety +135

      Joffrey, bastard king of the south, slayer of books, birds, and pies, master of little shits

    • @oliviergrenier3574
      @oliviergrenier3574 Před 3 lety +39

      Pugasaurus Rex Protector of his own ego.

    • @batman-gu7pm
      @batman-gu7pm Před 3 lety +14

      Brienne uses her sword to kill men with a stick and a broken sword.

    • @Travis015
      @Travis015 Před 3 lety +2

      😂😂😂😂

  • @petefarx1882
    @petefarx1882 Před 5 lety +9179

    The most powerful weapon against white walkers: unfathomably bad writers.

    • @wdmertens
      @wdmertens Před 4 lety +145

      Pete Farx also plot armour is a worthy opponent

    • @mr.spartankeysersozemacbet5327
      @mr.spartankeysersozemacbet5327 Před 4 lety +128

      I've never even written a story but I'm pretty sure I could've done better

    • @conquestzero7777
      @conquestzero7777 Před 4 lety +52

      @@mr.spartankeysersozemacbet5327
      You could have literally told me that you had decided to put the trebuchets/catapults inside Winterfell and I would have given you every award possible if I could

    • @mr.spartankeysersozemacbet5327
      @mr.spartankeysersozemacbet5327 Před 3 lety +51

      @rishu kr._69 yes, it would be shit. It would be shit better than this shit.

    • @zub41r75
      @zub41r75 Před 3 lety +31

      or small flying girls?

  • @Kriosaivak
    @Kriosaivak Před 3 lety +2660

    Honestly, the idea of Tywin not only reforming Ice into two Lannister swords, but also dying it red so that it can never be remade, is sadder than some deaths to me. The death of a long tradition for House Stark. :(

    • @bigladsubaru3523
      @bigladsubaru3523 Před 2 lety +213

      @fabRic_jAck The only reason I can think of is that he figured he might have to sentence some people to death. He had the whole “the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword” philosophy and Ice is really only used for executions.

    • @Cobalt360Degrees
      @Cobalt360Degrees Před 2 lety +320

      It's sad but it also almost makes me angry.
      Ned being killed wasn't enough, he had to give some additional insult to the Starks after their Warden of the North died. Tywin destroying Ice like that was so vile and petty.

    • @richy320
      @richy320 Před 2 lety +4

      one thing i hated aswell thats a stark artifact to plz an idiot like joffrey

    • @josemiguelgouveia5248
      @josemiguelgouveia5248 Před 2 lety +10

      @fabRic_jAck yea more tragic but at least ice would still be "alive"

    • @DunceCapSyndrome
      @DunceCapSyndrome Před 2 lety +175

      @@Cobalt360Degrees Ice can’t even be used in battle. It was way more practical to break it down to something useable. Dyeing it red was petty af though.

  • @ChakibTsouli
    @ChakibTsouli Před 4 lety +1131

    "the night that never ends"
    It ended withing 60 minutes

    • @utsabdey6306
      @utsabdey6306 Před 3 lety +35

      Even we in real life experience longer night than that😂😂😂

    • @TheHeroRobertELee
      @TheHeroRobertELee Před 3 lety +28

      Long night my ass. Winter not only didnt come. It just passed on by.

    • @joshreeves1036
      @joshreeves1036 Před 3 lety +2

      The long night is what would have happened had the white walkers won and killed everyone in Westeros, it isn’t the battle of winterfell😂

    • @heynowur9146
      @heynowur9146 Před 7 měsíci

      @@TheHeroRobertELeesup robert

    • @human6310
      @human6310 Před měsícem

      ​@@TheHeroRobertELee sup robert

  • @elpeacecarter
    @elpeacecarter Před 5 lety +8717

    Who's here after the battle of winterfell realizing none of this matters

    • @TomVanceMusic
      @TomVanceMusic Před 5 lety +385

      yup, so weird. So much wasted build up imo

    • @alfieburns9019
      @alfieburns9019 Před 5 lety +15

      @@noncanalepricnipale are you really going to complain about the dothrakis running to death even though no one knows a lot about white walkers whites and creatures of that nature smh just be happy you even got this great show and stop complaining just because you want to see an unrealistic shit storm
      TL:DR stop whining you dumb bitch

    • @alfieburns9019
      @alfieburns9019 Před 5 lety +6

      @Joel Ashworth watching them for a bit isn't going to tell you much, most enemy taxtics are learned with espionage have fun trying to sneak in to a white walkers domain to learn how they fight

    • @alfieburns9019
      @alfieburns9019 Před 5 lety +12

      @Joel Ashworth my initial problem with your comment is the fact you complain about the show just stop watching it if you are willing to complain about it online

    • @brawlingnumber
      @brawlingnumber Před 5 lety +294

      @@alfieburns9019 Alfie Burns are you really complaining about some random internet dude's opinion. Stop reading comments if you're willing to complain about them online.

  • @oliverwarren1074
    @oliverwarren1074 Před 4 lety +4632

    Ah, back when we thought the show was still reaching for this level of complexity.

    • @GoogleGebruiker
      @GoogleGebruiker Před 4 lety +45

      True. It was simple af.

    • @neessie1
      @neessie1 Před 4 lety +8

      So much agreed

    • @kingnro1
      @kingnro1 Před 4 lety +8

      It never was though

    • @aloadofbollocks988
      @aloadofbollocks988 Před 3 lety +80

      kingnro1 The first four seasons were fairly true to the source material, and George was working closely with the writers, even writing some scenes himself I believe.

    • @KamKing19
      @KamKing19 Před rokem +3

      The disappointment I feel in the uselessness of everything here is too large.

  • @scorpio594
    @scorpio594 Před rokem +526

    10:00 "This is why we need a Game Of Thrones prequel movie, guys"
    Even better, we got a TV show.

    • @edim108
      @edim108 Před rokem +35

      Even better yet, George is on the writing team, consulting the show writers and personally reviewing the scripts for episodes.
      House of the Dragon is SO GOOD! It's like the first few seasons of Game of Thrones, but with this late episodes high budget from the start.

    • @JohnDoe-tj8rq
      @JohnDoe-tj8rq Před rokem +16

      And I just got spoiled by this YT Video

    • @vaishakhgk9811
      @vaishakhgk9811 Před rokem +2

      There was no spoiler alert 🥲😪😢

    • @potato4481
      @potato4481 Před rokem +12

      ​@@vaishakhgk9811 there was no hotd back then 😢

    • @smartmonke1604
      @smartmonke1604 Před rokem

      And it slapped 😭

  • @SCCH286
    @SCCH286 Před 3 lety +597

    "Certainly XX will have implications later in the show"
    "Possibly YY will tie the present and the past in a very cool way"
    "ZZ can be an important plot point in the final seasons"
    Well, here we are.

    • @T3noir
      @T3noir Před 2 lety +16

      D&D just sorta forgot everything

    • @gunargundarson1626
      @gunargundarson1626 Před rokem +3

      @@T3noir that usually happens when a mouse-runned mafia offers you a deal you can’t refuse.

    • @MaxwellAerialPhotography
      @MaxwellAerialPhotography Před rokem +7

      We were a hopeful lot.

    • @sevenpolar3483
      @sevenpolar3483 Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@gunargundarson1626 I don't think it is even that. I think they were so egotistical and arrogant that they spent their time getting high and throwing parties and slapped the ending together in a weekend while believing themselves to be infallible. It speaks volumes that they have been fired from every project since.

  • @AlexandrZaytsevet
    @AlexandrZaytsevet Před 5 lety +5401

    Randyll Tarly just sorta forgot about his valyrian sword.

    • @Misa.misato
      @Misa.misato Před 4 lety +239

      hahahah That is what I was thinking. Sam steals it and no one seems to notice nor care. Then he just randomly gives it to Jorah. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @neophore8435
      @neophore8435 Před 4 lety +59

      @Misimisato how could they care, Randyll was burned by Daenerys

    • @mr.spartankeysersozemacbet5327
      @mr.spartankeysersozemacbet5327 Před 4 lety +157

      You just kinda forgot that he died... Which I don't blame you for

    • @MrJuanmggg
      @MrJuanmggg Před 3 lety +29

      “KIND of forgot...” You have to say it right or it won’t work

    • @kimaboe
      @kimaboe Před 3 lety +22

      Almost 1000 likes for a post about someone who had his sword stolen, and didn't have time to do much about that before he was rather forcefully dragged off to fight a war and swiftly turned into charcoal.

  • @JeremyEricson
    @JeremyEricson Před 4 lety +2571

    "Widow's Wail is now the only known Valyrian sword in the city of King's Landing, so it surely will come in handy sometime."
    Yeaaahhhhh... no.

    • @sirocco2810
      @sirocco2810 Před 4 lety +173

      I like how every theory or hope the fans had before season 8 had the same response, "yeeeaaahhhh no."

    • @corv3007
      @corv3007 Před 4 lety +50

      @@sirocco2810 wait i have an idea let's just think of season 8 as non canon fan fiction

    • @Blackhawk211
      @Blackhawk211 Před 4 lety +56

      @@corv3007 the whole show is fan fic. the books are the main event

    • @corv3007
      @corv3007 Před 4 lety +8

      @@Blackhawk211 Ok i wouldn't go that far

    • @generalgrievous92
      @generalgrievous92 Před 4 lety +15

      Kristen Hallingu It's true though

  • @aurelia8028
    @aurelia8028 Před 2 lety +186

    Man the most impressive thing about the GoT series is just how many characters there are and how George manages to write little details about all of them to make them stand out and be their own person. Like with the smith who melted down Ice. I doubt any other author would've bothered giving him a name.

  • @Arcian
    @Arcian Před rokem +39

    9:58 "This is why we need a Game of Thrones prequel movie, guys."
    HBO: "We'll do you one better."

    • @dirtybirds423
      @dirtybirds423 Před rokem +3

      Lmaoo literally came here just for this comment

  • @70BTHS
    @70BTHS Před 5 lety +821

    So in short, every time Alt Shift says something like "It's not clear how (insert sword) will tie into the show" just insert the Narrator saying " *it won't* "

    • @cloroxusthestainlessone4324
      @cloroxusthestainlessone4324 Před 4 lety +41

      Are your expectations subverted?

    • @muss2055
      @muss2055 Před 4 lety +62

      @@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 yes, i expected something good but i got season 8.

    • @70BTHS
      @70BTHS Před 4 lety +24

      @@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 Yes! I expected the series finally couldn't let me down anymore than episode 5 already did, EXPECTATIONS SUBVERTED

  • @Zain12131
    @Zain12131 Před 7 lety +4591

    You are the definition of quality over quantity. Bravo sir.

    • @shaheerb.a.3528
      @shaheerb.a.3528 Před 7 lety +87

      The Kurzgesagt of the GOT Lore

    • @Zain12131
      @Zain12131 Před 7 lety +15

      no idea what that is but amen to that brother.

    • @friedkeenan
      @friedkeenan Před 7 lety +10

      Also Lemmino

    • @killadomain
      @killadomain Před 7 lety +8

      youtube the word kurzgesgat or in a nutshell.An amazing youtube channel as well hence Shaheer's refrence.

    • @VaoDxArchAngel
      @VaoDxArchAngel Před 7 lety +6

      Bravos ir

  • @awaywiththefaeries9464
    @awaywiththefaeries9464 Před 3 lety +46

    The Night King probably walked into Westeros thinking, if I die, at least it’ll be memorable and a satisfying conclusion to years of waiting and countless fan theories.

  • @pratheekjbhat2134
    @pratheekjbhat2134 Před 4 lety +253

    Heartsbane,
    Lady Forlorn
    Longclaw
    Nightfall
    Oathkeeper
    Red Rain
    Widow's Wail
    arakh ( owned by Caggo)
    Ice
    Blackfyre
    Brightroar
    Dark Sister
    Lamentation
    Orphan-Maker ( the ancestral sword of House Roxton)
    Truth
    Vigilance ( the ancestral sword of House Hightower )

    • @5280PolotheKid
      @5280PolotheKid Před 4 lety +1

      Who's truth ?

    • @corv3007
      @corv3007 Před 4 lety +2

      5280z007 Timett son of Timett

    • @5280PolotheKid
      @5280PolotheKid Před 4 lety

      @@corv3007 a hilltribesmen has valyrion steel?

    • @TheV8Pumpkin
      @TheV8Pumpkin Před 4 lety +2

      My favorite isn't even a valerian sword, Dawn 😍

    • @corv3007
      @corv3007 Před 4 lety +3

      Zibby H mabye its made of alien valiryan steel

  • @arnoldherm1594
    @arnoldherm1594 Před 5 lety +1325

    A whole video about swords, but turned out to be a knife

    • @Priyo866
      @Priyo866 Před 4 lety +33

      Turns out that people are too dumb to realize that dagger was also Valyrian steel.

    • @maarten9272
      @maarten9272 Před 4 lety +51

      @@Priyo866 A FUCKING DAGGER

    • @eff943
      @eff943 Před 3 lety +18

      you know, the worst thing is... that could've actually been an amazing ironic twist...a subverting our expectations in a GOOD way...but the way it was actually done by D & D? just ..LOL😂
      not just that but the whole episode (the whole season really) was so damn rushed, all plot logic and lore just tossed out the window like Bran in s1 (and like the whitewalkers he doesn't do shit the whole fight despite being the 3 eyed raven who can see everything..), now GoT has gotta be right up there for a nomination for the biggest wasted potential in TV history...

    • @w7n424
      @w7n424 Před 3 lety +25

      @@maarten9272 I’m not angry a dagger killed him I’m just angry how the dagger killed him

    • @Matt_10203
      @Matt_10203 Před 2 lety +2

      @@w7n424 yeah lol it just plunges straight through the NKs armour like it's nothing.

  • @phunkym8
    @phunkym8 Před 5 lety +1186

    man these videos should have aged well but the writing of season 8 shits on everything. every theory you made a video about makes so much more sense than what we got in the show

    • @brosephiroth
      @brosephiroth Před 4 lety +12

      its almost as if complex lore was planned by the author to distract us

    • @infantjones
      @infantjones Před 4 lety +12

      the writing of season 7 and 8, rather

    • @mattstryker2886
      @mattstryker2886 Před 4 lety +15

      They could have done 10 seasons too, it's so sad to see a great show rushed. They are amazing writers but idk what happened and why it got so rushed making it bad

    • @alexanderward5286
      @alexanderward5286 Před 4 lety +17

      We still have the following books

    • @Alphine-iq9dx
      @Alphine-iq9dx Před 3 lety +2

      I’m telling you the whole prince who was promised prophecy thing is gonna be the base for the next sequel. The company is gonna squeeze this for all its money

  • @bonky8043
    @bonky8043 Před 3 lety +87

    Its kinda weird how Dany kept her ~8000 unsullied for so long. Im sure that more of them died during the battles, considering the final episode where she has her entire army there, it looks quite sustained in numbers even though many died.
    Also, in the second last episode, it was made clear that the lannisters had 20 000 golden company soldiers yet the unsullied looked like they had more than them...

    • @crazydauzy8887
      @crazydauzy8887 Před rokem +13

      Writer wasted a lot of potential and they just stopped caring so now i am watching lore videos until next book drops so I can binge watch whole got books

    • @AlchemistOfHecate
      @AlchemistOfHecate Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@crazydauzy8887binge-read* lol

  • @GoldEzmoreth
    @GoldEzmoreth Před 4 měsíci +6

    I love how optimistic this video is about how the 8th season was gonna go

  • @iamakashetty
    @iamakashetty Před 5 lety +2173

    Or else they could ask bran stark for how they made valerian steel since he can see every thing

    • @bejkxfly1749
      @bejkxfly1749 Před 5 lety +185

      Damn that's right

    • @samdherring
      @samdherring Před 5 lety +117

      A little late to be trying to fold steel over and over many 100 times per blade now though

    • @iamakashetty
      @iamakashetty Před 5 lety +29

      @@samdherring yaa right cause winter is here already and they have dragon glass so no worries

    • @MrAwawe
      @MrAwawe Před 5 lety +80

      @@samdherring I don't think the Damascus pattern actually comes from folding in the cannon. It remains on the metal after being melted down which suggests the structure forms on its own as it solidifies.

    • @ttly1384
      @ttly1384 Před 5 lety +47

      @@MrAwawe Right, and it's said that Valyrian steel is made with magic and spells so there's that

  • @shatondrayauch8606
    @shatondrayauch8606 Před 5 lety +666

    "Because he's a nasty little shit" - best description of Joffrey ever. Succinct. Descriptive. Accurate.

  • @Eric-yc7po
    @Eric-yc7po Před 3 lety +22

    incredible how a couple fans can figure out better ways to connect lore together in an elaborate and convincing way better than writers paid millions of dollars.

  • @brandondefreitas6691
    @brandondefreitas6691 Před rokem +11

    "This is why we need a Targaryen prequel movie"
    -Alt Shift X predicting house of the dragon 5 years before it's release

  • @logancraig8034
    @logancraig8034 Před 5 lety +562

    Joffrey uses Widow’s wail to slay a book and a pie... and then he dies. 😂😂😂

  • @chapterfourlancelot6585
    @chapterfourlancelot6585 Před 5 lety +802

    Jon Snow - LongClaw
    Jaime Lannister - Widow's Wail
    Brienne of Tarth - Oathkeeper
    Samwell Tarly - Heartsbane
    Arya Stark - Catspaw Dagger

    • @RFABProductions
      @RFABProductions Před 5 lety +150

      "lots of cunts"

    • @URmomsleftBREAST
      @URmomsleftBREAST Před 5 lety +22

      No proof that Jaime has widow’s wail.

    • @katsu_papi
      @katsu_papi Před 5 lety +144

      @@URmomsleftBREAST actually there is, Olenna Tyrell noticed Jaime wielding it on the sacking of the High Garden...she also mentioned Joffrey being a "real cunt" for naming the sword "Widow's Wail"..look it up.

    • @j.chaitlal9421
      @j.chaitlal9421 Před 5 lety +11

      A dagger is not a sword .

    • @meethindocha1824
      @meethindocha1824 Před 5 lety +38

      Euron greyjoy-valerian armour

  • @shivanithapliyal7518
    @shivanithapliyal7518 Před rokem +23

    Interesting how Robert Baratheon was so accomplished even without a Valyrian steel - war hammer was a scary weapon to yield

    • @alansolis5709
      @alansolis5709 Před 8 měsíci +8

      cutting properties don't matter if you can smash the shit outta someone

    • @russman3787
      @russman3787 Před 3 měsíci

      @@alansolis5709 Nor does the reduced weight of valyrian steel. In fact, a valyrian warhammer might be less effective than a normal steel one.

  • @elocc9570
    @elocc9570 Před rokem +27

    "This is why we need a GoT prequel." Well, look at us now. 😂

  • @bplup6419
    @bplup6419 Před 6 lety +2003

    "Randyll Tarly will want the sword back."
    Eh not so much anymore

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 Před 6 lety +85

      Yep. turns out the writers fucking forgot or something. lmao

    • @dakotaskye1414
      @dakotaskye1414 Před 6 lety +38

      Randyll Tarly is dead with his other son, samwell can't swing a sword.So it will go to somebody else

    • @drgroove9813
      @drgroove9813 Před 6 lety +50

      Him and dickon got grilled

    • @jeraldsm4059
      @jeraldsm4059 Před 6 lety +11

      Randyll and Dickon Tarly got roasted by drogon.

    • @alanj3440
      @alanj3440 Před 5 lety +16

      The books and the tv show are different.

  • @jaqenhigar183
    @jaqenhigar183 Před 5 lety +204

    "Randall will want his sword back..."
    Danny: "Hold my beer..."

    • @grzxcv98
      @grzxcv98 Před 4 lety +10

      Starbucks coffee actually

    • @grzxcv98
      @grzxcv98 Před 4 lety +7

      You mean hold my Starbucks coffee.

  • @barttorbert5031
    @barttorbert5031 Před 2 lety +115

    My take on Valyrian steel -- First start with dragonglass (obsidian) being the only other material that can kill a White Walker. Maybe glass made with fire is the magical opposite of glass made from cold. The latter being ice, which is what the White Wallker's blades are made of. Regular steel won't kill a White Walker, but Valyrian steel can. I have to believe then that Valyrian steel is an amalgam of steel and dragonglass. How could this be achieved and why could only ancient Valyria pull this off?
    I have found examples of where people have tried to amalgamate obsidian and iron. It does not work to create uniform product. The result is iron mixed with crystals of some really strange minerals.
    But what if for the purpose of the story, the Valyrians were able to achieve an amalgamation, but it took a really hot fire to pull it off. The technology of the GOT era would limit the heat sources for a blacksmith to wood, charcoal, and coal. But the Valyrians had another heat source that only they had access to, that being dragon fire. From what is said of the destructive force of dragon fire in the books, it is very, very hot.
    So if dragon fire is the ultimate secret of how Valyrian steel is made, then only the ancient Valyrians had access to it and when Valyria was destroyed, the secret was lost and the dragons eventually died off (at least in the more western part of the known world) thus no more new Valyrian steel.

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance Před 2 lety +7

      If this was so surely one of the pre-Dance Targaeryen kings would have had the idea to try this I think.
      I think there was for sure some magickery shenanigans employed.

    • @barttorbert5031
      @barttorbert5031 Před 2 lety +10

      @@Ballin4Vengeance I think you are correct. Modern attempts to merge metal with obsidian never work. You get a mass that is part one and part the other. I am comfortable with the "magic required" idea because at the point of time where Game of Thrones is set, magic has been lost and is just then reviving. So before this, making Valyrian steel was not possible.

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance Před 2 lety +3

      @@barttorbert5031 I have a theory that it can have something to do with where or how the iron is mined/acquired. Maybe valyrian iron having special characteristics due to forming in a volcanic enviroment, which would explain us having no such thing available to the current world(we don’t know of an active volcano in the known world). It could also be the extreme case that the ore was taken in form of molten lava right from one of the Fires, but that’s a stretch even for ASoIAF.

  • @elijahhannah249
    @elijahhannah249 Před rokem +33

    Wonder what the sword “Dawn” does to white walkers 🤔. It’s not Valyrian steel but made out of a “fallen star”

  • @sabhinandhkumar
    @sabhinandhkumar Před 6 lety +395

    "Joffrey uses his sword to slay a book..... and then a pie....and then he dies"
    I spat out coffee all over my laptop.... damn you guys ...XD XD XD

    • @22steve5150
      @22steve5150 Před 5 lety +18

      well the one time we saw him try to fight with a regular steel sword, Arya kicked his little ass.

    • @rianafsanzani5744
      @rianafsanzani5744 Před 5 lety

      Haha

  • @jaym.g.5789
    @jaym.g.5789 Před 5 lety +216

    Ice = Widow's (Lyanna) Wail + Oathkeeper (promise me Ned). Joffrey thought he was being his typical clever sadistic self when he named it, but it turned out fitting after Jamie/Brianne names Oathkeeper

  • @Serenade2461
    @Serenade2461 Před 3 lety +45

    Honestly, these videos are making me really excited for Winds of Winter. Especially since George CLAIMS he will finally be done writing it next year (2021) thanks to literally being holed up in a cabin all year.

  • @Carnnag3
    @Carnnag3 Před rokem +8

    9:58 your wishes were fulfilled

  • @honestylowkeye1171
    @honestylowkeye1171 Před 7 lety +1666

    "Bloodraven really needs his own video"... well?

    • @Rafaelzation
      @Rafaelzation Před 7 lety +1

      João Oakenspeare nah. R.I.P

    • @lovebattleforge
      @lovebattleforge Před 7 lety +1

      They will just steal their own video!! :D

    • @grahamwade5932
      @grahamwade5932 Před 7 lety +11

      Just finished the Dunk and Egg novellas and would love the lowdown on Bloodraven, at least one that leans heavily on his book version as the show version doesn't really touch on his Bloodraven history or appearance

    • @edithrigney5078
      @edithrigney5078 Před 6 lety

      I read them too & loved them

    • @highpriestoftheahricult8144
      @highpriestoftheahricult8144 Před 6 lety

      What a Boss!

  • @Twiggyay
    @Twiggyay Před 5 lety +508

    ... Turned out the Night king and the long night wasn't such a threat after all.

    • @grizzdesu9732
      @grizzdesu9732 Před 5 lety +27

      thank goodness everyone lived including the dothraki

    • @hadison6838
      @hadison6838 Před 3 lety +18

      I mean, I literally said "I've been waiting for years just for THIS???"... I've never been so disappointed in my life before.

    • @josemexable
      @josemexable Před 2 lety +5

      @@hadison6838 oh I forgot even the godamn dorthraki survived 😂😂 what the hell man

    • @howyadoinmate1868
      @howyadoinmate1868 Před 2 lety +2

      Of course the drunk pumpkin lady is the final boss of all time

    • @happyzone1000
      @happyzone1000 Před 2 lety

      @fabRic_jAck stop using your computer and phone if you care about climate change. Otherwise shut your mouth 😂

  • @eu4um
    @eu4um Před rokem +9

    9:59 "This is why we need a GoT Prequel"
    WELL HERE WE ARE

  • @jlshel42
    @jlshel42 Před 2 lety +43

    2 small theories after relistening to this years later:
    1) Those daggers that Euron brought could be fake. With Valyrian steel being legendary and having a specific look, gotta think some people over the centuries would make lookalikes for profit. so Euron picked some up wholesale or looted them and found their true value.
    2) Just thinking the renaming of swords could happen if a duel ended and the winner claimed the Val steel and renamed it. Or when Andal and First Men intermarried, bringing in an ancestral blade from one family and renaming it could have been a way to bind the families.

  • @devilishgenius
    @devilishgenius Před 6 lety +544

    damn. three eyed raven really got around.

    • @titlo3646
      @titlo3646 Před 6 lety

      Rahul Seoparsan are we talking about bran or tree wizard guy, cuz if it's bran. Well... FUCK BRAN FOR KILLING HODOR

    • @chrismorse3862
      @chrismorse3862 Před 6 lety +1

      +Nymeria73 didn't seem too fucked up until Bran traveled to the time in the past while the current Hodor was being killed

    • @colecotten26
      @colecotten26 Před 5 lety +1

      Adaneth bran actually fxcked Hodor twice. First time he made him mental then got him killed. Fxck Bran

  • @arenkai
    @arenkai Před 3 lety +10

    It would be interesting to see Jorah's reaction to Jon wielding longclaw ?
    GoT writers: "Ain't anybody got time for that ?"

    • @joshreeves1036
      @joshreeves1036 Před 3 lety

      Well he did react to it in season 7, he just wasn’t bothered that Jon had it, since he dishonoured his family and gave up his position.

  • @alicedeligny9240
    @alicedeligny9240 Před rokem +61

    I wonder if the Dayne's sword Dawn can kill Walkers. It was made from a meteorite, so maybe it has the "fire" in it to kill an Other.

    • @Faretheewell608
      @Faretheewell608 Před 8 měsíci

      Dawn is Lightbringer

    • @GeekMasterGM
      @GeekMasterGM Před 8 měsíci

      ​@Faretheewell608 lightbringer is made from valyrian steel right? And Dawn from a comet

    • @Faretheewell608
      @Faretheewell608 Před 8 měsíci

      @@GeekMasterGM we have not been told enough about the fabled sword that was tempered in a woman's blood. You have Dawn's history correct. The comet that heralded all the magic has the same core as Dawn. Dawn can end the magic/sorcery. Anyway, that is my theory, formed after reading the first book.

  • @greentop1239
    @greentop1239 Před 5 lety +385

    "...and finally became a tree-wizard-man."
    What a sentence.

    • @watchthe1369
      @watchthe1369 Před 5 lety +10

      DRUID, The word he was looking for was Druid......

    • @mdegauss
      @mdegauss Před 5 lety

      So is the guy from zelda secretly one?..... "its dangerous to go alone"

  • @CytotoxicTrev
    @CytotoxicTrev Před 6 lety +377

    It turns out Jorah's reaction to seeing Jon with Longclaw is extremely mild-mannered and sympathetic.

    • @22steve5150
      @22steve5150 Před 5 lety +77

      I think he was just happy knowing that John avenged his father's murder using Longclaw and that the sword is in possession of the king in the north, who Jorah can probably tell right away is an abnormally good and moral man for someone in such a seat of power.

    • @hiphopaddict007
      @hiphopaddict007 Před 5 lety +59

      @@22steve5150 Exactly. Add that to the fact that Jon Snow (Targaryen) immediately attempted to return Long Claw to Jorah when he met him in Season 7. I think in Jorah's eyes this act of kindness only furthered his resolve that the sword was in the right hands.

    • @nickdentoom1173
      @nickdentoom1173 Před 5 lety +19

      Its also because of Jorah's actions in the past that he feels he doesn't deserve the sword, but aside from that: If Jon offers it to Jorah, he also has to offer it to Lyanna Mormont.

  • @bigbean1627
    @bigbean1627 Před rokem +6

    "This is why we need a game of thrones prequel movie guys"
    That aged like fine wine

  • @maxroose4517
    @maxroose4517 Před rokem +8

    "This is why we need a Game of Thrones sequel guys"
    So happy House of the Dragon has been such a success. Hope they do that scene justice.

  • @smolmoonpearl6660
    @smolmoonpearl6660 Před 6 lety +75

    "Joffrey, meanwhile, uses his Valerian sword to slay a book, then a pie, then he dies"
    I love it.

  • @Image-vj3jz
    @Image-vj3jz Před 5 lety +718

    You see those Dothraki from Essos? They've got curved sword. Curved. Swords.

    • @michaelbakker2339
      @michaelbakker2339 Před 5 lety +45

      I couldn't help but think the exact same thing when he mentioned it. I even heard it in the guard's voice

    • @CoffeeWyrm
      @CoffeeWyrm Před 5 lety +28

      @Ben Jefferson Apparently, GRRM intended the arakh's to be more like talwars or shamshirs. Which is a more appropriate weapon for horse-back.

    • @pattmcruss4604
      @pattmcruss4604 Před 5 lety +54

      Image 13137 you have committed crimes against Westeros and her people. What do you say in your defense?

    • @mrhuntalot123
      @mrhuntalot123 Před 5 lety +16

      Big CURVED penises

    • @gabriel300010
      @gabriel300010 Před 5 lety +18

      @@pattmcruss4604 it was just a sweetroll

  • @0_cunha
    @0_cunha Před 10 měsíci +4

    After 6 years of this video we have a prequel serie of GOT and we finally could see daemon killing Aemond above the eye of god❤

  • @johnr797
    @johnr797 Před rokem +2

    "Randyll will want his sword back."
    Randyll kind of forgot about his house's ancestral blade.

  • @albertroca971
    @albertroca971 Před 5 lety +453

    It's so sad to hear all this stuff now, at the light of season 8... everything you people say is far, far more interesting, promising and in one word... cool, than anything that happened.

    • @mia414
      @mia414 Před 3 lety

      @Salmon we never gonna get DoS

  • @Buttsaggington55
    @Buttsaggington55 Před 6 lety +838

    You could have made up 100% of everything and I wouldn't have known

    • @jonfindlay7838
      @jonfindlay7838 Před 6 lety +73

      You could be making that up and we wouldn't know.

    • @khedron
      @khedron Před 6 lety +12

      impactofredemption *citation needed

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 Před 6 lety

      +Jon Findlay, so you just believe that of whom you're the biggest fanboy? That's what it seems to me.

    • @calebbeasley77
      @calebbeasley77 Před 6 lety

      Buttsaggington55 lmao

    • @redlightg27
      @redlightg27 Před 6 lety

      Buttsaggington55 hahahaha real or not it's still useless information

  • @SIX-000H-THR33
    @SIX-000H-THR33 Před rokem +8

    The part you talked about Daemon and Darksister....Whelp I know what's gonna happen in the next couple seasons of HOTD

  • @gabriel__opazo
    @gabriel__opazo Před rokem +3

    9:58 "That's why we need a GoT prequel movie"
    Years later, your wish has been granted, and far better than expected.

  • @nonpervenuto7464
    @nonpervenuto7464 Před 4 lety +162

    "the sword will play a big role in jon's fight against he white walkers"
    *season 8 happens*
    It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony

  • @carebear91
    @carebear91 Před 5 lety +205

    How fitting, little finger DID die by that dagger. :)

    • @w00tw00t4l00t
      @w00tw00t4l00t Před 5 lety +20

      In the dogshit that HBO is trying to pass off as an adaptation of ASOIAF.

    • @chekkat8956
      @chekkat8956 Před 3 lety

      Is it me OR in da thumbnail on da right the sword look like Ghidorha;-;.

    • @reymax9053
      @reymax9053 Před 2 lety

      @@chekkat8956 that’s oathkeeper and it doesn’t look like gidorah any more than any other dragon imo

  • @sushankghimire773
    @sushankghimire773 Před rokem +4

    OK so I was listening to this in the background as he was speaking about Daemon and one eyed Aemond and I really wish I could roll back time because holy shit thats yet to happen in House of the Dragon (the prequel he wishes that existed...)

  • @stephenc.4319
    @stephenc.4319 Před 2 lety +9

    The Valyrian daggers are only thrown about and given away lightly by Euron. There's few if any other characters in Westeros who would be giving away such valuable blades like it was nothing. So that's why Tywin couldn't just buy up daggers to make a Valyrian sword. And they're also probably also scarce, apart from Euron's and LIttlefinger's daggers, I don't think any others are mentioned anywhere.

  • @theesteviefranchise458
    @theesteviefranchise458 Před 7 lety +65

    As always...Great work, Shift!! There was much more than I would've expected for a relatively simple topic. Now, only 180 more swords for you to research then your work on Valyrian swords will be complete.

    • @palemoonlight96
      @palemoonlight96 Před 7 lety +3

      Thee Stevie Franchise haha ikr he works so hard on always finding so much cool info, he'd definitely be a maester in citadel if he lived in the world of got 😍

  • @johnflanigan4681
    @johnflanigan4681 Před 5 lety +81

    Discovering your channel only after season eight makes me just so mad

  • @jeannietraverso903
    @jeannietraverso903 Před 4 lety +6

    "Half a song and half a scream," ah yes, I too am familiar with heavy metal.

  • @isabellabuchheit2186
    @isabellabuchheit2186 Před 2 lety +2

    You can hear to the hope in his voice for strong play to come. Such sweet tragedy

  • @DzinkyDzink
    @DzinkyDzink Před 7 lety +140

    C'mon ASX! Needle is no less storied blade:
    1. It was a token gift forged for a little girl on the order of her bastard brother and was never really meant to kill anyone.
    2. It made the little girl a bloody killer at an age of 9 which beats Sandor by 3 years and he was a healthy boy.
    3. It became the hope for a little scared child and helped her to survive the streets of one of the shitiest cities in the Westeros.
    4. Bloody Others know what kind of(or rather whose) teeth Polliver used to pick with it.
    5. It was reunited with it's rightful master by a twist of fate consumating the union with the blood of the offendors like a true balde should.
    6. It is a tool and a symbol of Arya's vengeance which she refuses to discard even at the behest of the Kindly Man.
    7. It's going to bloody kill some more people before the story ends.

    • @scigrrl
      @scigrrl Před 7 lety +4

      Nick Dzink I do hope she outgrows it though :D

    • @csabagalambos1461
      @csabagalambos1461 Před 7 lety +1

      No chance. (Go watch that video ;))

    • @Hobodeluxe960
      @Hobodeluxe960 Před 7 lety +5

      it was her steadfast link to her family that she couldn't give up. the one thing that she couldn't do was throw it in the water. if not for that token of her self she might have been lost to the Many Faced God. Also she is sporting Cat's Paw the dagger in the new pics. It was last thought to be in the possession of Peter Baelish.

    • @costan7470
      @costan7470 Před 6 lety +3

      Hobodeluxe960 it will be Arya the one who kills Littlefinger and takes his knife 👊

    • @Hobodeluxe960
      @Hobodeluxe960 Před 6 lety +1

      most likely yes.

  • @nookingo
    @nookingo Před 6 lety +302

    Dude, your pronunciation, accent and pause is so freaking good... Can you narrate my life?!?!

    • @Liofa73
      @Liofa73 Před 5 lety +3

      Ricardo Garcia Aburto --- No, his pronunciation and enunciation is fucking terrible, an Australian trying his hardest to sound English and failing. He's pronouncing everything in his own manner, nothing like the show.

    • @Vistresian1941
      @Vistresian1941 Před 5 lety +19

      "nothing like the show"
      Why does it have to be like the show..?
      Fucking picky, aren't you?

    • @arthur2953
      @arthur2953 Před 5 lety +1

      "He was about to walk into a wall."
      "Oh, thanks dude."

    • @villanellepollastri8894
      @villanellepollastri8894 Před 5 lety +3

      @@Liofa73 he just sounds like an Aussie... You idiot.

    • @darrenchan8100
      @darrenchan8100 Před 5 lety +1

      Liofa we get it; ur english

  • @saikatmaiti8291
    @saikatmaiti8291 Před rokem +3

    “This is why we need a Game of Thrones prequel movie guys.”
    Well Well Well !!

  • @paraboy3521
    @paraboy3521 Před rokem +3

    You were right about prequel and that too about the fight of daemon vs aemond. That's gonna be insane, and you predicted it. Bravo

  • @OuterRimPride
    @OuterRimPride Před 7 lety +418

    I want to see Lyanna Mormont just scold the shit out of Jorah when they meet.

    • @amberfillmore3517
      @amberfillmore3517 Před 7 lety +17

      Ha Ha Ha. Right? lol.

    • @busterwarren5
      @busterwarren5 Před 6 lety

      lol yes

    • @diReLoCke
      @diReLoCke Před 6 lety +6

      it's more likely that she'll simply ask to be allowed to kill him. She is a northerner to the bone and he dishonored their family not only by slaving but then again by running. Also, his presence in westeros could call her rule into question.

    • @KriegsMeister27
      @KriegsMeister27 Před 6 lety +2

      I think we're gonna see her break her stoic lady persona for a moment and exclaim something along the lines of "Uncle Jorah!!" and maybe run up to hug him, then remember why he left and then scold/punish him.

    • @girhen
      @girhen Před 6 lety +3

      Season 7 spoilers! If you haven't seen the episode as of 8/20, don't read.
      She's...10? Jorah has been gone since at least 7 seasons (years), and was in prison before that. I doubt she's ever seen him, even as an infant. She won't recognize him, though his honor may bind him to apologize.
      Now that there's evidence of walkers and how powerful they are, a skilled swordsman will be defended by Jon as necessary. If they're calling for an ending of human combat until the walkers are killed...he's probably safe. He was probably safe since the woman with dragons is his closest friend anyway.

  • @twstf8905
    @twstf8905 Před 5 lety +125

    Arya mentions the sword, "Darksister," to Tywin, when she's his cup bearer at Harrenhall.

    • @mayank5341
      @mayank5341 Před 5 lety +1

      In the show or the books?

    • @kellyquintero9454
      @kellyquintero9454 Před 5 lety +3

      Mayank fifteen Show

    • @RajeshMoturu
      @RajeshMoturu Před 5 lety +2

      huh!? such a keen observer!

    • @Blackhawk211
      @Blackhawk211 Před 4 lety +8

      @@mayank5341 if you read the books then you'll know its impossible for the answer to have been books. Arya never met twyin in the books, It was Roose Bolton at Harrenhal

  • @thesaltyelephant7980
    @thesaltyelephant7980 Před 2 lety

    Each time I come back to your videos I think I love them even more than the last time

  • @vumo2422
    @vumo2422 Před rokem +18

    Two thing to say here:
    1. I think Valyrian steel is made by merging regular steel with a dragon lords blood or by using steel in some other form of blood magic
    2. Perhaps Dawn (the sword of house Dayne) could kill a White Walker as it is known to have similar properties to Valyrian steel. Maybe Valyrian steel comes from space just like the metal Dawn is made of.

  • @Zillionare
    @Zillionare Před 7 lety +67

    Not only are you an entertaining dude making interesting videos, I also respect you for not using unnecessary capital letters in the titles.

    • @John-ex4eq
      @John-ex4eq Před 7 lety

      Skedetin DaJonne indeed

    • @mrpalaces
      @mrpalaces Před 7 lety +7

      Valyrian Steel ALL THE SECRETS (GONE SEXUAL)

    • @yapzerkon
      @yapzerkon Před 7 lety

      n how epic u said.... cuz he's a nasty little shit

  • @jackmeriustacktheritrix
    @jackmeriustacktheritrix Před 5 lety +233

    Jon Snow: I have your sword, here take it
    Jorah: Naw mate, i'm good. You're the man, you keep it.
    Jon Snow: aww thanks man
    That's basically what happened

    • @HM4Hill
      @HM4Hill Před 5 lety +17

      And then Sam gave Jorah a Valeryian sword more fitting for his size

    • @JoelJoestar13
      @JoelJoestar13 Před 5 lety +1

      The three eyed raven cannot see things that happened in essos which ia where valarya is because it's out of his scope.

  • @drewa290
    @drewa290 Před 3 lety +2

    This guy gave too much thought into something that the writers gave no thought to. Great video I just wish the writers would’ve watched this before season 8

  • @MarauderM00gi
    @MarauderM00gi Před 7 lety +11

    "..on raids with Red Rain in the reach"
    I like that sentence.

  • @samatarahmed3706
    @samatarahmed3706 Před 7 lety +827

    "Alt Shift X just uploaded a video" is the only thing that makes me click this fast

  • @shawnsmith6583
    @shawnsmith6583 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Crazy how we’ve gotten HOTD now

  • @snazzy_pickle4562
    @snazzy_pickle4562 Před rokem +6

    damn just accidentally spoiled some future house of the dragon shit😭

  • @DrWoodyII
    @DrWoodyII Před 6 lety +55

    What a tangled web Martin did weave.

  • @florianbloch2295
    @florianbloch2295 Před 6 lety +70

    There is a sword that you missed. It is called Poison and belongs to "House Vunatis". A dynasty of pirates on the island of Bloodstone in the Stepstones. They stole it in ancient times from a merchant or something if I remember correctly.

  • @KulturanCov
    @KulturanCov Před rokem +4

    Turns out this whole White Walker thing was blown way out of proportion! The issue was resolved within an hour, with one sneak attack by Arya sneakily screaming while jumping at Mr. smirk face Night King, and doing the good old switcheroo.

  • @aidengiles384
    @aidengiles384 Před rokem +4

    9:50 Hey I was rooting for that guy, damn

  • @danfelbm
    @danfelbm Před 6 lety +170

    Can you please make History videos using this kind of detailed explanation? ;P

    • @fizahjasni7078
      @fizahjasni7078 Před 6 lety

      Daniel Felipe I second that idea. Do videos for the historical events in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli =)

  • @DaSkarekrow
    @DaSkarekrow Před 5 lety +35

    hahaha Twenty seconds in.....He says "These guys are a problem"
    Season 8 Episode 3 would like a word lol (will still finish the video, love the insights on your videos)

  • @AlexGelsomino
    @AlexGelsomino Před rokem +2

    "This is why we need a Targaryen prequel."
    BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU

  • @Swelephant_
    @Swelephant_ Před rokem +1

    I love how badly every time he says “…it will be interesting to see how that plays out” aged

  • @nickroschkov2649
    @nickroschkov2649 Před 5 lety +82

    After watching ep.3 of season 8 all this theoretikal end‘s seem better than the ending of today‘s episode

  • @Buenomars
    @Buenomars Před 7 lety +592

    Correct me if I am wrong but in the show, Jaime didn't name the sword; he let Brienne name it and she chose "Oathkeeper." I don't know about the books though.

  • @jasonalvarez6590
    @jasonalvarez6590 Před 4 lety +5

    Bro the lore is soo crazy

  • @nakulkhambhati4689
    @nakulkhambhati4689 Před rokem +3

    I think you should start updating the descriptions with "spoilers for HOTD ahead"

  • @jackdalton2538
    @jackdalton2538 Před 6 lety +1287

    Can't bran just see back in time to when valerian was still making the steal and learn how to make it?

    • @MrGollum1996
      @MrGollum1996 Před 6 lety +214

      Jack Dalton technically yes, but the show- producers are dumb. And george martin only writes the books, not the show, so i think this would only happen in the books. Did you see how stupid the last two seasons were in comparison to the other 5 before? Yeah thats when the seasons came before the book, and not the other way around.

    • @guitarded55
      @guitarded55 Před 6 lety +107

      MrGollum1996 six was okay. Five was bad but not outrageously. Personally I think that season seven was the only season that could be considered a crime to George R. R. Martin's legacy. Sadly it probably won't get any better.

    • @shravyaboggarapu5877
      @shravyaboggarapu5877 Před 6 lety +34

      Unless you cannot get all the ingredients to make it. Bran is no swordsmith either :P

    • @FerretJohn
      @FerretJohn Před 6 lety +63

      Potentially, yes, but there are a few problems, first and foremost being that right now he doesn't have the time, the White Walkers are too close. Another problem is how his abilities work, he can watch the Master Smiths of old Valyria work but he can't participate himself, it's a big difference watching a video of work being done and doing it yourself. And lastly, I'm pretty sure a major component of making Dragon Steel (the other name for Valyrian Steel) is Dragon Fire, currently there are only two around, neither available for smith duties

    • @godkingtrump7807
      @godkingtrump7807 Před 6 lety +21

      You need dragon fire to forge the obsidian (mineral base of valarian steel aka dragon glass). He hasn't met Dany and her dragons yet.

  • @rowni
    @rowni Před 5 lety +59

    Im happy that Ser Jorah was fine knowing Jon has Long Claw 😊

  • @Trascist
    @Trascist Před 2 lety +1

    ASX: go watch that video
    Me: bro I’ve been watching your videos all day

  • @DraxOBrien
    @DraxOBrien Před rokem +4

    9:29:00 Season 1 of the Prequel, that we wanted back when this video came out, is in the books! The showdown at Gods Eye is looking fantastic at this point.

    • @I_am_a_cat_
      @I_am_a_cat_ Před rokem +2

      This video isn't 9 hours long man lol

    • @DraxOBrien
      @DraxOBrien Před rokem

      @@I_am_a_cat_ get a life and go to the 9 minute mark

  • @TheSoulofaGremlin
    @TheSoulofaGremlin Před 7 lety +258

    Cersei is going to get Widow's Wail. There's poetic justice there.

    • @chapachuu
      @chapachuu Před 6 lety +32

      TheSoulofaGremlin Jamie has it now.

    • @tver
      @tver Před 6 lety +9

      She'll get it.. plunged through her heart.

    • @Theegon
      @Theegon Před 6 lety +1

      TheSoulofaGremlin Jamie got it

    • @oneslapmann4434
      @oneslapmann4434 Před 6 lety +1

      She won't know what to do with it

    • @mdrizwan6377
      @mdrizwan6377 Před 6 lety +7

      Widow's wail is with Jamie, it was revealed when Jamie killed lady tyril

  • @maggru91
    @maggru91 Před 7 lety +15

    Oh sweet summer child, thinking another book will be finished before the reaper arrives.

  • @a-crack8728
    @a-crack8728 Před rokem +3

    'This is why we need a game of thrones prequel' heehee

  • @samuelleask1132
    @samuelleask1132 Před 3 lety +10

    Good to see that despite Season 8's ending, interest in ASOIAF and the world of GoT hasn't died down

    • @EndOfSmallSanctuary97
      @EndOfSmallSanctuary97 Před 2 lety

      People loved the books decades before the show even existed

    • @samuelleask1132
      @samuelleask1132 Před 2 lety +1

      @@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 yeah, so hopefully the love for the world of ASOIAF continues for decades more

  • @ninjagecko980
    @ninjagecko980 Před 5 lety +61

    The way I understand the dagger situation is that nobody is willing to part with any amount of valyrian steel for any amount of money, keeping Tywin from buying any amount of it to reforge. In fact, I believe at one point the books specifically reference how even broke noble families will never sell their Valyrian blades. Euron, being the magic-obsessed raider that he is, located the daggers, which, while more common than full swords, would still be considered priceless, but he claims them with iron, not gold, killing their owners to assemble his badass loot pile.