Where are the Hightowers in Game of Thrones?
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- Looking at Otto and Alicent, you may think the Hightowers are just a bunch of schemers. But House of the Dragon is just a fraction of Hightower history - what are their origins, and where are they in Game of Thrones? This video will explore one of the most ancient and powerful Houses in Westeros.
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00:00 - Where are the Hightowers?
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"House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011-2019), it is the second show in the franchise, created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. Both series are based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by Martin. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik are the showrunners. Based on parts of the novel Fire & Blood, the series is set about 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, and 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen. It portrays the beginning of the end of House Targaryen, the events leading up to and covering the Targaryen war of succession, known as the "Dance of the Dragons"
"Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones. Set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, Game of Thrones has a large ensemble cast and follows several story arcs throughout the course of the show. The first major arc concerns the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros through a web of political conflicts among the noble families either vying to claim the throne or fighting for independence from whoever sits on it. A second focuses on the last descendant of the realm's deposed ruling dynasty, who has been exiled to Essos and is plotting to return and reclaim the throne. The third follows the Night's Watch, a military order defending the realm against threats from beyond Westeros's northern border."
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If they were planning to do the Battle of Blood with a Euron who wasn't a Saturday Morning Cartoon pirate, yes. But otherwise, they don't serve much purpose in the story (so far)
Did you not see Tormund?
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i no longer wonder why it's taking George R R Martin so long to finish these books, because if you have to think about how hundreds of characters would respond every time someone makes a decision most of us would go mad probably.
I don't envy him, let's hope he can bring it all together... Sometime in the next two years would be nice lol
He’s not working on the books, and he’ll never finish them.
The sooner we all accept this, the sooner we can all move on and deal with the fact that the TV show is the only ending we’ll ever see.
@@ryanmaninga3163 you are insane if you believe that.
@@ryanmaninga3163 do you realize he’s been saying that since season 1 of the show?
Every single year, he guarantees the next book is less than a year away.
@@craigmills6275i don’t believe it will be next year, but i guarantee he will finish them before he dies unless he’s hit by a bus. No way he lets his legacy go unfinished.
Otto transformed into Margery tyrell
Anything for the throne
Except on the show she’s way more likeable than Otto
He's using glamour magic like Melisandre because he's secretly a shadow binder lol 🤣
Your “whys he getting Hightower, she’s really shytower….” and so on literally just made me subscribe. 😂👍🏻
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They’re the perfect example of “too big to fail”. And they did just enough to scrape by and not get invaded by the Targaryens and others. I think in King Robert’s time they were still fallen from grace and people didn’t trust them, but tolerated them as they were so rich.
And all that might come crashing down if Euron succeeds
Fallen from grace? If people didn't trust them, Oldtown would be in a different situation tbh...
@@thalmoragent9344 not necessarily. Many won’t risk an invasion on such a fortified city, it would cause a lot of lives for not a lot of gain. The Hightowers are playing ball, there really is not reason for such violence.
HA. The Hightowers are ANYTHING BUT "fallen from grace". The books are filled with well-known Hightowers. Including the Lord Commander of Aerys II's Kingsguard, and Mace Tyrell's wife.
@@gooby214 yeah, like I said, they’re too big to fail. People still like them, but not enough to elevate them. They should be in the same esteem as the Lannisters and the Targaryens. Yet, they’re not. They avoid the war of the 5 Kings again- the Crown offered the Tarleys Warden of the Reach.
The "Well he was the other guy" line almost made me spit my tea hahaha
Haha
I’ve recently came across a prediction that suggests that the pale haired woman besides Euron in Aeron’s foresaken vision isn’t Cersei as many tend to believe but Malora Hightower and now I refuse to believe any other option
From Mad Maid to Sorceress Queen...
Or dany, the pale haired woman he’s actually associated with and pursuing for marriage, plus his plans involving the dragons and his horn. I hadn’t actually heard anyone say it’s cercei
@@StealthMaestroSharpe Daenerys seems like an obvious one, almost too obvious. To me and to many others, I think it’s clear that Daenerys is meant to be a red herring (especially considering Euron’s plan to marry her and the whole dragonbinder thing).
Cersei is actually a really common one, obviously because of the show but also many think Aegon will end up taking KL which would either result in her death/capture or, more popularly, fleeing to Casterly Rock (I believe Germ mentioned we’ll actually visit it at some point) which would leave her in direct interaction with Euron.
Anyone but Cersei, that plotline in the show is terrible, including her with Euron is a waste of time and shes gonna overstay her welcome if shes just kept around for unrelated and magic themed or piratey themes plots like that. Sometimes certain characters need to be let go, and going down to her valonqar just after her dinasty falls is the sweetspot
I love that George liked HoTD so much that he said he might rewrite Fire and Blood to align more with Viserys and Marjorie's portrayals in the show!
Interesting thing about all of this is that Sam is conveniëntly placed at Hightower at the right time for us to get a POV for the events outside of Ironborn eyes, which kinda implies the Damphair might not make it out alive.
I feel like Euron isn't targeting Oldtown for the Hightowers, but rather to bring down the Maesters and Faith of the Seven.
That's a good point - not many people point out the Starry Sept being a target. Makes sense for such a "godless man" to want to desecrate the westeros equivalent of the Vatican
Makes sense. Oldtown has plenty of things he'd want to plunder
Euron's going to cast the fury of the Drowned God upon Oldtown just for a Gundam mech to appear that is being piloted by Leyton 'the based' hightower himself.
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Layton Chadtower is gonna smack the shit out of Euron Cringeye.
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I think Hightowers will lose to Euron, old town will be destroyed by the Ironborn. This will be epic 👍
@@thetalesofelbek7042 no it will not, if Oldtown falls, the entire realm falls too
@@kingofdragons7 no the realm will not fall
@@thetalesofelbek7042 yes it will, Oldtown is one of the most important cities in Westeros, you disagreeing means you are dumb
I’m subscribing solely off the fact you said “why’s he getting High Tower, she’s kinda shy Tower, wait did he just die Tower, and wait which one is this guy Tower?” 😂😂😂
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@@fantasyhaven1ottoble had me rolling 😂
Those hightower jokes were a great hit with the kids. This will increase the hightower poll numbers and more people will take up arms against Euron.
It’s crazy how in the show we saw the destruction of an entire house and it was just brushed over
What house? The show destroyed many houses.
@@gooby214 And they were all brushed over. But I think he is talking about the Tyrells. Extinct down in one go. Some Harrenhal shit. But i think the same happened to the lovely Freys, the Cleganes, Mormont, etc.
And now that I think about it all major houses (but the Starks) seem to have been sloppily left with one member and still keot as Lord Houses despite how moribund they looked like
Yara the last Greyjoy - I'd imagine the show would've tried to make it matriarchial to keep the name, can't see that fly in the books
Tyrion the last Lannister - not even sure if the show had Lannisport cousins in it, probably not
Seasons-Forgotten Edmure the last Tully - can't imagine the riverlands respecting these weak clowns after the whole regions' apocalypse
That random Prince of Dorne that spawned after they realised they killed off all Martells
And fecking Gendry.
Love that you pointed out the oily black stone and the Lovecraft mythos connection. GRRM made a lot of homage references to Lovecraft, Chambers, Derleth, Wagner and more in his world.
I might do a video on Lovecraft's influence on asoiaf
The black stone at the bottom of the Hightower is the oily black stone but Fused black stone, made by dragons. But the stone predates the Valyrian freehold so there’s a theory that there were dragon lords before the valyrians, perhaps the great empire of the dawn. They have fused black stone forts by the grey waste. Maybe they were the first dragon lords
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The Hightower’s are one of the oldest and greatest houses
They are indeed
Time is no mark there. Once you re rich, its ez to stay rich. Same goes with power
Its cool to see that I wasn‘t the only one noticing Otto jus rolling up in that one episode 😭😭💯💯🙏🏼
Being Hand isn't easy, my man needs to relieve some stress
This is one thing I like about house of dragon more than got is the legendary feeling of everyone taking the story seriously
I always thought that in GoT season 7 that Danny should have landed at Oldtown rather than Dragonstone. It would have a port to unload her fleet, the region was not touched by the war and could support her army. She could have sent the Dothraki across the reach and disrupted communication between Kings Landing and Casterly Rock, thus splitting the Lannister forces.
Dany and her council plotting in the Hightower would've been cool
Dany wasn’t exactly a strategist at war games
@@thebayharborbutcher9115 True but she had military advisors that should have known better. Landing on Dragonstone was stupid because she would have to disembark her entire army when they got there and then re-embark to actually go conquer Westeross. Loading and offloading hundreds of ships is a big job that nobody wants to do twice and requires a large port do be done well. Oldtown.
hightowers will support faegon, i have no doubt. I beliebe septa lemora = malora hightower and haldon halfmaeste = leyton hightower
@@alexh4436 She should have landed the army in Dorne which was allied to her by this time. While Olenna is in charge of Highgarden she is not necessarily in charge of the Reach and the Hightowers.
Funny thing is, the Hightowers may have been Dragonlords WAY back in the day.
(Fuzed Black Stone at the base of the Hightower, and some random story claiming that it was a Hightower that killed the last Dragon in Westeros all the way back in rhe Dawn Age, but what if it was a Hightower putting his Dragon companion out of his misery? Who knows)
Like, they may have been associated with the Great Empire of the Dawn. Meaning that, whether they had dragons or not, they have been around longer than any of the other Lord Paramount houses, and even Valyria itself. They have features similar to that of the Valyrians, the Silver-Blonde hair in particular
The Hightowers don't often go to war, and are respected for handling business and Oldtown in general rather well. The Dance of the Dragons was like, the one time they made a heavy effort to go on the offensive for something not directly affecting Oldtown.
There u go, with ur another Non Sensical Delusions. Lmao🤦🤣😂...
@@dineshbalu6107lmaoo literally boy be just speaking nonsense
@@requaldebbarma3383 I know right🤦😂🤣. And FYI, this isn't the only time he had said something non sense, He's been having a lot of confusions and Delusions in various posts and videos for a long time. I've been telling him for months to stop with this Delusions...
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Just wanted to say the fortress at the base of the High Tower is fused black stone not oily black stone, and there is a difference.
Nice catch!
They may have been Dragonlords
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'In deep geek' said once that Hightowers are only ones that could be considered to have won in the dance of the dragons. Most of the seven kingdoms either stayed were they were (Starks, Arryns, Dorne, Iron Islands), took some heavy hits and significant losses which they had to recover for years (Lannisters, Baratheons, Velaryons) or got the shit absolutely and truly rocked (Targeryans, Crownlands and Riverlands). But Hightowers came out in stronger than what they were before, enriching themselves.
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The Hightowers only came out "stronger" was because they completely changed their ideology between pre and post- dance. Alicent and Otto would have a heart attack to see what the Hightowers turned into
Bruh, just cuz they are doing fine now means they have won a war which happened more than a century ago? Perhaps it's cuz the new generation obv aren't corrupt & dirty imbecile like Otto his brother & alicent, those houses u said not all of them were took hit cuz of the dance, the hell?
@@rose-yw5xfnot really, the main branch of the Hightowers were way smarter than otto or Alicent (who were a cadet branch but were powerful as Alicent was kings wife and otto was hand) . Otto lost his family during the dance while his relative Hightowers who were the lords of oldtown got even richer and Stronger after the dance ended.
@@Att964 Well the main branch did follow alicent and otto’s lead during the war. Otto has power as the hand, but he doesn’t have access to house Hightowers resources. Only his brother and his heirs do. And they obviously followed Ottos lead. They weren’t smarter, it’s just that they didn’t die.
When I say that alicent and Otto would have a heart attack seeing what house Hightower became. I meant that house Hightower became significantly less religious and even dirtied the high septon at one point. And that it was a women who made their house richer and powerful
After the dance, lord Lyonel Hightower married his stepmother, lady Sam. The high septon found their marriage to be illegitimate, but lyonel hightower didn’t care. Lady Sam was a prominent Black and ally to king aegon 3. Lady Sam protected Lotho Rogare after the fall of House Rogare and together they founded the Bank of Old town. That’s how house Hightower became richer and more powerful, because of a black supporting Aegon 3.
One of them was killed at the Tower of Joy. After the rebellion, they probably retreated into isolationalism since they held prominent positions during the Targerean era.
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I heard a theory that Leyton's got a glass candle burning up in that tower, and it's just so cool that I believe it's true with like no evidence or thoughts
I can't remember when I read it but I think that's from the books. Maybe some maester's gossip. Maybe told to Bran idk.
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A lot of great houses have gone extinct in the Song of Ice and Fire before the events of A Game of Thrones.
It is so interesting. Makes the story and the world very real. Westeros has a real "fuck around and found out" vibe.
The Hightowers and Velaryons are not among those extinct houses. The Hightowers are still active and ruling Oldtown in GoT's timeline, and Lord Hightower is Margaery's grandfather. The Velaryons are Stannis's vassals, and the previous Lord Velaryon was killed at the Blackwater.
@gooby214 yeah... I forgot to mention specifically they aren't as powerful as they once were.
@@Phizzo4real hightowers still at their peak & velaryons lost all their power due to the dance of the dragons by playing for the wrong side and never recovered since.
The show could have easily included them for like 4 to 5 scenes to make up some plot but....
But we all know that (coherent) plot became unnecessary after S4!
Why include them at all, if even in the books they have basically isolated themselves from the rest of Westeros.
@@SelphieTheNutter they definitely could have included more of the tyrells though
@@olofacosta3192 yeah I agree, I like the Tyrells I was gutted to see them killed off
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I'm glad they left that out of GOT because there were already plenty of story lines to keep track of. They should just give each large house their own shows and crossover when necessary 😂😂
yeah honestly READING is one thing bc it’s pretty easy to flip back through the pages and find the information you seek. too many plot line in the show is part of the reason my friend couldn’t get into it. she was super confused (so was i tbh when watching the first few episodes) bc there was just way too much to keep track of. it only got easier once everyone was connected in some way or another but i was hella confused for awhile
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*_"Tyrells side with the Lannisters, the Hightowers follow suit. Are you sensing a bit of a pattern here?"_*
That House Hightower, vassal to House Tyrell are following their liege lord?
Yeah
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Dany kinda forgot about the Hightowers.... or something
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there needs to be a new tv series about the Hightower family
Hightower spinoff 🙏
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Maybe bc I am _dead inside_ that very few things make me laugh out loud, but that Ottoble™ spot did the trick.
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Enjoyed listening to this 😂 the hightower rhyme 😂
On the Salt Throne thing. I actually like that name, but I also am electing to take the show canon as a separate entity. Within that, maybe both thrones do exist. For whatever reason, perhaps the iron islanders chose to switch to the Salt Throne after some sort of disagreement over the old one. Who knows? Maybe the old one mysteriously vanished one day. Surely it was too big and heavy to just up and steal...but then, where did it go? I don't know. I just made all this up...but, hey, that's how most great stories start.
Interesting ideas. I don't necessarily think "Seastone Chair' is a fantastic name, but "Salt Throne" just sounded kinda goofy to me. It was emblematic of the strange unnecessary changes GoT kept making in the later seasons
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What I cannot get my head around is how in less than 169 it went from huge dragons to ones as big as cats to exctinction
Everyone who was a show-only fan really missed out on so much of the story!
Ikr
High pitched "salt throne" killed me lol
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I can't wait for the Hightower Mech to fight the Kraken Euron summoms.
I kinda wish the Hightowers had been included in GOT