How Varys became the Spider (Game of Thrones)
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To think this is the man that talked about betraying Dany in the open where anyone could hear it...
And you talked to milton you rat
"It was me..."
Micah that’s why season 8 was horrible and done wrong he would have never and he wouldn’t have been so stupid either
@Kip Kipper you could really tell how the product switched from from good to shitty
right??! Like right in the throne room. Season 8 was really stupidly done.
Varys is my favorite character. He holds so much power not through fear, magic, or sex appeal, but through sheer information. Varys puts he CIA to shame and it's sad to see how his character was assassinated in Season 8.
Assassinated?
My was Littlefinger
Executed*
Every Character was shit on if they didn't have a vag in season 8! Fucking Waman Power!!
Yeah thanks for the spoiler. This is why I waited half a decade to finish watching the series, because of the plebs who want to ruin it for everyone else.
“He always wears perfume”. Sadly, real-life eunuchs frequently leaked urine, and in China “stinking like a eunuch” was a saying. Actual court eunuchs often wore perfume to cover the smell.
So sad.
A leak from a gash?
@@batman-gu7pm Yes, they cannot control due to their genitals being cut out
@@malikas6055 indeed
@Hansen Says Take A Seat they take the frank and the beans??
Varys testifying against Tyrion in the trial to hide his motive for freeing him.
Varys by season 8 “EVERYBODY, LISTEN TO ME. LETS DO TREASON! IT’D BE FOR THE GREATER GOOD!”
"NOH. SHE'S MAH KWEEN."
Bro why are you watching this when your a show watcher? This is about THE REAL story.
The show writing and has always been garbage. They had good seasons when they were slapping together dialogue and 5% of the books contest... but any time you saw aspects of the show writing it was garbage.
Fact: Beagles Are Best
Bruh fuck out of here with that lmao
Nukenin MGT I mean it’s true though.
Fact: Beagles Are Best
Yeah that the show was shit beyond what GRRM wrote for them. But this channel literally uses clips of the show and compares differences with the book. If you watch the show you’re a fan just like everyone else. Get out of here with that elitist bullshit.
well i was studying for o chem but this is also important
Organic chemistry suuuuuucks. This is far better.
One of the few things I actually prefer in the show versus the books: in the show Varys’ only true and genuine goal is to do what is best for the people of the realm. He is a genuine, though unconventional, good guy who is literally willing to do anything for the greater good.
Your videos are so relaxing and calm, its a great change from how chaotic people can be on youtube.
Agreed , I often listen before bed
Chaos is a ladder :o
I listen specifically to fall asleep
Varys was one of my favorite characters
I wonder if Varys’ hatred for magic can influence his motivations towards Dany and her dragons and his plan to crown Young Griff
Or maybe cause they’re both Blackfyres
YG is FAegon , he is BlackFyre. So Varys will support him. Denny is slayer of lies, so propably she will discover this. I think YG will try to ride a dragon and dragon will kill him like Quentyn Martel. I know BlackFyre have Targeryan bloood , but his Blood is to diluted like Quentyn's ( Quentyn had Targeryan ancestor). Varys will support someone else, but not Targeryan girl for sure, because he is BlackFyre. I know he saved Gendry for some reason, he and Stannis know that Gendry is the son of the Robert. So i think if Stannis and YG die , Varys will spread a word about Gendry. I belive Jon and Denny Will die Like Azora Ahai and Nissa Nissa. And my boy Gendry will become king
He is BlackFyre that is why he hates Targeryans
@@TheDzudas I don’t think so it seems like the book was gonna end exactly like the show but young griff would be the one to kill dany but since no one likes that ending grrm doesn’t know wtf to do. The blackfrye are extinct from the male line so only a female can be a blackfyre or grrm would say they are still alive but he purposely said the female line is still alive
@@leopardtree2249 Danny dies by John, je gets gore sword, YG will die misreably, Robert bastard will become King, probably Gendry
I’m convinced Varys is a Targaryen in disguise. That’s why he keeps his head shaved... like Egg.
In the book though true blood targaryen have purple eyes... so unless he is mixedike John than it wouldn't matter cause his eyes don't give him away.
@@americanrebelking8337 In the books he’s also a master of disguise, so maybe he’s changing his eye color somehow. 🤷♀️
@@americanrebelking8337 Not every Targaryen had purple eyes. He could be a Blackfyre, since we know that Blackfyre continued through the female line, so the gene pool is probably more mixed than it originally was.
I hate that he was so pissed about his twig and berry's cut off, but did cut out the tongues of his "little birds".
If you look at their actions closer, both Varys and Illyrio are twisted, horrible people. Illyrio is a slaver despite slavery being outlawed in Pentos, a pedophile (his scores of "bedwarmers" are 12-16 years old), and he keeps his wife's hands as a memento. And that's not mentioning the whole "provoke and stoke bloody civil wars" thing.
@@saikeenra Calling Illyrio a pedo is imposing our current age of consent standards to a fantasy world set in medieval times. If you want to call him a pedo, every men in the story is a pedo.
@@exu7325 Exactly! Jorah likes a 13 year old. lyanna was 15 etc
@@RedpillRetreat Who's 13?!
@@mahidinho5461 Dany was 13 at the start of the books
Another story arc ruined in season 8. Thanks D&D.
The series as a whole had been collapsing in quality and logic with the start of season five and it got progressively worse. What irritates me the most, is the amount of people that still defend where the series went and how it ended.
His arc was ruined long before season 8.
I felt the same
Luke47895 I actually think season 6 was really good after that it’s started falling
@@Luke47895 Agreed. It was at its absolute best when Sansa and Tyrion were still in King’s Landing and Arya was learning from the Hound. I thought the end of season 6 was good...battle of the bastards/blowing up the Sept. But 7&8 felt like a completely different show. I didn’t feel transported to that time and place anymore. Those last two seasons damn near ruined the entire thing.
2:50 You really had me anticipating a scene where varys visits Ned in a damn wig 🤣🤣
Thanks for helping scratch the ASOIAF itch in a post-GoT world.
Doesn't matter now as he forgets all of his skills and cunning in season 6,7 and 8
It matters... for the books, which is what this video is about. He’s just using show characters to help the narrative. Blackfyres weren’t part of the show.
@@nerdstorm596 If the books even get published. lol
Icarus that’s another point all together. I will remain hopeful on that one lol
Prince obryen also knew he was from lys in one episode they were talking and obryen said to varys that " i recognize your accent its from lys"
I LOVE A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE
It would have been really interesting to see Varys in his various disguises in the show. D&D did us all dirty with so many great retails and storyline!
They followed the book tbh til a certain point nun is really changed that much
I was dead on varys surviving the dragon fire and it turns out he's a secret blackfyre
Targs cant survive dragonfire
Only the night king can ?!!?
I remember reading AGoT, and being familiar with the naming schemes for different peoples in Planetos, I had an inadvertently clever yet completely naive thought:
_Why on Earth is King Robert employing a Valyrian man in his council??_
I understood that Targaryen names tend to end in "arys", and many contain the V sound as well. So I thought Varys wasn't hiding his heritage very well with a name like that!
A long while and 5 books later (plus Egg shaving his head in D&E!) , I believe Varys is indeed a Blackfyre.
I love your videos man. You’ve taught me so much about the GOT world just from watching all our videos
Varys is big supporter of another Blackfyre and it kimda shows us what kinda deep story made by GRRM
I don’t think he learned about the secret passageways so much as he had prior knowledge of their existence . Remember Maegor the cruel killed anybody without Targaryen blood who knew about them. Also we know another Targaryen who hid his lineage in plain sight by shaving his head and acting like a commoner. (Dunk and Egg) Assuming he’s not lying about the voice he heard we know his blood has power. Since he’s not a holy man with holy blood, it can only be kings blood. He is definitely a Targaryen or Blackfire.
Nah not necessarily. And I don't see how him being a Targaryen would instantly make him know all the secrets of the Red Keep
In the Dunk & Egg books, Aegon shaves his head so people don’t see his signature silver Targaryen hair.
All through the story, we learn kingsblood has power.
My guess Varys is a Blackfyre (as Griff/Aegon is as well)
Wouldn't the color of his eyes give it away though?
@@abrarbw Well genetically speaking, the violet eyes of the Targaryens are not dominant, or any of their features for that matter.
The only way a person can have those features is if both the parents have the genes of the Valyrians. (purple eyes and silver blonde hair)
I mean, look at Jon Snow, whose features are that of the Starks.
So, the same goes for Varys.
@@kefi3186 Yeah I know that but the thing is, we haven't really seen any Targaryens having silver blond/white hair along with general eye colors(blue, brown or anything other than purple/violet). Silver hair of the Targaryens is always accompanied by their purple/violet eyes. Some notable Targaryens with Targ+nonTarg parents were Baelor Breakspear, Duncan Targaryen, Vlarr Targaryen etc. They all had brown/dark hair and blue/brown eyes of their mothers. So if Varys does have white hair, he's ought to have purple/violet eyes too.
@@abrarbw Maybe both of his parents have silver hair or the gene of silver hair? I played around with a bit genetics (and the results I had are in no means professional. So if it sounds stupid, it probably is.)
Let's say his father had brown hair and a silver haired parent (maybe a person from Lys with Valyrian Blood.)
And his mother, (a person from the Blackfyre female line who I will presume is dark haired.) has brown hair and a silver haired parent.
And according to the results I had, the chance of Varys having dark hair is 75% and 25% for silver hair. Maybe he got the recessive gene of silver hair.
The same goes for the eyes, father has different colored eyes but has a parent with purple eyes. And the same goes for the mother.
So 75% different coloured eyes and 25% purple eyes. And instead of Varys getting the recessive gene of purple eyes, he got the more dominant one.
But as I said, I'm no expert in genetics and for all I know, all my results are wrong and ridiculous.
🤷😂
@@abrarbw And maybe the reasons why some of those Targaryens carry their mother's traits is because none of them carry the genes of the Valyrians.
Like Baelor having a Dornish mother who doesn't carry any Valyrian traits.
I see whycreate, I click.
Thank you for the fantastic content!!
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Love these videos. Im addicted Keep them coming.
If he started cutting out the children's tongues, how the hell could they pass on any information? Did he teach them to write too? Sign language maybe? But that defeats the whole point of cutting out their tongues. It's one of those things the sounds cool and sinister, but makes no sense in reality.
He teach them how to write first.
@LagiNaLangAko23 whenever you have a community of Deaf people, they will create their own signed language. ASL or American Sign Language is based on French Signed Language and shares the same grammar as French, Spanish, and Italian aka the romance languages. But in the interim since it's creation here it had changed and evolved in to a completely new and unique unto itself language.
That’s why vary is the evil one. Him and littlefinger are the true villains and cersi is just insane
@@OldGuyStudent interesting indeed
i really love these videos man keep the coming so interesting :)
Keep no the good work, man! Love when you use art inspired by the books
I can’t stop laughing that CZcams suggested this and the video on How Aerys II Became the Mad King under the subject of history. I love it. Excellent video as always, man.
you have a really lovely speaking voice and your videos are so detailed. thank you :)
:)
The voice from the flames told Varys to protect the common golf which explains why he only cared about them even at the risk of his own life
Yes! My man, finally something about Varys!
I thought the title was “How Varys became a spider” i am disappointed
Shay when could he ever have become a spider man?? We saw him executed by Khaleesi
Im sorry for your loss D:
I don't think I've ever seen a video with no dislikes before well done sir, bravo 👏
Always love you videos, I cant wait until the Prequel series comes out just so I can watch more of your content!
:)
Sucessful Spiders spin and lay, weave and entangle string after string. Layer after layer, so much that nothing can tell just how many strings abound all around them.
Great video, dude
Can' t wait for video' s from you regarding the prequel series ..
theres a prequel?
One of my top 4 favorite characters, screwed over...
ooooOOOOO thanks again for that Westeros lore during my wacky tobaccy time 🐉🌳
agh - nvm.. just got to the “root and stem” line 😒
*☼ love your work man, real gr8 biz ^^*
Are you related to the youtuber Top5s ? Cause both of y'all videos are relaxing
I never understood why Varys was so loyal to the Targaryens. What made him so loyal to the Mad King and his son?
Jazmine Lee i mean he advised Arys not to open his gates to Tywin. Would you do that to someone your not loyal to
This Aegon Griff is intriguing
Now I consider three kinds of fate for him (never read the books, just gathered some infos about him):
1. He isn’t a Targaryen but some identity usurper or a Blackfyre and will either die or spend his life away from his previous royal pretentions, after his secret would have been revealed
2. He is indeed a Targaryen but will die in order to let Jon be the true danger to Dany’s claim
3. He is a Targaryen and Jon isn’t. Griff arc’s end matches TV Jon’s fate ending (basically his second life, except for the whole King in the north and battles for and in Winterfell things) and Jon would either stays dead, or is the son of Ned and Allaria Dayne and would become King in the north, command the Battle of Ice and Fire but have zero claim on the iron throne
My guess goes 2. > 1. > 3.
But this Young Griff is REALLY intriguing, it’s like he shouldn’t be here, his arc resembles Viserys’ one
The Blackfyre Spider. Cool 😂👍
Radioactive spider bite.
Can you do a video on the war of the ninepenny kings
sometimes i think rugen is the real varys and varys is just a persona for entertaining political machinations
He kinda forgot all of that in season 8
The real question about Varys is why wasn’t he just killed out right?
My theory is that someone didn’t want to commit kin slaying but at the same time didn’t want Varys to have heirs.
I think Varys in the books he is the last Castemyer he is the boy in the well.
But he is also a Lannister the son of Kevin who lived with the Castemyers.
His physical appearance is a perfect amalgamation of his grandfather Castemyer and Kevin Lannister.
The hokey pokey around his castration was a deflection so he would never look in the direction of who really ordered it.
Who had such vast sums of money to pay for a homeless boy to be castrated. But also did not want him to reproduce. Who had a reputation of wiping out entire families and hunting down heirs across the globe for generations.
Tywin.
I really like this theory. How do you know he looked like Castamere and Kevan though?
@@TheBluemindedGod *Varys - Last Lord of Tarbeck*
Lord Tytos Lannister sent young Kevan to Castamere to serve as a page and then squire to Lord Roger Reyne. *Rohanne Tarbeck* was a member of House Tarbeck and the elder daughter of Lord Walderan and Ellyn Tarbeck.
Lord Walderan Tarbeck was executed during the Reyne-Tarbeck rebellion, and his wife, Lady Ellyn, and last surviving son, Tion the Red, died during the assault on Tarbeck Hall by Lord Tywin Lannister. Ellyn's daughters, Rohanne and Cyrelle, were taken captive and their tongues cut out and were forced to join the silent sisters. Rohanne's husband had been executed alongside Walderan, and *_their three-year-old son disappeared during the assault._* *_Although the boy was probably thrown down a well by Ser Amory Lorch, one of Tywin's knights, some stories claim the boy was smuggled to Essos and became a bard popular for his sad ballads._*
But wait there is more...
Appearance and Character of *Kevan Lannister*
Kevan a big man with broad shoulders and a thick waist. His short blond hair is balding, and he has a close-cropped, yellow beard that follows the line of his massive jaw. Kevan has green eyes and fair skin. A portly man, Kevan is not necessarily considered handsome.
Maester Yandel describes *Walderan Tarbeck* (Varys's grandpa) as having been florid (reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion. flowery; excessively ornate; showy)
*Varys* is a plump, bald, and effeminate eunuch. He has soft white hands. He powders his face and smells of lavender, lilacs, and rosewater. When at court, Varys wears rich silks, velvets, and damasks and soft slippers.
Varys is the perfect combination of his father and grandfather.
There are three ways to get rid of pesky sons that families don't want to inherit their house:
* Sent to the Wall - Sam
* Kings Guard - Jaime
* Castration - Theon, Varys (and Night King???)
Who the hell would pay so much for Varys... Tywin.
Just like Tywin/Robert wanted to go after Dany decades later... Tywin found the last Lord of Tarbeck.
The reason Tywin didn't just kill Varys is because it would be kin slaying as he is his nephew.
The whole castration doesn't make sense nor does it rhyme with ANYTHING the Red priest have done.
Melisandre would have taken his blood or just killed him out right like Shireen... why castration???
Because it was done under pretence so that it could not be traced back to the originator... This is Tywin's MO (no blood on my hands)
Melisandre even says that most of her "magic" was just tricks ... anyone could conjure up blue fire... and under those circumstances Varys could have heard anything.
No such thing as a random castration. Wasn't there a Targaryen who threaten his younger brother with castration??? These castrations they were meant to put the last nail in hereditary offspring.
The red herring is that he is a secret Targaryen... but really he is a secret Lannister/Tarbeck.
The main reasons I think Varys is a Targaryen is because he keeps his head shaved--maybe to hide that famous Tardaryen hair color?
any chance book varys is actually aegon V (egg) in sort of a self exile in essos?
WE NEED TO GO DEEPER
So in the first season Varys tells everybody in the council that Daenerys is pregnant. And after that news King Robbert tells Ned Stark to send an assassin and kill her. And then in season five it turns out that Varys is Daenerys ally. That doesn't make sense.
Because in the books he was trying to put someone else on the iron throne. The GOT writers decided not to do that storyline so they changed it to Daenerys
Arachnus Spinner FTW
I wonder if Varys could be a faceless man. In ACOK he says some riddle and says "He is no one" to Tyrion
Not to mention that hooded costume like Jaquen Haquar a and the impossible shit he finds out
Can you be ready to cover the wheel of time series and the new lord of the rings tv show on this channel?
So how is it more efficient to cut the little birds tounges
Catherine Oluwole they won’t tell anyone else their secrets because they can’t talk
@@trevorm1876 It will also be a struggle to get them to tell you the whispers they heard lol
Make a video about Dragonstone
a spider whisperes for a dragon
i actually didn't notice most of these identities
Great video, thanks for telling me about Varys the Spider
I always felt that the red god is just a powerful sorcerer or blood mage
Enjoy the channel. I think a confirmed kill count for both show and the book would be a cool video to see.
ok, now that I discovered Varys removes tongues from children made me completely lose any kind of support for him
Real Varys would’ve waited to fix the problem. Not have been so rushed with it. He even said he wasn’t a hero.
It wasn't a priest or priestess who bought Varys.
It was a "second rate sorcerer" who kidnapped him.
hes a spider
I can’t get over that the mountain was Varys all along #cleganebrawl
Omg spoilers much? It's even worse than when I found out Jorah was lady stoneheart all along...
@@alexsm3882 what about ser pounce being azor ahai?
He came to an ashy eeennd , dont think he will ever meeennd
The flames were blue, so it was the night king
Power resides where men believe it resides, it's a trick, really.
Luís A shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow
👍WE ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO 👏
* I WAS SO LOOKING FORWARD TO VARY'S STORYLINE !
VARYS & OLD MAN MORMONT WERE MY FAVES.
YES, THE STORYLINES DO ALOT OF SHIFTING & IT'S WHAT MAKES IT INTERESTING... IS PPL'S OWN INTERPRETATION.
* VARYS, I UNDERSTAND, CAME FROM A PROMINENT FAMILY, WAS KIDNAPPED BUT SEEMS THE FAMILY DIDN'T LOOK FOR HIM OR THEY COULDN'T FIND HIM AS HE WAS TOO FAR AWAY ? IDK.
* I WAS CURIOUS ABT THE ONE WHO WHISPERED TO VARYS & THE REASON FOR THE BLUE FLAME.
* I HAVE MY THOUGHTS ON WHAT THE BLUE FLAME MEANT BUT I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT GRRM SAID IT MEANT TO HIM.
* I STILL BELIEVE THEON SHOULD HAVE BUTCHERED RAMSEY, LIKE THE WAY D & D 🔪 DID TO THE FINALE.
2 CENTS IN BERKELEY🌐🐾🎨📚🔭👽🌙🌠✌✊
Why are you yelling?
Trinston was here
Do how vargo hoat became the goat.
Yeeeah
WC!!!
If Varys was born a slave, why doesn't he have a tatoo on his face ?
Only slaves from Volantis are branded with tattoos
@@darkshadows76 Oh, I didn't remeber that! Thank you!
He def isn't Targaryen. Doesn't anyone else remember in the 2nd or 3rd book is says Varys has dark hair?? I know it said this, I'm not crazy..
After watching this I wonder if Varys is no one and has a God with many faces
Varys
Valyrian
Is that why he shaves his head, to hide his snow-white hair?
Jon snow nextttt
Nope if it was so he wouldn't burn from the dragon
I honestly, whole heartedly believe his story. Especially when it comes to his intentions. He has always been upfront about his motives, and I believe that his friend was telling the truth about him.. because it all adds up. He is polar opposite of Little-finger.. where Little-finger would use any means to advance himself. Varys would use his advantages to maintain equilibrium and balance. Peace essentially.
Because his "Power" only Derives from Peace. War isn't just "Bad for Business", it's LITERALLY Bad for any/everyone effected by it. Most notably, his Little Mice/Birds. That's why he gave that Speech to Ned.
He already helped Smuggle Daenerys and Viserys out of Westeros, it seems odd that people doubt he wouldn't have tried to Smuggle out Aegon as well.. shiiiieeet.. it wouldn't surprise me at all if he HAD successfully Smuggled out ALL four Targaryens, and we haven't been privy to the reveal of Rhaenys yet. But yeah, if you look at all the evidence that HAS been revealed about Varys.. he maybe a very introvert guy, but he has proven time and time again to be genuinely honest and upfront about his actions. And his Actions are Honorable.
You make the spider a pov caricature you learn to much
Isn't Varys in a way the most powerful player in the Game of Thrones? And no magic involved!!
Why does all of his other personas have to be smelly people though!?! 😂😂😂
I think because Eunachs lose bladder control. They mention when Varys is being Varys he smells strongly of perfume.
What happened to his pp
I'm apologize guys, but I hated Danny after she burned him.
The striped attraction fortunately bubble because horse superficially unlock a a wacky asparagus. guarded, fearful fearless deadline
When varys says he had to sell the parts of his body he had left, is he talking about his butt?
hes a spider