Every Game of Thrones Character Fears Hardhome 

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>ash falling for 6 months >Fire so bright you could see it from the wall >happened the near the same time the 14 flames erupted in Valyria, causing the doom >massive cache of dragonglass there in the show I think Hardhome was on a volcano

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"dead things in the water" is one of my favorite quotes in the books and no one even talks about it lol

The scene where the White Walkers are just sitting there up on that rock atop their dead horses, perfectly spaced apart, while that creepy psychological music plays as Jon stares up at them is probably in my opinion the closest thing to a perfect shot that I've ever seen.

The tricky part is that history in this world is chock full of bullshit. Think of the play about Tyrion killing Joffrey. That's the "official" story now, and it'll be what gets passed down. My guess is a volcano erupted.

"A town that wasn't even town enough to be a town"- poignant.

I am guessing its some sort of volcanic eruption, and the screams coming from caves were steam coming through the ground.

What about Fire Wurms? They are discussed in "Fire and Blood", they breathe fire like devastating dragons, and they tunnel. What if those caves about Hardhome were dug by the wurms which descended upon the town and annihilated it? The screaming could simply be the winds cutting across and through the tunnels.

The Targaryen who brought her dragon to the wall couldn't get her to go past the wall. So I don't think it's dragons. No clue what did this though. Love your theories

personally i think it might've been a 'trial run' of the Doom that came to Valyria

It's actually a very interesting location of this world. I am waiting for rickon s adventure in skagos through his doggie

Can you do a what if scenario series? Like what if Robert wasnt killed by the boar or what if Robb avoided the red wedding.

Wow I never knew hardhome had so much lore to it. Really makes me wanna read the books and learn so much more about this world.

I have a couple theories. 1. the fishers of Hardhome started harvesting whales and the Ibbenese made an example of them, killing the inhabitants and setting fire to their source of lumber, returning for months to ensure the forest had burned, using whale oil to do the job. 2. Volcanic Eruption, which triggers mass forest fires. 3. Rogue Dragon, or a previously unmention species of Dragon more suited to the cold.4.Fire breaks out in Hardhome, and reaches a cache of Whale oil, resulting in fire reaching the forest, which burns and the resulting forest fire drives all the game far from hardhome, causing the few survivors to seek the only shelter left, the caves, and laking clothes(having been burnt and rendered unsuable) slowly freeze to death over six month, eating corpses until the run out.

One of the most interesting Lore stories in the series. So many solutions, and all of them make sense and can tie up to the current story. Hope it's something to do with the Army of the dead.....

What about wyrms? They’re known for dwelling underground and in caves…and there is evidence that there may be cave systems that even spread across the narrow sea….

Volcano, look at Iceland right now. It light up the sky at night and will be doing its thing for a while. Throw that kind of eruption into GoT with the superstition and you got a plausible answer. But was it natural or magic induced? That would be the question to ask.

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Cave dweling, fire using magical creature? My guess would be the fire wyrms that are said to live under valyria in the mines of the fourteen flames.

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Melisandre is from Hardhome, her POV chapter in A Dance With Dragons she remembers the destruction 600 years ago and she was sold as a slave Melanie Lot 7.

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i always thought it was an volcanic eruption of some kind, all that ash falling for so long and wide would be a clear sign of a volcano erupting.

The screams coming from the caves could easily be explained by the winds blowing through the caves. Survivors of Oxcross would tell you Rob and a bunch of his northmen transformed into wolves. "Words are winds"

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Hardhome and Volantis both got messed up at the same time. The white walkers and the red preists are linked by this. In the books at least.

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I thought a volcano erupted tbh. Or idk Rhollor himself came down and killed everyone.

Given the history of Hardholme it seems unlikely that the wildlings would have massed there or get cornered by an undead army or not even have one sentry that would have easily seen an army of undead coming at them

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I think the Hardhome disaster was caused by a volcanic event: a volcanic eruption would explain the fire, tha ashes and the "sun rising from the north" plus the "screams from the caves" could have been smoke and steam flowing at high speed through the caves producing sound like a wind instrument. In alternative it could have been a meteor, something similar to the Tunguska Event in Siberia; huge explosion, as bright as the sun, massive shockwave that flattened 80 million trees but no impact crater; it was registered by seismic stations as far as the UK and Indonesia.

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never knew the hist of hardhome. ty for the vid.

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After he raised the dead, I imagined the Nightking looking at Jon Snow and saying “ Be seeing you Jon”

Winds of Winter prologue chapter has gotta be at Hardhome! Cotter Pyke POV possibly.

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i think it was the children of the forest. they live in caves and keep humanoids (probably other children of the forest) trapped down there. They might have captured the people of hardhome and used them as sacrifices for magical purposes. Or the children could have made paste out of them.

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The others don't make to have destroyed hardhome cause they would have to go all the way round to it in secret and used fire, when fire is one of their weaknesses

I suspect what happened to Hardhome was one of 2 things: 1) some Valyrian Dragonriders decided to go west and explore the lands beyond the wall for slaves to get, and Hardhome was the only one north of the wall, one well known enough it did trade with Essos. However, while they were trying to conquer and enslave them all, they forgot that wildings and first men have something they never had or imagined: Warging. Warging is fairly common place north of the wall, and it stands to reason if we go by the logic magic declined after the doom worldwide, then it would have been even more common. While under attack, some wilding wargs, much like Varymyr in the books, tried to warg into the dragons, as some wargs can warg into 6 or more animals at once. But dragons are magic, huge, and magically bonded to the valyrians. This caused the dragons to freak out, some attacking each other, while others simply went berserk, and started burning indiscriminately, and because Hardhome was coastal, and a town, and it stands to reason they would trade for or hunt for whale blubber and oil, this caused the stored barrels to spill then ignite, which resulted in a highly large explosion that destroyed the town, killed most if not all the dragons, and alerted the nights watch. And one dragon or more survived, and went feral and mad from the episode, hiding in the caves where it grabbed and stashed any survivors to eat, explaining the horrific screams, perhaps it's wings were too damaged to ever fly again and thus it had to stay there, and thus the nights watch never saw it. This then is why the valyrians didn't try to invade westeros, because one survivor might have made it back and told of the nightmare of men who could control their dragons with their minds. But of course by the time of Aegons conquest, this was forgotten and the ability to warg had become restricted to only beyond the wall so no first men south of the wall could do this or knew they could. However, we do know that Alysanne's dragon never would go beyond the wall, implying a ancestral memory in the dragons remained of the dangers of wargs. 2) They were meddling with magic beyond them and woke up something ancient and dangerous, like a snow dragon or such, essentially causing a mini doom of valyria, perhaps the spell went wrong, perhaps the wrong blood used, whatever the case the result was Hardhome vanished instantly.

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Ash raining down for months sounds like a volcano or meteroide

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Massacre at Hardhome is almost certainly my favorite GoT episode, and given how little of it has taken place in the books, I'm expecting something horrific and amazing in the book

I think 600 yrs ago it was a volcano that killed Hardhome, and left ash falling for half a year. The screams from the cave could be gasses or superheated water escaping from vents in the caves. Could even be flammable gas, which could then make fires. Even the dead things in the water could be bodies turned to stone, ala Pompeii. I think the same for Valyria; this does not rule out magical destruction of V, but rather could be the means by which the magic worked.

Sounds to me like it could have been some sort of volcanic activity that wiped out hard home. The bright fire could have been from a volcanic explosion or eruption, which would also explain the ash falling for months after it happened and the "screams" in the caves could be gases escaping from below ground

I think snark(s) and grumpkin(s) is a word play, either by combining the letters of both words to make a new word or words I bet they spell out who was responsible for hardhome or the name of nights king or sometgin

It was likeliest a volcanic eruption. Plus fanciful additions as the story was retold and reretold.

I wonder if it was a practise run for the doom. To make sure the magic would work and keep it far enough away from Valyria to avoid tipping them off. I don’t who would have done this, the Measters or the faceless men or perhaps one of a hundred other enemies of the Valyrians

Does anyone know when Winds of Winter is dropping???

Hmm could have it been Ice Drsons? i heard there was once a long time ago Ice Dragons. What if they were in some kind of hibernation and proceeded to wake up? Although doesn't explain that much why people were dragged into the caves... unless perhaps for future meals ?

I like the theory that dragons came to Hardhome, though I still don't know why they would have gone there. Maybe they wanted Greenseers. But yes, why weren't they spotted? They could have gone a very eastern route through the Shivering Sea. Maybe Aegon conquered Westeros because he'd heard of the fight between the Valyrians and the Others three hundred years earlier. The caves are a mystery. Maybe screaming COTF? Still believe Mel is Melanie from Hardhome, too. I want those snarks and grumpkins!

Who ate them?!

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Maybe a testrun for the faceless to See what Wonders they could Work in the near future

That was the best episode of the series!!!

could it not be the same creatures in the volcanoes in valyria that could have caused the doom?

The channel Kevin Pendragon has two really good videos on Hardhome called The Harrowing of Hardhome. Very much recommend it (though I 💗 all of Why Create's videos, including this one).

I have a theroy what if it was a dragon but a rogue or free dragon. Don't always see how if a dragon is mentioned then everyone always thinks a valerian is riding it, we are told again an again that dragons a proud and smart creatures and that it took either long time a bloodline or some kind of magic to train and ride them. Wouldn't be so hard to think that if a dragon didn't want to be inslaved it would fly away from the Valerian empire. The dragons would like to hide in the cave and have been shown to eat humans.. an after all the humans where it could have just moved on, a single dragon high would have been easy to miss coz nights watch don't look up in the sky, they only think too look down for invaders

I think a practice round for the Valyrian Doom was going on at hardhome. Maybe some Fire wyrms help? But I doubt it's grumpkins. My out there theory is...wights came and the children blew up a volcano with their earth moving magics (not fire magic, earth magic as usual for them) and tried to kill them all. They love a good sacrifice too. Maybe it was a two birds one stone thing for them that went terribly wrong and sent the wights into war mode instead of killing them. I bet grrm dies and we never know at this rate 😭

Nice

I love ASoIaF but dayum it's such a paranoid story.

Children of the forest inhabited these caves. The building of a town north of the wall was an outright declaration of war on them and they used their magic to cleanse the land, took the remaining wildlings into their caves and tortured them horribly. Their magic is as bloody as the Valyrian's.

I've always assumed it was a volcano being implied that destroyed Hardhome. But I'd forgotten about the part saying some were taken as slaves so yea that makes sense it may have been the Valyrians. But is there any other evidence Valyrians roamed that far away? They couldn't even find Bravoos and the city wasn't necessarily hidden, just far away.

I think Melisansdre was a wildling & was somewhat responsible for Hardhome knows what happened when the Doom of Valyria came.

I think maybe there was an undead Dragon like Viscerion in the show living in the caves under hardhome, and the bustling town growing over it upset/awakened the Dragon, which burned down the town and returned to the caves.

Could it be wild dragon. Following the people into the caves

Curiously, although the Valyria riders would not raid in such a deceptive manner. It does resemble a surgical strike. I won’t pretend to understand the world beyond the wall. But I like to think there was something or someone significant enough to warrant the attention of Valyria. Perhaps Essos is still connected to Westeros.

Would be interesting if the Others are actually an alien species which crash landed at Hardhome. Then they would have likely came from the "other" moon (pun intended) which once orbited Planetos before it exploded, likely from a meteor. A piece of this meteor may have then landed in Westeros, which is what Dawn is forged from.

If you could sail to Hardhome...would you go??? Just to see what’s up...?

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Great

Reminds me of a certain volcanic eruption that went down IRL

Hardhome was probably destoryed by a volcanic eruption. The description of the events is close to the similar incidents in the ancient past.

I suspect that Hardhome was destroyed during a battle with the Others, the Others probably ambushed the town surprising everyone there, the wildlings tried to fight back but got overrun by wights and used fire to burn them all but the fire got out of control and that doomed everyone.

What causes caves? Burrowing creatures. What is an in-universe burrowing creature with a tie to fire? The Fire Wyrms of the 14 flames.

Do you know Project Skyros?

What if they seen they were surrounded by the walkers/army if the dead and instead of joining the army of the dead some or all of them decided to burn everything down to deny the walkers

Hardhome happened somewhere around 300 bc. The doom of valyria happened somewhere around the aegon's conquest. And game of thrones is happening in 300 ac. Doom will come again. But i don't think it is the long night. It would have to do something with fire. Question is where would it be? My suspects. Destruction of Oldtown (euron greyjoy) Destruction of dragonstone (eruption of its volcano) Destruction of the wall (the joramum's horn) Asshai (maybe ) Sorry for my wrong English

Well if the next book isn't like the show then we can maybe hope for a rewrite (not that they're willing to)

what about alchemists

Could the mountain kill ser arthur dayne?

Sounds like a volcano..?

we will never get winds of winter :c

How about a volcanic eruptions at hardhome?

GRRM has written of underground volcanic shaft that reaches Winterfell but not the location of volcanoes in the North. Perhaps the source can be found at the Northern edge of the Frostfangs and the Haunted Forests. Hopefully Jon Snow survives and is able to use these volcanoes as a resource where the Valyrians only found their “Doom”.

The most plausible theory is also the most realistic. It’s pretty likely Hardhome got destroyed by a volcano and the survivors eaten by cannibals(the screams). Think of Pompeii but GOT inspired.

Maybe this tragedy is related to the Three eye raven

I mean, I feel like this is an implication of a volcano.

perhaps hardhome got so big that valyrians worried that it might make to many white walkers from their children, whit walkers came from the caves to sack them but the dragons came

Why don’t wildlings go to skagoes

rickon is dead in the tv series though shot by ramsay bolton as hes running to jon or is this just the books.

Would you ever talk about new houses that have been established over the course of the books and their context? Like House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep, House Lannister of Darry and House Thenn

I hope season 8 explains this event. I think S8 is going to Be great

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