The Cost of a Magical Bloodline: First Men Blood, Weirwoods & Sacrifices | ASoIaF Theory

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🍁🩸 Theory about the Green Powers of the First Men 🍁🩸
📝Chapters:
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:38 What counts as a blood sacrifice and what doesn’t?
- 07:23 Green Powers & Humans
- 15:32 Children of the Forest, Crannogmen & Free Folk
- 22:34 Skinchanging is not Hereditary
- 24:40 Heart Trees, Free Folk & King’s Blood
- 35:53 Outro
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- ASoIaF book series, The World of Ice and Fire, The Hedge Knight Novels, Fire & Blood
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- Credits on Screen
- Thumbnail: Varamyr riding his snow bear - by Alex Aparin, Jon by TeiIku
- Intro Illustrations by Magali Villeneuve & Sam Hogg from ASOIAF Calendars
*Keywords:* Theory, house stark, ASOIAF, A Song of Ice and Fire, asoiaf theories, jon snow, children of the forest, green powers, dream, direwolves, heart trees, weirwoods, bran stark, arya stark, robb stark, ghost, nymeria, summer, shaggydog, Rickon stark, House Gardener, House Blackwoods, First Men, Varamyr, Free Folk

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@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

28:13 BONE?! Edit: Captions are ready!

@fayperce 4 месяца назад

Rip Andre Braugher, he was a legend!

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the algorithm boost tho!

@lydp2573 4 месяца назад

@@Luca.Bruschetta well, these are free weirwood groves mate, not godswoods belonging to certain houses/families with a "main" weirwood tree.

@Random1208 4 месяца назад

Mance Rayder is a commoner, but is said to have "blood of the king" anyway. Blood's only role in magic is to boost the confidence of people with the inherited ability to use it. We don't "see" wargs and greenseers south of the Wall because feudalism keeps commoners tied to farms regardless of their intelligence or talents, with almost no chance to rise above their peasant status.

@johnnycrown5097 3 месяца назад

More point to prove her theory, remember, the weir wood tree died in the eyrie when it was transplanted by the modern southerners, almost like they treated it like a real tree and thought you could just move a them that way...

@yggdrasil2 4 месяца назад

The idea of king's blood being considered magic because kibgs used to be magic is a brilliant one!

@SingingSealRiana 4 месяца назад

My thought was that since the wildlings take great care to steal women from far away and such, make sure to not interbreed the genes are way less likely to meet up, the blood is thinned and it can not really be tracked the way it is "easely" trackable with the highborn in westeros. And since skinchangers are outsiders to wildling societies ITS unlikely for them to pass the gift on unless they are a varamyr

@J_Mock92 4 месяца назад

I definitely see what you're saying, but I also think the explanation in the video (especially towards the end) makes a lot of sense. Even if it isn't "random" and has always had at least some chance of being passed on to one's offspring, I can definitely see the logic behind it becoming more and more "hereditary" over time if only certain bloodlines are given as sacrifices to the Weirwoods. Whether it was always hereditary or completely random, it's still limiting the potential "candidates" to the noble Houses of Westeros that worship and sacrifice to the Old Gods. It's definitely an interesting theory. I wonder how it affects the smallfolk of Westeros though, cuz we don't really know much about their religious practices (especially in the North), right?

@HisameArtwork 4 месяца назад

this sounds more logical, but I doubt George's magic is logical, seems to me like it's more symbolic. so my bet it's more spiritually transactional like Cat said. with Starks, Boltons and Blackwoods establishing monopolies in the past. I wonder in what state the Bolton heart tree is and how the Baratheons still have a whole one but the Blackwood's is dead. and HotD changed it to where now Targs have one in their back yard??? Implications are so massive, casuals don't get why we're so fixated on it.

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

His brother was a skinchanger, the odds of that are astronomical when the context of the free folk are taken into consideration. This whole video is incorrect from the start until the end

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

Damn yall I was wrong on that, my bad 😢

@johnnycrown5097 3 месяца назад

@Oliver-zy8sq 4 месяца назад

The Starks defenetely did blood magic. In one chapter bran is looking through the weirwood in winterfell, going back in time and witnesses a blood sacrifice. Someone is killed in front of the weirwood and bran looking through the weirwood tastes the blood as it sinks into the ground.

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Oooh yeah, and not only that, the person doing the sacrifice is described as white haired woman, he doesn't say old, so there is a possibility we are talking ice related stuff.

@iwark 4 месяца назад

I never considered that the waif gave up not only her ability to have children, but also her ability to develop into an adult.

@iwark 4 месяца назад

Also I don't think the weirwood faces change north of the wall. Sam specifically says that the weirwood seems smaller than the one in whitetree, and that he thinks all wildling villages look the same

@justmhr7598 4 месяца назад

Death becomes Her

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Yeah, I am not sure I think we could be sure about that only if we saw what happened when varamyr got into the weirwood, but we didn't, bc George😂. In this one passage he says it looks smaller, but also that the face looks different at least to him because they had been in this place before and that there were also tears. Idk what is going on there exactly, but something seems off.

@iwark 4 месяца назад

@@CompanyOfTheCat for reasons of story symmetry I think it should be Whitetree: They passed that way on their march north and Sam kinda retraces their steps. But we don't have any solid evidence for it, because Sam is an unreliable narrator who is exhausted and terrified and thus might not remember exactly how large the tree was or what the face looks like. Im not seeing any real evidence for moving or changing faces on weirwoods, but this does in no way invalidate the theory, which I really liked :)

@bebethebard 4 месяца назад

Oooh, the heart trees being the key to hereditary skinchanging is very interesting

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

There's Hearttrees all over North of the Wall

@Ilargizuri 4 месяца назад

@@Luca.Bruschetta Wrong there are Weirwoodtrees not hearttrees! That is a different thing, in Riverrun is an Old Oak which is the hearttree, ... I think. Riverrun has no Weirwoodtree in their Godswood, thats for sure.

@SingingSealRiana 4 месяца назад

This is such an interesting concept, I will have to think this over

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

If you do some research on Heart trees you'll soon discover that this theory make no sense

@gerrys374 4 месяца назад

I was waiting for this since you uploaded the thumbnail yesterday, because I hadn't noticed it for some reason!

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

You would have been better off without bc this video makes no sense at all

@Ilargizuri 4 месяца назад

@@Luca.Bruschetta watch her other Stuff before your make a Comment like this, with her other Videos it makes a lot of Sense!

@sinthoras1917 4 месяца назад

Grumble grumble I want to watch this now, but I should really sleep

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

Save your time this video makes no sense at all

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

Based on inaccurate information

@johnnycrown5097 3 месяца назад

@eric2500 4 месяца назад

The people living celibate lives Septons and Septas, the Night's Watch and the Maesters and the Kingsguard are sacrificing potential lives as well - blood magic if you count the FM as blood magic.

@jasonmendoza2044 4 месяца назад

Awesome video!! Super glad I found you 🌊

@jolinefields3460 4 месяца назад

Another awesome video! Great theory well told and beautifully animated ❤🎉!

@gingercatqueen4368 4 месяца назад

RU-vid messing up and JUST gave me the notification for this video. 4 days later. 🤦‍♀️ And I have my notifications set for ALL.

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Sabotage

@Jonjzi 4 месяца назад

It's not an original thought, but I started to notice how a rusty iron sword would look like it was covered in blood. There's probably nothing more meaningful there, but I'm in the mood to speculate about how prophetic imagery can be misinterpreted.

@Luciana_McC_99 4 месяца назад

Im only 9 minutes in but this is amazing, i was really looking forward to this one. I hope all is well on your end. Enjoy the rest of your sunday. Best wishes always. 🤍

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

All thus info is based on false information about Heart trees. There literally everywhere North of the Wall

@billberndtson 4 месяца назад

This is an inane comment and adds nothing to the conversation but, I really like how you say "hi!" at the beginning of your videos. 🙂

@Ilargizuri 4 месяца назад

Great Video as always, thank you for your Work and I realized something during your Video. When Jon is attacked and the Mutiny in the Watch happens, he keeps Ghost in his Chambers because of Borroqs Boar. If King's Blood is Holy Blood, then Borroq as a Skinchanger should suffice as a Blood Sacrifice for Melissandres Magic. I mean she could use the last Kiss, but there is no indication that she uses this custom at any time. There were deaths in Stannis's surroundings where we could have seen that custom used by Melissandre, but she is called Melissandre from Asshai for a Reason. I think that the Reason is: To connect her and Mirri Maaz Duur, thanks to your Videos I realized that. Melissandre will use Blood Magic to revive Jon's Body and Ghost will take care of Jon's Spirit.

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Oooh yeah, I think it could count. Or patchface, or anyone "holy" really. Euron has a whole priest stash in his ship.

@90745piper 4 месяца назад

Outstanding 👍👍 I feel this story will not ever find an end no one is wearing the white hat nor black all sides wear the gray hats, so I feel this world will continue in fan fiction long after George has left us, much like he himself carries on with Lovecraft plots in hid work

@eric2500 4 месяца назад

The weirwoods reproduce or regrow from the root system - like mushrooms, like that dang weed tree in my back yard!

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

We were thinking the same thing with my sister as well!

@marblubb7289 4 месяца назад

Really enjoyed this video and the theory is plausible and consistent. There is one snag though, Robb Stark. All the Stark children are wargs but Robb was born and conceived in Riverrun. With the wedding, bedding and birth all done so far away from the Winterfell Heart Tree, shouldnt he have been cut off from their bloodlines magic?

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Not really no. Jon was not conceived in Winterfell either. I think that the Weirwoods are connected to their bloodlines just that, so they have a magical bloodline. The place of birth or where the parents canoodled plays no role in that.

@marblubb7289 4 месяца назад

@@CompanyOfTheCatOh right, i completely forgot about Jon not being conceived or born in Winterfell either. Which now makes me wonder if a Stark who never even visited Winterfell, aka raised in Essos Jon fanfics, would be connected enough to their bloodlines magic. There has to be a distance limit or the Blackwoods wouldnt have had to do the things you theorised in your video on them.

@RandomGuy-lu1en 4 месяца назад

not sure if skinchanging isn't hereditary. It's maybe hereditary from the mother.

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

The issue with the hereditary from the mother has the same issues pretty much. Apart from the fact that they should have been more, after so many thousand years, they would have noticed if the kids of female skinchagers were magical, but that of men were not. Even if we accept that women had fewer kids, still after so many thousand years someone would have noticed and there would be way more skinchangers above the wall.

@RandomGuy-lu1en 4 месяца назад

@@CompanyOfTheCat The fact that Lysas son is magical aswell isn't just a coincidence I think. And since all (or all but one) of the skinchangers from beyond the wall are male maybe the females pass it on without being skinchangers themselves. I don't think GRRM tosses that piece of information for no reason when the skinchangers meet jon

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

There are female skinchangers over the wall though. Briar and Grisella were both female and no one finds it more weird or peculiar, in general, we meet way more male characters than female skinchangers and non-skinchngeres so I am not sure if this is the best metric system.

@HisameArtwork 4 месяца назад

@@CompanyOfTheCat more male skinchangers representation may be due to war time males are expendable front line meat ... or oversight by George like wives of noblemen never being even named even though they come with important doweries and bonuses.

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

@@CompanyOfTheCatyou have skinchanging brothers what else do you need?

@Hanklerfishies 4 месяца назад

YOOOOO 😮😮😮😮😮😮

@alexandergangaware429 4 месяца назад

'They are a small people, because they subsist mostly on animal protein, and not on cereals...' Um, what? That might be Yandel's most ridiculous line, and he managed to stumble past the Summer Islanders' origin in Sothoryos without noticing

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Yandel is wilding in some passages so hard😂

@eric2500 4 месяца назад

Wait a sec BRAN was a healthy kid before his fall. Did some Force....force Jamie's hand?

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

I don't think so, I think that Bran was a little bit of a ok, that happened situation personally. I think Brynden wanted through Ghost to start communicating with Jon who is also a warg, a very strong one, and would go north of the wall as well. But Bran fell and being in a coma for so long started to talk with Brynden. Ok, tinfoil hats off 😂

@durrangodsgrief6503 4 месяца назад

@@CompanyOfTheCatok i wonder if brynden had back ups in each stark in case something went wrong like jon dying hed go for bran or rickon

@storsolo 4 месяца назад

Intriguing title, i look forward to see this tommorow. I need to go to sleep. Haha😅 Good night ❤

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

Do some research on Heart trees first and then watch the video. You'll soon realize this video makes no sense at all thus invalidating the entire "theory" proposed

@totalCoolerUsername 4 месяца назад

@@Luca.BruschettaUff why are you so insecure Luca? What hurt you? 😂😂😂

@viliflor1120 4 месяца назад

Τέλειο βίντεο!! Μήπως μπορείς να κανείς ένα βίντεο και για το 8ο κεφάλαιο της Άρυα στο asos;; Σχετικα με την επαφή της με το φάντασμα του high heart και με τον ned Dayne;; Αισθανομαι ότι ο Τζόρτζ δίνει πολύ πληροφορία για αποκωδικοποίηση σε αυτό το κεφάλαιο 😅

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Αμέ. Και για τα οράματα του Μπραν στο Ντανς έλεγα να κάνω και γενικά... ✨ οράματα ✨

@viliflor1120 4 месяца назад

Τελειααα περιμένω πως και πως 🫶🫶🙌

@justmhr7598 4 месяца назад

If Kingsblood was actually not Magical , but MagicUser Blood was Magical , that would feed into euron Using Priests and Dany Burning MMduur

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

yeah, these two the reason that king's blood as in a random king, doesn't sound exactly correct.

@durrangodsgrief6503 4 месяца назад

If the power was gained due to Heart trees then how bloody powerful were the gardener greenseers given they have tgree heart trees so large they look like one tree

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

I mean a lot, Garth was so strong that was considered a god and in the world book they say this: "And yet there was a difference, in degree if not in kind, for almost all of the noble houses of the Reach shared a common ancestry, deriving as they did from Garth Greenhand and his many children. It was that kinship, many scholars have suggested, that gave House Gardener the primacy in the centuries that followed; no petty king could ever hope to rival the power of Highgarden, where Garth the Gardener's descendants sat upon a living throne (the Oakenseat) that grew from an oak that Garth Greenhand himself had planted, and wore crowns of vines and flowers when at peace, and crowns of bronze thorns (later iron) when they rode to war. Others might style themselves kings, but the Gardeners were the unquestioned High Kings, and lesser monarchs did them honor, if not obeisance." This line along with the oakensit info together is pretty sus.

@Troktika 4 месяца назад

Another great video Cat, you know the weirwoods being undead trees got me thinking. Could it be that the first Andals that came to westeros (the most fanatical of them all) thought that the weirwoods were the evil undead to destroy in there visions? and only after the long night they realise thath they wrongly interpreted the profecy, like everybody else in this strory.

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

Then why do Andal descendants follow the seven ?

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

The answer btw is "NO!"

@olympiakos1262 4 месяца назад

επιτέλους *ΠΕΡΙΜΕΝΟΥΜΕ ΣΤΑΝΝΙΣ*

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Τι νααα κάνω, το ίντερνετ σέρνεται λόγο καιρού Θα έρθει κι αυτό μαζί με κάποια άλλα character analysis!

@leannepowell8709 4 месяца назад

Wow @Luca.Bruschetta aggressive much!

@CatOfADifferentCoat 4 месяца назад

Cousin, that's a nice new coat - I mean, profile picture!

@sinthoras1917 4 месяца назад

Interesting video. Did you watch David Lightbringer's new video on green weirwoods yet? If you did, what do you think?

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

She must have to come up with this theory! Straight up pulled from the void! Non of it makes sense

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

No, I have seen that he has come out with it, but I haven't checked it out yet.

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

@CompanyOfTheCat I owe you like one million apologies, please disregard my comments and keep pushing out these videos. I am mentally unwell 😫 that's no excuse for being a ××××

@void.lawyer 4 месяца назад

Dead things in the wood. Dead things in the water.

@behurastudio 4 месяца назад

WEIRWOODS!!!!!!!!!!

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

Jon and Sam took their vows North of the Wall under a Heart tree.

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

What is going on? Are yall doing literally any research before pulling therioes out of the void ?

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Jon calls it Heart Tree along with other people south of the wall like Mormont, because he calls every single weirwood a Heart Tree, but a Heart Tree is not always a weirwood and is located in a Godswood which is inside castles. The free folk do not call them Heart Trees and also do not have godwoods or personal trees.

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

@@CompanyOfTheCat Yeah I didnt dispute that Cat, what Im saying is that Heart tress are north of the wall. Its just a tree with a carved face! Theyre everywhere including north of the wall. Its got a carved face? Heart tree most likely

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

@@CompanyOfTheCat Because most weirwoods are Heart trees omg girl read the books and take notes

@jasonroos8431 4 месяца назад

Gatekeep gaslight greenhand

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

What about Whitetree?

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

It is a whole village, with a lot of people not a single castle that only one family buried their dead like south of the wall

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

@@CompanyOfTheCat It has a heart tree!!! "Above the village towers an enormous old weirwood tree. Its trunk is nearly eight feet wide and its branches shade the village. The jagged mouth of the heart tree's carved face is a large enough to swallow a sheep." Just fix the video dude Im subscribed and liked some of your earlier vids but this just makes no sense

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Fix what exactly? If you don't like it cool, if you don't agree again, cool. Don't watch it. I am fairly sure you don't understand what I mean at this point. They call all the weirwoods with faces, weirwoods and are for everyone. The free folk don't call them Heart Trees, this is a term used by people south of the wall and we also don't see people having a weirwood only for the family.

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

Okay yeah, it all makes sense now thank you!

@rosstemby1347 4 месяца назад

Fuckn nice work! Top stuff

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

" In their entire class, Jon and Sam are the only Night's Watch inductees to take oath under a Heart Tree north of the Wall, which speaks to how few people still worship the Old Gods. The fact that it's located north of the Wall makes venturing to it considerably dangerous" "Most weirwoods have faces carved into their trunks (making them Heart trees). This was done by the children of the forest in ancient days, and is now done by the free folk as well as other descendants of the First Men"

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

VARAMYRS BROTHER WAS A SKINCHANGER!!!!!

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

no, but ok😂

@leannepowell8709 4 месяца назад

@Luca.Bruschetta maybe you ought to follow your own advice and read the books and do some research 😂😂

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

I WAS WRONG ABOUT THIS! OKAY LETS SEE THIE CAT DO THE SAME THO

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

@@leannepowell8709 🐑 🐏 🐑 🐏 🐑 🐏 🐑 🐏 🐑 🐏 🐑 🐏 🐑 🐏 🐑

@Luca.Bruschetta 4 месяца назад

My name is Luca I live in North Reading Massachusetts hmu boo let's chat

@HaroldTheHerald 4 месяца назад

Good content but can you find someone else to narrate. Accent is way to thick

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

Kinda hard to do that sorry 😂 I'm Greek and even if I could find another person to read the scripts I write, most likely would be Greek as well. I have captions in all of the videos for that reason if it makes it easier. Thanks for watching, glad you liked the content ❤️

@rosstemby1347 4 месяца назад

Do you think we should apply some lie, true, true, true lie tests to some other mythos and see if it holds true anywhere? Like the important part of the night king story was he was a ‘stark’. Or it was Bran the builder mentioned second for the wall but not for storms end or the Hightower.

@CompanyOfTheCat 4 месяца назад

That is actually a great video idea!