The Grey King: Secret PreHistory of the Ironborn - A Song of Ice and Fire - Game of Thrones 

This is so cool! TIL, thanks!

Hmm defo doesn't apply to all meteorites. Some have compounds that can only be produced at high heats and pressures.

@@j3fr0ukthat heat is not coming from entry friction, but from massive collisions in the early solar system.

Cool!

Now that's hella cool

oh I never thought about the roots being the mouth of the tree. that's dope

@@DavidLightbringer A tree is gravity's nutritional battering ram against the earth. Discuss

@@alexandergangaware429 Surely it's more the case that a tree is the earth's nutritional battering ram against gravity?

You know crazy weird though what if the Pearl throne is like a preposterous huge ambergris marble. Then it's made of like leviathan whale vomit and ground kraken squid teeth. Turned into... perfume?

@@MrHws5mp Don't call me Shirley

yeah so I watched a great doc about the Thule, that's where I learned about the Cape York / Anghito meteor. It didn't occur to me that that meeting might have been an inspiration for Ironborn history tho, cool idea

@@DavidLightbringer I've always had this feeling that Westeros is a bit like a historical "what if" of what the Americas would be like if Europeans had colonized them in the Medieval period instead of the Renaissance... but also magic and dragons.

Oh, beautiful!

He really gets the ideas buzzing

Same if I got a long drive I just put lightbringer on and the drive goes quick

If youve read Snowcrash maybe you also got the same impression from Ancient Sumeria due to how it's discussed? I did but i cant be sure im justified in that

I should get a copy of it

SO I KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT 🦑

@@DavidLightbringer Definitely. It's part of a trilogy starting with The Courtyard, ending with Providence. As GRRM shows the grim reality of feudal existence so Moore shows the 'reality' of what Lovecraft implies. There's a shit load of forced skinchanging in there as well. That bit's mostly riffing on Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep, involving an Innsmouth deep one hybrid.

You need to if you have a Samsung device like me

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I thought the same, until I watched LML I thought Naga's Bones were actual dragon bones used for the hall

tbh.... we don't know how the squishers spawn, no

I was thinking something along the same lines - maybe she lays clutches rather than individual babies 🤔

I was also wondering this

Like in Futurama?

@@FlorianMark Cavorting in the spray

Hey dear! GRRM is Karl Marx fan?

thank you so much!

oh he'll be back

these are the colors I paint with

@@DavidLightbringer the primary colors of a true hero

it wasn't a 'section of land.' it was an entire area that took up the entire north sea.

@@pyropulseIXXI calm down ffs. I am well aware of the size of it, as is anyone who has heard about it. lol. I am by no means referring to the U.S. Public Land Survey System when I say "section of land." So, there are no units of measurement associated with that phrase in my context.

You also have the sunken landmass of Sundaland around Indonesia.

I would say that Westeros’s equivalent to Doggerland would be the stepstones and the surrounding land which was destroyed by the Hammer of the Waters edit: I originally said ‘The Hammer of Dorne,’ I realized my mistake and fixed it

@@zhun9989 The step stones would be more analogous to the northern land bridge that humans used to enter the Americas or the land bridge they used to enter South America from North America. Where as the Iron Islands being once connected to Westeros is almost a perfect match for the British isles once being connected to Europe (Doggerland).

_A chance for those random nāga fun facts I read on Wikipedia to finally show their valor_ In Java, the nāga are often associated to _kris,_ highly prized blades, forged from a meteor that present Damas steel-like patterns (Valyrian steel's inspiration). The daggers can be adorned with a nāga, here representing a dragon, symbol of rivers, springs and waterfalls. Naga = Azor Ahai confirmed! Take _that,_ Ser Pounce!

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AND THE WATERS OF WRATH WILL RISE HIGH

Maybe the whole of Planetos is just a mote of dust on the floor of some cosmic factory, the long night is when they havea pwer cut and the cataclysmic moon meteors are just sparks from a careless welder...

I hope he gets a job someday! Would be hilarious to see him deal with that

There might be a summer job going in a hall somewhere....

Urrigon is the big one - that's also the name of Uthor Hightower's heir

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yes! a couple smart people have mentioned as well! Such a badass title too, and Mance deserves it

also, "The Ned"

that's very possible, I just didn't want to let the Weirwood throne thing out of the bag yet haha

many thanks!

I don't think that makes a lot of sense - that he's mixing shade and weir wood, but we do not know. also I think Amanda has that one reversed; the oily stone is what poisoned the shade trees. We agree they are connected, it's just which way the causality flows

ABOMINATION

I need more time 😭😭😭

I wonder if there's a bit of inspiration from Brian Aldiss's Heliconia series there? In those books, there's a space station from Earth orbiting a planet full of primitive humans, the eccentric orbit of which causes them to go through long cycles of rise and fall. The Station-dwellers spend their whole lives in a sterile, steel and plastic envionment (there's no FTL travel so "going home" would mean dying on the way) and although their standard of life is objectively safer and better, they have a lottery each year in which the winners get to go down to the planet permanently. The local viruses and bacteria, to which they have no immunity, kill them within a matter of months (which is why the station-dwellers can't just move to the planet wholesale), but for that precious, limited time, they get to touch real grass, breath real air, smell everything from flowers to cow dung for the first time, eat fresh food, get drunk and screw around. You might imagine an undersea base full of the descendents of GEOTD scientists having a similar longing for "real life", however primitive and dangerous, and they'd also need regular infusions of new blood to avoid inbreeding, hence the dark tales of fishy, rubbery, "squishers" (humans in diving gear?) abducting coastal people for mating purposes.