What is Blood Magic?

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What is Blood Magic in the world of Ice and Fire, and how does it work? Is a king’s blood really all that powerful? We got a couple of extra hints in House of the Dragon, so let’s take a look.
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@tombullard123 Год назад

Interestingly 3 people with kings blood: viserys, rhaego, and drogo are are killed in close proximity to her 3 dragon eggs before they hatch. With the gold and white one being directly referenced before viserys is killed. Its also the first egg to hatch. Then rhaego is the second to die in the tent where her eggs are kept (rhaegal hatches second). Finally drogo (closest in nature to a king) is killed after blood magic is used on him. Drogon hatches last and its stated the power/sound of egg cracking “shakes the world” immediately being referenced to as the strongest. The colour schemes seem to fit too with viserion being white and gold like viserys when drogo poured molten gold over his head. Green and bronze for rhaego, with the blood magic that took his life using a bronze sacrifice knife, though we didn’t see much of rhaego so i think the green is significant the dragons future. Red and black are fitting for drogo, hes often associated with black, red could be the blood magic that ended him.

@ruthanneseven Год назад

@tombullard: Your breakdown is the most reasonable one presented, for so many reasons. Otherwise this concept of "blood magic" just sounds wicked and mysterious, like gratuitous violence.

@someguy4405 Год назад

Drogo's horse was called "his red".

@eric2500 Год назад

Drogo's life is saved in a technical sense only. Only his physical shell was saved, but nothing of him that made him a Dothraki, a khal, a husband, a LIVING person, so Dany sacrifices him..he is her last sacrifice and her first real one. It's not a real sacrifice unless you give something up. She has already sacrificed her brother (her past) (by abandoning the idea that he will ever get beyond himself enough to learn to offer respect to Drogo and the Dothraki,) she has already sacrificed her child (her future, a future) (by letting the ritual to "save" Drogo take place, she really did know at some level that the horse would not do it) but relieving Drogo of the pale imitation of life is the first time she takes full responsibility and real risks. In that moment, she is freeing him and not thinking about how she might be treated by his angry blood riders. She gives up her safety in a brutal culture that is not even hers. Only later does she remember the stirrings in the eggs and figures out how to hatch them in fire - and blood.

@eric2500 Год назад

Green is a good color for dragons!

@MrFirefox Месяц назад

This is crazy. Thanks

@VukoSrach Год назад

We need a lot of blood magic to be sure that Martin will ever write last two books

@neuralmute Год назад

Are you suggesting that fans "donate" blood to GRRM's writing? That's an interesting justification for serial murder/establishment of a death cult... On the other hand, it would be a great motivation for an *actual* blood drive - donate to save lives and see ASOIAF be finished!

@margaretwordnerd5210 Год назад

@@neuralmute ASOI&F blood drive is a great idea!

@ry8539 Год назад

@@margaretwordnerd5210not really lol.

@headshead338 Год назад

I’ve already given up on a dream of spring

@business_casual_rex Год назад

He's going to be 6 feet under before he finishes

@carlrood4457 Год назад

Maybe the whole "King's Blood" thing is more about the belief of the practitioner than of the actual status of the sacrifice. Because the mage believes it's more powerful, it becomes so due to that belief. Think of it increasing their focus. The Targaryens became kings due to conquest. The same is true for Robert Baratheon. Robb was proclaimed king by the northerners. Stannis only really has his army and relationship with Robert. Could the Varys' quote "Power resides where men believe it does" be more than about politics? Does the number of followers or "believers" in a king make the blood more powerful. If so, what about a religious leader like the High Sparrow? He's a king of sorts. He has followers and wields tremendous political power.

@kagekun1198 Год назад

So, power resides where men believe it resides.

@viktorberecz27 Год назад

It's a lot like in Neil Gaiman's American Gods or the gods of Theros from the Magic the Gathering Multiverse. In both cases, the amount of followers affects how powerful a god is.

@fistimusmaximus6576 Год назад

think it may be that and more, Possibly how much influence that person may have on history would empower the spell. If you sacrifice someone who no matter how slim may have become someone of note/change the course of history in the future the greater the spell that will effect the present.

@yvindblff5628 3 месяца назад

I suspect that it has something to do with power. Or more precisely, potential power. Any unknown blue-blooded commoner, a "Gendry-like", if you will, has more potential power than his peers by virtue of his relationship with the nobility. That'd remain true, even if he was the bastard son of a lesser house, too. It is possible for any "Gendry" in the world to leverage that in his favour. The more potential power someone has, by virtue of all current circumstances at play, their predilections, ambitions, skills and handicaps, the greater the power of their blood. Rob Stark wasn't just named king, the people naming him *trusted* him. They saw him as their king. Their sovereign ruler. I can imagine that as something that might impart power to blood. Faith. The more power other people believe you have, the more potent a fuel for magic your body would become. In any case, Rob could have lived to radically restructure the power dynamic of the Seven Kingdoms, with but a closer eye on the politics of his bannermen. I'd call that quite powerful. Potentially.

@rustyshackleford8022 Месяц назад

Melly is shown to be essentially incompetent. My take: Power in king's blood is an ancient adage she takes too literally. The Valyrians imbued their blood with magic as presumably did the Starks through human sacrifice and execution, the more powerful the ruler more blood sacrifice thus the more power through sacrificing them. Hence the adage.

@sheenydonut Год назад

I always figured blood magic can be broken down in to simply: There are things out there, existing on a plane above ours, and they want something from you. And they will give you something in return if you appease them. What it is they want or what they will give you is not always clear tho, even among experienced mages. And you can accidentally make a bargain without even knowing it. (I honestly believe Daenarys accidentally cast such a spell when burning Drogo on a pyre)

@pyropulseIXXI Год назад

It is just a force field; it isn't conscious. This is like saying "the wifi works because the electromagnetic gods grant it so." The people of ASOIAF are messing with forces they do not understand; hence, they purport that the gods are granting this power rather than understanding it was what happens when you impinge upon the force field that is the lifeforce of all living things

@HOTD108_ Год назад

@@pyropulseIXXI This makes the most sense. There very much doesn't seem to be any higher consciousness, it's just a force.

@Raza_T1AO Год назад

Most of that sounds like religious worship/prayer and rules/sins.

@Jon.A.Scholt Год назад

@pyropulse7932 Are you trying to say Wifi isn't caused by the Electromagnetic Gods? Better not let them hear you blaspheme, or you won't be watching these videos much longer!

@ImReverseGiraffe Год назад

A better description would be Dany unknowingly bargaining her child's life for Drogo. She knew what she was doing by burning Drogo and Mirri Maz Duur

@alexanderkulich9094 Год назад

in second book, i noticed that magic is somehow connected to dragons. one of the alchemists in kings landing says that somehow the old spells are working and thats why they could create such a great amount of wildfire and this is after the dragons are born

@newnamesameperson397 Год назад

The red woman also said that her spells had become more potent and she didn't have to rely on tricks

@mattdavid716 Год назад

It’s mentioned dozens of times in the text, so glaringly obvious even the show runners thought to include it so yes good catch

@kalmes Год назад

Also mentioned in this video, starting at about 5:16

@Buford_T_Justice1 Год назад

Lord Varys said so himself. “Power resides where men believe it resides.” Kings Blood is powerful because everyone believes the King has all the power. The larger the number of people and the harder they believe in the power of their King the more powerful the blood magic is. This is why Khal Drogo’s death was powerful enough to wake dragons. At the moment of his death tens of thousands of Dothraki were riding the Khal Drogo choo choo.

@ry8539 Год назад

Kinda like beserk. The anime if you have read that. Evil is given power because people believe it has power.

@GBfanatic15 10 месяцев назад

actually at the moment of his death most of the khalasar had abandoned Dany already but it did make the ones who stayed the fiercest of her followers

@MrFirefox Месяц назад

@@ry8539anime is crap and stolen ideas from other crap

@jrbaxterstockman548 Год назад

I don't think the Dothraki truly despise blood magic when looked at in that way. Culturally rituals for events are very significant, like at Danny's wedding. They did say it isn't a dothraki wedding without some blood spilled. It seems they despise blood magic used as a weapon, or direct manipulation of life. They don't see evocations and large amounts of bloodshed followed by victory celebrations as blood magic.

@jackielinde7568 8 месяцев назад

Except that "blood spilled" doesn't mean it's a religious offering. It could be said that "it's not a redneck wedding if there's not a fist fight between the families and the police get called." I suspect the Dothraki saying meant that violence was a key part of their life, so of course it's going to be a key part of their wedding ceremony. It's bloodshed, not a sacrifice.

@marcusreading3783 Год назад

The thing with Magic involving sacrifice is that the sacrifices willingness can effect the outcome. An unwilling sacrifice would create powerful curses, while a willing one can create an unbreakable protection. The thing about a good Magic system is that it should be, at its core, morally neutral, with every aspect of it being capable of being used for good or ill.

@MrMythul Год назад

Kings blood is Targeryon blood. The Baratheons have a Targeryon ancestor. Assumedly any Valyrian noble would suffice. This is also why some people believe varys is a blackfyre. His root and stem were used for magic.

@Rosie-yt8nd Год назад

watching this i had a lightbulb moment about the Targaeryens and their sibling marriages. We associate inbreeding with being bad because of disease. Heck, there is a prominent belief its what caused Targ madness. But if their magical blood makes them LESS prone to disease, there is not much risk of inbreeding for them! in fact, incest marriages would potentially make them healthier because it doesnt dilute that property. If that is true, that would put all the Targ incest madness theories to rest and would make the "madness through dragon dreams" much more important. It would highlight the corrupting influence of power and believed noble causes. This would also mean by conforming to Westerosi standards, they made themselves more vulnerable, the misunderstanding due to culture adding to all the already lost knowledge that plagued the Targs in their diaspora

@eric2500 Год назад

Our author woild not have it all just one way though. I can easily see him, through the characters and the histories arguing that the excellent physical health comes at the expense of not so good mental health, especially that little thing that looks like a *hereditary combination of meglomania and pyromania!* Not what I want in a ruler or anyone with any level of power, actually!

@MiljaHahto 6 месяцев назад

Resistance to diseases doesn't equal resistance to mental health issues.

@elgus871 Год назад

My theory has always been based on the whole "power resides where men belive" line. I don't think Kings blood really exisists, I think it only exists because a large enough combined conscious all put belief into this idea of Royal blood (similar to how the Orks work on Warhammer 40k)

@jackielinde7568 8 месяцев назад

I'd argue that Daenerys eating the horse's heart was more "consuming the flesh" than blood magic. It's because those rituals seldom involve blood itself. It's the flesh and organs (usually hearts, lungs, brains, etc.) that holds the power the consumer is trying to get, not the blood. Otherwise, they would have given her a cup, glass, or goblet of blood to drink. Even Cannibalistic practices consume the flesh of their victims in order to get whatever powers or properties that person held. For horses, biologically speaking, hearts are one of the most important organs, with race winning horses having much larger hearts than the average. So a nomadic people depending on horses to survive, yes, a horse hear would contain very potent magic... just not blood magic. Now, sacrifices that involve blood, like the ones to the weirwood trees in the stories, or the real-life examples, like the story of Exodus (Hebrews painting their doorways in sheep's blood so the angel of death passed over their houses when looking for first born to slaughter.) or the sacrificial practices of people like the Incas, you could call that blood magic. The difference is here the blood is what's important, where in Daenerys's example, it was the flesh.

@Kujakuseki01 Год назад

I mean, it’s also fraudulent. The leeches Melisandre burned likely had nothing to do with the deaths of the 3 kings. She likely saw their deaths in the flames and then set up that scenario as a way to convince others that her blood magic was real, leading to convincing Stannis to want to burn Edric Storm.

@bananaforscale1283 Год назад

She killed Renly herself.

@korubi_eCSTatic Год назад

Melisandre was a true believer, admittedly she used tricks to enhance her mystical aura just as much as she used real magic (fancy dust up her sleeve for flair, but also birthing shadow babies), and she tended to misinterpret her visions according to her political bias, which is probably not great for a priestess. However just because she used flashy fake stage magic in her presentation doesn’t mean she was a complete fraud. She was a believer and worker of real magic but one with an agenda outside of R’hllorism and found a bit of the ol’ razzle dazzle useful in converting others to her cause.

@eric2500 Год назад

@@bananaforscale1283 Yeah, but she used sex magic to draw some life force from Stannis to create the shadow baby that did the deed.

@brittanyofhouseblackwood Год назад

Ever we learned of the Anogrion from Viserys and then when Amanda came out with her video about lava being petrified fire magic, I've been constantly thinking about how and why lava is a magical source and I came up with a theory that if you personify the planet like some do now, as "mother earth" then the molten lava would be the lifes "blood" of the planet. Because we know the earth's center is molten and lava flows through the whole planet sorta like blood flows through our veins, then by in using lava and actual blood sacrifice, you're not just using a human's life force you're also using the "blood" of "mother earth" to perform magic in a symbolic way...and we already saw George personify Westeros in the House of The Undying vision that Dany had of the 'beautiful woman being ravaged by 5 little men'....

@eric2500 Год назад

.....so dragonglass is blood of Planetos and explains its power to kill the Others?

@tombullard123 Год назад

I always thought it was about how important they are to you. The reason the sacrifice of nissa nissa was so powerful was because of the importance of her to azor ahai, Thats why kings blood is so powerful. Because of the idea it comes from a king, not necessarily the actual blood. You just think its someone super important which does in reality make it a great sacrifice( because everyone believes so) so the sacrifice is more powerful

@johnpotts8308 Год назад

I go with the slightly different view that it matters how many people think the person sacrificed is important. King's blood is the most valuable because people think Kings are important (and presumably, the more people he rules over, the more powerful the blood). By extension, that would make Khal Drogo's blood more valuable than Edric Storm's - Drogo may not be a King but has a lot of followers and while people know Edric is semi royal, nobody really thinks of him as being a King.

@archonambroseus Год назад

Yup. Ties in with the themes about power existing not as an objective force, but rather where people think it does. It seems magic is much the same. If enough people believe a thing is important or magical, then it is. This is how real world religions and governments function after all, so it's a firm and poignant base for a magic system.

@Mwezi828 Год назад

@@archonambroseus Power is "a shadow on the wall." And when they sacrifice that power, they can birth shadows.

@h1kup Год назад

Power resides where men believe it resides. Right?

@h1kup Год назад

Also that quote is from someone who was used in a blood magic sacrifice and is old enough to have researched it. + he found and tortured the warlock so he probably knows alot.

@xXImikoXx Год назад

Here's a video topic for you. If illyrio mopatis was supporting Aegon VI the entire time, then what was ultimately his plan for viserys and Daenerys?

@oliverrichardson7856 Год назад

Danny accidentally wiped Viserys’s blood onto the dragon eggs in vaes dothrak where ‘no blood can be spilled’. Loved this subtle detail.

@alexsmart5452 Год назад

My Theory on Valeria's Destruction. The Blood and Fire Mages became complacent, even careless in their work over the centuries, and the power and energy within the volcano was no longer controlled or controllable. It got out. But it wasnt the volcano but was something in the volcano. A demigod perhaps whose power and energy was being taken and suppressed that finally was freed and destroyed Valeria.

@TheLord-ce5wf Год назад

I am reminded of a quote from an old friend, "Power resides where men believe it resides." Poeple often put kings above that of ordinary men thus, their blood hold that power of belief

@Jazzinthedark84 Год назад

12:38 "Simply stabbing someone and praying is not magic. Even if you do it loudly and Even if you bring a lot of friends" You should put that on a t-shirt 😂😂😂😂😂

@john-ic5pz 3 месяца назад

I don't care for merch but I'd buy the heck outta that shirt! 😆👍

@eric2500 Год назад

Perhaps the king's blood theory really relates to the concept of sacrificing a powerful person, or someone near to that person, so Drogo, as a leader, qualifies for this purpose. After all they sacrifice the Year Kings in I think Pentos, and that man is an upper class person of some rank, right? Stannis is a leader, if not a king really. Craster might have some relation to the Starks of old, but he's not really a leader, so his king's blood is worth about average.

@Jon.A.Scholt Год назад

Craster's blood isn't even worth about "average", you shed that stuff in the name of the gods and you're getting struck by lightning!

@eric2500 Год назад

@@Jon.A.Scholt Sure, if you are talking Rhlor and whoever/whatever entity the Valeryian Blood Mages were calling. Some of the gods don't work that way.The weirwoods would want nothing to do with lightning - and they seem to accept any blood at all.

@caseywood9781 Год назад

Maybe they quenched their "vallarion" steel in blood instead of oil. I'm sure that's misspelled

@laurencote5949 Год назад

Robert, I must say you are my absolute favorite ASOIAF channel.. I love your style, and the quality speaks for itself. I think what I like most of all is your unique perspective... As with the Tower of Joy, Howland Reed and Ashara Dayne... Thank you so very much for all the brilliant work you put into In Deep Geek! 😊😊😊

@natedogg890 Год назад

The Faceless Men also require a payment of great value, not sure if this counts as blood magic, but it fits the theme

@AskMia411 Год назад

They also cut Arya‘s face before putting a new one on, so I’d say that definitely counts as blood magic

@BimRen246 Год назад

Melisandre may have said king's blood but in all the situations involving her, she used blood from people who descended from Targaryens. In reality, the dragonlord's blood is the king's blood

@Smarterthanyew Год назад

Gendry?

@Sienisota Год назад

@@SmarterthanyewRobert did have Targeryan blood, I think his great grandmother was Targeryan? But considering the Lords right and Targeryans have existed for centuries in Westros, pretty much everyone has a chance of having some Targeryan blood somewhere, if their ancestors had one pretty woman amongst them. Only the North men might not, because Dragons (and thus Targeryans) didn't do well in far North for any length of time.

@eric2500 Год назад

Not buying it. This author likes complicated reasons for things, not simple ones. And he is all, ALL about people convincing themselves that what they want to believe is actually right.

@Elephantnegotiationsociety Год назад

lightbringer was a dragon, not a sword. azor ahai bound nissa Nissan's soul to a dragon egg. the targaryans are tight with their dragons because their dead ancestors souls live inside them. Nanna vaegar really is one of their great great grandmas I bet.

@stardustgirl9336 Год назад

9:00 A lot of people forget but Robert, Stannis and Renly are actually third cousins of Daenerys. Their grandmother was a Targaryen and the founder of house Baratheon was also a Targaryen. So they actually have a strong Targaryen heritage

@eric2500 Год назад

If Shireen is sacrificed to bring back Jon, he'll be disgusted with whoever does this and any philosophy they hold. BTW it could be Val or some other Free Folk person who kills Shireen, maybe as a mercy killing. Val, for one, thinks it is the only decent thing to do with a diseased child, who, although pitiable, will die soonish and might spread the infection as far as the Free Folk know.

@eric2500 Год назад

Blood magic is a sacrifice of blood for power, but we are shown again and again that it is easier to offer someone else's blood - and that's not really a sacrifice!

@LuciferChapel1987 Год назад

King's blood = Valyrian blood = Golden Empire Of The Dawn DNA. All powerful magic comes back to the Golden Empire.

@i_am_stil_nameless. Год назад

11:29 ah yes the great and scary karkens from the deep

@pdderek Год назад

I hate the idea that hundreds of years of Targaryen efforts to birth dragons through any number of sacrifices were unsuccessful but this witch killed a horse and POOF! DRAGONNNNNS! miri wanted to kill them. Make them suffer. And dany hatched the dragons. Not some horse blood.

@john-ic5pz 3 месяца назад

I don't know if this man writes or not but his content is excellent storytelling in and of itself. ty my friend 🙏

@Bukejuice22 Год назад

I always thought that danys babys life was swapped with the dragon eggs since he had the wings of a bat and had been dead for years. Might be wrong but i like it.

@bore-osofmyr2539 Год назад

Thanks!

@alistersinclair4600 Год назад

woo! Love your stuff, great to catch this so early

@hugoCastellnaos Год назад

i think King blood power comes form the people that believe in the king, kind of like if everyone just throw a log on the fire, the more the people the higher the fire. I think this is why Melisandre first shadow was able to work, due to Robert just die and many of the people would believe that Stannis should be king. Then when there are 5 kings and the power of the belief of the Common people would be split, her kings blood magic was not strong anymore.

@treesuschrist1782 Год назад

I could be going COMPLETELY out off a branch here, but I think the idea of "kings blood" is more tied to potential. I dont know if its specifically tied to being a "crowned king", but rather we see that a select group of families always seem to have the most powerful, wise, or magically gifted people come from them, and those families are usually royalty in some way. Starks, Daynes, ect. I think the power comes from the potential of of the one who lost it. This would also kinda fit in with Drogo Rhaego. One was a king like figure with a seemingly long life of conquest ahead of him. The other was a prophies child with the potential to rule the world. I think this is also why we see people like Euron get involved with blood magic, as well as seemingly have some belief in "kings blood" having power if the preview chapter is to be taken into consideration. A child of his would have immense potential both as a king from the Greyjoy family as well as perhaps having the same magical prowess as his father. So even a still developing child would have near limitless potential, giving it an immense of power if used in blood magic.

@TheSirondil Год назад

The topic isn't that interesting but I just want to listen to his calming voice to close out a stressful friday

@Pottatow Год назад

Hope everything goes well!

@conor7575 Год назад

I wonder if the power of king's blood is the power of that person's potential. In hereditary positions that potential is obvious even if it is unlikely for them to inherit, but even Mance's son had potential beyond what an "ordinary" person might have.

@hotimportknight Год назад

Dany on the show re-created Lightbringer as a pillow... But then forgot to bring it with! Should have been used to end the Night King.

@eric2500 Год назад

@kaj413 Год назад

The Wall is filled with corpses. Blood magic.

@someguy4405 Год назад

The burning of the leeches is absolutely what killed the three kings, even if it was by means of twisting fate. It can't be a coincidence that all three of them happened to die in the same book after that ritual.

@emom358 Год назад

I always thought it tied into the divine right of kings. So it didn't really matter if you were born to it, or by right of conquest, if the divinity allows you to rule that is enough.

@chadbailey3623 Год назад

I’m pretty sure Euron isn’t just using chum. My bet: the Hammer of the Waters!

@evelynvongizycki1017 3 месяца назад

I know that you have spoken about this before, but the significance of experience with the warlock and having his genitals burnt, and then speaking into the flames and receiving an answer that sounds like some crazy blood magic to me

@williamswain2303 7 месяцев назад

And dispite his efforts hes told us everything we need to know about how magic works

@pyropulseIXXI Год назад

What happened during the blood magic ritual that Dany interfered with is blindingly obvious, yet no one states what I am about to state: What happened to Dany during this 'blood magic ritual' is that the Horse's lifeforce energy did, indeed, go into Drogo, which is why he was alive, but apparently 'brain dead.' He has the lifeforce, of a horse, and Drogo, the conscious entity, was dead, since his lifeforce energy was likely snuffed out during this, or overcame with the lifeforce of the horse. Either way, he was 'comatose' because he literally had the horse lifeforce within him. Since a horse's lifeforce is not sufficient for a human, he is just in a comatose state Regarding the dragon eggs 'quickening' and Dany's baby born dead with stink of corruption and worms; The Life-force of a baby is so powerful that it powered three baby dragon eggs, which is how they *quickened.* And the deadness of the dragon eggs transferred to Dany's baby, which is why it was born as if it were dead for years, scaly, with grave worms, etc. The _definition of quickening makes this blindingly obvious;_ the lifeforce energy of Dany's unborn child went into the dragon eggs, thus quickening them. Mirri didn't do this on purpose; she was literally just going to transfer the horse's lifeforce essence into Drogo, but Dany came in and interfered. Also, the dragons being born had nothing to do with 'reawakening magic'; in the world. Burning Mirri had nothing to do with hatching the eggs; the eggs were already quickened, so the heat is what prompted the dragons to hatch out of their eggs; this was just a normal, biological process at this point, with the difference being that dragon eggs likely need more heat than what would be considered 'normal' for eggs of that size. Once the eggs were quickened via blood magic, they were able to hatch under purely biological reasons. The reason Targs forgot how to 'hatch' dragon eggs is that it literally requires blood magic to quicken them; these 'beasts' literally have the lifeforce energy of human babes, which is how they are intelligent. This means you need to make a child sacrifice to 'born' a dragon via blood sacrifice o the baby's life essence. Furthermore, lifeforce energy is like that of magnetic forces, or electric forces (electromagnetic forces); a fundamental field that people can manipulate; in their ignorance, the people of ASoIaF think that the 'gods' are granting this power; this would be like saying a flashlight works because the 'gods' shine the light at your behest at the exact moment you press the flashlight's button.

@tomswiftyphilo2504 Год назад

it's not like he acted like a horse. He acted like a blank slate. We know that blood magic works; but we don't know that it's one-for-one

@pyropulseIXXI Год назад

@@tomswiftyphilo2504 He doesn't literally have the mind of a horse. He got the life essence of a horse, which is not sufficient for a human. Hence he is 'brain dead,' or comatose. This is so simple and obvious, yet you guys come up with even more insane and stupid hypothesis. In fact, you guys don't even really provide a valid hypothesis, yet try to dismiss what I laid out, despite what I said just being as obvious as 1 + 1 = 2

@HOTD108_ Год назад

@@tomswiftyphilo2504 True, but the thing about the eggs and the baby does seem extremely fitting.

@h1kup Год назад

Pretentious and wrong. The worst combination. 🤣

@JYT256 Год назад

I see you are a believer of the Glidus school of thought, that Khal Drogo is actually a horse

@KaneCold Год назад

I would say, any form of blood is magical, and spilling blood always infuses the one who spills it with some of the essence of those the blood is drawn from. If you go by GOT traditions, then becoming kings and queens means you spilled a lot of blood of a lot of people who also accumulated a lot of blood on their side, further compressing the magic in once own blood. But it's also inherited by your children, who can further accumulate the magic in their blood ... not like your siblings has any needs of it when they are dead, so you can get the throne. The question would be if what you gather is "power" or some sort of curse that can be channeled by communicating with the souls inside as blood "magic" Another guess would be that, fire has the ability to draw this magic from blood and releasing it into the world, making it easier to use for mages. Maybe by cleansing from its curse like aspect, transforming it in something raw, more natural.

@neilhatton1612 Год назад

You have completely changed how I’m looking at GoT.

@JsHolgersson Год назад

Great video as always Ser Robert! Keep upp the great work 🩶🔥

@samuelleask1132 Год назад

Great analysis!

@julioulloa5403 Год назад

The shadows come to dance my lord

@moiraferreira Год назад

Thanks for your efforts

@anonymous-hz2un Год назад

King's blood = valyrian blood. Bobby B had it through one of his Targaryen grandmothers.

@drakejohnson5386 Год назад

King's Blood isn't tied to the political machinations of some feudal system. Rather it is tied to high valyrian dragonlord blood. The three headed dragon is of the rider, the dragon and their proto ancestor that guides dragons to high valyrian blood. If you could easily ride a dragon because of your blood (which the bartheons do have targeyon blood) then you have king's blood. I imagine that working with blood with raw magical potential allows for more powerful spells to be cast

@halbeliebe Год назад

I thought it was Mellisandres misinterpretation that kings blood was powerful and it was only valyrian blood. And since the Baratheons have a little of that through marriage it works. And Mellisandre only thinks Mance Raiders blood would do anything...

@jenniferpearce1052 Год назад

How does the blood know it's king's blood? Would Rob be considered to have king's blood? Why? Because he declares himself to be one? Because other people declared him to be one? How many are required? Or is it battles won?

@OneWingedRose Год назад

I wonder why Blood Magic is so often (always?) viewed as a dark and terrible thing in fantasy fiction (Dragon Age, Ice and Fire, Avatar: Last Airbender). There are many examples of horrible things Blood Magic can accomplish, but I'd like to think Doctors would be able to use Blood Magic in very useful and positive ways. I'm not talking dramatic defying the laws of nature with life and death stuff, but, rather, I imagine there would be MANY useful Medicinal applications for a Magic that can manipulate the properties of Blood.

@allthatishere Год назад

I would guess the main reason for that would be because of how it's used most of the time we see it. Take Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, for example; I'm sure blood bending could be used in a medical way, like to help filter poison out of blood, but all of the times we see it in use is to suppress others and to inflict harm.

@purplexninjamom Год назад

This is in line with what I think. Blood Magic isn´t necessarily evil. But it´s risky. Unpredictable. Powerful and chaotic. Which is probably why not many people use it.

@gerardjagroo Год назад

Blood Magic requires a blood sacrifice and unless there are going to be altars and sacrificial scalpels in operating rooms, I doubt it would be a thing.

@JimRFF Год назад

Generally speaking, in most fantasy settings, blood magic isn't specifically magic ABOUT blood, it's magic POWERED BY blood... so yes, a blood mage could theoretically do powerful magical healing and medicine -- by sacrificing an innocent life and spilling their blood. That is the morally negative part of blood magic in most systems, not the explicit relationship with blood itself but the idea of taking a life by force to accomplish an end, using human life as a resource to accomplish a goal... There are all kinds of ways you could write a fantasy story that avoid those tropes, though: maybe good blood mages willingly limit themselves to only using spells that can be powered by a pint of blood or less (ie, a nonlethal amount to take), maybe the blood mage only uses their own blood (altruistic sacrifice for the good of others), maybe there's some kind of religious cult like the House of Black and White in ASoIaF where people who are old, sick, or dying can go to voluntarily be sacrificed by the blood mages to power spells keeping everyone else safe or happy, etc...

@TheSuperRatt Год назад

Because blood magic isn't manipulation of blood. It's magic that is explicitly fueled by killing and sacrifice; usually the more "pure of heart" a person being, the more power can be extracted from their sacrifice. Blood magic is inextricably linked to the idea that power at any cost is evil, and so too are the people willing to make such immoral deals.

@Farb_dk Год назад

“Power resides where men believe it resides”… And a large mesh of believers on one person or bloodline creates a shatter point of events, all tracing back to that one person that through others beliefs can move thousands. Their sacrifice, through magical bargain or not will break the fault lines in the shatter point. I believed that whatever powers reside outside of their comprehension also put their trust into those shatterpoint ppl.

@aidkik580 Год назад

I wanna see Robbert the Stag king and Rob the Wolf king come back and tear sht up

@johnnye87 Год назад

What powers magic is sacrifice. A sacrifice is greater the more meaningful it is to the person performing it (much like the Faceless Men's flexible pricing structure). The power of kings' blood follows entirely from those first principles, without kings actually needing to possess any intrinsic magic. If you're a leader and you willingly shed your own blood or kill a close family member for a spell, that's a much greater sacrifice than some underling with no say in the matter. Alternatively, you could go to war in order to sacrifice a rival king - less personal, but the God of Death will certainly get his due from the war. The point is, killing a king is never something anyone does _lightly_. Even if you look at cases of distant descendants of kings (say, the theory that Varys is a Blackfyre and he was castrated for a blood magic ritual) - potential kings have power too, there are plenty of examples of unlikely claimants being used as pawns in royal power struggles. And that power makes their sacrifice significant too, albeit less so. Someone might have used that Blackfyre boy to start a new rebellion in Westeros, but a sorcerer chose to use him for a spell instead. Arnolf Karstark has a distant trace of king's blood, but he's also an important political hostage - which of those facts is more magically powerful should Stannis choose to burn him?

@MarcusHalverstram Год назад

Dang i thought he was gonna talk about REAL blood magic. Cause I dabble a bit myself

@eric2500 Год назад

OKAYYYY do me a favor and stay far away from me at all times THANKS SO MUCH!

@TerenceGrimstone Год назад

Stannis will be the one that kills Shireen. Melisandre will not do it behind Stannis' back. George labeled Stannis' decision to kill Shireen as one of the shocking moments he told the showrunners.

@admiralaktar7284 Год назад

The power of kings blood, and that of all magic is belief in it. Just like Varis told Tyrion, "Power resides where men believe it resides". If you think kings blood has power then it dos..

@tyler4418 Год назад

So blood magic follows the law of Equivalent Exchange then? I wonder if George RR. Martin is a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist lol.

@xavier84623 Год назад

I think the kings blood thing is literally a genetic thing. Many houses have magic in their ancient roots, ancient blood of dragons, or blood of green men, etc. basically the blood of kings is often blood that has some traces of ancient magical crossbreeding with fantastic creatures.

@purplexninjamom Год назад

Blood Magic is what it sounds like. A horrid sacrifice with a fickle outcome.

@TeethToothman Год назад

How does it sound like that?

@purplexninjamom Год назад

@@TeethToothman Blood is the very lifeforce of humans, is it not. To sacrifice your very life, sometimes literally (Shireen),... Sounds risky at best. Not necessarily evil, but intense and risky.

@bananaforscale1283 Год назад

Thousands of people die at war. Many die everyday. Hardly a sacrifice killing in a world like that.

@StormbornDragon Год назад

@@bananaforscale1283 “what is one life compared to whole world” “everything” or something like that

@ivanmacias6921 Год назад

@@TeethToothman 😊

@_Brohan Год назад

so oringally the horse was paying for drogo's life, but then the baby took precedent

@GeorgePhileas Год назад

I don’t think Daenerys eating a horse heart has anything to do with blood magic. As you mentioned it, Dothraki do not believe in that. It has more similarities with the practice of cannibalism in primitive societies, where by eating a strong and brave soldier it was thought to bring you his strength and courage. Here, Dothraki worship horses that they regard as very powerful animals. Daenerys eat one of their hearts would bring strength to her son to be. Simply that.

@AJDraws 6 месяцев назад

I think the king's blood is generally meant for Old Valerian blood, but in instances where that is not a factor, or less of a factor as all blood stems from the first men, etc, perhaps blood of someone of lesser breeding, such as Khals, have the power of their blood derived from how many follow them. Love, adoration, and the power they have garnered through their lives etc being some kind of factor in elevating the magical properties in the blood? But I think any blood, or in more powerful magic, any life can pay the fee for magic, but Valerian blood just has a much more powerful effect.

@SelphieTheNutter 4 месяца назад

Personally i think GRRM likes to keep magic mysterious because he doesn't understand it. By that i mean,he doesn't understand the serl world inspiration for it. He addmited to not undrstanding Gandalfs death and rebirth, calling it cheap, and thrt he would hrve just killed off Gandalf. Gandalfs death was about Gandalf overcoming his fears and doubt about the war against Sauron. The heavens revived him as the White Wizard,leader of the forces of Light and emmissery of the hnavens. To cast spells that work you need to believe without any doubt that it can come true. The fact that GRRM calls Gandalfs death scene cheap,shows how little he both understands and respects the inspiration behind it. Magic and religion are only in his books to make it a fantasy, not because he believes in it Like Tolkien did.

@joshjacob1530 Год назад

Yea kings blood is very powerful. It has the qualities of the gods.

@fuzzyhair321 Год назад

Summerhall had people die but no dragons. The red comet likely why they came back as they did then

@ScythosMusic Год назад

What if kings blood is Targaryen? Baratheons are a break from the Targaryens so Shireen and Edric would be off shoots

@milosstevanovic4117 Год назад

The blood magic in the World of Ice and Fire, how I anderstand, is like "Melkorism" i J R R Tolkien lore.

@thelegend_doggo1062 Год назад

My guess is that in the world of ASOIAF, what makes a king is people believing someone is a king. In other words, “Power resides where men believe it resides.”

@koco1puffs Месяц назад

With this connection between blood and magic, I wonder what amount of blood was spilled to build The wall 🧐

@qwopiretyu Год назад

Blood Magic sounds cooler than it is. Like Blast Processing or Ray Tracing. It's just the same old magic with a jazzed-up name.

@twinsen1949 3 месяца назад

What makes kings blood powerful is that people believe it's powerful. This may not only be a figurative thing, but may be literally true. Perhaps the source of the magic power of kings blood is faith in a way.

@AugustDavinDeepson Месяц назад

❤

@EmoEmu Год назад

Pretty sure it has to be someone linked to certain bloodlines.

@sethoflagos2880 Год назад

O gosh, this is really so nested up with eugenics that it should have no place in modern culture. GRRM's worldview seems so Wagnerian that I've lost interest in his storyline. I remember that afternoon we were taken to see Bergen-Belsen when I was seventeen. It changed me as a person. I wonder how few Americans will share such a character-forming experience and despair.

@turrican4d599 Год назад

10:00 But Jaime lost his blond hair from season 3 on. :)))

@jpmanning2966 9 дней назад

Valyrians used a lot of blood magic and they also required a lot of slaves. Those slaves were specifically referenced to be used in the 14 flames. The center of which is where they worked their spells and I believe referenced to be where dragons come from. Magic requires blood, I don’t think this specifically means they have to be willing nor do they have to be important. Dragons are living representation of blood and fire. They are living and fire made flesh(blood). It’s also said that ALL Valyrian magic was related to blood magic. My theory is that Valyrian blood combined with blood sacrifices and fireworms led to the creation of dragons and with dragons more blood was acquired and more magic done. Even look at how white walkers are created with blood sacrifices. I think and it’s just a theory but Targaryen blood and why it’s so important is because it’s the last trace of Valyrian blood magic, literally the last of the dragonblood. It makes even more sense when you consider that not all Valyrians were dragon lords. The first riders might have the very first sacrifices which is why their dragons hatched and were bonded. Targaryens were dragon riders even if the least of them. I think that Targaryens stillbirths are a form of blood sacrifice for dragons to continue to hatch.

@zaliahmad6269 Год назад

i think its like when you pray. you can pray for anything but its up to God to give u anything at all. you can sacrifice all you want but it up to the true god in the book seems like lord of light the true god. its all up to him to answer it or not

@stars-and-clouds Год назад

Trust is, hitting like before the video even begins.

@toodlepop 3 месяца назад

i bet it tastes better than "SPFFFFT...ORC BLOOD."

@randymarshislorde 6 месяцев назад

It kinda bugs me that GRRM doesnt want us to be able to understand magic, i don't mind having to do tons of extra research and even buy an extra book or two of his, in fact id prefer it that way. I know it sounds probably dumb and/or contradictory, but I like magic systems that are deeply complex and able to be broken down into basically science of a sorts. Ive actually always loved video games that had complex rituals and the like that make you actually have to take notes and not just follow given directions. I'll give an example, even if it is a fairly simple one (just goes to show how rare truly complex magic systems are implemented): in Oblivion, there is a ritual to create black soul gems, you have to find one of either 3 or 4 altars in the overworld. Once every 7 or 8 days (from the day of the week you start the game) these altars begin to glow for a short time during the night. If you can get your hands on a reasonably rare item called a Grand Soul Gem, you can place that gem inside the altar (during that short window of time once a week) and then cast the Soul Trap spell on it, once cast it will convert the Grand Soul Gem into one of the rarer items in the game called a Black Soul Gem. Now to my knowledge, there IS a quest somewhere that will run you through the ritual once, with quest text and NPCs giving you general info on where to go and what to do, but with the massive scope of Oblivion, you're not super likely to run into it. At the same time though, you never need to actually do the quest to even perform the ritual, if you just stumble onto the info (im thinking it can be found in an in game book) and thus know what to do, you can just go do it. The best part of it is that while it might seem kinda annoying having to do all this legwork and stuff to put everything in order and keep up with the days passed and all that, the reward is a genuinely useful one for the game, because black soul gems are incredibly powerful items overall (they allow you to store a human soul) that are normally really hard to obtain for all but the very high level characters out there, and even for them they're a bit annoying to come by. I absolutely ADORE when developers add things like that into a magic system in games, and in the same vein, i enjoy researching and piecing together bits of info for complex and obscure arcane arts in books, shows, and movies. To see a world so well built as ASOIAF with such an interesting seeming set of magical rules/laws, it makes me instinctively feel as though there should be countless advanced texts one could research in order to piece together the inner workings of the magic there

@eerbrev Год назад

Well, the warlocks and bull's blood gave Samwell Tarly courage all right, just not the kind that his father was looking for.

@BigRob1994 11 месяцев назад

Doesn’t khal mean king in Dothraki? Wasn’t Drogo a king? If he was then Rhaego surely would have been

@EvalistNahabwe 4 месяца назад

So I want get magic how can I do

@juanlastra3502 Год назад

I just noticed "He had been dead for years", years? What's up with that?

@SHARKVADERS Год назад

I D G !!!!!

@williamswain2303 7 месяцев назад

I mean in this context id assume that kings blood just means that your of a higher status in the sense that if your like prince targaryian, i think his and calisis blood would actually help alot just because of who they are as people they have the spirit of rulers they are smarter than most and theyve come from a strong bloodline, vs like actual king joffery i dont think his blood would yeild the same results or like ludd whitehill vs lord lanisster lord lanasters blood would be stronger and more potent, spirits and higher powers can sense the way someones soul is the better the spul the more and better the power you get, plus i also feel like it depends what your trying to do with it as well a dirtier soul might be better for an evil feat

@odiums_taint Год назад

7:05 Khal Drogo is a king, and his blood brought back dragons… so the red woman may just be correct here. (edit) nm, you get to that 🫡

@mecurian485 Год назад

Considering that his blood is pudding, perhaps he does need new blood in his veins to get going.

@chrisph9910 Год назад

Kings Blood =/= Blood Magic Targeryen Blood does

@fransmanlaparis4830 Год назад

Is it known how much more George has in store for the book series, has he said a book "limit" or estimation? Would be fun if you made a video about it (if you havent already) talking about it and what things that happened in the TV Series that might not, or maybe even probably wont happen :) THanks for an amazing channel! If I wasnt poor and a student I would happily support you better on Patreon

@matthewparker9276 Год назад

His current plan for the series is The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring being the final books in the series. However his original plan was that the series would span 3 books, so that's not necessarily set in stone.