Who Was Craster?

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@MesaperProductions Год назад

Craster. The *only* character who makes Walder Frey look like a happily married family man.

@Shelly-mz9yf Год назад

How interesting i love bringing this back up. 😮

@laurencote5949 Год назад

Lol😂

@eric2500 11 месяцев назад

But he is - one wife at a time. Okay, okay, he both likes and hates the kids. All those darn kids.

@eric2500 11 месяцев назад

BTW even though I posted a quibbling comment, that's a great crack! *Oh, Snap!*

@lakehayden 11 месяцев назад

Woah 😮😂

@holliegould3463 Год назад

i love that even the wildling folks (cannibal thenns included) find craster to be repulsive and ostracize him. like the rest of the clans don't get along either but they all can agree that craster is NASTY xD

@MesaperProductions Год назад

Craster. The only character who makes Walder Frey look like a happily married family man.

@dfailsthemost Год назад

Yeah, that is great. "That guy is gross" - man eating a roasted man-leg.

@Levacque Год назад

@@MesaperProductionsI'm baffled at my own ignorance! Craster and Walder are definitely supposed to be parallel characters in different settings, great comparison!

@georgechristensen8920 Год назад

But the thenns aren’t man-eaters, they are the last real first men (the GOT show changed them into cannibal among the many other changes) Still using the old language (giants use simplified version) and living in a verdant valley deep in the north. They have the best spot in the north, farmland and not so fucking cold, and they also can forge their own arms and armor (they are a Bronze Age civ) with their weapons and armor being the best the wildlings could produce themselves.

@holliegould3463 Год назад

@georgechristensen8920 oh!! i didn't know any of that thank you for educating!

@samclontsii3548 Год назад

“His death was mourned by no one…” woooooo, chills…

@husseinmasri901 Год назад

*Jaqen H'ghar crying in the corner*

@thing_under_the_stairs Год назад

A suitably cold final line.

@gandalfthemorallygrey323 Год назад

@husseinmasri901 Your comment deserves infinitely more likes

@sophiawilson8696 Год назад

The Cold Ones!

@RoyontheHill Год назад

I'm sure his wives were thoroughly bummed out about the events that transpired immediately after and then after then for the rest of their short lives

@ConradsStudio Год назад

"I am a godly man," is one of my favorite lines. He was, just not to the gods of anyone else.

@T1mButler 5 месяцев назад

"You are a Godly man" ?!!!

@notreallymyname3736 6 месяцев назад

Craster: "I make sacrifices to keep the whitewalkers away." Whitewalkers: "This weirdo that lives in our yard keeps giving us random kids and animals. Not sure what his deal is, but it's pretty fucked up. We just take them, send them to a good home, and do what we can to stay the hell away from that dude."

@khazza930 5 месяцев назад

Donate today to help foster an abandoned baby!

@nikifisher76 3 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@martystrasinger3801 2 месяца назад

@@khazza930I have an old freezer I can donate, makes a great crib!

@khazza930 2 месяца назад

@@martystrasinger3801 ❤️❤️😂

@Daughterchasya Месяц назад

Thank you for the giggle 😝

@kugelblitzen Год назад

There's a small village near where I live in the North of England called Craster. The name is from the Anglo Saxon Craw Caestre, meaning 'Crow's Camp'. Interesting trivia. :)

@GGMCUKAGAIN 10 месяцев назад

Interesting! lived in newcastle all my life and wasnt aware of that. Craster is a nice village, used to go to the smoke house with my my dad when i was young

@ShadeoftheEvening 10 месяцев назад

Cool

@FortuitusVideo 7 месяцев назад

GRRM has so co-opted british history that EVERY book about the anglo-saxons begins with a reference to this series.

@Transilvanian90 7 месяцев назад

that etymology is extremely fascinating and I believe may have inspired him indeed

@morrigansraven 7 месяцев назад

Northumberland, isn't it? Same with Kinvara, the Red Priestess in the show. There's a small village in Co. Galway, Ireland called Kinvara - means head of the sea. 😂😂 Sometimes I wonder if GRRM or showrunners like D&D just look at a map of Europe and pick out the names of tiny little villages and towns that would not be commonly known, and think to themselves: ''Sounds like a great name for a fantasy character.''

@jackcoogan310 Год назад

Craster: the most minor character with the most major impact. He’s literally the butterfly in the butterfly effect

@joanmasdeu4600 Год назад

Why?

@PrinceTrish Год назад

Nah that's KING BREAD

@spinozatheobvious626 Год назад

Yeah how so? And compare his impact to, for example, Mirri Mazdur...? She really changed everything, more than even she realised.

@skyleranderson5757 Год назад

@@spinozatheobvious626if his kids are the others then that’s pretty impactful

@robdean6893 Год назад

The storm starts when he stops flapping his wings

@SunnyIntervalsORG 9 месяцев назад

Ygritte and the wildlings have a solid understanding of genetics and the problems of inbreeding!

@bollockjohnson6156 3 месяца назад

no you fool, they have observations on past incest babies

@JohnDoe-rj9ql 3 месяца назад

And yet they're the savages...

@eymoose 2 месяца назад

They should tell the Hapsburgs

@user-en2tk2tw4v Месяц назад

@@eymoosewhat? Hapsburgs? Game of thrones?

@izzyalistair Год назад

We can't disregard the wildlings intuition when it comes to the supernatural. Osha got the nail right on the head when she saw the red comet, for example.

@totrigo6834 2 месяца назад

11:19 🤣🤣🤣 my new ringtone

@meesert Год назад

I really like the whole Others are creatures of the Old Gods idea. Which makes Craster the most godly man in the series and makes it so all the Northman are basicly praying to their own enemy. This also connects to why Mel thinks Bran and the 3eyed raven are soldiers of darkness.

@tomjones6347 Год назад

There is a good theory out there that the others were actually inhabitants of the weirwood network, then the greenseers kicked them out of the weirwoods somehow.

@eric2500 11 месяцев назад

Of course Mel is a priestess of a fanatic religion that much like the early monotheist religions -most of them_ AUTOMATICALLY casts the pantheons of ALL other religions as demons - or at the MOST tolerant, a misunderstanding or misnaming of their one true real diety....

@eric2500 11 месяцев назад

I should say monotheistic but flavored with DUALISM, really.

@rishitchithirala2977 Месяц назад

Hasn't it been confirmed that the others were created by cotf.

@unvergebeneid Год назад

Troubled bloke, that's who he was. You know you have a problem when you stand out for being messed up in the world of ASoIAF.

@Tuberiascaesar Год назад

I wanna know how craster figured out that leaving a baby and such would actually work with them? I also think that this arrangment helped him maintain control of his wives. Fear of the others, the shunning of the wildlings and such is a great way to keep his ladies in line.

@sophiawilson8696 Год назад

For 4000 years or more babies have left babies for Colds ones for them leave alone.

@Richard_Nickerson Год назад

@@sophiawilson8696 Babies have left babies?

@coldhands2802 Год назад

It also gave him a reason to eliminate any threats (the men).

@alexmartin3143 Год назад

@@Richard_NickersonBabies leavin babies… Smh…

@Richard_Nickerson Год назад

@@alexmartin3143 What's a baby to do?

@Ar1AnX1x Год назад

I love how GRRM's characters are all so different from each other, there's such a wide range

@Yamaazaka Год назад

Except for every other character liking incest 😂

@skyleranderson5757 Год назад

@@Yamaazakathat’s just the way things used to be no tinder back then

@JamesMorgan-ne8qu Год назад

He reads a lot of history, there are so many past characters to take inspiration from.

@Richard_Nickerson Год назад

@@Yamaazaka With the exception of the direct sibling incest, it's all pretty normal for our own history...

@peterg9729 Год назад

It really isn't. What source do you claim to back up that insane statement? @@Richard_Nickerson

@royceflores23 Год назад

His death is mourned by no one? So… Arya? Jaquen H’ghar? The kindly man?!! This is some big time next level theory going on here!! Thanks for the content Robert, I really appreciate every single update.

@charei Год назад

Lol. I didn't grasp the joke immediately. Arya=no one.

@liambowbrick3917 Год назад

Those panning fire shots are awesome. Well done editor ❤

@romanyukhaev4549 Год назад

The Others turning crasters babies into new Others is probably only relevant to the show. Since GRRM describes the Others as as a diffrent species, diffrent form of life. More likely they use the babes (as well as sheep that craster gives them) as sacrifice. Similar to how the red pristes of the red god burn their sacrifices (fire and ice)

@jessjess23brooks89 Год назад

Yeah I always figured they just like... ate the babies. Or used them for blood sacrifice. Maybe to a corrupted World Tree? *Readjusts tinfoil hat*

@hypello9534 11 месяцев назад

Most likley they turn the babies into white walkers(others). Why would his daughters otherwise say crasters son are coming.. i dont think its that complicated as ppl make it to be.

@kolbywilliams7234 6 месяцев назад

@@hypello9534 Because none of them have confirmed sightings. They believe the sons come back, but they aren’t saying they’ve seen them come back.

@LH74 Год назад

He was the last person still sacrificing to the Others. Keeping them at bay for the most part.

@LachNetSoDumm Год назад

the stills of the fire in craster's with the animated effects are just a sprinkle of gold on an already great video. love the love and attention to detail you put into your craft. thanks, Robert!

@CJusticeHappen21 11 месяцев назад

I've heard it that the irl practice of leaving malformed or otherwise damaged newborns in the forest as a means of disposing of them, and the belief that the "spirits of the forest" or whatever took thosr children, is what has inspired this dynamic.

@AccountHolder007 2 месяца назад

Poor children

@Moeller750 Год назад

Reading the Craster chapters is almost 1:1 like hearing my brother talking about his time as a soldier in Northern Afghanistan. His unit made pragmatic deals with local wealthy families, that would provide shelter and food in return for the protection that came from being seen housing NATO soldiers. My brother told us about one particular house, where he almost threw up, because the patriarch had several child brides, many of whom were clearly no more than 14 years old and pregnant

@swagtheyolo7061 11 месяцев назад

thats almost 1% as disgusting as what the americans and nato troops did to the afghan people

@ToxicThug11 11 месяцев назад

and now america lost

@tedwojtasik8781 11 месяцев назад

Oh, so in other words, the Afghani version of Colorado City and LDS in general. Got it.

@nakatomitower5869 11 месяцев назад

Oh no, child brides and pregnant young girls? Was this Afghanistan or Epstein Island? Maybe it was Vietnam where American troops often had their way with young underage girls?

@WorldGoods 8 месяцев назад

How many children did he kill?

@fordhouse8b Год назад

I wonder how Ygritte would have felt about Jon’s grandparents being siblings, as well as his great-grandparents having the same familial relationship? Not to mention all his Targeryan ancestors having practiced incest for countless generations, going back centuries or even millennia.

@greyfells2829 6 месяцев назад

Valerians are built different man. Even a single generation of incest is significantly risky in real life. Targs do it for generations and still produce baddies like Dany.

@pathutchison7688 Год назад

Good thing none of this ended up mattering at all in the show. Still painful to think about season8. 😢

@Fojenstein3D Год назад

Robert, I don't know how you keep coming up with video ideas but keep them coming. Those of us holding out hope for WoW need them!

@LuciferChapel1987 Год назад

I love the theory that Craster is Maegor Targaryen, the missing infant son of Prince Aerion Targareyen and Daenora Targaryen. Maegor was born in around 232 AC; looking at Craster's portrayal in the TV show, this would make him around the same age. Craster's official back story states: "Craster is the bastard son of a man of the Night's Watch and a wildling woman from the village of Whitetree. His father abandoned his mother after Craster was conceived, and when his mother tried to bring him to Castle Black, she was chased off by members of the Watch. His father's name is never mentioned." It's interesting that the time frame when Craster would have been born the maester at the Wall would have been a young Aemon Targaryen (baby Maegor's uncle) and the Lord Commander was Brynden Rivers (baby Maegor's great great uncle). I'm proposing that one of them, if not both of them somehow smuggled their nephew beyond the wall and left him to be raised by the wildlings. I don't know how/ why they'd have felt the need to do this, as this time period isn't something George RR Martin has written about yet; I'm hoping we get to find out in one of the future Dunc & Egg novels what happened when Aemon and Brynden went to the Wall. Seems odd the Craster was born around the same time this Targaryen baby who was heir to the throne went missing. Also, this *could* shed light on why Craster keeps his bloodline pure by marrying his daughters and why Craster needs to do this in order for The Night King to turn the babies into White Walkers, because his babies have Valyrian blood and part wildling (thus first men, warg and potential green-seer) blood. In short, his babies are A Song Of Ice And Fire, the perfect recipe to make white walkers, or a new leader of the white walkers; their "Prince Who Was Promised" if you will....

@mbryson2899 Год назад

That is a logical and compelling theory, in my opinion. Thank you for sharing it.

@Alitacyan Год назад

Well thought out theory, nice one.

@LuciferChapel1987 Год назад

Thanks both! 😊

@Hoeech Год назад

Interesting. Definitely something that GRRM *would* put in his history. If he really is Maegor, then he really is trying his level best to live up to his namesake

@sophiawilson8696 Год назад

Close but no Maegor is near but not Craster.

@MeeraReads Год назад

I really appreciate you pointing out that it was not an agreement per se with the others. Humans have never needed an agreement to leave offerings and it’s well known that fairies particularly like to take children. Edit: in Fevre Dream (spoilers) we learn that vampires are a separate species and humans cannot become vampires. I think the same is true of the Others

@kula7465 Год назад

I think Craster is the son of Aemon Targaryen, that’s why the others specifically take his children. Power in kings blood and all that. It would also explain how messed up and crazy he is, he got the Targaryen madness. Also why the nights watch don’t kill him, but also why they drove him and his mother away instead of taking him in as a boy. The realm wanted no more Targaryen heirs causing trouble. That’s why it’s named Crasters Keep and not Crasters cabin or longhall, a Keep is a part of a castle meant to protect the king. Why would a wildling know about castles ? Even the wildling raiders Jon went with didn’t know stuff like that, they thought a watchtower was a castle and they had been over the wall multiple times. EDIT-Let me add a direct quote from Maester Aemon “ What is honor compared to a woman’s love? And what is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms? “

@holysecret2 Год назад

It would also explain his affinity for... family.

@jeronimosandovalardila5289 Год назад

I guess it's not imposible, but very unlikely, aemon is not a ranger and has no reason to be north of the wall, again, its not unthinkable, as jon or sam are not rangers eather, bit still it doesnt seems like in aemon character, also if he were there would surely be more clues around, at least some of his descendants would have common targaryen traits, like white hair or purple eyes. Again, its not imposibble, but I still think he is just probably from a random ranger. And the thing with the kingsblood is... just unreliable, many houses have been kings before and with the intermarrying of noble families for centuries there should be kingsblood laying around everywhere in westeros, that is probably just one of melissandres arbitrary judgements, but that is another thing entirely... and I dont think incest is genetic, literally can happen anywhere, like the lannisters or the starks marry their cousins, its just that targaryens are raised thinking its ok

@Ronfost89 Год назад

I agree, it is just way too unlikely for Aemon to have ever gone beyond the wall. Like you said both Jon and Sam went but that was for a *all hands on deck the dead are rising* scenario, not a very typical thing. Plus Aemon was the Maester for Castle Black so that means he would have even less of a reason to venture beyond the wall.@@jeronimosandovalardila5289

@justinabernathy6901 Год назад

Maybe blood raven

@da_ghoul9432 Год назад

I think this is true, but I also believe Craster is working with Bloodraven, either intentionally or through mind control, and providing the Others with inferior specimens of inbred males.

@katiebethcollins Год назад

I like Craster’s keep as a horrifying mirror to the House of Black and White. He kills in service of his gods, the white walkers, and he trades information and goods with the black brothers.

@edocsil123 7 месяцев назад

i love the fact you added fire animtions to the stills

@JimRFF Год назад

I think Craster represents an amalgamation/generalized "Old Testament religious figure" for GRRM, symbolically... Craster is equal parts Abraham, who was called by God to sacrifice his son, and Lot, who had sex with his daughters... and I think, due to his personal life experience, GRRM has a very low opinion of *that* sort of religious faith -- unquestioning loyalty to arbitrary moral codes... in that respect, I think it is *highly* likely that Craster will ultimately meet his end at the hands of the Cold Gods he worships so devoutly, perhaps as the prologue POV in Winds of Winter, whenever that eventually comes out haha

@reecerobin8413 Год назад

Lot did not have sex with his daughters in the bible. He did offer them up to a mob to be raped though.

@sophiawilson8696 Год назад

I hate spoil for you Craster is Dead already.

@JimRFF Год назад

@@sophiawilson8696 death isn't exactly the end of characters in ASoIaF...

@memcgohan6801 Год назад

According to Corin Half-Hand... He's a tough old goat.

@fratguide9835 23 дня назад

Weird thing to comment on, but your reading voice is very good. Loved the Raven’s voice

@SenorGrandePP Год назад

I like how the Fooking Legend from Gin Alley ended him 🔪

@aegorbittersteel2154 Год назад

Love the videos IDG I wonder how many Others Daemon Blackfyre could destroy with Blackfyre🗡

@alexanderscott2456 6 месяцев назад

Craster is basically the lost kid in Froopyland.

@danieldeclue1466 Год назад

I think that if what the old lady said about craster's Sons returning is indeed true, it would hold true to the trait that all ice beings seem to have which is that they have some semblance of who they were and where they are from but no more, and they will return to a place that they once called home to spread their coldness

@LusiaEyre Год назад

I don't think Craster had a Targaryen father. Even at the hight of their blood purity obsession they never crossed the parent-child line, so Craster keeping a harem of his own daughters/granddaughters means little in this regard. I would be more interested in finding out how he worked out the sacrifice bit and if him not marrying outside his blood makes any difference to this arrangement. Or is that just his delusion? It worked once, so lets stick with the pattern. I recently saw a video about how Craster's practices may relate to the original deal with the Others and that MAYBE the ritual of the "first night" started as means to produce spare children for sacrifices. This or trying to create more greenseers/wargs since those births were really rare. That practise was rightfully abolished (after centuries of its original purpose possibly forgotten if they indeed had any in the Age of Heroes). Wouldn't it be a cruel and bitter irony, that out of all the Northmen, repulsive Craster and his downtrodden daughters got that bit of old northern history right? On the other hand, "keeping it in the family" is frowned upon by the Free Folk and Scagosi and the more northern North. Starks married cousins and nieces which wouldn't fly beyond the wall. So is there something in the stagnant bloodline that's particularly appealing to the Others? One would think so, if Wildings avoid it as a precaution. It's like, there's something ringing there but cannot pinpoint the church.

@CatsinanOvercoat Год назад

I've always been curious about Craster's mindset about his position. By the time we're introduced to him he is nearing the end of his life so i wonder what his plan or thoughts were about who would take over/live there when he died. Was he paranoid about being murdered by his daughter wives? Was he even thinking about these things?

@eric2500 11 месяцев назад

Right? And did he ever think beyond himself? Seemingly no.

@soxpeewee 9 месяцев назад

I don't think he cares much about more than day to day survival

@valerialamberti9037 Год назад

I really love your videos, your voice and the way yo tell stories! Regards from Argentina

@pieceofgosa Год назад

This might be a decent place to drop an observation I made about Bran's final chapter that everybody else seems to miss, I'll try & keep this as brief as I can :D Ok so there is a paradox, or a contradiction at least in Bran's final chapter in ADWD. Through conversations with Leaf, Bloodraven & Jojen it becomes apparent that the First Men & the CotF have a different understanding of who, or what constitutes "the Old Gods". Jojen seems to believe that the OGs are the spirits of the dead greenseers that have "gone into the trees" but Bloodraven states that "the gods" created the CotF & gave them their psychic gifts, a belief echoed later by Leaf when she talks about "the gods" giving the CotF long lives but keeping their numbers small. If Leaf & Bloodraven are right then Jojen must be mistaken, as the greenseers could not create themselves or give themselves psychic gifts. So it seems clear to me that there must have been a time in CotF society BEFORE greenseers were wed to trees, or should I say, before skinchangers were wed to trees and BECAME greenseers. The CotF have either broken into heaven, like the Tevinter mages in the Dragon Age games, defiling an existing godhead. Or they've actually become their own gods and subsequently, the gods of the First Men. I like to call this "The First Heresy".

@janakipejov3667 Год назад

Bro thought hes onto something 😂

@pieceofgosa Год назад

@@janakipejov3667 explain why I'm not onto something then genius, I'll wait...

@purplefood1 10 месяцев назад

Differing views from different characters isn't really proof of anything it's just differing views from different characters it's easily possible no one knows the truth and it's all supposition based on what they do know or they're just guessing entirely, there's also the fact that the same thing can be interpreted differently by different people.

@pieceofgosa 10 месяцев назад

@@purplefood1 Irrelevant. The very existence of a differing interpretation leads one to certain conclusions (as I detailed above). It makes no difference who is right, it only matters what they believe.

@ThommyofThenn Год назад

Craster would do so well living in Alaska

@jdeck7803 24 дня назад

Crster's son is "Some monster" like Cersei asked Maggy the Frog. He is the Volanquar and the Prince who was Promised.

@Bargadiel Год назад

What is wild to me is that Crastor is perhaps the only character who was ever able to get the whitewalkers to compromise.

@meesert Год назад

There's a theory that the Night Watch used to have a compromise with the white walkers where they offered things (maybe children) via the secret door that Bran uses to cross the Wall. There's even mention of a Night Watch commander who had a White Walker wife at some point if I remember correctly. (they are called Others in the books btw not White Walkers)

@Nga_Babaye Год назад

The theory the person is eluding to before me is called the "Bastard's Gate" theory. At Castle Black, there is a gate through the wall that is different from all the others along the Wall and that looks like an inhuman mouth, perhaps like an Other with a big mouth, and it is called Bastard's Gate. The theory posits that a long time ago, possibly for even thousands of years and up until Queen Allisayne stopped the Lord's First Right/ Right of the First Night (Tagalog translation is Lord's First Right but English is different) bastard children were sent through the wall and given to The Others, the Children, or the Green Men as a sacrifice. That all Wildlings are possibly descendants of bastards without whatever is in Kings' Blood that makes it magical. There are some good theories that keep branching on to the base of it, but no definitive narrative evidence other than it fits into possibly what happened that broke the original pact. David Lightbringer and Robert Geek probably have the best theories on it, though Gray Area may have been the first one to speak about it in video format. Just think about the symbolism of walking into the mouth of summer and exiting into the stomach of winter.

@thing_under_the_stairs Год назад

@@Nga_Babaye Great summary, but one small correction: the door is at the Nightfort, which is said to be older than Castle Black, and possibly even older than the wall itself. I think this makes it even spookier!

@Nga_Babaye Год назад

@@thing_under_the_stairs Yes, Night Fort. I was just watching Battle of Castle Black :/

@Nga_Babaye Год назад

@@thing_under_the_stairs Craster the Procrastinator?

@sit-insforsithis1568 Год назад

He was a godly man!

@niyanlan8928 Год назад

Great video as ever - thanks so much

@lexj.2162 Год назад

I enjoy GRRM's crafting of these sorts of characters in his stories, those that will sell out humankind. Just as he did in Fevre Dream with Sour Billy Tipton.

@newelljoseph5060 Год назад

Wildlings would sooner fight each other than eat, but the fact that they all have an agreed hate for Craster speaks volumes

@kingtarly499 Год назад

Every ASOIAF RU-vidr: 🏜️🦂😶 InDeepGeek:who is the incest devil dad

@NakedGeep Год назад

If Crastor was Bloodraven’s son, would that mean Gilly’s baby has King’s blood?

@RapaxGuardian Год назад

Now THAT would be a twist worthy of Gartin Rartin Rartin Martin

@Hoeech Год назад

Let's burn him and find out

@2516김한성 Год назад

@@Hoeech most logical ASOIAF fan lol

@RapaxGuardian Год назад

@@Hoeech Mel: "I will burn this baby with king's blood as sacrifice to my god!" Jon: "but wait! I switched the babies! This is Gilly's baby with no King's Blood!" Mel: "I call your bluff and burn the baby anyways!" And it works 😳

@ThePhosophorus Год назад

the quote about being a godly man has more meaning than you give it credit imo, it goes back to the old gods and the religion of the first men. Blood sacrifice to the trees. It is very peculiar that the white walkers seem to adhere to these old traditions, almost as if there was some truth to them.

@tk423b Год назад

Love your content. Can you imagine the race to read and get out videos when the WoW comes out.

@nickslade7635 Год назад

Crastor is a lowkey targ. Aemonds kid probably which is why his sons have power for the walkers

@MaryCeleste86 Год назад

Who's the only one old enough to be Craster's father? Aemon.

@FrithonaHrududu02127 6 месяцев назад

Craster is a Targaryen. I'm not totally certain who he's descended from but there's a reason Grrm stressed over and over that Craster wedded his daughters instead of just bedding them. it goes to legitimacy.

@tonysled6796 Год назад

Sam has likely made himself primary target No 1 of the White Walkers. he slayed one and prevented them from having Gilly's child. and he is researching how to destroy them. I feel like he's going to be the top General in the fight against them while everyone else gets picked off.....he'll be the last to go much to the chagrin of the Cold Ones

@UAPReportingCenter 3 месяца назад

Always excellent work!

@fighterofthenightman1057 Год назад

I always thought it was obvious that there are multiple White Walkers on the show that were NOT Craster’s sons … I mean, it would be goofy AF for the Night King to not even have ONE companion for THOUSANDS of years until Craster had a son! 😂

@alexneumann3092 7 месяцев назад

I think the bloodline of Craster is important and I believe that Crasters father was Aemon. That's why the Others like his offspring so much. It's all about the drop of Targaryen blood that is in there, because Targaryen blood, Dragonblood, is magical. Just like with the children of Robert Baratheon. The Baratheons also have a small amount of Dragonblood in them. Always when it comes to performing magic acts it seems like Dragon blood plays a vital role, because Dragons themselves are magic. It's not only a blood sacrifice. It's a Dragonblood sacrifice.

@markrogers7802 3 месяца назад

I agree and little Sam, crasters last son is the prince who was promised

@sea5058 Год назад

I think that craster is bloodravens son, the timeline matches and it would also explain why the others want crasters sons because they are the descendants of a powerful greenseer, wether they want them to create more others or just for sacrifices is not clear, could be either way, though I do not think that it is likely that the others are just crasters son because I am convinced the others are a unique people with their own culture, identity, history etc. so it is most likely that they are using his sons for some sort of sacrifice imo. And the nightswatch is probably working together with craster to appease the others for now, we know that jeor is aware of what is happening and I don’t think he would let that slide in exchange for some food and shelter, so there seems to be a plan behind this, probably made by bloodraven

@kmook76 7 месяцев назад

Yep or Aemon.

@sea5058 7 месяцев назад

@@kmook76 yeah but in all likelihood it’s gonna be bloodraven

@AndrewK23777 Год назад

For me Craster much more repulsive than intriguing. Certainly one of if not by far the worst father in ASoIaF. But i'd say the most intriguing elements are more the unknowns and some of the goings on around & connected to the character. His possible bloodline / parentage which may or may not be significant ; could go either way with that. And of course his practice of sacrificing to the Others and what exactly becomes of these sacrifices (especially his sons). Quite interesting as it could be indicative that this practice was likely more common and widespread at one point. As the vid mentioned , the legend of books' NK for example hinting at such and areas like the Frozen Shore where it seems the Others are worshipped as gods quite likely the sacrifices were if not still going on there. Those sacrifices could have been part of the formula placating the Others / keeping them at bay. Perhaps was quite common and en masse in earlier times and that process being obstructed could be at least partly why the Others have reactivated. With Craster's sons , I personally believe the Others are sustained or energized by the sacrifices' life forces somehow. Anything is possible but just seems lets say many generations of sacrifices from a great many people resulting in creating more Others their numbers would be enormous to the point perhaps would not even need wighting. I personally don't believe the actual Others are that numerous and not sure would work as well or be as ominous if that were the case. But hopefully we get some form of clarity with all this sooner rather than later.

@redjirachi1 Год назад

It's interesting that despite being one of the most evil characters he hints at a small shade of grey to the Others. It proves that, even now, they are willing to make deals with humans

@eric2500 11 месяцев назад

Sooner rather than later, yes. Words are wind. George should write some down.

@moochomatt7301 Год назад

I love your vids! They are geeky but that’s the point

@ThommyofThenn Год назад

You're in deep now, ser geek

@elainemarie8725 Год назад

Man I have been waiting on somebody to make a video on Craster… I always thought we would get some interesting information or pay off on craster some important significance as to why he is like he is and why the others wanted his sons so bad…. Like he was a bastard of a Targaryen or had kings blood. Unfortunately like the end of the show D&D left me confused and disappointed… Edit: also why he was never attacked by wildling clans?

@forx28 Год назад

I would love an audiobook with your voice

@BalrogsHaveWings 11 месяцев назад

I somehow feel Crastor like an "anti-Beorn" haha

@dww6 Год назад

Possibe his dad will show up in dunk and egg. It's about the right time. If others show up in dance they will here.

@timmerk7363 Год назад

What always bothered m, is how this guy stayed alive that long. The Nights Watch visits only occasionally, so what stopped any group of 2-3 Wildlings from going in and killing him?

@bmetalfish3928 Год назад

Thought the same myself, he's one old guy, surrounded by just women, not even not even warrior women if Gilly's the norm, he has southern goods, sheep, supplies aplenty, talks to the nights watch and mutilates messengers. Clearly he must be part of a religous practice of sorts, "The old guy's dead, who wants to be the sacrificial degenerate?" must ring out in the lands beyond the wall every 50 or so years.

@squidmanfedsfeds5301 Год назад

I’m thinking the same, he apparently cuts out an envoy from Mance rader the wildling king, someone man e probably trusted, why wouldn’t the wildlings just come back and mess him up, or the nights watch come in or even the others since they said multiple times they were nearby So many things have reason to get crastor but he remained alive for a long time Maybe the sacrifices really did work and protected him

@goabparty9574 Год назад

It’s one dude. I was always thinking this. He’s got tons of women, weird incest born women, but women none the less. Why wouldn’t the wildlings just mop him up really quick and take his home and babes. Even wild animals could just take him out since he gets rid of all his sons.

@hypello9534 11 месяцев назад

I guess the others were protecting him. And as we know the wildlings are afraid of the them asf, thats the reason they want to go behind the wall.

@soxpeewee 9 месяцев назад

He must have been in a wilding tribe long long ago and killed off his male competition

@rjjacob101 Год назад

I can believe Craster being a Targaryen of some sort, you know how Craster likes to keep things in the family...

@SciFiCatGuy 11 дней назад

I've always thought "Sons Of Craster" would be a cool name for a metal band. Open every show with a metal version of the theme.

@Mooljim Год назад

Another great video

@voidghost84 Год назад

There is this god motive in the books. We have the god of light/fire/shadow that Melisandre worships. He has a positive side, giving visions and power to even resurrect, but demands human sacrifices and sends shadows to kill. Then there is the sea god that .. touched? has chosen? Patches (the clown/bard) and is the god of the Ironborn. He gives visions (at least to Patches) and demands human sacrifices - the people that get drowned but then come back via resuscitation. Euron's brother also makes a sacrifice of 6 beautiful women to him. So there might be other gods. Bran has a vision of a man being killed in a sacred grove. Was this a sacrifice to the Seven, or just an execution? Or both? The cold north might have the same gods that Westeros has, but remembers things you actually have to do to get their favor or this could be another, ice god that brings his worshipers back just as the others do .. just changed. Maybe the ones brought back by the other gods are changed to, just in a less visible way?

@pieceofgosa Год назад

I think it's more likely Craster's first wife was his mother, which puts a slightly different spin on it. In that situation Craster is actually the one being used. His wives outnumbered him by quite a decent amount, they could easily have taken him out anytime they wanted but they needed him to make babies. Ask yourself, what were his wives planning on doing when he died ? Would they keep a boy baby ? Or maybe even steal a wildling boy in a nice inversion of the wildling marriage custom ? Another big question to ask yourself is what is more likely, that Craster or his mother made a deal with The Others, or that they inherited somebody else's deal ?

@stevepirie8130 Год назад

Good point on how did he know to leave sacrifices. Easiest way was he was told to.

@Rye_Toast Год назад

Oh so this was the women's fault? Got it.

@TitusAnjohnicus Год назад

Your hustlers university subscription is really paying dividends. I look forward to your essay 'Why lesbians just need a good seeing to sort them out'.

@TitusAnjohnicus Год назад

I left out a too, soz

@AleksandarIvanov69 Год назад

@@Rye_Toast😂😂😂 you are silly

@droomonsta 2 месяца назад

My headcanon is that the random Nights Watchman that fathered Crastor was a random Stark, so the NightKing can turn Crastors sons, since he is was a Stark too before the Child of the forest turned him. You know how obsessed they are with Blood Magic and hereditarty things in the show.

@MCR-M8 Год назад

Jon being disgusted.when his Dad's family tree is basically a reef.

@sophiawilson8696 Год назад

The close that Starks had with inbreeding it cousins and half Uncle with Niece.

@MDCxThePG 7 месяцев назад

Then later sleeps with his own aunt

@anortalot 11 месяцев назад

Excellent raven impression I have to say

@oliverallen3899 Год назад

What if gillies son is the Prince who was promised. All men consider themselves kings of their own castle, none more so then the men north of the wall. What if Craster saw himself as a king of his kingdom. Therefore the Prince who was promised....could be the son who was promised to the others and got away. The lucky one who escaped destined to come back and fight and win!

@Antisocial_Metalhead Год назад

Craster's babies being turned into white walkers kind of gives me an idea that they've got something like a fantasy version of a borg maturation chamber. Thinking of how GRRM borrows from sci fi stuff. From the main point though, as lots of people have said, Craster is definitely one of the most disturbing characters and I'm interested to see how it eventually pans out for the history with the Others in books, I have faith!

@marcusmobley5411 7 месяцев назад

The sons go off to train up north for when the Hound comes down on the north like a Mountain!

@velcro8223 Год назад

There's a dude on youtube theorizing that Craster is GMs way of showing the reader that the others are subject to guest right, and that it may be foreshadowing how the books will end. That's up there with Green Zombies and Maester conspiracy as tinfoil that may turn out true.

@thomasa8814 Год назад

They keep them as baby white walker mascots

@BlazeBuds 7 дней назад

His sons can't even all become leaders either. As he stated in the show he has had 99 sons or something. There are only like 6 leaders though

@samuelleask1132 Год назад

Great breakdown!

@Grancigul Год назад

Its a good day when Robert uploads ❤

@official-gangganggaming347 8 месяцев назад

Reminds me of DAVID STARKY talking.

@awesomehpt8938 Год назад

He was from Alabama

@Vaille32 11 месяцев назад

If Craster were from Alabama, he wouldn’t be giving away the sheep…

@kiwiprouddavids724 9 месяцев назад

It's Islamic countries who have the highest rates of inbreeding

@ThommyofThenn Год назад

The sons o' Craster t'will be returnin in the night, crow

@sethdaniel1115 9 месяцев назад

Crastor was a good dude. He loved his daughters more than any of us could

@WillGodaskyouifHecansavemetoo 9 месяцев назад

Holy crap! I read your comment and it was so funny I spit out my coffee laughing so hard! Pure comedic genius! Rotflmfao

@Scipio_Americanus 8 месяцев назад

He was a family man

@nolandmotes8046 7 месяцев назад

FBI is requesting your location

@Angel9932 6 месяцев назад

@@Scipio_AmericanusCraster certainly did love his family, at least some of them.

@oldudejones4367 Год назад

Craster defined necessary evil.

@JohnTorres1987 Год назад

The type of evil Craster was doing was not necessary. While he might have been necessary for the night’s watch, the incest and giving his sons to the others was not necessary so it was just plain evil.

@whaddup691 Год назад

Preston Jacobs has a good argument about how genetically it might matter who his father was and how it might be bloodraven

@BubblegumCrash332 Год назад

Its interesting the Others can be kept at bay by giving a sacrifice. If they travel south of the wall what sacrifice would they require

@jordanalexander6935 Год назад

The better question is: Why is Craster?

@Apemopo 3 месяца назад

craster was the guy who lived in a hovel north of the wall and was an ally to the nightwatch despite the fact that he married his daughters and gave his sons to the others

@thisperson3240 Год назад

I thought the point of the Craster is he is the monster created by rejection from both its creators. A double Frankenstein's monster. His sin was to have survived and he did that by the only means available like Varys. He didn't ask for or care about your approval and mourning. In a world of ice and fire he is one of the morally neutral characters. Repugnant monster but really no where near as evil as little finger who just smells better.

@hezekiaB Год назад

Describing the brothers who revolt, kill Mormont and Craster and rape his daughters before eventually being killed by cold hands as “pragmatists” is interesting to me. There was another video recently that you also described someone as a pragmatist that also drew my notice. It makes me wonder if Britons use that term differently than Americans. While the definition is someone who takes a practical approach to a problem in the US it also implies someone willing to settle a situation in a manner that leaves both parties involved satisfied.

@littletrebleclef 11 месяцев назад

I'm British and I would say pragmatism is a matter of perspective. I wouldn't call any of that pragmatic but sick, but from their perspective, I can see how this would be pragmatic. I think a lot of people who do evil do so from the perspective of pragmatism.

@MiguelRodriguez-ef5wd 8 месяцев назад

Lord Mormont knew what Craster did with the babies, even though The Others were suppoused to be thousands of years never been seen.

@kmook76 7 месяцев назад

Yeah the ignorance was weaponized I guess. But that was a tradition in the north, to give the babes away especially in winter because hungry mouths. Part of the pact perhaps also as speculated as part of first night, warg/greenseer kings blood for the children and others.

@Eamonntargaryen Год назад

I think it has to be about life force bc other wildlings besides craster give children to the others. So it’s not about crasters blood. Plus the others seem to be somewhat placated by animal sacrifice, which makes me think the babies aren’t being directly turned to others like the show

@boskilingenfelter9515 7 месяцев назад

OBVIOUSLY Craster is Azor Ahai.

@KingRich616 Год назад

Dad of the year

@Ims51 Год назад

In hindsight, GOT did a great job visually with the S4 finale where the night king ceremoniously turns a baby boy.however, As far as making any sense, it really doesn't improve. What stands out the most is how easy it was for the NK to ressurect the dead(adults btw), soldiers too.) to add to his infinite army. So, why would he wait around for months or years just to turn a baby or two? Then Wait for the baby to grow while they march south? Do they head back north every now and then for more babies? Is that why it took so long to reach the wall? Someone please make sense of this to me. I'd really appreciate a reasonable theory.

@berzerker4026 Год назад

when he resurrects people they become wights (zombies), but from what I understood even though the series does not go anywhere with this idea is that the babies turn into white walkers( ice people).

@Ims51 Год назад

@@berzerker4026 thank you.that would have been satisfying if the show at least attempted to address previous setups such as this.

@sophiawilson8696 Год назад

We would found out with Blood Moon but that was cancel.

@soxpeewee 9 месяцев назад

Why can't there be multiple uses for the babies? The Dothraki ride horses, eat them, use their milk, etc. I imagine in a frozen wasteland that any living thing is useful.

@SkepticalChris 7 месяцев назад

Craster was killed by a fooking legend from gin alley

@EvilArtifact 5 месяцев назад

I think Craster’s function in the story is to teach us a bit about the system of magic that sustains the Others. Since all magic appears to ultimately be some form of blood magic, it makes sense that sacrificed children might be used to sustain the magic that sustains the Others. I think the livestock is a red herring, but the Others know that Craster will reliably produce babies when he has them. But why babies and not just anybody? I think it has to do with Craster’s lineage, which might be from one of the major noble houses since his father was a man of the Night’s Watch. These noble houses seem to be magically significant and possess “king’s blood”. The practice of the first night seems to be intended to produce bastards of noble bloodlines, which clues point to having been taken to the Wall and sacrificed to the Others. If Craster’s children possess king’s blood, then this theory seems solid enough. When Craster describes himself as a “godly man”, he may not realize how right he is. I do not believe that Craster’s children are being converted into Others as the show suggests, because I do not believe the body of an Other is their actual physical form, but rather some kind of magical icy construct that they pilot with their consciousness.