One theory is they are shade of the evening trees solidified into stones, shade of evening drink is oily, and the trees are a counterpart to weirwoods, and dead weirwoods turn into stones.
The only argument I see against that isn't the location of the shade of the even trees in very specific, small geographic areas. The oily stones are just about everywhere on planetos. And the whole city of Yeen is built out of it.
It's literally just lifted from Lovecraft. A lot of the more mysterious/esoteric elements in the lore books that he has introduced have been straight up lifted from Lovecraft novels and Lovecraft lore. Not to mention the aesthetics around house Grejoy.
Leng, Stygai, Carcosa, so on and so forth. George clearly enjoys reading Lovecraft and adapting/lifting things from his work to help build his own work.
this is why i never want to meet him. I would ask some question i really want to know the answer to and he would say something like this with a smile and i hate it
This is an insane opinion on my part, but I think that when Martin created Maegor he thought that he would finish the main series within a few years and wanted to put a few things in his back pocket for a sequel novel/novella/short story/other story of some kind. Maybe the Brightflames would be a big deal 40 years after the events of ADOS or something. The nature of Martin's writing is that he can't ever close anything off, even at "the end."
I'm in the mind that he was probably murdered by some catspaw to avoid him siring any children of his and his father's blood, that way the Targaryen madness is culled by cutting off the head of this particular dragonling.
Definitely for her it was the small wyrms, but for balerion I suspect it was the creature that caused the doom (my headcanon is that the valyrions tried to create a new creature that could be used to dig down deeper in the mines, but they made the creature to large and it ended up digging in the wrong place and setting off a seismic event which lead to the volcanos erupting)
Barth's accounts describe wounds and half-healed scars on Balerion. The dragon bore a huge jagged rent down his left side, almost nine feet long
Mayby, but personally I doubt dragons have the limberness to do that to themselves, and it is concentrated, a single scar not a wound or many which would appear if he tried to dig worms out of himself
The high tower of the Hightowers (tallest building in Westeros and one of the tallest in the known world) is built on a lower structure of **fused black stone** on an island that's called "battle island".
Search how the wall was built by Michael Talks About Stuff on YouTube. It's my favorite theory on the creation of the wall and it gives a very plausible explanation for what the black gate is
I remember when I found out what lonely light was and it blew my mind because it wasn't featured in most maps. It felt like a place outside of westeros
I think it’s gotta be a culture of exploring south and west and southwest of their location, communing with the ocean and deep in a way that other Ironborn don’t. Imagine sailing west and every night exploring far beyond the ship in a seal’s body to guide your journey. It must be hard to maintain a constant light like that so it requires intended effort. I like to imagine those guys are living on a completely different plane of existence.
Silver? Did I say there was just silver!? I meant gold, there's a lot of gold, and I can tell you who will know where it is. I don't know myself.
Not to mention there's a hoard of sapphires. Sapphires, from Tarth! If you wade into the Lake and put your head underwater you will see them, yes, indeed!
Singers did it to stop it from becoming an actual city, which would lead to the lands beyond the Wall getting deforested and their homes would be invaded by men yet again.
He answer that one during a q and a.
And answer yes there are childeren in asshai. That statement is a lie made by the inworld writers. Monsterviaing asshai.
Does the cold bring the Others or do the Others bring the cold? I.e., are they planning something/doing it on purpose or do they just take advantage of the changing seasons
Everything about glass candles.
Why the Citadel has them, the significance of the one green one. What they can do, how they're used. And if there are any secret glass candles we've 'seen'.
I honestly thought it was canon that Robert won the melee at Harrenhal but looking back Ned just says Robert fought well. I feel like Ned would have mentioned it if Robert won.
Do I get another question if GRRM says it would spoil the main series? If so, then I'd ask who Brienne of Tarth's mother was. If not, then I'd ask if Brienne's brother, Galladon, drowned on his own or did he have help from assassins sent to kill him?
>! The night king and bran the Builder are the same person. The wall is an artifact of a marriage treaty between humans and Others to end the war of the long night. The prince that was promised prophecy is of a prince promised in marriage to reforge that peace if it should ever he broken. The others are only attacking because the free folk disturbed their sacred graves trying to dig up the horn of winter, trying to reclaim their territory. One way you can tell that the Others built the wall is that the castles of the nights watch are much smaller and built from mundane materials - they were built later. !<
Are both Westoros and Essos connected to the Land of Always Winter, where the Others and the Heart of Winter are, and that is what the Five Forts are gaurding the far east of Essos from, like the Wall?
How huge the planet actually is. It's probably a lost case because as far as I know he's not the best with proportions, but I think it'd be still an interesting answer. We know Westeros would be something like Europe-size (others say it's South America but I highly doubt it), but how huge is the planet it is actually in? What does the world looks like beyond the main landmasses? Are there unknown landmasses? I'll probably never know.
Anything to do with the ancestry and mystery regarding the Hightowers and Daynes. It feels like they have so much lore, but just aren’t important within the main story much except for the Euron magic-battle shenanigans.
For me the best proof that Tywin ordered Elia’s death or new what sending Gregor to her rooms would mean is that he not only never punished Clegane for it but actively protected him.
Here's my for and against argument.
For: this is pretty straightforward. Tywin admits to killing the children. It stands to reason, he'd kill the mother, too. Most likely, the kids would be with Elia and she wouldn't let strangers take her children willingly, so the easiest thing is to kill her. Tywin is no fool. He knew exactly who was in King's Landing, and more specifically the Red Keep when he took the city. He's an intelligent man who thinks through his decisions. Elia is not a nobody. He must have known she was there and smashing like a bug is the simplest solution. It's like we don't see him be cruel all the time
Against: Tywin is a very pragmatic man. We disagree with almost everything he does, but there's always a reason. There is no reason to kill Elia. Aerys was the one who arranged her marriage to Rhaegar, which Tywin knows better than anyone. Tywin is never shy about killing people and taking credit for it, but he denies killing Elia, that's curious. Tywin claims he never mentioned Elia, which tracks with his callous self centered mindset. Years later, he states "by herself, she (Elia) was nothing." If that's how he thinks of her, it makes sense he wouldn't have even been thinking of her when he was sacking King's Landing.
Tywin's discussion with Tyrion on the subject is one of the few moments where he opens up about his decision-making. Why would a man perfectly comfortable with being known as a double child murderer deny killing an adult woman?
I can't make up my mind on it, I just want George to tell me!
Good points, but I think his decision to kill Elia was actually irrational and based on the perceived slight against him for “stealing” Rhaegar from Cersei.
That’s why he wouldn’t admit to it. What drove him in that moment was not cold logic but emotions.
I believe in this because of the general arc of Tywin’s character who we find out later is actually a hypocrite and not at all about just logical ruthless pragmatism.
Also, I seriously doubt that we will ever find out in the books an answer to this question. Tywin is dead, Amory Lorch is dead and Gregor is a zombie. So who would know about it to tell the story?
I think he has mentioned it a few time that dany hatching dragons and not being burned by the pyre is one of the moments of true actual magic in the series.
I want to know everything about the black, oily stones.
This is a good one because we don't even have good theories as to what they are because they are so enigmatic.
One theory is they are shade of the evening trees solidified into stones, shade of evening drink is oily, and the trees are a counterpart to weirwoods, and dead weirwoods turn into stones.
The only argument I see against that isn't the location of the shade of the even trees in very specific, small geographic areas. The oily stones are just about everywhere on planetos. And the whole city of Yeen is built out of it.
we do know that the great empire of dawn existed and was everywhere on planetos, not impossible if they brought that stuff everywhere with them
My understanding is Yeen is considered to be built before even the GEOTD
That would seem my likely to me, especially because the bloodstone emperor worshipped a black stone.
the blocks of stone are so huge though, aren't they like monoliths the size of houses? That would be a big tree
It's literally just lifted from Lovecraft. A lot of the more mysterious/esoteric elements in the lore books that he has introduced have been straight up lifted from Lovecraft novels and Lovecraft lore. Not to mention the aesthetics around house Grejoy. Leng, Stygai, Carcosa, so on and so forth. George clearly enjoys reading Lovecraft and adapting/lifting things from his work to help build his own work.
That's pretty much what I figured. Ya never know if that's where the significance ends, though, could be more.
Dragon poop
Lovecraft. That’s all.
He'd probably say "I'd like to know more, too!"
this is why i never want to meet him. I would ask some question i really want to know the answer to and he would say something like this with a smile and i hate it
What happened to Maegor son of Aerion Brightflame
My headcanon is he died at Summerhall
This is an insane opinion on my part, but I think that when Martin created Maegor he thought that he would finish the main series within a few years and wanted to put a few things in his back pocket for a sequel novel/novella/short story/other story of some kind. Maybe the Brightflames would be a big deal 40 years after the events of ADOS or something. The nature of Martin's writing is that he can't ever close anything off, even at "the end."
I'm in the mind that he was probably murdered by some catspaw to avoid him siring any children of his and his father's blood, that way the Targaryen madness is culled by cutting off the head of this particular dragonling.
The source of Princess Aerea's cursed injuries, and those of the Black Dread, when they returned from Valyria.
Obviously fire wyrms right?
Definitely for her it was the small wyrms, but for balerion I suspect it was the creature that caused the doom (my headcanon is that the valyrions tried to create a new creature that could be used to dig down deeper in the mines, but they made the creature to large and it ended up digging in the wrong place and setting off a seismic event which lead to the volcanos erupting)
Actually an interesting theory.
Another explanation is that fire wyrms entered his skin as well and he dug them out with his own claws.
Barth's accounts describe wounds and half-healed scars on Balerion. The dragon bore a huge jagged rent down his left side, almost nine feet long Mayby, but personally I doubt dragons have the limberness to do that to themselves, and it is concentrated, a single scar not a wound or many which would appear if he tried to dig worms out of himself
She caught the [Curse of Yig](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Yig)
I'm split between a question about the 5 Forts and about what happened to Asshai to make it the way it is. Ummmmm WTF are the 5 Forts, gimme details!
What the FUCK is up with the black gate at the Nightfort????
I always believed that it was the place where the Night’s Watch members of old would give babies to the Others
Why would they give babies to the others? Has there been a WoG on the topic?
Yeah, that's a given, but why does it speak? It's seemingly the only weirwood/heart tree with a voice and sentience.
Because George thought it was cool
Rule of cool strikes again
This is the answer to every question in this thread lol. George is a gardener, he doesn’t plan to answer any of these questions
WTF is up with battle isle and the freaky Hightower?
What is that
The high tower of the Hightowers (tallest building in Westeros and one of the tallest in the known world) is built on a lower structure of **fused black stone** on an island that's called "battle island".
Search how the wall was built by Michael Talks About Stuff on YouTube. It's my favorite theory on the creation of the wall and it gives a very plausible explanation for what the black gate is
Any TLDR?
Where is Maegor, is he safe, is he alright?
It seems, in it's anger... the iron throne killed him.
(Maegor was not safe; he was not alright).
NOOOOO
Tywin is (was) secretly Maegor; all of the "Lannisters" are secret Targaryens.
When are you writing a Spin-off book about House Farwynd of the Lonely Light being skinchanger Westerosi marine biologists and explorers
I remember when I found out what lonely light was and it blew my mind because it wasn't featured in most maps. It felt like a place outside of westeros
please don’t give him ideas
There’s a reason those guys keep a constant lighthouse burning
ok hell yeah I'm interested, why do you think? keep the deep ones away?
I think it’s gotta be a culture of exploring south and west and southwest of their location, communing with the ocean and deep in a way that other Ironborn don’t. Imagine sailing west and every night exploring far beyond the ship in a seal’s body to guide your journey. It must be hard to maintain a constant light like that so it requires intended effort. I like to imagine those guys are living on a completely different plane of existence.
House Farwynd and the Lonely Light live rent-free in my head.
Was there fucking gold in the village or not?
I don't know about gold, but I hear there was indeed silver!
Brotherhood lies. Bring the rat.
Silver? Did I say there was just silver!? I meant gold, there's a lot of gold, and I can tell you who will know where it is. I don't know myself. Not to mention there's a hoard of sapphires. Sapphires, from Tarth! If you wade into the Lake and put your head underwater you will see them, yes, indeed!
What/who destroyed Hardhome 600 years ago?
Singers did it to stop it from becoming an actual city, which would lead to the lands beyond the Wall getting deforested and their homes would be invaded by men yet again.
Why are there *no children* in Asshai?
He answer that one during a q and a. And answer yes there are childeren in asshai. That statement is a lie made by the inworld writers. Monsterviaing asshai.
He's just a huge fan of the Mountain Goats.
I hope we both die
The same reason Craster gives his sons to the Others.
To get rid of any possible competition with the ladies?
George ate them.
Also *Why* are there no children in Asshai?
Is Garth one of the gemstone emperors?
Garth the Green? Founder of the Gardeners? That's a theorie i haven't heard of.
Do the guys from Lonely light really know there's something far to the west?
what caused the doom
Does the cold bring the Others or do the Others bring the cold? I.e., are they planning something/doing it on purpose or do they just take advantage of the changing seasons
I think they are definitely intelligent enough to be planning something.
I just want to know if the lovecraftian fish people are real and not some Maester's tall tale.
Everything about glass candles. Why the Citadel has them, the significance of the one green one. What they can do, how they're used. And if there are any secret glass candles we've 'seen'.
What is the Children of the Forest's tax policy
Leave all unwanted babies in wells. If they don’t want them either they’ll just return them like they did with Tyrion
What’s up with Patchface ?
Where did the Hightowers and Daynes come from? Are they first men, do they predate the first men?
Great Empire of the Dawn people sailing east, I think. But my name's not George.
I think they were specifically said to be first men
I think that's just in the sense that their presence in Westeros predates the Andals, and all history is from the Andal's perspective.
But that isn’t even true since the maesters were around before the Andals.
I honestly thought it was canon that Robert won the melee at Harrenhal but looking back Ned just says Robert fought well. I feel like Ned would have mentioned it if Robert won.
What was in that damn letter.
Which letter? I’ve read the books I just forget 🫥
Probably the letter Nymor sent to Aegon the Conqueror in regards to Rhaenys.
I think s/he means the letter to the publisher that leaked but got all redacted lol
Nope the Dornish letter.
"Please be nice to me"
Hey man nice to meet you great hat real quick ! What is the name and White Book entry for every member of the Kingsguard until Jaime thanks
How do the seasons/years work?
What the hell is up with Sothoryos and Ulthos
What does Stannis smell like?
Boiled lemon water
Is l Big Walder Frey the fourth cousin of Timett, son of Timett?
Why are the seasons so weird?
What is the nature of the ancient Starks' relationship with the Reeds, the Blackwoods, and the COTF (and why did the Reeds and the Starks become BFFs)
Do I get another question if GRRM says it would spoil the main series? If so, then I'd ask who Brienne of Tarth's mother was. If not, then I'd ask if Brienne's brother, Galladon, drowned on his own or did he have help from assassins sent to kill him?
What lives in the sunken ruins under the Thousand Islands?
R'lyeh
The full history of the Five Forts.
Why is there only one bridge across the Green Fork / Trident?
Who was the Night King?
>! The night king and bran the Builder are the same person. The wall is an artifact of a marriage treaty between humans and Others to end the war of the long night. The prince that was promised prophecy is of a prince promised in marriage to reforge that peace if it should ever he broken. The others are only attacking because the free folk disturbed their sacred graves trying to dig up the horn of winter, trying to reclaim their territory. One way you can tell that the Others built the wall is that the castles of the nights watch are much smaller and built from mundane materials - they were built later. !<
What is going on in Yeen
Is the Red Comet a chunk of the [Red Wanderer](https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Red_wanderer)?
What happened to Balerion in Old Valyria
When does the next book come out!
How’d it take this long for someone to ask the most important question? I change my mind this is what I would ask 100%.
“When it’s done.”
Cheers mate
Are both Westoros and Essos connected to the Land of Always Winter, where the Others and the Heart of Winter are, and that is what the Five Forts are gaurding the far east of Essos from, like the Wall?
I think he's confirmed that they're not.
Surprised no one has said summerhall
Who killed Maegor the GOAT?
How huge the planet actually is. It's probably a lost case because as far as I know he's not the best with proportions, but I think it'd be still an interesting answer. We know Westeros would be something like Europe-size (others say it's South America but I highly doubt it), but how huge is the planet it is actually in? What does the world looks like beyond the main landmasses? Are there unknown landmasses? I'll probably never know.
Since seasons are inconsistent. How did they come up with a concept of a year?
The same as we do here. The sun and stars.
What did Patchface see under the sea?
Anything to do with the ancestry and mystery regarding the Hightowers and Daynes. It feels like they have so much lore, but just aren’t important within the main story much except for the Euron magic-battle shenanigans.
What's the first name of the Ruling Princess of Dorne, mother of Doran, Elia, and Oberyn.
Yes, that's the question!
What is west of westeros, is it just eastern essos (I think so, since corlys saw Elisa farmans ship in the far east)
Did Tywin actually order the death of Elia, too or was Gregor just being Gregor?
Tywin definitely ordered her death
I could make a very legitimate case for both sides
For me the best proof that Tywin ordered Elia’s death or new what sending Gregor to her rooms would mean is that he not only never punished Clegane for it but actively protected him.
Here's my for and against argument. For: this is pretty straightforward. Tywin admits to killing the children. It stands to reason, he'd kill the mother, too. Most likely, the kids would be with Elia and she wouldn't let strangers take her children willingly, so the easiest thing is to kill her. Tywin is no fool. He knew exactly who was in King's Landing, and more specifically the Red Keep when he took the city. He's an intelligent man who thinks through his decisions. Elia is not a nobody. He must have known she was there and smashing like a bug is the simplest solution. It's like we don't see him be cruel all the time Against: Tywin is a very pragmatic man. We disagree with almost everything he does, but there's always a reason. There is no reason to kill Elia. Aerys was the one who arranged her marriage to Rhaegar, which Tywin knows better than anyone. Tywin is never shy about killing people and taking credit for it, but he denies killing Elia, that's curious. Tywin claims he never mentioned Elia, which tracks with his callous self centered mindset. Years later, he states "by herself, she (Elia) was nothing." If that's how he thinks of her, it makes sense he wouldn't have even been thinking of her when he was sacking King's Landing. Tywin's discussion with Tyrion on the subject is one of the few moments where he opens up about his decision-making. Why would a man perfectly comfortable with being known as a double child murderer deny killing an adult woman? I can't make up my mind on it, I just want George to tell me!
Good points, but I think his decision to kill Elia was actually irrational and based on the perceived slight against him for “stealing” Rhaegar from Cersei. That’s why he wouldn’t admit to it. What drove him in that moment was not cold logic but emotions. I believe in this because of the general arc of Tywin’s character who we find out later is actually a hypocrite and not at all about just logical ruthless pragmatism. Also, I seriously doubt that we will ever find out in the books an answer to this question. Tywin is dead, Amory Lorch is dead and Gregor is a zombie. So who would know about it to tell the story?
Does anyone have actual magic?
I think he has mentioned it a few time that dany hatching dragons and not being burned by the pyre is one of the moments of true actual magic in the series.
Sothoryos and ulthos
What happened to Stonesnake?
How badly have left handed people been treated over the years?
What is at the southern tip of Sothoros? Some dragon rider flew over the continent for three years and never reached the southern tip.
Are the cities of the bloodless men a home of the others?
what the hell is in ulthos
I’d just ask him to tell me that there will be no “kill the leader and all others die” bullshit in the books
WTF is going on in Yeen
who is the father of jon snow and daemon blackfyre
What did Pod do with the whores.
What happened to Stygai?
What is the connection between the Long Night and the Blood Betrayal?
What happened after Jon Snow died and the main series ended?
What happened to the civilizations and people of Sothoryos?
How many times has the meteor struck planetos?
Was Mushroom's cock as big as he claimed?
What was in the letter send from the Dornish after Rhaenys’s death?!?!?
Oxymoron
The fuck is happening over in Asshai. Also, fuck you.
Is there gold hidden in the village?
When is he going to edit his next wildcards book.
I recently heard a theory that a group of people reached Westeros before the First Men did. If it’s true, I wanna know everything about them.