RANKING GAME OF THRONES HOUSE WORDS | Fantasy Haven

[@johansmallberries9874]

“Hear me roar” is so lame that the Lannisters are actively trying to rewrite their house motto.

[@MrMustache-yn4zm]

We do not sow is arguably worse

[@ozymandiasthesaltylobster8207]

​@@MrMustache-yn4zm nah is solid B-tier, imma side with Haven on this

[@thelastbrickbender2139]

@@MrMustache-yn4zm We do not sow is badass

[@MrMustache-yn4zm]

@@thelastbrickbender2139 nah what is dead may never die is much cooler

[@12354rony]

@@MrMustache-yn4zm Hear me roar is exponentially more cringe worthy, it's not even comparable for me

[@TyLeeEnjoyer]

"Unbowed, unbent, unbroken" goes so hard, it is my favorite.

[@12354rony]

House Martell knows what's up, prob the most likely phrase I'd wear on a shirt if I had to

[@greywolf7577]

"Fire and Blood" is probably my favorite. It goes with the other mottos of history "Blood and Iron" and "Blood and Sand" that were popular for those who wanted to sound badass.

[@kekero540]

I like to think each of the Ironborn houses make up a collective anthem for the entire island. Like “though all may hate us” is such a perfect follow up to “we do not sow”

[@almondsai7214]

All of their house words form a sea shanty.

[@artemis-haze]

House Plumm's words literally being the medieval equivalent of "come at me bro" is just amazing

[@tomahi83]

Starks were originally titled "Kings of Winter", so "Winter is Coming" is also a threat...

[@Justin-gz3cp]

Tell them Winter cam for House Frey

[@KingOfWinter]

I don’t know I think you’re hating on the KarStarks motto a little. When I hear “the Sun of Winter” I think of a barren frozen wasteland where everything is freezing/dying/dead and yet they are still shining bright (as bright as the sun lol). They bring light to winters darkness, heat to winters chill, life to winters death. IMO at least.

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

B tier at least.

[@johansmallberries9874]

I also think it couples well with being a Stark branch house. It adds a note of hope and positivity to the Starks more ominous motto. Even in deepest winter, the sun still shines. Also, extra points for working as a pun.

[@JagmasterGeneral12374]

Definitely no better then b but I also think it plays on the fact they are a cadet branch of starks the kings of winter meaning they are the sons of winter

[@khinzaw77]

Also a double entendre with them being descended from the Lords of Winterfell.

[@reptilesarecool6739]

Agreed 100% any imagery relating to the winter Sun is always beautiful and extremely moving Sucks it’s wasted on a bitch ass house like the Karstarks Traitorous kinslayers smh

[@virgiljericho664]

“Truth Conquers” Im picturing a bunch of nerds running into battle in white button down shirts, pocket protectors, wielding those giant novelty pencils

[@jessjess23brooks89]

"Though all men do despise us.... We still have a neighborhood fish-fry on Sundays."

[@RmsOceanic]

I like "We Stand Together" being the words for House Frey as suggested in Game of Thrones, because the books make those words deeply ironic.

[@marcospatricio8283]

And the best (or worst) part is that this seems to be a relatively recent development, with even Walder Frey's grandfather being a sorta decent man. They distinguished themselves during Maegor's reign and the dance, their loyalty to the Blackfyres is almost touching, and we're given no reason to doubt their commitment against the Hoares during the conquest.

[@Bellbeaker14]

About House Caron: GRR often uses “Song” and “Singing” to describe the clashing of blades in battle, and considering that the Carons are Marcher Lords it’s fitting. Still not a great battle cry, but it makes sense - there is no song so “sweet” as a Caron singing, or a Caron “singing” on the battlefield

[@marcospatricio8283]

In their context, I think it's actually quite intimidating. The Marchers are dangerous not because of occupations, but simply raids. Sane raiders (the Iron Islanders are just weird) want easy targets they can slaughter, and technically win if their enemy refuses to engage/disengages. A motto that's basically "we don't run away from a fight" can be quite intimidating for people who very much want you to.

[@eversor10]

First motto and im already shaking my head. If Ours is the Fury isnt S tier i will so something ill advised

[@OceanHedgehog]

Even Orys Baratheon was like, "Yep, can't improve on perfection" and kept it.

[@AS-qy1zl]

It’s like, if I HEARD you roar, you wouldn’t be needing to tell me that you roared. Nomsayin?

[@fantasyhaven1]

Yeah exactly

[@DDdreamer90]

Any lion who has to say "I just roared" is no true lion.

[@AS-qy1zl]

@@DDdreamer90 king of replies

[@ncrranger2281]

1:39:53 Important part starts here!

[@primesuspectguy]

This was so perfect thank you

[@ChernorizecHrabyr]

Right. What the frick.

[@martinskorulis8832]

House Tully words also pass as a threat - family and duty comes before the honour... so don't interfere with the first two!

[@aegorbittersteel2154]

What a wonderful return to Lord Haven streams

[@soulsharts]

I've always understood the Greyjoy's "We do not sow" to mean they're proud to be thieves. They don't grow their own food. I remember Baelon saying "We are Ironborne, we take what is ours.", but in reality, they take what is somebody else's. What a lowlife flex: we're not good at anything, so we just reap our neighbor's hard work through v!olence. We live only by leeching off of other people, like a parasite.

[@RealLifeIronMan]

They are such low-lives it is a miracle that the Seven Kingdoms never made a concerted effort to wipe them from the face of the earth. They serve no benefit to the crown and are a constant thorn in the side of the powerful families of Lanister and Tyrel.

[@RealLifeIronMan]

They are such low-lives it is a miracle that the Seven Kingdoms never made a concerted effort to execute them. They serve no benefit to the crown and are a constant thorn in the side of the powerful families of Lanister and Tyrell.

[@dickdastardly9548]

But at the same time, if you grew up there raiding is all you know, iron island don’t have land to grow crops

[@Jeffrey_Tyler]

I didn't know anyone thought it was something different than what you just described. That's interesting.

[@marcospatricio8283]

There's two things to address here. First is the notion of work and dignity. In medieval Europe (matter of fact, in numerous different societies), work is seen as undignified, and not having to work is seen as something to brag about. The words appeal to that. Second is the framing. Humans love when things are implied, specially strength. "Fire and Blood" is cool, "Dragons and Incest" isn't. "Our Blades Are Sharp" is cool, "we're gonna torture you" isn't. "We Are Raiders and Parasites" is shameful, "We Do Not Sow (because we're so strong we can force others to do it)" is.

[@marrymikeymcbee6832]

House Wode's 'Touch me Not' is so obviously Martin making fun of the Tea Party's 'Don't Tread on me' and I'm mad about it... but I also can not deny that it is funny

[@cipher48]

If I'm not mistaken, the Telltale game made the Whitehills are Bolton vassals, and for some reason, they are neighbors to the Forresters. So in the end, it makes a mess of the map

[@Polkka_Dot]

arent they vassals because at the point of the game the north is ruled by the boltons?

[@cipher48]

@@Polkka_Dot no, I meant the way the Forresters are vassals to the Glovers while Boggs are vassals to the Reeds. They aren't big houses, sworn directly to Winterfell

[@SennaHawx]

The Whitehills were made to be historically aligned with House Bolton, not as sworn vassals under a unified North

[@Florian-yn3ur]

​@@cipher48 Vasals can have their own vasals

[@cipher48]

@@Florian-yn3ur it doesn't explain how the Whitehills are in Bolton's lands while being neihbors with the Forresters. They should be at opposite sides of the kingdom

[@alexanders8638]

Starks are the Kings of Winter; Winter is Coming definitely works as self-referential phrase in that instance. Very multifacted!

[@khinzaw77]

I think Karstark was done dirty imo. "The Sun of Winter" is a double entendre to those hearing it. It means both that they are literally descended from the Lords of Winterfell, and also that they are the light that pierces the darkness of winter.

[@Avatar1977]

"When people ask you what happened here, tell them The North Remembers. Tell them Winter Came for House Frey" The Stark words went from being a simple statement to a warning of incoming doom during the series

[@thelastbrickbender2139]

45:55 “no song so sweet as the cries of our enemies“

[@henrisummers6694]

The Vale is constantly mentioned how it is impregnable. Also a few of their houses have references to the long night in their mottos. I wouldn't be surprised if the last battle in the long night ends up being fought in the Vale in Winds of Winter or Dream of Spring.

[@Hippo_Hegemony]

The choice is yours just reminds me of the booty warrior " we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way. The choice is yours."

[@GlamourAmyria]

The words of House Haven should be, "Our Takes Are Shite."

[@fantasyhaven1]

I can't disagree with this

[@GlamourAmyria]

@@fantasyhaven1 The Muppets send their regards.

[@greywolf7577]

@@GlamourAmyria Sesame Street (who are technically muppets) did two videos on Game of Thrones: kzbin.info0DrQWlnXIkA kzbin.info/www/bejne/omPToX-qfceUnZY

[@EJA1969]

A note about House Yronwood. Back in the '80s, Eclipse Comics was one of the biggest independant comics publishers. Their Editor-in-Chief was cat yronwode (capitalization hers.) I think it's highly likely that GRRM knew her from Science Fiction and Comics fandom - she was very active even before becoming E-in-C for Eclipse. I don't know if George ever wrote anything for Eclipse, but that is possible as well. So I've always believed that House Yronwood is named after her. Doesn't make the spelling any less stupid, but it does provide some context.

[@spacepope7867]

I understood "we do not sow" without context pretty easily, and it stood out when i heard it really firmly. I think its an easy A

[@TonttuTorvinen]

Regarding Lonmouth and "The choice is yours". It is a bit over the top but I guess the inspiration is from Sulla. Who boasted "No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.". Marine corps general Mattis used it to coin "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy than the United States Marine".

[@thelastbrickbender2139]

Hear me roar is probably the most wasted potential in any of these house words, like most of the other major houses have amazing house words, and the Lannisters get the most basic shit imaginable

[@lordkonzilla7890]

"Though all may hate us" is a solid B tier

[@eversor10]

Id be very surprised if the Blackfyre words arent Blood and Fire. Its so george

[@Jeffrey_Tyler]

"Winter is coming" isn't supposed to be cool, or intimidating, or anything else. It's supposed to be exactly what it is; *a* *reminder* and *a* *warning*

[@kekero540]

We do not sow is cooler out of context if you live in an agrarian society. The implication would be obvious to them.

[@BatFlash52]

Bracken-Blackwood Video coming! Hell Yes!

[@unchainedsins3254]

For the threat on winter is coming could be because one name for the starks was “The Kings of Winter” so winter is coming

[@anushaamorim4104]

"No song so sweet!" Screams the warrior, and his men take up the chant as they they tear through their screaming/wheeping enemies. "Truly, no song so sweet!" He grins at his opponent before spliting his skull.

[@got.23-i2i]

I love "Ours is the fury", it feels biblical lmao

[@cipher48]

I like the Martell's motto, but it kinda doesn't make sense when you remember they existed thousands of years before the Targaryens ever showed up to conquer. Their words only make sense for their 200 years of resistance against Targaryen conquest, because Nymeria fled the Rhoyne after the valyrians broke Prince Garin

[@samuelgriffin1833]

It's possible it was the Martell words from before Nymeria's arrival in dorne. Remember the Martells were originally an andal house that Nymeria married into, forming the modern house of Nymerous-Martell shortened to Martell.

[@cipher48]

​@@samuelgriffin1833 but they were a minor house. The Martells never were kings, while even the Daynes and Yronwoods were kings once. For me, this motto makes sense only if you are a big/king house

[@johansmallberries9874]

It works with their sigil being a spear. A fine spear is unbowed, unbroken and unbent.

[@SennaHawx]

Did Dorne even have house words before joining the seven Kingdoms?

[@drinks1019]

I made a custom house for a CK3 playthrough called House Heede, sigil is a decapitated head with the words "Watch your Necks" (Could also use Heed our Blades) Lore is they are descended from a Lord's headsman.

[@Capodraste]

The dismiss of House Whitehill is so funny, like "you bad you pray Seven in the North nah you don't appear in the video little man" like they deserve it but it's funny (they do have a motto)

[@arthropod-doctor]

I like to think House Blackfyre's words are "The Black Fire Burns." Might be because I was just listening to This Fire Burns. Good song.

[@Soul_Tomato]

Am I tripping. I thought house Blackfyre was “We Bear the Sword.”

[@TyreeEverding]

It's not canonical, unfortunately. Only in CK3.

[@Soul_Tomato]

@@TyreeEverding tragic

[@virgiljericho664]

A family’s words should be something you can Scream on the battlefield to rally the troops. So my pick for best words are Winter is Coming Ours is the fury Here We Stand Unbowed Unbent Unbroken Hear me roar

[@Virginny]

They don't have to be words to scream in battle. They can just be words to live by. Family Duty Honor are amazing hpuse words but you wouldn't shout them going into battle.

[@alexjames7144]

​@@Virginny You could absolutely chant Family, Duty, Honour as you charge into battle

[@Virginny]

@@alexjames7144 yknow what..your absolutely right.

[@petertom92]

We were waiting for you Lord !

[@ricey23]

If House Velaryon's words were "A seahorse. A Seahorse." A tier for sure. but yeah B tier is fair.

[@colshotlp9692]

You shall Not Pass is a lot Like House Lefford (None shall Pass)

[@CitizenZero1]

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[@zacharyjohnson5108]

House Harlow has "Reap the Chaff" in CK3 AGOT mod and I think that's badass, I always align with Harlow because of their badass non canon words. Blackwood has "Never Forgive, Never Forget" ugh, I hope that gets upgraded in canon. Blackwood is so much more than their rivalry with the stable boys.

[@colshotlp9692]

House whitehill has "even Higher" btw

[@jf_kein_k8590]

Would be instant S-Tier if Tallharts words were "ugly and proud".

[@CleanPrettySip]

This is 6 months old but I have to tell you that House Kermit's sigil would be a banjo

[@Southern_Crusader]

House Haven, “We are the Witness.” Maybe that because you witness the lore and pass it on to us? Or is that too Mad Max?

[@dawn4383]

Completely forgot house royce q-q

[@Lolpy.]

Little late but the Whitehills do have house words, their words are “Ever Higher”

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

Where is the Small Council crimes livestream?

[@vandalman8]

"The pale skin" when he said he hadn't watched hotd, he wasn't lying

[@fatshibaballs]

It literally hadn’t come out yet when this video released…

[@gdbssa]

House Codd either have the best House Words or they are Deep ones

[@theAverageJoe25]

And here I stand

[@therustedshank9995]

Haven't watched the video yet but if "So end our foes" isn't in S tier I will be sorely disapointed

[@petertom92]

House Mormont's words are "Please Khaleesiii, I love you!"

[@hanshawks5088]

All hate us will be Fry's and Boltons motto

[@Taternuts971]

my words are "Normal Sized and Fully Functional"

[@a.a677]

Fire and Blood is peak.

[@hanshawks5088]

House Codd do you want should be do you want tartar sauce with that ??

[@Bellbeaker14]

Oh, also for House Mooton, in Irish Mythology there is a “Salmon of Wisdom” that when eaten grants the hero great wisdom, and since GRR loves Irish Mythology and draws much inspiration from it I would bet that’s the reason why they have those words. Still a bad motto tho

[@Hippo_Hegemony]

Id say bolton should be D since "Honed and ready" is D. Our blades are sharp kinda means the same, just slightly more menacing.

[@joseph-fernando-piano]

It can’t be a coincidence that house “Smallwood” has a sigil that basically looks like six micro peens…

[@aprilmae274]

I am sad that I missed this.

[@brockvinson1712]

Logic is all over the place

[@D3athL1vin]

bruh reading books is like saying "are these words cool or not" 😭

[@giacomoromano8842]

Don't the Redfort have confirmed words? "As strong as stone?" Where are they?

[@regnal1]

bro "Ours is the fury" in F WTF!!! and then he moves it G, then rightfully to S tier.. then watched the whole video peacefully.

[@zacharyjohnson5108]

Oh he does move it to S eventually? I almost stopped watching this over his Baratheon abuse 😂

[@pieterhofkens7259]

House Morrigen should be: 'birds of a feather'

[@archivist13cool]

where can i find the discord??

[@Mudge147]

On his Patreon

[@nicokano]

Fire and Blood like in Fire and Incest S

[@pooshrek7796]

House Wylde has a lame banner but their house words Rain falls on all might be the hardest in Westeros

[@foxchalk4577]

i thought you putting Lannisters words B was another joke. even in unuverse they know how much they suck ass

[@ferdinandpojas4342]

the sea is always right.

[@bookswithike3256]

Lonmouth deserved A tier. Mallister is an F.

[@noelmontoya1535]

No house Reyne...if only they won the revolt.

[@carlosl.jimenezjr5521]

WE DO NOT SOW!

[@Andystuff800]

wtf how are you still on HDD in 2024

[@MorganMagpie]

I do wonder when the girls of House PinUp spend their days embroidering. 😂 For All Seasons sounds like a Toby Carvery. I think you have to repeat the mottos to get a real sense of them. They are repeated a lot, and that sort of adds to them, so if you only read them once, it wouldn't be correct...if that makes any sense!

[@poindexterflex1981]

Wode you touch me not?

[@zacharyjohnson5108]

House Harlow has "Reap the Chaff" in CK3 AGOT mod and I think that's badass, I always align with Harlow because of their badass non canon words. Blackwood has "Never Forgive, Never Forget" ugh, I hope that gets upgraded in canon. Blackwood is so much more than their rivalry with the stable boys.

[@marcospatricio8283]

It could be referring to their exile from the north too, but I agree with you that those are lame words. I can't think of a specific phrase right now, but something in the lines of "we endure and survive in hardship" would suit them. They are exiles that made a new home, remained a powerhouse in the most unstable of the seven kingdoms for time immemorial, their faith survived the death of their weirwood, and the raven is an animal known for enduring or even thriving in hardship trough cunning and and resilience.