The Winds of Winter: The Battle of Blood

In the Winds of Winter, we will be treated to four battle, Ice, Fire, Steel and Blood. Euron and his Ironborn will face off against the Redwyne and Hightower fleets (with Aeron strapped to the prow of the Silence). What will happen at this battle?
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[@bubbamike4743]

If Euron wargs into a kraken imma lose my shit

[@danmurray1996]

I know it's been 2 years but this is my thought too. I think he will attract one Kraken, and he will warg it.

[@bubbamike4743]

Daqueda 2 years later and we’re nowhere closer to finding out lol

[@AntonioPerez-te9lr]

When they see the Starks in visions, they see an animal. Aeron sees euron as mix of kraken and himself, I think it'll be some Lovecraft transformation. He is kinda doing some kind of blood ritual. Holy blood, his unborn child, his own people, and his enemies.

[@saminator3563]

@@AntonioPerez-te9lr 1 in 1000 skinchangers are Greenseers. If 1 in a 1000 are skinchangers and there are millions in Westeros there must be quite a few Greenseers roaming around.

[@AntonioPerez-te9lr]

@@saminator3563 also need training, presumably the power just regresses if not trained. Least that's what I think

[@Marci124]

*K* *R* *A* *K* *E* *N* *B* *O* *W* *L*

[@reenabiju2939]

@Some Guy ha

[@christopherlavallee3603]

i still dont understand why the show didnt use George's vision of Euron instead of the weird guy at a rave

[@SantomPh]

Christopher Lavallee no guts on the part of the network execs and SJW fearing marketing team

[@kelbybrewer2038]

@@SantomPh Oh piss off with your "everything is cultural Marxism" horseshit, they just couldn't justify the cost.

[@chrisrankin6796]

@@kelbybrewer2038 the cost of the writing and costuming?

[@Bell_Matt]

Kelby Brewer found the libtard, guys! I bet s/he’s super woke.

[@L0wallyn]

erasedMUSE What do you get out of this? How old are you? Grow up.

[@manband20]

Calling on krakens to deal with the Redwynes? I gotcha covered. KRAKARYS!!!

[@abdirahmanmohamed2478]

Lool cool

[@linkofvev]

Damn, just had a thought. The image of Drogon (with Dany on his back) burning Euron's fleet whilst hovering above the water, only for a Kraken's tentacles to latch onto it and pull it beneath the waves.

[@ollietaro]

@@linkofvev This is imagination at its finest.

[@alexandersommers9489]

Krakarys has this effect on many heroes

[@theodorejames8285]

The duality of ice and fire makes sense. Rather than basing his work on the tradition good vs. evil plot, the driver of Ice and Fire (the books) is, well, based on the conflict of ice vs. fire. But why are blood and steel so important? I think they are the two primary means of legitimizing rule in our story. Steel being military might and blood being royalty and inheritance. So Ice, Fire, Blood and Steel encompass all the elements of the story; natural balance and its relation to man’s rule over man.

[@kingbyrd.1512]

@Muriel Treille so true

[@frannyherb6773]

There’s also the blood necessary to forge light bringer to do battle alongside flame against the Ice

[@robrick9361]

What people seem to miss with Ice and Fire is that they also represent the past and future respectively in the story. Ice is about the past. The past is preserved like how Ice keeps food alive for longer. The Others also use corpses and the North is filled with ancient traditions and knowledge. Fire is about the future, which is why the fire priests can see it in their flames. Fire is wild and unpredictable, like the future. Ice + Fire = The Present sandwiched between.

[@leviackerman1799]

@@robrick9361 Whoa...all this shows how genius GRRM is..thanks for this info I didn't know it..I guess there are so many symbolic details in this series..

[@azh698]

Interestingly, Blood, Ice, Steel, Fire, and Shadow, are the titles of the Campaigns of Age of Empires 3.

[@camanah7536]

So what if after the krakens come to the surface, they are drawn by noise ? Euron has a ship of mutes therefore surviving.

[@wisdommanari6701]

He needed silence

[@zucchinibyday]

im sure his ships in thw water will make enough noise to make the mutes' silence insignificant, but that's still a cool detail!

[@claire3614]

Symbolically it's an awesome idea, but Krakens are basically giant/colossal squids and those actually have the largest eyes of any living creature, which allows them to see better in the darknes of the deep ocean and be among themost bestest of the predators... Also they are like any other cephalopods and have organs called statocyst, to sense orientation and motion in water. Sorry mate

[@melledevries4685]

About how Euron could possibly survive the Battle of Blood himself if he's gonna summon loads of krakens to the surface: when Daenerys miraculously survived stepping into a funeral pyre, she had the godswife Mirri Maz Duur tied to the pyre praying for her life. Euron has a whole posse of priests tied to his ships praying for their lives. Euron has also been to Asshai, where (it seems) the oldest Azor Ahai prophecies originate from. Perhaps Euron found something in ancient scrolls in Asshai that gave him this crazy kraken idea?

[@bierwolf8360]

Possibly. It might include a certain something that has been hidden inside the lowest structure on Battle Isle. One that was hidden by decree of the Old Gods after the first Long Night and guarded ever since by the descendants of Ulthar, or Uthor, to prevent the monstrosities from reemerging. Yet Euron knows it's there. The black stone that fell from the stars, the one the Bloodstone Emperor found. The center piece of the Church of the Starry Wisdom. The artifact with which to call upon the Faceless God, the God of a thousand form, to gain forbidden arcane knowledge in exchange for blood. And with and the Horn of Winter, the Old Ones can be awoken.

[@frankmigliore9240]

I think that Euron is too smart and too terrifying to go on a suicide mission, lol.

[@mahadbahad9895]

i think viserion will save him after victarion uses the dragon horn

[@elizabethallen9845]

Craptastic intro? Check Five star voice acting? Check Telepathy and hive minds? Check. You're too beautiful for this world, Preston.

[@tiffles3890]

"You looked so beautiful that night, Preston ... "

[@tiffles3890]

@@rjofusetsudzin8011 He was just being edgy. Its a phase, it'll pass.

[@leeroberts4850]

Elizabeth Allen you spelled ugly and stupid wrong

[@superfish0012]

9:18 Silly Preston, that's not a sea of blood! It's an artistic flag of Poland!

[@rhaenyrareigns2200]

Thank you for the shout out! ;) - from Poland with love.

[@arnekrug939]

Praljak the Remover Looking back on European history, those two were not always mutually exclusive.

[@abhishankpaul]

Perhaps Planetos people also follow the ritual of including Poland in every war or battle

[@childofpersia1213]

The idea of krakens pulling ships under in a sea of blood...is incredibly badass. GRRM has done it again.

[@spearshake4771]

+ Child of Persia as soon as I heard this I went to rewatch this particular scene: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHuvpa1_ptCcgck

[@jedisentinel4879]

It's like the cover of a heavy metal album.

[@santife]

Actually Martin's not done it yet, hope so tought

[@ramanujbaruah2200]

Or has he? cue vsauce music.

[@skwisgaarskwigelf331]

@@jedisentinel4879 Search "Dethklok - Blood ocean". That song EXISTS.

[@artychartybyjackmerlinbruc7134]

"Is that wine in the water? Arbor Gold, perhaps?" "No, it's blood!"

[@everssonnascimento4601]

11:43 that Barristan's voice though lol

[@kerrychristensen7204]

😂 It was almost a little Southern at first, then... grandmotherly?

[@heshamhany8470]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnnygreenface4195]

@@kerrychristensen7204 I mean, he is a sotherner

[@kerrychristensen7204]

@@johnnygreenface4195 The actor or the character?

[@johnnygreenface4195]

@@kerrychristensen7204 the character

[@williamjameshoffer4405]

It is very popular to predict that Euron will be capturing Oldtown. However, the Hightower army is untouched thus far and the Iron Born suck against armies on land.

[@andreascovano7742]

Well, the Hoare's were very effective on land

[@MrKguy97]

maybe it will be as simple as the greyjoys blockading and raiding oldtown, not conquering

[@grimaldus1523]

@@MrKguy97 maybe the hightower army isnt even oldtown and fighting in a city isnt the same as fighting on an open field and the iron born do have tens of thousands of men in their fleet.

[@abhishankpaul]

Someone tell Bran to warg on a kraken

[@halo091]

Euron makes the impression he's an atheist but actually is an extreme occultist, a practical sorcerer

[@williamhermann6635]

Euron seems to believe he is a god, or that he is in the process of transforming into one.

[@bierwolf8360]

@@williamhermann6635 He seems to either be an avatar of or posessed by Nyarlathotep. That is, if you don't know, who the Church of Starry Wisdom worships. He has other names. Such as Faceless God, or God of a thousand forms. Nyarlathotep himself is the avatar of all the Outer Gods, their only way to interact with Earth is through him. That is why Euron has served "thousands of gods". His goal is to help awaken the (Great) Old Ones (see Leng) and remake the universe.

[@williamhermann6635]

@@bierwolf8360 Yeah its straight out of Lovecraft. But wasnt he supposed to be deep underground?

[@bierwolf8360]

@@williamhermann6635 The others may have been banished or condemed to sleep, but he can walk on Earth as he pleases - but primarily as an agent on behalf of the others. In the stories, he does so regularly.

[@williamhermann6635]

@@bierwolf8360 So you think Euron is somehow aligned with or a proxy for The Others? Interesting thought but I think the Starks are in line with The Others and Euron is trying to mimic the Bloodstone Emperor/Gray King but will fail in his attempts. I think The Great Other is the Nyorlatotep and he's imprisoned deep under Winterfell's crypts. He was the one who came to Euron in his falling dream and I believe he also has a role with Bloodraven/Bran's dreams as well. He is playing all sides to bring about this story's version of Ragnarok. Young Griff will end up marrying Dany and when she turns mad he will plunge his sword into her heart thus fulfilling the BSE/usurper legend and the Azor Ahai/burning red sword prophecy which are one and the same. Then he and the Starks/Others battle for the Dawn. No side is wholly good or bad, its just war and everyone loses.

[@wulozhiro1316]

Who else is thankful for Preston

[@rhaenyrareigns2200]

I am. Just as he's thankful for our support.

[@Dadecorban]

Fuck Preston. I met him once and he refused to use my pronoun.

[@wisdommanari6701]

I am

[@samsohn]

@@Dadecorban im not sure if this is serious. Did he actually intentionally misgenser you? Is that what you're saying?

[@leeroberts4850]

Wu Zhiro Fukaree no one and I don't mean the facelessness man

[@thehappydude321]

Blood sacrifices to summon Krakens. Which can then be controlled with telepathy. This is exactly the kind of Preston Jacobs theories I subscribed for.

[@pseudohistorian]

You mist one more pork reference: "salted here and there with fishing boats". Salting is one of the ways to preserve pork and salted pork was very popular among European sailors for centuries. If your theory holds it's definitely one more reference- Euron looks at the fleet and thinks of it in terms of prepared pork.

[@Iritis-]

This is an older video, but it's also worth pointing out that there are additional parallels to the Battle of Ice. Particularly Stannis' plan to use his inferior numbers to bait the Boltons into attacking him over a frozen lake. Drowning may be a strong thematic element between the 4 battles.

[@shinjinobrave]

I was listening to the audiobookfor aSoS recently and Salladhor Saan said something about a supposed horn that lord Celtigar had that could summon krakens from the deep. "...and a magic horn to summon krakens from the deep. Very useful such a horn would be, to pull down Tyroshi and other vexing creatures." Salla never gets this horn because Davos convinces Stannis not to attack Claw Isle, but the mention of it is in the very chapter that Stannis learns of Balon's death and Euron's attempt at seizing the Seastone Chair.

[@Tosei0816]

One thing Preston miss is that the Hightower also has a telepath. Malora is said to be crazy and receive vision, and it is said that her father start consulting with her when Euron takes the shield. Is she also a greenseer level telepath and is picking up Euron's vision. How much do the Hightower know? Maybe Leyton took it seriously and is building anti-kraken ships or Malora can try to turn the krakens against Euron. Anyway, it will be interesting come AWoW.

[@juanvalenzuela4022]

I was surprised you didn't say that Euron is not actually in those ships and he is communicating with Aeron telepathically, making him (and the reader) think he is there. All ships go down while he is somewhere in the other 800 ships and closing the trap.

[@aronjanssonnordberg8379]

Thanks Preston. Now GRRM has to re-write that battle and we have to wait another 25 years.

[@faz108]

Watching inferior video. Gets notification. Answers the call.

[@rhaenyrareigns2200]

You, good Ser, are well trained.

[@DaHansWars]

love the kraken scream effects.

[@siamath9954]

I just noticed the lines 'poison from the entrails of a dying beast' reminds me a lot of two famous scenes in fantasy: The first one being Siegfried slaying the dragon Fafnir and being bathed in his blood and the second (likely inspired by the first) being Túrin Turambar slaying the dragon Glaurung in the Silmarillion, where the poisonous blood of the dying dragon (almost) kills Túrin. I find this to be a striking picture, especially with this line. Just... I don't know, I felt like sharing it.

[@littlebeeandnutmeg6395]

You’re my favourite KZbinr of all time, don’t take this the wrong way, but I listen to your videos every night to fall asleep to :3 it’s because I find your voice very nice to listen to and your videos are always so smart and engaging and takes my overactive mind off everything else and just concentrate on your amazing theories and the amazing books! Thank you so much for all the work you put in

[@willywowzers6202]

Little Bee and Nutmeg I do the same thing

[@Maxwell4455]

I fall asleep to them if I have heard them already

[@kanpaisou]

Glad to know I'm not the only weirdo out there :p

[@nyceric95]

You put it in words

[@wulozhiro1316]

Little Bee and Nutmeg i call it a Presterosi nightcap.

[@Anton4353f]

This video is so in depth and detailed that it feels pretty much the same as listening to spoilers. Such high quality, you've earned yourself another sub.

[@Anton4353f]

@@cyberpunkalphamale Eh, thank you m'lord...I think.

[@Sheldonthecow]

Could the Red Water relate to the REDWYNE straight???

[@CamRStanford]

Zeery it’s certainly no coincidence, you should know that by now

[@sr6826]

I am so happy at least one of my ASoIaF creators will be able to keep coming up with content until George finally delivers WoW. So creative and fun.

[@curtis25920]

As if I couldn't get more hyped for winds of winter...

[@mishasruros7633]

This is probably the one of the best videos you've done

[@johnmontag]

So I didn't find ASOIAF till GOT came out. After seeing the first season, it grasped me so firmly I couldn't not read all the books in 3 months. I've been going crazy not getting TWOW. I really hope that we get it before House of the Dragon comes out in a year and a half.

[@be2081]

😔

[@leebarbs7176]

One of these days maybe lol

[@quintus6081]

Krakarys!

[@kefkapalazzo1]

Martin is such a gifted writer

[@c.w.simpsonproductions1230]

I saw In Deep Geek’s take where he theorized that Euron will use the battle as a massive sacrifice to enact a magical ritual to use Dragonbinder to enthrall the dragons to him, though it won’t completely succeed. He’ll probably get just Viserion. But perhaps Preston and Robert are both right. After all, both scenarios only help Euron. Not only would summoning krakens help seal a victory and ensure him navel superiority, but it would further enshrine his forces to him and make him look like a god.

[@bierwolf8360]

I think not. The blood ritual is there to lure krakens, yes, but moreso, everything else that dwells beneath. The Deep Ones. Hybrids of humans and monsters from the deep, they are mentionend in several instances and we actually might see their on-land version often (they become even more fishy in the water, generally). They will come and sack Oldtown, allowing Euron, posessed by Nyarlathotep as he is, to gain the horn of Winter and the black stone that was once found by the Bloodstone Emperor - the founder of the Church of Starry Wisdom which worshipps Nyarlathotep. With them, Euron can awaken the Old Ones and likely break the walls magic. The Others will free Nyarlathotep from his imprisonment in that cave, where he is held by the magic of the Children of the Forest. Thereafter, they'll free Chaos itself from the crypts of Winterfell - if they succeed. Azathoth. I mean, Euron does not even currently have dragonbinder. It's with Victarion.

[@GottaCatchEmTom]

Every now and again I come back to some of Preston's classic theories. These videos have so much rewatchability I couldn't say how many times I've watched em.

[@choueric3381]

This is by far my favorite theory from Preston for its sheer magnificence

[@cliffordtestawich519]

I was reading a earlier Tyrion chapter when Varys mentions rumors including 3 headed dragons and mentions a Krakan rising from off the Fingers and attacking a Ibbenese whaler. I had to screenshot it and rewatch this

[@jctaneyIV]

Awesome! Preston's ability to draw parallels from G.R.R. Martin's intricately detailed clues & thematics is truly Sherlockian.

[@rhaenyrareigns2200]

Does this mean that RedTeamReviews is a "Watson" to his "Sherlock"...? :3

[@SkipperPlaysTW]

It's elementary.

[@originalhgc]

Euron's need for Aeron's "holy blood" is not about attracting krakens to the surface. Aeron is just one man. His few pints of blood, among thousands needed to attract krakens, wouldn't be significant. No, Euron is saving Aeron and a motley collection of other holy men for some other purpose. Just because Euron said that "all gods are lies" doesn't mean that he has no religious belief, especially in himself as a god. He meant literally that he wants Aeron's holy blood because it's somehow useful because of who Aeron is.

[@TheEmperorsChampion964]

I can't wait to read the winds of winter

[@yagir7777]

I believe this battle is inspired by the battle of salamos, between Greece and Persia. If so the iron born may use alchemist fire to create a smoke screen while the move boats up river or pull the on land while the enemy fleets crash into each other, or in this case are devoured by squids.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

Euron really is a monster in the TWOW chapter... his lips blue from drinking the blue warlock wine, he straps the Damphair AND his lover (whatever her name was) to the bow of Silence. That's really off the charts even for a GOT villain, Euron starting to make Ramsey look like a sissy. As the author suggest, the blue warlock wine has turned Euron into a mad-man and there's bound to be all kinds of horror and brutality in the Ironman chapters, when Winds of winter comes out in either one or 25 years that is.

[@allyriastark3508]

Robert Maybeth her name is Falia Flowers and she is pregnant, Euron also killed three of his brothers, raped two and maybe even abused Victarion since Victarion thinks there is something disturbing about Euron's nakedness

[@Pastafari4]

And the worst part is Euron unlike Ramsey isn't chaotic and erratic. He has the air of it being deliberate and it adds that air of dread

[@zackkunkel3287]

Preston, you are what I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving

[@rhaenyrareigns2200]

Don't forget about his pretty intros! ;)

[@taintsweatnope5093]

2 words Blood Magic. Euron doesn't give an F about his brother or anyone else. All he cares about is power. He doesn't work with others so there's zero chances of him doing anything but sacrificing his brother, wife, unborn baby (kings blood) , and everyone else for a powerful blood magic event.

[@mikestrong325]

That intro is everything

[@padairua8129]

Hmm, maybe Crows Eye will win the battle against the Reach’s Fleet, but Lord Hightower/Sam will be able to stop him from taking Old Town itself. Lord Leyton is just sitting in his tower waiting to be an awesome reveal

[@ternvall]

Theory: Crows eye thinks his brother have magic abilities and feed him with meat from priests of other cultures to awaken his power. He is also torturing, making him crave death and his drown god. Maybe he think that once pushed far enough, Aeron will summon the krakken? A desperate way for an underdog to win.

[@Jooooger]

The Silence's hull is painted red, so it may not be visible to a Kraken in a sea of blood.

[@niqaily4415]

IF anything else happens, George will have been wrong.

[@leeroberts4850]

No

[@leeroberts4850]

Something else will happen and the creator of the universe can't be wrong

[@leeroberts4850]

Preston Jacobs is wrong about every thing including his own name . He is that name is Hodor and he's ugly and stupid

[@vanillax4038]

@@leeroberts4850 are you five or something?

[@GabagoolGang]

@@leeroberts4850 seethe and cope

[@hambino28]

Maybe the "Holy" men will be used in some way to protect against Krakens

[@josh-cz3ey]

Euron's ship the 'silence' has a blood red hull right? Wouldn't that camouflage his ship is the bloody sea?

[@dakotasherman632]

Depends on the color of the sails, but possibly

[@BOB-ITA]

“Where I’m from ,we call them Krakens” ☝🏻🤓

[@bouboubibila979]

My theory: if everything indicates that Euron will be defeated, it's because Euron *wants* to be defeated, and the Iroborn forces annihilated. I believe he also sent Victarion on a suicide mission, hoping he and his forces will be annihilited as well. I believe he's in league with the Others, trying to weaken human resistance before their assault (in this case, he's weakening the Ironborn and the Reach, maybe hoping that krakens will come and cause as much damage as possible to both sides), just like Littlefinger is weakening the Vale (and possibly the Riverlands), Ramsay is further weakening the North, and Cersei has been f*cking up the entire realm (well, I guess that's just because she's crazy).

[@dakotaadams189]

Less "in league with" than "using" Euron is a wizard accelerationist who sees the Others the same way white supremacists see the chaos global warming could cause: An opportunity., he wants to end the world by any means at hand so he can ascend and become the god of the next world. He doesn't have to be working with the Others to go nuts (Oldtown has a fuckload of hidden magic contained by the maesters and he may simply be planning to burn it all and try to start a Magic Chernobyl), but they could prove convenient and either way the Ironborn are expendable. The analogy to Ramsay, Petyr, and Cersei is pretty spot on thought, they're all agents of chaos destroying everything in the face of an existential threat to humanity (the others) in an attempt to climb the chaos ladder and gain power. Euron is just crazier, more honest, and doing it BIG.

[@elizabethsouthall9496]

When stannis is thinking about taking claw isle there's something said about there being a horn that calls crackens from the deep. That would be useful for eurons plan.

[@iamthetable8516]

Preston should just finish the books for George.

[@arvindraj723]

The show could have had some real pirates of the caribbean epicness if they’d portrayed the book’s version of the ironborn

[@EFFLUVIUMWRITING]

your writing and explanatory skills and your breakdown for even non-readers to easily understand is super admirable, and this video is amazing! and uh, if you need a guy to do the voices for you, i can do it :)

[@Spartan155]

There's also a decent amount of similarities here to another historical sea battle. The battle of Salamis between the Greek alliance and the larger Persian fleet when they attacked the bigger force within a narrow channel. The larger Persian fleet couldn't maneuver well there and the Greeks somehow picked them off one by one. The Persians tried to block off the ends of the strait with their ships but it didn't matter because logistically they had issues communicating orders to their larger fleet to act in a coordinated manner whereas the smaller Greek fleet was landing more effective precision strikes. Thematically the battle of Salamis makes sense if they are going for a crushing defeat of a superior naval force.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

yeah put greek ships had better crews and better ships, its the oposite here.

[@shinjinobrave]

Tinfoil guess: I think Aeron will skinchange a kraken, realize it after Euron has already won the battle and consider sinking the silence. I believe he'll decline and slip out of the kraken's skin, because he's a coward. So Euron will think Aeron did everything he wanted and be unaware of the secret power he has and the climax of the Aeron story will be Aeron finally standing up to Euron, possibly when it's far too late.

[@mschell8022]

Wow this is a good idea

[@scottneumeier6480]

This mirrors Theon (at least in the show) turning down the opportunity to challenge Euron and save Asha during the Iron fleet raid.

[@codyschwarz5155]

Aeron will become the avatar of the Drowned God, enslaved by Euron, then he will die imo

[@chetansingh508]

So stupid

[@smithanimal]

Definitely analyze more of these battles. This was awesome.

[@richardlancelot3829]

This is so well done, it's incredible.

[@Jooooger]

Some Ironborn longships were burned in a surprise attack launched by the Northmen (Dustin and another house I forget). We learn of it in a Daavos chapter.

[@ikesloan6928]

This was super well done. Just wanted to say great job.

[@sagebias2251]

A thanksgiving gift from preston.

[@terranman4702]

Thank you!!! Just for posting anything!!

[@murrman104]

This is one of, if not the best theory of yours, great work

[@childofpersia1213]

17:20 YAS!! I like this parallel between the two battleships. You got me convinced! Epic video from start to finish.

[@Macconator2010]

God fucking damn it, I want this book already!!

[@standarddeviation7963]

Are Krakens instruments of the Drowned God's will? If so, perhaps keeping A A Ron alive (and strapped to the prow of his ship) is in order to use him as a sort of shield to keep the Krakens from eating Euron's ship? I can't see Krakens as being in the thrall of the storm god, as why then would the Iron Born use it as their sigil? If so they'd use a dead, or chained kraken to show their lack of fear and dominance over the storm god.

[@Jord73]

And the man does it again! My compliments sir. I really love this scenario. I hope George does too.

[@pdderek]

This was wonderful. Thank you Preston!

[@TheDawnTreader1]

Love this new map format

[@jasonreeves6806]

The opening jingle from the Alan Watts library talks! Love Alan Watts.

[@absentehhh8263]

WINDS OF WINTER IS GOING TO BE EPIC

[@DLLW93]

Wouldnt the straights be more shallow than the open sea though? Would there be krakens lurking bellow?

[@Jotari]

Precisely why one would need a shit tonne of blood.

[@nikhiliyengar1510]

Straits. Spell.

[@chetansingh508]

Good point

[@margaretreid7895]

Awsome video.Really well thought out.I want Winds of Winter now!

[@dylangiebel9651]

This is fascinating. I totally missed these details.

[@Xob_Driesestig]

We know that George uses sigils to foreshadow upcoming battles. For example, I noticed that house bar emmon's sigil (a trapped swordfish) foreshadows that house bar emmon's ship, the swordfish, gets trapped in the battle of the blackwater and pierces (like a swordfish) a hulk filled with wildfire. Since the battle of blood mirrors the battle of the blackwater we could also expect a piercer here, but one that releases blood instead of wildfire. And what house lies right next to the battle? House Bulwer, whose sigil is a bull's (piercing animal) skull (they will die) with it's background being *blood*.

[@whitecocoa42]

you're channel is my favorite, thank you for the good work

[@wilbe03]

Great video! And thank you for keeping it in one part. The waits for part 2, 3, etc are mood killers.

[@childofpersia1213]

YAS!! You hinted at your theory for the battle of blood in previous videos and now I get the full tell!!! ''Tis a good day.

[@LuanEevee]

Fuck I'm so happy. Preston you're the MVP.

[@albertwesker8049]

Call me a Cribber if someone said this before (I'm too lazy to search all Comments): Considering the last GoT-Episode It makes double sense for Euron to sack Oldtown besides M&M. If He's the Great Others Servant I think he is, destroyng the memory of humanity by burning the Citadel would be my first step in my plans of human extinction.

[@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive]

Glad to have you back, Preston :D

[@Laureasairon]

Impressive animation and analysis, as always!

[@geg6315]

Finally I’ve been waiting for more on this battle

[@Moldymessiah98]

I think the kraken just speaks of Euron. He's probably going to lure an attack on the south of the strait after he's already attacked the north with his missing ships. Then use the higher number of war ships to destroy the southern fleet. The blood in the water just means a massive battle.

[@ScrubbyBubbles]

I know this is one of your older videos, but I really like how you broke down the forces and such, makes it easy to look at the overworld and see where these fights will be

[@alecnava5465]

And people dare say preston speaks bullshit. Preston calls. And the banners answer.

[@Domefossil]

>GRRM calls him dumb as a post >He's a reference and satire of Conan the Barbarian books >He's a jock type character in an ASOIAF book >He has an ominous priest predicting 'great things' for him >He's cut from the show >He has a manipulative older brother while he has a more black and white morality How doomed is Victarion, Preston? Pls say not very

[@polilla318]

Been waiting all day for a new Preston Jacobs video.

[@romeo2190]

Always souped to see a new video from you! Keep doing what you're doing

[@km-my4un]

These are some rather astute observations. I will be very disappointed if we don't get a kraken attack in TWOW.

[@DanZaidan]

The best quality video you ever made! Thanks!

[@CamRStanford]

Why is nobody else talking about this? This theory sounds spot on asf

[@samiai8905]

Yes!!!!! I didn't even start the video and I am loving it!

[@kettlemagic]

150k subs! Keep up the great work, Preston!

[@iangriffin3178]

Yeeeesss!!!! I have been waiting for this!!!

[@mozart7820]

The North and the white walkers unite against Bran, Euron and the children of the forest. Bitter sweet.