There is Something in the Trees - ASOIAF Obsidian Nights Ch. 3 Catelyn

On this episode of Obsidian Nights, we explore chapter 3 of A Song of Ice and Fire, A Game of Thrones.
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[@tomhutchins7495]

"Winter is coming" is definitely a boast, and a threat. When you are known as the Kings of Winter, "winter is coming" is what you want people to remember.

[@subutaynoyan5372]

Catelyn was obviously insecure about Jon, by the way. She feared Jon's heritage, she didn't know who was his mother, Ned's secrecy was indicating a very important woman, else he'd not be this protective about Jon. She didn't care about Eddard sleeping with others, she feared that Jon being a highborn lady's son, Ashara Dayne, who's one of the oldest and noblest families of Westeros. If that was the case, Jon being in Winterfell, raised as Eddard's son, being well apparent towards others, could make him a threat to her own children. This is a mindset you would not easily find on modern western societies that easily. Because lifestyles are way individual and people don't have this strong connections with their children. They see them as free individuals, not some project to keep their torch alive. She lives and identifies herself through her children, her instincts about their wellbeing and obsessive hate on everything that could mean them ill will is her motivation to hate Jon.

[@alanpennie8013]

M Bayrak Very true. A lot of readers don't understand the fear that motivated Cat's abuse of Jon.

[@kauswekazilimani3736]

I kinda get it. I still hate, I've seen too much of what it leads to you know. Not a knock on the character btw.

[@eric2500]

YES, THIS. You can't expect these characters to be thinking like modern people - they don't and that is why they are believable. Catelyn wants to protect her children's rights. Jon might be legitimized someday - his mystery mother revealed -carving out a chunk of her kid's inheritance.

[@jacobsquare4812]

"He will not be 3 forever, and Winter is coming!" X'D

[@conniesuper9892]

In Catelyn 1,the comparison of Riverrun's godswood compared to WFs,it is like night and day,life and death. Birds sing in Riverrun's...not a peep of life in WF godswood. Wes has smell of DECAY, and Riverrun's has flowers....just a deep comparison!

[@lanestapp2]

She definitely loved Ned more than some of her kids. Robb had to remind her that Rickon existed.

[@lwandilemsiza8027]

Catelyn's love is fleeting. No consistency to it at all.

[@Kai555100]

Bran could die any moment ofc she pays more attention to him then to her other perfectly healthy children

[@lanestapp2]

@@Kai555100 Not more, only. She ignores her 3 year old to the point that people were worried he was turning into a savage.

[@Kujakuseki01]

I mean...while she was grieving Bran and barely consolable.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@lanestapp2 I think that's true. Cat is very largely motivated by the desire to protect her children but she isn't close to them and they don't think about her all that much.

[@persephone6971]

Love the conversation flow of this podcast. It’s nice to easily keep up with what everyone is saying instead of people talking over one another and trying to catch who is saying what.

[@slim420MM]

Exactly.

[@kevanlannister3672]

11:30 Fun Fact In german stark means strong :)

[@TGJoeyT]

Oh sweet Tree Gods of KZbin, another episode, finally! Thank you for doing this series. I absolutely love this podcast.

[@bitterzombie]

Lions as the sigil of house lannister makes perfect sense, because in an ecological sense lions get most of their food through intimidation, not their hunting prowess. They are opportunists, just like the lannisters are. There's also a bit of critique about patriarchal structure there, look at Tywin and how he treats his kids, ultimately alienating all of them because of his own egotistical nature and the assertion that none of them live up to his expectations, probably because of the intense pressure put on him by his own father, who he clearly idolizes

[@Schoki99]

He is also the man who alienated aerys, rhaella and rhaegar targaryen for power.

[@luciamota1249]

Are you sure you know about Tywin's dad?...

[@JotaP1n]

When you think the TV Series did NOTHING with all of this.

[@robp4074]

Series 5 - 8 some would say 4 - 8

[@noelnovels6511]

JPin 💔

[@bengale9977]

The show didn't even answer the twists that they set up. I mean they literally had littlefinger being a father figure to robin (unlike the books) and robin being a useless swordsman in a scene where littlefinger points out that "he will never be a great swordsman, he has the 'gift' of a powerful name". Yet they never went through on the reveal.

[@Tronic21]

Ben Gale the reveal of?

[@edwartvonfectonia4362]

TED-Ed: The secret language of trees IdeasoIaF: There is Something in the Trees Well that's a coincidence.

[@williamst.romain7393]

The original Ice was probably an actual ice sword of the Others. But without the power of the Others it melted away. So the Starks have named all their swords since Ice until they finally get a Valyrian sword.

[@PauloGarcia-sp5ws]

Any textual support for this?

[@lwandilemsiza8027]

Catelyn: Ned you must take this bad omen seriously. You must be careful of the 'stag' Also Catelyn: Ned you need to go to Kings Landing 🙄

[@mysqm3026]

mdx well, that escalated quickly

[@alanpennie8013]

Kamou flage It does make sense from Cat's point of view. She hoped the sanctity attached to kings and queens would protect her family.

[@lauralvw8445]

Just read the chapter, she was afraid of what kind Robert would do if Ned disobeyed him. She didn't think she and the kids had to go with him at first

[@mysqm3026]

mdx Careful, you might cut yourself on that edge

[@Hapiche]

Catelyn never grew beyond her distaste for Jon. One of the major reasons Ned allowed Jon to go to the Watch was because she would not allow Jon to stay in Winterfell once Ned left.

[@dorellanarange3614]

So? Wymar Royce went to the Wall too. And the Old Bear. Is the bastard better than them?

[@alanpennie8013]

@@dorellanarange3614 Waymar is a very curious case. I wish we knew about more about alt. Jon than we do.

[@dorellanarange3614]

@@alanpennie8013 Waymar is interesting in his own. Million times better than Boring Snow.

[@alanpennie8013]

@The Law We need more Dayne in the story

[@samanthafisher3308]

Hapiche so? I wouldn’t even allow a child in my home that was the product of an affair

[@catelyntully9494]

Obv my opinion will be biased, but dam Catelyn chapters are amaizing, not because of her character but I mean for the sheer information we get of her, a look at the North, King's Landing (first time), Tne Vale, Riverlands and Robb's campaing, Storm's End and hell even we get introduced to the Reach with her and we get tales we hear of Harrenhal detail history for the first time from her PoV to. Idk quality wise her chapters great and filled with insight of the world, I hope we all can agree that be it fans and haters of her character, obv for me her chapters will always be top tier for me,

[@maggyfrog]

@ 2:47 this piece of artwork is so good it looks like a historical artifact in real life.

[@dirtygiraffe]

Agree. But it looks like the Father is grabbing his junk, lol!

[@GrayArea]

Beloved😒😏 LOL 😂😭

[@lwandilemsiza8027]

16:58 Cat was right but she was the one who eventually convinced him to leave 😂. Catelyn Tully is chalk filled with contradictions.

[@lmorgandiaz]

When will you guys pick up this series, or have I missed an announcement on it? Really enjoy you twos commentary!

[@datsweetsansabooty]

GrayArea these podcasts were great why did you guys stop doing them 😔

[@staytuned2L337]

@@lmorgandiaz I don't know if you ever found it lol but on Gray's channel she's picked it up there.

[@lmorgandiaz]

@@staytuned2L337 yes I’ve been tuning in, lol but thanks!

[@subutaynoyan5372]

I think Winter is Coming are Stark words, because of that possible pact with the White Walkers you've mentioned in one of your earlier videos. The Long Night was predestined, Bran the Builder knew it, theirs was the guard duty of the realm. The crypts, Winterfell itself, all are linked to it. I think the Targaryen banner is about Azor Ahai as well. The dragon has three heads, says Rhaegar. And we see that Targaryens were already interested in Jade Compendium and had an understanding that their family, their heritage will be the ones who will produce the Prince That Was Promised, long before all this happened. Fire and Blood, this is a statement of might, aye. But it also can mean that fire is what they have against the cold and blood is what they have to mark them. It can even mean the blood magic and fire rituals that they need to have to hatch dragons.

[@djmx9237]

Hey man just got the dune books about to start just because of you. Thanks for all your work on game of thrones. Enjoyed it all. Hope i enjoy them so i can join you on all your future dune related content.

[@gyongya]

YEEESS! Same here!

[@ohmyolmy]

Lolol yeah same!! I got them after watching his videos

[@Kujakuseki01]

People hate Cat? She’s a great character.

[@conniesuper9892]

Shows how impractical Robert is,and how Ned worried how to feed LARGE royal party last minute,for an extended stay. Robert oblivious to such things,even as a ruler. Ned should've been king...

[@Dobbinator817]

Robert even says that ned should of been king later in neds chapter during the hands tourney

[@subutaynoyan5372]

If it was up to Robert, he'd take a small party and rode on heedlessly, it was Cersei's vanity that caused that big of a party. Not Robert. Robert used to wander around his kingdom in hunting parties and took liberties with his petty lords. Mostly to annoy them.

[@Kujakuseki01]

What I LOVE about this chapter is the way Ned talks about Robert since he hasn’t seen what Robert has deteriorated into.

[@4Ever_2Eternitii]

Been watching u for years Q, this is my fave feature you guys play off of each other so well and i love her channel as well. Please feature her more than lml, i never watch videos with him but I'd watch videos with you two anytime !

[@TexasWench]

So happy you guys are doing this series! Thanks so much for your hard work!

[@ii-rf4on]

“Winter is coming.” Not a nod to The Others.- No way! 👀 I see you Martin...

[@conniesuper9892]

Feels like the trees don't like her because she's perceptive. That she sees past the things that obvious,but sees deeper than she's supposed to,maybe that's why she senses they're dislike of her,because the tree kind of HOLDS Ned,and so does SHE.

[@StannisHarlock]

So I was just thinking that in the prologue, the 3 men of the Night's watch walk into a forest, and come face to face with supernatural death. In this chapter, Ned is cleansing himself and his sword next to this creepy tree with a face on it. I think George is trying to tell us something about the creepy nature of trees. Perhaps it as an old childhood phobia he had.

[@originalhgc]

GRRM grew up in Bayonne, NJ. He probably didn't know from trees.

[@wills.8662]

I think the happening is probably a secret favorite movie of his...

[@Zach-sx8cm]

“No man alive has seen them” as he wipes the dude who did’s blood off his sword. Too freaking funny! Well played, George.

[@BattleAxeOfGod]

The most pure relationship in the books is Ramsay and Reek. R+R=J

[@playermartin286]

J for joy

[@eric2500]

cleveR but ICK , NO!

[@personofnoimportance5590]

North in Westeros reminds me so much my home country Finland. People are here like Starks, Starks are like stereotypes of finnish people and we have long pagan religion history too. I think Finland or Nordic countries in general may have been big inspiration to George

[@bettinanielsen6336]

And perhaps Scotland

[@stoneheart8231]

I'm from northern Norway and while I always identified with the Starks I think an even more apt comparison for us would be the wildlings. I wonder if there's some correlation between the free folk and the sami people for example.

[@Sarah-sh3nu]

An interesting note about when a sword is forged, it's often just the blade that's made and shipped at first. All the decoration could very well have been added after it was shipped form somewhere.

[@Kujakuseki01]

In the show, Cat really doesn’t want Ned to go to the south. In the books, she pleads with him to because of her ambition for their family. It’s the same ambition Sansa has and it’s ridiculously crucial details for the show to leave out about Cat’s character.

[@alanpennie8013]

kujakyseki01 I think it was fear rather than ambition that motivated her but this is not very clear.

[@alfredosincovich5744]

Mance Is introduced in this chapter because Is there in Winterfell, but we dont know it yet hahahahahaha

[@renlyspeach7622]

Your analysis on Catelyn and Ned's marriage is amazing. Especially as it relates to how she feels about Jon. It made me think of Sansa taking Joffrey's side against Arya. Catelyn took Ned's side against Jon. Maybe in order to let go of her hurt and love Ned, she had to transfer those feelings to Jon. She felt wronged and had to hate *someone*. Better the bastard than her lord husband. Keep up the great work!

[@jsull81]

Great episode guys !! I love this series : ) small nip pic though, Ned's biggest gripe with Tywin, I believe, is that he ordered the murder of Elia and her children

[@sailorsaturn1010]

That's just one of many reason he doesn't like them...the Lannister have no honor...smh

[@jsull81]

@@sailorsaturn1010 I realize that but I think this is the biggest reason

[@wanderingseth]

I adore your collaborations.

[@filbertrocko]

you two are great together and totally enjoy going over the chapters again!!!! missing last sunday's

[@colorfulcaro]

I love this podcast. I read the books so long ago and now I'm reading them again slowly, remembering all these details and I hear you and you have so many points of view that I didn't even think of them. Thanks

[@eric2500]

Southern mottos - LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME! WEALTH AND POWER! Riverland and nearby mottos- STRONG FAMILIES! Northern mottos - GET REAL. RIGHT NOW.

[@austinscott2223]

Loving this series so far! Getting me to think about and consider things I missed when I read the books

[@eric2500]

Ned and Catelyn - their love grew - and it is a practical one based on long years together. Cersei - and Sansa and several more characters, even some men, are disappointed romantics, but Cat and Ned always knew there would be an arranged marriage and they'd make the best of it - Ned is the backup Stark husband for Catelyn, remember. He's pretty humble as Westerosi highborn men go.

[@jmace2424]

I like George’s description of Catelyn as King Arthur’s mom’s perspective.

[@kyledubs3500]

Thank you guys for reigniting my interest in the series. I had been in a funk since the show.

[@justme.1st]

While I loved the content, the convo was too one sided, I want to hear more from you Lady Gray. You have a knack for nailing the salient points. No offense intended to your enthusiastic partner in this venture, but you need equal time at least :) Thank you

[@POOOOOOOO416]

Catelyn is my favourite character lol. Had no idea she has a over the top hate base

[@mirabellaj.miranda4453]

Yes!

[@ivanvelez2069]

Great job guys . Keep it up !! Cant wait for the next one

[@Kai555100]

When u love catelyn but no one else does

[@samanthafisher3308]

Lord-Protector of the Vale people who have no idea what it means to be a mother usually don’t like mother characters cause they just don’t understand

[@Dermetsu]

She forgot Rickon existed, she's not a good mother by any means.

[@Kai555100]

@@Dermetsu u mean she took care of bran while he was in a coma while rickon was perfectly healthy?

[@mikevecchione4852]

I love Catelyn!!!

[@moogle211]

Up here in the Ak, we all know winter is coming. But manbearpig is out there, summer is a promise of wildfire.

[@wesleymons]

cant wait for the first Daenerys chapter!!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@Annelita1116]

Looking for forward for the next episode !!

[@samanthafisher3308]

I love Cat. That poor woman had a lot on her plate and went to the grave thinking her husband betrayed her. I’m mean hell, Ned interacted with their children less than she did and he doesn’t catch any crap for it

[@darkbornelines4587]

Another awesome discussion. Great work.

[@ozarkfannumba1906]

Oh snap! new vid!

[@brandonlambert9768]

I love the Obsidian Nights podcasts and you, Grey, LML, and Tony.

[@brandonlambert9768]

and Robert from In Deep Geek

[@anaiglesias9972]

New podcast, awesome!

[@tulkas42o22]

19:30 freaking hilarious😂😂😂!!! Awesome video Q 👍

[@norlizPower]

I was waiting for this long ago.

[@vtaylor110]

Yess I’ve been waiting on this

[@amandaofhouserobinson6707]

Love it !!! Thanks guys !

[@Stefanism]

I’m confused, the people from the North are praying to the Weirwood tree gods of the children, or they are praying just in front of trees to the gods of the first men? Because in some chapters is written that after the pact, the first men have adopted the religion of the children and in other chapters is written that after the pact they started to pray in front of the trees

[@blackdragon6]

Good question 🤔😲

[@PauloGarcia-sp5ws]

Stefan Alexandru, im pretty sure the pact had them worshiping the same gods of the first men, so i imagine they both worship the same gods of the Weirwood. Considering the souls of the children were connected to the weirwood net, it would make sense that the children would attempt to preserve themselves in another way since the first men practiced genocide against them and almost exterminated them and the giants. It essentially allows them to live in the weirwood till the Andals come with the Faith of the Seven and destroy almost all the weirwoods south of the neck.

[@alanpennie8013]

Stefan Alexandru The descendants of the first men forgot their original gods and now worship the gods of The Children which are tree spirits.

[@Vanessa_Ivelisse]

I feel like the green men could be male counterparts to the female children of the forest since on the show none of the children are depicted as men but as small women

[@nickycha8428]

I like the way Quinn and Gray represent the Male and female perspectives on Catilyn and Ned

[@jsizemore1449]

Totally digging there episode s thank for doing them

[@wilbnett]

I like how Ned was right also givin that Rickon ends up on skagos. I hope devos can find him

[@johncasas5908]

I always felt the Night King was more of a Spirit filled creature than physical, the only way to have destroyed him is through a prophet, or through the return of one of Neds Gods

[@christophertracy7136]

I never heard this 1, U always bring the maester Quinn and he's always brilliant! The Targaryen words are powerful-Fire and Blood-Dracarys!

[@bmabhilash01]

Didn't cersei try to love Robert and inturn Robert denied any love. She says this when Robert screams lyanna instead of cersei when they were making love. Point is cersei tried to love her husband

[@gabrieladerre2862]

I like Catelyn. Yeah, of course it's messed up that she treated Jon Snow the way that she did. But I'm definitely on board with her getting her vengeance on as Lady Stoneheart. It's a damned shame that they left her out of the show.

[@EvanSol919]

I disagree. They would have ruined her like everything else so I'm glad she was left out.

[@reiudfgq3vrh34ur]

The only characters I hate are her and Sansa

[@TGJoeyT]

You don't hate Joffrey? He was such a twat. How about that giant piece of shit Walder Frey? RAMSAY FUCKING SNOW.

[@tzaph67]

Cat Stark wasn’t evil. She was fucked up about some things, which is human. It does say in the books that the only time she was ever afraid of Ned was when she asked him about Jon’s mother. That would have made Jon’s mother seem really fucking important. I do hate the way she treated Jon. For a long time I couldn’t really like her because of it. I have thought lately that Ned could dealt with it better tho. He could have let her know that Jon’s mother was no threat to Cat without breaking his promise. I know they hadn’t been together long when she asked. He could have said something later on when he knew her better. I’m about to start rereading the books, so I’ll find out soon if I really have softened towards her or not.

[@christopherbrewer222]

I have a very strong dislike for Cat. She will literally think about the “morally” right thing to do and then do the complete opposite causing terrible consequences for her family. She literally started the War, full well knowing how Tywin would react to her taking Tyrion while Ned is surrounded by Lannisters.

[@JeramyKelton-lv3pf]

There is a werewood in the gods wood at Riverrun, so why should she be so freaked out about them?

[@alanpennie8013]

Jeremy Kelton No. It's a different tree.

[@JeramyKelton-lv3pf]

@@alanpennie8013 there is a werewood in Riverrun all the same. You would think she would be a little familiar with them.

[@robswitzer8334]

I love the culture of the Northmen. You know The Old Gods is a form of "animism", a type of belief system practiced all over the world, including Native Americans. 🇺🇸

[@nathanmorton8773]

Loved it

[@milosstojkovic561]

I enjoy it so much, so please, publish the episodes faster is possible.

[@subarnosinha8042]

Gods! How long I was waiting for this. What, were you napping?

[@incoref]

Thank you!

[@AKWatchX]

Yasss new episode!

[@cherylbaxterstormborn477]

He said that to Caitlyn didn't want Brann to go to the execution she says he's only 10 Ned says he won't be a boy forever an Winter is Coming

[@t-rexcellentreviews1663]

One thing to keep in mind about a Westerosi marriage dynamic is that traditionally the mans word is law, to both his kids and his wife, Catelyn knows this and I do believe Ned does to, if Ned decides to bring his bastard son home and raise him among his true born children, she can’t say no to it, if Ned refuses to tell her who the boys mother is and commands she stops asking, she has to obey because he’s not just her husband, but the Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North as well, he’s the one with all the power in this place, not her, they only power she has it what he allows her to have, thus forcing her to tow the line in her behaviour when he’s around, Catelyn like Cersei, was her fathers first child so she does have a I’m the decision maker in this family mentality in mind, whether she is aware of it or not.

[@wallybonejengles5595]

I noticed this about Cat as well. Shes so sensitive and intuitive. She has her shortcomings and flaws and they enrage me but if she had been born in the North and raised like her wolf children were she may have made for a great greenseer or woodswitch. The fact she is brought back and lives her worst nightmare everyday as and undead, childless, lonely, deformed, and barren monster? Its an injustice. Lady Catelyn is in hell. I think it would be poetic if in an act of forgiveness Jon was the one to lay her to rest. If the one child she could never love could see this woman, now the spitting image on the negativity she imposed on him and forgive her sins, it might be what she needs to bring her peace and wrap up her character arc nicely on that Family, Duty, Honor theme. She doesn't deserve to exist like this love her or hate her and as METAL as it is.

[@eric2500]

It has to be Arya to end the revenant of her mother, so she (Arya) can leave the death in herself behind and live a life again, and not as a Faceless Man.

[@kallesvensson253]

Awesome!

[@thomasvanderwesthuizen3879]

Please continue this series

[@CallMe_Blondie]

I adore the both of you! Here’s my issue, I’m having a problem theorizing what’s going to happen now that the show has ended. I’m afraid the show ending is the real ending and that the Others are just an “annoyance.” This really bothers me because I loved trying to figure out why the Others were so scary, or, in other words, why the north is so freaking scared of them. I hate that I feel this way and that the stupid show ruined my love for finding the truth in this story. Am I the only person who feels this way? D&D suck

[@Kai555100]

The show ending perse wasn't bad it was just suffers from a terrible execution because DnD are stupid

[@personofnoimportance5590]

I fear I have lost hope for George finishing the books :(

[@blackdragon6]

Even if that is the book ending i would still be pissed, no matter how better GRRM version is.

[@Kai555100]

@@blackdragon6 why ? I mean in the right context dany becoming mad could make sense And the others will be defeated in another way

[@edgargarcia6143]

Pretty cool

[@sinjun1973]

The Old Gods being nature gods, teach self reliance and being prepared with food, ability to fight, and selflessness and in the terrible winter an old man will leave so others may survive knowing they're going to their death. Life and death are matter of fact. Not to be feared. The Faith of the 7 is nothing like that. Every aspect is named for a position in life or a job. It talks of relying on others and community. It doesn't teach you to be prepared and know how to take care of yourself. Ultimately that leaves people unable to do what is necessary when winter does come. When life gets hard they look for hand outs and don't fish or hunt. Hunting is in the old English way of a party with drinking and joking around as they move through the forest, that eventually might find something to kill not because they need to but because they enjoy it. It's just another game for the rich. Where the poor it maybe a matter of life or death are punished if they're caught hunting on the Kings or lords land when everything belongs to the king and the lords. It's not a faith of love really. Not when so much cruelty is born of it. That's also something about out organized religions that bothers me. You can't have it both ways. The church wants everything even if you starve you're told that's it's good because you gave to God or more honestly, lined the churches pockets. Neither religion is perfect. The whole Weirwood net shows how the Old gods keep you, literally, forever. You're knowledge being the whole goal because that's what the God in the trees lives for. How it survives. Without the trees that it lives in it would actually die. That's the purpose of the pact. I'm stopping there because I'm sticking to just the books and not what I surmised from the tv show.

[@robswitzer8334]

Never thought of the gods as living "in" a tree, rather than just being the tree. Like a spirit or a fungus or something.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@robswitzer8334 They might have been tree spirits originally but now they have absorbed the souls of The Children.

[@sinjun1973]

@@robswitzer8334 I think of it like a disembodied conciousness. Like, at one point it may have been a living creature. Maybe the 1st to die in front of a Weirwood, and his conciousness went into the trees and there he learned how to communicate with the Greenseers and the Children began worshipping this inexplicable voice they could hear in their heads and follow it making it stronger and then it started incorporating other conciousness's inti it's own gaining more and more knowledge as it took the sacrifices made to the Weirwood. Through this he reigned supreme over all, until the 1st Men came. Then there was a war. In the end the 1st Men agreed to worship at the Weirwood and provide sacrifice as the pact was made on the Isle of Faces. I have this feeling that the people left there to watch became part of the Weirwood, literally, as it took their minds and ate from their bodies. Howland never told anyone what he saw there. That would be disturbing enough not to want to talk about. It's just a theory. A line of thought and I can come up with some pretty weird ideas. Lol!!!

[@cherylbaxterstormborn477]

Is this the Obsidion Nights will it be a show or just the books I luv this an all your videos thank you for sharing this 👑🐺❄🗡👑🐲🔥

[@cherylbaxterstormborn477]

I luv the Weirwood trees I'd luv to see them here or I'd luv to visit westeros

[@ali_p_q7920]

Nice The Mist reference.

[@tzaph67]

I really don’t understand why people are all so creeped out by the weirwood trees. I think they’re beautiful, magical, fascinating. I love the heart trees 💚🌳😊

[@wolfsbanealphas617]

People fear what they don't understand

[@originalhgc]

I'm thinking because it's a face in a tree, with bloody eyes, watching you. That's pretty creepy shit.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@originalhgc People have been ritually murdered in front of those trees. Bran sees such a human sacrifice in a vision.

[@wolfsbanealphas617]

Great as always ! When are you gonna do euron part 2 ?

[@joshowoh9072]

Quinn I miss the days when you did your episodes in your closet man those were days, your content has grown incredibly

[@alexarias5717]

The art at 8:06 is absolutely marvelous. I have never seen it before. How do you find so much good asoiaf art?!

[@dmp1520]

Indeed

[@REVANSBACK]

Does anyone know where the song at 32:25 is from? Nice video as always, guys. Loving the ruminations and ambience along with the great artwork. Good stuff.

[@drkarlthe1]

great stuff, keep it up please (y)

[@blackwidow4564]

I wonder why the starks never tried to improve the north by utilizing their natural resources and increasing trade.

[@113Branty]

We not gunna mention the bloody hand print thing, then Catelyn gets her hand sliced and covered in blood.

[@alanpennie8013]

So no living man had ever seen an Other? Did Garad not count because Ned had just killed him, or because Ned did not believe him, or because in fact he didn't see The Others?

[@jeffgustafson4552]

Yaaas

[@eric2500]

Order of the Green Hand has just the most absurd theories - that somehow Alleras is not Sarella, that Prince Doran does not have gout, and that Sansa and Catelyn are evil.

[@naomibousson]

I don't hate Catelyn, but she isn't in my top 5 of characters either. To me she is a woman who tries to protect her family and sometimes does stupid things while trying to do so. It makes her character realistic. In a way, she is a less vein and cruel version of Cersei. Cersei also tries to do everything to help and protect her children, but she is kind of psycho which makes her less likeable than Catelyn.

[@mk-do9eo]

Okay idk if anyone has thought/said this before (probably) but Melisandre looks like a weirwood tree. She talks about how every religion that’s not hers is evil but she looks like she definitely has some northern/weirwood magic blood in her. She’s pale as hell and has red eyes and hair, kinda like how a weirwood has red leaves and red sap that pours out of the carved eyes. Ik Mel isn’t the focus of this video but i just wanted to get it out there.