"I have altered the Weirwoodnet. Pray I do not alter it further." - Azor Ahai

LML is the G.O.A.T of Asoiaf content. Promise you'll never stop posting awesome videos my man! Praise Garth

When all the books for Asoiaf is done, I really would love to see David get to speak to GRRM to ask how much he got right.

"Who is the leader of the others?" Cleo flies down on cue and poses to look fabulous. Well, I guess we have our answer. 😅

The videos and lore have kept this series alive for me. And it’s my favorite modern fantasy series.

I'd completely forgotten I had done that Virgin Mary style Nissa Nissa art 😂. Great video ✌️

Even if all of LML theories turn out to be wrong it’d just show the brilliance of GRRM writing skills , world building and knowledge of so many different historical and mythological events and LML ability to take all of GRRM writings and weave a very plausible theory with about a 100 hours worth of content that back those theories !!! Keep up the hard work for us Myth -Heads!!!

While I absolutely love the long interactive live streams I know everyone is not able to take the time to enjoy them fully. These shorter videos with analysis and theories on one specific topic are going to get a lot of attention. You are, as always, fascinating and entertaining. More and more people are noticing!

Honestly loving this condensed overview of the weirwood net invasion theory! Would absolutely love it if as time goes on and theories are developed you dropped some summary videos like this one 👌

Awesome video. Your comments on Stannis' shadow baby being a "shadow clone" of Stannis himself made me think that perhaps the original Azor Ahai/Night's King has a similar relationship with the Others. Like they are collectively the fractured remains of Azor Ahai.

So... looks like Theon Greyjoy was the "Nissa Nissa" of season 8. The Night King sacrificed him beneath the Winterfell weir wood. Also did you notice that when the Night King "died" (in the show) he shattered into ice bits that he melted into the ground beneath the weir wood! My first thought was that he was entering the weir wood network.

Regarding oak trees. In Europe, most forests had originally mostly contained oak trees. But the Celts had cut them down to make use of them. Later mainly beech trees would grow since they grow much faster. So the oak forests had been corrupted by beech trees after the oak had been cut down by men.

I like the touch that Renly's crown is decorated with jet amidst all the horns/leaves motifs in his get-up, since jet is a smooth black stone that comes from fossilized wood. To get the stone, wood changes under extreme pressure. (Insert parallels to the motifs in David's theories about the green men, transformation, shadow babies, etc). Blackness added upon green and gold...it's a nice costuming detail that could be a random stone choice that fits the vibe but also works as an unintentional or intentional reference as a bridge between the stag/woodland/forest motifs (the before state of the land and more primal culture ties to jet's original state of wood) and the stone structures later built by the regional kings and leaders. It is a different reference to a black stone than obsidian (dragon glass, associated with the Others and volcanos, ice and fire) and the oily stone structures. It also teaches us that the Westerosi use the term jet for that stone, so we can't chalk up the material of those oily black stone structures across the world to simply being a vocabulary mix-up and that they are likely a separate material than normal jet from normal fossilized wood. Could be cool if they were some kinda freaky eldritch jet. I would laugh so hard if the oily black stone idea came from GRRM's inkjet printer malfunctioning and he got this idea for a weird, inky, jet and remembered the odd stones from Lovecraft.

I must say, you do really have a staggeringly comprehensive take on the whole picture set up by, and, more importantly, underneath, this epic narrative old Mr. Martin has presented us with. I swear, the man should give up on his ever more obviously taxing efforts to complete his great work and just reach out to you to take up the task of finalizing the concluding chapters of his creation. You’ve got as clear a grasp of what’s going on, or what should go on, with it all, as the man himself…if not a clearer one, by this point!🤔😆

George watches these videos and takes notes

While watching I remembered that the Limes, the great wall the Romans built along their border in Germania, they started with a wooden construction, some wooden towers and later a wooden palisade. Only later they constructed a great wall out of stone ... so it's not unlike the Wall in Westeros, where first wood and Greenseers like guards in wooden towers watched over the border who were replaced by a great wall... Just my thoughts on that topic xD

This channel is so random, it usually just plays in theback ground but all of a sudden i flip back and now theres a bird?

I don't know whether to kiss you or curse you for getting me thinking about these books like this again. This is all phenomenal stuff. Normally wouldn't comment much but you've been saying it helps the channel so here you go.

Your comments re: the weirwood possibly originally being an oak tree + the death of the greenseer creating an “opening” for corruption to enter the net reminds me of the Arianne chapter from AFFC where kings guard knight Ser Arys Oakheart (Oak heart tree?) is killed by Areo Hotah. See Arys is “corrupted” when he breaks his vows and has an affair with Arianne, who turns him, bends his will to serve her own plan to place Myrcella on the iron throne.

That transition at 2:23 creeps me out so much 😭😭😭

I loved revisiting this stream, it was a very interesting one to begin with. Everyone should watch the entire stream! ✨

In what way do you think Stannis "later" dreams the murder. I thought he literally committed the murder in the dream, essentially warging the Shadow Baby, and his denial was such that he believed it to be a dream.

Bird flying into your hand right then felt pretty climactic, I half expected it to unveil the big reveal lol

Intrigued by Mel's role here in 'creating' Azor Ahai, given that she will also play a role in Jon's resurrection.

While I tune in for live streams, sometimes my friends who loved the series are intimidated to join. These videos are perfect for sucking them into your weirdwood net 😂

These edits/videos are getting so good. More of this plz. Unfortunately I don't always have time to listen to the original streams. Great work.

Loved The Wall parallel to Renly’s Tent and the Weirwood at the NightFort. Can’t wait for more analyzation through these chapter reads. Very stoked for the Dunc POVs and your interpretation of those events and what they may foreshadow. Cheers

This video format is perfect for my add/adhd brain, lol. Thanks for this super clear explanation with incredible art! Love it, David! ❤ Idk if it's just me but ASOIAF is the most complex stories I've ever read, and then tried to really understand so I'm grateful for the delivery!Always impressed by your big brain 😊

Appreciate the editing and added art of this condensed livestream. Great work 👏

Superb work. This spells it all out so clearly, even when I've watched most of your other videos!

Your Green Man series is one of my absolute favorites. Thank you, David for your continued work! Very appreciative!

I swear you put more thought into a single video than D&D put into the last three seasons of GOT. Love your theories and all the worldbuilding. Keep being awesome.

So good! Concise, beautiful. I always found it difficult to wrap my head around the entire theory, as it's multi faceted and complex. This video finally got me all the way there. Bravo 👏 👏

Glad to see that your channel is doing well, I remember when you were still trying to get 15k subs. Thanks for the theories and awesome commentary David!

Great recap once again. Thanks for all you do.

Superb art choices as per usual, good sir.

The rowan tree is seen as the tree of protection, particularly against witches and enchantment.

Love all the content keep killing it!

Elden Ring has alien life forms coming to the lands between via meteorites and it is included in those beings the one that created the Erdtree Network 😂

Always love your videos!

Love the condensed livestreams 🎉

Loving this new format.

David always brings some good ASOIAF deep lore and some smooth bass!

Really glad to get this summary analysis on the weirwoodnet invasion

Thankyou for this great summary!

Damn! I forgot how gruesome and harrowing reading this chapter for the first time! Harrowing, Intense in the most incredible way

Always here to support your incredible (and minblowing) channel!!!! can you PLEASEEE do a scripted video of the parallels of the dance of dragons with the long night and also a symbolic review of the world of ice and fire and where these parallels show?

I really love your theories, and all this about Azor Ahai, Nissa Nissa & the Weirwoodnet and green men!! IT makes so much sense!! And once more :Thank you LML, you are not crazy 😄💪🙌Please do more of these summaries about your therories, as other also mentions :I think even more people will have time to watch your incredible theories and content ✌️🫶🐉🔥and Praise Garth, ofc ✌️

Thanks for the video, bro 👍

Such an amazing video!!! 🔥

Good stuff LmL.

Love you David!

Fantastic work. Thanks

Thanks David great insight as per usual, cheers form Aus

THE EDITING AT 21:00 GOT ME GOOD LMFAO

I'm new subscriber this is amazing!!

I’m very new to this, but I heard/read (probably from LML) that the oily black stone may be the result of the petrification of the Ebony/Nightshade trees. They produced ancient monumental structures by using the wood of the black trees, then “enchanted” it with magic, petrifying it and giving it its oiliness and cementing its magic properties. Maybe the Wall (very similar to the 5 Forts) was built with a similar magic but using Weirwoods instead. Normally when something is described as oily, I think primarily of it being slick by touch, but oily can also describe something that shimmers with slickness. A shimmering slickness would be a good way to describe the Wall, “alive with light”. Maybe weirwoods and Nightshade trees were the same/similar until Azor Ahai changed the ones in Westeros by evicting the Green Seer spirits from them. Azor Ahai fought the evil in the East successfully and built the Forts, then went to the Western borders of mankind and tried to do something at the Arm of Dorne, but didn’t work, so he fought on further to the Neck, which also didn’t work, then tried for a final time at the Wall, which only partially worked as the Weirwoods were a little different to the Ebony he used successfully in the East. The Wall is a sticking plaster rather than a final solution like the Forts. The wood of the Weirwood was used to build the Wall and spirits of the Green Seers were sacrificed to enchant it, with the White Walkers being spirits that were able to escape being sacrificed and seek revenge on humanity.

This is exactly the video I needed

Another excellent video 👌

I just started watching GOT a year ago, I’m always late to some great shows. My daughter got me watching promising I would love it. Honestly and sadly it took Ned losing his head to get me interested and still can’t get enough. I found LML, Grayarea, Quinn’s Ideas and a few others to listen to and love it. The breakdown ,foreshadowing and theories are wonderful. I’m so glad y’all add so much to the show and books. Keep it coming 😊❤

Hey daddy. I’m going to start reading the books this week! In huge part because of your content. Since you’re creating more varied video lengths now I had a couple of examples you could play with on a shorter format. You could create guides on how to read the books (tips on symbolism, recaps, main plot points) and also character profiles

Nice job!!!

I honestly enjoy your videos more than the books❤😂

Excellent video ! great way to start the day ! Praise Garth and the Greenmen

LML read Lord of Light by Zelazny! You actually said Mahasamatman the other day. The audio version is good if that's your style. It's got everything! Kali and Durga, The Alchemical Wedding, Jon being taken over by Nights king. There's so much. I hear you state a theory of yours and I'm just like well that's basically what happens in Lord of Light!

@David Lightbringer love the PP art! We’ll done. For the uninitiated you would want to include more about Bloodstone & connections. “Alive with light” Catelyn 1 the crystals in the Winterfell Sept. thoughts?

Literally just opened my youtube to this to have a wake and bake omg the seven are smiling upon me

"shadow baby kisses. Hey Jon Snow" lmao I wish I could remember which video you said that in, because I laughed my ass off! I think you're awesome. I like your calm, weird AF demeanor. And you're smart AF too

In the interest of "Comments help the channel" here's a comment. Thanks for all the work you're putting into each and every stream. Thanks, also, for making me aware of the song "Ampersand" (which I tweeted to you about, idk the other day). Finally, I would urge you to listen, if you've not done so, to a favorite album of mine: it's called "Hawaii Part II" by Miracle Musical, released in 2012, it's approximately 42 minutes long. I wish you well in all things, and looking forward to the Dunk and Egg livestream today! Much love ♥

I'm so glad this channel exists! All the time and effort, plus so many streams, videos and podcasts! I definitely spend my free time bingeing, but have much further to go...😅 Some things are still a little confusing about Azor Ahai. Was he one man or representative of a civilization or group of people? Like was he a stand-in for the Great Empire? Did they do something terrible to a group of people who could seek retribution magically? Did AA's creation of Lightbringer stem from the Comet impact? (Like was Lightbringer the actual impact)? Did AA /GE have knowledge of the impact & purposely omit that information in order to benefit in some way (magically, geo-politically, etc.)? Also, why infiltrate the Weirwoods? Is it like a horcrux thing, where something important was distributed & stored in the WW to guard it against those seeking to destroy it? And of course, the ultimate question: why are there Others? If they are like the sidhe/ fae, then they might have always existed in the liminal. They seem sentient and capable of planning. But then why come forth a second time thousands of years later? These videos always generate questions I didn't know I needed to ask. And seeing things I never knew were there. I wish more ASOIAF content creators delved deeper into the symbolic. So thank you so much for your in-depth analysis, which is as meaningful as it is revelatory!

Can we get an updated overview of your theories, involving the green and first men, the cosmology, and the god emperor etc? All these subtopics are so nebulous and only spiralled over the years. Would be great to tie it all together oncemore.

When Brienne calls out "your Grace" it's cut off, and especially the way you read it sounds like Ygritte, who is another Nissa Nissa figure...

I wonder if Nissa-Nissa was actually a Green Woman or "of the Green Men" (Woman seems more fitting than Man imo). It would explain the "Tiger Woman" depiction from Yi Ti since, like you said in the theory about Ned Stark's "Old Ones", the Old Ones/Green Men lived on Leng, and I don't remember if you say so but I believe that the Green Men are close relatives of the Children of the Forest, perhaps even the first mixed offspring of CotF and humans. Maybe Nissa-Nissa was some kind of Lengi Green Man royalty and the excuse Azor Ahai gave for marrying her was to unite the bloodlines and empires of the Great Empire of the Dawn and the Kingdom of Leng's Green Men. Only, Azor Ahai really just wanted access to the incredibly magically powerful blood of the Green Men royalty. There is power in king's blood after all, which he used to call down the Moon Meteors™, accidentally or otherwise, and bring on the Long Night. Perhaps Azor Ahai was taught about the Weirwood Net by Nissa-Nissa or a relative of hers, planting the seeds in his head to bust into the WN in the first place

I was there for the original stream but still love the condensed recaps as my ADHD brain tends to wander 😂

So I had to like the video but it was at 777 likes but I had to hit it. 777 is just a lucky number. LML your my absolute favorite asoiaf contact creator. Quinn is also awesome but your deep knowledge of historical myth is right up my ally and you crush it. I was a history majorly study mediterranean in biblical archaeology so all of this is just so amazing. Thanks for being amazing. 🎉

I agree with what you say Lml, but I am wondering if this scenario also could parall another event in the ancient past. Two brothers are fighting. Two Stark brothers perhaps? One Lord of Winterfell and the Night's King? Or is it The Amethyst Empress and the Bloodstone Emperor?

If i remember correctly, there's nights watchmen built /burried into the wall--sentinels -- maybe its not sentinels as in soldiers but sentinels as in trees and its green men/chikd of the forest spirits in the trees that were sacrificed to build the wall--built with the "help" of children of the forest

This was great💁🏻‍♀️😊

I see Remly, his gold crown shining in the sun. He has a rainbow patch, and he's smiling at everyone. I can tell you your theory craft will still be strong after the Knights of Summer have gone.

I'm wondering about the symbolic significance in Catlyns exchange right before our Shadow Man enters the scene. The exchange starts with time running short, prompting Catlyn to recall a promise made by the green man. He cedes, and has a sort of bossing up transformation moment as he's putting on his helm as if hes in some sort of true or magically pure form or like hes tapped in to the powers and their now active, followed by a sort of challenging statement saying "now we see who is stronger." Then BRIENNE gets on her KNEES to "BUCKLE ON HIS BELT" that's heavy with the weight of SWORD (what a strong seed). This is as Catlyn is watching, then she starts begging in the name of the mother, followed by the entry of the shadow baby. Catlyn interprets it as the kings shadow, since we know Shadow is baby I'm thinking of interpreting this like the spawn produced when Brienne got on her knees just then, though I'm not sure if that works alongside the Shadow baby canonically being Stannis's azor again figure's. Of course the Shadow baby carries out the slaughter of the green man. I guess I have a lot of thoughts on this section as its so clearly allegorical but the one driving this comment the most is Catlyns recalling of a promise to the green man followed by a good old sexy time and how this might relate to the prince who was promised. Who is catlyn symbolizing here, and did the green men promise that person a prince? Did something go wrong with the prince? Are azor ahai and the promised prince definitely the same? Im seeing azor as like the prince who was supposed to be promised but was botched and when hes "reborn" the internal struggle would be like between untapped access to power and responsibility over its use + over keeping men out and away from abusing it. Like discipline, taming of man's baser impulses type themes. Catlyn calls the green man out on the promise made to her and then the Shadow baby comes in almost like it could be on behalf of Catlyn though maybe not necessarily at her bequest, or maybe the Shadow baby interests are third party to the catlyn green man exchange and is interrupting, angered by the promise between them perhaps. I'm definitely getting both the nights queen and Nyssa Nyssa murder story out of this but I'm just curious about the promise made by the green man. is it dual symbology or was a magical baby or some other promise made by the magic side? Sorry if this is all over the place, thoughts anyone?

Have you ever noticed the parallels in the legendary story by Oscar Wild, Dorien Grey? It very much opens your eyes. That's for sure.

also remember to birth the shadow baby, she had davos take her into the “magic castle” other wise he wouldn’t be able to enter, because their were magic spells guarding storms end

As much as I enjoy these videos (and, to be clear, I'm not even taking the piss here, I really do enjoy them), it sometimes feels like the stereotypical conspiracy theorist who has newspaper articles pinned to his walls, and 826 metres of red string linking words all over the place. You probably are right about a lot of things with the symbolism, but one wouldn't want to get carried away with it too much. It's like that old joke, wherein the book says that the sky was blue, and your English teacher expects you to write a fifteen page essay about how the blueness symbolises the melancholic depressivity of the chapter, whereas the author actually just meant to simply remark that the sky was literally blue.

Yassss! This stuff is fascinating and super awesome! Thanks LML

seeing your bird only strengthens the urge to get a raven like mormonts or a hawk. i so wish i could i travel in time i just wanna come storming down into a valley mouned at the head of a mongolian horde with a huge hawk perched on one forearm sword in the other hand hair flowing in the wind screaming into battle. thats why the dothraki is my favorite fighting force for all their savagery and lack of tactic, i love their culture cause not much has changed with them. they still go from city to city and collect. unlike the ironborn tho they held that mentality over the ages. i still say if khal drogo had lived and the dothraki were capable of adjusting to different methods of battle, like how the mongols adapted siege engines and catapults and scorpions as they conquered theyd been unstoppable. another thing is in the books ALOT more houses had siege towers nd catapult and the like. in the show they acted like scorpions were new but in the book ser rodrick and house manderly had all the siege tech. IT SUCKS! they lost to the boltons the way they did. that was so... ehhh i hated that i wanted rodrick to take winterfell back but i guess thatd take away from jon taking it back.

The weirwood trees are afraid of fire. Ghost of High Heart says so. “Nor do they love the flames,” / “And they remember when the First Men came with fire in their fists.” So the dragon men were among the first to come, and they burned the weirwoods from the start. They had a burning sword in their fists. The Others got a load of chyt to get off their chest.

Rewatch binge 🎉

I’d love to hear David’s take on the new “fan art” covers for Winds and Dream releases by Ertac Altinoz…

On the green tent wall bit. Made me think there could have been a huge hedge before the ice wall. hedge rows are kinda green walls.

"(The Emperor) Elagabalus was a priest in an obscure cult in Syria that venerated a black stone meteorite - a culture that would have been deeply strange to the Romans."

You're on to us Lightbringer.

Wait a minute. Doesn’t it make more sense that azor ahai was trying to force nissa nissa’s soul into a dragon, and the dragon is named lightbringer, a flaming sword of the morning? Maybe that was the origin of dragon riding ? Using a child of the forest in a sacrifice ? By an anacoenf hero of house Dayne?

holy cow you have become actually insane may the lord grant you mercy

Perhaps a long shot but when you mentioned green men and Nissa Nissa being sacrificed together, perhaps Renly is still the green man but Nissa Nissa symbol would be Brienne and Melissandra. Though neither physically died, in Brienne was the anguish and Melissandra the ecstacy.

Great video! I think the Nissa Nissa figure in the Renly's death scene is Brienne. She has the moon and sun in the banner and later on she is given Oathkeeper (long night symbol) by Jaime aka the lion of night. What do you think David?

Fire and blood 🔥🔥🔥

If loving this is crazy, I don't want to be sane

I have parts of a "Summer Nights" parody floating through my mind, and it might expand into a theory that the entirety of Grease is embedded in ASOIAF lore. I might be a skosh too high rn...

Hey LML does this theory overrule nights queen giving birth to the others Melisandre style or go hand in hand? Cause this feels like a different origin story. Also, the connection with Stannis “binding his brothers to his will with strange sorceries”…. Holy shit! Awesome job on that one

The real theory is that Martin wrote these incredibly dense books filled with foreshadowing, symbolism, and references to mythology with no intention of finishing. Thus forcing us to be the critical readers our HS English teachers wanted.