I love house manderly simply because they are a true house, loyal to the people who gave them a home at their lowest point and because they haven’t given up on Rickon

The twist that Davos wouldn't be killed and that Manderly was working to restore the North went so hard. One of the most memorable bits from my readthrough.

I love how Wyman it´s just having a blast on Winterfell watching the Boltons and Freys get murdered one by one

The biggest twist in ASOIAF is that the Skagosi are secretly the most advanced culture in all of Westeros, and Rickon comes back with a musket and a really pissed off wolf.

I love how everyone underestimate Wyman because of his condition, yet he's a total bad ass and an intelligent man. Hopefully we will see more of him.

I like how House Manderly is a Southern hybrid style of what a Northern house would be. They have Southern traditions and culture but ultimately have the heart and pride of a Northerner. Wyman being outwardly different from the other lords of the north as he's rich, fat, believes in the seven, has knights and just generally polar to his peers but that's not entirely true. His house just runs differently but shares the same loyal pride in the Starks and they are just as brutal as the other houses as they butchered the Freys as they remembered the crimes of Bolton and Frey traitors.

You have sons of your own, you said." Three, thought Davos, though I fathered seven. "Soon I must return to the feast to toast my friends of Frey," Manderly continued. "They watch me, ser. Day and night their eyes are on me, noses sniffing for some whiff of treachery. You saw them, the arrogant Ser Jared and his nephew Rhaegar, that smirking worm who wears a dragon's name. Behind them both stands Symond, clinking coins. That one has bought and paid for several of my servants and two of my knights. One of his wife's handmaids has found her way into the bed of my own fool. If Stannis wonders that my letters say so little, it is because I dare not even trust my maester. Theomore is all head and no heart. You heard him in my hall. Maesters are supposed to put aside old loyalties when they don their chains, but I cannot forget that Theomore was born a Lannister of Lannisport and claims some distant kinship to the Lannisters of Casterly Rock. Foes and false friends are all around me, Lord Davos. They infest my city like roaches, and at night I feel them crawling over me." The fat man's fingers coiled into a fist, and all his chins trembled. "My son Wendel came to the Twins a guest. He ate Lord Walder's bread and salt, and hung his sword upon the wall to feast with friends. And they murdered him. Murdered, I say, and may the Freys choke upon their fables. I drink with Jared, jape with Symond, promise Rhaegar the hand of my own beloved granddaughter ... but never think that means I have forgotten. The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done. My son is home." -Wyman Manderly A Dance With Dragons

The Grand Northern Conspiracy is one of the greatest stories to be (more than) hinted at in ADWD. It is so intricate, and yet focused, as to make the reader stand up and applaud. The Boltons and Freys within Winterfell, and without, are in deep trouble.

Davos’ trip to white harbor was hands down one of the best chapters in ASOIAF. I literally jumped out of bed when lord manderly made that speech. Shame the show did not adapt it

Manderlys are most powerful and wealthy northern house. Among the most powerful ones in entire Westeros. Biggest northern heavy cavalry, holding all the trade in the 5th biggest city, and Robb allowed them to rebuild a navy (which they did by the time of ADwD). Ofc, they are much weaker than heavy hitters: Lannisters, Tyrells, Hightowers, etc...but overall a very powerful one. Show made them a minor house, but in truth, no other northern house can match them. Show didn't do them justice.

one of my favorite Manderly tidbits is when Bran is holding court at Winterfell, one of the Manderlys makes a comment that the north needs its own coinage and White Harbor would be more than happy to start that process (setting themselves up as Masters of Coin)

Another concern is that Stannis is seething about Wyman killing Ser Davos. The reader knows he didn't but the idea of Stannis having Manderly hanged or burned only to find out Manderly kept Davos alive is so tragic.

After the death of Tywin the western lords are not loyal. Tywin played with fear. But they wouldnt fear the Kingslayer jaime and Queen Cersei.

The search for Rickon is the number one story line that I am dyingggg to find out the conclusion to plz George 😢

I hate how they cut all this out from the show, i really wish at the very least it was Wyman and a Northern army that showed up to save Jon at the BotB. Would of been so much better thematically. All we get instead is some crappy feast where all the northern lords are like "sorry we didnt do shit to help, but we are here now" Was a big kick in the nuts to the phrase "the north remembers" and everything built up with the starks and the loyalty of their bannermen

I still can’t believe that all this lore and history comes from one person, GRRM is truly one in a million minds

Also it isn’t likely that people would chose Jon snow over Rickon Stark, perhaps as a champion of house stark yes, because he is old enough to fight, but outright replacing Rickon and taking over house stark isn’t likely, not only from the nobles but also from Jon himself

"They don't know Bran is alive." Bran passes through the lands of the mountain clans on his way North and encounters a member of House Liddle. House Liddle is later recruited to follow Stannis in A Dance with Dragons. Either that Liddle never told anybody he met Bran, or the mountain clans know and probably fed that information to Stannis.

Imagine Wyman dying of being fat. Like he’s got all these plans, everyone in his house is with him. He’s playing the fool. But he winds up dead from a heart attack because he played at being fat way too much so he dies from it.

I really hope we see Rickon come back badass and Stannis unite with the North.

Wyman is like Doran just much more decisive and way quicker to act on his plots.

Howland Reed doesn't only know that Robb Stark intended Jon to be his heir and legitimised him. He also knows that Jon is the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen (having been at the tower of joy with Ned.)

One of the biggest reasons I've looked forward to the next book is to see how the war in the North plays out. Wyman may be a glutton, but he's no fool. Many if not most of the northern lords are unhappy with Bolton lordship - and they absolutely hate the Freys, with good reason. I feel that Martin, despite his love of killing off primary characters, was building towards a resolution where the former Stark bannermen and the Manderlys retake the North, and reading how that goes down would be absolutely magnificent.

Great video but I don’t think the "Old North" would just betray Stannis after he did so much to help them. Houses like the Glovers were restored to their seat by Stannis and I don’t see them as cold hearted enough to just throw him aside. Secondly and I think more importantly, it is shown that the North’s resources are horribly drained by ADWD and I don’t think they could survive on their own without the other kingdoms.

I see what you did there with the Night King

I hate how the show runners just skipped over this

People don't give the Free Folk enough credit. North of the wall skinchangers have more prestige. If wargs are hunted in the north, I suspect the Skagos islands is a refuge for body snatchers and all kinds of abominations. Perhaps Rickon will get dropped off at a sanctuary for warg foundlings

Another interesting thing to note regarding the 'New North' faction. When discussing Ramsey Snow being legitimised as Bolton by Tommon's Council, Robett Glover says: "He is a bastard, no matter what the boy king says." What is concerning here is that Robb has legitimised Jon Snow by making him his heir. But one can't help but notice that Robett Glover and Wyman Manderly have certainly had their fill of bastards and prefer Rickon. Robb Stark was a boy king. Brilliant writing by George. I didn't notice it until my second or third re-read. "He is a bastard, no matter what the boy king says," Is a statement that fits *both* Tommen Lannister legitimising Ramsey Snow AND Robb Stark legitimising Jon Snow. This is easy to miss since Ramsey, Tommen, and Rickon are the focus of conversation. Northern Civil War, when we need unity, is unfortunate, but the Vale Knight's arrival with Sansa may be the glue they need to refocus everyone on unity. Great video! 👏🏾

Here is one thing about "A great northern conspiracy for Jon Snow" everyone ignores: He swore a lifelong, unbreakable oath to serve on the Nights Watch. This oath, as we see in the first Bran Chapter, is pretty important to Northeners. You basically get executed without a trial, if you break it. Just to point out, how serious this oath is: No one ever broke it and returned to his Lordship. Jeor Mormont joined the Night's Watch out of free will, so Jorah could take over his House earlier. But when Jorah got exiled, Jeor can't even temporarily leave to fix the mess his son created, but he has to let a woman reign... in the sexist World of Westeros. Letting someone return from the Wall is "a Cersei Plan", and we are supposed to think, that she is insane and a really awful schemer. Yet everyone is like "But Rob has the same plan, and the North will support Jon!" Add the "He let the Wildlings through the Wall, even though all they do is rape an pillage in the North" part to the equation, and it becomes really unlikely, that many Northerners will support him.

My heart breaks for lord Wyman. To appear to be a traitor to both protect his family and to try and liberate the north must be a hard burden to bear right after losing one of his sons.

Excellent video! Great content. You're becoming one of my favorite channels. Thorough. Concise. Elaborative. Keep it up Crusader Chris 💪🏽

One of my favourite houses. I wish we could see more of them on screen, and especially their beautiful city.

Great video! Awesome job, Chris!

Great video on one of the most interesting and underrated characters of the North as presented to us so far. It has been a treat to read of Wyman thinking and acting in the exact opposite manner as would be suggested by his outward appearance and public personality. Such a brilliantly written character.

I knew there was a reason I enjoyed the way you do your videos. I'm also a big watcher for alt shift x videos and I like the way you both lay out the content in the videos. Alt shift is extremely good at it but your also doing well too you'll be at that level in no time if you keep up this good work

This is one of best Game of Thrones videos, I have seen, so much information outside the the show and indeep North relationship explained. Great video, keep it up with this quality and you will overtake Alt Shift X even. Keep itup

If WoW ever gets released we need a convo between Stoneheart and Howland about how Jon isnt Ned's bastard, that'll hit so hard

Watch Davos roll up on Skaggs, expecting him to be feral and the Skagosi to be dangerous, but as soon as he gets there Rickon’s just chilling on a tree stump saying “Sup”

Man im here thinking about your channel being so great and also thinking about Alt shift's and the fact we have both to enjoy! So, i have to say: Your videos are amazing and are not ugly piece of bread at all! AHAHA

I’ve been looking for a good ASOIAF channel and I’m quite pleased with this find! 👍🏻

Alt Shifts vids are great but this vid was dope too! Keep them coming

your analysis and presentation are so good

I will say lady stone heart having the crown actually makes here incredibly powerful.

Subscribed. You know a lot of the lore. Nice work!

Great video, well explained and done so in an insightful manner, plus good editing. subbed!

I just finished reading a dance with dragons. Went from hating ol Fatman manderly to loving him and his speech about the freys and their bullshit story that Rob turned into a wolf and started murdering his own allies. I knew something was up when he was glorifying the pie and saying how great it tasted. Davis is a great character too.

Excellent video sir.

very well made video You present information great and the visuals look awesome

The only thing I’m certain in this video is that, Rhaegar IS the Night King.

To bad this book will never come out it’s awesome discussing the possibilities

it might be a minor detail but I absolutely love your intro :)

Great video. Keep them coming.

Keep going bruh.. hope your channel grows

This mummers farce - Lord Manderly in A Dance

23:41 is killing me 😭 "He's a bastard. A dead bastard."

19:54 nah. alt shift x is the best, but don’t sell yourself short! your videos are great

Great video. I think it will be similar to the show and that all these factions will end up at winterfell with all the surviving starks. I mean if a certain someone actually sits down and writes something that is.

Great video! Regarding the different factions I would add that House Ryswell and house Dustin seems to be pretty loyal to Roose Bolton (As he was married to a Ryswell who was sister of Barbrey Dustin) even though they dislike Ramsay and the Freys.

I really hope Rickon could play major part.

Amazing video!

Your videos address just as good as alt shift x

Just like hotpie i think you did an excellent job

I'd love to see a prequel of the north...maybe even go back to Brandon the builder

great video!

The northern succession will be more interesting with Stannis the Mannis about so I hope he beats the Boltons

Christ D&D really did steamroll all of GRRM’s intricate plots

Very fun watch, thanks

I disagree with "The world wont miss a few Freys" to be the best thing to come out of Wyman Manderly's mouth. "Had he lived, he would have grown up to be a Frey"

if only winds would actually be finished in my lifetime

I see stannis sitting in the Winterfell, then the doors opens, Davos w rickon enter!!! So.badass. please George give us justice. Stannis takes the north. Marry Shireen and rickon.

25:14 Glad you acknowledge that Rhaegar is, in fact, the Night King.

Fun fact about the video.....the dude depicted as Wyman Manderly is actually Lord Glover in the episode the edit was drawn from 😅 Great video either which way 🎉

You perfectly answered my question about house Manderly. Why did they move from the Reach to the North all of those years ago? Thanks, cheers!

Hey I really like the fanart you used for this, most times people use ugly and dated fanart.

Yeah, he'd definitely want one of his grandaughters to marry Rickon too

A seriously great channel and I absolutely love the story and editing you do. Keep up the great work and I hope to see even more from you.

Robb's will is a red herring. Jon was made heir because Robb believed his brothers were dead, but they're not. The will didn't legitimise Jon mind you, it would legitimises Jon if there are no legitimate Starks to take over. Robb fully intended to stay alive, win the war and have a son.

Im so excited to see Skagos! …. If the book comes out 😂

I think you mistake Wyman Manderly's hunger for power. He has installed himself in with the Bolton camp. And he came with nothing but the clothes on his back and his wits. It's a gutsy move. But it's not a move of the power mad sort. Because there's too high a likelihood that you die and don't get to live to enjoy your power. Wyman got his son back, ensuring the stability of his succession. and whatever duties he has to his family and his people in White Harbor. Now that they're taken care of, he's free to play the game for his lord as a loyal bannerman. His life is pledged and he can freely sacrifice himself, if necessary. Of course, there are advantages in getting so close to the enemy. He may even come out unscathed. But if his fall becomes inevitable, he's positioned to do the maximum amount of damage that he could do with the smallest amount of sacrifice in return (only himself). There are two kinds of schemers in the world. Those who are in it for themselves, and those who were abused or battered at one point, and were kept afloat by friends until they found their footing as schemeres behind someone else's sword. Lord Manderly has a debt that can never be repaid. He's also old and fat and a joke to those who are not his own people. He's likely the second kind of schemer, loyal to the core to his old friends, and Ned was a very good friend to those who knew him. Knights die on the battlefield. Schemers die in castles, destabilizing the world around them as if a bomb went off. He'll eat well, and drink well, and even if he dies, he may have the last laugh.

Imagine if I Rickon came back "bookish" and well read, not wild or feral at all. 😂

Wyman is such a badass

Funny a Manderly did replace a Peake as hand of the King during the reign of Aegon III The Dragonbane. Long coming pay back, sort off.

"The cool guy claim"😂 the strongest of all claims👍

This is my favorite dark theory

I dont know if GRRM has any interest in this, but it would be amazing to see some sort of follow on from the Forrester story.

thank you for not being Crusader Chris Chan

Mance wrote the letter he calls the nightswatch crows, Ramsay would not know this.

The show: lol, can't be asked to fight for Starks against Boltons who did the red wedding and killed my own son, gonna stay neutral even with knowledge giving a extra two thousand men would seriously tip odds in favour of Starks, fuck them. Book: we play a mummers farce, but we are not docile. You bring us in the home of the Starks, we work to kill you. Ser Davos, go to Skagos the island of cannibals and unicorns and bring Rickon Stark, we'll do the rest. Meanwhile, there's that son of ned Stark on the wall, let's get grooming him to act as lord of winterfell. Oh those freys, don't know what happened to them, a tragedy truly, and on that note want some delicous meat pies?

Won my subscription comparing yourself to one of hot pies Wolf loaves.

*The North remembers!* 🧜‍♂️

This is so much better than the show

Ramsey didn’t write the pink letter…. Calling it…

Wyman is an example of dont judge a book by its cover, on first glance he is nothing more than a fat lord of a minor house but actually a true loyal bannermen of the Starks and a cunning schemer

Wyman is so unfathomably based.

"His fingers were as fat as sausages" One could say he has Glizzyhands

Where did you find that amazing map at 2:00??? Amazing video as usual

Crusader goat to the rescue!!!🎉🎉🎉

THE NORTH REMEMBERS!!

I think Rickon will be the king in the north, but instead of wyman manderly being the lord regent of the north I think it will either be sansa or jon snow. More likely Sansa imo because jon snows storyline will have him focused on the Others and Dany

I actually like your videos better than ALT+SHIFT+X