BARS!!!

“Do you wanna see the tapestries Daemon?” I miss King Viserys 😂

Just saying right now as an embroidery junkie (it's really relaxing - just ask Sansa!), I cannot wait to see the finished Targaryen tapestry so I can recreate it stitch by stitch! Still deciding what dye to use instead of blood, since real blood ages terribly.

I love that you clarified that the Bayeux Tapestry isn't actually a tapestry👌🏻

Your theories about the ancient history of Planetos are my favorite. They really add to the thrill of forgotten secrets, half-remembered prophecies, and wonders and terrors that no man now living could hope to comprehend…

I think that woman near the beginning being Daenys makes a good bit of sense. The tapestry could be depicting what exactly she saw in her dream, which was all the Valyrians dying and stuff. Maybe she saw her family would die if they stayed and decided to prevent that? Idk it’s my best guess. It could also maybe be the in-world ballad of The Dance of The Dragons, since the war was named after a song of two lovers who died together in the doom

You may have said this in the video but when we were watching this on Sunday, my wife pointed out how cool it was and also made the point that needlework is traditionally women’s work, paralleling the overarching conflict between Alicent and Rhyneara

When that stark tune kicked in at the start of episode 1 Had some northern chills 🐺❄️

Lots of popular youtubers being very obtuse with what's in this tapestry - super happy to hear your thoughtful approach!

For the two figures sleeping and sitting up at the beginning: I think both figures are Daneys. If you notice, the sleeping figure is in red and the figure sitting up is in gold. At the table where the current family is sitting together, Helaena is the only one on team green who's in gold. Gold = dreamer. I think the figures at the beginning represent Daenys astral projecting in the dream realm.

They are both hilts of a sword, with the family divided over it

I exactly needed YOUR video explaining the tapestry THANKS YOU

Hey David, I've always thought Danaery's dragons are filled with the spirits of Khal Drogo, Rhaego and Mirri Maz Duur, that line about Rhaegal 'hulked in the gloom like a fat woman bedecked with glowing orange jewels' really drove it home for me.

Your explanation of the dragon-bonds just blew my mind. I got that it was a legacy of Valyrian blood magic. But your theory about the three heads, and how only human descendants with a particular ancestor can bond with specific lineages of dragons, that makes so much sense.

Props to the person @ HBO that came up with the idea to use the tapestries for the intro - looks cool as hell. 😎

obsessed with this new tapestry opening!!! its perfect 🔥🔥🔥

Your breakdown just made me realize that the three houses that didn't take up arms during the conquest, are the three houses that rebel & lead to the fall of the house of the dragon!

It's really cool to see LML still making content. Thanks about david , for making content all the years in-between the fall of game of thrones until now ! This dude got me into reading the books.

very happy to be back with you for HotD summer!

Did anyone notice Helena when she was fleeing and got to the bottom of the stairs she stopped and did a big gasp as if reality had just sunk in.... Or did she have a vision perhaps of something happening at the bottom of those stairs in the future? 🤔🤔

I loved the little detail of the dragons not crossing the wall just thrown in there at the beginning. Great take as usual!

Great video, as always. At about 20:40, I think that just symbolizes the dying of the bloodline that takes place. Since blood that has been spilled turns brown-black when it dries. The spilling of blood here, both Valyrian & dragons, is what dooms the bloodline into the modern day. What's MOST interesting here is that the blood seems to already be red(healthy) on Rhaenyra's end. It's the blood that comes through Alicent which spreads that brown-black blood that rots both sides. Seems like the tapestry is reinforcing that it was procreating with Alicent that doomed Rhaenyra's (correct) line. The choice not to have the space blank between both sides, and then clashing colors turn the blood black suggests either A) the writers and/or the pov character who made this tapestry believes Alicent was the mistake, or B) a more omniscient view such as the targ/valyrian ancestors *themselves* viewing it as the mistake. Might be controversial, but I kind of like the idea that Rhaenyra's first bloodline was the (or at least, a) correct one. And the second one, from which the modern-day targs descend, is a compromise. Would explain the difficulties with magic, prophecy & at times, sanity, the bloodline experienced going forward. Also explains why there's been so much interference & meddling necessary into getting both Jon & Dany where they are, and adds more uncertainty into their stories. But we don't know how much George and/or his notes are involved with stuff like this, I suppose.

David you really outdid yourself with this video ( except missing some details here and there, for example the old man at the Council of 101 is the High Septon not the Grand Maester). I think if someone gets this video in front of George or Condal they would be impressed.

What good has come to those who were bonded to magic/sorcery in this story? Childrens of the forest, the Targaryens/Valaryans, house of the undying, ashai by the shadows, none of them seems to be enjoying their forbidden fruits anyway.

20:45 The color covering up the bloodline here is brown like Alicent's or Harwin Strong's hair perhaps showing how this war and the severing of the 'correct' line of succession is partially caused by the brown-haired non-Valyrians entering the royal family (Harwin's bloodline illegitimately). Then again this brown color is coming from Alicent, so maybe it is mostly about her.

loving the new tapestry opening! thank you for this detailed breakdown!

The tapestry was super exciting, I was not expecting to get such a lore drop.

also one of the most remarkable aspects of both Got and HotD's costume design is Michele Carragher's amazing embroidery, and the new credits felt like a nod to her as well (at least to me)

Oh damn! 'The Crow' :D Didn't notice that Awesome!

What is this, a history video disguised as a house of the dragon video? Sign me up!

I think the scene with Alicent in green and Rhaenyra in black is supposed to be the last dinner with Viserys. The black covers the red/blood because Alicent immediately after disrupts the intended bloodline by placing Aegon on the throne.

Regarding the 2nd couple in scene 1 (that some folks have suggested is Daenys the Dreamer): I agree, quite vague, & the Daenys interpretation seems like quite a stretch. I think it’s meant to be much simpler & less specific. I think it’s either an “after” to the “before” of the earlier couple about to commit magical sacrifice, as in the dead person in the 2nd couple is the about-to-be-dead person in the 1st couple (they all seem rather androgynous to me, genders seem rather indeterminate), or it’s all part of a scene describing *multiple* magical sacrifices installing *multiple* human souls into *multiple* dragons, thus describing a general practice rather than a specific occurrence, a specific sacrifice. It makes much more sense to me, particularly as the first scene, thus an “introduction” type scene, rather than specific, named historical characters. To me, it’s the inclusion of the 2nd couple that suggests it’s *not* Nissa Nissa & Azor Ahai, because without that 2nd couple, the Nissa Nissa interpretation is the strongest. That 2nd couple doesn’t fit a specific piece of lore (to my knowledge), so the producers including it leads me to think this scene is meant to be generalized history rather than a specific historical event.

I’ve been on a Lightbringer BINGE for like the last few weeks! 😅

This is the most detailed analysis of the opening tapestry I’ve seen. Well done! 👏🏻❤️🖤 🐉

Yaaaas!! So glad youre diving into this David! We need insight!

The fields could also be the gift or general symbolism for prosperity

Thanks so much for doing this! Upon first watching the intro… i tired to map all what I saw to what I know. Was really good fun 🐉

Amazing job! Best breakdown of the subject I’ve found. Great editing, voiceover, and script. Congrats on your intro Hightower as well, looks great!

As an avid handcrafter, I was so excited when I saw the new intro. It's already stunning. Thank you for your analysis!

Very impressed with how fast you put this one together. Great stuff as always LML. Thank you

Great video Dave!

This was exactly what I needed. Thank you.

At the end of section 1. The person holding someone who is dying could be either more people sacrificed to the dragon bond or, I think more likely, people who have been killed and conquered by the valyrians as the empire expanded (Ghiscari and pre- Dorne Rhoynar for example)

I love this intro ❤ so full of ASOIAF lore

Excellent work, David and your research and presentation on the tapestry, you know I love the way you think!

Incredible stuff! You always have the best theories!

That was pretty damn good David, thanks! I'll be on the look out if they fix Visenya haha

Thank you for posting this ❤

I like the new tapestry opening, it ties in nicely to Heleana doing needlework while spitting out prophecies :)

Yes! I am so glad fir this breakdown. Been looking forward to it.

Love your videos. This is a great one.

Great breakdown, David. I really appreciate you doing this. I have a hard time following when it goes by quickly. Can't wait to see how the tapestry evolves with the story.

Thank you this was awesome! Very cool new intro and the song is a banger!

The 2 women (Black & Green) are the hilts of a double hilted sword. So yeah, connected but on opposite sides (of the war)

This is a really good analysis 👏🏼

Awesome video! ❤ and love the new intro

It's the first time my brain went there but when I read Nissa Nissa on the thumbnail all I could think of was Full Metal Alchemist NISAAANN!![

Awesome. Thanks for breaking down the opening

Just finished the stream and i find you did this. Cant wait to watch it

I really love the new intro .. be interesting to see if the tapestry changes/grows as the season progresses.. thanks for the video Lightbringer 🙌🏼🐲👑🔥

It's just so amazing about Martin that an event or a tale is about many different things and still itself stands on its own

19:33 Theory: The "interruption" caused by Alicent is about how Aegon's dream and the Song of Ice and Fire (how it passed down from Heir to heir) will be stopped by the events caused from this Civil War... The song of Ice and Fire will be forgotten after the Dance of Dragons and will not pass on, depriving future heirs about the "Prince that was Promised" secret

At 21:04 - it looks like a scab, or oxidized / “dead” blood? It has that rusty colour to it! Also: “Three heads has the dragon” does sound like something you might say about an exasperating relative. “Ugh, she can’t make up her mind, it’s like she’s got three heads and they all disagree!” - Ancient Valyrians literally kvetching about Nana Vhagar

Another banger video, i knew these tapestries had some hidden gems👍

@7:00 I wonder if Glass Candles are akin the Bran in the Trees looking back to memeories - could a glass candle user go back in time through the glass candle's memories and see these early, Valyria forming rituals performed? Valyrian steel creation ceremony too? Fascinating! Thanks for making my brain turn a new gear just now LML ♥

Your work is so commendable

Love this breakdown , thanks ❤️🩸🐉🔥

Thank you, David.

I'm LOVING that the newer info about the glass candles is confirming a lot of suspicions we had about spirit transfering (at least strengthening the hints anyways). I think George cut that info from the prologue not because he changed his mind about the soul jar thing but because it wasn't the right place to reveal that info. I wasn't totally sold on the Quaith is Shierra Seastar theory but I'm coming around to it now that we know this. Anyway thanks again for another fantastically thorough analysis!

this came on autoplay at work and i had to stop and check whose funky channel i had just came upon and it was good ol lml😂 sick new intro🔥

Excellent research!

The minute I saw the tapestry I knew LML was gonna eat this up 👏🏻 great job as always !!!

Wild speculation: what if Azor Ahai, used obsidian as pet of his corruption of the weirwoods. Like combining the soul jars/glass candles with the weirwoods to boost their power, in an attempt to create a super soul jar

Fantastic analysis

I've been waiting for this! Thank you SO much for this video! It satisfies the history (real life *and* ASoIaF lore) and nerd parts of my brain....yet also compels me to continue on by purposefully falling down several internet rabbit holes at once. I'm also considering trying embroidery now. I'm a meticulous perfectionist who happily gets lost in the details.. 😶‍🌫️❤

nice breakdown and I love the new tune

Great video

Maybe the woman holding the bleeding man is actually a mother and son, maybe signifying all the infighting? Great insights!

I absolutely love this intro, I hope they keep updating it every episode depicting the events of the show ❤

Love the dragon bond theory. Great video.

In the first scene the guy wasn't sacrificing his wife/beloved/sister/etc, he was sacrificing himself for the dragon bond. That's why she is seem holding him next and that's why the tapestry "evolves" from them.

Please elaborate on Alyse Rivers in a red cloak surrounded by gold cloaks in the season ahead preview.

I was DYING to see you publish a vid like this addressing the intro

20:43 could it mean "bad blood"? like, in both literature sense and literal sense. The blood of alicent is corrupting the fresh red blood of targeryans

It's fact my friend. You are spot on. Very much how it works in our world as well

I think someone watched the opening credits from Motherland: Fort Salem (2020). They had a very similar tapestry opening credits sequence.

I really like the visaryon/victarion idea particularly because the book has maqorro mending his flesh with sorcery and the resulting transformation is essentially “fire made flesh”

Sigils on the bottom : something, Stokeworth , something, Beesbury

Thank you)

Love the intro so much

Can’t wait to watch this later

Aghh so excited for this!

You broke this tf down. Thanks.

5:46 I think like this season theme would be of ancestry and motherhood - as first season was about fatherhood and legacy (Strong bastards, Targarien kingship, first sons, history remembers names, not blood etc). We briefly see a dragon skull in Dragostone hall, and there's more scenes with it in trailer. Someone already theorised that is Meraxes - a literal Mother of dragons, from her lineage came almost all of dragons on show, except for Vaghar, her sister. Maybe, that's how a dragonbond ritual is possible - not through father's blood (a legacy), but through mother's bond to her children. No wonder that song to Vermithor was like a lullaby - a one that mother would sing to her *newborn* child. Maybe that's why a woman is sacrificed? It's all just theory, tho 🤔

A couple of thoughts: The scene on the tapestry of Rhaenyra and Alicent was representing the Last Supper, not Rhaenyra's wedding, hence her wearing the black dress (I know Corlys wasn't there, but whatever). Additionally, the scenes with the Field of Fire and Maegor's death have those two dragonheads (why not three IDK) supersized in the scene - I think that fits your theory about human souls being stuffed into the heads of the dragons. I also think that soul doesn't necessarily depart from the dragon's head when it dies, so while the Targs can harvest the dragonbones for weapons and the like (the material being probably the most valuable traded commodity in the Known World after Valyrian steel, weirwood, shade of the evening wood, and gold itself), but the skulls they keep around. Through the skulls, the soul can still observe and manipulate events to a degree. For example, in Game of Thrones, the dragonskulls are in the throne room when Jamie Lannister kills the Mad King, are in the cellars of the Red Keep for a number of important scenes, including when Arya overhears the plotting of Varys and Illyrio Mopatis, Jamie and Tyrion meeting to discuss a truce, Cersei firing a scorpion bolt into Balerion's skull, when Jamie and Cersei are killed, and of course are there when Tyrion finds their bodies.

Interesting decision to change the whole opening sequence, but i guess the positive is that this one actually tells us a story. I know it might be random, but i was the most excited to see Rhaenyra sitting on the Dragonstone throne, which Daenerys sat on. I really hope to see that throne room again!

Another banger! Love your videos. The original opening was too dark and confusing especially for ppl who haven’t read the book

Really miss these in depth videos

House Tyrell was wise, and took no side in this conflict. Growing Strong!

The three dragons from Rhaenyra are Vermax, Arrax, and Caraxes. Remember Daemon is going to the Tulleys. I think your theory about the dragon bonding is really good. This is now my head canon.