Your channel single-handedly rekindled the love for this series that HBO very nearly killed. Thank you, David. You're a gift to this fandom.

The died-in-childbirth thing that was mentioned in I think a superchat evokes the Silmarillion-we are told that when Míriel (1st wife of Finwë) died giving birth to Féanor, her spirit and all her energy went into him and that is why he had such creative power relative to even other high elves, and he went on to create the Silmarils among other ridiculously powerful magical items. So I think this concept is from Tolkien.

Offering a comment to the Lord of Light and the Algorithm. All hail Lord LML, King of all Lore Videos and Protector of the Realm!

Fuck yea moon meteor video coming. Always love hearing that.

You and Quinn are getting married and making it official

Congratulations to both you and Quinn on finding love. All the best to you guys.

Thanks LmL good luck with the move. If you ever come south near the central coast we should totally praise Garth and sample moonshine at the ranch.

Leaving a comment as an offer to the algorithm, the sorcery of KZfaq. Great stream as always David Lightbringer. See you in the next one🦉

While this was streaming live , I was literally moving boxes to my new place, my third move in 18months. I pick up the truck tomorrow to do the furniture. So I feel for you. Moving sux! Wishing you all the best with your move lml!

Good luck on the move! Hurry up and get settled. Us myth heads start to go through withdrawals if we go to long without some mythical astronomy.

Way late to this party but just needed to say - holy cow you just blew my mind with Mirri Maz Duur's resurrection magic being basically the same thing that needs to happen to Jon. It just makes So Much Sense! It's just hidden right there in plain sight for us if you know what to look for. And it ties right into the possible Ifequevron warg/greenseer history too. It just all fits together so smoothly, I love it. Great analysis. Thanks David, for all you do and hand-over-fist being the most intelligent and observant creator in this community.

Quinn got me into dune books and future movie....

I am a big fan of both you and Robert from In Deep Geek && I would love for you to have him on to discuss his Ashara and Howland theory. I love this theory and would enjoy hearing your take on it!!! 💜

KZfaq didn’t tell me you were live! Loving the new camera LML! All the colors are popping.

In terms of why Valeria's wars took so long, my head cannon has always been that it was the Valerian's own fault. There doesn't seem to have been one central authority in the Freehold, and if you think about a bunch of different families all having access to dragons, there's not a whole lot of incentive for them to work together but I could totally see each family being at least a bit full of themselves and thinking they don't need the other families. That could have resulted in only a few dragons being involved in each of the battles of their wars since only one family might have been taking the initiative at any given time, or the dragon riders might have been more concerned with internal power struggles or being wary of other dragon lords and thus wouldn't have wanted to commit their full power to the battles they fought with other nations.

I don't want to stir shit up but why did people try to cancel LML? he's so likable.

I still think Dawn is a sword of pale fire from Dany's vision, dragonsteel blades forged by the Great Empire of the Dawn. Valyrian steel is much the same but uses a slightly different technique and therefore produces the darker rippled dragonsteel of the Freehold.

So happy for you both! Best of luck in building your new castle with your Queen of Love and Beauty 🏰💕🌠🌷

Wait I just had a thought about Dawn, on the note of it maybe being a glass candle. It was made from a falling star, which is a meteor, and the sword of the last hero is dragon steel. The moon meteors were called dragons, and a sword made from a "dragon" that is a powerful metal might be called "dragon steel" So it isn't a glass candle in the sense of being frozen fire, but it may still have magical properties on account of it being made from space metal

If ghosts body is used to resurrect jon and it gives him paler hair that also means if his parents are Lyanna and Rhaegar that he’d end up look more Valyrian. And since the Bloodstone emperor would have had the pale hair of a Valyrian bc he was a dragon lord his eyes would’ve been red to coincide with his title as Bloodstone Emperor which means if Jon has the red eyes of ghost he literally will look like the bloodstone emperor

Who fortifies or holds Moat Cailin for the most part? The Iron Islanders for a hot minute in the books, but aside from that, who? The Crannogmen?

Here I am at Flashback Weekend, surrounded by sports card guys, watching this on potato hotel Wi-Fi, but introducing old friends to the new shit.

I can’t believe I missed this! It’s my name day, and I for once wasn’t on KZfaq. Either way, I’m excited for this.. I had many questions for this one. Maybe I’ll get some answers from others’ questions.

I can’t wait to see you new filming set up at your new place ! Good luck!!! I enjoy watching you and in deep geek equally !!!♥️♥️♥️

The Bridge of Dreams Scene happens right after Tyrion calls out Aegon as being Valyrian. Considering what Valyria did to the Roynish, there might still be a curse on the river / water or something.

About midstream there were so many great ideas floating around I had to pause the video to gather my thoughts! I love the idea of Mirri Maz Duur trying to bring the horse's spirit into Drogo. Evil! Did Drogo like carrots afterwards? And very much looking forward to a Shadowbinder video after what you said about binding shadows to the dead bodies in resurrection rituals. Happy moving!

Oh my God they were roommates 😳

I like that theres something new ive never thought about in this video, all the other content creators have just been rehashing old stuff and doing 3 hour streams that have no new insights into the story...so i guess what im saying is its their loss to not have you on

Just sent a PayPal for the first time! Thank you and good luck this weekend 🌟

LML I've listened to most of your stuff and I don't remember you touching on food much. With the deeply human aspect of food and communion do you think there might be potential themes/foreshadowing/literary devices tucked into the descriptions of the feasts? Characters consuming symbols of other characters, night kings eating moon maidens and the like.

Damnit, my net cut me off again, I'll have to call the service. Anyway, i'm sure it was an awesome stream as always, i'll watch it later. Cheers! Edit: Congratulations with your love life, and good luck with the move! 🥳

I definitely believe that the Fisher Queens are the sister race of the Children of the Forest. Hearing you talk about what's older than the Great Empire of the Dawn (and mentioning the Fisher Queens) really cements that theory for me. The Disputed Lands theory about the Mazemakers, Fisher Queens, and Leng really started to get me thinking about it, and as Leng has female primogeniture and the Old Ones are still supposedly there, it makes me think that the Fisher Queens ARE the Old Ones, or at least descendents of them. The Fisher Queens were highly looked up to, and basically worshipped by their cultural neighbors. And who's to say that the "Green Men" aren't actually women? I'm not sure about that one and don't have it all fully worked out in my head, but it seems plausible that thousands of years of male dominated society (except for Leng, where the Old Ones still seem to hold influence), especially since calling the human race in Planetos is just called the race of Men or Man, could have easily distorted things. The Children of the Forest seem to be a female dominated society (or at least gender neutral), so it would stand to reason that their potential cousin race could actually be a sister race 🤷 idk. Just some thoughts

What do you think about the theory that the Empire of the Dawn didn't have dragons, but instead used fire wyrms to build their fused stone structures. And then the purpose of Azor Ahais ritual was to create dragons to rule the world with. This either purposely or accidentally/indirectly led to the long night

So much LML content to catch up on. I used to listen to the podcast and just came back and subscribed to the channel recently.

cheers on the move 🌲

Best wishes to all four of you ;)

I very much enjoyed your take on potential reasons for the Targs not "taking" the Valyrian sorcery with them to Westeros. I'd not heard any other ASOIAFers ever posit on that! Goot verk 👸🏼 Do you reckon you could possibly please share the link to your essay? Cheers 💗 P.S. Congrats on the move and the big leap forward for you both ☮️

Sir lightbringer, I am a newcomer to both series, your videos have made it easier to understand them. Dig it.

Just as awesome as always Lucy! =) I´ve been following Quinn & You for probably the last 5 years now and absolutley fell in love with this nerdy communiy

Hey, congrats on the good news!

Good job and best of luck in all you do.

I'm a big fan of IDG and LML; I am very interested in their different approaches to analyzing the series. Both offer such well researched and thoughtful insight to consider. I completely missed the whole attempt to cancel LML, but since I discovered him through his fascinating collaborations with IDG I really hope that they'll work together again in the future!

watching late but loving your urging of the chat to keep u informed of dubs trades lolol. No trades in the end but i like the picks. loved the video more though! moon meteor video gonna be epic!

Sad I missed this one 😓

The Targaryens had a “are we the baddies” moment and dipped over to dragonstone

Very cool vid. Valyrian sorcery is so fascinating to me

Great subject, loved the video !

Nice I enjoy valryian themes the most

Yay for extemporaneous streams!

Excellent

Yeah your personality screams west coast.. I live in Portland and you'd fit in perfectly up here. Cheers LmL thank you for the streams man. I really look forward to these.

Sending positive vibes George's way.

totally would love a green knight review

The idea of a skinchanger resurrection ritual and the consequences of doing it on a non-skinchanger blew my mind. Although it makes me scared for Ghost...

Gilly seems to believe wights are attracted to her baby because they can sense the life within it. When the wights came for Sam and Gilly, literally only one out of like ten went for Sam, and it was Small Paul, who wasn't very bright even when he was among the living. So if the life force of a child has more live, and Dany seems to have used some form of blood sacrifice to reawaken her dragons from their dormant state, combined with them growing pretty damn fast, could Dany have called forth the spirit of Rhaego and essentially divided up his soul (given Melisandre's shadow babies appear to each be fragments of Stannis' own spirit. All are him yet multiple can be made and used separately) between her three dragon hatchlings? This would be eerily similar to what you've speculated the ancient Valyrians/Empire of the Dawn did to form the dragon bond, by sacrificing a family member to place an ancestor spirit inside the dragon. What if it doesn't have to be an ancestor? What if what matters most is simply how closely you match the bloodline of the one whose spirit/shadow was bound? Perhaps even using a child would channel even more power into the dragon itself, which given that GRRM is choosing to not do the time skip for Winds and Dany's dragons are growing pretty damn fast, could explain why her dragons are growing so much faster than the last Targaryen dragons. The Dragon Pit and possible interference from Maesters is supposedly what did the dragons in last time (plus the Dance), but I've seen some speculate that dragons more closely tied to blood magic could have been stronger, explaining some of Balerion's power.

Good luck buddy!!

Ah, the likes were on 420, I almost didn't want to press it

Love your videos man, keep them coming! Oh lord of KZfaq, please accept this comment as an offering to the algorithm god!

3 black candles = 3 heads of the dragon (black being color of Targaryen) 1 Green candle = Brandon, a green seer The 4 candles just kinda point to endgame heroes/sorcerers, that’s my best guess

Hey David I've been working through your channel by watching the playlists in reverse chronological order, only straying when you start a video by strongly recommending I watch a certain other video beforehand that I hadn't seen yet. Am I doing it right or is there a better order to go with?

LML whats the best way to msg you about an idea/ something you need to hear? It's obviously regarding figuring this nonsense out?

Late the the party but if George ever got into crystals meanings each color of obsidian represents something different. Black obsidian is for psychic protection. Green obsidian is a truth enhancer. Red is good for bloodflow. Purple clears out mental blocks.

Maybe the differing coloured dragon glass is like the different coloured eyes that Dany sees in her dream? Like the different colours represent different houses of Dragon lords so they are different dragon glass for the different rulers of old Valyria

GOOD LUCK, WITH THE MOVE!!!

I sure do love me some LML

Hey, I haven't got the arctype of the dragon frozen in ice. Any recommendations?

Is your girl a content creator, as well as an ASOIAF fan? Give me a yes or no to that question! The fandom needs a KZfaq power couple. 😂 Best of luck bro.

I relate to your and Dany's strong sense of justice. And I too had to move to find my people... only to Europe!

A random note that I have about chemistry is the obsidian is extremely high in magnesium. Magnesium when added to steal prevents corrosion and also alters the chemical composition of the steel making it stronger significantly and changes the color to a lighter color. I think that if George RR Martin is a chemistry fan, Lightbringer or the sword Dawn might be dragging glass AKA obsidian smelted down with a valyrian steel sword.

In some other literatures when a person gains control of a set of magics they can gain control of any practitioners of it also. I would find it interesting if she could just shut down certain powers

Sword of Shannara!

❤️ in the chat

another hint for ancient dothraki skinchangers are the zorses of the Jogos Nhai. The Jogos Nhai seems related to the Dothraki and they ride zorses wich resembles real life zebras. Zebras are known for their temper and are very hard to tame animals. And no one would ride one in real life.

Did I hear an hour long moon meteor video coming? 😏

Lord of Likes humbly accept my comment, as an offering to the algorithm.

Maybe Marwyn, with his glass candle, will advise Dany not to blow the horn?

Hey lml..plz a video on rickon 🙏🙏

I am the blood of Old Valyria I will take what is mine with fire and blood I will take it. 🔥💥🐉🐲🐉💥🔥

Please do a spoiler free review on the green knight because I haven't seen it yet and I want to know if its any good

PRAISE GARTH

I think the roynar and ghis resisted for so long because they fought the foot soldiers wasn’t it that they didn’t send 300 dragons after the roynar until a few battles were lost

I may or may not have gotten my friend who only watched GoT and HotD now taking on the task of reading ASOIAF in full because I shared so many of your videos trying to explain broad strokes of the great empire of the dawn...now I am pretty sure I have created a fully fledged Mythical Astronomy fan who is reading the books to fully grasp your theories. Ya know as long as they read the book rofl 🤣 they are my first successful "read ASOIAF so we can be weird lore nerds together" convert of my show only friends

Rewatch binge 🎉

Wad up doe hope you’re doing well. Love the content your channel is criminally underrated. b But it just makes me sad that your a Warriors fan… lol Peace and wholeness fam

Thank you so much for your insightful analyses. In that order, regarding Daenerys's path, maybe GEORGE is just rewriting Shining. Daenerys is Danny, and the Others, the Church of Starry Wisdom, The Undying etc are just different incarnations of the Overlook Hotel, evil entities from the astral plane who wants to absorbs Danni's powers (id Dragons)

Hey man love the videos! Just gonna ask this here. One thing that always bothered me about Jon Snow is he feels like a predestined character. Think of all the potential tragedies house Stark has survived. Foremost amung them being what if Ageon had just torched the Stark that knelt? Do you think Daneys the Dreamer dreamt that far ahead as to see Jon snows birth? Potentially swaying ageons decision years later? A man who built a throne from the broken swords of his conquered enemies doesn't strike me as a fair and just in war.

why new weirwood trees can't be planted or grown??? And Why the Weirwood trees we see in the main series doesn't grow much?

Any interesting House Marbrand sigil's symbolism?

Can't remember if you saw parts this when I posted stuff earlier, so apologies if I'm repeating myself; but since you asked. I believe there is too much Tolkien "delved too deep" and the "destruction of Krypton" Superman movies allusions not to think "The Doom" was a Darwin self-pwn. I've been too busy for my response to the Tyrion in Mereen vid, but his being a slave are major hints about the Doom. Lannisters didn't have gold mines, Targaryens did. Lannisters sold slaves to Targaryens for gold, Gerion isn't looking for Brightroar, he's trying to reopen the Targaryen mines with stonemen. Tyrion being a farcical symbol of their houses' role karmic retribution, as now a Lannister, turned slave, sells off ill gotten gains from the slaves they traded for. The just 2 dragons burrowed in the pyramid, one can imagine swarms of dragons and the foundation damage done added to excessive mining.

An extra comment to appease the algorithm gods!

"Others who need to be killed" I look over to my copy of "Deer Woman" :::sigh:::

Algo has the Rythm

SFO Yay Area!! 415 pride 🐥🍼! Love you D!

I'm a new fan of this channel and I like your theory about the Targaryens causing the doom. But one thing I'm missing: didn't Aenar continue to make and sell Valyrian steel products after he left Valyria? How could he have made these weapons without using the sorcery that made Valyria a slave empire?

I see you have good taste in music, man. I think you’d really like All Them Witches and Stoned Jesus you should give those bands a shot they’re bad fuckin ass

The last hero also laments about his missing dog.. I think that's a clear indication that ghost is leaving the story

I always assume you and Quinn shared a bed, Bert and Ernie style. It's ok to admit you still sing to a rubber duckie in the bathtub.

is this a side gig or does LML have different full time job?

GOAL: Do not get banned from LmL KZfaq page D= Also, good luck with the move! Must take awhile to take down all your awesome books, figures, and swords, and then setting them all up again.

Where is Azor Ahai's dragon in the myth and why do i feel it screamed in ecstasy and agony?