The Deep Ones Are Real - Secret PreHistory of the Ironborn - Song of Ice and Fire - Game of Thrones

The Little Mermaid is squisher propaganda!!!

Great video, im loving the iron born/deep ones series! Please keep it going as long as you want, roll with it bro

This is in my top ten favorite asoiaf videos for sure. I had so much fun listening to it.

Added bonus: there are wildlings with "filed teeth" as well. I forget the whole contexts of the clan, but maybe there's some arctic squishers too...

Oh, so Song of Ice and Fire isn't just a Tolkien fan fiction, it is also a Lovecraft fan fiction too. If he steals from a couple more authors it might actually get fresh and interesting :)

I look forward to reading more about the Deep Ones when GRRM finishes the series.

Oh goddammit.

The Deep Ones are behind everything.

But the Knee-High Dwarves are behind the Deep Ones.

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Ultimately, I'm swear it by ice fire, bronze iron, gills lungs, old gods new gods and squishy gods

Also in real life, on the area of the isles relative to the location of the iron Islands, west of the neck, these islands were ruled over by vikings who took a few generations to convert to Christianity. They also pushed inwards towards the neck, about half way across (around where the riverlands are) Also, on the east side, there was a viking kingdom in Northumberland. This is roughly the same area as the northern half of the stormlands and crab point.

Even the locations on the continent where the iron borne or sea people invaded somewhat mirrors the locations of viking settlement of the isles in our own history. As well, the Scottish are clearly similar to the northerners. Vikings also had settlements on other continents, some more extensive than others, but as close or as far as france, the baltic, north Africa, Sicily, Greece, and possibly even north America.

The first asoiaf theory I read: Varys is a merman, now actually is not so bad after all. Then Illyro is probably one too. And Mandon Moore for sure!

Lookin fresh Ser!

Surprised the squishers take womenfolk for breeding... should be easier for them to steal seed from men and raise the halfsies among their own people if that's the plan. I wonder if the females lay eggs.

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I'm rereading asoiaf for the first time in over 10 years, and your videos have made me really excited to get to the Nimble Dick chapters, which I kind of skimmed through the first time because I didn't care about all these new characters.

Getting ready to deep dive into this one 😂

Why do you look like Larys Strong from HoTD

As a side note, I had a thought recently and though I'd drop a comment, maybe you'll happen to see and find some use for it. GRRM clearly put a lot of ideas and references to his earlier work in the ASOIAF, and while I was listening to your stream from a few months ago about the White Walker theory, I remembered and old story GRRM wrote, back in 1986, before the dinosaurs walked the Earth. The story was part of the Tuf Voyaging series (worth a read, you can see many early ideas that later gave birth to ASOIAF there, despite it being scifi) , I think it's title was "Guardians". In that story, Tuf finds an ocean planet settled by humans (early allegory - sky people, ocean world, later became ice and fire, maybe?) who have trouble with monsters destroying their settlements. Long story short, Tuf discovers that a creature that the colonists thought wasn't anything more than a molusc turned out to be an intelligent, telepathic species who manipulated the world to create monsters to defend itself. I think the conclusion of this story is an early seed for the ASOIAF White Walkers and Weirwoods, just mirrored and made more complex.

My idea is, what if the Weirwoods were brought to Planetos by the red comet, carried by a fragment or something, and it's not the white walkers who are its hive mind, what if the trees themselves are the hive mind, and create children of the forest (literally CHILDREN OF THE FOREST, born by trees, if I'm right) originally, and later created white walkers to defend themselves from humans cutting them down, invading their minds to steal their magic, killing their children, and generally being human to them? That would explain why WW always seem to come out of the trees, cause they literally do just that. Also explains why the trees seem in pain, it's because they ARE, as Blood Raven and other wizards invade and rape their minds, and non-magical humans murdered their children.

So much of my focus when reading was the ice and fire elements of the story that I missed the earth and water elements... With the children and deep ones.. This video cleared up a lot... But i have to watch more videos to figure out what's the deal with the storm gods... Great job pulling quotes and explaining the context of the quotes that could lead them to be bias

So the manderlys bred with fish people after they fled the reach?

how high are you? lol its awesome

Finally found the perfect time to watch this monster. Amazing intro magic spoon Rheagar. Praise Garth. Thinking George is a fan of Silent Night Deadly Night. The Nimble Dick Squisher taunt to Pod is very similar to Grandpa, ye ever hear of…Santa Clause?

Wish the series explored the crazy Fantasy creatures. Its all just people being people with dragons yet theres so much more

This video is awesome and this is by far my favorite format. Not a huge stream/collab fan personally but when its just LML's soothing voice, eerie music, and cannabis-fueled insights, I can totally lose myself in the video.

The main issue I find is that it's hard to spot if it's a interwoven aspect of the lore, or if it's just George doing a shout out. For example the Toad Island people story is reminiscent of Lovecraft's "The Doom that came to Sarnath" where the race of alien Fish people are actually the victims of human invaders, who then build their city (and also capture their giant statue of a Giant Water lizard) over their lake which eventually wakes up the Great Old One Bokrug and destroys them. But George actually name drops the cities in a song of ice and fire as Ibb, Mnar, and Sarnath are ripped from "The Doom that came to Sarnath", but they aren't as depicted in Lovecraft, I think George just liked the names.

Does the magic spoon cereal have seed oils in it ?

The first 3 books are so freaking good. Great video

Late at night Nimble Dick he wakes me up he says, don't sleep alone, don't sleep alone! No one ever thought of that joke?

The drowning ritual being a test for successful hybridization is a great insight!

Biter is more likely a lizards hybrid of Sothoryos

OILY BLACK STONE :)

lol- George is not only an old hippie, but also a cryptid nerd. Squishers are real. ;)

MURLOCS!!!!!

I've been thinking that Durran Godsgrief is a story, at its core, of a people rejecting their watery gods. Sure, he married his fair wife but we don't hear stories of him worshipping them. He just kind of seemed like "thanks for the hot wife, now feck off" and seemed to actively opposed them. Hence why the wind and sea gods (squishers) kept taking down their castle(s) until the Child of Forest helped themselves or through Bran the Builder.

David, I just found your Iron Born series and am greatly enjoying it. I saw a piece of art that I have not been able to notice in a second viewing of the videos. It had a group of warriors, one of witch had a sort of Crook Cudgel with Iron around the curve. If you have it on file, can give me a time stamp, or could post a link to it, I'd appreciate it.

Once you read Fire & Blood, you realize that the existence of fish people is hardly that unbelievable.

The more I watch these lore vids, the more I think George is just ripping off of everything he's ever thought was cool.

The part about Ser Clarence Crab, bringing his defeated enemies heads back to his woods witch wife to kiss them alive again to whisper good council to him, reminds me of the story of Odin receiving wisdom from the head of Mimir. Also his wife whispering them alive again and the castle being named The Whisper, could add credibility to that actually working and the story therefore being true. Also the heads could either talk for a while or even after all of this time since the castle is in ruins, they are still alive waiting for someone to talk to. Just a thought.

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I let out some deep ones after a chipotle.

One of the things i love most about GRRM and ASOIAF is that all this crazy shit COULD just be crazy ramblings of the half mad folk.
Patchfaced DROWNED. His brain was starved of oxygen. That causes loss of higher functions. It causes mental retardation.
The squishers really COULD be just some fishwife’s tale. I’m picturing myself as a learned, old, and stuffy perhaps even snobby Maester. I trust only what i have hard evidence for. And the tales of people - even noblemen and noblewomen - are notoriously unreliable.
To the Maesters of today, magic is essentially dead. The only “magic” they KNOW for a fact existed is the magic around dragons, which are very much a feasible biological creature (tho, GRRM does make them much bigger than such a beast could be, and even bigger if it would fly).
I’ve asserted that the size limit for flight that we humans know could be substantially increased with the introduction of lots of hot air. A reptile or avian biologic could certainly produce flame, in the right scenario. We don’t need to suspect much disbelief.
The maesters hear tell of funny creature and they read the old legends. They know people are mostly idiots. They know tales tend to grow and alter.
They’ve undoubtedly seen some webbed digits, and some funny looking people. Oddities, nothing more.
Of course, it’s all true. The wights, the others, giants, CotF, and some weird, rapey, sea people.
But will the Maesters ever admit it? A Kraken can come and pull the Hightower - heck, even the Citadel - into the sea and they’d still resist, just as our own scientists do.
but here, the scientists are right to do it. Bigfoot, Chupacabra, Nessie, etc… fairytales.
Legends.
Thankfully GRRM gives us a front row sea.
RIP Nimble Dick!

Why are the Deep Ones only in myths, I wonder? The same logic applies to the Others, I suppose. A smarter question would be what links Eldritch abominations?

This is just my jam

God i hope we get that Seven Voyages show that was discussed at some point. Getting to see Ib would be interesting

We dont know that its recent the manderlys could have married into the trait when starks gVe them the white harbor

Tyrion also meets a satyr, a slave to the big fat guy

This content is great!!

interdigital webbing, vague facial features, the manderly's walrus-like mustaches... you're reaching! you're reaching so hard! ...go on :)

This is the good stuff! Nice David!

the thousand islands better have a traditional dressing