Septon Meribald's Broken Man Speech || A Feast for Crows || Audiobook

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  • @SpiralSine6
    @SpiralSine6 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    “The War of the Ninepenny Kings?”
    “So they called it, though I never saw a king, nor earned a penny. It was a war though, that it was.”

  • @JacobBush16
    @JacobBush16 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    The fact this speech was left out of the show is a fucking war crime.

    • @l1m0b0at3
      @l1m0b0at3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      theres a lore video that has brother ray from the show do narrowed version of this speech. its so good

    • @1azey
      @1azey ปีที่แล้ว

      @@l1m0b0at3send link please man

    • @jreese2474
      @jreese2474 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I know. You had Ian McShane and you didn't give him this speech?

  • @CheeseCrumbs00
    @CheeseCrumbs00 2 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    "The knights come down on them, faceless men clad all in steel and the iron thunder of their charge seems to fill the world. And the man breaks."

  • @toprope_
    @toprope_ ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Brienne has a wonderful, short conversation just after this. She realizes that Septon Meribald managed to get out of that life of war and being a Broken Man, found his Gods, and became a happy preacher. It mirrors her story that the very best people to be their ideal role, knight or septon, can always be someone you don’t expect or respect.

  • @grimscribe6454
    @grimscribe6454 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The best thing George has ever written in terms of sheer prose and rising dread

  • @toprope_
    @toprope_ ปีที่แล้ว +52

    “Then he looks out, and realizes his friends are gone. His family is dead. He’s surrounded by strangers, fighting for some lord who doesn’t know his name. But here he comes, calling to form up.”

  • @AlexZeppo
    @AlexZeppo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Septon Meribald is one of my favuorite characters. This is such an eloquently written speech. Big shame it wasn't used in the series, massive shame! Ian McShane would have delivered this just as beautifully if he'd had the chance

    • @BobPantsSpongeSquare97
      @BobPantsSpongeSquare97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You know those animated segments that got released with the shows blu rays which talk about the lore? They did one of the War of the Ninepenny Kings and Ian Mcshane does the narration and uses a lot of lines from Septon Maribald

    • @AlexZeppo
      @AlexZeppo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@BobPantsSpongeSquare97 I know, but the full unbroken Speech would've been a golden moment alone !!

    • @musicaldooder20
      @musicaldooder20 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BobPantsSpongeSquare97 that is a bit of a consolation prize as far as unused/underused material from the books goes. But still, it’s basically a waste being relegated to the dvd extras instead of being done onscreen with the rest of the show.

    • @carastone3473
      @carastone3473 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree! When I read it in the book, I totally heard it in his voice in my head. LOL

  • @cristobalvalladares973
    @cristobalvalladares973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    He has captured a time and life. Historians are keen to portray a battle as a chess match. They won because of a commander's brilliant move. But it's the misery and terror of the grunt that fascinates me. This speech can't capture all of it. No speech can. But man, this is pretty good.

  • @charleslennon1
    @charleslennon1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    This one speech is my favorite line in the series so far and one of the best speeches regarding PTSD I have ever heard.
    POEM BY MAJOR MICHAEL DAVIS O’DONNELL WRITTEN ON JANUARY 1, 1970 AT DAK TO Who died in a helicopter crash in Cambodia in March 1970
    If you are able, save them a place inside you, And save one backward glance when you are leaving, for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may, or may not have always. Take what they have left, and what they have taught you with their dying, and keep it as your own. And in that time that when men decide and feel safe, to call the war insane, take one moment, to embrace these gentle heroes you left behind.

    • @transvestosaurus878
      @transvestosaurus878 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      As poems about PTSD go, this is my favourite.
      _Suicide In The Trenches_
      by Siegfried Sassoon
      I knew a simple soldier boy
      Who grinned at life in empty joy,
      Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
      And whistled early with the lark.
      In winter trenches, cowed and glum
      With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
      He put a bullet through his brain.
      No one spoke of him again.
      You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
      Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
      Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
      The hell where youth and laughter go.
      ('Crumps' is a reference to the sound of shells, and the ensuing shellshock, which at the time was still largely understood as cowardice).

  • @cfgcfh6350
    @cfgcfh6350 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Feast is a wonderful book

  • @Ironcorgi2
    @Ironcorgi2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ya it’s speeches like this that are central to the message of a song of ice and fire

  • @DibbzTV
    @DibbzTV 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "War... War never changes."

  • @jointmango
    @jointmango 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    my favourite passage from the entire series

  • @Lumberjane37
    @Lumberjane37 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I'm unfamiliar with the books - I was just giving some memorable scenes a rewatch and remembered enjoying Septon Meribald's preaching. And now here I am, enthralled and considering borrowing this series from the library.
    What IS this music, by the way? Great choice - not too loud or dramatic; accentuates nicely.

    • @nizaralsaidi4279
      @nizaralsaidi4279 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It's Beautiful Oblivian by Scott Buckley

    • @Lumberjane37
      @Lumberjane37 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@nizaralsaidi4279 Hey, thank you! Happy New Year, by the way 🫶

  • @justcallmpeter
    @justcallmpeter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I have the first 4 books on audio book. I highly reccomend reading or listening to the book. The show us already deep but the book go hard bruh!!

    • @justcallmpeter
      @justcallmpeter ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Clefus-o6b yes. They are very detailed.

  • @CorvoThan
    @CorvoThan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    it are speeches like these that show us the truth behind lannister, stark, targaryen and co.

  • @shadowrunner2510
    @shadowrunner2510 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Such a terrying thought to think of the men and boys who were levys in medieval armies

    • @hansolowe19
      @hansolowe19 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It makes me think of the Ukrainian boys facing the Russian bear, of Israeli and Palestinian civilians, of the soldiers who fight and die for our freedom and autonomy and how scared they must be.

  • @kdubs9111
    @kdubs9111 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    He just described the experience 90% of men have experienced since the first stone was thrown

  • @santiogo369
    @santiogo369 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They could never make me hate a feast for crows😢 the speeches in this book are so beautiful

  • @WINCHOism
    @WINCHOism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    How old were you when they marched you off to war - Brienne moments later 😭

    • @omarsaragoza
      @omarsaragoza 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      “Why no older than your boy, too young for such in truth”
      “The war of the nine penny kings?” Ser Hyle asked.
      “That’s what they called it, though I never saw a king nor earned a penny, it was war though, that it was. 😭

    • @WINCHOism
      @WINCHOism 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@omarsaragoza Your comment reminding me of this passagee aghhh time to read this book again for the 4th time XD

  • @hansolowe19
    @hansolowe19 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing. Beautiful.

  • @carastone3473
    @carastone3473 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great speech. When I got to that part in the books, I was stunned to find that he never crossed paths with The Hound and this wasn't said to him.

    • @supersamhain666
      @supersamhain666 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Reread the description of the other brothers on the isle you may find someone who sounds familiar

  • @Sigmundfries
    @Sigmundfries ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What is the music playing in the background? Does anyone know the track?

  • @kameron7178
    @kameron7178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    i will miss the way roy pronounces brienne until the day i die

    • @emilegriffith1473
      @emilegriffith1473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      For me it's the word "flesh" - in the actual show.. "... and of course, flesh"!

    • @grantwithers
      @grantwithers ปีที่แล้ว

      Bryeeen lol

  • @barneyboyle6933
    @barneyboyle6933 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damn. You left out the real ending. “It was a war, though. That it was.”

  • @6ixallah
    @6ixallah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dude did you add the music or is this from the audio book?

  • @fantasybound3001
    @fantasybound3001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    very good! Like it :D

  • @kingofcards9
    @kingofcards9 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    War never ceases.

  • @fernandaolivera5595
    @fernandaolivera5595 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This speech is great if you're still in high school. Otherwise it's REALLY cringe.

    • @lucasadam65
      @lucasadam65 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      No not really

    • @eurongreyjoy1008
      @eurongreyjoy1008 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      you are using the word cringe if you are still in high school otherwise you dont really

    • @bennett420316
      @bennett420316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      This speech is literary genius and talent that will be spoken of for generations, where as Cringe will be a word not spoken in about 10 years ever again.

    • @yadisdis4207
      @yadisdis4207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      so youre in high school and hate it huh

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wouldn't quite call it cringe. I like the speech but it's a little jarring the way it's written into the story. We never really get to see this intimate look into the trials of the lowliest soldier so the poignancy just comes out of nowhere. Doesn't feel earned. And "WAR BAD" as a message is deeply ingrained into us as a society already. It feels very meaningful to read but it's nothing we don't already understand (as much as we can, as civilians I mean). There is already so, so much coverage on it. But it's nice to listen to on here, outside of the context of the narrative. Really well written.