There Are Weirwood Roots In The Walls of Harrenhal(And Why That Is Important)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- House of the Dragon season 2 episode 3 brought us to Harrenhal and showed us one of the best examples of weirwood magic from any of the HBO game of thrones/Westeros shows.
I needed to get a quick reaction out to the fact that there are weirwoods in the walls as it is something very relevant to several things I have talked about before.
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The second I saw that weirwood, I know you would need to talk about it.
We got roots coming out of the dang walls all over the place!
@michaeltalksaboutstuff I know I was like "somewhere .Michael is spitting out his drink" haha.
Me too!
"Someday we'll find it, the weirwood connection; the 'children,' the DREAMERS and me"
The Dreamers? The what?
Considering the Ironborn connection to Harrenhal, "what is dead may never die" seems to apply here to the downed Weirwood beams creating the structure of the castle. A dead thing, that has not stayed dead.
Once I saw the roots, my literal first thought was "Michael Will Talk About This Stuff"!
with everything we’ve seen so far of Daemon at Harrenhal and whatever else we may see in the coming episode, I can’t help but be SO excited about what Aemond will see/experience when he spends his time at Harrenhal
A lot of people died at that castle. If weir woods use blood to fuel growth, there's been thousand of souls that perished there. It looks like roots so I wonder if the top like leaf looking part is necessary or it connects deep underground all the way to the Gods Eye. (No comma, plural) They got to go somewhere.
I think there's also something to this, but I'd add that Harren the Black is also said to have put his own blood into the mortar at Harrenhal, so if true that would mean that every wall in the place has blood in it. I do wonder if the roots follow the blood, and that's why it's growing up into the walls. After all, Harrenhal isn't like the Wall or Winterfell or Storm's End, which are thousands of years old, it's only about 300, which is enough time to go to ruin, but not enough time for a single tree to just naturally grow through all its walls. Maybe weirwoods grow bigger and faster when they get more blood? Hard to say. I do think that the proximity to the Gods Eye is a lot of why Harrenhal is so overgrown. Even in places with wilder weirwoods we don't see them getting that big without some sort of magical concentration/effort (like the wall and the Nightfort).
There would be plenty of water coming down through the castle to feed the trees due to all the leaks
I DONT KNOW IF ANYONE HAS NOTICED, but every important conversation and confrontation in this show has happened in the godswood and the tree looking at everything
What about Alicent and Rhaenyra in the Sept? 😂
People didn't seem to like this episode. For me, as someone who loves the mystical, dark dreams, prophecies and mysteries of ASOIAF, it was one of my favourites!
It was good other than the rhaenyra scene at the end which was trash
@@JacobSBierman that was so silly like rheynis floor bust scene. really took me out of it.
doing the silly arryk scenes at least had some thematic use, and it was GRRM idea so you can always be like, well be respected the author's work, our hands were tied, we had to do it.
Harrenhal scene was good. Everything else was mid, the last one was dumb.
@@JacobSBierman yeah the final scene was a bit far fetched, only part I didn't like.
The pacing is starting to drag in episode 3… it’s clearly on like Donkey Kong… but in stead we’re triple checking to make sure with improbable & foolish undercover operations to kings landing that dont ring true or feel believable… Pro tip… when you behead someone’s toddler in its crib… or send assassins to an enemy’s home after you kill her pre teen son… accidents or no… peace is not a reasonable expectation. What percentage chance of success did her trip to kings landing have? Zero? .01%? Feels like a big waste of time nobody was interested in.
Having gotten into growing mushrooms lately, there is so much going on here that feels like mushrooms. You can take a piece of most mushrooms, just cut a chunk of it and put it into a petri dish and it will start its life cycle over again and grow mycelium. Mycelium is the true nature of mushrooms, they are little white strands that connect and grow and get stronger with other mycelium and they form a living mat. Just under the ground they wait for the right conditions (temperature, moisture, and the evaporation of moisture) tell the mycelium when to fruit, so they send up this fruiting body which has one job. Build a structure almost instantly (overnight) that can support a ton of weight, holds a ton of water, and are specialized at transmitting information (spores) and protecting that information from the world with the cap, another engineering marvel almost universally. what if were dealing with some type of mushroom here? or fantasy hybrid that blends real ideas?
Have you by chance seen Eldric Stoneskin's videos? He makes the case for weirwood's being fungus similar to Elden Ring.
As cool as fungus is, stone walls are not a great substrate for mycelium development.
@@whlewis9164good thing tge walls are super thick and he mixed blood into the mortar… and weir wood are are mushroom-like, but also very plant like, and pretty supernatural/magic.
Jamie points out that Harrenhal has seen more blood and cruelty in 300 years that casterly rock has seen in 3000.
Weir woods drink blood, seems like Harrenhal and the entire riverlands would be the most nutritious place a blood drinking, future/past seeing tree fungus hive mind creature could possibly live
@@swayback7375 sure sure
well harrenhal is moist and blood in the support mortar scaffolding thingy.
I wonder if the reason the weirwood beams regrew is because of the burning of the castle. Burning is part of some trees arboreal life cycle, after all. George definitely knows this given the lore of Elden Ring which he helped make.
That's a great point. I was trying to figure out how any of the trees would have survived Balerion if they were in the walls that reportedly melted. But if the roots are from weirwood saplings that sprouted after the dragon flame, I suppose it is possible that there were weirwoods n the structure when Haren built it.
I'm pretty sure Haren was said to have used the blood of his workers in the construction of the castle. Could imply some weirwood shenanigans involved
the roots were/are seeking the blood, there has been a lot of blood spilled there and a lot more to come.
ohhhhh I like this
It is said Harren the Black used blood in the mixture of the mortar to build the castle, but most readers dismiss it as legend. After this episode, i say this very much a real poissibility, and that Brandon the Builder might've done a simillar thing in the Wall, Winterfell, Storm's End and the Hightower.
Yes! I said this in the chat of a Livestream last night.
An interesting thing is that the weirwood face in Harrenhal looks MAD, a hateful look, if i remember correctly, it's Arya who describes it. And then, everything that happens in Harrenhal gets screwed up like Jaime's admission into the Kingsguard, the houses and characters who held it (Tywin, Aemond, Robb, Ser Gregor, Vargo Hoat...), everything that came out of the Tourney at Harrenhal and resulted in the toppling the Targaryen dynasty, Robert's reign itself, the lives of the Strong bastards, Viserys's reign that resulted in the gradual extinction of dragons. What if the curse is the work of the Old Gods actively working in their own agenda or simply being disgusted at the works of men and dragon alike, cursing them just because?
GRRM has said that he could write a whole book about what happened at the tourney of Harrenhal.
I'm wondering about the curse - and the abundance of 'bastards' connected to Harrenhal. I mean, there's illegitimate children everywhere, but is there something particular pertaining to those associated with this place?
@@lillybullen5374It kinda seems to be related to the First Night, with bastards born from it being given to the old gods/Others, like Craster.
Harrenhal itself is a huge symbol of the weirwoods being corrupted in some way, with all the blood sacrifice stuff and now zombie weirwood roots, so the bastards there are symbolically important for the Old Gods (like Jon is, or Gilly's baby).
Even the Gargon the guest thing, where he did the First Night too much and got killed by the smallfolk in the godswood, is similar to the human sacrifice Bran sees to the Winterfell weirwood.
@nakki123 in fact an entire stage play is being written(not by George but he's helping) about the tourney, planned to debut in Londons West End in 2025
Daemon's playing Dark Souls at Harrenhall was the best part of the episode for sure.
It adds a lot of interesting ideas about Harren the Black.
The engraving on the chair makes me almost wonder if he was working with the Green Men on the Isle of Faces, which could be backed up by potentially using Weirwoods or Weirwood planks in construction. My initial thought was that the Green men wouldn't condone any chopping of weirwoods for planks, but if they knew these planks would 'survive' to sprout roots in the castle, they probably wouldnt mind. I also definitely think that the proximity to the Isle of Faces has to do with how there is both so many roots, and why they are potentially so high.
Potentially the engraving could also be implying that Harren thought himself better than the green men, and it was made mockingly. Which seems more like his personality type.
If he did know about potential Weirwood wards against magic, it would explain his absolutely insane arrogance about how his castle would stand up to dragons. Obviously it could stand up to most armies, but any idiot would realise a dragon is a whole different ballpark. But if he thought the wards of the weirwoods would stop the magic of dragons, he might've thought that it would also stop their fire.
As to how he would think that the weirwoods were a magic ward. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact his Brother was Lord Commander at the wall. Just to tie this all into your idea of the Weirwoods in the wall being a barrier. If his lord commander brother had some evidence or belief to that effect, the information might've made its way to Harren. He might've put some pieces together and assumed since Brandon the Builder built the Wall, Winterfell and Storms End, that the common factor might be weirwoods. So he thought that was a crucial component to a magical barrier. Might also even explain why he built it at the Gods Eye as well, with such a proximity to the Isle of Faces.
Though this all makes him seem a bit more Learned than is projected about this tyrant, so Im probably overthinking things, haha.
You start to sell me in this whole Aegon's Conquest show.
I feel like Black Harren's construction of Harrenhall adds a darker side to the other great houses and especially Bran The Builder's constructions. The blood magic that powers these structures is inherently evil, and so, as Michael has theorised, that the Old Ways is an evil form of magic that should be changed.
Harren the Black was Iron Born didn't they worship the Drown God's?. Euron was connected to weirwoods and Raven.
Hahahaha. That`s it. Rename your channel to Michael Talks About Trees and Walls.
Every harrenhal scene this episode was everything i want from shows in ASOIAF universe. dark, intriguing, foreboding, magical....Metal Gear Rhaenyra was dumb tho.
So this show is worthy watching? I haven't touched it.
Didn't even bring a cardboard box
Fully agree
This episode has the best and the worst of what ASOIAF has to offer. If only we had people writing it who had zero agenda whatsoever
Its great! Solid cast and solid dialogue. It has its hiccups here and there but they are nowhere near as numerous as later Game of thrones.
What do you mean by agenda?
Yes, yes, yes! Love that you spotted the roots...the moment they popped up on screen I immediately thought about your "Wall theory" and it made all the more sense. Also think the weirwood within Harrenhal has a lot to do with the curse of the place. Any house that has lived there hasn't been comprised of the best people and the old gods dont take kindly to assholes 🤣. Weirwoods also tend to "drink" blood and Harrenhal was basically mortared with it. Anyways....Thank you for the great content as always!
If they were cutting the beams and putting them right into the construction, not drying them out for proper lumber, green wood touching soil could sprout.
Glad to see your commentary on the episode. I enjoyed the magic thanks for pointing out the roots throughout the castle!
FIRST YES I LOVE THIS CHANNEL KEEP GOING BROTHER
So impressed by how fast you can turn these out!
I was noticing that too,especially after I listened to your playlist over the weekend after discovering your channel:)
Haven’t watched yet, but I’m thinking the weirwood root system reacted to tons of blood being spilled into the ground in Harrenhal during Aegon’s burning of the castle and was basically like “mmm yes this seems like a great place to concentrate new growth”
I doubt there's much blood being spilled in a mass burning.
Great as always! Keep up the good work! 🤘🐺🔥
Love your videos. Some of the most solid ASOIAF content I've seen. Please keep up the good work.
The blood in the mortar of Harennhall is like sacrificial blood feeding and powering the weirwoods
Ned Stark was doing the same thing in the North!.
Your channel is one of the best by the way.
I can't wait to see where you go with the Fire side of things. I hope you are able to tie it together. Congratulations on the new milestone ❤
Was looking for an Explaination for this Scene and now I've found it.
I do believe Elden Ring also has trees in the walls, so maybe some info can crossover.
I just knew you’d make a video after the latest episode lol
HotD has really delved deeper into the siper natural element of Asoiaf and I love it!!
“Its in the walls…its in the OLDS GODS WALLS!!!”
Bran did say in the books that the land was never leveled when the castle of WF was built,that's why it's very uneven in many places.
A point in the beams favor. You can take a willow branch plant it in water till it grows roots and then plant it from there. now this is less than what is suggested here but magical trees brimming with possibly literal life drained from others, anything is possible.
Such scenes are why this show is great.
The weirwood beams within Harrenhal are sending out roots and are being rejoined to the weirwood net.
Dreams & Reality are as one sometimes try 2 stay above ground and not loose my mind. Excellent breakdown sir 💯
Nice to see more and more signs of your theory being right
my favorite asoiaf channel 🥰
Next video: there are weirwood roots growing in the statue of liberty.
I have to go back and watch for the Isle of Faces 🤦🏻♀️
I did notice the roots all over the place.
I had the impression that Alyce Rivers helped cause his dream?
Fascinating material provided by the show, especially if this was pulled from " GRRM " canon. It kind of makes Harren a much more fascinating figure in my view, a figure of Iron Island lineage that ventured heavily onto land and might've intentionally constructed this mammoth castle with Weirwood. I'm very curious to see what might be done with the Ironborn down the road.
Pando comes to mind.
Also, I'm reminded of the mycelium of fungi (example: mushrooms are just reproductive parts while the mycelium is the nutrient and communication system we usually don't see). IIRC, they've been known to connect the root systems of trees, and along this network trees can communicate info such as drought, disease, infestation, etc. And then trees can divert resources to nearby suffering trees as needed via their system. There are other pathways of communication, too, like air, using pheromones. We've seen responses such as suddenly changing the taste of leaves.. And using pheremones or other scents to attract the predator of a pest.
One thing to note, re: potentially the cut beams of weirwood being still living within the walls of Harrenhal ... we know that weirwoods don't truly "die" like most trees, they slowly petrify over time and eventually turn to stone over the course of a couple thousand years (according to the Blackwoods with reference to the tree at Ravenhall at least)... since Harrenhal is only 300ish years old, then it's possible that those "dead" weirwoods could still be "living" plant matter that can sort of resurrect itself if it comes in contact with still-growing tree tissue... so perhaps the weirwood in the godswood has grown its root systems just far enough to connect with the base structures of the castle, and then it can take over the beam structures and begin sprouting new roots anywhere in the castle
HOTD s2 plus Shadow of the Erdtree, what a time to be a fan of EvilFungusTreeIncestLord and his many universes
Aegon I unwittingly powered up the Harrenhal weirwood tree during the Conquest. It was essentially a blood sacrifice on a massive scale. Harrenhal is now a massive living weirwood tree in the guise of a castle. As you said, this is mostly likely where the Night King will be defeated.
There's a line in canon that says something like 'Harrenhal looks like a stone tree'.
That seems a bit like the taint on saidin being consumed at Shadar Logath
the trees are blood-drinking intelligent alien mushrooms that came with the long night comet that struck where the isle of faces is now
9:40 Remeber you can look at the beans as a fungi and yeah they just spread the mold across the castle.
The lord even mentions that the dampness is in the walls. This could be a nod to the roots pumping up the water like in your wall theory and in winterfelll with the hot springs. There is even a scene showing Daemon looking high up and seeing the water dripping down.
>Me whenever I see a weirdwood on screen
Michael is going to have to much to talk about regarding this
Glad u mentioned the fact that building with weirwoods was knowledge lost for thousands of years, sort of casts Harren as a proto-Euron type figure??
I don’t know whether they thrive about places of magical significance, or if they determine the magical properties of their location; like the haunting of Harrenhal, or warding of the Wall and the cave. It’s just the way the roots have grown and twisted through the cursed walls that seems as if the trees are leeching from them. I know the trees are supposed to be conduits or idols for the “old gods” so they are magic in their own right and they used to be widespread, but once planted they seem to thrive in some places untended.
It could be that people have always used the weirwood roots for warmth in winter, and built their homes and castle around them since they were already there (Bran the Builder maybe using magic to make weirwoods grow enormous for harrenhal, winterfell, the wall). It could be that knowledge of this on-going tradition is - just like the origin of the blackwood/bracken blood feud - "lost to time".
I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground
There’s always been strong connections between the Weirwoods, the Others, and lightning. They grow like worms through every bit they can seep into, that’s why they’re also compared to Ghost Grass.
I don’t think Hoare would consciously put weirwoods in walls so I’d think it’d be the beams or the abundance of blood fuel for the one.
So in my head cannon Bran is now going back in time and changing little things through all the prequals we will be seeing...
As soon as I saw it in the episode I thought of your channel lol. Do you think most/all visions in Westeros come from these trees? There’s a Weirwood in kings landing in the show potentially giving targ kings new dreams and making bug girl princess experience non-linear time.
Dude imagine being Harren the Black lmao you spend 40 years building this perfect fortress that no army could ever take from you and the day you move in you get roasted to hell by a dragon
He also did it on the banks of the gods eye
Its the from the trees they cut down, the stumps, happens all the time.
I thought that was melted slag from Balerion's flames and they invoked the Chernobyl Elephant's Foot.
I remembered you when I saw this scene lmao. What did you think of this ep?
Edit: Remembered as in you came to my mind and I knew you would like the scene
I think it was a good episode. Could have lived without the last little stealth mission. But at the same time we got Harrenhal with roots growing out of the walls all over it and crazy weirwood magic dreams. The isle of faces was shown when they didn't have to. I see a lot of signs they are leaning into the magic from this episode and we should get some really good lore from the series. So I am happy.
@@michaeltalksaboutstuff I agree, I liked the episode except some eh moments with Rhaena and the last scene(I get what they tried but the stupidity of the scene heavily outweighed the outcome... nothing really changed). However I'm so glad these writers are not afraid to delve into magic weirdness unlike GOT show.
Remember they fed blood to the trees for the old gods and Harrenhal has blood imbedded in it over the centuries it could be some old magic that creates wards
Keep going.
17:17 When I saw that in the show, I immediately thought of Garth the Green. I assumed it was an homage to him...whether it was an ORIGINAL piece of furniture from Harren's time OR brought in later & it's weather-worn or other "cursed" events damaged it, Im not sure.
For me, bc the Weirwoods can hold Souls -- aka "life energy/force", I feel like even if you cut them down/into pieces, they still "live" & within the 40yrs it took to build the castle, LOTS of literal blood/sweat/tears/lives were lost (or sacrificed) to the place to keep them "alive", as well as all the rain to water them.
Without spoiling anything, if the leaks are true, we get more insight into Harrenhal & the weirwoods.
Harrenhal is like that exotic haunted house us Paranormal chasers dream of going to. 👻
The roots of the weirwood tree reached out to consume all the blood in the aftermath of Aegon and his dragon. In doing so it reintegrated all the logs and thus the roots climbed through the walls of the tree and consumed all of the blood. I’m sure the dragonfire plays a part here too somewhere
This might also be why Dragons don't like flying over the wall.
You’d be extremely surprised how far uphill tree roots can travel!
Tge reason they do it is seeking water or nutrients, homes on hill tops wit big garden especially ones that irrgate a lot may have roots climb right up there and deplete tge garden in a mater of a few years. Few trees roots really span 100’, but given the right conditions they could crawl that far as long as they were being rewarded with enough water/nutrients.
Weir woods don’t really seem that tied to water and nutrients tho, but I’m sure they wouldn’t waste the energy to climb that far for nothing
The Weirwood trees outside sent its roots under the castle walls in search of the wood that was cut from the old trees, and when they find them they "REANIMATE" the cut wood to start growing again. OR the roots of the old trees that were felled are searching for their missing parts.
these are also two locations where you have speculated glamoured children of the forest
I wonder if the weirwoods can never die as long as they stay connected to the root system. Maybe that’s a parallel to George’s glass candle idea where as as long as someone is connected to their candle they can’t die, but if the candle is removed from the web or destroyed it may make the user vulnerable. I’m just spitballing here
If there are dead weirwood branches built into the walls, perhaps the living weirwood tree we see is essentially "re-innervating" the dead branches with its own living roots to expand its reach. Ik trees don't work like this irl but these are magical trees so the rules are different lol
What if the weirwood beams came back to life due to the massive amounts of blood being vaporized in the castle and managed to grow enough to sustain itself
Big if true. Bat guano is amazing fertilizer IRL and the fact that it's always leaking means it's ideal for the trees to grow, just from a practical point of view. Not to mention the proximity to the God's Eye itself where WWs obviously thrive. It seems as if the roots are effectively neurons/blood vessels growing into the structures so they can spread their mojo into every nook and cranny. Tree roots are amazingly powerful and can split stone, crack patios, deform asphalt, etc.....just a matter of time. Decades may seem like a long time to people, but it's a blink of an eye to the trees. Cheers!
I agree. I also think there is stark blood. Just like Winterfell and why there must always be a Stark at Winterfel and they always have a Stark at the wall.
Oh look, it's a giant "rib cage" of weirwood, like we've seen somewhere before.
That was supposed to be time stamped at 9:44
Harrenhal’s got roots all over and it is constantly leaking. You only need an Other tied on the tree and BOOM!
ICE CASTLE HARRENHAL
This is interesting for the new show context but i am disappointed that you did not address whether it is book canon. Arya of course was all over this castle but never saw any ww roots. i don't think Hhall is made of weirwoods in the books, but i also dont think this hurts your theory, which I generally buy.
I believe that you can't kill a weirwood by cutting it down or by "processing it", they seem not to require sunlight and such. We also see a bunch of weirwood arrows and bows that seems to be enchanted in some way or at least responsible for "important kills" (blood raven anyone?). Maybe, cut down weirwoods used in weapons and construction are still alive, and able to produce magic.
i love this analysis I was just wondering how we know that those roots were weirwoods and not regular roots? is there any hard evidence for it? I agree that it makes the most sense I am just curious, either way what this vid is saying makes a lot of sense!
YES
If the warding of the Wall is the same as the wardings of Storm's End and Harrenhall, shouldn't dragons balk at entering/overflying them like they do the Wall?
the tree being in HH didn't stop big boi black dread from raining fire down on it, but the wall does hold the complete antithesis to the dragons behind it (white walkers) so, who knows. or maybe alysanne got the shorter end of the stick 💀 as for storm's end, perhaps there hasn't been enough blood sacrifice to it yet when aemond visits like there has been from his recent ancestor ATC.
Isn’t their lore about ships made of wierwood also? It seems to me the Andre’s and first men were chopping down all the sacred trees because they had magic and were super useful. Also fyi I’ve heard woodworkers that have willow or uwe wood logs in storage that they sometimes start to grow roots. So it’s a thing that actually happens with some.
wood =]. Anyway you called it! Congrats =]
If weirwoods *were* a protective feature of castles, it didn't do anything to protect Winterfell from Theon Grayjoy or Ramsey Snow, nor did it protect Harren Hore from Aegon the Conqueror so IDK what kind of "magic" that would be.
maybe the ward powers came after the burning, like a reward for the great blood sacrifice?
Some plants need fire propagate. Maybe when Aegon and Balerion attacked.
Some trees will grow even if you cut them down to their stumps. Say, a willow tree. All you need is a small stump with a little bark on it, and it'll come back. My neighbour cuts down their willow often, and it restores itself after about a decade.
So rather than the weirwood beams growing, perhaps its the stumps.
That said, the weirwood in the harrenhal castle, it's unclear how this develops the narrative of the story.
do you think that Targeryans are like dragon riders= wargs, dragon dreams = greensight and weirwoods= dragons in the sense that all this magic is to create hive minds to keep the users living for ever. Like all dragon riders souls goes to their dragons and that is why they see their ancestors and profecy? Like is the same only the medium that changes and that is why bloodraven could mix both (maybe jon)
i think the valyrian dragon magic might be a bastardization (haha, get it?) of the old gods'
I think it's definitely possible the Weirwood boards could take root. We see branches IRL take root (I have a little one in a vase of water atm.) I don't see why planks can't do the same thing in the right conditions. Ash is an incredible fertilizer, if Weirwoods can thrive among it.
There are comments sprinkled throughout this section that talk about how 'green' wood can 'strike' again. Add ash and bat guano for fertilizer, then water - maybe mixed with blood and magic. :)
Something seems off. House Hoare welcomed the Andals and brought their fate to the islands, this might be a sign of religious tolerance, but I'm unconvinced. How would they know how to build it like that?
We don't know a lot about Harren the Black or house Hoare in general but it seems unlikely they had this ancestral knowledge. They ruled over the Riverlands and at some point the Arbor, Old Town, Bear Island and other parts of the North's west coast. It seems unlikely that they found written records in the North as they would have been in the Old Tongue, though maybe they did find translated texts from the citadel. This is still dubious though since Old Town was no longer ruled by the Hoares at the time of the conquest, and hadn't been for a long time.
Anothe explanation would involve the Blackwoods or house Bracken. The former have a clear connection to the weirwoods and the Old Gods, but they initially led the defence against the Iron Islanders. They would not have given away their secrets or married into the line. House Bracken on the other hand helped the Hoares and seems to have some memory of Old God magic, considering they likely poisoned the Blackwood's heart tree.
Still something must have gone wrong, either it wasn't magically completed or they lacked the knowledge to do the proper spells. As Balerion attacked from above, meanwhile Dragons refuse to fly over the wall out of fear of being ripped apart like Orell's eagle.
I'm eager ro find out more, but I lean towards the Brackens being somehow involved.
I was wondering if daemon was coldhands is still alive brought back by the children or disguised as alys rivers with a glamour ect?. Maybe took him via tunnel caves and wells youve mentioned in the past. It said cold hands spoke a ancient language and meera said anyone can wear nights watch clothes.
Thought was interesting and could only find one video with 16 views on it.
Thight was interesting idea
I would say that the beams are still alive and trying to regenerate.
Could the castle be so damp Not (only) because of the rains but (also) because the roots are pumping water? The made a big deal out of the fact that Harrenhall is - at this point - too damp to burn.
Perhaps wierwoods don't die when cut...and the beams sprouted roots like a cut baby spider plant. I imagine the place is damp....most plants will grow roots when exposed to water.
Is dragon blood better than human blood for the Weirwoods? At the end of Dance with the Dragons they get 2 dead dragons on their doorstep at the Isle of Faces.
Trees in the wall eh? Now you’re talkin my language
The whole Harrenhal is kinda weird in HOTD. So making theories about it is kinda iffy
Why is it even falling apart? the castle is like 2 centuries old that's nothing. Yes Aegon burned or rather melted it but why are the remaining structures crumbling? When Caraxes lands the stones fall apart under him and I don't get why. The melted stone should arguably become even stronger and the parts that weren't melted should be just fine. The castle isn't old
It doesn't make a lot of sense
More to the point the weirwoods were added to the show as fan service already. A weirwood in the red keep makes no sense but they put it there because they do everything they can to show that HOTD is in the same universe as GOT
My point is it can be something but it can also be nothing