Dont know if they should be compared but the fact that moat cailin had about 20 towers with only 3 left could be linked to the Nights Watch having 19 castles but only 3 occupied at the start of the story

I don’t want to distract George more than he already is but I would love a book of all of Old Nan’s stories. I think they would add so much to the series and the lore. Probably a better source of information the the maesters anyway.

Every time I hear about Moat Cailin, I immediately think "Everyone said I was DAFT to build a castle in a swamp! But I built it all the same, just to show 'em!"

DUDE. The idea of Coldhands being the lingering body of the ORIGINAL last hero is so insane and awesome and I love it

About 950,000 years ago. A broad natural land bridge connected southeast Britain to mainland Europe. Footprints and stone tools at Happisburgh, Norfolk, were left behind by members of an unknown human species who crossed this bridge, becoming the first known Britons, This land bridge is geographically located identically to the one that Joined Westeros ro Essos. George certainly knows his tuff, respect to the man.

Your videos make me appreciate GRRM's work even more.

The first Cranog building in ancient Ireland can be linked with some kind of climate catastrophe because trees pulled from bogs which, have been dated to the same period, show several years of zero growth via their rings like there was some kind of Long Winter... Awesome video as always, thank you.

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The hammer of the waters definitely hammered Moat Cailin. So hard in fact that the Drunkard's Tower is STILL hammered.

6:36 its lame that you caught a ©️strike but the voice acting was beautiful and the YouTube notice meme version is absolutely iconic 😂😂😂😂😂😂 honestly better than just the og clip

I’ve often heard that the Ice Wall is a fantastical version of Hadrian’s Wall, given it’s location and Westeros’s likeness to Britain (the North) and an upturned Ireland (the six Southern kingdoms).  I’m part way through your video and you mentioned Moat Caitlin being a potential second wall, and this is also reflected in the real world too.  Not only did the Romans build Hadrian’s Wall, they also built the Antonine Wall, a less impressive defensive wall along the much narrower central belt of Scotland, roughly from Edinburgh to Glasgow.  It has a very similar geographical look as the Neck, with the Firth of Forth being analogous to the Bite.

The Five Forts in the East also give me the impression of the German Limes that the Romans built in Germany to keep the barbarians at bay there too.

When you consider all three defensive structures, 2 in the west, one in the east built by an ancient empire to keep out “barbarians”, it’s hard not to think that George is pointing to an ancient empire having built all three.

A tidbit: the bridge that forms the entry to Breakwater (what's in a name), the seat of House Borrell, is made of black basalt. Plus the Borrells are the Keeper of the NIght Lamp (Long Night reference?).

The only other place that has black basalt walls is Blackhaven of House Dondarrion.

I like the idea of Moat Cailin being the “walls” in the Nights Watch oath. It could be that Moat Cailin was like a secondary front to the Wall up in the north.

What if the north and all its inhabitants (children, giants, green men) were completely cut off at the Neck by Moat Cailin (Great Emp of Dawn), and after Moat Cailin went down (beginning of the Long Night), the Wall went up in its place in an effort to sequester the Others?

Idk man I’m just riffin

Cailin is another form of the Irish name Caitlin. Catelyn is a cat fish Tully. Ned got cat fished by squishers. Brans green sea-er end game is to hammer everything under water where the dragons cant burn people and the ice cant freeze everything. Theory fact. maybe.

Some of these photoshops are hilarious. The lagoon creatures hanging off the ruins 😂😂😂😂. Man your collabs back in the day with Quinn were awesome. We need more books and seasons to dive back into. Just went back and rewatched some GoT....they really dropped the ball on the mystery/lore/prophecy stuff that made it so interesting leading up to the final season

I think Moat Cailin being the original post of the Night’s Watch could lean into the theory that the Others built the wall. Maybe the Others built the wall to keep the Last Hero and the first men from advancing any further north.

I've always associated Moat Cailin with that Monty Python scene.  Loved hearing this so much.

I'm aware of how off the mark this is but I've long been a Lovecraft fan and as such it's hard not to read everything through a lens of cosmic horror.

To that I always thought the big cities of black stone in Lovecraftian stories were something that the authors really didn't understand themselves.
Some of the better explainations that they were somehow created with tonal architecture or some such magic science.

I like to think that Lovecraft was thinking of nano machines and the grey goop long before it was a concept.

Again, this totally doesn't fit with a song of ice and fire unless, of course, it wasn't just natural meteorite falling to earth but the cosmic horrors of space that primitive man didn't understand.

This video does have the downside when discussing the idea that the neck was a "Byproduct" of the breaking of the arm of Dorne that it fails to consider that the Neck isn't uniformly low-lying. The rivers run northwest and south here, when if the land had been scoured by a tidal wave from the east into its current pestilent bog you'd expect them to flow out that way - but most of the Neck drains into the greenfork river and runs for hundreds of miles.

I’m so glad you’re back to doing long form videos!!! I have ADHD and having something interesting to listen to REALLY helps me focus and get things done! I have a hard time with the live streams for some reason though, so these longer scripted videos are fantastic! I really appreciate the amount of hard work you put into your videos!

The algorithm is in love with this video lol. You can start with any ASOIAF theory video from any decently reputed youtuber, turn on autoplay and you land here within 3-4 videos tops. I watched this video first as it came out a year ago but since then the algo has brought me back atleast 20 times