SPOILERS Fire & Blood - Everything you want to know about the dragonseeds - what they do in Fire & Blood, how they're being adapted so far, who they are as people, and more. Hard Hugh Hammer, Ulf the White, and Addam of Hull (and Allyn of Hull) get the full treatment. These are shaping up to be incredible characters!

HotD playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEHvft-cyPmDKN99XRXTtoHGCy1fHGHNX

It's true, Alicent Hightower... is pretty damn funny. Her characterization of House of the Dragon, I argue, is masterful, and a psychology-deconstruction field-day for those of us intimately familiar with well... people like Alicent. And Criston! We'll get into their relationship, and whether it makes sense for the characters.

HotD playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEHvft-cyPmDKN99XRXTtoHGCy1fHGHNX

Sothoryos, land of monsters and mystery - what in the Green Hell happened here? I'll explain it all - toad idol, fish people, Yeen and the Brindled Men, velociraptors and wyverns and basilisks, settlements by Old Ghis and Valyria, and a new origin theory concerning the Summer Isles.

Why should Bran Stark be King of Westeros? It's going to make more sense in the books, my friends, because Bran's greenseer magic will be much more important in the books - not only to defeat the others, but also use the knowledge of the weirwood to pull a "Bran-the-REbuilder" act for a Westeros in dire need. Above all, Bran should be king because he is the Prometheus of this story - the one who brings the fire of the gods to mankind, and specifically to **aid**mankind. The matching text is on the LmL website, as usual, and look for a follow-up livestream in the next 2 weeks! Subscribe to the YouTube channel to make sure you don't miss it.

Thanks to everyone who sent in all the amazing questions, they made for a great session. The discussion ranged from King Bran and greenseer stuff to the idea of the weirwoods as abominations and more. There may or may not be karaoke here (you've been warned)

Better late than never, it's a live QnA I did on YouTube to follow up on King Bran 1 on September 1st, 2019. Featured is Wizz-the-Smith's legendary Hollow Hills material, which he kindly allowed us to discuss, and it's a great compliment to the ancient greenseer kings theory. Check out his full essay at the link below, and thanks to everyone who sent in questions! https://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/143917-the-caves-are-timeless-hollow-hills-magic-castles-and-greenseers/

The best way to understand what GRRM wants to do with King Bran is to think about it in mythical terms. Bran's will ascend to the throne as the new Summer King of Westeros, in the Oak (Summer) King / Holly (Winter) King sense. Funny thing - our story began with a summer oak king figure on the throne - King Robert - and even the "First King" of Westeros was a summer oak king figure. Bran will not only help to end the new Long Night, but to make sure the dream of spring gives birth to summer.

Yes, Bran WILL be King in the books, but he will be a greenseer king. Take a walk through everything we know about greenseers, wargs, skinchangers, and what they've done with their power in Westeros to get an idea of what "Bran the God King" really means. Featuring vocal performances by Martin Lewis.

I got together with Quinn from Ideas of Ice and Fire this past Sunday July 21st to talk about how the books might end vs. how the TV show did end, with a focus on getting fired up for The Winds of Winter. Lots of fun speculation here, enjoy! Please visit lucifermeanslightbringer.com for all things Mythical Astronomy, and check out Ideas of Ice and Fire on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1rFmaGLYr0Ve_Y_soxZNWQ

HBO's game of Thrones is over, but the big question remains: how will George and story? The End of Ice and Fire series will rip into this question, comparing the way the show ended various plot lines to the foreshadowing George has laid out in the books. One thing is for sure - a big battle against the others at Winterfell is coming. But what will it look like in the books? Matching text at: https://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2019/07/03/end-of-ice-and-fire-4-the-battle-of-winterfell/

What's this now? A Mythical Astronomy podcast? Yes! Herein lies the audio of the 3 End of IAF videos I did during Season 8, along with with some commentary about both what these predictions and foreshadowings mean for the book ending as well as what the show endings that we saw mean for the possible book ending. This pod will preview some of the topics of my next few podcasts and videos, which all focus on comparing the TV show ending to what the books have foreshadowed. Enjoy.

Hey friends! I have here a live QnA I did a few weeks ago, as well as a channel update at the beginning. Enjoy!

The next 3 podcasts, labelled Old Crones Myth Head Roundtable Parts 1-3, are a hybrid of scripted material and live discussion, because I was getting into territory where I felt it advantageous to draw upon the wisdom of the hive mind, so to speak, and it came out really well. You can follow along with the scripted portions the link below. This first installment will dive into several crone figures with old ones symbolism, from Lady Stoneheart to the Ghost of the High Heart to Craster's Wives to Thistle the Wildling. The larger topic will be the connection between Nissa Nissa and Night's Queen, something we were last exploring in Signs and Portals. Featuring Melanie Lot7, Archmaester Emma, Ba'al the Bard, Maester Merry, and Sanrixian. Hope you enjoy, and I'll have the next two out as soon as possible.  http://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2019/03/15/old-crones/

The 2024 Calendar revealed a big secret about the weirwood trees, and I'll show you what it means and why it's important. This is a big f---ing deal.

Recorded live Sun Mar 3rd. Sorry for the delay in posting guys! Trying to catch up / get assistance with audio editing. This episode features Quinn from Ideas of Ice and Fire, who is with me to explore the seeming connection between the Others and the Green Men. Original music by yours truly, and the matching text can be found at https://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2019/03/02/cold-gods-and-cold-bones/

Featuring Quinn from Ideas of Ice and Fire and Silas Toms from the Gods of Terror blog!  Matching text: https://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2019/02/10/the-horned-lords/

Oopsie!! So sorry if you downloaded the previous version of this, but it's all better now. Featuring Quinn from Ideas of Ice and Fire and Silas Toms from the Gods of Terror blog!  Matching text: https://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2019/01/27/the-great-old-ones/

Music by LmL

A comparative study of the culture and origins of the Dothraki, Sarnori, and Jogos Nhai, with an eye towards their potential origins inside the Great Empire of the Dawn. Featuring Aziz from History of Westeros! Matching text can be found at https://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2018/12/30/great_empire_of_the_dawn_flight_of_the_bones/

In WC7, we began swimming in the greenseer / green sea symbolism of Daenerys Targaryen, and today we are going out further from shore - but don't worry, we have a silver seahorse to ride. Featuring everything you could ever want to know about the symbolism of House Velaryon, silver horses, and silver dragons, and some new clues about what happened to Nissa Nissa inside the weirwoodnet. Featuring the vocal performances of Ba'al the Bard.

Joining me to discuss the We Should Start Back reverse-reading of the AGOT prologue episode is Painkiller Jane and Crowfood's Daughter of the Disputed Lands! Also featuring Colin Longstrider's essay "We Should Fly Back," a reverse reading of Bran III, AGOT (from falling to flying in the come dream). Recorded live Sunday Dec 2nd, 2018

Colin's Essay: https://theeighthspoke.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/we-should-fly-back-a-reverse-reading-of-bran-iii-agot/

The Disputed Lands: https://www.youtube.com/c/thedisputedland

Joining me to discuss the new George R. R. Martin book Fire and Blood is Aziz from History of Westeros, Crowfood's Daughter from the Disputed Lands, Archmaester Emma from Red Mice at Play, Melanie Lot7, and Sanrixian, the Hand of the Dragon! This one is taken straight from YouTube with no editing, apologies - was having technical difficulties with my audio editing software this week. It's a great discussion though, so I hope you enjoy!

It's the mythical astronomy break-down of the all-important AGOT prologue, and it contains a secret: this entire chapter can be read backwards!

Recorded live Sunday Nov. 18th, 2018

What would you say if I told you that Daenerys has a ton of greenseer symbolism? Well it's true, and this episode is only the beginning. Prepare for dive into the green Dothraki Sea along side the mother of dragons. Thanks to Archmaester Emma of the Red Mice at Play blog for performing the vocal readings. Live follow-up QnA Sunday Nov 11th on the lucifermeanslightbringer YouTube channel..

An all-star myth head cast gathers in costume to decipher the mad sayings of Patchface, everyone's favorite antlered-bucket wearing fool. Featuring Crowfood's Daughter for The Disputed Lands, Quinn from Ideas of Ice and Fire, Joe Magician, Painkiller Jane, Sanrixian, and yours truly as Patchface. The full video is up on the LucifermeansLightbringer youtube channel if you'd like to see the costumes. Recorded live Sunday Oct 28th, 2018.

The big news: HBO is partnering with writer Mattson Tomlin to develop an Aegon's Conquest show! I've got 5 big questions relating to where the most drama is, what characters besides the 3 conquerors could be featured, the dynamic of the Conquerors themselves, and more.

Featuring Melanie Lot7, Ba'al the Bard a.k.a. Gretchen Ellis ,and Sanrixian. We took questions from the chat, mostly pertaining to the material in the last few Signs and Portals episodes, Weirwood Compendium episodes, and the Zodiac Children of Garth the Green episode. Lots of exploration into the potential connection between Nissa Nissa and Night's Queen. Live music by your truly.

It's the first half of our long-awaited zodiac children of Garth the Green episode! With the help of Archmaester Emma from the Red Mice at Play Wordpress blog to perform the vocal readings from the text, we will tackle the first 6 zodiac signs. The matching text to this podcast can be found at lucifermeanslightbringer.com, as usual. Thanks to Stanley Black for our intro music, and to John Walsh for our flamenco guitar.

We had ourselves a little myth head round-table to discuss the new excerpt from the forthcoming Fire and Blood, which is Vol.1 of the Targaryen history, as written by George of course. If you haven't read it, don't worry, we'll read it to you here. I was joined by Sanrixian, Melanie Lot7, Maester Merry, Joe Magician, and Ba'al the Bard a.k.a. Gretchen. Recorded live Sunday Sept. 30th

Featuring the green see wordplay of Ravenous Reader, the Poetess of the Nennymoans! This is one of those "you'll never read the books the same again" episodes. Quinn from Ideas of Ice and Fire performs the vocal readings from the text, a real treat. Matching text at http://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2018/09/12/the-devil-and-the-deep-green-see/

The Weirwood Compendium is back with a new episode! Featuring Melanie, Lot Seven for our vocal performances, plus our intro music by Stanley Black and our flamenco music by John Walsh.The matching text can be found at: https://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2018/09/04/to-ride-the-green-dragon/

This is a heavily-edited version of the live presentation of this podcast from Sunday, Aug 5th, 2018. For the full version, including some amazing Sanrixian art, check out https://youtube.com/lucifermeanslightbringer. Featuring Maester Merry from the Up From Under Winterfell YouTube channel performing the vocal readings. Matching text to this essay at lucifermeanslightbringer.com. Come join us for the QnA Livestream Sunday Aug 12th on the LmL YouTube channel!

It's the long awaited Vale episode - the first of several - but it's alos launching a new series, which will go where we have never gone before: into the weirwoodnet. The book readings are performed by Maester Merry from the Up From Under Winterfell YouTube channel, so thanks to her, thanks to Stanley Black and John Walsh for our music. Part 2, Sansa Locked in Ice, will be performed live Sunday August 5th at 3 EST on the LucifermeansLightbringer YouTube channel.

The matching text can be found here: https://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2018/07/07/vale-of-frozen-tears/

Featuring Aziz from History of Westeros, Gemma from Secrets of the Citadel, and Joe Magician from Maester Monthly podcast and the Joe Magician YouTube channel. Recorded live July 15th, 2018

Featuring Eliana a.k.a. Glass Table Girl and Chloe a.k.a. the Queen of Love and Booty from the Girls Gone Canon podcast as well as Crowfood's Daughter from the Disputed Lands! Flamenco guitar by John Walsh of the John Walsh Guitar YouTube channel.

This is a live performance of the usual scripted podcast, featuring Quinn from ideas of Ice and Fire live performing the readings from the text. It's basically all the symbolism I have found pointing towards another moon meteor incident as the cause of the new Long Night we all know is coming - but symbolically, this is all tied to Jon's resurrection, as I'll explain. We are going to study the Wall and Winterfell in detail, both places which are packed with symbolic messages about the new Long Night and Jon as a sort of frozen dragon or ice dragon. A huge thanks to everyone who came out live and cheered me on! Couldn't have done it without you all!

Ideas of Ice and Fire: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1rFmaGLYr0Ve_Y_soxZNWQ/

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The debut of my new live panel show, where I will choose a topic and invite on a panel of guests to discuss said topic! The topic today is the timeline, and my special guests are Tony Teflon of the Teflon TV YouTube channel, Gray of the Gray Area YouTube channel, and Quinn from the Ideas of Ice and Fire YouTube channel. We touched on many topics revolving around the events and supposed history of the Dawn Age and Age of Heroes: the first maesters' involvement with the children of the forest and magic in general, the Pact (when, why, how, and who), the creation of the Others, the building of the Wall, the Hammer of the Waters, smelly dirty ringforts, the new TV show, the Season 8 finale, ice dragons, and of course, what makes GRRM great. Thanks to everyone who watched live and sent in questions!

Featuring Gemma from Secrets of the Citadel and Joe Magician. Recorded live at Con of Thrones, Saturday May 27th, 2018. Find the video at youtube.com/c/lucifermeanslightbringer

Joe Magician: youtube.com/c/joemagician

Secrets of the Citadel: youtube.com/c/secretsofthecitadel

Featuring Quinn Howard of Ideas of Ice and Fire and Crowfood's Daughter from The Disputed Lands as well as myself (LmL).This is the second in a series of panel discussions recorded live at Con of Thrones 2018. You can see the live version on YouTube (which I recommend).

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who donated to the fundraiser and to all of my Patreons, you made this possible!

The first in a series of panel discussions recorded live at Con of Thrones 2018. The audio is from the video camera, so not perfect, but I didn't want to wait for the official audio files to be released to bring this one to you. You can see the live version on YouTube (which I recommend) at https://youtu.be/e2AbLbiq_1c

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who donated to the fundraiser and to all of my Patreons, you made this possible!

What is there to say here? It's the Mythical Astronomy Ned Stark episode. The Blood of the Other series is all about House Stark, so you know we have to talk about the Ned.

Intro music by Stanley Black, flamenco guitar by John Walsh, vocal acting by the Amethyst Koala.

The Chasing Shadows livestream went by so well that we didn't have a proper chance to answer all the questions people sent in or to explore the mystery of Brandon Ice Eyes and the Wolf's Den, so I had another livestream on Sunday April 15th, and this is that livestream. Some great observations coming form the chat and from readers in this one, thanks everyone who came out and submitted questions!

The YouTube version is here, in case you'd like to see the snowbeard and black crown: https://youtu.be/kgtr0tz8dH4

With special guest Robert from In Deep Geek! Recorded live on Sat April 7th. We only got to half the questions, so I'll be doing *another* livestream next Sunday, April 15th, at 5:00 EST! Come on through! We'll also have that discussion about the Wolf's Den and Brandon Ice Eyes that we didn't have time for here. Thanks to all who came out.

Time to take all that Stark / Dayne / last hero stuff and apply it to characters who fit the stolen Other archetype! This means all the Eldric variants of Houses Stark and Dayne, including Edric Snowbeard and Edric "Ned" Dayne, plus a ton of awesome Davos stuff, including his chapter as a prisoner if the Wolf's Den at White Harbor. Close analysis of the scenes involving these figures bring us closer than ever before to understanding the nature of those who carry the Blood of the Other, the fine folks we know as House Stark.

Robert from In Deep Geek returns to perform the readings from the text, and thanks as always to Stanley Black for our intro music and John Walsh for our flamenco guitar music. Find the matching text and our Patreon page at https://lucifermeanslightbringer.com, and join us for the follow up QnA livestream on Saturday, April 7th, at 3:00 pm EST at youtube.com/c/lucifermeanslightbringer

Blood of the Other 2 has us following the trail of the last hero - was he a Stark? A Dayne? Both, somehow? In search of the answer, we'll cross paths with Elric of Melnibone and Tolkien's Numenorians and magic swords beyond counting. Vocal acting by Robert from the InDeepGeek YouTube channel, intro music by Stanley Black, and flamenco guitar by John Walsh

This Livestream was recorded Saturday, March 3rd, 2018. Crowfood's Daughter of the Disputed Lands YouTube channel was my guest, and we covered even more Bael related mythology and took live questions and pre-submitted questions both. Enjoy!

This YouTube video of this stream can be found here: https://youtu.be/VIZFaILMAF8?t=2m35s

Crowfood's Daughter's Shade of the Evening video is here: https://youtu.be/KiHDmj2jrtI

Daemon's (and Caraxes's) prowess in war is undeniable... but his teamwork skills are a bit touch and go. And there's the crimes to talk about. But also skills that Jon and Dany need to save the world... it's Mr. "Equal Parts Light and Dark" everyone, the Rogue Prince

The Blood of the Other series swings in to full gear by exploring the blood tie between the Starks and the Others. We'll consider the potential historical precedent of Gilly as a Night's Queen figure whose baby is smuggled away by the Night's Watch before being turned in to an Other. Theme music by Stanley Black. Flamenco guitar by John Walsh. Vocal performances by Martin Lewis and the Amethyst Koala.

Oh-ho! It's a new series! This one branches off from the Moons of Ice and Fire series and will discuss the icy origins of House Stark and the nature of their link to the Others. You can find the matching text here: http://lucifermeanslightbringer.com/2018/02/22/prelude-to-a-chill/

Intro music by Stanley Black. Music by John Walsh. Music by LmL. Vocal performances by Martin Lewis, the Amethyst Koala.

Quinn from the Ideas of Ice and Fire YouTube channel invited me on his new, revamped podcast to talk about the magical creatures of ASOIAF! It was too good not to share with you all, so I am bringing it to you as a bonus episode. The original version of this, complete with video accompaniment, can be found on the Ideas of Ice and Fire channel:

https://youtu.be/HYnvuF8aMB8