Valyrian steel: who has the swords that can defeat white walkers?
It looks like white walkers are the big threat to Westeros in Game of Thrones Season 8 - and one of the only things that can stop white walkers are Valyrian steel swords. Where are all the Valyrian blades in Westeros, and how might they play into the future of Thrones?
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0:00 Valyrian Steel
1:24 Longclaw
2:41 Heartsbane
3:50 Ice, Oathkeeper & Widow's Wail
5:54 Blackfyre & Lady Forlorn
9:17 Dark Sister
11:33 Brightroar
12:25 Red Rain & Nightfall
14:17 Catspaw's blade
15:19 Lamentation, Orphan-Maker & Vigilance
16:00 Misc
16:55 Conclusion
FAQ: - Wights (zombies) can be killed with fire, but we've never seen a white walker (icy blokes) killed by fire - only by dragonglass or Valyrian steel - Yes, in the real world, longswords are longer than bastard swords. But in ASOIAF, bastard swords are longer than longswords. (Jon VIII, AGOT) - Yes, in the tv show, Tywin hires a Volantene smith to reforge Ice. But in the books, it's Tobho Mott. (Tyrion IV, ASOS) - Yes, in the tv show, Brienne names Oathkeeper. But in the books, Jaime names Oathkeeper. (Jaime IX, ASOS) - No, Arya's sword Needle is not Valyrian steel. It's regular steel forged in Winterfell. - No, the Iron Throne isn't Valyrian steel - Yes, Dawn is cool as fuck, but it's never referred to as Valyrian steel. Yall can stop commenting about this stuff now 😶
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True. Dawn is made from a meteor
Where did this metal come to be because the white walkers know of this metal. When Longclaw conneted with the ice blade he knew what it was. The walkers know Varlarian steel.
They can get killed by fire if it's from the dragon.
I thought the dagger now in the possession of Arya was valerian steel.
"Joffrey uses his sword to slay...a book, and then...a pie...and then he dies." lmao
Joffrey was indeed a great figher
Joffrey, bastard king of the south, slayer of books, birds, and pies, master of little shits
Pugasaurus Rex Protector of his own ego.
Brienne uses her sword to kill men with a stick and a broken sword.
😂😂😂😂
The most powerful weapon against white walkers: unfathomably bad writers.
Pete Farx also plot armour is a worthy opponent
I've never even written a story but I'm pretty sure I could've done better
@@mr.spartankeysersozemacbet5327 You could have literally told me that you had decided to put the trebuchets/catapults inside Winterfell and I would have given you every award possible if I could
@rishu kr._69 yes, it would be shit. It would be shit better than this shit.
or small flying girls?
Honestly, the idea of Tywin not only reforming Ice into two Lannister swords, but also dying it red so that it can never be remade, is sadder than some deaths to me. The death of a long tradition for House Stark. :(
@fabRic_jAck The only reason I can think of is that he figured he might have to sentence some people to death. He had the whole “the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword” philosophy and Ice is really only used for executions.
It's sad but it also almost makes me angry. Ned being killed wasn't enough, he had to give some additional insult to the Starks after their Warden of the North died. Tywin destroying Ice like that was so vile and petty.
one thing i hated aswell thats a stark artifact to plz an idiot like joffrey
@fabRic_jAck yea more tragic but at least ice would still be "alive"
@@Cobalt360Degrees Ice can’t even be used in battle. It was way more practical to break it down to something useable. Dyeing it red was petty af though.
"the night that never ends" It ended withing 60 minutes
Even we in real life experience longer night than that😂😂😂
Long night my ass. Winter not only didnt come. It just passed on by.
The long night is what would have happened had the white walkers won and killed everyone in Westeros, it isn’t the battle of winterfell😂
@@TheHeroRobertELeesup robert
@@TheHeroRobertELee sup robert
Who's here after the battle of winterfell realizing none of this matters
yup, so weird. So much wasted build up imo
@@noncanalepricnipale are you really going to complain about the dothrakis running to death even though no one knows a lot about white walkers whites and creatures of that nature smh just be happy you even got this great show and stop complaining just because you want to see an unrealistic shit storm TL:DR stop whining you dumb bitch
@Joel Ashworth watching them for a bit isn't going to tell you much, most enemy taxtics are learned with espionage have fun trying to sneak in to a white walkers domain to learn how they fight
@Joel Ashworth my initial problem with your comment is the fact you complain about the show just stop watching it if you are willing to complain about it online
@@alfieburns9019 Alfie Burns are you really complaining about some random internet dude's opinion. Stop reading comments if you're willing to complain about them online.
Randyll Tarly just sorta forgot about his valyrian sword.
hahahah That is what I was thinking. Sam steals it and no one seems to notice nor care. Then he just randomly gives it to Jorah. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Misimisato how could they care, Randyll was burned by Daenerys
You just kinda forgot that he died... Which I don't blame you for
“KIND of forgot...” You have to say it right or it won’t work
Almost 1000 likes for a post about someone who had his sword stolen, and didn't have time to do much about that before he was rather forcefully dragged off to fight a war and swiftly turned into charcoal.
10:00 "This is why we need a Game Of Thrones prequel movie, guys" Even better, we got a TV show.
Even better yet, George is on the writing team, consulting the show writers and personally reviewing the scripts for episodes. House of the Dragon is SO GOOD! It's like the first few seasons of Game of Thrones, but with this late episodes high budget from the start.
And I just got spoiled by this YT Video
There was no spoiler alert 🥲😪😢
@@vaishakhgk9811 there was no hotd back then 😢
And it slapped 😭
"Certainly XX will have implications later in the show" "Possibly YY will tie the present and the past in a very cool way" "ZZ can be an important plot point in the final seasons" Well, here we are.
D&D just sorta forgot everything
@@T3noir that usually happens when a mouse-runned mafia offers you a deal you can’t refuse.
We were a hopeful lot.
@@gunargundarson1626 I don't think it is even that. I think they were so egotistical and arrogant that they spent their time getting high and throwing parties and slapped the ending together in a weekend while believing themselves to be infallible. It speaks volumes that they have been fired from every project since.
Ah, back when we thought the show was still reaching for this level of complexity.
True. It was simple af.
So much agreed
It never was though
kingnro1 The first four seasons were fairly true to the source material, and George was working closely with the writers, even writing some scenes himself I believe.
The disappointment I feel in the uselessness of everything here is too large.
"Widow's Wail is now the only known Valyrian sword in the city of King's Landing, so it surely will come in handy sometime." Yeaaahhhhh... no.
I like how every theory or hope the fans had before season 8 had the same response, "yeeeaaahhhh no."
@@sirocco2810 wait i have an idea let's just think of season 8 as non canon fan fiction
@@corv3007 the whole show is fan fic. the books are the main event
@@Blackhawk211 Ok i wouldn't go that far
Kristen Hallingu It's true though
Man the most impressive thing about the GoT series is just how many characters there are and how George manages to write little details about all of them to make them stand out and be their own person. Like with the smith who melted down Ice. I doubt any other author would've bothered giving him a name.
*laughs in Tolkien*
9:58 "This is why we need a Game of Thrones prequel movie, guys." HBO: "We'll do you one better."
Lmaoo literally came here just for this comment
So in short, every time Alt Shift says something like "It's not clear how (insert sword) will tie into the show" just insert the Narrator saying " *it won't* "
Are your expectations subverted?
@@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 yes, i expected something good but i got season 8.
@@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 Yes! I expected the series finally couldn't let me down anymore than episode 5 already did, EXPECTATIONS SUBVERTED
Or else they could ask bran stark for how they made valerian steel since he can see every thing
Damn that's right
A little late to be trying to fold steel over and over many 100 times per blade now though
@@samdherring yaa right cause winter is here already and they have dragon glass so no worries
@@samdherring I don't think the Damascus pattern actually comes from folding in the cannon. It remains on the metal after being melted down which suggests the structure forms on its own as it solidifies.
@@MrAwawe Right, and it's said that Valyrian steel is made with magic and spells so there's that
Heartsbane, Lady Forlorn Longclaw Nightfall Oathkeeper Red Rain Widow's Wail arakh ( owned by Caggo) Ice Blackfyre Brightroar Dark Sister Lamentation Orphan-Maker ( the ancestral sword of House Roxton) Truth Vigilance ( the ancestral sword of House Hightower )
Who's truth ?
5280z007 Timett son of Timett
@@corv3007 a hilltribesmen has valyrion steel?
My favorite isn't even a valerian sword, Dawn 😍
Zibby H mabye its made of alien valiryan steel
Its kinda weird how Dany kept her ~8000 unsullied for so long. Im sure that more of them died during the battles, considering the final episode where she has her entire army there, it looks quite sustained in numbers even though many died. Also, in the second last episode, it was made clear that the lannisters had 20 000 golden company soldiers yet the unsullied looked like they had more than them...
Writer wasted a lot of potential and they just stopped caring so now i am watching lore videos until next book drops so I can binge watch whole got books
@@crazydauzy8887binge-read* lol
A whole video about swords, but turned out to be a knife
Turns out that people are too dumb to realize that dagger was also Valyrian steel.
@@Priyo866 A FUCKING DAGGER
you know, the worst thing is... that could've actually been an amazing ironic twist...a subverting our expectations in a GOOD way...but the way it was actually done by D & D? just ..LOL😂 not just that but the whole episode (the whole season really) was so damn rushed, all plot logic and lore just tossed out the window like Bran in s1 (and like the whitewalkers he doesn't do shit the whole fight despite being the 3 eyed raven who can see everything..), now GoT has gotta be right up there for a nomination for the biggest wasted potential in TV history...
@@maarten9272 I’m not angry a dagger killed him I’m just angry how the dagger killed him
@@w7n424 yeah lol it just plunges straight through the NKs armour like it's nothing.
You are the definition of quality over quantity. Bravo sir.
The Kurzgesagt of the GOT Lore
no idea what that is but amen to that brother.
Also Lemmino
youtube the word kurzgesgat or in a nutshell.An amazing youtube channel as well hence Shaheer's refrence.
Bravos ir
My take on Valyrian steel -- First start with dragonglass (obsidian) being the only other material that can kill a White Walker. Maybe glass made with fire is the magical opposite of glass made from cold. The latter being ice, which is what the White Wallker's blades are made of. Regular steel won't kill a White Walker, but Valyrian steel can. I have to believe then that Valyrian steel is an amalgam of steel and dragonglass. How could this be achieved and why could only ancient Valyria pull this off? I have found examples of where people have tried to amalgamate obsidian and iron. It does not work to create uniform product. The result is iron mixed with crystals of some really strange minerals. But what if for the purpose of the story, the Valyrians were able to achieve an amalgamation, but it took a really hot fire to pull it off. The technology of the GOT era would limit the heat sources for a blacksmith to wood, charcoal, and coal. But the Valyrians had another heat source that only they had access to, that being dragon fire. From what is said of the destructive force of dragon fire in the books, it is very, very hot. So if dragon fire is the ultimate secret of how Valyrian steel is made, then only the ancient Valyrians had access to it and when Valyria was destroyed, the secret was lost and the dragons eventually died off (at least in the more western part of the known world) thus no more new Valyrian steel.
If this was so surely one of the pre-Dance Targaeryen kings would have had the idea to try this I think. I think there was for sure some magickery shenanigans employed.
@@Ballin4Vengeance I think you are correct. Modern attempts to merge metal with obsidian never work. You get a mass that is part one and part the other. I am comfortable with the "magic required" idea because at the point of time where Game of Thrones is set, magic has been lost and is just then reviving. So before this, making Valyrian steel was not possible.
@@barttorbert5031 I have a theory that it can have something to do with where or how the iron is mined/acquired. Maybe valyrian iron having special characteristics due to forming in a volcanic enviroment, which would explain us having no such thing available to the current world(we don’t know of an active volcano in the known world). It could also be the extreme case that the ore was taken in form of molten lava right from one of the Fires, but that’s a stretch even for ASoIAF.
The Night King probably walked into Westeros thinking, if I die, at least it’ll be memorable and a satisfying conclusion to years of waiting and countless fan theories.
man these videos should have aged well but the writing of season 8 shits on everything. every theory you made a video about makes so much more sense than what we got in the show
its almost as if complex lore was planned by the author to distract us
the writing of season 7 and 8, rather
They could have done 10 seasons too, it's so sad to see a great show rushed. They are amazing writers but idk what happened and why it got so rushed making it bad
We still have the following books
I’m telling you the whole prince who was promised prophecy thing is gonna be the base for the next sequel. The company is gonna squeeze this for all its money
"Because he's a nasty little shit" - best description of Joffrey ever. Succinct. Descriptive. Accurate.
Or as Olenna Tyrell put it "a cunt".
If Joffrey is a nasty little shit then what is Ramsay 😂
🤣😂
@@w7n424 ramsey is a nasty older shit
@@w7n424 a nasty big shit
Interesting how Robert Baratheon was so accomplished even without a Valyrian steel - war hammer was a scary weapon to yield
cutting properties don't matter if you can smash the shit outta someone
@@alansolis5709 Nor does the reduced weight of valyrian steel. In fact, a valyrian warhammer might be less effective than a normal steel one.
Wonder what the sword “Dawn” does to white walkers 🤔. It’s not Valyrian steel but made out of a “fallen star”
Jon Snow - LongClaw Jaime Lannister - Widow's Wail Brienne of Tarth - Oathkeeper Samwell Tarly - Heartsbane Arya Stark - Catspaw Dagger
"lots of cunts"
No proof that Jaime has widow’s wail.
@@URmomsleftBREAST actually there is, Olenna Tyrell noticed Jaime wielding it on the sacking of the High Garden...she also mentioned Joffrey being a "real cunt" for naming the sword "Widow's Wail"..look it up.
A dagger is not a sword .
Euron greyjoy-valerian armour
Joffrey uses Widow’s wail to slay a book and a pie... and then he dies. 😂😂😂
Logan Craig nasty little shit
He kills a bird in the pie aswell. So he kills 1 living thing.
And a couple of pigeons
"This is why we need a Targaryen prequel movie" -Alt Shift X predicting house of the dragon 5 years before it's release
I love how optimistic this video is about how the 8th season was gonna go
"Randyll Tarly will want the sword back." Eh not so much anymore
Yep. turns out the writers fucking forgot or something. lmao
Randyll Tarly is dead with his other son, samwell can't swing a sword.So it will go to somebody else
Him and dickon got grilled
Randyll and Dickon Tarly got roasted by drogon.
The books and the tv show are different.
... Turned out the Night king and the long night wasn't such a threat after all.
thank goodness everyone lived including the dothraki
I mean, I literally said "I've been waiting for years just for THIS???"... I've never been so disappointed in my life before.
@@hadison6838 oh I forgot even the godamn dorthraki survived 😂😂 what the hell man
Of course the drunk pumpkin lady is the final boss of all time
@fabRic_jAck stop using your computer and phone if you care about climate change. Otherwise shut your mouth 😂
incredible how a couple fans can figure out better ways to connect lore together in an elaborate and convincing way better than writers paid millions of dollars.
I wonder if the Dayne's sword Dawn can kill Walkers. It was made from a meteorite, so maybe it has the "fire" in it to kill an Other.
Dawn is Lightbringer
@Faretheewell608 lightbringer is made from valyrian steel right? And Dawn from a comet
@@GeekMasterGM we have not been told enough about the fabled sword that was tempered in a woman's blood. You have Dawn's history correct. The comet that heralded all the magic has the same core as Dawn. Dawn can end the magic/sorcery. Anyway, that is my theory, formed after reading the first book.
Ice = Widow's (Lyanna) Wail + Oathkeeper (promise me Ned). Joffrey thought he was being his typical clever sadistic self when he named it, but it turned out fitting after Jamie/Brianne names Oathkeeper
Jay Gunz genius
I thought it was Catelyn's Wail, since the blade killed her husband before being reforged. Anywat, as Lady Olenna said "He really was a cunt."
You are an idiot
Damnnn
Dang
Honestly, these videos are making me really excited for Winds of Winter. Especially since George CLAIMS he will finally be done writing it next year (2021) thanks to literally being holed up in a cabin all year.
[So that was a fucking lie]
@@holidarckmaster Hey now, years not over yet...... god I hope he finishes it before it's too late.
@@MugenHeadNinja we all do, best christmas gift ever
Well bad news
@@MugenHeadNinja unfortunate
2 small theories after relistening to this years later: 1) Those daggers that Euron brought could be fake. With Valyrian steel being legendary and having a specific look, gotta think some people over the centuries would make lookalikes for profit. so Euron picked some up wholesale or looted them and found their true value. 2) Just thinking the renaming of swords could happen if a duel ended and the winner claimed the Val steel and renamed it. Or when Andal and First Men intermarried, bringing in an ancestral blade from one family and renaming it could have been a way to bind the families.
"Randall will want his sword back..." Danny: "Hold my beer..."
Starbucks coffee actually
You mean hold my Starbucks coffee.
C'mon ASX! Needle is no less storied blade: 1. It was a token gift forged for a little girl on the order of her bastard brother and was never really meant to kill anyone. 2. It made the little girl a bloody killer at an age of 9 which beats Sandor by 3 years and he was a healthy boy. 3. It became the hope for a little scared child and helped her to survive the streets of one of the shitiest cities in the Westeros. 4. Bloody Others know what kind of(or rather whose) teeth Polliver used to pick with it. 5. It was reunited with it's rightful master by a twist of fate consumating the union with the blood of the offendors like a true balde should. 6. It is a tool and a symbol of Arya's vengeance which she refuses to discard even at the behest of the Kindly Man. 7. It's going to bloody kill some more people before the story ends.
Nick Dzink I do hope she outgrows it though :D
No chance. (Go watch that video ;))
it was her steadfast link to her family that she couldn't give up. the one thing that she couldn't do was throw it in the water. if not for that token of her self she might have been lost to the Many Faced God. Also she is sporting Cat's Paw the dagger in the new pics. It was last thought to be in the possession of Peter Baelish.
Hobodeluxe960 it will be Arya the one who kills Littlefinger and takes his knife 👊
most likely yes.
"This is why we need a GoT prequel." Well, look at us now. 😂
9:59 "This is why we need a GoT Prequel" WELL HERE WE ARE
Thought the same lol
"Bloodraven really needs his own video"... well?
João Oakenspeare nah. R.I.P
They will just steal their own video!! :D
Just finished the Dunk and Egg novellas and would love the lowdown on Bloodraven, at least one that leans heavily on his book version as the show version doesn't really touch on his Bloodraven history or appearance
I read them too & loved them
What a Boss!
"Joffrey uses his sword to slay a book..... and then a pie....and then he dies" I spat out coffee all over my laptop.... damn you guys ...XD XD XD
well the one time we saw him try to fight with a regular steel sword, Arya kicked his little ass.
Haha
It would be interesting to see Jorah's reaction to Jon wielding longclaw ? GoT writers: "Ain't anybody got time for that ?"
Well he did react to it in season 7, he just wasn’t bothered that Jon had it, since he dishonoured his family and gave up his position.
OK so I was listening to this in the background as he was speaking about Daemon and one eyed Aemond and I really wish I could roll back time because holy shit thats yet to happen in House of the Dragon (the prequel he wishes that existed...)
It's so sad to hear all this stuff now, at the light of season 8... everything you people say is far, far more interesting, promising and in one word... cool, than anything that happened.
@Salmon we never gonna get DoS
damn. three eyed raven really got around.
Rahul Seoparsan are we talking about bran or tree wizard guy, cuz if it's bran. Well... FUCK BRAN FOR KILLING HODOR
+Nymeria73 didn't seem too fucked up until Bran traveled to the time in the past while the current Hodor was being killed
Adaneth bran actually fxcked Hodor twice. First time he made him mental then got him killed. Fxck Bran
9:58 your wishes were fulfilled
Two thing to say here: 1. I think Valyrian steel is made by merging regular steel with a dragon lords blood or by using steel in some other form of blood magic 2. Perhaps Dawn (the sword of house Dayne) could kill a White Walker as it is known to have similar properties to Valyrian steel. Maybe Valyrian steel comes from space just like the metal Dawn is made of.
"...and finally became a tree-wizard-man." What a sentence.
DRUID, The word he was looking for was Druid......
So is the guy from zelda secretly one?..... "its dangerous to go alone"
It turns out Jorah's reaction to seeing Jon with Longclaw is extremely mild-mannered and sympathetic.
I think he was just happy knowing that John avenged his father's murder using Longclaw and that the sword is in possession of the king in the north, who Jorah can probably tell right away is an abnormally good and moral man for someone in such a seat of power.
@@22steve5150 Exactly. Add that to the fact that Jon Snow (Targaryen) immediately attempted to return Long Claw to Jorah when he met him in Season 7. I think in Jorah's eyes this act of kindness only furthered his resolve that the sword was in the right hands.
Its also because of Jorah's actions in the past that he feels he doesn't deserve the sword, but aside from that: If Jon offers it to Jorah, he also has to offer it to Lyanna Mormont.
The Valyrian daggers are only thrown about and given away lightly by Euron. There's few if any other characters in Westeros who would be giving away such valuable blades like it was nothing. So that's why Tywin couldn't just buy up daggers to make a Valyrian sword. And they're also probably also scarce, apart from Euron's and LIttlefinger's daggers, I don't think any others are mentioned anywhere.
The part you talked about Daemon and Darksister....Whelp I know what's gonna happen in the next couple seasons of HOTD
In 15 years from now
The books have been out for years jow have u avoided spoilers
@@aryankumar7283 they need to make a show about Valyria before & during the Doom
You see those Dothraki from Essos? They've got curved sword. Curved. Swords.
I couldn't help but think the exact same thing when he mentioned it. I even heard it in the guard's voice
@Ben Jefferson Apparently, GRRM intended the arakh's to be more like talwars or shamshirs. Which is a more appropriate weapon for horse-back.
Image 13137 you have committed crimes against Westeros and her people. What do you say in your defense?
Big CURVED penises
@@pattmcruss4604 it was just a sweetroll
"Joffrey, meanwhile, uses his Valerian sword to slay a book, then a pie, then he dies" I love it.
"This is why we need a Game of Thrones sequel guys" So happy House of the Dragon has been such a success. Hope they do that scene justice.
*prequel, but yeah I agree!
"This is why we need a game of thrones prequel movie guys" That aged like fine wine
"the sword will play a big role in jon's fight against he white walkers" *season 8 happens* It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony
something very interesting about bastards swords is that it is a sword that can be wielded with one or two hands. In terms of the bastard sword being a metaphor it shows how he has learnt a lot from Neds iconic 2 handed wielding method and his true fathers 1 handed talgaryen/valyrian heritage but overall classed as a BASTARD sword a true overall representation for Jons unique character.
karos rauf basterd swords are typically 2-3 inchs longer then a 1 handed long sword, and about 1/2 an inch wider at the base. Most basterd swords are also have about 3 inches of extra handle so the second hand could grip the pomel in the base of your palm thats the hand and a half bit. A full two handed long sword ofter had enough room for two hands without them touching each other.
A bastard sword is just a slightly smaller sub-classification of a long sword. So when he said it was longer in the video *shudder* Also one-handed swords are called Arming swords, not Longswords. Longswords are mainly 2 handed, but as Caleb & Ducky have said can be wielded with one hand.
You can hear to the hope in his voice for strong play to come. Such sweet tragedy
9:58 "That's why we need a GoT prequel movie" Years later, your wish has been granted, and far better than expected.
You could have made up 100% of everything and I wouldn't have known
You could be making that up and we wouldn't know.
impactofredemption *citation needed
+Jon Findlay, so you just believe that of whom you're the biggest fanboy? That's what it seems to me.
Buttsaggington55 lmao
Buttsaggington55 hahahaha real or not it's still useless information
I want to see Lyanna Mormont just scold the shit out of Jorah when they meet.
Ha Ha Ha. Right? lol.
lol yes
it's more likely that she'll simply ask to be allowed to kill him. She is a northerner to the bone and he dishonored their family not only by slaving but then again by running. Also, his presence in westeros could call her rule into question.
I think we're gonna see her break her stoic lady persona for a moment and exclaim something along the lines of "Uncle Jorah!!" and maybe run up to hug him, then remember why he left and then scold/punish him.
Season 7 spoilers! If you haven't seen the episode as of 8/20, don't read. She's...10? Jorah has been gone since at least 7 seasons (years), and was in prison before that. I doubt she's ever seen him, even as an infant. She won't recognize him, though his honor may bind him to apologize. Now that there's evidence of walkers and how powerful they are, a skilled swordsman will be defended by Jon as necessary. If they're calling for an ending of human combat until the walkers are killed...he's probably safe. He was probably safe since the woman with dragons is his closest friend anyway.
You were right about prequel and that too about the fight of daemon vs aemond. That's gonna be insane, and you predicted it. Bravo
After 6 years of this video we have a prequel serie of GOT and we finally could see daemon killing Aemond above the eye of god❤
There is a sword that you missed. It is called Poison and belongs to "House Vunatis". A dynasty of pirates on the island of Bloodstone in the Stepstones. They stole it in ancient times from a merchant or something if I remember correctly.
That's a CK2 mod? Not canon
Jon Snow: I have your sword, here take it Jorah: Naw mate, i'm good. You're the man, you keep it. Jon Snow: aww thanks man That's basically what happened
And then Sam gave Jorah a Valeryian sword more fitting for his size
The three eyed raven cannot see things that happened in essos which ia where valarya is because it's out of his scope.
"Randyll will want his sword back." Randyll kind of forgot about his house's ancestral blade.
Turns out this whole White Walker thing was blown way out of proportion! The issue was resolved within an hour, with one sneak attack by Arya sneakily screaming while jumping at Mr. smirk face Night King, and doing the good old switcheroo.
How fitting, little finger DID die by that dagger. :)
In the dogshit that HBO is trying to pass off as an adaptation of ASOIAF.
Is it me OR in da thumbnail on da right the sword look like Ghidorha;-;.
@@chekkat8956 that’s oathkeeper and it doesn’t look like gidorah any more than any other dragon imo
Can't bran just see back in time to when valerian was still making the steal and learn how to make it?
Jack Dalton technically yes, but the show- producers are dumb. And george martin only writes the books, not the show, so i think this would only happen in the books. Did you see how stupid the last two seasons were in comparison to the other 5 before? Yeah thats when the seasons came before the book, and not the other way around.
MrGollum1996 six was okay. Five was bad but not outrageously. Personally I think that season seven was the only season that could be considered a crime to George R. R. Martin's legacy. Sadly it probably won't get any better.
Unless you cannot get all the ingredients to make it. Bran is no swordsmith either :P
Potentially, yes, but there are a few problems, first and foremost being that right now he doesn't have the time, the White Walkers are too close. Another problem is how his abilities work, he can watch the Master Smiths of old Valyria work but he can't participate himself, it's a big difference watching a video of work being done and doing it yourself. And lastly, I'm pretty sure a major component of making Dragon Steel (the other name for Valyrian Steel) is Dragon Fire, currently there are only two around, neither available for smith duties
You need dragon fire to forge the obsidian (mineral base of valarian steel aka dragon glass). He hasn't met Dany and her dragons yet.
This guy gave too much thought into something that the writers gave no thought to. Great video I just wish the writers would’ve watched this before season 8
9:29:00 Season 1 of the Prequel, that we wanted back when this video came out, is in the books! The showdown at Gods Eye is looking fantastic at this point.
This video isn't 9 hours long man lol
@@I_am_a_cat_ get a life and go to the 9 minute mark
As always...Great work, Shift!! There was much more than I would've expected for a relatively simple topic. Now, only 180 more swords for you to research then your work on Valyrian swords will be complete.
Thee Stevie Franchise haha ikr he works so hard on always finding so much cool info, he'd definitely be a maester in citadel if he lived in the world of got 😍
Arya mentions the sword, "Darksister," to Tywin, when she's his cup bearer at Harrenhall.
In the show or the books?
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huh!? such a keen observer!
@@mayank5341 if you read the books then you'll know its impossible for the answer to have been books. Arya never met twyin in the books, It was Roose Bolton at Harrenhal
watching this now... very sad spoild dance of the dragons season 2 for myself with Amounds death but I guess I was wondering how Vhagar was gonna be dealt with becuase 12 v 4 dragons sounds all well and good until you relise Vhagar can just chomp most of them...
Each time I come back to your videos I think I love them even more than the last time
Dude, your pronunciation, accent and pause is so freaking good... Can you narrate my life?!?!
Ricardo Garcia Aburto --- No, his pronunciation and enunciation is fucking terrible, an Australian trying his hardest to sound English and failing. He's pronouncing everything in his own manner, nothing like the show.
"nothing like the show" Why does it have to be like the show..? Fucking picky, aren't you?
"He was about to walk into a wall." "Oh, thanks dude."
@@Liofa73 he just sounds like an Aussie... You idiot.
Liofa we get it; ur english
Correct me if I am wrong but in the show, Jaime didn't name the sword; he let Brienne name it and she chose "Oathkeeper." I don't know about the books though.
Buenomars yep
Buenomars in show yep, in books nope
Buenomars i just read the book. Didnt jaime give briennes Joffreys sword?
And yesterday we learnt Jamie keeps Jeoffrey's sword on his belt
Buenomars i was about to say that, you are correct i watched that episode a few days ago... again
I'm not sure how I didn't watch this video years ago. I was a huge ASX fan during the original GoT series and watched everything. This popped up on my feed today, the same day as the season 1 finale of House of the Dragon. If you haven't seen it yet, do not watch this video because there are huge spoilers in it for HotD; unintentional spoilers. We will have to see if they play out in the coming seasons but it is difficult to see them altering that story so much that these spoilers become useless.
10:00 Your wish came true!!, Gloriously in House of the dragon.
Imagine how cool it would be if there was ever a Game of Thrones open world game and one side quest would be to collect all of the Valyrian steel swords. One example could be stealing the sword from Randyll Tarly (probably would be an easier one) and another example could be traveling all the way to Valyria itself to steal back the Lannister's sword that was lost there (would be one of the harder ones to collect). I think that would be fucking dope.
The Tarly's one is easy: train with Arya to be a faceless man, kill a servant or a Tarly's relative, and bam!
I honestly can't wait for a Got open world game where players can choose from solders, mercenaries, outlaws or characters like that, we don't get to be involve in every single plot twist that we already know from the book but those decisions subtlety changes the world around and the quests. I would honestly die for a game like that
Like Elder Scrolls V Skyrim on steroids
Mount and blade warband, a world of ice and fire mod is the closest you’ll get
It would be cool if in that open world game you have roles you answer questions first and the game automaticly chooses based on your answers which house your on or what ever your role is there is a king and a leader for each house and you could go to wars and go in quest like what you said
Have you ever done a video on dawn, the sword of house dayne, not valyrian steel, but said to be as sharp
Not yet..
ooh, that could be a really good video
The Button Man Not much information is available about it, so far everything we know about it is relatively speculative since the characters that have seen the sword in person (Ned, Jaime, Cersei, Tyrion) haven't described it in their POV's. The Dayne history is being intentionally withheld by GRRM, either to fuel speculation or simply as a safety net, in case he decides to add House Dayne as a major part of the story.
Basically valerian steel but white
Dawn is said to be as sharp as Valyrian steel. It is possible that Dawn will be used in the war between humans and the White Walkers. Plus there are theories that Dawn could be the original Lightbringer that Azor Ahai used.
Crazy how we’ve gotten HOTD now
"..on raids with Red Rain in the reach" I like that sentence.
After the Game of Thrones ends they should make a separate season that covers Robert's Rebellion. I'd really love to see Rhaegar Targaryen "The Last Dragon", just imagine seeing a younger Ser Barristan Selmy, a full scene of Ser Jaime Lannister killing King Aerys Targaryen II, Battle of the Trident, and all the tournaments like the one when Prince Rhaegar Targaryen gives Lyanna Stark that blue crown of flowers instead of his own wife, Elia Martell. Like my comment if you'll love to see a season or two of Robert's Rebellion.
I think it has a nice chance of happening, werent they making like 2-3 spin offs after Game of Thrones finished?
It would be awesome to have a prequel about Robert's rebellion but sadly Martin will never let that happen. He said that RR and Dunk & Egg will not be adapted onto the screen. Tho they are working on some prequels but its not known what it is, my guess is Dance of Dragons.
All of that with it wrapped up by Danys birth to transition into GoT kinda like what Rogue One did
I want that, to see the Battle of the Trident, Aerys’ death in full, Rickard and Brandon Stark’s brutal executions, Rhaegar’s annulment and the Sack of Kings Landing. I would love to see a young Robert Baratheon smashing his mighty war hammer into Rhaegar’s chest and scattering Rhaegar’s Rubies into the Trident, killing him. Maybe 1 or 2 seasons of Robert’s Rebellion would be great.
i just want to see a belly-less robert
"This is why we need a Targaryen prequel." BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU
I think you should start updating the descriptions with "spoilers for HOTD ahead"
Can you please make History videos using this kind of detailed explanation? ;P
Daniel Felipe I second that idea. Do videos for the historical events in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli =)
"Alt Shift X just uploaded a video" is the only thing that makes me click this fast
Hear hear.
Your profile pic triggers me
Burrrnnnn 😂😂😂😂😂
for real i was wondering when i wrote that comment until i read the name lmao
9:50 Hey I was rooting for that guy, damn
They need a prequel movie. 5 years later House of the Dragon on HBO Max
What a tangled web Martin did weave.
After watching ep.3 of season 8 all this theoretikal end‘s seem better than the ending of today‘s episode
damn just accidentally spoiled some future house of the dragon shit😭
FAKK ME just got spoiled that daemon kills aemond in house of dragon
Discovering your channel only after season eight makes me just so mad
One of the great differences between steel and iron is the small addition of about 1-2% carbon. This gives steel more flexibility and a sharper edge, so it is not shattered by the striking of sword or shield. The addition of carbon is important, yet more important is the removal of impurities (slag) from the iron, further adding to the strength and flexibility of steel. In the days of old, this was done with the addition of glass. When melted together with iron, carbon, and many other minerals at extremely high temperatures, the impurities would chemically bind to the glass and float to the top of the crucible and would be removed. I wonder what kind of glass was used to craft Valyrian steel???
Brett Carter dragon glass probably
someone above DID say dragon glass WAS used to make the steel, perhaps this was the way? someone also told a possible way that they would learn how it was made
@@thetemplar8167 It's not like that was a rhetorical or anything...
I never knew that about glass and steel. It makes sense that adding some silica et al to the iron may help it slag up the impurities, like some kind of flux (or anti-flux?).
You must be in to metallurgy
Ending on “Hodor Targaryian” was a nice touch. Gave me a chuckle. Also, way to flex that you’re more clever than Tywin by suggesting just melting down a bunch of Valyrian steel daggers. By the way cats paw gets traded around like nothing, it does stand to reason that they’re far less valued than swords.
Good to see that despite Season 8's ending, interest in ASOIAF and the world of GoT hasn't died down
People loved the books decades before the show even existed
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 yeah, so hopefully the love for the world of ASOIAF continues for decades more
The way I understand the dagger situation is that nobody is willing to part with any amount of valyrian steel for any amount of money, keeping Tywin from buying any amount of it to reforge. In fact, I believe at one point the books specifically reference how even broke noble families will never sell their Valyrian blades. Euron, being the magic-obsessed raider that he is, located the daggers, which, while more common than full swords, would still be considered priceless, but he claims them with iron, not gold, killing their owners to assemble his badass loot pile.
Or he really went to Valyria