I choose to ignore whole “revenge/vengeance is a bad and destructive thing” theme until Boltons face the most violent deaths imaginable. Monstrous scavengers
"The fat man would like to kill us all though he doesn't have the belly for it" - Lady Dustin If she only knew what he had the stomach for she would probably lose her mind. She ate that "seasoned pork" just as he did. 🤢🤮
@@atlash6387 that's a good point, she is highly intelligent and observant so you would think she would see through Wyman's act. He is also clearly gifted at deception but still you would think some would at least suspect he is up to something. I think Roose is aware or at least wary that he might try something, he says that doesn't trust him. That's probably one reason why Wyman has to eat the pie as well, it says Roose wouldn't take a bite of anything until he saw Wyman eating it first.
She underestimates wyman manderly as how catelyn and jaime underestimated petyr baelish. Both are extremely dangerous players in the game of thrones, except wyman manderly isn't a pedophilic war instigator.
guys, maybe it's just the fact that *baking people into a pie* is actually beyond most peoples expectations, even if they were 100% certain he was gonna betray them 😂
George really is a magician with his writing. Throughout the entire series I really enjoy how you get POV's from different "title's" of people. Kings, queens, lowborn, peasants, normals, schemers... Amazing.
That's why I keep returning to these books. Unlike most authors, George BECOMES all of his characters, regardless of their age, status or gender. They feel human&real & we understand and feel their inner worlds. There aren't many lowborn leads, sadly. Unless you count the prologues, Davos,Mel&Areo are the only lowborn POV's and they don't live a peasant's life anymore.
@@notdeadjustyet8136 conversely, Arya is highborn but doesn't life a highborn's life anymore. We see the life of a peasant (mouse) from her perspective, and she's more attentive to it because it's all new to her.
I keep forgetting to comment on a Ramsey chapter that the voice you use for him is so good. He sounds absolutely terrifying in the final scene. I can feel the terror as if I were in the room with him. When he gets angry I can just imagine feeling afraid to even breathe for fear he will turn his anger on me. I also forgot to comment on the first time he reveals himself in Clash was one of my favorite moments in all these narrations. When you said, "Ramsey" in that sinister voice for the first time i thought that it was perfect. Just the way you delivered it and hearing that voice for the first time was kind of badass if I'm being honest. XD
God, what a horrible chapter. Sexual violence really upsets me, I feel so bad for Theon and Jayne. Also think it’s important to point out how the show makes it kind of gratuitous and the books do not.
Its amazing how Mance blends in so well while being the chief entertainer for all these northern lords lmao, he's slick. Hoping he survives TWOW, but him escaping after the final Theon chapter seems unlikely
There's a theory that he will lure Ramsay to the crypts and trap him in there , then he will use the ruby cuff from Mel to glamour himself as Ramsay. The pink letter was written by Mance glamoured as Ramsay
Sorry to the last two comments for spoiling. I didn't know there would be first timers on this channel, my bad yall Tbh when I first read "Abel and his washerwomen" in Dance I thought it was sort of obvious that it was mance, but ASOIAF is a huge story so I guess it's understandable that it isn't obvious to everyone.
@@abo0sharkas The Frey envoys that were with Wyman and disapeared, wyman most likely took them captive after they were no longer his ghuests and stuffed them in the dungeons then cut of pieces to stuff into the pies, in this passage he fed these pies to the other Freys and the other ghuests.
@@DavidReadsASoIaF i love how everyone except Robert even people who fought against him respect prince Rheagar. To the point that everyone thinks the Frey Rheagar is an insult to the name. I completly understand Wymans "special fondness" for him since he mentioned that he would beat Wymans beloved grandaughter.
If any fictional character deserves to die a slow agonising brutal death, it's Ramsay! These chapters make me so angry! Why won't bloodraven send a pack of wolves to kill Ramsay?!
Hmm i suspect its bc the boltons are powerful wargs who warg into other humans. Probably sacrifice to the heart tree. Beggers cant be choosers when i comes to blood magic? 🥶
@@EnderWarden well the story is copyrighted so when they catch on they will probabally remove it. David maybe you could upload backups to a diffrent site or something? And is there a way that i can download your chapters so that I can listen to them while on vacation?
Horrific chapter. Theon reminiscing in what remains in winterfell, and the bedding of fArya. Theon is such a tragic character to me, and anyone that says he deserves what he gets from ramsay disgust me. Hope ramsay gets burnt alive by the true king of westeros.
Just simply X out of it if it’s not in your “standards!!!” Why even make a comment such as this! WOW!! Reckon you can’t appreciate the effort… although everyone’s entitled their own opinion! Why not make suggestions in a constructive manner!!🤦🏼♂️
I haven't listened to this one yet, but i get giddy when i see a new post. You do a great job, so much better than the original audio book. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hope your cat is well. 😄
I have often felt distressed during my readings of asoiaf but nothing really compares to this chapter for me. I feel legitimately sick when reading it, everything is just soaked in despair and sadness, and the end is simply horrifying and twisted. Fantastic writing and voice acting.
4:47 When Reek named Jon. I wonder If the northmen considered the Ned Stark's bastard son More worthy of Winterfell than the Roose Bolton's legitimated bastard?
Is Lady Dustin bitter about the fact that she didn't marry one of the stark kids of lord Rickard? Maybe she had a chance in marrying Ned's older brother, her house might've been planning to request that of the lord of winterfell
She supposedly had a romance with Brandon Stark (Ned's elder brother) before he was betrothed to Catelyn Tully. She ended up marrying Willam Dustin who fought and died at the Tower of Joy with Ned. Ned mysteriously refused to bring back Willam's bones or even reveal where his corpse is to Barbery, but Ned rode Willam's horse back North which is doubly insulting. So she holds a lot of resentment towards Ned, so much so that she took it upon herself to stop Ned's bones from returning to the North at all costs.
@@Phaanja Oh... that makes more sense. I thought she was so bitter Ned's brother didn't call back that she wanted to feed Ned's bones to her dogs. That seemed out of proportion to me.
Out of all chapters(which i can picture very well) but these reek chapters are like a mini movie in my head. Its definitely the way you read them no doubt!
Looks like there is inner circle in The Citadel and some Maesters are part of it. What is the plan? To bring Blackfyre to the Iron Throne or even older to kill all dragons and remove Targaryen dynasty from Westeros?
To establish a capitalistic industrial and democratic society where they control the flow and access to information while everybody else is just a slavewage thinking they are now free cause they have no lords or kings.
It’s kind of implied that the maesters (for the most part) don’t really like magic and possibly even conspired to make dragons go extinct/destroy the Targaryen dynasty slowly. The last part is definitely a chance theory but I feel like it makes sense that the “scientists” of this world would want to limit the power of magic.
Theon thinks that Ned was cold to him... He should know that everyone thought that even His children at Times He also outghta Join the 13 that will follow Jon because they need him as their 7 fingered Archer
If Ned was cold to his children, imagine how much colder he was to Theon. Theon was Ned's hostage/captive, was being held to be used against his father, Balon. Had Ned given Theon even a little love, things might have been different & Theon might not have become a traitor. Who knows.
If the iron isles were to do any fuck shit it was Ned’s duty to take Theon’s head off, he made sure Theon was comfortable but yea usually you don’t wanna get too close to an animal if there’s a good chance you’ll have to butcher it. Sad reality and It sucks ned didn’t do more but their society doesn’t work lmao
Mance: It's a wonderful day for pie. You can ask all the birds in the sky And they'll tell you real sweet, with a musical tweet. Lord Manderly: It's a wonderful day for pie!
The pacing seems a little off to me. Stannis in Winterfell in a fortnight? How much is that? Half the book happens in two weeks? a month? Stannis is still not there by the end.
Pretty sure that actually was bran talking to theon, whereas that vision of ned in the godswood was probably Ned's imagination. Here, bran really is there.
From the chapter: ---- The nearest thing she has to living kin. Theon Greyjoy had grown up with Arya Stark. Theon would have known an imposter. If he was seen to accept Bolton’s feigned girl as Arya, the northern lords who had gathered to bear witness to the match would have no grounds to question her legitimacy. Stout and Slate, Whoresbane Umber, the quarrelsome Ryswells, Hornwood men and Cerywn cousins, fat Lord Wyman Manderly … not one of them had known Ned Stark’s daughters half so well as he. And if a few entertained private doubts, surely they would be wise enough to keep those misgivings to themselves. They are using me to cloak their deception, putting mine own face on their lie. That was why Roose Bolton had clothed him as a lord again, to play his part in this mummer’s farce. Once that was done, once their false Arya had been wedded and bedded, Bolton would have no more use for Theon Turncloak. “Serve us in this, and when Stannis is defeated we will discuss how best to restore you to your father’s seat,” his lordship had said in that soft voice of his, a voice made for lies and whispers. Theon never believed a word of it. He would dance this dance for them because he had no choice, but afterward … He will give me back to Ramsay then, he thought, and Ramsay will take a few more fingers and turn me into Reek once more. Unless the gods were good, and Stannis Baratheon descended on Winterfell and put all of them to the sword, himself included. That was the best he could hope for. It was warmer in the godswood, strange to say. Beyond its confines, a hard white frost gripped Winterfell. The paths were treacherous with black ice, and hoarfrost sparkled in the moonlight on the broken panes of the Glass Gardens. Drifts of dirty snow had piled up against the walls, filling every nook and corner. Some were so high they hid the doors behind them. Under the snow lay grey ash and cinders, and here and there a blackened beam or a pile of bones adorned with scraps of skin and hair. Icicles long as lances hung from the battlements and fringed the towers like an old man’s stiff white whiskers. But inside the godswood, the ground remained unfrozen, and steam rose off the hot pools, as warm as baby’s breath. The bride was garbed in white and grey, the colors the true Arya would have worn had she lived long enough to wed. Theon wore black and gold, his cloak pinned to his shoulder by a crude iron kraken that a smith in Barrowton had hammered together for him. But under the hood, his hair was white and thin, and his flesh had an old man’s greyish undertone. A Stark at last, he thought. Arm in arm, the bride and he passed through an arched stone door, as wisps of fog stirred round their legs. The drum was as tremulous as a maiden’s heart, the pipes high and sweet and beckoning. Up above the treetops, a crescent moon was floating in a dark sky, half-obscured by mist, like an eye peering through a veil of silk. Theon Greyjoy was no stranger to this godswood. He had played here as a boy, skipping stones across the cold black pool beneath the weirwood, hiding his treasures in the bole of an ancient oak, stalking squirrels with a bow he made himself. Later, older, he had soaked his bruises in the hot springs after many a session in the yard with Robb and Jory and Jon Snow. In amongst these chestnuts and elms and soldier pines he had found secret places where he could hide when he wanted to be alone. The first time he had ever kissed a girl had been here. Later, a different girl had made a man of him upon a ragged quilt in the shade of that tall grey-green sentinel. He had never seen the godswood like this, though-grey and ghostly, filled with warm mists and floating lights and whispered voices that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere. Beneath the trees, the hot springs steamed. Warm vapors rose from the earth, shrouding the trees in their moist breath, creeping up the walls to draw grey curtains across the watching windows. There was a path of sorts, a meandering footpath of cracked stones overgrown with moss, half-buried beneath blown dirt and fallen leaves and made treacherous by thick brown roots pushing up from underneath. He led the bride along it. Jeyne, her name is Jeyne, it rhymes with pain. He must not think that, though. Should that name pass his lips, it might cost him a finger or an ear. He walked slowly, watching every step. His missing toes made him hobble when he hurried, and it would not do to stumble. Mar Lord Ramsay’s wedding with a misstep, and Lord Ramsay might rectify such clumsiness by flaying the offending foot. The mists were so thick that only the nearest trees were visible; beyond them stood tall shadows and faint lights. Candles flickered beside the wandering path and back amongst the trees, pale fireflies floating in a warm grey soup. It felt like some strange underworld, some timeless place between the worlds, where the damned wandered mournfully for a time before finding their way down to whatever hell their sins had earned them. Are we all dead, then? Did Stannis come and kill us in our sleep? Is the battle yet to come, or has it been fought and lost? Here and there a torch burned hungrily, casting its ruddy glow over the faces of the wedding guests. The way the mists threw back the shifting light made their features seem bestial, half-human, twisted. Lord Stout became a mastiff, old Lord Locke a vulture, Whoresbane Umber a gargoyle, Big Walder Frey a fox, Little Walder a red bull, lacking only a ring for his nose. Roose Bolton’s own face was a pale grey mask, with two chips of dirty ice where his eyes should be. Above their heads the trees were full of ravens, their feathers fluffed as they hunched on bare brown branches, staring down at the pageantry below. Maester Luwin’s birds. Luwin was dead, and his maester’s tower had been put to the torch, yet the ravens lingered. This is their home. Theon wondered what that would be like, to have a home. Then the mists parted, like the curtain opening at a mummer show to reveal some new tableau. The heart tree appeared in front of them, its bony limbs spread wide. Fallen leaves lay about the wide white trunk in drifts of red and brown. The ravens were the thickest here, muttering to one another in the murderers’ secret tongue. Ramsay Bolton stood beneath them, clad in high boots of soft grey leather and a black velvet doublet slashed with pink silk and glittering with garnet teardrops. A smile danced across his face. “Who comes?” His lips were moist, his neck red above his collar. “Who comes before the god?” Theon answered. “Arya of House Stark comes here to be wed. A woman grown and flowered, trueborn and noble, she comes to beg the blessings of the gods. Who comes to claim her?” (A Dance with Dragons - Chapter 37 - The Prince of Winterfell)
It's never explicitly stated. But it was a popular fan theory because of him saying he's no longer a man. It could also be a reference to him turning into Reek
It's confirmed, he says that "lord bolton only took some fingers and toes… and that other thing" and in this chapter they make a point of he doesn't have what's required to ready jane sexualy
@@highgrounder2012 not really because in next chapter he says he wants to hit the camp follower/singer's girl kiss her fuck her but he better not do any of that
@@numbii6172 ... It's definitely implied that Theon no longer has his p*nis. He says that Ramsay took "his other thing", Here Ramsay mocks him & says "you're no longer a man, truth be told". Later, when Ramsay tells him to get Jayne ready, he panics & says "my lord, I have no".....? Ramsay cuts him off & says use your tongue. Theon was definitely castrated or so it seems.
He's captured and brought to the Dreadfort at the end of ACOK, he's tortured during ASOS and Ramsay mails a piece of skin to his dad so he can show it to Lady Stark.
I can't stand the way this girl made up "horse face" as a nickname for Arya & the way she and Sansa would say it to her face, to her back, neigh at her whenever she passed by etc. Truly disgusting to hurt a little girl that way. Sansa was a horrible sister, her job was to protect her baby sister, not join others only to mock her, humiliate her, laugh at her etc. Not saying that she deserves the horrible things she's enduring with Ramsey as no one deserves that. I pity anyone who ends up in Ramsey's hands. Dude is beyond evil.
everytime something's described as a mummer's farce, I take a drink
Even Tyrion wouldn't survive that much booze.
Can we also add the curse "Seven Hells" and "Words are Wind" to the drinking game? 🤣
And “to be sure” or “a man grown”
@@samuelconner332 fuck that’d be a drinking game, Great John Umber would have struggle standing by the end of
How long have you been dead?
I choose to ignore whole “revenge/vengeance is a bad and destructive thing” theme until Boltons face the most violent deaths imaginable. Monstrous scavengers
Oh, they will die. But it won't be vengeance, only justice.
Roose's other son seemed decent.
Roose was lord of harrenhal. They are destined to die.
@@simonrobillardI see what you did there 👍
Bran is the wind through the leaves.
"The fat man would like to kill us all though he doesn't have the belly for it" - Lady Dustin
If she only knew what he had the stomach for she would probably lose her mind. She ate that "seasoned pork" just as he did. 🤢🤮
Why do you think she didn't suspected. Noone like Freys.
@@atlash6387 that's a good point, she is highly intelligent and observant so you would think she would see through Wyman's act. He is also clearly gifted at deception but still you would think some would at least suspect he is up to something. I think Roose is aware or at least wary that he might try something, he says that doesn't trust him. That's probably one reason why Wyman has to eat the pie as well, it says Roose wouldn't take a bite of anything until he saw Wyman eating it first.
She underestimates wyman manderly as how catelyn and jaime underestimated petyr baelish.
Both are extremely dangerous players in the game of thrones, except wyman manderly isn't a pedophilic war instigator.
guys, maybe it's just the fact that *baking people into a pie* is actually beyond most peoples expectations, even if they were 100% certain he was gonna betray them 😂
I love how Dave uses a picture of a scene from the chapter he is reading - it helps you visualize what he is reading
George really is a magician with his writing. Throughout the entire series I really enjoy how you get POV's from different "title's" of people. Kings, queens, lowborn, peasants, normals, schemers... Amazing.
That's why I keep returning to these books. Unlike most authors, George BECOMES all of his characters, regardless of their age, status or gender. They feel human&real & we understand and feel their inner worlds. There aren't many lowborn leads, sadly. Unless you count the prologues, Davos,Mel&Areo are the only lowborn POV's and they don't live a peasant's life anymore.
@@notdeadjustyet8136 conversely, Arya is highborn but doesn't life a highborn's life anymore. We see the life of a peasant (mouse) from her perspective, and she's more attentive to it because it's all new to her.
There's actually no king with a POV chapter in the entire series.
Along with others that comment I like that you disperse the real Theon voice from the reek voice, it shows the slow gain of the character who was
Every single wedding we see in ASOIAF is depressing af. Perhaps the one at the wall is the merriest of the bunch,but...
Idk if he said it in the books but varys said he hated weddings lol
joffreys wedding was fantastic
@@no4h153not for j*ffrey or c*rsei
@@no4h153Hahaha true that
@@vanessasempireoftwigs198😂 So does Martin apparently 😜 I remember the scene. I don't think it's a line from the books though.
I also love how he individualized each characters voice as well to suit them - Top Marks
Manderly fed them the missing freys, no pork in those pies.
That’s that long pig
Probably the most disturbing chapter in the series for me. "Reek bent to his task." *shudders*
My mouth was so wide open for the whole scene that I damn near popped my jaw out of place.
Is this chapter suppose to say that ramsay let his hound raped jeyne poole ???
before i read the books i was told that ramsay was 10x as cruel and disgusting than he was in the show. this chapter confirmed that for me.
Bro..
It’s like once Ned stark died all of the honor died in the north and became as treacherous as kings landing
I keep forgetting to comment on a Ramsey chapter that the voice you use for him is so good. He sounds absolutely terrifying in the final scene. I can feel the terror as if I were in the room with him. When he gets angry I can just imagine feeling afraid to even breathe for fear he will turn his anger on me.
I also forgot to comment on the first time he reveals himself in Clash was one of my favorite moments in all these narrations. When you said, "Ramsey" in that sinister voice for the first time i thought that it was perfect. Just the way you delivered it and hearing that voice for the first time was kind of badass if I'm being honest. XD
Thanks! That’s really nice of you to say!
God, what a horrible chapter. Sexual violence really upsets me, I feel so bad for Theon and Jayne. Also think it’s important to point out how the show makes it kind of gratuitous and the books do not.
Agreed.
Its amazing how Mance blends in so well while being the chief entertainer for all these northern lords lmao, he's slick. Hoping he survives TWOW, but him escaping after the final Theon chapter seems unlikely
There's a theory that he will lure Ramsay to the crypts and trap him in there , then he will use the ruby cuff from Mel to glamour himself as Ramsay. The pink letter was written by Mance glamoured as Ramsay
What's wrong with you?!!
careful ... for the readers going in first time.
Sorry to the last two comments for spoiling. I didn't know there would be first timers on this channel, my bad yall
Tbh when I first read "Abel and his washerwomen" in Dance I thought it was sort of obvious that it was mance, but ASOIAF is a huge story so I guess it's understandable that it isn't obvious to everyone.
@@macnsteez3938 if you were truly sorry you would delete it so you don’t spoil it for anybody else.
Even your cat feels bad for Theon.
31:20 - 32:01 will never not be the sexiest passage in all of literature, even knowing what’s in the pies. I get full just reading GRRM writing
Who is in the pies? Anyone specific? And how do you know?
@@abo0sharkas The Frey envoys that were with Wyman and disapeared, wyman most likely took them captive after they were no longer his ghuests and stuffed them in the dungeons then cut of pieces to stuff into the pies, in this passage he fed these pies to the other Freys and the other ghuests.
@@oz4087 I love Roose mentioning to Ramsay, "to hear [Lord Wyman] tell it, he had become especially fond of Rhaegar....."
@@DavidReadsASoIaF i love how everyone except Robert even people who fought against him respect prince Rheagar. To the point that everyone thinks the Frey Rheagar is an insult to the name. I completly understand Wymans "special fondness" for him since he mentioned that he would beat Wymans beloved grandaughter.
This chapter also confirms that Theons other finger was indeed cut dang Ramsay is 100% ruthless. They would keep that part for the show wow.
If any fictional character deserves to die a slow agonising brutal death, it's Ramsay! These chapters make me so angry! Why won't bloodraven send a pack of wolves to kill Ramsay?!
It's as if he's good for nothing!
He's just a "walking" (not really walking) encyclopedia with an agenda that benefits only him, Brynden.
Hmm i suspect its bc the boltons are powerful wargs who warg into other humans. Probably sacrifice to the heart tree. Beggers cant be choosers when i comes to blood magic? 🥶
because bloodraven is also evil
@@michaelstark8720no he ain’t
@@luckyluis1203 yes he is
I hope Stannis swarms down on those beasts and wipes them out before they realize who has come!
Let's hope so.
1k subs goooo DAVID! i wish janos slynt was still alive so i could hear u hit that "that beast!?!? A waaaaargg! I am jaaaa noss SLYNT!" lol
I hope youtube doesn't come after him
@@basedchimera5859 1k is still small enough and the content he does doesn't concern youtube.
@@EnderWarden well the story is copyrighted so when they catch on they will probabally remove it. David maybe you could upload backups to a diffrent site or something? And is there a way that i can download your chapters so that I can listen to them while on vacation?
@@BertRoer good idea. ima archive it all.
Now it's 2k
Horrific chapter. Theon reminiscing in what remains in winterfell, and the bedding of fArya.
Theon is such a tragic character to me, and anyone that says he deserves what he gets from ramsay disgust me.
Hope ramsay gets burnt alive by the true king of westeros.
there’s something so gut-churning about the last line of this chapter “reek bent to his task”
I can't wait to hear Ramsay's death scene. There is no possibility that Martian will let this monster live. He's worse than Joffery.
Worse than aerys and just as bad as gregor.
G.R.R.👽
Wyman Manderly is a knowing cannibal! He ate some of those Frey Pies himself!
But poor Jeyne Poole...
Wyman is an absolute legend. He happily eats Freys cus he knows they are lesser than human
ever heard of the rat cook?
@@juwebles4352 Of course I have!
but he killed them after their weren't protected by laws of hospitality
@@michaelstark8720 I know. He was smart about it.
"Jane it rhymes with Pain" LOL - Theon was entertaining himself
Why did anyone 'thumbs up' this? What a crowd on this channel
@@angelined9814 What's wronh with you?
Just simply X out of it if it’s not in your “standards!!!” Why even make a comment such as this! WOW!! Reckon you can’t appreciate the effort… although everyone’s entitled their own opinion! Why not make suggestions in a constructive manner!!🤦🏼♂️
Jeyne.....
Oh lady Dustin, if only you knew
Ramsey is a monster
Ikr
It is known
@@uncreativename2979 It is known
Thats like saying a raven is black.
Maybe he's just misunderstood 🤷
I haven't listened to this one yet, but i get giddy when i see a new post. You do a great job, so much better than the original audio book. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Hope your cat is well. 😄
I have often felt distressed during my readings of asoiaf but nothing really compares to this chapter for me. I feel legitimately sick when reading it, everything is just soaked in despair and sadness, and the end is simply horrifying and twisted. Fantastic writing and voice acting.
I really appreciate your effort, David. Thank you.
HERE WE GOOOO Reek winterfell chapters, a huge highlight of ADWD. The north remembers!
4:47 When Reek named Jon. I wonder If the northmen considered the Ned Stark's bastard son More worthy of Winterfell than the Roose Bolton's legitimated bastard?
Yes
This is one of those chapters that i do not look forward to listening to again on a reread
This chapter is one of the best!
George really do justice to starks
Huh?
Is Lady Dustin bitter about the fact that she didn't marry one of the stark kids of lord Rickard? Maybe she had a chance in marrying Ned's older brother, her house might've been planning to request that of the lord of winterfell
She supposedly had a romance with Brandon Stark (Ned's elder brother) before he was betrothed to Catelyn Tully. She ended up marrying Willam Dustin who fought and died at the Tower of Joy with Ned. Ned mysteriously refused to bring back Willam's bones or even reveal where his corpse is to Barbery, but Ned rode Willam's horse back North which is doubly insulting. So she holds a lot of resentment towards Ned, so much so that she took it upon herself to stop Ned's bones from returning to the North at all costs.
@@Phaanja Oh... that makes more sense. I thought she was so bitter Ned's brother didn't call back that she wanted to feed Ned's bones to her dogs. That seemed out of proportion to me.
Please lord, BLESS GEORGE MARTIN with speed and health so he can finish WOW. I have to know how it all ends for Ramsay.
Out of all chapters(which i can picture very well) but these reek chapters are like a mini movie in my head. Its definitely the way you read them no doubt!
You are gonna do more aren't you David? Iv listened to these books every day! Thank you
Certainly! New chapter later today if all goes according to plan!
Looks like there is inner circle in The Citadel and some Maesters are part of it. What is the plan?
To bring Blackfyre to the Iron Throne or even older to kill all dragons and remove Targaryen dynasty from Westeros?
To establish a capitalistic industrial and democratic society where they control the flow and access to information while everybody else is just a slavewage thinking they are now free cause they have no lords or kings.
It’s kind of implied that the maesters (for the most part) don’t really like magic and possibly even conspired to make dragons go extinct/destroy the Targaryen dynasty slowly. The last part is definitely a chance theory but I feel like it makes sense that the “scientists” of this world would want to limit the power of magic.
Love the meals scenes in got.
I've heard that lord manderly's pies taste amazing. I wanna know the recipe.
Man the show really fucked up Reek's storyline. It's amazing in this book. Hes the best pov in adwd
One of the best POV arcs in the story.
This chapter is definitely a top 10 for me
Theon thinks that Ned was cold to him... He should know that everyone thought that even His children at Times He also outghta Join the 13 that will follow Jon because they need him as their 7 fingered Archer
I can see Theon or Stannis being Lord Commander of the Night's Watch after Jon's resurrection!
If Ned was cold to his children, imagine how much colder he was to Theon. Theon was Ned's hostage/captive, was being held to be used against his father, Balon. Had Ned given Theon even a little love, things might have been different & Theon might not have become a traitor. Who knows.
If the iron isles were to do any fuck shit it was Ned’s duty to take Theon’s head off, he made sure Theon was comfortable but yea usually you don’t wanna get too close to an animal if there’s a good chance you’ll have to butcher it. Sad reality and It sucks ned didn’t do more but their society doesn’t work lmao
Awe i hear a kitty!! 💚💚💚
Finaly a worthy oponent for stanis!
Their battle will be LEGENDARY!
Coming through for a second listen and man did George make Ramsey such an unlikable freak.
Mance: It's a wonderful day for pie.
You can ask all the birds in the sky
And they'll tell you real sweet, with a musical tweet.
Lord Manderly: It's a wonderful day for pie!
Im suprised the meat in the pies wasnt terrible enough to gove everyone indigestion.
That's where the hippocras comes in
The chapter than confirmed Theon aint got no peepee
that was confirmed during the chapter where he retakes moat cailin. where he was listing what parts ramsay took off and he says “and that other thing”
@@daffygoose4757 that just introduced the question
And the fact that Ramsey flays the body part before taking it off
The pacing seems a little off to me. Stannis in Winterfell in a fortnight? How much is that? Half the book happens in two weeks? a month? Stannis is still not there by the end.
What an awful and discomforting chapter. Poor Jane.
I still cannot believe the show cut this whole story line
One of the unfortunate things that didn't make it to the show
Dumb question but when Theon hears his name whispered in the God's wood is that Bran watching through the tree kinda like how Ned could hear him too?
Pretty sure that actually was bran talking to theon, whereas that vision of ned in the godswood was probably Ned's imagination.
Here, bran really is there.
Theon couldn't come up with a word that rhymed with Arya. Nor could I.
Wymen is a knowing cannibal?
He picked around the meat
He’s one of them squishers that Nimble Dick was talking about, like Biter.
Twisted
Im 90% sure that the voice Theon heard was Bran!
I hate this chapter and I hate that Bran saw all that go down
Which chapter?
Thank you for making.
I can hear a cat in the background
The chapter of the Meermann Cook im Sure Wyman cooked the pies himself
Pause is it canon that theon lost his sausage, ( show Ramsey wiggle ) or is it just implied?
Just implied, he might not have. When he said, " I don't have-" he could've meant the right to do it
From the chapter:
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The nearest thing she has to living kin. Theon Greyjoy had grown up with Arya Stark. Theon would have known an imposter. If he was seen to accept Bolton’s feigned girl as Arya, the northern lords who had gathered to bear witness to the match would have no grounds to question her legitimacy. Stout and Slate, Whoresbane Umber, the quarrelsome Ryswells, Hornwood men and Cerywn cousins, fat Lord Wyman Manderly … not one of them had known Ned Stark’s daughters half so well as he. And if a few entertained private doubts, surely they would be wise enough to keep those misgivings to themselves.
They are using me to cloak their deception, putting mine own face on their lie. That was why Roose Bolton had clothed him as a lord again, to play his part in this mummer’s farce. Once that was done, once their false Arya had been wedded and bedded, Bolton would have no more use for Theon Turncloak. “Serve us in this, and when Stannis is defeated we will discuss how best to restore you to your father’s seat,” his lordship had said in that soft voice of his, a voice made for lies and whispers. Theon never believed a word of it. He would dance this dance for them because he had no choice, but afterward … He will give me back to Ramsay then, he thought, and Ramsay will take a few more fingers and turn me into Reek once more. Unless the gods were good, and Stannis Baratheon descended on Winterfell and put all of them to the sword, himself included. That was the best he could hope for.
It was warmer in the godswood, strange to say. Beyond its confines, a hard white frost gripped Winterfell. The paths were treacherous with black ice, and hoarfrost sparkled in the moonlight on the broken panes of the Glass Gardens. Drifts of dirty snow had piled up against the walls, filling every nook and corner. Some were so high they hid the doors behind them. Under the snow lay grey ash and cinders, and here and there a blackened beam or a pile of bones adorned with scraps of skin and hair. Icicles long as lances hung from the battlements and fringed the towers like an old man’s stiff white whiskers. But inside the godswood, the ground remained unfrozen, and steam rose off the hot pools, as warm as baby’s breath.
The bride was garbed in white and grey, the colors the true Arya would have worn had she lived long enough to wed. Theon wore black and gold, his cloak pinned to his shoulder by a crude iron kraken that a smith in Barrowton had hammered together for him. But under the hood, his hair was white and thin, and his flesh had an old man’s greyish undertone. A Stark at last, he thought. Arm in arm, the bride and he passed through an arched stone door, as wisps of fog stirred round their legs. The drum was as tremulous as a maiden’s heart, the pipes high and sweet and beckoning. Up above the treetops, a crescent moon was floating in a dark sky, half-obscured by mist, like an eye peering through a veil of silk.
Theon Greyjoy was no stranger to this godswood. He had played here as a boy, skipping stones across the cold black pool beneath the weirwood, hiding his treasures in the bole of an ancient oak, stalking squirrels with a bow he made himself. Later, older, he had soaked his bruises in the hot springs after many a session in the yard with Robb and Jory and Jon Snow. In amongst these chestnuts and elms and soldier pines he had found secret places where he could hide when he wanted to be alone. The first time he had ever kissed a girl had been here. Later, a different girl had made a man of him upon a ragged quilt in the shade of that tall grey-green sentinel.
He had never seen the godswood like this, though-grey and ghostly, filled with warm mists and floating lights and whispered voices that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere. Beneath the trees, the hot springs steamed. Warm vapors rose from the earth, shrouding the trees in their moist breath, creeping up the walls to draw grey curtains across the watching windows.
There was a path of sorts, a meandering footpath of cracked stones overgrown with moss, half-buried beneath blown dirt and fallen leaves and made treacherous by thick brown roots pushing up from underneath. He led the bride along it. Jeyne, her name is Jeyne, it rhymes with pain. He must not think that, though. Should that name pass his lips, it might cost him a finger or an ear. He walked slowly, watching every step. His missing toes made him hobble when he hurried, and it would not do to stumble. Mar Lord Ramsay’s wedding with a misstep, and Lord Ramsay might rectify such clumsiness by flaying the offending foot.
The mists were so thick that only the nearest trees were visible; beyond them stood tall shadows and faint lights. Candles flickered beside the wandering path and back amongst the trees, pale fireflies floating in a warm grey soup. It felt like some strange underworld, some timeless place between the worlds, where the damned wandered mournfully for a time before finding their way down to whatever hell their sins had earned them. Are we all dead, then? Did Stannis come and kill us in our sleep? Is the battle yet to come, or has it been fought and lost?
Here and there a torch burned hungrily, casting its ruddy glow over the faces of the wedding guests. The way the mists threw back the shifting light made their features seem bestial, half-human, twisted. Lord Stout became a mastiff, old Lord Locke a vulture, Whoresbane Umber a gargoyle, Big Walder Frey a fox, Little Walder a red bull, lacking only a ring for his nose. Roose Bolton’s own face was a pale grey mask, with two chips of dirty ice where his eyes should be.
Above their heads the trees were full of ravens, their feathers fluffed as they hunched on bare brown branches, staring down at the pageantry below. Maester Luwin’s birds. Luwin was dead, and his maester’s tower had been put to the torch, yet the ravens lingered. This is their home. Theon wondered what that would be like, to have a home.
Then the mists parted, like the curtain opening at a mummer show to reveal some new tableau. The heart tree appeared in front of them, its bony limbs spread wide. Fallen leaves lay about the wide white trunk in drifts of red and brown. The ravens were the thickest here, muttering to one another in the murderers’ secret tongue. Ramsay Bolton stood beneath them, clad in high boots of soft grey leather and a black velvet doublet slashed with pink silk and glittering with garnet teardrops. A smile danced across his face. “Who comes?” His lips were moist, his neck red above his collar. “Who comes before the god?”
Theon answered. “Arya of House Stark comes here to be wed. A woman grown and flowered, trueborn and noble, she comes to beg the blessings of the gods. Who comes to claim her?”
(A Dance with Dragons - Chapter 37 - The Prince of Winterfell)
Thanks +!!!!!
No one should suffer what Jeyne Poole suffered.
Let that be a lesson to all of you not to make fun of Arya. Ever. She has friends in low places.. 💀
why are u making a joke about this
bruh 😭😭
this is the hardest chapter to listen to imo
when it got to the bedding part with Jeyne I had to stop for a few hours. That was rough to listen to
Jory mentioned RAHHHH 🦅🐺🦅
We do not sow.
Drunk Cersei or drunk Barbary love them both
This Ramsey guy is kinda mean
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Can somebody please answer this question.. is theon castrated in the book in the show he is but I'm I forgot if he's castrated in the book
It's never explicitly stated. But it was a popular fan theory because of him saying he's no longer a man. It could also be a reference to him turning into Reek
@@apoorvavishnoi6979 ya that's what I thought
It's confirmed, he says that "lord bolton only took some fingers and toes… and that other thing" and in this chapter they make a point of he doesn't have what's required to ready jane sexualy
@@highgrounder2012 not really because in next chapter he says he wants to hit the camp follower/singer's girl kiss her fuck her but he better not do any of that
@@numbii6172 ... It's definitely implied that Theon no longer has his p*nis. He says that Ramsay took "his other thing", Here Ramsay mocks him & says "you're no longer a man, truth be told". Later, when Ramsay tells him to get Jayne ready, he panics & says "my lord, I have no".....? Ramsay cuts him off & says use your tongue. Theon was definitely castrated or so it seems.
Poor Jeyne Poole...
In what chapter and book did Theon lose his manhood
It's never shown on page
It's rumored but never stated
He's captured and brought to the Dreadfort at the end of ACOK, he's tortured during ASOS and Ramsay mails a piece of skin to his dad so he can show it to Lady Stark.
Reek bend the knee
39:07 I thought my cat was stuck in the garage again.
I can't stand the way this girl made up "horse face" as a nickname for Arya & the way she and Sansa would say it to her face, to her back, neigh at her whenever she passed by etc. Truly disgusting to hurt a little girl that way. Sansa was a horrible sister, her job was to protect her baby sister, not join others only to mock her, humiliate her, laugh at her etc.
Not saying that she deserves the horrible things she's enduring with Ramsey as no one deserves that. I pity anyone who ends up in Ramsey's hands. Dude is beyond evil.
It’s very ironic. She bullied Arya because she wanted to be Arya and then finally got to be Arya…in the worst way possible.
Omg they were little girls. Kids say stupid shit all the time - not a justification for this to happen to her
So what
what’s your point, she was a kid, kids tease mock and tease other kids all the time, doesn’t mean they deserve to be raped and tortured
OH REEL YOU RE SO LUCKY
2:47 LOL
11:50
The whispering/soft voices suck