If they were planning to do the Battle of Blood with a Euron who wasn't a Saturday Morning Cartoon pirate, yes. But otherwise, they don't serve much purpose in the story (so far)
i no longer wonder why it's taking George R R Martin so long to finish these books, because if you have to think about how hundreds of characters would respond every time someone makes a decision most of us would go mad probably.
He’s not working on the books, and he’ll never finish them. The sooner we all accept this, the sooner we can all move on and deal with the fact that the TV show is the only ending we’ll ever see.
@@ryanmaninga3163 do you realize he’s been saying that since season 1 of the show? Every single year, he guarantees the next book is less than a year away.
@@craigmills6275i don’t believe it will be next year, but i guarantee he will finish them before he dies unless he’s hit by a bus. No way he lets his legacy go unfinished.
The “other guy” was a Lord Commander of King Aerys II Kingsguard, perhaps the most deadly 7 knights ever assembled in a KG; Lord Commander: Gerold Hightower Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning Prince Lewyn Martell Ser Oswell Whent Ser Jonothor Darry Ser Barristan Selmy Ser Jamie Lannister
They’re the perfect example of “too big to fail”. And they did just enough to scrape by and not get invaded by the Targaryens and others. I think in King Robert’s time they were still fallen from grace and people didn’t trust them, but tolerated them as they were so rich.
@@thalmoragent9344 not necessarily. Many won’t risk an invasion on such a fortified city, it would cause a lot of lives for not a lot of gain. The Hightowers are playing ball, there really is not reason for such violence.
HA. The Hightowers are ANYTHING BUT "fallen from grace". The books are filled with well-known Hightowers. Including the Lord Commander of Aerys II's Kingsguard, and Mace Tyrell's wife.
@@gooby214 yeah, like I said, they’re too big to fail. People still like them, but not enough to elevate them. They should be in the same esteem as the Lannisters and the Targaryens. Yet, they’re not. They avoid the war of the 5 Kings again- the Crown offered the Tarleys Warden of the Reach.
Interesting thing about all of this is that Sam is conveniëntly placed at Hightower at the right time for us to get a POV for the events outside of Ironborn eyes, which kinda implies the Damphair might not make it out alive. I feel like Euron isn't targeting Oldtown for the Hightowers, but rather to bring down the Maesters and Faith of the Seven.
That's a good point - not many people point out the Starry Sept being a target. Makes sense for such a "godless man" to want to desecrate the westeros equivalent of the Vatican
Love that you pointed out the oily black stone and the Lovecraft mythos connection. GRRM made a lot of homage references to Lovecraft, Chambers, Derleth, Wagner and more in his world.
The black stone at the bottom of the Hightower is the oily black stone but Fused black stone, made by dragons. But the stone predates the Valyrian freehold so there’s a theory that there were dragon lords before the valyrians, perhaps the great empire of the dawn. They have fused black stone forts by the grey waste. Maybe they were the first dragon lords
Euron's going to cast the fury of the Drowned God upon Oldtown just for a Gundam mech to appear that is being piloted by Leyton 'the based' hightower himself.
I’ve recently came across a prediction that suggests that the pale haired woman besides Euron in Aeron’s foresaken vision isn’t Cersei as many tend to believe but Malora Hightower and now I refuse to believe any other option
Or dany, the pale haired woman he’s actually associated with and pursuing for marriage, plus his plans involving the dragons and his horn. I hadn’t actually heard anyone say it’s cercei
@@StealthMaestroSharpe Daenerys seems like an obvious one, almost too obvious. To me and to many others, I think it’s clear that Daenerys is meant to be a red herring (especially considering Euron’s plan to marry her and the whole dragonbinder thing). Cersei is actually a really common one, obviously because of the show but also many think Aegon will end up taking KL which would either result in her death/capture or, more popularly, fleeing to Casterly Rock (I believe Germ mentioned we’ll actually visit it at some point) which would leave her in direct interaction with Euron.
and now that Daemon has had his vision he's fully onboard to help save the future, it's just a shame that be the time of GOT the visions have become nightmares and the king is killed over them as nobody can explain his madness... so book and record keeping mustn't have been so good at the end of HOTD or somebody hid it all away so it just became legend.
Funny thing is, the Hightowers may have been Dragonlords WAY back in the day. (Fuzed Black Stone at the base of the Hightower, and some random story claiming that it was a Hightower that killed the last Dragon in Westeros all the way back in rhe Dawn Age, but what if it was a Hightower putting his Dragon companion out of his misery? Who knows) Like, they may have been associated with the Great Empire of the Dawn. Meaning that, whether they had dragons or not, they have been around longer than any of the other Lord Paramount houses, and even Valyria itself. They have features similar to that of the Valyrians, the Silver-Blonde hair in particular The Hightowers don't often go to war, and are respected for handling business and Oldtown in general rather well. The Dance of the Dragons was like, the one time they made a heavy effort to go on the offensive for something not directly affecting Oldtown.
@@requaldebbarma3383 I know right🤦😂🤣. And FYI, this isn't the only time he had said something non sense, He's been having a lot of confusions and Delusions in various posts and videos for a long time. I've been telling him for months to stop with this Delusions...
@@dineshbalu6107 I don't know about most of the things he says, but there is supporting evidence for the Hightowers link to the Great Empire of the Dawn. He gets his information from the long running theory about the mythical empire, which are mentioned in the books in the earliest days of ASOIAF lore. There's a detailed video called "Empire of the Dawn: Ancient Mystery of ASOIAF" which is interesting.
I’m subscribing solely off the fact you said “why’s he getting High Tower, she’s kinda shy Tower, wait did he just die Tower, and wait which one is this guy Tower?” 😂😂😂
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I always thought that in GoT season 7 that Danny should have landed at Oldtown rather than Dragonstone. It would have a port to unload her fleet, the region was not touched by the war and could support her army. She could have sent the Dothraki across the reach and disrupted communication between Kings Landing and Casterly Rock, thus splitting the Lannister forces.
@@thebayharborbutcher9115 True but she had military advisors that should have known better. Landing on Dragonstone was stupid because she would have to disembark her entire army when they got there and then re-embark to actually go conquer Westeross. Loading and offloading hundreds of ships is a big job that nobody wants to do twice and requires a large port do be done well. Oldtown.
@@alexh4436 She should have landed the army in Dorne which was allied to her by this time. While Olenna is in charge of Highgarden she is not necessarily in charge of the Reach and the Hightowers.
This was randomly recommended to me by RUclips, but i loved the format, and I especially liked the Ottoble commercial lmao. Would def subscribe for some machiavelous ASMR from Otto, and you got me to subscribe to u as well for that one. Keep this up, the video was really well thought through and fun to watch.
@@gooby214 And they were all brushed over. But I think he is talking about the Tyrells. Extinct down in one go. Some Harrenhal shit. But i think the same happened to the lovely Freys, the Cleganes, Mormont, etc. And now that I think about it all major houses (but the Starks) seem to have been sloppily left with one member and still keot as Lord Houses despite how moribund they looked like Yara the last Greyjoy - I'd imagine the show would've tried to make it matriarchial to keep the name, can't see that fly in the books Tyrion the last Lannister - not even sure if the show had Lannisport cousins in it, probably not Seasons-Forgotten Edmure the last Tully - can't imagine the riverlands respecting these weak clowns after the whole regions' apocalypse That random Prince of Dorne that spawned after they realised they killed off all Martells And fecking Gendry.
I'm glad they left that out of GOT because there were already plenty of story lines to keep track of. They should just give each large house their own shows and crossover when necessary 😂😂
yeah honestly READING is one thing bc it’s pretty easy to flip back through the pages and find the information you seek. too many plot line in the show is part of the reason my friend couldn’t get into it. she was super confused (so was i tbh when watching the first few episodes) bc there was just way too much to keep track of. it only got easier once everyone was connected in some way or another but i was hella confused for awhile
I heard a theory that Leyton's got a glass candle burning up in that tower, and it's just so cool that I believe it's true with like no evidence or thoughts
On the Salt Throne thing. I actually like that name, but I also am electing to take the show canon as a separate entity. Within that, maybe both thrones do exist. For whatever reason, perhaps the iron islanders chose to switch to the Salt Throne after some sort of disagreement over the old one. Who knows? Maybe the old one mysteriously vanished one day. Surely it was too big and heavy to just up and steal...but then, where did it go? I don't know. I just made all this up...but, hey, that's how most great stories start.
Interesting ideas. I don't necessarily think "Seastone Chair' is a fantastic name, but "Salt Throne" just sounded kinda goofy to me. It was emblematic of the strange unnecessary changes GoT kept making in the later seasons
I'm just gonna say this. That high-pitched replay of "salt throne" was the perfect mocking. Today everything has to be a blatant insult, and somewhat friendly mocking is almost too mannered of a behaviour to encounter. So, you're a man of culture, ser Fantasy Haven!
Im currently in the middle of season 8 in my 2nd rewatch after 4 years and i just found out that Margaery Tyrell has hightower blood in her. So basically the hightowers were indirectly involved in the middle of GoT.
So, I was just watching the video and I HAD to check the channel name due to the animations and noticed you only had 3.52k subs. So, I subbed too. Keep up the good work!
The Hightower knew well Aegon I and his sisters because they had been guests in Oldtown, so It's comprehensible they opened the door of the city peacefully
A lot of great houses have gone extinct in the Song of Ice and Fire before the events of A Game of Thrones. It is so interesting. Makes the story and the world very real. Westeros has a real "fuck around and found out" vibe.
The Hightowers and Velaryons are not among those extinct houses. The Hightowers are still active and ruling Oldtown in GoT's timeline, and Lord Hightower is Margaery's grandfather. The Velaryons are Stannis's vassals, and the previous Lord Velaryon was killed at the Blackwater.
@@Phizzo4real hightowers still at their peak & velaryons lost all their power due to the dance of the dragons by playing for the wrong side and never recovered since.
1:39 This is the O'Neill clan symbol in its literal sense: the Red Hand from Game of Thrones is replaced with a green hand. Based on what you mentioned about Garth Greenhand, one could argue that the equivalent would be Niall of Nine Hostages, whose descendants also created multiple clans, among them the O'Neill, who were the main Ulster rulers, etc. An analysis has suggested that many Irish people are descended from Niall of Nine Hostages, suggesting that GMM has drawn heavily from Irish history.
'In deep geek' said once that Hightowers are only ones that could be considered to have won in the dance of the dragons. Most of the seven kingdoms either stayed were they were (Starks, Arryns, Dorne, Iron Islands), took some heavy hits and significant losses which they had to recover for years (Lannisters, Baratheons, Velaryons) or got the shit absolutely and truly rocked (Targeryans, Crownlands and Riverlands). But Hightowers came out in stronger than what they were before, enriching themselves.
The Hightowers only came out "stronger" was because they completely changed their ideology between pre and post- dance. Alicent and Otto would have a heart attack to see what the Hightowers turned into
Bruh, just cuz they are doing fine now means they have won a war which happened more than a century ago? Perhaps it's cuz the new generation obv aren't corrupt & dirty imbecile like Otto his brother & alicent, those houses u said not all of them were took hit cuz of the dance, the hell?
@@rose-yw5xfnot really, the main branch of the Hightowers were way smarter than otto or Alicent (who were a cadet branch but were powerful as Alicent was kings wife and otto was hand) . Otto lost his family during the dance while his relative Hightowers who were the lords of oldtown got even richer and Stronger after the dance ended.
@@Att964 Well the main branch did follow alicent and otto’s lead during the war. Otto has power as the hand, but he doesn’t have access to house Hightowers resources. Only his brother and his heirs do. And they obviously followed Ottos lead. They weren’t smarter, it’s just that they didn’t die. When I say that alicent and Otto would have a heart attack seeing what house Hightower became. I meant that house Hightower became significantly less religious and even dirtied the high septon at one point. And that it was a women who made their house richer and powerful After the dance, lord Lyonel Hightower married his stepmother, lady Sam. The high septon found their marriage to be illegitimate, but lyonel hightower didn’t care. Lady Sam was a prominent Black and ally to king aegon 3. Lady Sam protected Lotho Rogare after the fall of House Rogare and together they founded the Bank of Old town. That’s how house Hightower became richer and more powerful, because of a black supporting Aegon 3.
Good stuff , you really are appeasing my adhd mind thinking about a lot of unanswered questions that people like me care about very much. You got one about house Reed during GOT?
You can already see the fall of these houses by the fact that the Velaryons don't even exist and the Hightowers are just a vassal house to the Highgardens. All of the other major houses are still at the top - Baratheon, Stark, Greyjoy, Tully, Lannister and Arryn.
The velarions still exist and the Hightowers were always sworn vassles to the Tyrell’s infact they still are one of the most powerful houses and are the second most powerful house in the reach first is the Tyrell’s
Maybe bc I am _dead inside_ that very few things make me laugh out loud, but that Ottoble™ spot did the trick. Great work on a different ASOIAF subject that I immediately _clicked_ on as soon as I saw it. I still refuse to believe (let alone see another) R+L=J video. I need fresh ASOIAF subjects. You earned a sub. Where do I sign up for Ottoble™.
I'm doubtful that the Hightower's supported Renly. As the only statement made about the Hightower's supporting Renly was made by Renly himself, who was inflating his numbers and his following to try and get Stark and Tully support, because outside of the Tyrells (and maybe Courtnay Penrose and Randyll Tarly) nobody was all that enthusiastic about Renly. As shown by the fact that all of the Stormlords and few Reacher Lords (including members of the Rainbow-guard) defected to Stannis before his body was even cold. The Tyrell's only supported Renly so heavily because Loras Tyrell was Mace Tyrell favourite son, Renly agreed to marry Margery Tyrell and (probably) agreed to name Mace Tyrell Hand of the King.
given that Stannis was the older brother, its lack of enthusiasm for him that is the reason that they didnt just declare for him to begin with. they liked renly more and only Loras and brienne truly suspected stannis of being behind it.
Thanks! Yeah, I create the characters & backgrounds on Photopea and use Davinci Resolve to animate (they're basically the free versions of Photoshop and Premier Pro)
I thought only the free folk and northerners were descendants of the first men, while everyone else in Westeros besides Dorne were descendants of the Andals, while the Dornish are a mix between the old Dornish and the Rhornars
@@fantasyhaven1 yes but wouldn’t that be like having Sansa or any of the starks children on the thumbnail when talking about House Tully? As their mother Catelyn Stark is a Tully.
But there are other examples of Tully descendants in the show (Edmure, Blackfish), while the only Hightower descendants we ever see are Ser Gerold (at the Tower of Joy) and Mace's offspring. So I had to choose between an awkward screenshot of Ser Gerold, or an official HD promo pic of Margaery/Loras. Margaery is more popular, so I went with her.
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If they were planning to do the Battle of Blood with a Euron who wasn't a Saturday Morning Cartoon pirate, yes. But otherwise, they don't serve much purpose in the story (so far)
Did you not see Tormund?
Your jokes aren't funny
@@anthonywarren9885Thanks for boosting my video by commenting :)
your joke are funny
i no longer wonder why it's taking George R R Martin so long to finish these books, because if you have to think about how hundreds of characters would respond every time someone makes a decision most of us would go mad probably.
I don't envy him, let's hope he can bring it all together... Sometime in the next two years would be nice lol
He’s not working on the books, and he’ll never finish them.
The sooner we all accept this, the sooner we can all move on and deal with the fact that the TV show is the only ending we’ll ever see.
@@ryanmaninga3163 you are insane if you believe that.
@@ryanmaninga3163 do you realize he’s been saying that since season 1 of the show?
Every single year, he guarantees the next book is less than a year away.
@@craigmills6275i don’t believe it will be next year, but i guarantee he will finish them before he dies unless he’s hit by a bus. No way he lets his legacy go unfinished.
The "Well he was the other guy" line almost made me spit my tea hahaha
Haha
The “other guy” was a Lord Commander of King Aerys II Kingsguard, perhaps the most deadly 7 knights ever assembled in a KG;
Lord Commander: Gerold Hightower
Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning
Prince Lewyn Martell
Ser Oswell Whent
Ser Jonothor Darry
Ser Barristan Selmy
Ser Jamie Lannister
@@juneack5848 wasn't that Oswell Whent with the bat?
I thought that was great as well 😂
They actually wrote him out and combined him with Oswell Whent
Otto transformed into Margery tyrell
Anything for the throne
Except on the show she’s way more likeable than Otto
He's using glamour magic like Melisandre because he's secretly a shadow binder lol 🤣
Reminds me of Olenna in a way.
C L I C K B A I T
They’re the perfect example of “too big to fail”. And they did just enough to scrape by and not get invaded by the Targaryens and others. I think in King Robert’s time they were still fallen from grace and people didn’t trust them, but tolerated them as they were so rich.
And all that might come crashing down if Euron succeeds
Fallen from grace? If people didn't trust them, Oldtown would be in a different situation tbh...
@@thalmoragent9344 not necessarily. Many won’t risk an invasion on such a fortified city, it would cause a lot of lives for not a lot of gain. The Hightowers are playing ball, there really is not reason for such violence.
HA. The Hightowers are ANYTHING BUT "fallen from grace". The books are filled with well-known Hightowers. Including the Lord Commander of Aerys II's Kingsguard, and Mace Tyrell's wife.
@@gooby214 yeah, like I said, they’re too big to fail. People still like them, but not enough to elevate them. They should be in the same esteem as the Lannisters and the Targaryens. Yet, they’re not. They avoid the war of the 5 Kings again- the Crown offered the Tarleys Warden of the Reach.
Your “whys he getting Hightower, she’s really shytower….” and so on literally just made me subscribe. 😂👍🏻
Thanks!
lmfao
Yeah me too, solid content 👍👍
Nice. Glad you loved it. Oddly it and the use of word simp earlier immediately made me dislike video :/
Interesting thing about all of this is that Sam is conveniëntly placed at Hightower at the right time for us to get a POV for the events outside of Ironborn eyes, which kinda implies the Damphair might not make it out alive.
I feel like Euron isn't targeting Oldtown for the Hightowers, but rather to bring down the Maesters and Faith of the Seven.
That's a good point - not many people point out the Starry Sept being a target. Makes sense for such a "godless man" to want to desecrate the westeros equivalent of the Vatican
Makes sense. Oldtown has plenty of things he'd want to plunder
This channel is going to be huge if you keep this up. The humor, animation, and just general facts are on point 🔥
Thanks for the support :)
@@fantasyhaven1ottoble had me rolling 😂
Love that you pointed out the oily black stone and the Lovecraft mythos connection. GRRM made a lot of homage references to Lovecraft, Chambers, Derleth, Wagner and more in his world.
I might do a video on Lovecraft's influence on asoiaf
The black stone at the bottom of the Hightower is the oily black stone but Fused black stone, made by dragons. But the stone predates the Valyrian freehold so there’s a theory that there were dragon lords before the valyrians, perhaps the great empire of the dawn. They have fused black stone forts by the grey waste. Maybe they were the first dragon lords
@@fantasyhaven1 please do! You have great content
I heard something really close to: what is dead may never die in a Lovecraft story
Euron's going to cast the fury of the Drowned God upon Oldtown just for a Gundam mech to appear that is being piloted by Leyton 'the based' hightower himself.
BASED LORE
I’ve recently came across a prediction that suggests that the pale haired woman besides Euron in Aeron’s foresaken vision isn’t Cersei as many tend to believe but Malora Hightower and now I refuse to believe any other option
From Mad Maid to Sorceress Queen...
Or dany, the pale haired woman he’s actually associated with and pursuing for marriage, plus his plans involving the dragons and his horn. I hadn’t actually heard anyone say it’s cercei
@@StealthMaestroSharpe Daenerys seems like an obvious one, almost too obvious. To me and to many others, I think it’s clear that Daenerys is meant to be a red herring (especially considering Euron’s plan to marry her and the whole dragonbinder thing).
Cersei is actually a really common one, obviously because of the show but also many think Aegon will end up taking KL which would either result in her death/capture or, more popularly, fleeing to Casterly Rock (I believe Germ mentioned we’ll actually visit it at some point) which would leave her in direct interaction with Euron.
Its cool to see that I wasn‘t the only one noticing Otto jus rolling up in that one episode 😭😭💯💯🙏🏼
Being Hand isn't easy, my man needs to relieve some stress
Layton Chadtower is gonna smack the shit out of Euron Cringeye.
Basedton
I think Hightowers will lose to Euron, old town will be destroyed by the Ironborn. This will be epic 👍
@@thetalesofelbek7042 no it will not, if Oldtown falls, the entire realm falls too
@@kingofdragons7 no the realm will not fall
@@thetalesofelbek7042 yes it will, Oldtown is one of the most important cities in Westeros, you disagreeing means you are dumb
It’s a rare enough thing, a RUclips channel that gives me something new and worthwhile about Game of Thrones. Subbed.
Thank you!
Happened upon this channel as a suggestion because I've been binge watching HOTD videos. Great video, good sir. New subscriber unlocked.
Awesome, thanks for the support
I love that George liked HoTD so much that he said he might rewrite Fire and Blood to align more with Viserys and Marjorie's portrayals in the show!
Let's hope not. Been waiting long enough for winds.
Will never happen he has 2 books to finish and won't do it
No goddamn it he needs to finish the main story
we don't have enough lifetimes to wait for that though :D
Marjorie?
This is one thing I like about house of dragon more than got is the legendary feeling of everyone taking the story seriously
and now that Daemon has had his vision he's fully onboard to help save the future, it's just a shame that be the time of GOT the visions have become nightmares and the king is killed over them as nobody can explain his madness... so book and record keeping mustn't have been so good at the end of HOTD or somebody hid it all away so it just became legend.
I never seen such an amazing humorous delivery for a RUclips channel. You have a new subscriber
Thanks!
Funny thing is, the Hightowers may have been Dragonlords WAY back in the day.
(Fuzed Black Stone at the base of the Hightower, and some random story claiming that it was a Hightower that killed the last Dragon in Westeros all the way back in rhe Dawn Age, but what if it was a Hightower putting his Dragon companion out of his misery? Who knows)
Like, they may have been associated with the Great Empire of the Dawn. Meaning that, whether they had dragons or not, they have been around longer than any of the other Lord Paramount houses, and even Valyria itself. They have features similar to that of the Valyrians, the Silver-Blonde hair in particular
The Hightowers don't often go to war, and are respected for handling business and Oldtown in general rather well. The Dance of the Dragons was like, the one time they made a heavy effort to go on the offensive for something not directly affecting Oldtown.
There u go, with ur another Non Sensical Delusions. Lmao🤦🤣😂...
@@dineshbalu6107lmaoo literally boy be just speaking nonsense
@@requaldebbarma3383 I know right🤦😂🤣. And FYI, this isn't the only time he had said something non sense, He's been having a lot of confusions and Delusions in various posts and videos for a long time. I've been telling him for months to stop with this Delusions...
You do know the targayans built that shit right lol
@@dineshbalu6107 I don't know about most of the things he says, but there is supporting evidence for the Hightowers link to the Great Empire of the Dawn. He gets his information from the long running theory about the mythical empire, which are mentioned in the books in the earliest days of ASOIAF lore. There's a detailed video called "Empire of the Dawn: Ancient Mystery of ASOIAF" which is interesting.
If you continue with this unexplored topics, your channel will continue to grow. Great content
Thanks!
I’m subscribing solely off the fact you said “why’s he getting High Tower, she’s kinda shy Tower, wait did he just die Tower, and wait which one is this guy Tower?” 😂😂😂
Thanks man
I did not even need to watch to full video to tell you my good man that you will be a great RUclipsr and/or presenter. You have no idea how much of the skills you currently possess are valued so dearly in a professional environment. Keep up the amazing work brother. You got yourself a subscriber :)
The Hightower’s are one of the oldest and greatest houses
They are indeed
Time is no mark there. Once you re rich, its ez to stay rich. Same goes with power
Idk why but the "50 simps got together..." was the most hillarious thing I've heard in a while😂
50 simps fighting over a girl only for another guy to show up and win her over with a fraction of the effort.😅
Honestly stumbled across this channel and I got hooked! It's like alt shift x and gildus channels had a kid! Really good stuff and well earned sub!
Thanks so much :)
This is the best ASOIAF content I've seen in a while! Immediately subscribed! Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Amazing editing on this video, absolutely enjoyable to watch
Glad you enjoyed it!
Those hightower jokes were a great hit with the kids. This will increase the hightower poll numbers and more people will take up arms against Euron.
Your channel is definitely going places man. It'll be cool to see this channel again in the future with half a million subs!
You're one of the lucky ones who gets to be here early 😉
I always thought that in GoT season 7 that Danny should have landed at Oldtown rather than Dragonstone. It would have a port to unload her fleet, the region was not touched by the war and could support her army. She could have sent the Dothraki across the reach and disrupted communication between Kings Landing and Casterly Rock, thus splitting the Lannister forces.
Dany and her council plotting in the Hightower would've been cool
Dany wasn’t exactly a strategist at war games
@@thebayharborbutcher9115 True but she had military advisors that should have known better. Landing on Dragonstone was stupid because she would have to disembark her entire army when they got there and then re-embark to actually go conquer Westeross. Loading and offloading hundreds of ships is a big job that nobody wants to do twice and requires a large port do be done well. Oldtown.
hightowers will support faegon, i have no doubt. I beliebe septa lemora = malora hightower and haldon halfmaeste = leyton hightower
@@alexh4436 She should have landed the army in Dorne which was allied to her by this time. While Olenna is in charge of Highgarden she is not necessarily in charge of the Reach and the Hightowers.
This was randomly recommended to me by RUclips, but i loved the format, and I especially liked the Ottoble commercial lmao. Would def subscribe for some machiavelous ASMR from Otto, and you got me to subscribe to u as well for that one. Keep this up, the video was really well thought through and fun to watch.
Thanks!
It’s crazy how in the show we saw the destruction of an entire house and it was just brushed over
What house? The show destroyed many houses.
@@gooby214 And they were all brushed over. But I think he is talking about the Tyrells. Extinct down in one go. Some Harrenhal shit. But i think the same happened to the lovely Freys, the Cleganes, Mormont, etc.
And now that I think about it all major houses (but the Starks) seem to have been sloppily left with one member and still keot as Lord Houses despite how moribund they looked like
Yara the last Greyjoy - I'd imagine the show would've tried to make it matriarchial to keep the name, can't see that fly in the books
Tyrion the last Lannister - not even sure if the show had Lannisport cousins in it, probably not
Seasons-Forgotten Edmure the last Tully - can't imagine the riverlands respecting these weak clowns after the whole regions' apocalypse
That random Prince of Dorne that spawned after they realised they killed off all Martells
And fecking Gendry.
@@RenegadeShepard69 There are Lannister cousins. House Targaryen is also finished.
One left, Jon.
The Tyrell’s, the Freys, the Boltons the Mormonts? Which house?
Do Small Council Balls (patent pending) increase or decrease in their value to Ottoble if they've been used to bludgeon an old bee man to death?
Otto will finance the Greens by selling jars of Beesbury Blood on onlyfans
"Ottoble" made me actually cry real tears 😂 - you've got youself a new subscriber! 😅
This is such a high quality video 🔥
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"We saw this in Season 6 of Game of Thrones when Euron oh wait no we didn't" - it was at this moment I knew I was going to like this video
Haha cheers
those ottables are smoooooth. really, dude has a great voice.
The show could have easily included them for like 4 to 5 scenes to make up some plot but....
But we all know that (coherent) plot became unnecessary after S4!
Why include them at all, if even in the books they have basically isolated themselves from the rest of Westeros.
@@SelphieTheNutter they definitely could have included more of the tyrells though
@@olofacosta3192 yeah I agree, I like the Tyrells I was gutted to see them killed off
I'm glad they left that out of GOT because there were already plenty of story lines to keep track of. They should just give each large house their own shows and crossover when necessary 😂😂
yeah honestly READING is one thing bc it’s pretty easy to flip back through the pages and find the information you seek. too many plot line in the show is part of the reason my friend couldn’t get into it. she was super confused (so was i tbh when watching the first few episodes) bc there was just way too much to keep track of. it only got easier once everyone was connected in some way or another but i was hella confused for awhile
I heard a theory that Leyton's got a glass candle burning up in that tower, and it's just so cool that I believe it's true with like no evidence or thoughts
I can't remember when I read it but I think that's from the books. Maybe some maester's gossip. Maybe told to Bran idk.
Dany kinda forgot about the Hightowers.... or something
Love your style and humor bro! Subscribed
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4:45 a refferance to the boy Glimbo. NICE. Immediately liked and subbed.
On the Salt Throne thing. I actually like that name, but I also am electing to take the show canon as a separate entity. Within that, maybe both thrones do exist. For whatever reason, perhaps the iron islanders chose to switch to the Salt Throne after some sort of disagreement over the old one. Who knows? Maybe the old one mysteriously vanished one day. Surely it was too big and heavy to just up and steal...but then, where did it go? I don't know. I just made all this up...but, hey, that's how most great stories start.
Interesting ideas. I don't necessarily think "Seastone Chair' is a fantastic name, but "Salt Throne" just sounded kinda goofy to me. It was emblematic of the strange unnecessary changes GoT kept making in the later seasons
@@fantasyhaven1 well, not everything is for everyone.
Good humor mixed with facts
How does this video have 650k views, but the creator only had 29k subs!?
Let's get this man some subs, common guy's
I know right? 😆
Great video. Perfect, balanced amount of humor that hits haha. Subbed.
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I absolutely love the animations, very well done!
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there needs to be a new tv series about the Hightower family
Hightower spinoff 🙏
Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing job
Thanks :)
I'm just gonna say this. That high-pitched replay of "salt throne" was the perfect mocking. Today everything has to be a blatant insult, and somewhat friendly mocking is almost too mannered of a behaviour to encounter. So, you're a man of culture, ser Fantasy Haven!
Here before this channel blows up
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Brilliant videos. Love the artwork and presentation good sir
Thank you!
Im currently in the middle of season 8 in my 2nd rewatch after 4 years and i just found out that Margaery Tyrell has hightower blood in her.
So basically the hightowers were indirectly involved in the middle of GoT.
So, I was just watching the video and I HAD to check the channel name due to the animations and noticed you only had 3.52k subs. So, I subbed too. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! Onwards to 1 million 💪
Greaaaaat videos!!! High quality!!! Woow
Thanks so much!!
I love the little jabs u throw at anyone and anything in the vids😂
Lol the Ottoble part killed me but the ad is on point, he does indeed have a dulcet voice
"Your graaaace..."
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Great video! Loved the fact your didn’t spoil anything for HOTD subscribed! Love your sense of humour haha 😆
Thanks! All my videos will have spoiler warnings at the start, I want book readers and show only fans alike in this community :)
Great video. Had me giggling🤙 subbed
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The Hightower knew well Aegon I and his sisters because they had been guests in Oldtown, so It's comprehensible they opened the door of the city peacefully
Loved this video keep making more 😂 just subbed
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This was wonderful
Thanks! Just checked out your channel, watching your Littlefinger vids rn
@Fantasy Haven Dope! Hope you enjoy the crazy talk 😂
Hmu if you ever wanna shoot the shit on some asoiaf stuff
Hell yeah! You got a twitter?
@@fantasyhaven1 I am lowkey kinda afraid of twitter XD but I am on discord, you on there?
A lot of great houses have gone extinct in the Song of Ice and Fire before the events of A Game of Thrones.
It is so interesting. Makes the story and the world very real. Westeros has a real "fuck around and found out" vibe.
The Hightowers and Velaryons are not among those extinct houses. The Hightowers are still active and ruling Oldtown in GoT's timeline, and Lord Hightower is Margaery's grandfather. The Velaryons are Stannis's vassals, and the previous Lord Velaryon was killed at the Blackwater.
@gooby214 yeah... I forgot to mention specifically they aren't as powerful as they once were.
@@Phizzo4real hightowers still at their peak & velaryons lost all their power due to the dance of the dragons by playing for the wrong side and never recovered since.
@@hazeinheaven wdym ? aren t they team black ?
@@noxe6413 yes they were from the black faction thats why they lost.
Great editing
Thanks!
Everyone who was a show-only fan really missed out on so much of the story!
Ikr
"This is Jon Snow"
"Hot D"
yeah nah mate, at this point no one's gonna be able to stop me from liking and subbing to your channel
Haha, thanks!
1:39 This is the O'Neill clan symbol in its literal sense: the Red Hand from Game of Thrones is replaced with a green hand. Based on what you mentioned about Garth Greenhand, one could argue that the equivalent would be Niall of Nine Hostages, whose descendants also created multiple clans, among them the O'Neill, who were the main Ulster rulers, etc. An analysis has suggested that many Irish people are descended from Niall of Nine Hostages, suggesting that GMM has drawn heavily from Irish history.
Amazing video!
'In deep geek' said once that Hightowers are only ones that could be considered to have won in the dance of the dragons. Most of the seven kingdoms either stayed were they were (Starks, Arryns, Dorne, Iron Islands), took some heavy hits and significant losses which they had to recover for years (Lannisters, Baratheons, Velaryons) or got the shit absolutely and truly rocked (Targeryans, Crownlands and Riverlands). But Hightowers came out in stronger than what they were before, enriching themselves.
Common Hightower W
The Hightowers only came out "stronger" was because they completely changed their ideology between pre and post- dance. Alicent and Otto would have a heart attack to see what the Hightowers turned into
Bruh, just cuz they are doing fine now means they have won a war which happened more than a century ago? Perhaps it's cuz the new generation obv aren't corrupt & dirty imbecile like Otto his brother & alicent, those houses u said not all of them were took hit cuz of the dance, the hell?
@@rose-yw5xfnot really, the main branch of the Hightowers were way smarter than otto or Alicent (who were a cadet branch but were powerful as Alicent was kings wife and otto was hand) . Otto lost his family during the dance while his relative Hightowers who were the lords of oldtown got even richer and Stronger after the dance ended.
@@Att964 Well the main branch did follow alicent and otto’s lead during the war. Otto has power as the hand, but he doesn’t have access to house Hightowers resources. Only his brother and his heirs do. And they obviously followed Ottos lead. They weren’t smarter, it’s just that they didn’t die.
When I say that alicent and Otto would have a heart attack seeing what house Hightower became. I meant that house Hightower became significantly less religious and even dirtied the high septon at one point. And that it was a women who made their house richer and powerful
After the dance, lord Lyonel Hightower married his stepmother, lady Sam. The high septon found their marriage to be illegitimate, but lyonel hightower didn’t care. Lady Sam was a prominent Black and ally to king aegon 3. Lady Sam protected Lotho Rogare after the fall of House Rogare and together they founded the Bank of Old town. That’s how house Hightower became richer and more powerful, because of a black supporting Aegon 3.
Amazing recap of Hightowers
Your editing is great
Great video, very well done. Keep it up for sure 👍 Your voice fits well too. I forsee lots of subs
Thanks man 👍
Good stuff , you really are appeasing my adhd mind thinking about a lot of unanswered questions that people like me care about very much. You got one about house Reed during GOT?
love the video and love your humor
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The ottible bit is hilarious!! "You look so much like your mother in certain light" killed me
Ok. Dude. How am i just finding you? Great content ur hilarious. Instant subscribe
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I genuinely enjoyed this, and appreciate your efforts. Subscribing and sharing now. Well done, fella. U have a talent here. Keep it up.👍😁🤜🤛🤙💯✌️
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I kinda wish the Hightowers had been included in GOT
I also wish ALL of the Greyjoys and Martells had been included in GOT!
You can already see the fall of these houses by the fact that the Velaryons don't even exist and the Hightowers are just a vassal house to the Highgardens.
All of the other major houses are still at the top - Baratheon, Stark, Greyjoy, Tully, Lannister and Arryn.
The velaryons do exist btw they swore fealty to stannis in ACOK
The velarions still exist and the Hightowers were always sworn vassles to the Tyrell’s infact they still are one of the most powerful houses and are the second most powerful house in the reach first is the Tyrell’s
@@AegonTargaryenthesecond3096 i later read that yes, that said they went from being a major house to nothing.
@@RibZe1 where they are still a very major house and even still have links to the crown through Margery although it is waning due to her imprisonment
Its the Euron Greyjoy's "salt throne" that nearly killed me... sub from me
ok so Ottible got me subbed. grats
Cheers!
I never want this magical world to end!! 💜💜💜
Maybe bc I am _dead inside_ that very few things make me laugh out loud, but that Ottoble™ spot did the trick.
Great work on a different ASOIAF subject that I immediately _clicked_ on as soon as I saw it. I still refuse to believe (let alone see another) R+L=J video. I need fresh ASOIAF subjects.
You earned a sub.
Where do I sign up for Ottoble™.
Thanks for the sub! Glad you enjoyed :D it's always fun seeing new comments appearing on my older videos
Very well done
Thanks
Love your videos!
Thank you!
new channel keep going, there are lot of topics in game of thrones on which you can post videos, can improve the animation.
Cheers
Well done sir
Thank you
It's funny how this badly drawn cartoon of Euron Greyjoy looks more believable than the f*boy we got in the show.
Just came across ur videos, immediately new sub
Awesome, thank you!
I'm doubtful that the Hightower's supported Renly. As the only statement made about the Hightower's supporting Renly was made by Renly himself, who was inflating his numbers and his following to try and get Stark and Tully support, because outside of the Tyrells (and maybe Courtnay Penrose and Randyll Tarly) nobody was all that enthusiastic about Renly. As shown by the fact that all of the Stormlords and few Reacher Lords (including members of the Rainbow-guard) defected to Stannis before his body was even cold.
The Tyrell's only supported Renly so heavily because Loras Tyrell was Mace Tyrell favourite son, Renly agreed to marry Margery Tyrell and (probably) agreed to name Mace Tyrell Hand of the King.
given that Stannis was the older brother, its lack of enthusiasm for him that is the reason that they didnt just declare for him to begin with. they liked renly more and only Loras and brienne truly suspected stannis of being behind it.
Just based on the show, I like the hightowers and never thought they were pompous.
Hilarious and informative. Instant sub
Welcome aboard!
I didn't think this was going to be this funny lmfao good one
Cheers
Awesome vid, cool animations and a smooth voice. I subbed :)
Do you do the animations yourself?
Thanks! Yeah, I create the characters & backgrounds on Photopea and use Davinci Resolve to animate (they're basically the free versions of Photoshop and Premier Pro)
I thought only the free folk and northerners were descendants of the first men, while everyone else in Westeros besides Dorne were descendants of the Andals, while the Dornish are a mix between the old Dornish and the Rhornars
Love how the thumbnail has a Tyrell
Margaery is descended from the Hightowers
@@fantasyhaven1 yes but wouldn’t that be like having Sansa or any of the starks children on the thumbnail when talking about House Tully?
As their mother Catelyn Stark is a Tully.
But there are other examples of Tully descendants in the show (Edmure, Blackfish), while the only Hightower descendants we ever see are Ser Gerold (at the Tower of Joy) and Mace's offspring. So I had to choose between an awkward screenshot of Ser Gerold, or an official HD promo pic of Margaery/Loras. Margaery is more popular, so I went with her.
@@fantasyhaven1 okay when you put it like that it makes sense xd
We don’t really at all see any hightower beside the few in house of dragon.
Would've been cool to see Lord Leyton is GoT! But the Hightowers clearly didn't fit into the story D&D wanted to tell
The “oh wait no we didn’t” killed me 😂