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i remember reading somewhere that George RR Martin is actually horrible with practical sizes and how realistic architecture works. Like when he saw the first artist rendering of The Wall for GOT he told them they'd made it look way too high, to which they answered "that's what a 700 foot wall would look like".
@@petrnovak6879 he still was an idiot who walked into a war he has no chance of winning and stranded himself in a frozen wasteland. did he magically know Mel can summon shadow assassins from her pussy? no. not really. thus, idiot.
@@universalpage9591 Critics rating is shit and mostly bribed. Many bad movies get positive critic score but low audience scores. Try using the audience score next time... The show slowly went to total shit after they go off the books. Teleporting characters, plot armour, fan service, inconsistent logic....just because YOU have low standards doesnt mean I have to
As an American I appreciate the deference but as a progressive I give you permission to leave us in the dust! No sense in us not switching to metric like the rest of the world.
I was going to say something similar. Why would he use the Empire State Building or Big Ben? Clearly there’s only one, superior, form of measurement and that is the Hodor method. I am approximately .8 Hodors and live in a house that is about 457 Hodors sq
In Russia there was system of measurements which used lengths of parts of human body like elbows and spans . Maybe we can revive it and measure things in Hodors, Hodor-elbows, Hodor-spans etc.?
Actually the pyramid of Ghis is very different from that of Giza apart from its name, as it is a palace in the middle of a city rather than a tomb. A more likely inspiration is the ziggurats of Mesopotamia or the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan
The Chinese emperors had many concubines and eunuchs servants in the Forbidden Palace. The Palace was build by countless workers but after the construction was done, many of those workers were executed.
It took 14 years for construction of the Imperial Palace and more millions of workers. But some workers were executed in order to keep secrets of the palace. 100,000 artist were also part of the construction as well.
The triple layer walls of Qarth must have been inspired by the walls of Constantinople. The city is also quite similar to Constantinople which for a long time was the only surviving city in a once great empire
Ivan The Terrible basically everything in ASOIF is based on history. Even major story beats like the battle of the blackwater, which is taken straight out of Byzantine history.
Emergency Awesome, Gray Area and Talking Thrones are just a few others that you must not know about. They all have depth to them personally that the others are capable of. I wonder how many people helped GRRM write these stories.
The Wall is Hardrian's wall. The Titans of Braavos is The colossus of Rhodes. Hightower in Oldtown is Lighthouse of Alexandria. Valyria Freehold roads is the Roman Empire's Roads. The Long Bridge of Volantis is The famous Roman Bridge of Cordoba. Qarth the trippled wall is probably the Constantinople walls. Highgarden is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Great Pyramid of Giza is Great Pyramid of Ghis.
I would think the jet black city of Asshai would be a wonder as well. Writings say it absorbed any sunlight around, and it's a major port. Would make sense that Longstrider had been there.
Look up Jain Farstrider and the city of Shadar Logoth in the Wheel of Time books. I'm sure that these are related. Other than there not being any record of Jain traveling to Shadar Logoth, the similarities are too close. But then again the GoT equivalents never met either.
Yeah you see, most people don't take much time with the gravy. But Hot Pie knows that the gravy must be perfect for the pie to be moist and tasty inside. A bit like clean pussy but with crusts. That being said his pies have very large crusts. Not cool, more beef and gravy please Hot Pie. I knew mine were better.....
@@fuckenps3 Just, for me, personally, I would have changed how S8 played out. Even if the night was singular, I still think the War with Cersei was completed in episodes 1-4 where the final 2 are used to deal with the White Walkers.
Noble I’d have evacuated the North and marched them Southwards to King’s Landing (or maybe a neighboring city. Castley Rock comes to mind) and forced Cersi to fight with us. Lannisters suck at fighting anyways (the Dothraki have shown that plenty of times), but at least her army would be exhausted for Daenerys to take the Iron Throne.
I think they should have just kept 10 episode seasons this whole time to be able to properly flesh out the ending. But considering they had no actual book material to lift from they seem to have not had any confidence in themselves. Perhaps working closely with GRRM would have helped.
volantis is like london: a outpost build by the romans, divided by the river into a respected city on the on side and in medieval times the filthy degenerate and outlawish south bank where theatres brothels and pubs were. the bridge is like london bridge, which in the old times was also built up with houses and shops and the only way to cross the Themes.
what about florence. It was also a roman city and "ponte vecchio" (google it) is pretty much the same. I think London is in facto more compatible (being further away from valyria, and the fact that it was devided in two) so maybe RR Martin read about London bridge in London having buildings on it, and inspired from "Ponte Vecchio" tought of that.
A respected city on one side and filthy degenerates and outlaws on the other? Sounds a lot like San Fran and Oakland. *I'm kidding please don't hurt me*
The Palace of Love in Chroyane (though now the ruined Sorrows) was once considered a marvel of the world. The palace alone is estimated by Tyrion through the fog to be many times the size of the Red Keep and was known throughout the world to be splendorously beautiful. Very possible that it was one of the wonders before its destruction.
Volantis is more like it, they are the only real successor state of Valyria (Rome) and attempted to reconquer Valyria. Volantis also has two halves separated by water like Constantinople.
@@harpe9415 Don't think so man, the two halves characteristic applies to any city that presents a river or other stream of water. Qarth is definitely Constantinople since it's the bridge between east and west but also for its walls. The walls was actually why i made this comment in the first place. Until the Ottomans and their cannons Constantinoples was protected by any invasion because of its multilayered walls, much like Qarth. Also it stands as the gate of access to a strait, just like Constantinople
hanging gardens of Babylon!!! Dude wtf. Constantinople was roman and there are alredy cities inspired to it in GoT (the valerian cities). I think Long bridge is inspired more from ponte vecchio in florence don't you think?
King's Landing is London, Braavos is Venice, Volantis is Florence (famous for its bridge), Qarth is Istanbul (also famous for its walls), and Yi Ti is Beijing (famous for its forbidden city).
It’s probably the Five Forts and the Hightower. Because the Five Forts are basically the Wall of Essos and the Hightower is the tallest structure in Westeros so it’d definitely make sense. If Lomas never visited the Five Forts than the Great Pyramid of Ghis or Meereen would probably take its place on the list.
I’m religious. So i believe in heaven (duh). I always said to myself that when i die and go to heaven i want to basically VR (except it is real) style go back to ALL the fictional worlds i wanted to experience. And actually experience them, so this video is actually helping me.
Two of my favourite youtubers, both ASOIAF channels, Alt Shift X and Preston Jacobs, both for completely different reasons, but both excellent content nonetheless, big fan ASX, keep up the good work :)
I've slowly read the books over the last 5 years, not feeling the need to rush due to the undisclosed release date of winds of winter. Listening to these videos helps tie everything together after months of reading breaks
The long bridge is also based on bridge in Florence in Italy where the whole bridge is covered in shops and other things it is called Ponte Vecchio Edit: thanks for likes and if you enjoy the game of thrones as i do you may genuinely enjoy this game, Conqueror's Blade I have some gameplay on my chanel if you like it you can join our discord or whatever even subscribe :D .
Looks more like old London bridge upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Claude_de_Jongh__-View_of_London_Bridge-__Google_Art_Project_bridge.jpg/800px-_View_of_London_Bridge_-_Google_Art_Project_bridge.jpg
Alt Shift X is simply THE BEST youtube channel about game of thrones! I've read the books several times by now, and i'm very impressed about the structured and exact research, which these guys are doing. I love it! Thank you SO much!
Lomas Longstider never made it past the Bones mountains, as he lost heart and believed he was at the world’s end. It’s stated in the East of Ib in the World of Ice and Fire. Great video regardless.
just recently had a discussion with someone about the 7 wonders of the world so I had to circle back to this video, thanks for all the great content over the years mate…cheers.
I really love the videos you do based on worldbuilding stuff from the books. I know you've branched out a little to other TV series like Westworld, but I think it would be fantastic if you do the same with other books and book series. There's not enough content like that on RUclips and your style and voice would be perfect for it! Either way, thanks for another great video and happy new year :)
For some reason, I want them to make a new series in Game of Thrones world. Only this time it will all about a story that happens in countries of Essos. New characters, new houses other than houses in Westeros, and maybe they can add some or few characters from Westeros or at least insert a little bit of reference about what happened in Westeros probably after the Great War (since Season 8 Got will be air next year). Also, mystery characters like Quaithe, Jaaqen Haghar, and more that we didn't know much can appear again in this new series. P/S: Kingdom of Yi Ti and Five Forts got me hype due to the story that been narrated in this video. Also, there are a lot of unexplained mysteries that still exist in GoT (like what cause the Doom of Valyria, Gerion Lannister's quest in finding the Valyrian Steel sword. He may be dead. He may be alive we still don't know yet and who is Quaithe) So, it will make sense if they make a new series to explain these unsolvable mysteries
Alt you did a masterful job of pointing out the amazing and novel elements that make TWOIAF so fascinating, it really took me a long time to absorb the mythos of this very complex world and three actual starts and quits to really read the books. But when I did the whole story was comprehensible and I think people will still be discovering and marvelling at the series 50 years from now and long after I'm taking a dirt-nap.
@@slitor Ghis seems to be an odd mixture of Carthage (for the whole "warring with the large empire several times until destruction and having their capital absolutely destroyed after their final defeat" thing) and Egypt (for the whole slaves and pyramids thing). I honestly don't know enough about the Assyrians to compare the two.
I cannot express how wonderful your videos are. Your voice is very calming and your content very well researched. Can't wait for your s08e03 breakdown video.
I think the Long Bridge of Volantis was inspired by Trajan's Bridge in real life. It was a bridge across the Danube River, built by Emperor Trajan as a means of travel from Rome to Dacia, one of the empire's more obscure provinces. It was the first stone bridge built across the Danube and for centuries remained the largest bridge ever built.
Alt Shift X is basically the only thing I watch nowadays (father with no time and of the small snippets of time I have, I watch this) but its almost become like waiting for the Winds of Winter, I need more content Alt Shift X - I love your videos
As someone who doesn’t have time to invest in the books and was dreadfully bored by the show, your videos diving into the lore really intrigue me. George R. R. Martin really knows how to write interesting lore, and you do a great job explaining it!
You are awesome man, thank you. Your video layouts are incredible, your voice and humor are even more cool! Thank you for the extremely well made and thought out videos and commentary. I’m a huge fan of everything you do, so please keep it up. Thanks again.
Another Wonder made by Man that Lomas could have meant would be the city of Asshai. All the buildings there are described as being on a scale much larger than anywhere in the West and that the city itself is so huge, it always seems void of people. There's also constant trade between Asshai and cities further west, so Lomas could have reached it fairly easy
The hanging gardens of babylon can be the inspiration of the walls Qarth, you see the walls of babylon follows those design of animals in it's wall gates except the last two walls. babylon also have an outer and inner wall except no 2nd inner wall.
More likely the three walls (and Qarth itself) is a reference to Carthage which famously had 3 walls its west side and took the romans over two years to siege.
Imagine a video game, where you can explore both continents. Open world, in depth character creator, thousands of weapons and armour, not to mention unique items, complex character relationships(M rated, of course), maybe even an empire building mechanic(i would totally take over those 5 forts), intricate stories... PS. If such a project ever comes into being, for god sakes DO NOT LET BUGTHESDA ANYWHERE NEAR IT!!! Or Activision, or EA. Maybe Ubisoft, they have proven they can create amazing worlds with Origins and Odyssey. I would personally prefer CDPR or Warhorse.
It would be so great. Just having to choose weither to become a war lord in the East, a rich merchant, a Westerosi king, or just a traveller, a wanderer thirsty for discoveries and remote places. I always had the fantasy of being an historian/archeologist similar to Lara Croft or Indiana Jones in those fictictional universes and to unearth long-forgotten mysteries...
@@tamalice23 That game KIND of exists already, except it's not a pure RPG, but an strategy/RPG hybrid. It's a mod for Crusader Kings 2, simply called "A game of thrones. Just last night I played as the Corbrey's during the Andal invasion, somehow ending up being even more of an asshole than the "historical" Corbrey's. I've previously done playthroughs where I put Samwell Tarly's grandson on the Iron Throne (Sam, in this case, turned into an cruel machiavellian mastermind that married into the Tyrell family, and a few strategic assasinations later made sure a Tarly ended up as lord of highgarden, who then proceeded to bully the king on the iron throne, a drunken and pathetic grandson of Stannis, into introducing an elective system and get himself elected). It's the perfect GoT game in my mind, but if you want an actual RPG where you actually walk through the streets of Volantis it's not what you are looking for. Check out this video for how the game plays: ruclips.net/video/Pdc-dWZ43ng/видео.html If you never heard of CK2 it's a historical strategy game set during the crusades. It STARTS historical, but then anything can happen, and the GoT mod works the same, just with the GoT setting instead of histrocial europe. So I've seen Viserys end up on the iron throne, Robert discover Cersei's infidelity and exile her to the wall. When I tried out playing the Clegane family a week ago something (I don't know what exactly) happened between Robert and Tywin, and Robert ended up imprisoning, torturing, and finally executing Tywin within weeks of his coronation, putting a 13 year old Tyrion on the throne in the Westerlands. But of course Robert ended up denying Tyrion the title of Warden of the West, so we rose in rebellion. You play as an individual lord, and when you die you continue playing as his heir, as long as they belong to the same dynasty. Without an heir it's game over. The entire world is playable as well, so you can play as a lord in the east, or a slaver in Yunkai, or a dothraki horselord, or an Bravoosi merchant. You can even play as a pirate in the stepstones or basilisk isles or a summer islander, and if you download submods you can play as a dragonlord in Valyria before the doom. The only real restriction is that you can't have the doom happen during play. You either play before the doom, as far back as the andal invasion, and the doom can never happen, or you can play after the doom, although you can play right AFTER the doom and establish yourself as the "Dragon king" of Dragonstone as Anearis the Exile, with Danaerys the Dreamer as on of your 4 dragonriders and an one year old Balerion ready to grow up into the Black Dread. :) Of course, CK2 being CK2, when I did that Balerion ended up being killed by one of my other dragons when he was just 5 years old... So it's a great game for "What if..."-scenarios, but increadibly frustrating if you want to re-live the actual storyline.
I don't see that happening exactly as you would like any time soon, although I wish it would. However there are two are options I would recommend. Mount and Blade Warband has 1 or 2 really good GoT mods, main attraction is the ability to create armies, choose how they look and what weapons they have, choose how you look and what your weapons are, and conquer whatever you want if you are good enough by physically sieging or attacking others. Downsides to this is its really more combat based and (if you care about it) the graphics are slightly dated. Skyrim has a game of thrones adaption mod that is pretty good and kinda close to what you want, probably the closest out of any other options I've seen. It changes the story to work with Game of Thrones, changes the look of most of the cities, adds lots of in game factions and adds game of thrones armours and weapons. The main downside I've found with this mod is that you need to play with subtitles as that tells the story because they didn't have new voice actors, and the voice acting is still included but its from Skyrim so its a little annoying. There is also another adaption mod being developed that will be much more detailed and probably the closest thing to what you have described. You also have the ability to download mods to bring it closer to the experience you want: combat mods because the Skyrim combat isn't great, weapon and armour mods, army building mods, romance and 'm rated' mods and other mods that you might want.
@@mybawzarerichie Yeah, i don"t think we will get a first/third person action/adventure/RPG Game of Thrones any time soon, it's just my wishful thinking. But i am playing those Mount&Blade mods and Crusader Kings 2 has an amazing GOT mod.
Once the books are finished, someone (netflix?) should pickup ASOIAF as an animated series. Maybe it would accurately translate real sets, battles and characters as how the books & GRRM wanted them to be. And then they can make world building spin-offs. If only...
Great video! I think the Long Bridge might also be based on the old London Bridge that existed during Medieval and Renaissance times. It was covered in buildings as well. I'm less sure about this one, but I think the walls of Qarth might also have been based on the walls of Constantinople. They famously protected it for nearly a millennium, allowing it to survive as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, until the Ottomans finally captured it by using some of the very first siege cannons in the 15th Century to penetrate the walls. It not only brought an end to the Byzantine's empire and led to the renaming of Constantinople to Istanbul, but marked the end of Medieval-style warfare, the obsolescence of the kind of wall/castle fortifications seen up to that point, and the need for Europeans to find another route to Asia (leading to the discovery of the New World).
This was one of my favorite videos besides the chapter readings! Thanks dude, Real history is awesome but I hate non-fiction. Pillars of the Earth is my only inlet into 'historical fiction'. Good enough for me.
What would the smaller Hodor increments be called and how would you designate them? A fortune is to be made by those who create manufacture and sell an actual working Hodor Stick or Tape Measure...just sayin'
@@seanyoung9014 Well, if they were vertical like arrow slits that actually existed, it would be easier. I feel I should point out that I am perfectly aware that it was just fan art.
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No, thank YOU, @Alt Shift X, for all the hard work and passion you put into every single video. Congratulations on the 100th video and the upcoming 1M subscriber count! Cheers! 😄👍
Thank you for making such great content
well deserved
Hell yeah!! Congrats my brotha!! Keep up the good work. The gold standard
Thanks for everything....
i remember reading somewhere that George RR Martin is actually horrible with practical sizes and how realistic architecture works. Like when he saw the first artist rendering of The Wall for GOT he told them they'd made it look way too high, to which they answered "that's what a 700 foot wall would look like".
Yeah. I have to fix the size of shit in my head when I read his stuff.
Considering many great structures have been made partially with magic, it's acceptable to me.
The metric system would have helped him a great deal i belive. You dont come up with a 213m high wall just like that.
@@kyle857 if he is talking in feet, yards and stuff id have no clue anyway so i can just imagin whatever i want.
Kratatch Fuck your foolish metric measurements. He should have used measurements in Hodors, the greatest unit of measurement
GRRM : Can I copy the 7 wonders of the world for my books?
World : Sure, but make some changes.
GRRM : *Makes everything 2 times bigger*
You mean 50 hodors taller
GRRM likes history
@@QueenDaenerysTargaryen Most people do as well!
@@Gadget-Walkmen i wouldn't say that
@@diogo4800 they do! There’s tons of documentaries that are watched all the time!
The wall was built by White Walkers to protect them from Stannis the Mannis.
Agreed.
why else would it be there
Why when he is an idiotic fool who walked into a war he cant win and got easily slaughtered by Ramsay?
@@godemperorofmankind3.091 we dont talk about virgin serial Stannis
We speak about the LORD book Stannis
@@petrnovak6879 he still was an idiot who walked into a war he has no chance of winning and stranded himself in a frozen wasteland.
did he magically know Mel can summon shadow assassins from her pussy? no. not really. thus, idiot.
Yeah the night that never ends... it lasted for an hour and 20 minutes
So the episode has to last like 2 years for you to be happy?
They assumed that the white walkers would win though and actually keep the night going.
The show is garbage now
@@universalpage9591 try 2 bad SEASONS
@@universalpage9591 Critics rating is shit and mostly bribed. Many bad movies get positive critic score but low audience scores. Try using the audience score next time...
The show slowly went to total shit after they go off the books. Teleporting characters, plot armour, fan service, inconsistent logic....just because YOU have low standards doesnt mean I have to
The Hodor system of measurements - the way to reconcile metric and imperial fanboys!
As an American I appreciate the deference but as a progressive I give you permission to leave us in the dust! No sense in us not switching to metric like the rest of the world.
I was going to say something similar. Why would he use the Empire State Building or Big Ben? Clearly there’s only one, superior, form of measurement and that is the Hodor method. I am approximately .8 Hodors and live in a house that is about 457 Hodors sq
Can be used for height _and_ weight.
In Russia there was system of measurements which used lengths of parts of human body like elbows and spans . Maybe we can revive it and measure things in Hodors, Hodor-elbows, Hodor-spans etc.?
@@Paul_Sergeyev Hodors dik maybe? (1,2m)
I demand that all buildings be measured in Hodors from now on.
I demand a trial by Hodor!
I've been doing this for a while already, just yesterday I measured my dong at 0.6 hodors long.
@@akeelbrown7675 got me beat 0.001 Hodors here
how many Hodor's is it to the moon?
@@scottmantooth8785 1848, Hodor is 208 cm tall, 384,400,000 metres to the moon, #Hodorsystem
GRRM: hey, can I copy your homework?
Great pyramid of Giza: sure, just make sure you change it a little bit
*THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIS*
Buy it's probably twice as many Hodors high!
Actually the pyramid of Ghis is very different from that of Giza apart from its name, as it is a palace in the middle of a city rather than a tomb. A more likely inspiration is the ziggurats of Mesopotamia or the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan
Literally everything in GOT is "inspired" by something or the other irrespective of it being from other Authors or Real life.
Ducklord The Great
They were never tombs, they never found any bodies in the pyramids....the misinformation campaign needs to end sometime.
@T Mac Would people really have lived in it though?
Presumably the Yi Ti Emperor's Palace is based on the Forbidden City, which was fabled to have 1000 buildings (it has 980)?
999 because only the chinese emperor could have the number 1000
no only god(s) could have the number 1000 in heaven @@wintermelon2484
The Chinese emperors had many concubines and eunuchs servants in the Forbidden Palace. The Palace was build by countless workers but after the construction was done, many of those workers were executed.
Just like the Red Keep and Maegor the Cruel, huh))
It took 14 years for construction of the Imperial Palace and more millions of workers. But some workers were executed in order to keep secrets of the palace. 100,000 artist were also part of the construction as well.
The triple layer walls of Qarth must have been inspired by the walls of Constantinople. The city is also quite similar to Constantinople which for a long time was the only surviving city in a once great empire
only surviving city??? I see you're an expert historian lol
@@georgilazarov4960 *remaining
@@gs-8279 lol
Ba Sing Se
@@gs-8279 nope
One thing I learnt is that GRRM loves his history
Ivan The Terrible basically everything in ASOIF is based on history. Even major story beats like the battle of the blackwater, which is taken straight out of Byzantine history.
We all love his story
@Thelastmemelord Lol you're a sad individual
@Thelastmemelord Lol don't @ me
He also loves his Lovecraft
I'm so happy this channel exists, gives GoT such incredible depth until the last season premieres!
till Winds of Winter is released *
There's more depth in this video than in the whole 7th season
The Volume of Fire and Blood will be out in 2019.
wifi luke
It gives the book incredible depth,not the show
Emergency Awesome, Gray Area and Talking Thrones are just a few others that you must not know about. They all have depth to them personally that the others are capable of. I wonder how many people helped GRRM write these stories.
The Wall is Hardrian's wall.
The Titans of Braavos is The colossus of Rhodes.
Hightower in Oldtown is Lighthouse of Alexandria.
Valyria Freehold roads is the Roman Empire's Roads.
The Long Bridge of Volantis is The famous Roman Bridge of Cordoba.
Qarth the trippled wall is probably the Constantinople walls.
Highgarden is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Great Pyramid of Giza is Great Pyramid of Ghis.
Long Bridge is more like Old London Bridge with dash of Ponte Vecchio.
@@moalabs and Rogare Bank of Lys is Medici Bank of Florence.
Walls of Qarth might be the Walls of Babylon (esp. Ishtar gate), at least the decor might be inspired by them
@@majan6267 What about Rogare Bank of Lys is inspired by Medici Bank of Florence.
Hightower is more of a mix of the Lighthouse and the Library of Alexandria.
I would think the jet black city of Asshai would be a wonder as well. Writings say it absorbed any sunlight around, and it's a major port. Would make sense that Longstrider had been there.
Yeah but it's also skeezy as hell.
They painted everything with vanta black lol
I'd enjoy it there. The sun is brutal
Look up Jain Farstrider and the city of Shadar Logoth in the Wheel of Time books. I'm sure that these are related. Other than there not being any record of Jain traveling to Shadar Logoth, the similarities are too close. But then again the GoT equivalents never met either.
One of the wonders of the modern GoT world is Hot Pies gravy
No, his pies!
You mean Medeival right?
Modern world would be *after* that _Dream of Spring_ thingy {the bittersweet ending}.
Yeah you see, most people don't take much time with the gravy. But Hot Pie knows that the gravy must be perfect for the pie to be moist and tasty inside. A bit like clean pussy but with crusts. That being said his pies have very large crusts. Not cool, more beef and gravy please Hot Pie. I knew mine were better.....
What about Podricks magnum dong?
Maybe even Podrick's 😉
'If the Wall falls, night falls as well, the long night that never ends'... Which turns out to be a singular night :/... Dammit D&D.
They assumed that the white walkers would win though and actually keep the night going.
@@fuckenps3 Just, for me, personally, I would have changed how S8 played out. Even if the night was singular, I still think the War with Cersei was completed in episodes 1-4 where the final 2 are used to deal with the White Walkers.
Noble I’d have evacuated the North and marched them Southwards to King’s Landing (or maybe a neighboring city. Castley Rock comes to mind) and forced Cersi to fight with us.
Lannisters suck at fighting anyways (the Dothraki have shown that plenty of times), but at least her army would be exhausted for Daenerys to take the Iron Throne.
I think they should have just kept 10 episode seasons this whole time to be able to properly flesh out the ending. But considering they had no actual book material to lift from they seem to have not had any confidence in themselves.
Perhaps working closely with GRRM would have helped.
@@aaronlandry3934 Would've made for a better season!
If I'd built the Titan, I'd totally have a rear port for dropping flaming pitch.
Everybody'd be giggling immaturely as enemy ships burned.
Lmao and a large horn that exited out the rear as you drop firey diarrhea on your enemies
He can shoot arrows from his boobs
Literally shitting on your enemies
This is Gold.
During times of war, the Titan would be equipped with a taco and the rear port is opened.
volantis is like london: a outpost build by the romans, divided by the river into a respected city on the on side and in medieval times the filthy degenerate and outlawish south bank where theatres brothels and pubs were. the bridge is like london bridge, which in the old times was also built up with houses and shops and the only way to cross the Themes.
what about florence. It was also a roman city and "ponte vecchio" (google it) is pretty much the same.
I think London is in facto more compatible (being further away from valyria, and the fact that it was devided in two) so maybe RR Martin read about London bridge in London having buildings on it, and inspired from "Ponte Vecchio" tought of that.
or maybe just the show writers (forgot)
@@leonardodavid2842 In Fire and Blood, Rogare Bank is inspired by Medici Bank of Florence.
A respected city on one side and filthy degenerates and outlaws on the other? Sounds a lot like San Fran and Oakland. *I'm kidding please don't hurt me*
@@TheIrishSpectre I used to live in tenderloin a decade ago. and before that in casto. enough degenerates about on both sides of the bay my friend
The Palace of Love in Chroyane (though now the ruined Sorrows) was once considered a marvel of the world. The palace alone is estimated by Tyrion through the fog to be many times the size of the Red Keep and was known throughout the world to be splendorously beautiful. Very possible that it was one of the wonders before its destruction.
There’s no one on RUclips that delivers GoT content of this quality do consistently, thanks so much mate
Qarth is basically Constantinople
@@josephleonard6695 press F for constantinople (ಥ﹏ಥ)
Volantis is more like it, they are the only real successor state of Valyria (Rome) and attempted to reconquer Valyria. Volantis also has two halves separated by water like Constantinople.
True; or maybe even Qart Hadasht, meaning Carthage, or the New City.
@@harpe9415 Don't think so man, the two halves characteristic applies to any city that presents a river or other stream of water. Qarth is definitely Constantinople since it's the bridge between east and west but also for its walls. The walls was actually why i made this comment in the first place. Until the Ottomans and their cannons Constantinoples was protected by any invasion because of its multilayered walls, much like Qarth. Also it stands as the gate of access to a strait, just like Constantinople
hanging gardens of Babylon!!! Dude wtf. Constantinople was roman and there are alredy cities inspired to it in GoT (the valerian cities). I think Long bridge is inspired more from ponte vecchio in florence don't you think?
The Long Night sawed Westeros's population in half and Phil Swift put it back together using *FLEX TAPE*
You could do that but why? Why would you do that? Why would you do any of that?
Now that's a lot of damage!
It turnes out Azor Ahai's flaming sword is a chainsaw
The wall is flex seal
Project TsukiNoMe oh get back in your basement, nobody cares about that shit
King's Landing is London, Braavos is Venice, Volantis is Florence (famous for its bridge), Qarth is Istanbul (also famous for its walls), and Yi Ti is Beijing (famous for its forbidden city).
"Sarnath" is an actual city in India where a huge ancient temple devoted to Lord Shiva resides.
I thought it was from a Lovecraft story
It’s probably the Five Forts and the Hightower. Because the Five Forts are basically the Wall of Essos and the Hightower is the tallest structure in Westeros so it’d definitely make sense. If Lomas never visited the Five Forts than the Great Pyramid of Ghis or Meereen would probably take its place on the list.
Sarnath and it's story is also a reference to H.P. Lovecraft's short story " The Doom that came to Sarnath".
I knew that name was familiar somewhere
"And by a night that never ends, Melisandre really meant... a night that lasts a night."
if it lasted any longer, and thye were defeated at Winterfell, nobody and nothing could have stopped them
I felt like I walked into a travel agency and was given a tour of where I could possibly go LOL amazing work!
You may like in deep geek’s channel. He does a series that is just that a traveler’s guide to asofai’s world
I’m religious. So i believe in heaven (duh). I always said to myself that when i die and go to heaven i want to basically VR (except it is real) style go back to ALL the fictional worlds i wanted to experience. And actually experience them, so this video is actually helping me.
Yi Ti phone home
This killed me 😂😂😂😂😂
oh my god I'm laughing much more at this than I should
Nice
Haha I'm dying.....
_phone home_
Two of my favourite youtubers, both ASOIAF channels, Alt Shift X and Preston Jacobs, both for completely different reasons, but both excellent content nonetheless, big fan ASX, keep up the good work :)
I died at "over a hundred Hodors tall" 😂😂didn't expect that
I've slowly read the books over the last 5 years, not feeling the need to rush due to the undisclosed release date of winds of winter. Listening to these videos helps tie everything together after months of reading breaks
The long bridge is also based on bridge in Florence in Italy where the whole bridge is covered in shops and other things it is called Ponte Vecchio
Edit: thanks for likes and if you enjoy the game of thrones as i do you may genuinely enjoy this game, Conqueror's Blade I have some gameplay on my chanel if you like it you can join our discord or whatever even subscribe :D .
Looks more like old London bridge
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More like the historical London Bridge
the long bridge also refers to the catacombs in edinburgh scotland
many such similarities built along a roman aqueduct
*Ah yes, my favorite place in Essos, the Empire of Yeety.*
Really good episode. Your last few have been absolutely the best in the ASOIAF community
Alt Shift X is simply THE BEST youtube channel about game of thrones! I've read the books several times by now, and i'm very impressed about the structured and exact research, which these guys are doing. I love it!
Thank you SO much!
Lomas Longstider never made it past the Bones mountains, as he lost heart and believed he was at the world’s end. It’s stated in the East of Ib in the World of Ice and Fire. Great video regardless.
just recently had a discussion with someone about the 7 wonders of the world so I had to circle back to this video, thanks for all the great content over the years mate…cheers.
I’m gonna say that there are also very strong ties to:
Forbidden palace
Great Wall of China
Alhambra
So many unexplored wonders to explore!
Each one worthy of its own art book.
Hats off to rr Martin for creating a world so real and fascinating that one keeps on appreciating the history he created. 👍
The best Game of Thrones channel hands down. Been watching since like 2014/2015. Keep the gud work up!
I really love the videos you do based on worldbuilding stuff from the books. I know you've branched out a little to other TV series like Westworld, but I think it would be fantastic if you do the same with other books and book series. There's not enough content like that on RUclips and your style and voice would be perfect for it! Either way, thanks for another great video and happy new year :)
Honestly I think the Game of Thrones videos Alt Shift X makes are the best! KEEP IT UP BRO! 💯
7 books, 7 kingdoms, 7 gods, so there are 7 wonders as well
For some reason, I want them to make a new series in Game of Thrones world. Only this time it will all about a story that happens in countries of Essos. New characters, new houses other than houses in Westeros, and maybe they can add some or few characters from Westeros or at least insert a little bit of reference about what happened in Westeros probably after the Great War (since Season 8 Got will be air next year). Also, mystery characters like Quaithe, Jaaqen Haghar, and more that we didn't know much can appear again in this new series.
P/S: Kingdom of Yi Ti and Five Forts got me hype due to the story that been narrated in this video. Also, there are a lot of unexplained mysteries that still exist in GoT (like what cause the Doom of Valyria, Gerion Lannister's quest in finding the Valyrian Steel sword. He may be dead. He may be alive we still don't know yet and who is Quaithe) So, it will make sense if they make a new series to explain these unsolvable mysteries
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i would love for them to do this but focus it more on poor people who live in the cities: prostitutes, thieves, beggars rather than noble houses
Qarth is clearly inspired by Ba Sing Se.
I don't care that book 2 was released 7 years before avatar.
or maybe atlantis, since it was said to be from three consequtive rings and built out of red, white and black stones
@@H7Roba4 Nah the Walls of Constantinople
they had 3 huge walls protecting the city from, Arabs, Rus', and Bulgars,
@@H7Roba4 Yeah I think Valyria is Atlantis (Based on the way it ended) and Qarth is probably based on Istanbul.
Definitely Constantinople, I doubt Martin knew of or watched Avatar.
Qarth is Constantinople because Trippled Wall is the multilayered walls that Constantinople city to stop foreign invasions.
I love your didactic tone of correctness about everything. It's very reassuring in these troubled times.
The fact that this whole universe is the imagination of one single man is baffling. I don't know if GOT did justice to GRRM.
No wonder it takes him a dozen lifetimes to finish one book
The quality of your content is amazing every time
Alt you did a masterful job of pointing out the amazing and novel elements that make TWOIAF so fascinating, it really took me a long time to absorb the mythos of this very complex world and three actual starts and quits to really read the books. But when I did the whole story was comprehensible and I think people will still be discovering and marvelling at the series 50 years from now and long after I'm taking a dirt-nap.
great pyramid of ghis - great pyramid of giza
Actually I was thinking of the ancient Mesopotamians, the Assyrians. That fits the defeated Ghiscari empire very well.
@@slitor Ghis seems to be an odd mixture of Carthage (for the whole "warring with the large empire several times until destruction and having their capital absolutely destroyed after their final defeat" thing) and Egypt (for the whole slaves and pyramids thing). I honestly don't know enough about the Assyrians to compare the two.
I always associated the Bridge of Volantis with the bridge in Florence. It also has buildings and rooms built its entire length.
Me too!
I cannot express how wonderful your videos are. Your voice is very calming and your content very well researched. Can't wait for your s08e03 breakdown video.
Huh? I thought the bridge was much more like ponte Veccio, but i guess it is not super large .....
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Jellyfish I thought of Ponte Veccio too
Alt Shift is one of the few channels I thumbs up the vid before watching it!
I think the Long Bridge of Volantis was inspired by Trajan's Bridge in real life. It was a bridge across the Danube River, built by Emperor Trajan as a means of travel from Rome to Dacia, one of the empire's more obscure provinces. It was the first stone bridge built across the Danube and for centuries remained the largest bridge ever built.
This Martin guy knows a lot about the history of Westeros... And of your world as well.
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Are you planning to do a video on the book "Wonders" also written by Lomas Longstrider about the natural wonders of a song of ice and fire?
Alt Shift X is basically the only thing I watch nowadays (father with no time and of the small snippets of time I have, I watch this) but its almost become like waiting for the Winds of Winter, I need more content Alt Shift X - I love your videos
As someone who doesn’t have time to invest in the books and was dreadfully bored by the show, your videos diving into the lore really intrigue me. George R. R. Martin really knows how to write interesting lore, and you do a great job explaining it!
Loving these History + Geography videos of Thrones!
Ibn Battûta of Game of Thrones
You are awesome man, thank you. Your video layouts are incredible, your voice and humor are even more cool! Thank you for the extremely well made and thought out videos and commentary. I’m a huge fan of everything you do, so please keep it up. Thanks again.
Another Wonder made by Man that Lomas could have meant would be the city of Asshai. All the buildings there are described as being on a scale much larger than anywhere in the West and that the city itself is so huge, it always seems void of people. There's also constant trade between Asshai and cities further west, so Lomas could have reached it fairly easy
Goddamit, why are your videos so interesting?? Even when you're telling us stuff we already know I could just binge watch over and over again. :)
The hanging gardens of babylon can be the inspiration of the walls Qarth,
you see the walls of babylon follows those design of animals in it's wall gates except the last two walls.
babylon also have an outer and inner wall except no 2nd inner wall.
More likely the three walls (and Qarth itself) is a reference to Carthage which famously had 3 walls its west side and took the romans over two years to siege.
@@sicksock435446 i see, but isn't Carthage a walled port city?, qarth is away from any bays. anyway your point is also plausible
You confuse the hanging gardens with the ishtar gate of babylon
@@lordclanstorm1839 nope quarth is next to the sea and is a merchant and naval power, the same as carthage was
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I really like this, as even in our own world the 7 Ancient Wonders have always been mysterious and lost to legend as most of them fell long long ago.
Yi Ti looks interesting.. would like to see more!
Favourite channel on RUclips.
5:20 probably the bridge was inspired by "Ponte Vecchio" of Florence (Italy)
Firenze*
Old London bridge
What a awesome video!!!
Happy 100 videos! Here’s to 100 more!
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ur videos are great king
"The great pyramid of geese"
Cant get enough of these videos
Imagine a video game, where you can explore both continents.
Open world, in depth character creator, thousands of weapons and armour, not to mention unique items, complex character relationships(M rated, of course), maybe even an empire building mechanic(i would totally take over those 5 forts), intricate stories...
PS. If such a project ever comes into being, for god sakes DO NOT LET BUGTHESDA ANYWHERE NEAR IT!!!
Or Activision, or EA. Maybe Ubisoft, they have proven they can create amazing worlds with Origins and Odyssey.
I would personally prefer CDPR or Warhorse.
It would be so great. Just having to choose weither to become a war lord in the East, a rich merchant, a Westerosi king, or just a traveller, a wanderer thirsty for discoveries and remote places. I always had the fantasy of being an historian/archeologist similar to Lara Croft or Indiana Jones in those fictictional universes and to unearth long-forgotten mysteries...
@@tamalice23 That game KIND of exists already, except it's not a pure RPG, but an strategy/RPG hybrid. It's a mod for Crusader Kings 2, simply called "A game of thrones. Just last night I played as the Corbrey's during the Andal invasion, somehow ending up being even more of an asshole than the "historical" Corbrey's. I've previously done playthroughs where I put Samwell Tarly's grandson on the Iron Throne (Sam, in this case, turned into an cruel machiavellian mastermind that married into the Tyrell family, and a few strategic assasinations later made sure a Tarly ended up as lord of highgarden, who then proceeded to bully the king on the iron throne, a drunken and pathetic grandson of Stannis, into introducing an elective system and get himself elected).
It's the perfect GoT game in my mind, but if you want an actual RPG where you actually walk through the streets of Volantis it's not what you are looking for. Check out this video for how the game plays: ruclips.net/video/Pdc-dWZ43ng/видео.html
If you never heard of CK2 it's a historical strategy game set during the crusades. It STARTS historical, but then anything can happen, and the GoT mod works the same, just with the GoT setting instead of histrocial europe. So I've seen Viserys end up on the iron throne, Robert discover Cersei's infidelity and exile her to the wall. When I tried out playing the Clegane family a week ago something (I don't know what exactly) happened between Robert and Tywin, and Robert ended up imprisoning, torturing, and finally executing Tywin within weeks of his coronation, putting a 13 year old Tyrion on the throne in the Westerlands. But of course Robert ended up denying Tyrion the title of Warden of the West, so we rose in rebellion.
You play as an individual lord, and when you die you continue playing as his heir, as long as they belong to the same dynasty. Without an heir it's game over. The entire world is playable as well, so you can play as a lord in the east, or a slaver in Yunkai, or a dothraki horselord, or an Bravoosi merchant. You can even play as a pirate in the stepstones or basilisk isles or a summer islander, and if you download submods you can play as a dragonlord in Valyria before the doom. The only real restriction is that you can't have the doom happen during play. You either play before the doom, as far back as the andal invasion, and the doom can never happen, or you can play after the doom, although you can play right AFTER the doom and establish yourself as the "Dragon king" of Dragonstone as Anearis the Exile, with Danaerys the Dreamer as on of your 4 dragonriders and an one year old Balerion ready to grow up into the Black Dread. :) Of course, CK2 being CK2, when I did that Balerion ended up being killed by one of my other dragons when he was just 5 years old... So it's a great game for "What if..."-scenarios, but increadibly frustrating if you want to re-live the actual storyline.
Sounds like Skyrim except a terabyte of memory
I don't see that happening exactly as you would like any time soon, although I wish it would. However there are two are options I would recommend.
Mount and Blade Warband has 1 or 2 really good GoT mods, main attraction is the ability to create armies, choose how they look and what weapons they have, choose how you look and what your weapons are, and conquer whatever you want if you are good enough by physically sieging or attacking others. Downsides to this is its really more combat based and (if you care about it) the graphics are slightly dated.
Skyrim has a game of thrones adaption mod that is pretty good and kinda close to what you want, probably the closest out of any other options I've seen. It changes the story to work with Game of Thrones, changes the look of most of the cities, adds lots of in game factions and adds game of thrones armours and weapons. The main downside I've found with this mod is that you need to play with subtitles as that tells the story because they didn't have new voice actors, and the voice acting is still included but its from Skyrim so its a little annoying. There is also another adaption mod being developed that will be much more detailed and probably the closest thing to what you have described. You also have the ability to download mods to bring it closer to the experience you want: combat mods because the Skyrim combat isn't great, weapon and armour mods, army building mods, romance and 'm rated' mods and other mods that you might want.
@@mybawzarerichie Yeah, i don"t think we will get a first/third person action/adventure/RPG Game of Thrones any time soon, it's just my wishful thinking.
But i am playing those Mount&Blade mods and Crusader Kings 2 has an amazing GOT mod.
Absolutely love how you even revealed how each wonder was inspired by
Once the books are finished, someone (netflix?) should pickup ASOIAF as an animated series. Maybe it would accurately translate real sets, battles and characters as how the books & GRRM wanted them to be. And then they can make world building spin-offs. If only...
That would be awesome to watch, and probably awesome to work on
I've had this thought quite often, but I think a smaller scale Dunk and Egg series would be a better start.
No!! Netflix is cheap and will ruin the scale and standard of GOT
I'm loving the unique Got videos man, why I keep coming
Petition for "Hodor" to become a unit of measurement
Congrats on the 100th video man! Been watching you since the beginning and can’t wait to continue!
Great video! I think the Long Bridge might also be based on the old London Bridge that existed during Medieval and Renaissance times. It was covered in buildings as well. I'm less sure about this one, but I think the walls of Qarth might also have been based on the walls of Constantinople. They famously protected it for nearly a millennium, allowing it to survive as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, until the Ottomans finally captured it by using some of the very first siege cannons in the 15th Century to penetrate the walls. It not only brought an end to the Byzantine's empire and led to the renaming of Constantinople to Istanbul, but marked the end of Medieval-style warfare, the obsolescence of the kind of wall/castle fortifications seen up to that point, and the need for Europeans to find another route to Asia (leading to the discovery of the New World).
This was one of my favorite videos besides the chapter readings! Thanks dude, Real history is awesome but I hate non-fiction. Pillars of the Earth is my only inlet into 'historical fiction'. Good enough for me.
I now want every lenght and hight measured in hodor.
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What would the smaller Hodor increments be called and how would you designate them? A fortune is to be made by those who create manufacture and sell an actual working Hodor Stick or Tape Measure...just sayin'
@@scottmantooth8785 your could use his ell, his foot, his hairwidth, fingerwidth and others
brilliant...and so fitting to the theme as presented... so we now have Standard, Metric and Hodor to consider whenever we have DIY projects
weights too..
Loving these expansion videos 💙
2:24 Why are the archers leaning out of the slits? The purpose of arrow slits is to provide cover!
How are they supposed to fire at ships below them from inside the slits?
@@seanyoung9014 Well, if they were vertical like arrow slits that actually existed, it would be easier.
I feel I should point out that I am perfectly aware that it was just fan art.
Literally about to start my shift so I’ll have to watch it tonight. Can’t wait!
“Over 100 Hodors tall”
Hodor is about 8ft tall. 100 Hodors would have to be at least 800 ft high
Nah, in Bran II, ACOK, Hodor is "near seven feet tall", so 100 Hodors is less than 700 ft
Alt Shift X Damn wasn’t expecting you to reply
I have never ever visited a video a minute after it was uploaded. This is by far the earliest I have been, 9 minutes.
Great videos!
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Happy 100th dude, congratulations! Big fan, keep it up!
1:05 for anyone who's wondering, that's also 1200 bananas
it's so nice to feel like you are going on an adventure thru the world of GOT. The whole new world
The Long Bridge = the old London Bridge
Loving these videos that show case the environment and the rest of the world of GOT. Keep them coming!
Congrats for achieving 1000 videos mark on RUclips....👏
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I can’t wait for the new season to come out so more people will come to your channel and get you to a million!! These are my favorite got videos on RUclips they are so clear and organized
New trailer is out! Can we have a video on it?
Been subscribed since almost the beginning. Very happy you made it this far.