What's In Winterfell's Crypts and How Winterfell Stays Warm

Sansa will warg into a lemon cake. It is known.

The dragon is sheepstealer, helping old nan escape

Adds huge weight to the phrase "There must always be a Stark in Winterfell"

Michael: there are trees in the walls psychologist: are the trees with us now michael?

Maybe that's why Arya was actively recruited and why she'll be allowed to "escape" as herself rather than nobody. The Faceless Men needed a Stark to do this, one motivated to do it for her own reasons. So they planned to give her the skills and knowledge she needed and then encourage her to "escape" back home. It certainly recontextualizes them putting her in proximity to someone on her list but telling her she cannot kill them.

So, in HVAC refrigerant is used for both cooling AND heating, because the heat you remove when cooling has to be moved elsewhere (usually outside). What if the heat in Winterfell is the heat removed from the water in the wall to make it icey?

Another supporting evidence for this that I've seen elsewhere is the Stark house words "Winter is coming." We often think of it as a warning or a reminder but this would seem to imply that it's a threat. The Starks hold the power over the glass candles and therefore the fate of the wall. Winter is coming is a threat that if you don't fall in line, the Starks have the power to bring a long night level winter.

Damn this is good stuff. So when the Faceless Men offered the gift of death to the slaves of Valeria it was releasing them from an enternal or at least a very extended universe of dieing in the mines only be resurected to work some more. Which means Valeria used an army of fire wights as slaves to mine for resources. Those dragon lords were evil.

i had never actually considered the mechanics of pumping water, but you've got a good point that it's not a trivial thing

After so much time and after multiple readings, it low key moved me to see Eddard and Cat smiling at Winterfell. Appreciate life everyone.

After the sack of winterfell when the Boltons are in residence they never mention the heat and specifically mentioned the ice on the ponds.

Glass candles are obsidian. Obsidian is the result of high silica lava extruded from a volcano which cools rapidly (perhaps in water) with minimal or no crystal growth, forming glass. So your theory could be true at the same time as the volcanic activity explanation if obsidian is being formed continuously beneath Winterfell, as lava extrudes beneath a pool or spring (perhaps connected in some way to the pool in the Godswood allowing human blood to enter the water) and obsidian pokes up out of the water as glass candles, lit by blood from the water or some impaled beings, and constantly being renewed by lava extrusion.

PLOT TWIST: Ser Pounce is, in fact, the Pounce that was Promised

All this talk about the Crips of Winterfell, what about the Bloods of Winterfell? Can we show the opps some love too?

Also intetesting to note the importance placed on "returning to the Roots" in Elden Ring. Godwyn himself is placed on the roots when he is the first of the Gods to die. Stripped of his soul, the stagnation of his soulless body pumps into the roots, causing manifestations of Death to spring forth across the lands, i.e the death root you can find in hidden areas. I like to think grrm put some subtle hints about AsoiaF in his other works, including Elden Ring. Great video ,friend

So, funny thing about the whole Dragon theory. You may actually be right. The thing is, in the book Fire and Blood, there is speculation from one of the tales of jacerys visiting winterfell, that his dragon Vermax allegedly laid sn egg in the crypts of winterfell, closest to the hot springs. Fire and Blood treats this as farfetch'd, but septum Barth, the man who is essentially correct about whatever he speaks on, does not think this to be far-fetched, and as a matter of fact states that he believes dragons can change their gender under specific circumstances or times, now... septum Barth is never wrong. And the fact that he actually gives Credence to this theory, along with the fact that if there was any place a dragon would feel a need to lay an egg in the far north, in winterfell, it would be the hot springs😮

Hot springs naturally pump water to the surface because of the difference in pressure. No other explanation is required. This is a cool idea but it's a massive stretch and there's no way this is going to be revealed in the books.

Cats as the embodied enforcers of entropy's increase is an underused trope :) Their mission is always destroying positional/potential energy by knocking everything down!

Did Summer see the comet? To a wolf the bright red with a tail might seem like a fire breathing snake. It would definitely be seen in the sky. This doesn't explain how it disappeared but it would be above any clouds. Perhaps the clouds parted for only a minute or so, Summer saw the meteor, then the clouds resumed. I've no idea if the search for Bran coincides with the birth of Dragons. I don't remember anyone at Winterfell talking about the comet before or after its sacking.

The first chapters of the series make note of Lyanna being down in the crypts and that being weird because she wasn't a lord of Winterfell. You know who is constantly compared to Lyanna? Arya. Maybe her wearing a dead person's face counts? The Faceless Men have to know she kept Needle, so I am on board with your thoughts of them knowing she'll leave and training her anyways. It would be interesting if the "there should always be a Stark in Winterfell" bit was a prophecy passed down the Stark line, similar to the Targaryen prophecy from the HotD show, that has been misinterpreted or skipped being passed on. I think it will be something more boring like Lyanna's statue having something to clue Jon in about his parents, but these types of theories are very fun :)