East: the strangest places in Game of Thrones?

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Publicado 2018-12-10
What strange places lie to the far east and south of Westeros? What are the dangers of Sothoryos and the Basilisk Isles? What lurks in the Shivering Sea? What does the Great Empire of the Dawn and the Five Forts reveal about the Long Night and Azor Ahai? What are the dark mysteries of Asshai?

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0:00 Intro
0:36 Sothoryos
2:58 Basilisk Isles
5:37 Sarnor
7:28 Shivering Sea
8:33 Ib
10:35 Thousand Islands
11:40 The Bones
12:49 Jogos Nhai
14:21 Yi Ti & Great Empire
15:57 Five Forts
17:38 Leng
19:08 Asshai

Todos los comentarios (21)
  • I like how Westeros seems more like the more historical Medieval city, while Far Eastern Essos places seem like something out of Dark Souls
  • @themcknox
    "The basilisk isles are best avoided" Everywhere on this planet seems best avoided tbh
  • This video made Melisandre more cool to me. She literally went to the edge of the world and saw terrors behind imagination. Being in that darkness would make anyone worship a lord of light and pray for a sword that gets set on fire.
  • I think it’s important to keep in mind when thinking that Westeros must be very boring in comparison, that George RR Martin does a very realistic job of portraying foreign lands. A lot of these stories are speculative, and prone to exaggeration by sailors and adventurers. Westeros probably gets the same treatment in those distant places
  • @Precil13
    The CGI budget can only handle 1/12th of RR. Martin’s imagination.
  • @tejpatel5320
    "When an ice dragon dies, they melt so nobody can find them." Well isn't that convenient...
  • @burpostockings
    We need an epic RPG based on this lore. With a GIGANTIC map that lets us explore all these eldritch places
  • It's strange to me just how mystical the setting of asoiaf is. In the books (especially the first few) it feels like a typical medieval setting with little magic
  • @Mizukageize
    "Those events are crucial for the last season of game of thrones" Haha-no.
  • @dawud9395
    So your telling me that Cersei was excited to get elephants when there were zorses, wyverns, fricking dinosaur, unicorns, and etc?
  • @emily_kn5152
    Imagine you are living in YiTi and you here about the war of the five kings…. All the things that are happening in westeros are so insignificant for these people in the east. I hope we maybe find out more about Asshai in the next book, maybe Euron will talk about it or something like that.
  • @erikcarrillo7378
    Imagine if we got dragons that big in the show. That image of the ice dragon flying over a ship is terrifying. I wanna see that come to life.
  • @kobyking6009
    I wonder if this is how Medieval peasants in Europe thought that Asia would be like this
  • @brohan914
    A land far to the south where everything wants to kill you. So Sothoryos is Australia?
  • @strabe30
    It’s just amazing to me that all of this came from one man’s imagination. The world of Game of Thrones is so large it’s hard to imagine one person thought of all this.
  • I was wondering where I had read about “greasy, black stone carvings” when you mentioned Lovecraft and BOOM Call of Cthulhu!
  • @oogrooq
    This world needs a Witcher-type game.
  • My god, this stuff is interesting as hell. They seriously need to make a spinoff series about these cities and lands
  • It's interesting to see the similarities between the mythology of Yi Ti and Westeros. It would be hilarious if the stories of Yi Ti were just the stories of Westeros refracted west across the entire world back to Westeros.