The Magic Behind The Construction Of Harrenhal

"I defeated your uncle Victarion and his Iron Fleet off Fair Isle, the first time your father crowned himself. I held Storm's End against the power of the Reach for a year, and took Dragonstone from the Targaryens. I smashed Mance Rayder at the Wall, though he had twenty times my numbers. Tell me, turncloak, what battles has the Bastard of Bolton ever won that I should fear him?"

@michaeltalksaboutstuff here's something to assist your theory about Harren the Black acquiring some lost knowledge: which is the one place whose library has special books which even surpassed Baelor the Blessed? Castle Black.. who was the Lord Commander during Harren the Black's time? Harren's brother.. I know the Ironborn love raiding, but in this particular case, there is no need when your brother has access to an insane library!! I think there's something very eerily peculiar about Harren building a magical castle & his brother being the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch - mayhaps they knew about The Others coming back🤔

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Harren's brother was Lord Commander of the Night's Watch when the Nightfort was still manned, that could be the source of his knowledge.

Makes sense. Simplest explanation is that Harrens trees hadn't had enough time to grow so there was a weakness in his wards. Or Brandon might just be a better builder than Harren. I'd theorise that Brandon built empty channels into his walls into which the weirwoods could grow hence why they don't burst out so much at other sites. Given the winding tunnels of Winterfell they seem to have grown down. Storm's End has subterrenean tunnels as well iirc. Perhaps both were built on CotF tree/cave towns, which might also boost their magical power, whereas Harren might have been working with a localised weirwood net that hadn't grown enough to connect yet. A full power net may project higher than a dragon can fly. Harrenhal may be much more powerful in the current timeline. Does Littlefinger's obsession with getting Harrenhal suggest he knows more about Old Gods magic than we realise?

History repeats itself quite often in this Universe.....Harren The Black parallels Euron. GRRM has told us a lot of the story in different ways at different times throughout the story. My theory at least.

A giant Castle built out of Weirwood Trees next to the Isle of Faces which micht be the single most magical place in all of Westeros was MEANT to be magical? Getthefuckoutahere XD

For the weirwood connection at Storms End you have a ?, but it might be worth noting that Storms End had a weirwood until Melisandre burned it. That would've been immediately after she had to be snuck in by Davos too.

So the Others have vampire rule about getting into the magic castles, nice. Child's game Come-into-my-castle suddenly appear even more important.

Another interesting point is the fact that during the Conquest, the Snow Baster, brother of king Stark, is said to be ready to slay the dragons with weirwood arrows. And during the Blackfyre Rebellion, Bloodraven is said to have used weirwood arrows to kill the usurper. Like if it's common sense to use weirwook to kill dragon, it's never commented by the maesters

Off topic but in Hotd s2 e7 when all of the dragon seeds are presented to Vermithor it strikes me as a blood magic ritual. We have a large group of people with kings blood being given to the flames by a person who shares their blood. If a red priest were there imagine how they would put all of this magic to use.

Not sure the Old Gods would have been happy with people cutting down their trees willy nilly for building materials. There's a reason Alys tells Daemon that Harrenhall has been cursed since the first stone was laid and that IS the reason. This theory is madness.

The “it’s a cave” on your chart made me laugh😂

Maybe he was goading Aegon to attack, Maybe he was just hoping Balerion would make Harrenhal into a fused black stone castle and he'd survive.

Then I think it's clear now which are gonna be the strongholds against the long night in the next books so far: Winterfell and Harrenhall.

It's interesting that they mention the moon when Aegon flies so high to then crash down and enter the weirwood wards. Its like an echo of the bloodstone emperor/ Azor Ahai broke the moon, etc. To invade the weirwood net. According to LML's moon meteor theory anyway.

Sounds like a fun day at harrenhal on that first day 🐲🔥

I think like your wall theory, something major needs to happen with harrenhall before the story can end and the seasons can realign Lots of synchronicity with harrenhall and summerhall burning etc.

Harrenhal is a nexus that affects time travel. The timeline we are reading and watching is an altered one, and whoever are fighting to take control of it has produced two simultaneous events: Harrenhal being completed on the same day Aegon began his conquest.