Winterfell's Biggest Secret Is Not Jon Snow! | The First Tower

Here’s the real secret: the tower is the trunk of the ancient giant weirwood around which Winterfell was built. Winterfell is compared to a stone tree, and it’s said the rooms underground have slopes floors - this is because they are where the roots used to be. Likewise the walls ‘worm ways’ are also the ancient root tracks of the giant tree that used to be there

A few things, Bran the Builder raised both the Wall and the original stronghold of Winterfell. If the frst tower was part of that, which we know it was from Bran's Three Eyed Raven dreams, we know theyre roughly the same age. This is During the Age of Heros, which is after the Long Night, and therefore way after the Civilization of the Dawn (the first dragon riders). We know Bran stark raised the Wall, helped build Storms End, and helped raise the high Tower. This tells us that the earliest Winterfell is roughly the same age as the Wall. Since its GRRM names have meaning, and the same way that Storms End is the place where the Sea God and the Wind Goddess' storm failed to break the castle raised by Bran. It seems probable that Winterfell is the location where a similarly significant event transpired, likely the defeat of the Others (hence the army of Winter fell). After said defeat, Bran would go on to raise the wall to prevent another encroachment south by the Others. Ergo, Winterfell's first tower probably older than the wall. The Maester who attempted to date the tower argued that the construction of the tower was too advanced for the first men, but Bran the builder wasnt an Andel, he was of the first men. So that conclusion seems like prejudice more than factual scientific basis. Lastly, there are no ancient dragons under Winterfell. I'm not saying that there isn’t some great mysterious magical artifacts hidden in the crypts, only that they arent dragons. The strongest case for dragons in the crypts come from Prince Jacaerys trip to Winterfell with Vermax. If that's the case they'd be eggs, but that theory doesnt make much sense since the depths of the crypts really aren't large enough to accommodate a dragon large enough to be ridden. The oldest confirmed dragon on record in ASOIAF is Balerion between two and three hundred years old when he dies of old age. At that point he's basically too weak to do anything but sleep. From that we can reasonably say that there is no 8000+ year old dragon sleeping beneath Winterfell. It's more likely that whats hidden in the crypts is some physical proof of Jon's legitimate liniage. And for the love of all things holy, Winterfell has nothing to do with Targaryen line.

If only they will tell the continued story of the Stark Family. Of the many great houses in Westerous the Starks stand out with their connections to the old world houses. All the others have their secrets and mysteries. None like the Starks. They are the connection to the old world and whatever the evil hiding in the north truly is. Just my opinion.

As most will know, George based the stories on ancient history and mythology and folklore etc The first men being the Welsh and there is a Welsh tale in the Historia Brittonum about the Red Dragon vs the White Dragon. The Red Dragon representing the Welsh (the first men) and the white dragon representing the Anglo-Saxons (the Andals) In the story, Vortigern (a Welsh warlord/king) tries to build a castle at Dinas Emrys and every night unseen forces demolished the castle walls and foundations. Vortigern consults his advisers, who tell him to find a boy with no natural father, and to sacrifice him. Vortigern finds such a boy, but on hearing that he is to be put to death to solve the demolishing of the walls, the boy dismisses the knowledge of the advisors. The boy tells the king of the two dragons. Vortigern excavates the hill, freeing the dragons. They continue their fight and the red dragon finally defeats the white dragon. The boy tells Vortigern that the white dragon symbolises the Saxons and that the red dragon symbolises the people of Vortigern. In Geoffrey of Monmouth’s book History of the Kings of Britain, this story is repeated but in his story the little boy is Merlin. So many the keep in GoT is mirroring the Castle at Dinas Emrys which kept being destroyed as a result of battles between the Welsh and the Anglo-Saxons or the First Men and the Andals and it being represented by battling dragons Another bit of information is Bran the Builder is loosely based on Bran the Blessed a Welsh King who in the Mabinogion was a Giant and he had prophetic powers, Greensight. The name Bran is Welsh and means Raven/Crow, so anybody who knows Welsh had an advantage because Bran Stark seeing a three eyed raven would make sense, a Raven/Crow in Welsh is a symbol of prophecy as is the third eye, so a 3 eyed raven being obvious in its meaning especially when connected to someone called Bran which is the Raven/Crow in Welsh. In Welsh mythology the Raven is also associated with dreams, prophesising and predicting the outcome of war and also darkness and death especially death of warriors in battle, so he was basically telling people like me what was going to happen right from the start and therefore it was no surprise to me how things ended up in the final season and with him being named the King, it’s was exactly as he planned it, that was his goal, he was the puppet master, they did a really poor job of portraying that in the tv show which was a complete abomination and they really F’d it up. Knowing Welsh history, mythology, peoples names and the Welsh language comes in very handy for GoT, George really did some impressive level of research, he got a lot of parallels spot on

Does any of this even matter anymore if this guy never finishes these books? He's finding every excuse to do everything else but finish these books.

Wes-Thoros. Very good.

I think the Keep was raised after the wall. If the walkers could come and go as they pleased the Starks probably wouldn't have the time to complete it having to fight them off every 3-6yrs per winter. Those castles took generations to build.

What’s the music playing in the background? Thank you.

The first Dragonlords came from the Great Empire of the Dawn based out of Asshai Dany dreams about them in book one and during book two in the house of the undying The Bloodstone Emperor was the final ruler of this realm

5:34 Not quite to scale

it doesnt seem that odd that the first tower was built near the crypts and the hotsprings. You would naturally build your keep near the discovered hot spring. Good theories though, really enjoy your videos

It said the mazemakers of westeros. Those were in Essos.

All this talk about the Crips of Winterfell. What about their opps? The Bloods of Winterfell. Don’t they deserve a shoutout?

I watch these videos and question if george rr martin even knows where these stories are going or if he's just sitting around on youtube piecing together his favorite theories to finish it.

we need to have a tv series about the 1 keep of winter fell

I think the Fire god R'Hllor is the symbolic leader of the Targaryens and the Great Other is the same for the Starks. Uniting ice and fire is the only way to restore seasonal balance to this world. Jon Snow is that unification. He will have to broker peace between the two gods somehow.

The Lord's of the Empire of the Dawn! Ancient capital Asshai! The original lords of magic!

Hot springs would be very useful in the north when winters last years. Humans would like it just as much as dragons.

It is necessary to understand that Targaryens are not the only ones capable of controlling dragons as even they are a tiny and weak house according to Old Valyrian standards. It is possible to have free dragons fly everywhere in the world. However, I still not get the reason as to why a dragon refused to cross the Wall. If dragons are the only things capable of destroying the Others along with Valyrian steel then why did it refuse to cross wall? I do believe in feasibility of another theory about the Others fleeing from an even greater threat and are on a killing spree to create mindless soldiers to face the threat in an inevitable battle

I think this is why we'll never get those last two books. George realized he screwed up so very badly with the whole R+L=J thing. Why? Because it was of little consequence considering how the Targ kings had little illegitimate Targ children running all over the place. There was nothing special about Jon. So, what if he is a Targ? The Baratheons won the Throne. And if it had not been for all the treachery and plotting that took out Robert, Jon would have had a very short life expectancy.