Hi, I'm Jason Concepcion,
co-host of
And welcome to my bedroom.
I'm here to answer some questions
that you might have about Westeros,
a very complicated place,
ahead of
And just to note, I have not seen any of these episodes yet,
so this is me speculating based on my knowledge of the books.
I might be right, I might be wrong...
but I haven't seen anything yet.
That is Blackfyre, the fabled Blackfyre sword of kings, Valyrian steel sword,
that was originally wielded by Aegon the Conqueror.
Most famous by Aegon the Conqueror,
and thus became the sword of kings.
It became one of the hallmarks of legitimacy.
I have decided to name a new heir.
I'm your heir.
Cannibal is a reference to a...
a wild dragon that, as you would imagine, eats other dragons.
And I would highly doubt that Cannibal,
should we see Cannibal,
would be bigger than Vhagar or Balerion the Black Dread.
I don't exactly know, of course, but judging from the books,
you know, they're around.
Obviously, they're in the Westerlands,
they're at Casterly Rock, they're an important family.
They're gonna be directly involved
in some of the deliberations. about the Targaryen succession,
but they're not gonna be movers and shakers
in the same way they were in
They're basically the same shape, right?
Like, you know, four-legged, wings, tail, a big ugly face.
The younger ones are smaller,
and I think what we're gonna see as this story unfolds is,
not just a lot of dragons, but dragons of different ages.
Like Balerion the Black Dread is very old.
Over a century old by this time, and huge.
Some of the other dragons are much younger.
Much more agile, but, you know, weaker,
if you're gonna ride them into battle.
So I think we're gonna see a lot of--
a lot of younger dragons, and then wild dragons.
Different factions are gonna be looking for more dragons,
and so, they're gonna be finding them in different places,
and these could be dragons,
maybe that aren't used to being ridden by people.
Mushroom is one of the sources for the book,
So the book,
is written in the form of a history book,
and it is compiled by Archmaester Gyldayn.
And Gyldayn is pulling from various sources,
one of whom is this fella, Mushroom, who...
is like a court jester, I guess you could say.
And the thing about Mushroom's narrative is it was always the spiciness.
He was like the TMZ of this era,
so you take a lot of what Mushroom was saying
about what went on during this period with a grain of salt,
but it was also kind of like the most fun stuff.
I don't know, but it would be super fun to see Mushroom running around the Red Keep.
Co-showrunner, Ryan Condal,
and author of the
George R. R. Martin, have basically confirmed that
this story will be based on the
written by George.
So yeah, they'll spoil the story, for sure.
(LAUGHS)
Like immediately and hard, it'll spoil the story.
It will provide some good context, but I would imagine,
and I'm saying this as someone who's not yet seen the episodes,
but I would imagine--
if you want that like deeper historical context about,
you know, what were the lords of the North doing,
what was going on in other places in the realm,
what was the deeper context, et cetera,
and you're not worried about being spoiled,
go ahead, do it.
But if you don't want to be spoiled,
don't read