so the fans thank you for coming along on this extraordinary journey thank you
to all the people I don't know allowing us to keep playing these games and keep
telling these stories thank you so much for trusting me with this character that
you've known for over 20 years a really loved playing Tormund
this has been a life-changing experience being on this
I never expected people to like Brienne of Tarth I was totally prepared for
people not to the fans have like given me an identity that I didn't have there
are far more fans of the show that we then we ever thought was possible it
would be nothing if it weren't for all the rumors and theories and intense
discussion going on and the game of thrones viewing parties keeping it alive
and when we take like a year and a half break but everything has an end, even
Game of Thrones
hi everyone its charlie so we have the Game of Thrones season 8 bonus episode
that's coming this Sunday which all course do a video for but we also have
the Game of Thrones prequel that they just started filming so we'll explain
what the prequel series is about and the other prequels that george RR martin
revealed that they're developing right now if you're brand new to the channel
be sure to subscribe to get all the game of Thrones in A Song of Ice and Fire
videos there's a new round of that HBO now giveaway - all you have to do to
enter is be a subscriber and leave a comment on the video first big thing the
bonus episode is just airing like a normal Game of Thrones episode next week
it's going to be like a big wraparound there'll be a lot of documentary stuff
going on there's a lot of extra stuff that they shot for the blu-ray which
they're releasing later this summer and I don't know about a really big box set
but I'm sure they've produced a couple extra bonus materials for that whatever
deleted scenes and anything they released later this year of course I'll
do videos for that stuff but it's going to be a couple months before the blu-ray
comes out so I'll just remind people about that when they start dropping
featurettes and stuff the big thing about the prequel that's going on right
now is the george RR martin just a little while ago was talking about three
actually being in development active development because there used to be
five one of them HBO threw in the garbage and four continued on one of
them they're filming right now that's the Age of Heroes long night
prequel series the working title for that while they're filming right now it
just called Blood Moon which invokes a lot of imagery I'll talk about the
meaning of Blood Moon in the context that they're using it for the series in
a second but because George RR Martin's said that there are two others that
they're developing right now even though they're not shooting those of the two
yet I'm guessing on the list of possibilities because there's a number
of different series they could do it's either dance of the dragons the
Blackfyre rebellion or the rise of the Valyrian freehold in the Dragonlords the
reason why they're probably going with a long night Age of Heroes prequel first
is because it's similar to Game of Thrones so it's familiar but it'll be
different enough that it won't feel like the exact same thing because it's set
during a period in history before the rise of Valyrian freehold so I'll
explain the timeline of events from that ancient history because you have the
dawn age the Age of Heroes the long night then the rise of the Valyrian
freehold the Dragonlords of Illyria didn't really become a thing till after
they had pushed the night King back to the lands of always winter and built the
wall really like the joke that the night king
now after seeing episode 5 and Daenerys just go all ham on King's Landing that
the Nagin helped build the wall himself with his magic because he wanted to
protect the White Walkers from the dragons of Illyria that's not actually
true that's just a joke that people are talking about the wall was built with
the help of the magic of the children of the forest the first men the Giants
pretty much everyone coming together because it was happening after they
pushed the White Walkers back but there's a lot of magical enchantments
that involve the powerful magics of the children of the forest you also have to
remember based on recent context that there was also a three-eyed Raven that
was minted during that period that's probably when the children the forest
created the first three-eyed Raven it would be fun if Brandon the Builder
became the first three-eyed raven sort of closing the loop even though I don't
think that bran stark a present day is the same brand Brandon the Builder there
was a theory a long time ago about bran potentially being all of the brand's
because of the events have hold the door when bran is seen back in time using his
green site but also working into Hodor and present-day creating this feedback
loop across time space a lot of people just thought that maybe he had something
to do with the creation of the night king the way bran explains it during
season 8 episode 2 is there have been many three-eyed Ravens when one gets old
enough and ready to die he'll select another one or he'll use his green site
to find out who's supposed to be the next three-eyed Raven and then contact
them through visions like we saw during season one of the TV show when bran
started to get visions of the three-eyed Raven after his accident thousands of
years ago there came a night that lasted a generation in that darkness the White
Walkers came for the first time they swept through cities and kingdoms riding
their dead horses hunting with their packs of pale spiders big as hounds
so remember someday when brand thebroken first of his name becomes old and up and
gets ready to die he will select another three-eyed Raven to pass his knowledge
onto so even though in the books he's referred to as the last green seer I
guess you could say that he will not eventually be the last green seer
there'll be another one that's born someday in many many years but the Game
of Thrones Blood Moon prequel that they're filming right now is filming at
the Titanic studios where they filmed the main show Game of Thrones but if
you've been watching the behind-the-scenes featurette
from Game of Thrones this season they show you a lot of Titanic studio shot
like where they built the big King's Landing replica so that they could
destroy it during Episode five they have all these giant crates stacked
up so we have no idea what it looks like but the Watchers people on Watchers on
the wall got some pictures of them filming in the area where they film some
of the Vale scenes from season six so a lot of the locations will be familiar
they'll film and Northern Ireland it all over the place but they're going to try to
make it look a little bit different because this is 5,000 years before the
events in present day so here's the thing about that timeline if you're
familiar with the Song of Ice and Fire there's already a pre-existing timeline
of ancient events that we know about George Martin came out recently it was
like yeah you know that's not completely accurate some of those events weren't
quite so far apart as we believe there were some Samwell scenes during season
seven trying to address some of those factual inaccuracies about history the
maesters tried to be as accurate as possible but the tales of the long night
can't be pure fabrication too many similarities from unconnected sources
and thousands of years before that during the long night we can forgive
them for thinking it truly was the end but it wasn't none of it was the wall
stood through it all every winter that ever came has ended well when he's
talking to maester ebro's they talk about how history can be twisted just a
little bit if it's not recorded very accurately and the maesters didn't
really become a thing till much much later in the timeline recently George
our Martin said that the series is taking place around 5,000 years ago but
loose timeline of events leading up to the events on this prequel series you
have the dawn age which is basically the era when the first men crossed the arm
of Dorne to populate Westeros the children of the forest start to war with
them they used the hammer of waters in their powerful magics on the Isle of
faces to smash the arm of door and causing this big Cataclysm it doesn't
work the first men multiply like a rats overwhelming the children of the forest
numbers that leads them to eventually try to crack Westeros in half so that
they could at least have the northern half of Westeros that isn't completely
successful and it winds up creating this marshy area that eventually became moat
Cailin so that's why there are so many weird boggy marshes around that area
because the children of the forest actually tried to crack
the continent in half the war between the first men and the children continues
to go worse and worse for them finally forcing them to create the night king in
the White Walkers then after the White Walkers go completely ham on everyone
the children signed the pact with the first men the signing of the pact is the
event that ends the dawn age and begins the Age of Heroes so during the Age of
Heroes early days they form their Alliance and they start to fight the
White Walkers back and they slowly descend the long night the White Walkers
multiply and multiply you start to get full-scale attacks and then you have the
events basically of this Blood Moon Game of Thrones prequel TV series the reason
why there's a lot of meaning in that name is because Blood Moon is basically
a total lunar eclipse basically representing the long night itself full
night falling on Westeros way worse than you saw during the one contemn one
episode during season eight I know everyone was really upset about that
symbolically within the Christian faith the Blood Moon also represents the
apocalypse in the second coming of Jesus Christ which in the context of Game of
Thrones story is the azure high mythical figure so now then picking the Blood
Moon working title makes a lot more sense so even though the Valyrians have
not tamed dragons yet the balerion freehold hasn't risen up you still have
a lot of really powerful deep magic in Westeros at this time we'll probably see
the formation of a lot of the Great Houses that we know in present day so at
that time during the Age of Heroes when they form the pack they fight the long
night Lia's or high figure rises up and they beat the night King back to the
lands of always winter here the formation of House Stark the unification
of the north which actually predates the long night so I'm assuming that when
this prequel series begins the north will already be unified or it'll be
right after the thousand years war and you see the beginning of the line of the
stark kings of winter supposedly Brandon the Builder built Winterfell after he
built the walls so we'll just see how they deal with a lot of those things
because it obviously took hundreds of years to finish building the wall so
it's not like it all happened overnight one thing right after the other
but there was house Gardiner in the reach Garth the gardener the storm kings
of house de randon in the Stormlands founded by durin gods group the castro
leaves of Casterly Rock then land the clever who eventually formed House
Lannister after conning the Castrol ease out of Casterly Rock we might see that
play out on the equal series the grey king of the Iron
Islands in the winged king of the veil so you have Winterfell storms and Pike
Hightower old town and moat Cailin is castles that had been around at that
point but if you read a lot about Winterfell history you know that they're
really only a few structures that have survived from that original period the
very first structure that was called Winterfell was destroyed the oldest
structure in modern day Winterfell surviving now is actually from the time
of the Andal invasion that's the old tower that's the tower that bran got
pushed out the window of by Jamie during season one episode one at that time the
biggest cities were old town in Casterly Rock the place around that that would
eventually become Lannisport but it didn't become Lannisport till after the
death of land the clever so that happened a little bit later in history
there was a town at white Harbor built around a coastal fort called the Wolf's
den but it later wound up becoming white Harbor I'm actually really hoping that
they involve some of the unification of the north in this series too because
that's actually a really fascinating story but I think it'll predate some of
the stuff that's happening on the show what a coincidence big Easter Egg the
king of winter at that time was called King John Stark the John that John Snow
was named for even though his real name is Aegon Targaryen so what will happen
is when we get some more details about exactly what is going to be happening
during season 1 of this Blood Moon Game of Thrones prequel series I'll talk a
little bit more about history from that period there's a lot of fascinating
stuff that was happening in the north but in terms of the creation of the
night King all we really know is that it's going to chronicle the creation of
the White Walkers we don't know if it's going to start with that and that's
going to be the first event or if it's going to happen over the course of the
first season and that's going to be the finale like boom White Walkers created
everybody's screwed because they did make it sound like the prequel series
obviously we're going back to 10 episodes a season and hopefully 5 to 7
seasons at least depending on how successful it is that even though they'd
be spending as much money to make the prequel as big as the main show has been
the last couple of seasons they're trying to get back on a story level back
to the things that made the first couple of seasons of Game of Thrones really
great so not completely discarding character development in favor a big
spectacle even though it sounds like HBO is moving forward with a couple of the
other prequel series as well it sounds like they're going to only
err this one prequel starting next year as of right now unless some big
production delay ends up happening later this year they didn't say exactly when
it's going to premiere hopefully it'll be sometime between spring and summer
they're going to be filming all through the summer and typical Game of Thrones
seasons at least for the first couple of season through season four would start
filming in the summer and they would air their episodes in the spring so until
HBO says otherwise just assume that they'll start airing episodes sometime
next summer I don't expect them to drop a trailer or any kind of teaser or
anything like that so either the very end of this year or early next year
typical Game of Thrones trailers drop in January February but we'll see I'll be
doing bonus videos for the prequel all summer long but if you have special
requests just leave them in the comments below if there's any history videos that
you want me to do or any specific videos on houses or people from that period
don't forget about all the other big stuff that's coming to the Amazon Lord
of the Ring series The Witcher Netflix TV series HBO's Watchmen TV series
there's a bunch of stuff coming later this year so of course I'll do videos
for all that stuff there'll be more Game of Thrones videos coming later this week
I'll name a giveaway winner when I post those while you wait for everything
click here for my Game of Thrones finale video wrap up and click here for my
episode 6 Easter egg video thank you so much for watching everybody stay awesome
I'll see you guys tonight!