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Kingsblood VIII: Hidden Dragonseeds

The Bard’s Truth, Episode 7.5 I recently mentioned in a twitter post on #ASongofMadness that I was voting for Gilly, on account of her hidden dragon blood. I got some feedback for @lizdated that she had never heard of that idea, asking if I have a video of that theory! Well, no, I didn’t. I […]

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Dragon Bonds 4: Dany Abandons Her Children, Drogon Abandons Dany (Spoilers Extended)

If A Storm or Swords was a transition period for Dany’s dragons (call it their teen years), I would say that A Dance with Dragons is their final transition to adulthood. No longer are they lovable beasts; they are now dangerous creatures, with fully developed personalities – and wills – of their own. This applies […]

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Kingsblood VI: The Kazakh Dothraki

Hey all, The Green Bard here! It’s been a while… Aside from my most recent video, which I actually made early in April 2023, I’ve been taking a bit of a break since Ice and Fire Con. I moved, and finally I am set up in my new office and ready to record, produce, and […]

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Notes for “Waking Life: Dreams in Westeros” Panel Discussion for

The most important use of dreams in ASOIaF is to show the beginnings of the manifestation of “The Gift.” The waking mind starts to let go and it gives an opportunity for the third eye to see. These dreams are, dare I say, an opening to the flow of the underworld, the weirwood net, the […]

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Can “Elden Ring” Inform Us about “A Song of Ice and Fire”?

In Elden Ring, I recently found a some confirmation of my kingsblood theory from “The World of Ice and Fire.” [… ]”When we were down to Pentos we moored beside a trader called the Sloe-Eyed Maid, and I got to drinking with her captain’s steward. He told me a pretty tale about some slip of a […]

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Magic, Prophecy, Godswoods, and Dragons at Half of the HotD S1

So I have been watching House of the Dragon Season 1 like most ASoIaF fans, and I see, well I see a lot of subtle magic. And that magic is very much in the Green Bard’s wheelhouse, so now you are getting this video. So I have decided that you get this from time to […]

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Kingsblood VII: Sphinxes, Gargoyles, and Dragons

Hello, and welcome to the Bard’s Truth, with your host, the Green Bard. This is Kingsblood VII, Sphinxes, Gargoyles and Dragons. In this episode We examine Maester Aemon’s comment to Samwell Tarly that “the Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler.” I think this is presented to us as an obvious riddle, one we are […]

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Dareon’s Song – A Direwolf Cover

Today I present Dareon’s Song – A Direwolf Cover You all might have noticed the music that I use to start and end each of the Jon and Ghost videos I’ve been releasing for most of this year. It’s actually a piece of an entire song I have written and recorded about another Bard, Dareon. […]

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Top Ten Sword Fighters in Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire

One of the scenes from the Jon Snow POV chapters that I recently covered in my latest Direwolves of Winterfell videos had a scene where Ghost was not featured, so I didn’t cover it here. It is a powerful scene during which Mance Rayder, disguised as Rattleshirt, fights Jon Snow in the training yard at […]

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Always: Severus Snape

While this is normally a channel that focuses on George RR Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” (ASOIAF) book series (you Harry Potter fans should check out those excellent books), today I’ll do a small discussion and a cover song that evokes Severus Snape from Harry Potter. Why? Well, I was chatting on Twitter […]