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The Old Gods Eye with JoeMagician

History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)

History of Westeros

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 168 minutes

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A look at the role of the Gods Eye in the prophetic Song of Ice and Fire dream, and what purpose it serves to the Old Gods. What does the place mean to them? Featured in this one are Harrenhal, heart trees, human and dragon blood sacrifices, Daemon & Aemond, Alys Rivers, Green Men and quite a lot more. We are back to our Sunday at 3 pm eastern timeslot! VIPHOW20 - https://magicmind.com/VIPHOW20 - 20% off for one-time purchases and subscriptions.

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0:00.0

The The The And then. Oh, Oh, well. So, I'm going to go. The God's eye. A location is central to the continent of Westeros as it is to so many of the stories and subplots within stories that we love.

1:46.0

It has long been a source of wonder and discussion for the fandom mentioned early in a game of

1:50.8

Thrones along with several other famous locations when the world

1:54.2

building was still new to us it was it came up even then and it's still important all these

1:58.2

years later likewise in world it's an extremely old place the site of the pact

2:04.0

legends if not truths of the green men and other things have persisted for

2:09.0

thousands of years yet it also has developments of historically recent relevance.

2:13.6

Heron Hall of course is only 300 years old at the start of the song of ice and fire,

2:17.6

but it has quite a reputation already, one that is added to during the books.

2:22.0

And we go back to the time of the dance it's only

2:23.9

130 years old during which we're privy to events that give Heron Hall some of that

2:28.7

very reputation that makes it so compelling and dangerous in a song of ice and fire.

2:34.1

Only the North has a challenge to the God's eye as the most supernatural of the story-centric

2:40.0

regions of Westeros, if not any region of Westros, arguably.

2:44.0

But we have two cannons to deal with here as well.

2:47.0

Strictly speaking, the show doesn't change what happened in the book, of course,

2:51.0

but it can illuminate the books in ways we hadn't considered

2:54.1

or hadn't considered much we've got ideas basically fresh theories and changes to

2:59.1

older ones and perhaps some validation on a few others.

3:03.0

The God's eye is our destination.

3:05.2

Alice Rivers is our tour guide of sorts.

3:07.8

What can she tell us about the place,

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