What would be your ideal outcome of the war of the 5 kings?
Considering the looming threats of dany, faegon, euron and the white walkers, who on the iron throne could prepare the realm for all this?
Can you tell me which indexers you use? I would like to subscribe to a few myself.
(Spoilers Extended) Theory: The Lie of the Land Bridge
Crossposted from r/asoiaf, all credits to u/wildrussy
We've all heard the tales, and all the Maesters agree.
There was once a great land bridge that connected the "heel" of Essos to Dorne, called the Arm of Dorne. The first men crossed this land bridge into Dorne, and from there migrated into the rest of Westeros.
The old tales say the first men were led by a great King, sometimes called the First King, sometimes called High King of the first men, Garth.
But these tales must be folly, for they contradict themselves. They say that everywhere Garth walked, the land bloomed, but Dorne is famously barren. Dornish tales make no mention of the Greenhand at all. It seems that Garth never set foot in Dorne.
More mysteries abound, because the oldest runic records of the First Men appear in the Stormlands, leading Maesters to believe that the First Men must have taken one look at Dorne and kept walking. This seems plausible enough, but something struck me while looking at a map of the Broken Arm:
Here we can see where the Arm of Dorne once was quite clearly, but there's an unwelcome intruder (or rather, protruder) in our midst. Cape Wrath extends eerily close to the Arm of Dorne; the islands off its coast even look like they're islands in the same chain. Could it be that Cape Wrath was once connected to Essos as well?
It was in the process of investigating this that I came across this gem in the World of Ice and Fire:
> There is also much to suggest that the Sea of Dorne was once an inland freshwater sea, fed by mountain streams and much smaller than it is today, until the narrow sea burst its bounds and drowned the salt marshes that lay between. - The World of Ice and Fire - Dorne: The Breaking
If you'll redirect your attention to the map above, you'll see that in order for the Sea of Dorne to be an inland sea, Cape Wrath would have had to connect to the Arm.
It is absolutely incredible to me how well hidden this crucial piece of information is. Yandel drones on and on about how the Hammer of the Waters isn't real and the Arm sank due to climate change. He practically puts you to sleep before he offhandedly mentions "Oh, by the way, there's evidence to suggest the Stormlands connected to Essos". Very sneaky, George, but I've CAUGHT you. You can't get anything past this old weasel. I've got a problem with compulsive fixations and too much fucking time on my hands and I worked it out, you sly old goblin.
Anyway, I have no earthly idea what the significance of this is. It seems to indicate that the Garth legends could be true. Beyond that, I have no clue why George was such a sneaky little bandit about how the Arm of Dorne was a "Y" shape and the First Men crossed into the Stormlands directly.
I think theorizing about these books might be driving away my last scraps of sanity.
A new beginning
With the onset of the new reddit api changes, many 3rd party apps are now discontinued. Also with the upcoming IPO, once reddit goes public it is going to get even more restrictive and user-unfriendly. With this in mind, I would like to have an alternative to my favourite sub r/asoiaf. However we current do not have enough users to make this community viable. So in the meantime I will be using this space to crosspost/repost some of the best posts from reddit here (with the OP's permission offcourse). If you like this, please feel free to go ahead and do the same yourselves (be respectful of the original post and provide appropriate credits).
Here's hoping to contributing to a better platform 🥂
I have no knowledge of usenet. How do I get started?
I have been starved for more asoiaf content. I used to visit that sub daily, I wish they would encourage people to move over.
Great, will check it out
Hmmmmmmm
I got my first exposure to the internet at around 2012, but still reading posts like this makes me nostalgic for some reason
+1, this is a really essential feature
It's only gonna get worse.....so we have that to look forward to
Thank you for the very detailed explanation.
Not technically a "podcast", but alt shift x and glidus make some amazing discussion videos which you can listen to as a podcast. Here is the last one
Same. Seems more like a feature yet to be inplemented. I click on the reply header, it takes me to the post and then I have to find the comment to reply to it.
Edit: Sorry, I'm stupid. You need to long press on the reply to open up the toolbar which let's you comment.
How about we post direct links to reddit and link the reddit post here lol?
So what happens if I reply to a comment from a beehaw user? It just wont reach? That seems like it will cause a lot of issues for users.
What do you mean synced posts? If instance 1 and instance 2 ar federated, do they each have a copy of the other's data?
Not as far as I know. But you can view all communities of all instances here, if that helps
Yeah, but beehaw said they are defederated. How are then their posts still visible?
Let's make a community
If true then its ironic that they are trying to run a federated free speech platfomr
Asoiaf livestream by Glidus and Alt Shift X
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imo, they currently make some of the best asoiaf content on youtube.