Benjen has been missing for less time than Gerion though, unless you're joking.

@@cattakenbath He was clearly joking.

@@cattakenbath He obviously dyed his hair black and joined the Night's Watch. Open your eyes, pleb.

Benjen is Gerion is Quaithe confirmed.(everyone is Quaithe)

@@cattakenbath woooooosh

Sybille Stahl tell that to ashara Dayne theorist? Every older woman is potentially ashara!

If that's true then maybe fans are putting too much stock into R+L=J, perhaps there is no secret identity or importance behind Jon Snow's mother (i.e someone like the Fisherman's daughter) and GRRM is letting the R+L=J or B+A=J hype go on so he doesn't discourage some readers from wanting to finish reading the series (assuming the last two books come out within the next 5 to 10 years) Don't get me wrong, I hope R+L=J is confirmed in the books as well, but with GRRM you have to expect the unexpected.

+Marcus Drake It's hinted at *so* strongly in the books, it'd be impossible for Jon's mother to have no significance. I mean, a decent chunk of Ned's chapters was dedicated to adding mystique to the Tower of Joy. I suspect GRRM will confirm R+L=J but will add a twist to it. It won't go down exactly as it did in the show.

Possibly, I doubt it will be a star-crossed love story like the show gave us, but more to fulfill prophecy (i.e. the prince that was promised/Azor Ahai or the three heads of the Dragon)

@@Knight860 That makes the most sense. Though I don't know why they'd need to hook up for that. Jon already is the product of that prophecy. Or, at least, that's what Rhaegar thought.

Trump grabbed him by the pussy...

*+Carlos Sanchez* Ser Pounce would never allow himself to suffer such an indignity! He is, after all, *Ser Pounce Who Was Promised*.

You have to admit, he went out like he was dropping the mike, except he was the mike. At least he got to bang Margery Tyrell. Lol

Dunno man that suiced was pretty manly statement- "Fuck this shit , I''m out! Good luck with the dragons!"

Grubiantoll ya but he did it over a bitch who didn't love him and was banging his brother right before him

He is dead just like Gerion.

"he is at the store"

Your Dad is Gerion Lannister

Poisoned by his enemies.

Hes at a gay bar 🍆💦

But it's also Martin, and he doesn't seem the type to leave a loose thread without knowing where it will eventually lead.

@@Hexen_Wulf he named certain Lords after Muppets characters, and got bored of naming Essos cities so he eventually just started copying H.P. Lovecraft city names. He's not so anal about it all as you're suggesting. He is when it comes to important things, that have to do with the plot. But yeah, Gerion probably exists just to explain further how not all Lannisters are bad, and how Tyrion and Jaime loved one uncle more than they loved their own father and that's why they bonded a lot even though Tyrion and Cersei never did (which gives a good reason as to why Jaime let Tyrion go free, and allowed Tyrion to kill Tywin). It also explains why the Lannisters went to the trouble of melting down the big Stark valaryan steel sword to make two smaller swords, one for the family and one for King joffrey, because they'd have no need to do that if they already had a valaryan steel sword in the family. And the fact Tywin has gone round all the houses trying to buy a sword off them also explains how desperate he is to have one, and how much his family matters to him, he really does care only about the Lannister family and barely anything else, really. Tywin might pretend to be principled at times (hence joining Robert in his rebellion) but it's all for the sake of the Lannister family. But yeah we probably don't need to ever learn what happened to Gerion. It works better as a way of pointing out that nothing that goes to the ruins of valayria ever returns. Because that part of the book I remember very strongly, even though it's been like 7+ years since I last read them. Gerion is the _MAIN_ example of that. To show how dangerous it is. Because he had a large and very well trained and kitted out army (cos of the Lannister riches) and nobody came back from it, not one person. It's better that way. It makes Valaryia more mysterious and much more dangerous sounding, and explains why people aren't making expeditions to there all the time in search of valaryian steel themselves. It also makes the valaryian steel swords still in existence all the more valuable and explains why they're passed down from heir to heir, instead of say burying them with the owner. Because the ones that exist are the only ones that ever will exist, so short of splitting a big one into 2 like they did to the Stark sword, they can't make any more. They can only work on them to forge them into new things, nothing else (and even then, very very few blacksmiths in the world know how to work with valayrian steel either) But they're one of the only things that can kill the white walkers. So they're needed. And it ties into the fact every region of the world has their own Azor Ahai myth. It makes sense that the valaryian blood magic necessary to create the material represents the magic of fire, they probably had to mix in dragon's blood with the steel or something. Because valaryians loved their blood magic. And probably used dragon's fire to melt it down in the first place. If Gerion was seen in the books, still alive, I think it could spoil all of that. And the current info we have is as much of an end to the thread as anything else would be. We know that nobody who goes to Valaryia ever comes back, so his story is over.

Those things are set up unrelated to Gerion though

​@@Hexen_Wulf Dickon Manwoody.

@@skeletonbuyingpealts7134 I haven’t read the books yet so you just introduced this character to me for the first time and it’s incredible. GRRM is more brilliant than I’ll ever be but Manwoody is one of the goofiest names I’ve ever heard. But I guess that’s what happens when you have like 100 different noble houses that all need names

He's gonna get picked up by gendry on his way back from getting Arya after she fell off the bridge in bravoos

"Considering the things Your bloodline have done in my right years absence, I'll happily give a few coins to my dear daughter with nothing you can do to stop me. Unlike my treasured nephews I've my title as a lion of Lannister in tact.

@@scottbruckner4653 You think Tywin would give him any gold after *that* remark? He is literally implying that rumor about Tywins kids is true, and he also reminds Tywin about his dwarf son. I doubt Gerrion would do that he was Tyrions and Jaimes favourite uncle after all, and Tywin would not tolerate such disrespect

O.G.H Gerion being Tyrion and Jaime’s favourite uncle kinda just cements the fact that Gerion wouldn’t just mock the lives of his nephews. Gerion seemed like a fun loving and carefree man, he most likely wouldn’t give a rats shit about what his nephews are doing, as long as they’re trying to enjoy their lives.

@Samuel Duchesne Tywin would no doubt prefer if everyone had to get his permission lmao

@Samuel Duchesne yeah we see tyrion has his own money in agot and acok that he uses for all sorts of stuff.

ikr there could've been a mention, but I think it's alright because, the main subject of the video was Gerion, otherwise it could've gone into a weird tangent à la Preston Jacobs.

CassesVultus bzvm

that was my thought, when first hearing the girl's description and name. has anyone asked GRRM about either, theory? long live altshiftX!

Sansa is not pregnant with Ramsay's baby in the books. Perhaps she is in the D&D fanfiction.

Dont forget the bitch king

that always makes me smile

I love all of these funny comments he makes

yeah i love that

I think by the time we next see Euron he'll be long past any interest in bargaining with people. Gods do not bargain!

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 True, but he is still a politician, and the support of one of one of the major houses is very much welcome

I doubt cersei or jamie or tyrion really give a f about a sword. Especially since cersei probably still had Widows Wale and Robert’s entire collection of weaponry. Jamie had a valyrian sword but gave it to brianne

@@kasinokaiser1319 seeing as how much Euron hates any Lannisters in the books, it wouldn't happen.

*Laughs in Rhaegar Targaryen*

Cries in my sister and her children

*Facepalms in Ned Stark*

The thing is Rhaegar believed Aegon was The Prince Who Was Promised, not the baby he was having with Lyanna (he was probably expecting it to be a girl). He had to do things in a way that all three of his children were legitimate. Ellia was a Martel, and the Dornish don't put the stigma on bastards and polyamory the way the rest of Westeros does. She could easily have been on board, so long as her children were still in line. Targaryeans also don't have much problem with multiple wives, in general. They just haven't practiced it to avoid problems with The Faith. However, The Faith doesn't like the incest, but the Targaryeans normalized it for themselves, so Rhaegar probably figured he could sell it once it was already done. After all, at that point he still looked like a better choice than his father so the political realities of the realm might have been more important than a point of morality. Lyanna would have been the stumbling block, however. She wasn't from a culture that practices polyamory and was actually dismissive of Robert as a husband because of his multiple affairs. Would she be on board with being second wife?

@@carlrood4457 Late reply I know but I wanted to say that while polygamy not being commonly accepted by every one would be a small problem for Rhaeger's Plan going along smoothly, the much bigger problem was his father's insanity. Remember that by that point the Mad King had already fully believed his own son was plotting against him (which he all but certainly was) so him out of the blue starting a polygamist relationship with *another* high-ranked royal woman would be seen as a blatant attempt at creating another powerful alliance. Sadly, even if every one was fine with a big Royal Harem, Aerys wouldn't be :-(

A man is funny. A man comments in every Alt Shift video

Jaqen H'ghar don't get it

I don't get it

because you would have to be brainless to think Cersei is the best player in the game

Daniel Robinson oh

SophieStudios If anyone dislikes this video, I'LL RAPE HIS FUCKING CORPSE.

Politely, though. We're not animals.

Make that 20

SophieStudios you like or did there is no dislike button

i made it the same way and just finished the books and even read this few published chapters from WoW. Cool thing that knowing all this theories from alt shit x videos i could concentrate on them reading the story eg. of course R+L=J, but Knight of a loughing tree was just a story told by Meera and without ASX maybe a would not understand how important it is;)

This is generally true of adaptations. Even in the few instances where an adaptation is definitely better than the original, you can gain a better understanding of why and how its better by actually consuming both the adaptation and the original.

As someone who read the 835 pages of Chronicles of Narnia (in Portuguese my mother tongue) in two days and a half, length does not scare me. I just need time and money to buy them.

Am going to read the books but i wanna make sure that all are written first so until george r.r. martin finishes the last 2 am not buying them

My story is the excat same as yours. And now i am totally in love with the books and reading more prequel books like dunk and egg

Zeltik Didn't expect to see you here

hey I love your work I've seen all your vids since the zelda wii u days I just saw your cut content vid you're the best and you deserve all the subs and views you'll get in the future

Indeed

Still love these years later

I like yours just as much.

turtlesinabox, If he does summon a Kraken, it would be so metal!

The horn you talk about is the Horn of Celtigar. Almost as valuable as the famed Valyrian steel axe

Your name brought a smile to my face.

What if Euron found Joramun’s Horn? We know the Manse horn is a fake and burned, and for fun, let's say Sam doesn't have it. Euron thinks his horn is to tame a dragon. So Euron meets up with Dany and he blows the horn to tame one of her dragons, and instead, The Wall falls down! Ah, the comedy! lol Reply

And then Perseus shows up with Medusa's head.......

He is just a god, that makes mistakes :D

Alinne Mahlke LOL, like you somehow CONFIRMED this AltShft theory. Silly rabbit.

Alinne Mahlke there is only one god and his name is GRRM. there is only one thing we say to him: finish winds of winter!

Though I really hope he didn't because if he has then what other mistakes has he made along the way, of that I don't even want to think about :D

damn righjt, this is obvious as you're reading the books and wallowing in the endless spelling and punctuation mistakes that nobody bothered to correct.

Yep, he shows up and he's like "Hey guys, I'm back! Did I miss anything?" in like a perfect comedy moment.

A man with one hand Fuckin right there with ya

If you're tired of not having new content related to the Song of Ice and Fire but you like strategy games you should give Crusader Kings II a try. The Game of Thrones mod is just unbelievable. Words can not describe my love for it... seriously, my wife's getting jealous! You can do whatever you want, the first start date of the mod is ~4 years before Aegon's conquest. For example: I started playing a game with Daeron Dayne (custom character) in 210. I took over all of Dorne, became King of the Torrentine (primary title... what? I'm a Dayne, what did you expect?), King of Blackmont, Prince of Dorne, King of the Stepstones and also became Sword of the Morning. Working my way south and east as I'm taking the Summer Isles and the Basilisk Isles while colonizing Sothoryos. Ohh, and I'm also an immortal Dragon Rider in Valyrian Steel Armor. ;)

Haha me, too! 😙💨

Papa Bless, I hope you rip some fat clouds, homie.

I just spend my time making the seven and having as many bastard children across the land as I possibly can. I care not for power or glory. I'm just spreading my seed :D

Amy Elizabeth I agree. I used to think it was the last Harpy but that guy never goes into great detail and most of the theories on his vids are ridiculous.

The Last Harpy is Trash with a capital "T" in comparison to Alt Shift X

The order of the greenhand's the best

You misspelled *Preston Jacobs*

Booty

for some reason most people tend to go there, like Sam in AFFC, his ship stops in Braavos where he takes another ship to Oldtown. Maybe Gerion went to Braavos to get more men, or a faster ship. Who knows.

The disputed lands are constantly warring: Tyrosh, Myr, Lys etc and Pentos. There may be set routes of travel available at the time of Gerion;s journey going to Braavos, from where another ship along the coast could easily be chartered, but none going directly across the Stepstones or on to Volantis. Also depending on the time of the year the Narrow Sea can be quite volatile, some sailors stay closer to the shore which means all the way up to White Harbour and across to Braavos and then back down again, stopping off via Pentos. Sam boarded a ship to Braavos when trying to get to Oldtown with Gilly and Maester Aemon, but he died before he could get a ship heading to Oldtown.

But slavery is illegal in Braavos.

Sam stops in Braavos because it's on the way South from the Wall and East Watch by the Sea. It makes no sense for Gerion to go around the South of Westeros, around Dorne, and then travel all the way North again to Braavos, if he's going East to Volantis and Valyria. Lys or Tyrosh are more logical stopping points. Braavos is a huuuge detour. Possible, but not very sensical.

No, he uses WordStar 4.0 on a crusty old DOS computer, because it has a bare interface that he likes. www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/14/george_r_r_martin_writes_on_dos_based_wordstar_4_0_software_from_the_1980s.html

I think he will be amazed for having fans who know so much, see every single detail in the books and in his writting process, and the intelligence to combine all of that.

You're making it sound as if the "mistake" was confirmed! It's no mistake, she's the daughter of someone's else.

She might be someone else's daughter, but Martin is known to throw in little riddles that you have to pay vry close attention to figure out.

He also admitted in interviews that little mistakes happen and have happend. Like changing eye colors and horses changing sex are his most prominent examples. So who says that a wrong year could't happen?

Still a better codename than Ben Kenobi

Euron is actually Gerion sitting on Benjen's shoulders under a coat like Vincent Adultman

REASONS TO LIVE: 1) Alt Shift X Feels good man

Alt Shift X he's got so much work on at the business factory he doesn't have the time to be in a tv show

Stannis, your beard is pretty goals. Wish I could grow one like that. :/

Is this a decent way to say they were having gay sex?

Neat

Jaime after his hand gets cut off tried to be better

Thanks Michael!

Yup, Patrons get early access sometimes (: www.patreon.com/posts/gerion-lannister-7919045

Oh shit, didn't even notice the lack of comments. Now there's a first.

The best first comments are those that don't know they're first.

Your name is charlie as well?

It is known.

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what?

@@williamthegeckowallace3573 Taking a guess, they mean the Wheel of Time series which is... really big.

cheers

actually, would you mind making a vid of yourself reading a shampoo bottle?

Nick Dzink omg sailor's wife = tysha = mind= blown. im literary looking to your comment with my mouth open.

Nick Dzink but the only problems are that tyrion isnt dead, neither is he a sailor

Nick Dzink there is a big theory out there about tyrion and the sailor wife. I heard the sailor is a reference about tyrion past

The largest issue with this theory is that we're told that her husband is dead. This was told to us by Yna (a whore and maegi) when she tasted the Sailor's Wife's blood, and that "her love was dead", and "if he ever should come back to her it would be as a corpse". But, we all know blood magic can be elusive and cause misdirection. By dead it could mean the person that Tyrion was is dead. That traumatic experience it was definitely what made Tyrion the cynical father-murdering man he is today. A few other facts that could tie the two together: -The Sailor's Wife speaks to Arya in the common tongue, so she's a bilingual whore that speaks Westerosi. -She prays for her husband that she lost at sea when she was no older than Lanna (14, a year older than Tyrion when they were married) It's very much possible, but at the same time there's not enough evidence to make a final verdict on it. I don't see what in Tyrion's past made him a sailor, but it just as easily could be a lie in the same way Tyrion lies to Sansa about who Tysha was.

The mention "lost at sea" could refer to her being shipped to Braavos by Tywin. Evey time she looks at the sea, at west, at the direction of Lannisport, she may wonder where he is. There is a whole ocean between them. Then he is "lost at sea". She may have became a whore for lack of option, being shipped to Braavos against her will and not speaking the language. It could be the only way to survive. But... Wouldn't it be mocking Tyrion bedding only men who married her?

Ser Hunts Reviews yours is good too

most ships as well pass there for some odd reason like when sam decides to go to oldtown via boat, the ship stops by a braavos

When Sam goes to Oldtown, he leaves the wall from Eastwatch, so it kinda makes sense for him to stop there

Nah Azor Ahai is probably Sam Tarly

@@rhelyputra4680 nah it’s gilly

​@@biancaflono, hotpie is azor ahai

that is such a cool theory

Nobody Listens that is What I thought too! Where the whores go!

Apparently the whores go to Braavos.

Me too. The years fit perfectly. In 286 Tyrion marries Tysha. And the same year Lanna is born. The reason The sailors wife always marries her customers is because of her past.

MissyAmy88 did their marriage last an entire year? All the lannister guardsmen raped tysha so it could be their child too

If I were raped by my husband’s family soldiers and named a whore, I would hate him and his family, not praising him in my memories and naming my child after the family