The Stark Conquest (A song of Ice and Fire Lore)

Love the videos and return to the genere but change the maps back wtf is that I need a magnifying glass to behold such finery cmon now wtf happened there

Love ur videos

I was always rather suspicious about the Blackwood claim that they were driven out of the North by the Starks. Houses remember ancient insults and feuds and pass them down from father to son like a good wine. Look at how the Manderleys recall how House Peak drove them from the Reach, and in their time of need, the Starks took them in. That sort of thing is remembered.

But the Blackwoods of Raventree Hall seem to have a good relationship with the Starks, fighting with the Blacks in the Dance of the Dragons, and joining their forces in both Robert's Rebellion and the Kingdom of the Young Wolf. No issue, no complaint, no 'hey, you drove us out of the Wolfwood and forced us to live down south, and we remember.'

But there is none of that, and their are certainly more loyal than the Brakens, as Raventree was one of the last castles to hold out for the Starks even after the Red Wedding, and even after Rivenrun had surrendered to Jamie. So I think that the Blackwoods had a more amicable agreement with the Starks and left the North for some other reason and the tale of them being driven out is just a cover. Perhaps they went South on the orders of the Starks to secure some ancient sites of the First Men or the Children. They are rather close to both the God's Eye and the Isle of Faces, and Old Stones, not to mention that massive weirwood they build their hall around . . .

Oh no! Colonizers! What will the Indians think of me when they see a house stark poster in my room.

Brandon the blades journey: no inns no castles no fucks given along the way baby

Brandon of the bloody blade being Brandon the builder dad or ancestor is a reach conspiracy

A lot of the audience get this dissonance with how savage and brutal Stark History was. Even I sometimes have to remind myself that Ned was an outlier since he was fostered in the Vale.

To sum up most Northerners opinion of the Starks, I’ll give you this quote said by an unnamed Liddle in ASOS:

“When there was a Stark in Winterfell, a maiden girl could walk down the kingsroad in her name-day gown and still go unmolested, and travelers could find fire, bread, and salt at many an inn and holdfast. But the nights are colder now, and doors are closed ... It was different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. But the old wolf's dead and young one's gone south to play the game of thrones, and all that's left us is the ghosts.”

Every race and culture colonized… It’s human nature to expand.

Thanks!

One thing that George Martin could have made in the north is to create a third “city” (like Barrowtown and White Harbour that have the state of a city) in the west coast of the north with naval power (small) to put in check the raid of the Iron born

Last time I checked there were at least 54 houses in all the north (that if you take the semi canon sources like the tale tale game that mentions houses Forrester and Whitehill or houses they mention in the show like Tywin when mention house durmond or house Mason that fought with the Hornwoods and Mormonts in the battle of the bastards)

House Stark more than ok with killing off the men of most of their rivals, but the Boltons who have skinned their kin alive get off scott free?

Mind you, I don't agree that entire House's should be wiped out like that, not everyone from a family is the same or anything like that, my point is that I feel that the Boltons were the worst of the Stark's rivals almost continuously yet got off the easiest.

People mistake Ned Stark's calm demenor as the standard Stark behaviour, but Ned Stark is actually an outlier, an exception if you will, probably why they call him the silent wolf or the shy wolf. Starks are harsh, brutal, reckless, and very very dangerous - with an over-inflated sense of what is right and wrong. All of Ned's children except Sansa and maybe Bran (very debatable) embolden this normal Stark attitude. All of Ned's other siblings as well.

The Red Kings of House Bolton ⚔️

Keep up this masterpices coming man, you do some amazing job at keeping the fandom alive

Love your content! And the starks should have wiped out the Boltons.

I love the Starks to bits but damn it sounds like shit to grow up in them northern lands

I didn't know about Brandon of the bloody blade but I absolutely love that name 😎

The boltons lands should’ve been halved after the greystark rebellion. and the new land should’ve been given to someone loyal to them. That way that new house would be forever loyal to them and the boltons fighting strength would be reduced. The boltons would also have to split their focus on 2 houses instead of just house stark.

"The Fishers of Stony Shore" but go and put the sigil near the White Knife, bro stony shore is near where you put the Ryders

I don't really understand the timeline. Brandon stark existed before the long night. But the long night lasted one generation. And Brandon should have died. But Brandon built winterfell.

Unpopular Opinion : The Blackwoods should be rulers of the North...

not the AI art…

Whycreate, thanks for making all these videos, they're entertaining, interesting and useful. Please continue cooking bro, you're blessed for this.

The Starks are not "colonizers" ( lmao), theyre conquerors.

They were awesome then Ned became lord and choose honour before family

WC!!!!!

my theory is that they were called the kings of winter because during winter they held the only viable lands to live, glass gardens (or possibly an earlier equivalent) and hot springs, so during winter time the starks helped the others in exchange for concessions. when summer came they all went back to their kingdoms but crossing the starks could mean being banned from safety next winter. the starks used their geographic location as a power move. once they controlled the north they no longer were just kings of the winter time but kings of the north.
perhaps the times the boltons sacked winterfell was because they were banned from safety in the upcoming winter and decided to attack in order to secure safety for themselves, those winters would have been terrible and this is partially why the boltons are hated, the guys that fuck up winter for everyone do not go down well in history.

on top of that, i have a theory about the boltons being starks that did not get the skinchanging powers. the bitterness meant they acted out the skinchanging literally by flaying starks and wearing them as a mockery and justice for the magic they didnt recieve.

My favorite house in the North are Boltons. Such a bunch of nasty characters. Martin said there are no good or bad characters, only grey but he did them dirty.

Well he needed that, if they are not so horrified the today Starks would not be potrayed as an opposite.

On the other hand Boltons even oppressed they have a right to fight.

Starks are punching bags

The Starks should've pulled a Castamere on the Boltons.

You should make a video about theories how the different houses in Westeros got their Valyrian Steel weapons. We never get to know how the Starks got Ice for example

Colonizers is a word the weak try to use against those stronger than them.

👍🏾👌🏾

Can you make a video on lannister conquest of westerlands

Brandon of the Bloody Blade was in god mode

Slow down a lil bit an add some music 🎶 behind your speech 💬 👌 like the Chanel

Could you do a video like this for the other houses by chance? Also did the Great Empire of the Dawn actually exist?

It’s 2:30 AM I’m eating McDonald’s and watching brand new WhyCreate ❤

Definitely agree the Boltons shoulda been wiped out a long time ago. Just look at how loyal the Manderly house is. If the starks had taken a small house and raised them up in the place of the Boltons i’m sure they’d have lost a great enemy and made a very loyal friend. Who would protest?

The Starks are not "colonizers". They created no colonies. They were conquerors. Those words are not synonyms.

The Starks messed the Backwoods up.

their conquers not colonizers

House Bolton is still a Kickass House and one of the only Unchanged House in the Northern History even with their Psychotic and Brutal Tendencies unlike the Starks...

First to take the Black 🖤

I think one of the biggest slept on mysteries is how come the technology barely advanced in the asoiaf universe even after ten thousands of yeas

i ain’t ever been this early lmaoo

See this is why I dislike the current Starks in GOT.. They should rename themselves as Arryns, Especially that Ned Arryn instead of Ned Stark, who forgot every single part of his History and changed his and his Family's lifestyle influenced by Jon Arryn's Honour, whose House words is literally "As High as Honour"...

The Starks are used to be just Dumb, Illiterate, Hotheaded Beings but with Terrible temper and Wild, Savage and Great Fighters, Builders and Leaders. Whereas the Current Starks in GOT are just honourable Fools with no Stomach for Brutality and Savagery that their Ancestors literally had for thousands and thousands of Years...