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Harrenhal is cursed, or so we keep hearing about in House of the Dragon. When Harwin and Lyonel Strong burned alive in their own castle, the culprit Larys Strong relied on the Curse to cover up his crime. Bad things just always seem to happen to anyone who holds the derelict fortress of Harren the Black. Rhaenyra initially blames the fire that killed her pseudoo-husband Harwin the Himbo on the curse, with Daemon quipping back that it is just a ghost story. However I’m here to tell you that it is not just a ghost story, Harrenhal really is cursed and dooms anyone who holds the title. And not just one curse, there’s multiple curses as befits the largest castle anyone has ever seen. It is the most cursed of any castle that was ever cursed.
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00:00 Intro
01:19 Harrenhistory
06:56 Curse 1
09:18 Curse 2
11:50 Curse 3
15:14 Curse 4
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29 Comments
Another solid video Joe. As we've always come to expect, you really do your homework before uploading anything and your editing/splicing has also taken off. Happy Haloween.
Do you think that Daemon becomes a blood sacrifice on the Isle of Faces? His body is never found. Every elses body is. Except his. He is a magical creature – more dragon than a lot af the Targaryans. And he has knowledge that the weirwoods/children might need. Did they perhaps also put his soul in the trees?
Also also wierd that Aegon never burned any weirwoods on the Isle of Faces.
They basically need a small council to manage each tower lol
Great content as usual. I once heard that dragon fire is radioactive, then Harenhall would be similar to "Chernobyl" and this explains the fertility problems people inside the castle face
I think it would be cool if house strong had merchandise.
Can’t wait to watch all of your other videos! Came here when Alt Shift X mentioned your Larys Greenseer theory, and I’ve been hooked ever since!
Hard agree. That bitch is CURSED. It is known.
600%? 😂😂😂
Honestly one of the things I've been digging deeply into ASOIAF recently is blood/child sacrifice. How dragons are hatched by the sacrifice of Targeryean children. how Mellisandre desires kings blood (specifically Gendy and potentially Shireen) to awaken dragons or make the weather more feasible. Potentially, magics were woven into the walls of Harrenhall itself, from the dead that mixed with the mortar, the 'kings blood' of House Hoare that boiled in the stone and other things. Potentially all the sacrifice and death that was required to built it created it's curse.
Great Video man! This whole talk of a cursed castle reminds me of a HP Lovecraft story "The Alchemist", where the man of a family bloodline are cursed to die at age 32, in the end it was just a guy who found the secret to extend his lifespan so he could kill those men himself across centuries.
video about dragons please, thats all i care about
the tully's would actually be the perfect family to handle harrenhall, their already reclusive and have a ridiculously large family, they would be able to staff it. and with them truely owning the rivers at that point their coffers might be up to the challenge. the other way to handle a hold that size would essentially be turn it into a company town that runs itself.
Thanks so very much for explaining the backstory of this monstrosity.
As an side, the casting of Larys is brilliant because just a still shot of him creeps me out and it’s not the foot fetish
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Great video! Love in depth stuff like this.
Are you sure it’s not…666% cursed??? Yea?
So COF needed Aegon and his dragons to face the WW, now COF need Larys to manipulate the dance and destroy the dragons?
maegor towers was only 17 when he died
A shitty, half-burnt, giant castle is the sort of thing you give to someone very useful that you don’t like and are planning to get rid of at the first opportunity. That’s about all there is to the “curse”.
What about Alys Rivers!?!
Imo the best way to use Harrenhal would be to gradually dismantle it and sell the materials. The stone is of decent quality in places and there's neverending amounts of it. Harrenhal could be the quarry for the next generation of Riverlands castles.
Pretty sure the children of the forest gave Larrys a foot fetish
My gold is on curse 6, but 1-5 make owning it a fool’s errand
This was amazing
One of my favorite theories is that the Children's souls stay in the wood even when a weirwood tree is cut and that they can still use their telepathy on certain people. The possible example being Robin Arryn and his weirwood throne. The "shaking sickness" being reminiscent of the times Bran takes over Hodor's body. As well as the boy experiencing things he shouldn't. If a single big chair made out of weirwood could harbor enough Children souls to affect people I couldn't imagine what the largest castle ever built that used an untold number of weirwoods in its construction could do.
Dante,Vergil and Nero…prep for those three genius…they’ll neg the whole team without breaking an sweat…even with Batman’s plot armor
It is also hinted in the books that another side effect of Harrenhal's curse was how families who lived and was raised in that castle tend to lessen and become extinct over time by infertility. There is a servant called Pia who after being raped for weeks (I know, that fact is already horrifying by itself) she somehow never got pregnant, something Jaime noticed by how rare that is by her circumstances. And both Catelyn and Lysa 's mother, Minisa, was also a Whent, whose female members have a reputation of having fertility issues.
The Sandkings serve the Maw in their castles, and must keep it fed.
Here, the castle itself is the gaping maw.