ASOIAF theory the great empire of the dawn pt5 - moon blood, iron blood, blood raining from the sky

[EFFLUVIUMWRITING]

girl these are matching up so neatly with michael talks about stuff’s videos on the children of the forest keeping the Old Ways alive in order to perpetuate blood sacrifices to the weirwoods as well as connections between valyrian blood magic and all the cotf stuff. please please check his stuff out i think your two takes on the series would mesh really well

[bostonmetalclips]

so much to take in! thank you for all your work

[LuciferChapel]

My understanding is that despite what the Maestors would have us believe, the Age Of Heroes came before The Long Night, as you've said.
However, I'm definitely not sold on The Andals being in Westeros until quite a while after The Long Night.
Everything else I'm on board with, although I believe the "Demons" mentioned in Essos at the beginning are the Ifequevron, and not the Children Of The Forest.

I'm also under the fairly strong belief that the COF did not cause the Hammer Of The Waters; this is one of the many things mixed up in Westerosi history. I'm under the impression the Hammer was caused by The Bloodstone Emperor causing a comet to crash into the second moon, which caused the worldwide catastrophe you've described.

[pyramidion]

Just throwing out what comes to mind here, but I think maybe the weirwood net exists in a shadow realm and bran the builder was able to bridge the gap. They invaded the tree net via some kind of shadow bodies. Think fist of the first men, but it was the living invading the dead. They did a bunch of sentinel chopping in the spirit realm, but it was a trap because when they came back out, they appeared in westeros hundreds of years later. The "seven" refers to the seven portals they came out of. In the shadow realm, the portals burned like stars. The portals were actually the fires being used to seer in the hightowers around westeros and thats why they connect to the shadow realm. "Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire" -Melisandre

[pyramidion]

Speaking of two brothers, I have a hunch that Bran and Lan are brothers. If bran is short for Brandon, then Lan could be short for Landon. They are a kind of Thor and Loki in the story. Bran being the storm god and Lan being the trickster. The theory needs more evidence, so it's a bit of a stretch for now, but it fits the story and explains the focus on the Starks and Lannisters.