ASOIAF Theories: Where Did The Weirwoods Come From?

The Weirwood trees seem to have innate power but assuming this theory is correct this species at some point must have tapped into this nexus, which changed it, perhaps this process was guided. We know that the children of the forest used Weirwoods to see across great distances and to create an afterlife for themselves, but could it have always been this way?

If we assume that at one point the children didn’t have this symbiotic relationship with the Weirwoods, then we have to ask ourselves the question where did the Weirwood trees come from?

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[jerrysstories]

I don't think the Weirwood trees are anything but conduits, like an internet with no servers. In nature they communicated very simple survival information to each other, but then the CotF discovered they could use them for enhanced telepathy, and the trees were selectively bred to enhance those useful traits. Dying CotF warged into the trees rather than into animals so that they could stay together.

[ministryoftruth]

My theory is Weirwood was inspired by Poe's poem Ulalume (..."the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir") which I'm sure George is well acquainted with as it was also an inspiration for Lovecraft, one of his favourite authors.

[brittanyrae]

You posted a new video!! Confirmation that all is well. We love you, Quinn!!

[ismata]

I am not a botanist, so this is sort of nature documentaries heresay: some old forests on earth with very tall giant trees have a type of fungus in their soil, which collects the water and nutrients from soil and feeds them to the plants, trees mainly. Those fungi being veeery thin filaments, form an unseen net troughout the soil, and being fungi, eat the organic material therein. big trees can not grow or dont get mature in soil without this fungi. So might there be a blood even corpse eating fungi in that planet, which connects all life which touch soil, - water touch earth too you know - that eventually dies and gets consumed/absorbed, and their soul? electromagnetic imprint? aura? whatever is saved in net memory. Weirwood trees may have been used as a direct connection point to the fungi, like monitors, mouse, touchpad etc of computers. More capable trees might have been selected, changed, domesticated sort of by the singers.

[rogerfvb]

I can never get tired of these videos. The atmosphere just doesn't get old.
And I haven't even started reading the goddamn things.

[annaarwen]

Quinn you really need to do readings. You have a wonderful voice x

[Key-gxpx]

Off topic but, I think Mel thought that Stanis was the prince who was promised is because stanis and well all the Baratheons have Targaryen blood in them .. so when she says kings blood, maybe she was talking about targaryen blood

[smokindnd]

You rock dude, you really are on to something much bigger... you might be putting all the pieces together even better than what GRRM seams to be aware of. Good job!

I have a certain idea I'm working on that you have somewhat touched on before, I believe the white walkers where Children of the forest before, they where the male counterpart but since they where male and probably fiscally stronger they sacrificed themselves in a ritual with dragon glass representing something like the weirwoods but much older since in essence it is a type of stone or crystal, to become a war machine to fight the humans. but instead they ended up turning into something unpredicted, much older and darker (closer to the old ones), and now they are back, but the children hope that they might be rescued and turned back to their lost males, that links Bloodraven to help them out in bringing back the white walkers and making a pact or transformation into their old selves, Jon snow might be this prince that was promised as the one to bring back the old male children of the forest. I know its pretty fucked but there is something there along those lines.

[mplnsib]

Always a pleasure to find a new video of yours on ASOIAF!!! Keep up the great work Quinn :)

[CrabCrow]

As nerds, we love to pick things apart and figure out how they work. At the same time however, I feel like knowing how the magic system works makes it lose it's....magic. I think that as we (as a species) get smarter and smarter accepting the reality that some things can't be explained or aren't logical becomes more difficult. Maybe that's why I like the Lovecraft mythos, it's incomprehensible and thus unexplainable and in a way that's terrifying.

[Lightwish]

Well done Ideas! Another well executed video. Your voice acting is awesome...you should really be considered a pro voice actor at this point. Certainly better than most voice actors in video game and just as good as those in movies. Keep that content coming!

Don’t you just wish GRRM would release more content on:

- The ruins of the old cities beneath Leng where a fallen god is said to lie.
- Stygai the Corpse City
- Sothoryos and the cursed city of Yeen.
- Asshai - more secrets from this ancient city undoubtedly lie within

Oh if only GRRM would explore the periphery of some of his outlying regions and the lore that lies within them! Let’s hope!

[elam]

Its kind of interesting how GRRM chose the Weirwoods to be red. Whenever there is talk of areas with extreme levels of magic, the "black oily stone" and rampant deformities are pretty much never far away. If you regard the stone as some un-refined form of magical plutonium, the *red* Weirwoods would be a magical version of the "Red Forest" near Chernobyl. In this case, it would suggest the first Weirwoods evolved from an impact site of a red comet, and then spread out. Then a population of the predecessor shared by all humanoid species wondered too close to the early trees, and became symbiotic, much like koalas and eucalyptus trees; turning into the Children of the Forest.

[sonicfan]

Was that artwork from 0:35 from a Magic card? It looks like Maelstrom Nexus

[cbob]

"Eventually you will learn to see beyond the trees." Sounds like a gateway. Greenseer's can glimpse into the nexus. If the trees see all, and are a gateway, then you could see what they see at all times, everywhere. Which seems to be the case. Varamir six skins was obviously a very powerful warg, but he was immediately absorbed by the trees (nexus/gateway) Love the idea that the children now live "down in the earth" like they are now living inside a simulation, or an ever changing, controllable lucid dream. Also when Bran wargs the Raven, he feels all the children of the forest inside... Mayhaps they are living vicariously through experience. Like the Weirwood network is the worlds most fun "ride". Old school VR, with a civilization hive mind of Children of the Forest, watching and experiencing everything, all the time....

[forloveofthepage]

There has never been a mention of a sapling being found. The Aryns tried to grow a tree, but was it a transplant or sapling?

My take is that the trees serve as the graveyard for the children. They infused the trees with their magic and consciousness. A soul is immortal therefore the trees became immortal otherwise they could not contain the souls. As you said they are symbiotic, and what good would that partnership be if the trees died after a few hundred years.

[FriendlyNeighborhoodDogman]

Maybe the Weirwoods are the final form of life that the children of the forest take, it would explain why they carved faces into them. It was to remember their friend.

[Tia-Marie]

Awesome! Nice change of pace, great update!

Also, I can’t help but think of Jojenpaste now >.>

[phantompage]

I know this off topic but would you ever make a video about reading and why more people should or something among those lines?

[HornedHunter]

Will you be continuing with the mists of Avalon? I love that book so much and not many are aware that it's just the first in a series of novels

[TheHarleyEvans]

what if perhaps, the trees sprouted from the remains of a mutated child of the forest? in the show they are shown to mutate humanity into the white walkers, what if they performed a similar ritual on their own kind as a sacrifice to create the trees? because as the children get fewer, so do the trees, and it seems that the trees, like the children, don't have a whole lot of reproductive success