“A Sea of Drowning Souls” — Original Short Story — Game of Thrones Series

It's a daring theory, but you kind of reversed the modern knowledge vs. mythology technique, I'd say. Game of Thrones starts off on a rather realistic situation, the viewers and characters are slowly introduced into the more mindwrecking and ancient things. In your story, it's the other way around, creating revelation instead of mystification. I'm impressed, and I really enjoyed the story!

I just found this channel today. It is so unique, wonderful, and entertaining! Amazing work!

Convince me to subscribe over this one, love the deep cut post apocalyptic stuff

Awesome story. No matter whether it has something to do with Got or not -and it has-, by itself, this is incredible, those guys would make quite a lot of money if they decided to publish an average book.

Wow…What an amazing story…Just very well done.

that was awsome

I think this is my favorite story thus far.

That was amazing.

Fantastic writing!! Now I want to read all your novels….hoping they exist!

Very "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

I liked this; a culture grown around a reservoir and a clever solution.
Stumbling across your channel has been wonderfully eye opening; I'll certainly be back!
Incidentally, have you heard of a human named Steven Erikson? He's written a series called "Malazan Book of the Fallen," and he takes a similar approach to writing that GRRM does. However, Mr. Erikson was an anthropologist for many years before he became a writer, and while GRRM's characters are very real if slightly fantastical, Mr. Erikson's entire WORLD is such. I highly recommend him if you haven't read him already!
Though I would advise you keep a can of oil handy; his books aren't exactly short, and you may risk rusting once you start reading.

This is very interesting when paired with Althusser's theory of ideology. For Althusser ideology was not merely a set of beliefs but a combination of rituals, institutions and practices that organized created a worldview. For example, Catholic ideology is not merely believing in the catechism and papal infallibility, it's a practical thing involving attending church, lighting candles and honoring the clergy. Ideologies are created to advance the interests and reflect the values of the people who create them, usually on a population that would otherwise resist the demanded behaviors.

I found this channel last night while looking for videos on mythology and I was immediately impressed with the production quality for an unknown channel. Keep up the great work!

This is great. I would like to see more of this story.

I thought the crowd would refuse to believe them and storm onto the stage, ripping their hearts out and blaming them for making the warm sea flood.

Another good story, and well read. 🙂

This story is so good. Like, you-should-be getting-paid-for-this good.

I definitely loved how this story weaves in a mythology that has been used to not only lure people in to do a job that nobody would want to do otherwise, making it seem noble when it's not, but that you have a mute character telling the tale through another person. We tell stories all the time, all day long. Stories are also very human. I feel like the tongueless characters were given back their humanity through sign language, since they were also slaves, and so were able to reclaim their humanity by getting out of slavery. ^_^

'Decent job'!?

I've listen to this a third time! It's a great short story!

I just had to listen to this twice. The length put me off at first but once I hit play it really captured my attention.

This was a great story!

Is that John Donne scrolling in the background?

Great story I really enjoyed it Thanks !

I had a certain amount of trepidation going into this story, but I was totally blown away by the sheer quality and evocativeness of it. By the end, I was totally invested and enraptured. Great stuff.

Really loved this story, got sent here by because geek and im here to stay, keep the vids coming 😀

Really hope you consider doing more stories similar to this one it was really good loved every second of it!

Looking forward to more short stories~ 😀

As a young man who's dream it is to write stories for a living, I am utterly amazed by this. Added you to my featured channels list, not because I want promotion from you in return, but because I believe in true storytelling by talent like you. Fantastic.

God damn, this shits amazing. didnt expected it.

Why did i not get a notification for this? 🙁

seriously, can I write with you folks? I would really like that. I'm experiencing a rather precarious leg of my journey through life at the moment. Without going into much detail I'll say that it would mean a great deal to me if I were given the opportunity to contribute to something like this. I want to leave a mark upon the world, something tangible. Writing and storytelling with the likes of you, those of such raw talent and skill, writers of such a high caliber; this is something I would appreciate dearly. Thanks for the great story.

Hey tale foundry, this story was awesome! I love the perspective on feudal society, parallels life as a serf, wage slave, all that. Can I write with y'all?

Can we expect a TV adaptation of this? 😉 I want to know more about that world and the people in it. Great work!

Thanks for the shout! Good stuff!

#teamtalefoundry talebot is my homeboy!

Incredible! Make it a series and get a movie made 🙂 I do really like this kind of concept though, great work, definitely has a nice ice and fire feel to it.

Why does this channel not have 287.549 subs by now?