EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT VARAMYR SIXSKINS | Game of Thrones

"Varamyr didn't dream of being an astronaut or a baseball player as a boy" haha.. Great interjection of humor in to a heavy subject. Well done Kevin.

yea im back again…. watching the full percentage cause this video is that damn good

You're a good guy for not running Ad's every 10 minutes!

I'm beginning to think it is salt in the wall that blocks the ability. I am also wondering if salt could be the missing ingredient that is needed to use to fight the white walkers. What do you think?

This is my favourite video

Warging applies to wolves, direwolves, dogs, shadowcats, ravens, Snow bears, hawks, eagles, elks/moose, boars, goats…and Hodar?

So varamyr's impression is that he can worg into one wolf (controlling it)and can see through the other wolves' eyes as well. And upon the dying of a worg's human form, the consciousness gets tapped into all of nature but only as a passive observer. If it chooses to remain in one creatures skin, One Eye(his wolf) for example, then he can still use the other wolves' vision but only controls the body of One Eye. And the longer he remains in the wolf, after his human body's death, the less his consciousness remains and eventually gets wiped out like a candle flame at the end of the wax. So would the same thing happen if a worg attempted to skin change into a corpse? Take Jon Snow for example. Can worgs jump out of its own dying body and jump back in, effectively giving itself immortality? Dundarian is an example of what I'm talking about. What's the difference between the great Other/night's king and a worg? Corpses and living animals/people? Is that much of a difference?

I read the books as a high schooler, and Varamyr's significance completely escaped me–until your video! I had been impatient with his story, treating it like a red herring. Now I see how his entire life serves as the small glimpse we get of the Great Other. (And perspective for skin-changing, of course).

I think Varamyr's death was very very special. He was a uniquely powerful skinchanger that was dying by bleeding out on a weirwood tree. I think this combination allowed him to experience all that life (squirrils, stag, tree, worms, etc.) while dying, I don't think most wargs would, let alone normal people dying in the regular dirt.

I tend to lean more to the "she" at the end referring to just that particular undead woman and not the Knight's King looking through her eyes, but there's definitely some sort of hive-mind going on with the wights/White Walkers, so you may be right. I'm more interested, though, in who the "me" is. Does she just see a wolf as a living thing, or can she see the skin-changer inside? And if she can see Varamyr, is it just because all the undead have some special sight for such things, or because she can recognize him from some sort of recollection of his presence as she died?? These are the itty-bitty details that GRRM just comes up with as he breathes that I can ponder for days. =P

Doubters don't need to disprove something that has no proof. The book doesn't suggest anything other than Melesandre using fire magic to kill the bird. Anything beyond that is fanfic speculation.

The Wall was built to keep out White Walkers not wildlings/skinchangers so it wouldn't make sense for it to have a way to stop an animal with a skinchanger inside it. Also, both the Children and the First Men had the ability and this would greatly limit their options if they wanted to use it while defending the Wall against the White Walkers. But this is just my opinion I've seen no evidence one way or the other.

the boar is at castle black. jon thinks that is why ghost is acting up right before for the watch. plus jon is a warg

just realized ive watched this about 12 times but have yet to comment, i love this video, bridge you did amazing work here and everything flows perfectly. by far the saddest chapter ive ever read and you convey the heartbreaking realization of death coming for this man, the beauty of the flora and fauna integration, it was all written so perfectly and your breakdown and narration really add the weight this chapter deserves instead of just being that chapter we race through to get into the official start of the book

Ok Kev so I know nothing … lol but if what I caught is true that "warging" into a human is an abomination then will Brans choice, even in his innocence and ignorance of youth and terror yet lead to a brutal "payback" IN THE END with Hodor? Will that be part of the bittersweet we hear of? Again I have no foundation for this question other than sheer curiosity. I am only half way through the books and have only watched the entire series 21 times ( lol no seriously) but still I don't have the breadth of information and understanding you do. Let me know what you think if you have time please.

The drama of the content can be almost overpowering so the choice of music is FANTASTIC allowing the story and your fantastic voice be the focus. As a viewer/listener it is so pleasing. This also ensures that I will listen repeatedly. 🙂 Thank you.

Discovered your channel just recently and sooooo glad I found it! Great video, lots of insight. You hit the nail on the head with "you know nothing John Snow"…

Loving your videos brother

he wargs into a tree

Loved it! Keep the good work up!

This series is really great. Love having details from the books highlighted.

fire arrow killed the bird; burned it from inside?

When "Stannis busts into town"

I gotchu fam, we cool.

Does that mean the nightking is a warg that can control the dead?

Is the great other a mega-warg?

If the Children of the forest had the ability to greenseer and move across timeline they should have know what kind of shit storm they are creating by creating the white walkers ?

Why didn't they find out that it will back fire..

What book did you get this stuff on varamyr from? I just posted about varamyr the other day on reddit. Here it is in a nutshell. What do you think?

How did Stannis sneak up on the wildings when they were fighting castle black. When Jon was gonna kill mance. They had the guy that could warg with the eagle. The eagle should of seen an ARMY sneaking up on them. No? Mance told jon that the eagle saw everything they had on the wall. It couldnt see an army?
In a late jon chapter. In ASoS. Jon is missioned to kill ll mance rayder. Varamyr said
" once a beast been joined to a man any skinchanger can slip inside and ride him. Orell was withering inside his feathers, so i took the eagle for mine own. But the joining works both ways,warg. Orell lives inside me now, whispering how much he hates you. AND I CAN SOAR ABOVE THE WALL,and see with eagle eyes" Interesting he calls Jon warg.

Then Mance say how much they know
"We knew how few you were,when you stopped the turtle…we know HOW MANY COME FROM EASTWATCH.."

Eastwatch. In the later Sam chapter he meets some brothers on the road to castle black. They tell him
" ' Stannis landed his knights at eastwatch and Cotter Pyle led him along the rangers roads to take the wildings unawares….'".

So. If the eagle saw who came from eastwatch during the battle. How come it didnt see the army.

She sees me refers to Thissle.

Good video Dramatic as all get out, but veramyr sixskins not evil? What are you 5? Of course he is evil. He killed his baby brother, he was responsible for the deaths of the family dogs. He stole the second life of his teacher and became a cannibal, i will not talk of his bestiality, but the rapes he committed?Those alone are enough. Just because he does not see himself as evil , does not make it not so. Who does see himself as evil anyway ? Everyone has a reason and a justification for what happened.
And to these i say bullshit. The difference is there from the beginning. He knew what he was doing was evil. He knew he was hurting other humans, humans that did not hurt him,but he did it anyway, and kept on doing it. That makes him Evil.No buts ifs and other bull. He had a choice and he chose to destroy, That is evil.
And its not that he became part of everything when he was dying, he felt the net. The network of the trees.He dies near a weirwod tree what did you expect? The tree tried to capture him. He could have gone in the tree with the rest, but he chose to be a wolf.
As for who sees him? Who the hell knows?
Is it that the other is female or that the corpse was able to see without eyes?
Not that it makes a difference, except to illustrate a point.
What varamyr attempted to do with a live human ,the white walkers do with the dead. They freeze the bodies to arrest decay, and take them over.
Is the "spirit inside the body, when it happens? Does it get trapped there, like a Zombie, or is it only empty dead flesh they can inhabit?
Whatever the case, their ability is similar to warging , it is just a matter of degree.
Which is interesting in and of itself, as to who exactly the other are.We have a massive clue here to the skill of the others and perhaps to their true identity.

GREAT VIDEO!!!!

i think i got a bit muddled up in my replies i had replied to comments on 2 of your vids and i got a bit lost sorry so ill flesh it out here tell me what you think-in the prologue of ADWD when Varamyr(V6S) dies and seems to go into the weirwood there is a line at the end of the chapter"i am the wood and everything thats in it"he thought exulting a hundred ravens took to the air,cawing as they felt him pass.A GREAT ELK TRUMPETED,unsettling THE CHILDREN CLING TO ITS BACK. A sleeping direwolf raised his head to snarl at empty air" i think the great elk with children on its back is coldhands bran jojen meera and hodor and the sleeping direwolf was summer-my question was-how close do you think varamyr was to them ? i was thinking if he was close he to that group? imagine if (LOL) he was close and instead of trying to skinchange thistle he had a go at hodor