What does Dawn actually do? Was Lightbringer really a magic sword? What's up with the Last Hero's sword of Dragonsteel? How does Valyrian steel and dragonglass play into the Lightbringer mythology and the War for the Dawn? Who will wield Dawn? Is Dawn Lightbringer? All these questions and many more, answered inside!

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I've got the how, when, and why of Arya's return in a new Winds of Winter theory, and it's tied to Hardhome, Braavos, the Iron Bank, and Jon Snow. Plus other Hardhome-related predictions, a theory about where the Lysene slavers that kidnapped wildlings came from, and several good comments from you guys that give us new clues about the Hardhome disaster itself!

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This place blew itself to kingdom come 600 years ago... the only wildling town north of the Wall. There are not one but SEVERAL tasty conspiracies and explanations suggested, and we'll cover them all, with some brand new ideas you won't have heard anywhere else!

CONTINUED in part 2: https://youtu.be/TuLkaXh7XHo

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I think Brandon "the Builder" Stark merged with a weirwood tree, but not where you think. His disturbing fate was the key to his raising of the Wall and the formation of the Night's Watch...

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The Nightfort - the oldest castle on the Wall, the place where Night's King and Queen sacrificed to the Others, the place where the first Night's Watch probably organized, the place where Brandon the Builder probably built the Wall... and the place with the only talking weirwood face in the entire story. There's much to explain!!

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Aerea's freaky parasitic worms hold the secret! That and the Alien movie franchise. Come and see exactly how blood magic was used to engineer both dragons and the Valyrians who can control them. Septon Barth recoils in horror, but you plunge on, unafraid. You're a real champ.

Is Bloodraven really the three-eyed crow? Why have he and the children of the forest been watching for Bran? Why do the children even need human greenseers if they have their own? Will the white walkers invade the cave, and how will Bran leave? How far down do the tunnels go, and the underground river? All this and more!

It's the ultimate face-stealing assassin training ground for Arya Stark, but what are the Faceless Men actually doing when they wear people's faces? Is that magic? Why do they have so much weirwood in their House of Black and White? What is their agenda, with Arya or anything else? What does this have to do with House Bolton? And why are they collecting so much dragon stuff?

Everything from how the mysteries of the House of the Undying work to the role it plays in the story (Dany's and Euron's, mainly), including theories about what the shade trees are (related to weirwoods? something else?), where they come from, what they symbolize, what about the little dwarf, and more.

Special thanks to artist Oana Novicov for the title image and all her new HOTU art featured in the video! Really outstanding work, check out her art: https://www.deviantart.com/oananovicov712

We know greenseers and skinchangers are psychic, but did you notice that the wolves have their own wolf-to-wolf telepathy, and that the Starks can use it to talk to one another, and even boost each other's magic? Plus, there may be something similar going on with the ravens...