Patchface: the strangest Game of Thrones character?

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Published 2018-04-08
Patchface is one of the weirdest characters in the Game of Thrones books – a creepy jester who lives with Shireen on Dragonstone. What do Patchface’s songs mean? Is Patchface a prophet of the Drowned God? How is Patchface connected to white walkers, Deep Ones, and greyscale?

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0:00 Patchface
1:57 Under The Sea
4:00 Drowned
5:37 Sacrifice
7:40 Dead Things
9:11 Deep Ones
10:41 Greyscale
12:48 It's All Fucked

All Comments (21)
  • I really love how Melisandre is scared of Patchface and Stannis is like, "eh, he can hang out alone with my daughter. No big deal."
  • @appleWhisky43
    Fire god : skilled righteous warrior The Great Other : scary ice zombies Drowned God : fat clown boiii
  • Season 8 would have made more sense if patch face assassinated the Night King and started riding dragons.
  • @fatearcher
    Goddamn the Books are so much more intense than the show. I love it.
  • @TheFiresloth
    A guy Melisandre is afraid of is a guy you better not take lightly.
  • @gallowglass719
    Patchface's artwork is really disturbing. The empty eyes, the dried-up spit on the side of his mouth... Just makes him seem that much more inhuman.
  • You had me at "Stannis' jester". That would have been hilarious to see the guy whose job it is to make Stannis laugh.
  • @misha130
    "Come with me beneath the sea, away away away." He took the little princess by one hand and drew her from the room skipping - Sounds a lot like - "Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand "
  • @Obi-Wan_Kenobi
    I don't know man. It sounds to me like Patchface just saw the Little Mermaid and took it a bit too seriously.
  • It's a awful pity patchface was not in the series he would added a creepy element to it
  • @RainMinded
    I enjoy the interpretation that Patchface saw thousands of the dead wights on the ocean floor just sitting there waiting and lost his mind. It’s unlikely at this point, but still a chilling image of the dead emerging to invade from all sides of Westeros rather than just marching straight down south from the North.
  • @KempQ
    I can only imagine that our boy George R.R. Martin gets a huge kick out of watching your videos like this
  • @patrickjones58
    Shireen sings one of patchfaces songs during the credits of a season 3 episode.
  • @Neotenico
    As someone who used to enjoy writing, I can't imagine having the foresight to create such a well constructed and interconnected world the likes of which Martin has made.
  • @juckoosaurus
    in a world where there tonnes of characters that are slavers and rapists Patch face is the one character that freaks me the f**K out
  • @theconstitarian
    I've always wondered if Patchface is partially intended to serve as a preview of how Euron's plan is going to backfire. He gained some powers through a mass sacrifice at sea, not dissimilar to what Euron is planning in the preview chapter. But Euron seems to think he will just gain these powers and become a god able to act on his existing ambitions. But maybe like Patchface (and similarly Beric and Lady Stoneheart), he is going to lose himself in the ritual and just become either a thrall of some higher power or a barely thinking force.
  • @noname-mr7wq
    "Underwater the fish eats us" "The afterlife is a feast under the sea" The afterlife dosen't sounds fun