Where Did Qyburn Learn His Forbidden Medical Experiments?

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Paisley
Paisley
2026-02-01 05:59:26
I tend to view Qyburn with a mixture of grim curiosity and discomfort. There’s an unmistakable hint in the texts that the Citadel gave him the Foundation — languages of healing, the structure of bones, the history of ailments — but he refused to accept their ethical limits. After being punished and losing his chain, he essentially became an illicit experimenter: reading banned folios, stealing anatomical diagrams, and using people as raw data. That transition from legitimate scholar to outlaw practitioner is what makes him chilling.

the darker possibility, which fans often speculate about, is that he also pulled knowledge from more arcane sources — old Valyrian or wandering healers whose notes bordered on necromancy. Whether he learned from black-market surgeons, battlefield experience, or late-night readings in forbidden wings, the outcome is the same: his expertise is built on human suffering. In that light, his work on the Mountain in 'Game of Thrones' reads less like medical triumph and more like cold pragmatism, and I can't help but shiver at how transgressive scientific curiosity can be.
Reese
Reese
2026-02-03 13:10:50
My take on Qyburn's training leans hard on the Citadel, but not in the polite, chain-clinking way the order likes to be remembered.

He was once attached to the Citadel and earned some of its learning, but he paid a steep prIce for chasing the kinds of experiments that made other maesters blanch — experiments on the living, surgical mutilations, and what the records politely call 'unethical practices.' The books in 'A Song of Ice and Fire' make it clear he was stripped of his chain for those transgressions. From there he became a kind of self-taught, scavenging scholar: taking forbidden passages, obscure recipes, and anatomy lessons from the Citadel's dusty shelves, then combining them with grisly trial and error on prisoners and bodies when he was free to do as he pleased.

In the TV version of 'game of thrones' that practical, ruthless methodology is dramatized — he uses a combination of surgical tinkering, chemical concoctions, and secrecy to restore the Mountain. To me, Qyburn feels like a toxic blend of formal learning and brutal improvisation: equal parts scholar and butcher, and that's what makes him so fascinating and creepy to watch.
Presley
Presley
2026-02-03 13:17:14
I like to think of Qyburn as someone who started inside the system and then deliberately stepped outside it. He did pick up formal knowledge at the Citadel — enough to read ancient medical texts, understand anatomy, and apprentice in the ways of healing and devices — but he overstepped the ethical boundaries the Citadel enforces. The official story in 'A Song of Ice and Fire' is that he was stripped of his chain for experimenting on humans, which suggests most of his later 'skills' were honed through illicit practice rather than sanctioned study.

Beyond books, he probably leaned on scraps: forbidden treatises hidden in the stacks, illicit surgeons in back alleys, maybe even some Essosi or Valyrian techniques glimpsed in trade. In the show 'Game of Thrones' his methods look part science, part alchemy — surgical modification combined with mysterious potions. It's a grim reminder that knowledge without ethics becomes dangerous, and Qyburn embodies that slippery slope.
Uma
Uma
2026-02-05 00:29:42
I mostly picture Qyburn as the kind of person who used the Citadel as a reference library and then broke all the rules. Officially he was stripped of his maester chain for conducting unethical experiments, so whatever formal training he had got him started, but his real learning came from doing things the maesters forbid — dissection, vivisection, tinkering with corpses, and probably bartering for illicit knowledge.

In the show 'Game of Thrones' those practical skills look like a weird hybrid of surgery, alchemy, and mechanical trickery. It's a creepy mix of textbook knowledge and hands-on brutality, and it makes me uneasy but oddly fascinated every time I watch his scenes.
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