- I like how Catelyn's family god(s) seem to be rainbow based. Is there a real-life religion that focuses on rainbows? (Note: making a joke about Pride is too far too predicable to be worthy of your comments)
- It took me waaaaaaaaaaay too long to put together Ned = Lord Eddard Stark. Look, it's confusing to me. I have a friend named Ned who is four days younger than me and who I have known practically, if not literally, since the day he was born. Somehow I don't easily associate this name with a nobleman who beheaded a deserter just one chapter ago.
- Are these First Men just what they sound like? If so, why does it sound like their blood only runs in the veins of the Starks and no one else? Is this just a dilution issue? Was there a lot of interbreeding with Wildings a long time ago? Is this a world where it's just accepted that different groups of people have different gods? Who are the children of the forest? Is the weirwood sentient?
- Ned Stark is disappointed that his three year old son is afraid of a wolf. How harsh is this world?
- "Winter is coming." A family of optimists, I see.
- "The Others are as dead as the children of the forest, gone eight thousand years."
- AHAHAHAHAHAHA wrong.
- (They are the ice people, right? Don't answer that.)
- This almost certainly means that the children of the forest are here too.
- What happened eight thousand years ago? Was this when Dust began falling?
- I see why drawing this family tree would be something of a nightmare. Honorary father = brother in law is a bit tricky to put together on a relationship diagram.
- Okay, there's only two ways this royal visit goes down. Both of these are based off of years of reading TVTropes and the fact that the book pointedly notes that Neddy Stark hasn't seen his best friend the king in years:
- King betrays Lord Neddard somehow or asks him to do something morally unsound.
- The Queen, who is clearly being set up as some kind of power-mad shrew, forces the King to betray Lord Neddard somehow or ask him to do something morally unsound.
P.S. There was a discussion a few posts back about whether or not it is okay to say things like "Oh, you'll find this post rather interesting when you look back at it." I have decided that this kind of comment is fine. I don't want you to feel like you can't say anything. I know how frustrating that is, believe me. Just think before you post, and we'll all be fine. I trust your judgment. :)
Ya, I almost said something about the chapter length in your initial post, but figured you'd realize soon enough :-P
ReplyDeleteAlso, His Dark Materials reference? o_0
Yes, His Dark Materials. I was reading that recently, so any reference to a date that specific and that long ago makes me think that there's some grand cosmic event at work.
ReplyDelete[Note: Not sure if you've read this yet, but I'm referencing here basic background information found in the back of the first book, which is current as of the beginning of the first book.]
ReplyDeleteI've always enjoyed how, in contrast to the other noble houses whose mottos are variations on "We're awesomely awesome", the Stark family motto is basically "We're all boned."
Well, there's the whole Rainbow Bridge thing in Norse mythology, but offhand, that's the only one I'm coming up with where there's explicit mention, and it isn't an organizational element of the cosmology.
ReplyDeleteThe Chaos Gods of Warhammer 40k and their colors sort of form a rainbow, too (Khorne - Orange/Red, Nurgle - Yellow/Green, Tzeentch - Blue/Indigo, Slaanesh - Violet). A rainbow of trolling and pain. A "painbow," if you will.