The article contains spoilers from ASOIAF. This isn’t happening to you for a reason. Well, one reason: I enjoy it! Ramsay Bolton (formerly Snow) was for sure a villain we all loved to hate. Much as certain characters like to remind us how much of an unpleasant person Joffrey was, the boy king didn’t hold […]
Continue reading →Jon Snow has a secret. No, not his real name. No, not his parents. No, not that his direwolf has gone missing and no one cares. And no, not that he had sex with his aunt. His secret is that he is not among the world of the living anymore. He is the undead, risen […]
Continue reading →The article contains spoilers from ASOIAF. The world hadn’t seen a dragon in centuries until my children were born. The Dothraki hadn’t crossed the sea, any sea. They did for me. I was born to rule the Seven Kingdoms, and I will. Daenerys Targaryen is one of the few Season 1 veterans who is still […]
Continue reading →The article contains spoilers from ASOIAF, including a sample chapter of The Winds of Winter. Is he a ham? Stannis Baratheon was the head of the currently extinct House Baratheon, and a claimant to the Iron Throne. He’s also one of the most interesting characters in both the A Song of Ice and Fire series […]
Continue reading →Listen up nerds, Jon Snow’s true name is Aegon Targaryen. Wipe off your glasses, tighten your suspenders, hit your inhaler, and get over it. The mystery has finally been revealed in Game of Thrones: Jon Snow is neither a Jon nor a Snow. His name is Aegon Targaryen and fans are up in arms across the […]
Continue reading →By Tyler Dean Being a fan of both Game of Thrones and the A Song of Ice and Fire novels it’s based on can be a process of constant equivocation. On the one hand, the books are as close as I have to a sacred text (and the old adage that “the book is better […]
Continue reading →The article contains spoilers from ASOIAF, including a sample chapter of The Winds of Winter. “The Other said something in a language that Will did not know; his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking.” A ranging beyond the Wall goes downhill fast after three sworn […]
Continue reading →Beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time Lyanna Stark. The L in R+L=J. The woman whose memory Robert Baratheon fought for and cherished until the end of his days. A beauty of the seven kingdoms, a maid with blue winter roses in her hair. A wild she-wolf of Winterfell who longed for her own […]
Continue reading →“I will be queen, though?” asked the younger her. “Aye.” Malice gleamed in Maggy’s yellow eyes. “Queen you shall be . . . until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.” Cersei Lannister has a secret, one she tells almost nobody about- a deep, […]
Continue reading →In the recent episode Beyond the Wall, Jon Snow, the King in the North (or South, if you listen to Tormund Giantsbane) found himself in a dire situation. Left for dead by his companions who’d retreated on dragonback from the Night King’s icy artillery, Jon faced imminent attack from the wight army that he’d been […]
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