Cersei: Highgarden has bought us the most powerful army in Essos: the Golden Company. Twenty-thousand men, horses – elephants, I believe. At the end of the seventh season of Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister confided in her brother Jaime that she planned to reinforce their position in the south with sellswords from across the Narrow […]
Continue reading →“If we don’t put aside our enmities and band together, we will die. And then it doesn’t matter whose skeleton sits on the Iron Throne.” During Jon Snow’s shaky introduction to Daenerys Targaryen in the seventh season of Game of Thrones, Ser Davos Seaworth succinctly contextualized the political realities in Westeros. Queen Daernerys had come […]
Continue reading →In a wide range of interviews, Pilou Asbæk raved about season 8 and how he “wish[es he] had been able to come in earlier”, Sean Bean predicted which one of Ned Stark’s progeny will survive the series finale and Richard Madden commented on the lasting impact of Robb Stark’s death.
Continue reading →“We do not sow” Paraphrasing Olenna Tyrell, those are words that strike fear in the heart, because violence is implicit in them. These aren’t farmers who work the fields nor traders who will come to negotiate with you. When the Ironborn arrive to some place, it is to take everything they can by force, and […]
Continue reading →When people talk about Game of Thrones, they often leave off the “s” in thrones. They think only of the Iron Throne in King’s Landing, the King of the Andals, Rhoynar, and First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm. There is more than one throne in their world and more […]
Continue reading →The highly anticipated release of Season 7 of Game of Thrones on Blu-Ray and DVD is today, but if you can’t make a shopping trip until the workday is done, you can make the interminable hours pass at least a little more quickly by perusing some more clips of some of the special features your box […]
Continue reading →The world of Game of Thrones is rich with detail, from the high-flying dragons to the elaborate costuming to the hundreds of blades that form the Iron Throne. Paper company Lovepop has recreated some of that detail with stunning handiwork, releasing a collection of their signature pop-up cards that depict Thrones characters and scenery.
Continue reading →We all expected Theon Greyjoy to be dead by now, didn’t we? After Theon’s Darth Vader moment at the end of season 5 of Game of Thrones, in which he pushed Myranda to her death and rescued Sansa, it seemed a foregone conclusion to many that Theon’s death was imminent. His redemptive arc was complete, […]
Continue reading →With plenty of time to kill between now and Season 8 of Game Of Thrones (sob), people are coming up with lots of ways to keep the fandom occupied — up to and including blacksmithing. The YouTube series “Man at Arms: Reforged,” hosted by Baltimore Knife and Sword, recently filled 20 minutes of the interminable wait by […]
Continue reading →Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you. Identity means everything in societies that encompass our world, and the societies within the traumatic realm of Game Of Thrones are no different. Identities are what societies use to define […]
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