George RR must have a marketing deal with the bread bowl folks at Panera because every goddamn stew is served in a "trencher, hollowed out from yesterday's loaf of bread."
7,000 years of civilization and they can't invent a bowl?
The more i read up on theories on westeros.org, the harder my mancrush on George RR. Martin gets. I've started rereading GOT, and I can't fathom how it's possible that he had planned out every story arc right down to all the details and subtle clues from the very beginning.
Great post amplify,I read most of them on westeros but nice to see them all together in a list like that. Might have saved me a few hours there if i'd seen that beforehand. One question.
Spoiler:
"The appendix confirms that Lanna is the Sailor's Wife's daughter. Apparently whores go to Braavos and Tyrion has a trueborn daughter."
Who's Lanna. Wasn't Tysha Tyrion's wife? Where did you get that whores go to Braavos and Tyrion has a daughter.
Who is the new member of the Kingsguard, the giant guy who doesn't show his face? I think Kevan said in the epilogue he has an idea who it is but he didn't say who.
Who is the new member of the Kingsguard, the giant guy who doesn't show his face? I think Kevan said in the epilogue he has an idea who it is but he didn't say who.
Who is the new member of the Kingsguard, the giant guy who doesn't show his face? I think Kevan said in the epilogue he has an idea who it is but he didn't say who.
Spoiler:
Gregor brought back to live by Qyburn or whatever his name is. That's what he was doing his experiments for. Not too clear on where they got the skull to give those guys who killed him though
Great post amplify,I read most of them on westeros but nice to see them all together in a list like that. Might have saved me a few hours there if i'd seen that beforehand. One question.
Spoiler:
"The appendix confirms that Lanna is the Sailor's Wife's daughter. Apparently whores go to Braavos and Tyrion has a trueborn daughter."
Who's Lanna. Wasn't Tysha Tyrion's wife? Where did you get that whores go to Braavos and Tyrion has a daughter.
Spoiler:
I didn't write those, I just copied them from Westeros, and I didn't know the answer to this one myself but I did the research this morning and here we go
The theory says that Tysha is the Sailor's wife. Clues from Cat of the Canals POV in AFFC:
The Sailor's Wife only beds those who marry her.
"The other whores said that the Sailor's Wife visited the Isle of the Gods on the days when her flower was in bloom, and knew all the gods who lived there, even the ones that Braavos had forgotten. They said she went to pray for her first husband, her true husband, who had been lost at sea when she was a girl no older than Lanna."
Lanna is what a whore might name a Lannister bastard, just like that girl named Robert's bastard Barra. There are a few other Lannas running around Westeros who have Lannister connections.
Lanna is not mentioned in the book as being The daughter of The Sailor's Wife, just a young whore, but the AFFC appendix lists her as such.
As far as I can tell, the only reason this was mentioned in what I copied is that Tyrion's constant refrain in ADWD is "where do whores go?" and the ADWD appendix lists Lanna again, confirming what was already known.
George RR must have a marketing deal with the bread bowl folks at Panera because every goddamn stew is served in a "trencher, hollowed out from yesterday's loaf of bread."
7,000 years of civilization and they can't invent a bowl?
Trenchers were ubiquitous until the inventions of the sandwich and the wooden trencher, a kind of wide flat bowl which eventually evolved into the dinner plate.
Your question assumes that a bowl is superior to a trencher, much like asking why eons of civilization in China failed to produce the fork. Given sanitary conditions in the middle ages, throwing your bowl to the dogs and/or the poor, and cutting all your meat with your own dagger was probably the safest course.
Niello - a black mixture of copper, silver, and lead sulphides, used as an inlay on engraved or etched metal
Motte - A stand of trees, a grove
Leal - Scottish Archaic - loyal and honest
Limned - 1. Described in painting or words. 2. Suffused or highlighted with a bright color or light. (Jon's future is limned in Melisandre's fires, in tongues of red and orange)
Senechal - A steward
I agree with many of the criticisms regarding the plotting, especially wrt Dany, but GRRM's actual writing just keeps getting better and better.
Hugor Hill may be a nod to Frodo's alias Mr. Underhill
Qyburn and Ser Gregor are clearly Frankenstein & monster
After Ser Barristan knights all those guys he gets rid of the thrones and pulls out a "big, round table"
Gregor brought back to live by Qyburn or whatever his name is. That's what he was doing his experiments for. Not too clear on where they got the skull to give those guys who killed him though
Spoiler:
One of the dwarf heads delivered to Cersei (in an attempt to collect Tyrion's bounty) was mentioned as being abnormally large.
As for The Sailor's Wife, I'm still not 100% sold that it's Tysha. Supposedly her first husband was "lost at sea," which more accurately describes what happened to Tyrion's uncle, Gerion.
I've been thinking for a while that Jaime and Cersei might be Arys' children, and aDwD has made me almost certain.
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