George R.R. Martin is known for creating his characters and organizations within A Song of Ice and Fire from a historical basis. While it is known that Martin never uses […]

The concept of going on an adventure, then writing about it is not a new one. People start by travelling for the sake of exploration, expanding our known world to encompass more. Once this is done the next step is for people who have the need for adventures to go on them, and experience what these newly explored lands have to offer, and sometimes more.

Of the seventeen Targaryen kings to have sat the Iron Throne in George R.R. Martin’s World of Ice and Fire, Baelor the Blessed was by far the most pious1, almost […]

The most obvious parallel between George R. R. Martin’s Margaery Tyrell  is the character of Anne Boleyn. This association is perhaps most obvious because of Natalie Dormer’s onscreen depiction of […]

Aside from the production design and the storyline, what truly captures the medievalism in HBO’s Game of Thrones, are the costume designs worn in every episode. Most audience viewers do […]

The big question surrounding HBO’s Game of Thrones, bigger than Jon Snow’s parentage even, has always been – Can George R R Martin keep up?   Since the rumours were […]

The oldest histories we have were written after the Andals came to Westeros. The First Men only left us runes on rocks, so everything we think we know about the […]

I suggest playing the Rains of Castamere while reading this post What possible sources of inspiration within medieval history did George R Martin base the infamous red wedding on? How […]

Introduction As George R. R. Martin wrote in the first novel of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire, “when you play the game of thrones, you win […]