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Game Of Thrones Grown Up Talk. Do Not Enter Unless You Have Finished All The Books

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yeah I figure that Westeros, particularly the North, is kinda near a polar region of the ASOIAF planet, while Essos is more close to equatorial... Sure, Dorne is likely equatorial too, but I think Westeros has a tilting to it that the maps don't really do much justice to...

 

I was hoping that most of the world would get winterized and if you didn't stock up well (ant vs grasshoppers) the long winter was going to put a hurting in your kingdom. 

 

but the upside, if Dorne/Highgarden and Essos are mostly untouched...Sansa's got an unlimited supply of citrus for her lemon cakes. WOOT!

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I am definitely going to go back and read them all again.  I waited so long in between the last two books that I have forgotten so much of small details. I don't have HBO so I have only seen a few of the episodes (when you get a free weeked of HBO on Dish).  I feel kind of like a blind Arya Stark when other people talk about some of the details in the early books.

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I just read the First Law trilogy. If you like ASOFAI I think you may like it. Has some gritty realism with several flawed heroes.

It is not as good and doesn't have quite as many holy poo moments. But a real good read

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I just read the First Law trilogy. If you like ASOFAI I think you may like it. Has some gritty realism with several flawed heroes.

It is not as good and doesn't have quite as many holy poo moments. But a real good read

 

 

I've thought about reading that. What's the atmosphere like in the story? Is it more focused on magic or is magic fairly subtle like in ASOIAF?

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I've thought about reading that. What's the atmosphere like in the story? Is it more focused on magic or is magic fairly subtle like in ASOIAF?

There is definitely more magic than ASOIAF. One of the main POV characters is an old and powerful wizard. But it isn't a series focused on magic. It is a character driven series that has a bit of everything but is more military and political based rather than magic based.

All the characters are well written and interesting because they are seriously flawed. The setting is similar to Thrones. Kind of a gritty mideival time. There is magic but very few people use it and it isn't a story about the magic.

The characters drive the story. A barbarian that is only good at killing people but now wants to be a better person. A former great soldier who is now a cripple who is a torturer. A self entitled noble born jerk. A wizard who has a bad temper.

And on and on. And none of them are as they seem, even to themselves. All of them think about themselves differently than they actually are.

I don't know. It is similar in ways to ASOIAF but also completely different. But by book 3 I was completely invested in all the characters and the third book doesn't disappoint IMO. And not to spoil the ending, but not everyone gets what they deserve. It is a gritty bloody realistic (at least as far as a fantasy goes) world.

And Logen Ninefingers from these books is one of my favorite book characters of all time.

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Season 5:

They've already put out casting calls for some Dornish folk, and some other characters I see as kinda minor:

Doran Martell

Trystane Martell

Areo Hotah

Obara, Nymeria, and Tyrene Sand

 

Varamyr Sixskins

High Sparrow

Septa Unella

Maggy the Frog

Lollys Stokeworth

Yezzan

The Waif

a young Cersei (flashback!)

 

Obviously, the highest of these would seemingly be second tier characters... I suspect that the major characters they'll be casting will be:

Victarion Greyjoy

Euron Greyjoy

Arianne Martell

 

Some more minors:

 

Aeron Damphair (if they make him a major character... he might even be cut)

Griff

Aegon

The Kindly Man

Quentyn Martell

 

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some of the casting leak stuff seems to indicate that Jaime is heading to Dorne... Not sure what that could mean, unless he's accompanying Ellaria Sand and hand delivering "Gregor's skull" and Oberyn's body... hoping to smooth over obvious tensions between Sunspear and King's Landing, and doing a wellfare check on Myrcella...

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