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Guess the reference - SPOILERS FOR ALL BOOKS

  • 12-04-2013 5:25pm
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    Sleepy
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    Inspired by this post about Maggy the Frog and Jayne Westerling's mother being one and the same, I thought it'd be cool to have a thread about some of the hidden things in ASOIAF. George RR Martin seems to love leaving links to things both from other parts of the story and the real world.

    In ADWD, Doran Martell tells Arianne that Balon Swann is being delayed at the Tor with a games arranged in his honor by Lady Jordayne, the wife of Lord Trebor.
    Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time was published by Tor.

    A less obvious one is that Ser Patrek of King's Mountain in ADWD is named for a blogger who reviews fantasy and SciFi. Apparently Martin lost a football bet to this guy and included him as a knight with the Dallas Cowboys blue five-pointed star on a field of white as his sigil.

    I quiet like that the Bracken men-at-arms are called Lharys, Kurleket, and Mohar too ;)


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  • #2
    Washington Irving
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    Sleepy wrote: »
    Inspired by this post about Maggy the Frog and Jayne Westerling's mother being one and the same

    Just an FYI, Maggy is allegedly Jeyne's grandmother. Jeyne's mother's mother.


  • #3
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,269 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Oops, you're right. Gonna put that one down to a typo!


  • #4
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    One I noticed a few days ago when I was rereading the LOTR appendices is that there was a usurper to the throne of Gondor called Castamir. The seat of House Reyne, who rebelled against the Lannisters and tried to usurp the seat of Casterly Rock, was called Castamere.

    Could be a coincidence, but possibly a reference there.


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