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  1. Wiki entry on Unsullied equipped with short spears, swords, round shields- I can't find any passage in the series with this description. It sites SoS Dany I, but there is no descriptor of the shields in there. And the only descriptor of the Unsullied spear in that chapter is The only other descriptor I've found is Selmy talking about them training in "heavy spear". I'd imagine the "Unsullied learn the way of the three spears." means that use multiple different style spears. Which fits with the Selmy WoW transcript talking about the formation of the Ghiscari lockstep legion, which is what the Unsullied emulate. "Tall spears" out front, long enough to reach over the front ranks. And short spears/javelin in the back ranks. at the least. Anyway I digress. Perhaps the best way to describe them in edit is as Selmy does, eliminate the round shield and short spear. Which is also described in ASOS Dany II
  2. A few entries that may need to be revised. Wight entry; "Dragonglass cannot stop a wight" [4- SoS, Sam III] "He stabbed and screamed, again and again, tearing huge rents in Paul's heavy black cloak. Shards of dragonglass flew everywhere as the blade shattered on the iron mail beneath the wool." -SoS, Sam III "Sam cleared his throat. "S-sire. The dagger . . . the dragonglass only shattered when I tried to stab a wight." -SoS, Sam V It's still unknown. __________ Lord Commander of the Night's Watch entry; "It is claimed that there have been 998 Lord Commanders of the Night's Watch, although the most complete list in the vaults comprises only 667." I think the wording is off here, it's not that the most complete list shows 667, it's the oldest list Sam found was written when there was 667. I'm assuming Sam was averaging the time of service for previous Lord Commanders to say when the list was written but Jon cut him off. (e.g.- average 8 years per Lord Commander, it was written almost 3000 years ago.)So maybe, "it is said that Jon is the 998th lord commander but the oldest list Sam found only goes back to the 667th, beyond that is unknown" "The Others." Sam licked his lips. "They are mentioned in the annals, though not as often as I would have thought. The annals I've found and looked at, that is. There's more I haven't found, I know. Some of the older books are falling to pieces. The pages crumble when I try and turn them. And the really old books . . . either they have crumbled all away or they are buried somewhere that I haven't looked yet or . . . well, it could be that there are no such books, and never 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 Age of Heroes and the Dawn Age and the Long Night comes from accounts set down by septons thousands of years later. There are archmaesters at the Citadel who question all of it. Those old histories are full of kings who reigned for hundreds of years, and knights riding around a thousand years before there were knights. You know the tales, Brandon the Builder, Symeon Star-Eyes, Night's King . . . we say that you're the nine hundred and ninety-eighth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, but the oldest list I've found shows six hundred seventy-four commanders, which suggests that it was written during . . ." FfC, Sam I/DwD Jon II. ___________Glass candle entry; "Leo Tyrell reports that the green glass candle is burning in Marwyn's study." [prologue] I can't find any mention of the candle in Marwyn's study being green, and later in Sam's chapter it is one of the black ones.___________Jaqen entry; "He is one of three prisoners found in the infamous "black cells", the dungeons reserved for only the worst criminals. The other black cells criminals, Rorge and Biter, are afraid of him.[5]" [ACoK, Arya VIII] This isn't an error but the wording leads people to believe that Rorge and Biter were scared of Jaqen from the beggining but afaik it's only mentioned later at Harrenhal(the reference is correct). Not saying they couldn't be scared of him from when they were in the cells or the wagon but it's location in the entry makes it seem that way.
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