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Night's King is mentioned in TWOIAF as "the Night's King." Is this a proper alternative form or is it an error? In the main books it is consistently without a definite article.

Claffey looks uncannily like the illustrations in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. It's the chin, I think. Just give him long hair and it's as if the illustrations were based on him.

Because the greens have a green field on their banners, and the blacks have the default Targaryen black field.

I see your "Illyrio is Aerion's grandson" and raise you: Illyrio is the Tattered Prince's son, and the Tattered Prince is Prince Maegor, son of Aerion.

That would have fit nicely in the appendices, though I wouldn't have minded a section in the main body either. I don't think anyone regrets Tolkien's decision to open LOTR with an essay on tobacco in hobbit culture. It's the little things that make a fantasy world immersive.

Do we consider the new characters and heraldry in the Dunk and Egg graphic novels to be canon in any way? They're currently presented as such on the wiki.

Pretty sure Blood of Dragons is not semi-canon. Semi-canon is info about ASOIAF that is given by GRRM outside the books.

If there are no objections I will merge "House Baelish of Harrenhal" into "House Baelish" tomorrow (see page 165 for original discussion)

Or a hallucination. He was deathly starved, dehydrated, and recovering from a battle in which his sons died and he almost drowned.

Knighthood as we know it evolved over the course of the 8th to 12th centuries, yes However the medieval age of Westeros seems to encompass almost its entire history... when do we consider it to begin? The Andal invasion? It's rather blurry because the history of the First Men houses is presented as if they always had medieval feudal society.

I am reminded of the theory that the Daynes are descendants of the GEOTD (explaining their recurring trait of purple eyes and silver hair). If so it is plausible that they worshiped R'hllor ten thousand years ago.

That doesn't mean the usual protocol wasn't done.

I know. That's what I said. "He's allowed to," but he didn't do it properly. He didn't make them swear the vows (to the Seven) that knights usually swear. In the R'hllor religion knighthood is probably not recognized, and in Westeros knighthood is an institution of the Seven religion. That puts the brotherhood's knights in a sort of limbo.

That begs the question of whether Beric's knighting of the brotherhood men is even legal. He is allowed to of course, but he didn't do it "properly" so maybe they wouldn't be seen as legitimate knights.

That's how you get knighted. Sword to one shoulder, "in the name of the Warrior I charge you to be brave," sword to other shoulder "in the name of the Mother I charge to defend the weak and innocent," et cetera.