I've noticed some people on this board complain that some of the characters owe their survival to "plot armor", and that it takes away from the story when some survive unlikely circumstances.  What I love about GRRM's masterpiece is how the story is more realistic than most of the fantasy I've read, and how any character can die at any time. No one is safe. However I disagree that some of the characters owe there survival to plot armor. Hundreds of thousand Jews survived the Holocaust, and