Anthony Appleyard #1 Posted January 23, 2020 Since mammoths lived in The North, it is to be wondered why the old Kings of the North, or GRRM, did not see the potentials of riding mammoths, for travel, or in ceremonial parades, as with elephants in India in the real world. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Loose Bolt #2 Posted January 24, 2020 I suspect that any mammoth found in the North during long winters would have been eaten by hungry people. So there would not have been any of them available for parades or other use. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anthony Appleyard #3 Posted January 24, 2020 The books say that there were still a few hundred living mammoths. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hiemal #4 Posted January 24, 2020 On 1/23/2020 at 7:55 AM, Anthony Appleyard said: Since mammoths lived in The North, it is to be wondered why the old Kings of the North, or GRRM, did not see the potentials of riding mammoths, for travel, or in ceremonial parades, as with elephants in India in the real world. I imagine feeding them, particularly during the long winters, would make this impractical. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anthony Appleyard #5 Posted January 25, 2020 20 hours ago, hiemal said: I imagine feeding them, particularly during the long winters, would make this impractical. They can feed themselves on tree twigs and tundra vegetation and such like. Mammoth tusks are like they are for brushing snow aside to reach vegetation. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hiemal #6 Posted January 26, 2020 9 hours ago, Anthony Appleyard said: They can feed themselves on tree twigs and tundra vegetation and such like. Mammoth tusks are like they are for brushing snow aside to reach vegetation. If they were wild, sure. If you wanted to keep them on hand you have to lay in massive amounts of fodder. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anthony Appleyard #7 Posted January 26, 2020 4 hours ago, hiemal said: If they were wild, sure. If you wanted to keep them on hand you have to lay in massive amounts of fodder. In India, domesticated elephants were often let wander into the jungle overnight to feed and each morning were tracked and found and brought back to work. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Loose Bolt #8 Posted January 26, 2020 Were direwolves large enough to hunt mammoths? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
White Ravens #9 Posted January 26, 2020 In the timeframe of the books, mammoths had long ago retreated far north of the wall. People had come to believe that mammoths, direwolves and other creatures were legends from the past. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hiemal #10 Posted January 27, 2020 On 1/26/2020 at 2:12 AM, Anthony Appleyard said: In India, domesticated elephants were often let wander into the jungle overnight to feed and each morning were tracked and found and brought back to work. Lots more food in the jungle. Mammoths would be wandering very far afield. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rotting sea cow #11 Posted January 27, 2020 On 1/23/2020 at 1:55 PM, Anthony Appleyard said: Since mammoths lived in The North, it is to be wondered why the old Kings of the North, or GRRM, did not see the potentials of riding mammoths, for travel, or in ceremonial parades, as with elephants in India in the real world. Are they domesticable? They may be not. We don't see wildings riding mammoths. Only giants and they might have a different (and maybe magical) connection with them. If they are not domesticable, it may sense they were hunted to the extinction in the North. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBlackDragonWillReturn #12 Posted April 16, 2020 Yes they should of and I think possibly could of because I think the mammoth population was quite large in the First Century After Conquest because when King Jaehaerys and Queen Alysanne visited Castle Black they were said to of eaten Mammoth meat with the Night's Watch which is odd because that means that mammoths and other rare things must of ventured quite close to wall or the rangers of the nights watch must of ventured very far from the wall because around Jon Snow's time mammoths weren't even thought to be real and there was no way that rangers were going to go out that far. I also wonder if people in Ibben use mammoths in any way whether it be for food and resources or even for transport because somewhere it said. Quote Hairy mammoths are said to roam the cold wastes beyond the Port of Ibben on Ib, and the island's plains and hills. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheLastWolf #13 Posted September 26, 2020 On 1/23/2020 at 6:25 PM, Anthony Appleyard said: as with elephants in India in the real world. Indians worship anything and everything. No offence, but they have literally millions of gods. Oops, sry. Hindus, not Indians. But as India becomes even less secular, I associate Hinduism (80+% majority) with India. But since Westeros is based on Europe, wildlife is more likely to be hunted and eaten than revered and worshipped and tamed for work. No offense, but what real wildlife is left in England? All snobby nobles hunted even poor foxes out. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites