Anthropological insights into the origins of Ironmen faith

[sweetsunray]

3 hours ago, Terrorthatflapsinthenight9 said:

Yes, and the Ironborn may have picked up and learned how to forge iron and make weapons superior to bronze of it, because it was so abundant on their isles and far more available to them than bronze.

See my previous post in answer to craving peaches, but in a nutshell: yes they would have learned to forge iron early on because of its abundancy. But not a product that was superior to bronze, since they never were a serious threat to kingdoms or houses until well after the arrival of the Andals. They were more of a nuisance to kings and a threat to peasants.

Edited May 25, 2023 by sweetsunray

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btw we take for granted that the First Men were an early Bronze Age sort of civilization, but by some accounts of their culture they might have been of the late Stone Age and advanced after they got to Westeros.

 

@Craving Peaches notion that the Ironmen adopted the myths of the earlier inhabitants sounds plausible. That's what the First Men did with the Children. The Ironmen probably created some bastardized version of it as they were not old ones and couldn't make sense of the black stones like the old ones probably understood them. They might even have been their thralls (perhaps lending to their notion of thralldom?) and thus only understood scraps of what was going on