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I got a "small question" ... can you tell me all "special" weapons like Ice (leading to Widowmaker and Oathkeeper) and Dawn with their original owner and their current whereabouts?

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Hello,

New Hear.

I am curious about any prophecies that may revolve around Jon Snow. Does anyone know what I am talking about?

I remember reading something but cannot find it in the thousands of pages of this series.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

Have you read these pages?

Map of the North

Map of the South

A thousand apologies if this question has been asked and answered a thousand times.

What is the legend for this map? All I can determine is that major harbours are marked with a dot within a circle and ruins are marked with its own special symbol. What I'm really asking for is an explanation as to why some places are marked with a square (Ashford, Duskendale, Stony Sept, Fairmarket) while some are marked with a dot (Most, notable example being Highgarden.)

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Have you read these pages?

Map of the North

Map of the South

A thousand apologies if this question has been asked and answered a thousand times.

What is the legend for this map? All I can determine is that major harbours are marked with a dot within a circle and ruins are marked with its own special symbol. What I'm really asking for is an explanation as to why some places are marked with a square (Ashford, Duskendale, Stony Sept, Fairmarket) while some are marked with a dot (Most, notable example being Highgarden.)

I think the dots are castles and the circles towns. Presumably, theres no town of any significant size around Highgarden, like there isn't about Winterfell. Duskendale, Stony Sept, Maidenpool, etc, we know are towns of some size - enought to have their own walls, for one.

(Why towns don't develops around large castles on the other hand, I have no idea, unless its a deliberate policy by lords to keep them more isolated and defensible, maybe.)

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Towns do develop around castles. There's even a term for them in the books: castletons. Harrenhal has one, Winterfell has one (though it's generally used in winter), Lannisport may be considered to be one, Duskendale grew up around the Dun Fort, the shadow city of Sunspear...

In other cases, yes, I'm guessing the lords have the deliberate policy of not permitting towns to grow up against their walls, or their location is such that it's not conducive to a town. They can complicate things when it comes to warfare, or in the case of the Eyrie (by which I include the whole complex, including the Gates of the Moon) or Highgarden there may be aesthetic reasons (not that we know that Highgarden hasn't got an associated town, but at least the depiction by Ted Nasmith suggests there isn't).

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Towns do develop around castles. There's even a term for them in the books: castletons. Harrenhal has one, Winterfell has one (though it's generally used in winter), Lannisport may be considered to be one, Duskendale grew up around the Dun Fort, the shadow city of Sunspear...

In other cases, yes, I'm guessing the lords have the deliberate policy of not permitting towns to grow up against their walls, or their location is such that it's not conducive to a town. They can complicate things when it comes to warfare, or in the case of the Eyrie (by which I include the whole complex, including the Gates of the Moon) or Highgarden there may be aesthetic reasons (not that we know that Highgarden hasn't got an associated town, but at least the depiction by Ted Nasmith suggests there isn't).

Winterfell remains a dot though, which makes sense since Wintertown is probably pretty small at the best (or worst) of times. Harrenton too I don't remember having its own walls or anything. Most castles seem to have villages next to them, but there should probably be more towns. Maybe the wonky seasons are making it difficult to build up surplus agriculture to develop larger settlements. :dunno:

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Whatever happened to Eddard's bones? The poor bloke's been travelling back towards Winterfell ever since the second book but where did he get to? And what of the men escorting the bones - Hallis Mollen, Jacks, Quent and Shadd?

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I've looked throughout the site and haven't found this question answered so I shall toss it into this thread:

Is there a World Map for ASoIaF?

I've seen some websites where people have drawn their own conjectures but I see nothing thats canon. I'm hoping to one day create a physical globe of the world with 3 wrought dragons holding it in place (Green, cream, and black) but I won't start such a project unless there is a canon world map. So far all I have that's "offical" are the

westros maps given in the 4 current books plus the geography detailed of the lands around Valiara shown in

A Storm of Swords. Geography of places like the free cities, Yi Ti, Asshai, Quarth, the summer isles, the Red Waste, the Dothraki Sea, and anything on Southros are a huge mystery to me. I also don't know if the "sunset lands" are their own piece of land, or an Ironman's descripion of Essos seen from the "other side".

My ambition is to create a globe that presents each place with art that is specific to the locals. example: House sygils in the correct locations on Westros, art of horses on the Dothraki sea, a skeleton of a dragon in the Red Waste, ect.

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I've looked throughout the site and haven't found this question answered so I shall toss it into this thread:

Is there a World Map for ASoIaF?

Theres isn't, and I believe GRRM might have said that there will never be. (Something about keeping the sense of magic or whatnot.) Theres is supposed to be a canon map of the free cities in ADWD though.

How did they do globes before they knew about...america and stuff? You could make a cool mysterious globe with "here there be dragons" and the like.

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Whatever happened to Eddard's bones? The poor bloke's been travelling back towards Winterfell ever since the second book but where did he get to? And what of the men escorting the bones - Hallis Mollen, Jacks, Quent and Shadd?

It's a good question but no one knows the answer - except Martin, of course. My guess is that at least one of them makes it back to a ruined Winterfell with the bones and whichever Stark gets there first - my vote is for a Sansa sans petite digit - will be surprised to find some of the folk of Winterfell who escaped invasion, destruction and Ramsay Bolton's captivity to have come back to rebuild.

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It's a good question but no one knows the answer - except Martin, of course. My guess is that at least one of them makes it back to a ruined Winterfell with the bones and whichever Stark gets there first - my vote is for a Sansa sans petite digit - will be surprised to find some of the folk of Winterfell who escaped invasion, destruction and Ramsay Bolton's captivity to have come back to rebuild.

That would make sense - didn't Martin say that we'd go to the ruins of Winterfell in the next book? So maybe that's what will happen. I can see Sansa going there because she misses it, as we saw with her snow castle, and maybe she escapes LF and doesn't know where else to go.

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One more, before I go hunt for that tidbit in the books:

How come Littlefinger got to be fostered at Riverrun? I get that high(er) lords (Stark, Baratheon, and such), would foster their kids outside their own domain for political bonding, but what could have moved old lord Baelish to forgo house Arryn and send Petyr to the Riverlands? What did either party stand to gain from that?

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One more, before I go hunt for that tidbit in the books:

How come Littlefinger got to be fostered at Riverrun? I get that high(er) lords (Stark, Baratheon, and such), would foster their kids outside their own domain for political bonding, but what could have moved old lord Baelish to forgo house Arryn and send Petyr to the Riverlands? What did either party stand to gain from that?

Petyr's father and lord Hoster Tully befriended during the War of the Ninepenny King. This explain what suche an important lord took a so unimportant fostered :) - But that was never revealed in the books IIRC, but GRRM answered someone who wondered like you during a signing tour.

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First time poster, with a question regarding Jamie Lannister at the starts of AGoT.

A member of the Kingsguard forswears all lands, titles, inheritances, et cetera.

Yet early on in AGoT, when Robert and Ned are discussing Robert Arryn's claim to the Warden of the East, Robert has discussed naming Jamie Lannister as the Warden. Ned says this is bad, because when Tywin dies, that would make Jamie the Warden of both East and West.

Also, after Ned is attacked by Jamie, and he's visited by Robert while recovering, Robert says something about how if Ned rejects the chain of the hand once more he'll give it to Jamie.

Additionally, when everyone's in Winterfell for the King's visit, Jamie's always wearing Lannister gold and crimson, never the white.

My question, is at the start of AGoT, before he's named as the Lord Commander by Joffey, is Jamie at that point a member of the Kingsguard or not? One would think that Robert would have kicked him out after he murdered Aerys, but I could have sworn I saw several other mentions in that book (none I can quote at the moment) about how Jamie was indeed still considered a member of the Kingsguard.

Can anyone explain to me what gives?

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Jaime was definitely a member of the KG; I think the point of all those details is that the rules tend to bend wherever the queen's family is concerned, and that the king can make things happen if he wants to (who is to tell him no?).

Given Robert's disdain for the Targaryens, he would not be one to insist that Jaime be punished for killing Aerys. He doesn't much care that it was a kingsguard member who did it:

"Seven hells, someone had to kill Aerys!" Robert said, reining his mount to a sudden halt beside an ancient barrow. "If Jaime hadn't done it, it would have been left for you or me."

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