Mrs.Grumpy Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 What are they ? :dunno:Here's some quotes about them,''...mud-and-blood towns of the Basilisks Isles, teeming with escaped slaves, slavers, skinners, whores, hunters, brindled men, and worse..''''Pale Qartheen, black Summer Islanders, copper-skinned Dothraki, Tyroshi with blue beards, Lamb Men, Jogos Nhai, sullen Braavosi, brindle-skinned half-men from the jungles of Sothoryos'' Any thoughts ? :idea: :dunce: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 I assume people with sort of striated skin color. We've already got the ghiscari with the multicolored hair, why not an ethnicity with naturally patterened skin? I think it's just a fantasy touch rather than having any significance. (or maybe Valyria fallout?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brindle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Umber Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 perhaps some kind of tribal tattooing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Duncan of Flea Bottom Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 It's probably tribal tatoosand the most curious is there are people from Sothoryosand we have a quote from Groleo who talk about constructing a ship, and he said something about a kind of wood from Sothoryos (I don't remember the name of the wood he talked about), it means people go there to retrieve it or people from there sell it to people from other parts of the world.If there are people from Sothoryos it means the continent is not empty, there are two ruined cities in the North, but it doesn't mean every side of the continent is devastated or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mountain That Posts Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Personally, i'd like to learn way more about the south continent as well as Ibben. Enough of the boring Slaver's Bay shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Grumpy Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 I assume people with sort of striated skin color. We've already got the ghiscari with the multicolored hair, why not an ethnicity with naturally patterened skin? I think it's just a fantasy touch rather than having any significance. (or maybe Valyria fallout?)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrindleIt could be. I like it.I suppose there's some tribes in the northern part of Sothoryos and I hope that GRRM will introduce some of them...I'm more interest in new locations and cultures :leer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AelinorTarg Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I think there are tattoos,but not ritualistic/tribal. We know Sothoryos is well forested,the brindled men are most certainly pigmees,and they use tattoo as a form of camouflage in the dense woods. Being this small,they would be an easy prey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Wolf Smith Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I would really love to know, but since we are not going to Sothoryos, I don't think we will ever get much about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonb94 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I would really love to know, but since we are not going to Sothoryos, I don't think we will ever get much about them.how do you know 'we are not going to sothoryos'?. i would like it if people from the sothoryos, ibben, etc take a larger role on the series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGtargaryen Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I always picture Sothoryos as being very similar to the Amazon rainforest. Thousands of square miles of forest very sparsely populated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Red Pope Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 how do you know 'we are not going to sothoryos'?. i would like it if people from the sothoryos, ibben, etc take a larger role on the seriesSothoryos, Ibben, Yi Ti, Asshai, the Jade Sea, the Summer Islands, the Basilisk Iles, the Shadow Lands and many more. There are simply too many exotic places for stuffing in any detailed information about them all.They are really just the background scenery of the story along with the non important (lowborn) Westerosi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Grumpy Posted May 19, 2013 Author Share Posted May 19, 2013 By the way, are they suffering from dwarfism ?Brindled half-men. Tyrion is called as half-man, so...I'm so curious right now :dunce: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecryptile Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 I figured it referred to ape-men with brindled fur when I read the passage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnivil Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 In the African rainforests there are pygmy men, this is most likely a similar thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoMustNotBeUsernamed Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 My guess is that it's just Martin's way of making the world different. We've already seen other phenotypes that don't exist/ are really rare in the real world- like the Targaryens, and Sweets. But (thinking out loud here) could "brindled half-men" be related to the Children of the Forest? The latter seem to be a human subspecies (even if nobody in-universe knows enough taxonomy to call them that), they're smaller than human norm, and they have skin colors that are more animal than human. Children of the Rain-Forest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormland's Fury Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Is there a Nordos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Grumpy Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 Now, I think that they are dwarfs with brindled fur/hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoMustNotBeUsernamed Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Now, I think that they are dwarfs with brindled fur/hair. Dwarfs or pygmies? Those two things are not the same. I'm hoping that we'll get to meet some of these guys. Victarion might be headed towards those waters, so we'll have to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoMustNotBeUsernamed Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 So as of the latest backstory book it looks like they're warthog people. Warthog people who are cannibals that eat their dead and practice black magic, and wouldn't be out of place in Lovecraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alysanne Donnelly Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 The Brindled Men, like the Ibbenese, aren't actually human. Close enough where Brindled Women can have stillbirths of malformed, half-human babies but not close enough to produce a living child. Sort of like... trying to breed lions with jaguars. But because skin and fur don't preserve like bones do, no currently known proto-human could be described as "brindled".Perhaps it's to liken them to the CotF, who are dappled, or to make them seem more ~exotic~ and animal-like. Just to drive home the "not human" factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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