AN: I apologize for the length of my analysis! Welcome! I need some perspective on a project I have been working on for several months that has been turning into a monster. Even though I narrowed my topic and focused on evidences that appear early in the series, in the first novel primarily, I still find the blood motif extensive and exhausting. Not all of the blood Martin mentions is evidence of a recurring language pattern or of a developing symbology. However, I still “carry ove