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How would you summarize the series as a whole in one sentence?


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Valar Characteris

All characters must die.

Valar means men.

All men must die - Valar morghulis

All men must serve - Valar dohaeris

Morghulis and dohaeris are verbal compounds or something. Valar doesn't change. So Valar = men. Morghulis seems inspired by indo-European languages: Death - mortem in Latin; morte (italian) mort (french) muerte (spanish) but even closer is the Persian margh...but that may just be 'coincidence' ;)

-ar seems to be suffix for living beings - or humans? or maybe its a macsulin but we have Valar; Valonquar...Val- as a prefix eh. Val-yrian, Val-ar, Val-onqu-ar...I'm starting to wonder how much time GRRM spent with just the development of a few High Valyrian words... :)

Anyway, so lets say... Charact-ar or Val-act-ar morghulis... and Yolo morghulis

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