Small Questions v 10016

[Rhaenys_Targaryen]

There was a carice van houten video interview where she said Mel character is over 100 years old. Anyone know where the link is? I have a similar magazine interview already, just looking for the video.

I didn't find the video, but there is an interview on a webpage where Carice states that Mel is over a 100 years old. Here ya go!

http://www.accesshollywood.com/access-countdown-to-game-of-thrones-season-2-qanda-carice-van-houten-talks-melisandre_article_62348

EDIT: I'm not sure there is a video about it

[mindchap]

So it is incredibly vulnerable from the west. What about the eastern shore? Is there any information about it?

Judging from the Lands map there really isn't anything to attack other than White Harbor. There just aren't any big cities in the north that you could really take down. Unless you're just looking for land, because there is plenty of that. To hit Winterfell by water you'd have to go through White Harbor and then up the White Knife, or go up the Weeping Water to hit the Dreadfort.

[Bob Sacamano]

In the ADWD appendix, Jon Connington is listed as the former Lord of Storm's End. Is this a mistake by GRRM and the editors?

[Knight Of Winter]

my mistake, please delete this post

[Consigliere]

In the ADWD appendix, Jon Connington is listed as the former Lord of Storm's End. Is this a mistake by GRRM and the editors?

The appendix lists him as once Lord of Storm’s End and Hand of the King. When he was Hand, the Baratheons were in open rebellion and its possible Aerys named Jon as Lord of Storms End.

[The Crow's Third Eye]

So it is incredibly vulnerable from the west. What about the eastern shore? Is there any information about it?

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/c/cd/The_North2.jpg If you take this map into consideration, attack from the East seems much more difficult; you have White Harbour, Karhold, Oldcastle, Ramsgate, Widows Watch, even the Dreadfort is pretty close! So attacking the Eastern shore seems much more difficult

[Bob Sacamano]

The appendix lists him as once Lord of Storm’s End and Hand of the King. When he was Hand, the Baratheons were in open rebellion and its possible Aerys named Jon as Lord of Storms End.

I think it was meant to say once Lord of Griffin's Roost, but who knows. I know there is at least one typo in the Appendix where it says Mad King Aenys and not Aerys under House Baratheon

[Consigliere]

I think it was meant to say once Lord of Griffin's Roost, but who knows. I know there is at least one typo in the Appendix where it says Mad King Aenys and not Aerys under House Baratheon

In one of Tyrions chapters in AdwD it says Jon Connington once Lord of Griffin’s Roost and Hand of the King. No mention of him being former Lord of Storm's End. I'm leaning more towards it being a mistake even though the editors and GRRM can have a plausible explanation if it should come up.

[The Crow's Third Eye]

How do you all pronounce Rhaenyra? I kind of say it Ray-nee-ra but not sure if this is accurate

[Knight Of Winter]

In one of Jaime's AFFC chapters, Lancel says he intends to join Faith Militant.

So, do we know if he ever followed up on that decision - do we have textual proof that he actually did join Warrior Sons? Does Cersei see him during her WOS ?

[The Crow's Third Eye]

In one of Jaime's AFFC chapters, Lancel says he intends to join Faith Militant.

So, do we know if he ever followed up on that decision - do we have textual proof that he actually did join Warrior Sons? Does Cersei see him during her WOS ?

She actually sees him before this. I believe he is escorting a member of the Faith to the Red Keep. We also hear in a Jamie POV from Feast that he has upped, left his Darry wife and castle, and has headed to KL

[Rhaenys_Targaryen]

In one of Jaime's AFFC chapters, Lancel says he intends to join Faith Militant.

So, do we know if he ever followed up on that decision - do we have textual proof that he actually did join Warrior Sons? Does Cersei see him during her WOS ?

She actually sees him before this. I believe he is escorting a member of the Faith to the Red Keep. We also hear in a Jamie POV from Feast that he has upped, left his Darry wife and castle, and has headed to KL

Here's the actual passage:

Their captain knelt before her. “Perhaps Your Grace will recall me. I am Ser Theodan the True, and His High Holiness has given me command of your escort. My brothers and I will see you safely through the city.”

Cersei’s gaze swept across the faces of the men behind him. And there he was: Lancel, her cousin, Ser Kevan’s son, who had once professed to love her, before he decided that he loved the gods more. My blood and my betrayer. She would not forget him. “You may rise, Ser Theodan. I am ready.”

And Kevan, in the epilogue, thinks to himself:

I will need to find some new swords for the Kingsguard. Tommen should have seven good knights about him. In the past the Kingsguard had served for life, but that had not stopped Joffrey from dismissing Ser Barristan Selmy to make a place for his dog, Sandor Clegane. Kevan could make use of that precedent. I could put Lancel in a white cloak, he reflected. There is more honor in that than he will ever find in the Warrior’s Sons.

So here's your proof :)

[Knight Of Winter]

Thanks, TyrionBlackfish and Rhaenys_Targaryen :)

[Captain Lou]

What were the Crownlands known as before the conquest?

[RumHam]

What were the Crownlands known as before the conquest?

Dunno that the area had a name, this might clear it up a little:

The size of the force that departed Dragonstone is belived to have been 3,000. Others believe it could have only a few hundred. They landed at the Blackwater, a place where a hundred kings of old had lain claim to. No kings ruled from there now, only a few petty lords lived nearby who were ruled by Harren and they loved him little. Aegon sent his sisters to nearby Rosby and Stokeworth and the castles surrendered without bloodshed. Darklyn of Duskendale and Mooton of Maidenpool did fight. Orys led the army while Aegon rode Balerion high in the sky. They won an easy victory.

http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Month/2012/09/

[Lord Dolorous Edd]

So what exactly are the seven kingdoms? There is the North, the Vale, the Reach, the Westerlands and what else?

[RumHam]

The Seven Kingdoms is a holdover name from the seven kingdoms that existed at the time of Aegon's Conquest. The North, The Iron Islands and Riverlands, The Reach, The Westerlands, Dorne, The Vale, and the Stormlands.

[Arya kiddin']

So what exactly are the seven kingdoms? There is the North, the Vale, the Reach, the Westerlands and what else?

1. The North

2. The Vale

3. The Reach

4. thr Westerlands

5. The Riverlands

6. The Stormlands

7. Dorne

Iron Islands come as a bonus

ETA: Got ninja'd

[RumHam]

I was editing the wiki article on Moat Cailin, does anyone know of any support for the bolded statement:

According to myth, the Children of the Forest attempted to use Moat Cailin to hold back the flood of invading First Men. When that failed due to the human's superior numbers, the Children attempted to shatter the Neck by working powerful magics from the Children's Tower and completely separate the north from the south in the same manner they shattered the Arm of Dorne centuries earlier. The Children failed and only succeeded in flooding it, creating bogs and swamps. However, the cataclysm proved the strength of their power and may have proved instrumental in bringing the First Men to agree to the terms of the Pact that ended hostilities between the two races.

I changed First Men to Andals, but if there's actually textual evidence of that bolded sentence then I have to reconsider.

Edit: ok I'm pretty sure this passage makes it clear that if anything it was the shattering of the Arm of Dorne that put fear into the First Men. I'm taking out that line.

The old songs say that the greenseers used dark magics to make the seas rise and sweep away the land, shattering the Arm, but it was too late to close the door. The wars went on until the earth ran red with blood of men and children both, but more children than men, for men were bigger and stronger, and wood and stone and obsidian make a poor match for bronze. Finally the wise of both races prevailed, and the chiefs and heroes of the First Men met the greenseers and wood dancers amidst the weirwood groves of a small island in the great lake called Gods Eye.

“There they forged the Pact. The First Men were given the coastlands, the high plains and bright meadows, the mountains and bogs, but the deep woods were to remain forever the children’s, and no more weirwoods were to be put to the axe anywhere in the realm. So the gods might bear witness to the signing, every tree on the island was given a face, and afterward, the sacred order of green men was formed to keep watch over the Isle of Faces.

[PromisedPrince694]

How do you all pronounce Rhaenyra? I kind of say it Ray-nee-ra but not sure if this is accurate

I am completely sure that it is Ray-nai-ra.