Mithras Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 GRRM describes a very vivid world of tastes, smells etc. There are cities of every types and sizes, people are travelling through the wilderness. Wild animals are mentioned to trouble people. Rats causes serious problems. Yet I dont remember any mention of insects. Normally, we expect them to spread diseases, bite people, freak the hell out all but GRRM does not tell anything about it. Tolkien had an arachnophobia and as a result he created Shelob, which was described pretty ugly and with great horror in the books. I think Westeros would be a much better place if GRRM had included the insect dimension. Surely that makes the life of hedge knights much more miserable. Hell even in our world, there are flying cockroaches, camel spiders, giant centipedes, freaking hornets etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitreus Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Dany has ants all over her in her Last chapter of ADWD. So we have that at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stannis Eats No Peaches Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Manticores? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecameburning Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 There are mentions of fleas...lice...locusts...ants and I am sure more that I forget right now. Did you even read the books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter's Knight Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Were there any butterflies? There dragonflies too-Prince Duncan was the Prince of Dragonflies I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahura Mazda Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Welll... AFFC, page 6-7: "There's another apple near your foot," Alleras called to Mollander, "and I still have two arrows in my quiver." "Fuck your quiver." Mollander scooped up the windfall. "This one's wormy," he complained, but he threw it anyway. The arrow caught the apple as it began to fall and sliced it clean in two. One half landed on a turret roof, tumbled to a lower roof, bounced, and missed Armen by a foot. "If you cut a worm in two, you make two worms," the acolyte informed them. "If only it worked that way with apples, no one would ever need go hungry," said Alleras with one of his soft smiles. [...] I recall Arya being concerned (well, better say not concerned) with food with woorms too. Also, as Gendry and Hot Pie noted, Aria ate a lot of insects during their flee after the NW man death.. I recall them joking about the bad smell this has granted her mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gort Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I remember flies being mentioned a few times buzzing around carcasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitreus Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Flea Bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protar Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 They're mentioned, but feature little in Westeros. A fair amount in Essos though. Kind of makes sense, the winters mustn't be too soft on insects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahura Mazda Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I remember flies being mentioned a few times buzzing around carcasses. And around Drogo while he was going to die, though those could have been a particular type of flies.. I don't remember in detail. One of the cities Daenerys visited had some wall full of blood that looked black from afar due to the amount of flies being there. Edit: fixed Khal Drogo's name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muggle Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 arya has fleas on her from ned dieing in KL up to entering the house of black and white..... there mentioned several times. there are plenty of mentions of bugs. and tbh id rather read about plot development of characters not so much about bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithras Posted November 1, 2013 Author Share Posted November 1, 2013 Normal, acceptable insects are mentioned. Other than manticore, we dont have superfreaking insects. GRRM feels free to create bonebreaking turtles, lizard lions, that reptile in the slums of Yunkai which swallowed one of the infiltrators. I was disappointed why he didnot create any supergiant mad insects, killing few and scaring most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Our Blades Are Sharp Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 isn't the land missandei is from full of butterflies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aceluby Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Only poor people are bothered by insects. This story is about LORDS! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic 8 Ball Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 The Neck should have frequent mentions of some king of biting insects/mosquito analogue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talla Tarly Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 The Starks have direwolfs, a Targaryen has dragons ... so maybe the "superfreaking insects" will show up in form of some sort of killer bees trained by House Beesbury ... (joking) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Egeman Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Varys the Spider and the giant spiders of the Others come to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squire to Ser Pounce Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Normal, acceptable insects are mentioned. Other than manticore, we dont have superfreaking insects. GRRM feels free to create bonebreaking turtles, lizard lions, that reptile in the slums of Yunkai which swallowed one of the infiltrators. I was disappointed why he didnot create any supergiant mad insects, killing few and scaring most. Our planet has some pretty big turtles. And "lizard lions" are referring to crocodiles/alligators. A similar croc/gator could be the creature in the sewers of Meereen. We haven't seen a ton of fantastical creatures on GRRTH (dragons, direwolves, manticores, maybe a unicorn). Are you looking for big bugs like from the Starship Troopers movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahura Mazda Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Normal, acceptable insects are mentioned. Other than manticore, we dont have superfreaking insects. GRRM feels free to create bonebreaking turtles, lizard lions, that reptile in the slums of Yunkai which swallowed one of the infiltrators. I was disappointed why he didnot create any supergiant mad insects, killing few and scaring most. My apologies, I misunderstood you and thought you were talking of normal insects. I suppose he did try to be the most compliant with whatever could have been around during middle age in Europe for the most, and added very few exotic animals to give it a particular unique trait. Besides, I confess it would have been particularly difficult for me to accept a middle age society settled up in a world of giant insects, because these are commonly associated with post-apocalyptic scenarios. It would have been just like.. introducing dinosaurs instead of mammals. Imagine Cersei complaining of Robert always going to hunt a Triceratops Horridus when she's about to give birth to a child, the Starks finding 5 Velociraptor Mongoliensis puppies and Arya training catching Procompsognathus Triassicus in the red-keep. Odd, wouldn't it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotherMerciless Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Khal Drogo hated flies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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