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TBF, how long do we know they kept these victims of theirs alive Either they did it bit by bit or had one long excruciating session each The quicker a Bolton gets an "example made" the quicker they can assert dominance over everyone else. That depends though on whether or not their desired...

The setting's backstory is also more-or-less based on Sword&Sorcery which is connected to Lovecraftian Horror You got guys like the Hightowers building over the foundations of broken architecture of Deep Ones That said, I gotta say, the Eyrie's the most impressive of all the Castles in my...

I’m honestly guessing that the Boltons take time to allow some people’s wounds to heal, just to keep them alive longer They don’t usually spend minutes or hours straight on a single person, they only visit them in intervals May even have their own healers to do some patching up before the next...

It's kinda funny that he thought Conan and probably the rest of Robert E Howard's works was something Young Adults or 13 year olds could read

Bran The Builder would be slightly somewhat disappointed if he saw the Starks breaking the Sword&Sorcery tradition of treating armor and weapons as consumables when they spent so much cash on Ice

Nyarlathotep Reminds me, Lovecraft and Robert E Howard were friends and penpals I honestly think that GRRM was really inspired by the setting of REH for ASOIAF Say, which Stark Ancestor or Stark Family Member was a Sword&Sorcery type “hero” in this verse?

Fair, I honestly feel that there could be more world building if there was no war occurring

Given how the North is supposedly thousands of years old, I'd expect way more Plus, you don't necessarily have to be able to unite ALL the tribes to invade the North Speaking of the Thenns, any chance there'll be an explanation as to their origin? Also, I'm getting a feeling that while they do...

Just thought, around this time there's no King-Beyond-The-Wall? I think Mance's currently a Black Brother, I think he's in his twenties or near thirty atm

I think they have golden teeth or metal teeth in this era That said, other medical knowledge is probably kinda low I think only one Maester ever pointed out once how it maybe that simply “flowering” does NOT mean it’s a good idea to get her pregnant

They had dentists before? I thought it was just, you either lose a tooth or keep it And contrary to the tv show, odds are no one has a hollywood smile, because braces or retainers have never been invented yet

Yeah, I think it’s said somewhere that for all the pedophile priest jokes there are, you’re statistically more likely to encounter pedophiles amongst school teachers and professors Given the amount of time a child is entrusted to non-family members like them and how much authority they’re...

I honestly didn’t expect for the Citadel to be full of pedophiles. Well, they’re all definitely dead by now. How much texts or books will this new Citadel have? Even with a functioning printing press, I expect it to take at least a generation to reach the knowledge level of the old Citadel...

Freaking Badass And nice to see how the plans aren’t simply a change of who rules who and more what said ruler plans to make or get others to make or plan for them to plan to make Infrastructure basically Maybe they can all learn/discover something new in the meanwhile Like, are Giants...

Someone somewhere is probably trying to figure out a way of their own, without input from those major lords Literacy needs to be a thing for the majority of the population though And honestly, I see wars as a waste, WWI, WWII and the Cold War, entire generations of people who could have...

Best be careful in the purges Lots of valuable books around If only there was a printing press and a way to mass produce and spread all the books or have people copy them casually and spread them around without government input Westeros’ pretty anti-intellectual or uninterested in that stuff...

One thing I think Luwin wished he could do was to know the secrets of the world I’m betting if he ever comes back to Oldtown it would be in the middle of the Hightowers warring with the Deep Ones

You know, I was wondering Maester Luwin's backstory I was sad I didn't get it in the books Just how old is he now though?

I think it would be better by comparison to tell that he discovered it That said, I think in a way there now needs to be a sort of reformation or replacement of the Citadel People go to the Citadel to study, but not always become Maesters, as they may just be interested in learning things like...

You know, this reason for independence is sort of reminding me of one of Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire books which explained as to why they were rebelling in a few years or decades against the local Space Mongolian Empire It had stuff to do with how said Empire would severely stifle longterm...