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Free folk

2012-02-16T16:42:44Z

Stormlander: Reverted edits by Stormlander (talk) to last revision by Matt 2108

The '''Free Folk''' are a race of people who live [[beyond the Wall|beyond]] the [[Wall]]. They are more commonly referred to as '''"wildlings"''' everywhere south of the Wall.

There are tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Free Folk split into hundreds of cultures, tribes, clans, villages and raiding parties, some reasonably cultured, others savage and hostile. The Free Folk refer to themselves in that way to difference themselves from the "kneelers," the people south of the Wall, subject to lords and kings. The Free Folk view the "kneelers" as lacking freedom, whereas the people of the Seven Kingdoms view the "wildlings" as lawless and primitive killers, rapists and thieves.

==Culture==
The wall which separates the Free Folk from the rest of the Westeros in many ways defines them. Due to their isolation from the rest of Westeros, they remain a free people, free of states, free of nobles, kings, and laws but those of their own choosing, following whatever leader they please.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} They believe that the gods made the earth for all men to share and when the kings came with their crowns and their steel swords, they stole it, claiming it was all theirs and theirs alone.{{Ref|aSoS|41}} Their society is made of many tribes and clans, spread across hundreds of small villages, each with their own peculiarities and customs; some recognize chieftains, and others exist in a perpetual state of conflict, warring against each other and themselves.

Most Free Folk have never made any considerable technological advancements. They are harsh people who live in harsh lands, although some are reasonably cultured, such as the [[Thenn]] people who live in tightly knit communities in the far north, or the people of [[Hardhome]], which is the closest place the Free Folk have to a city. Some are semi-nomadic loners, held down only by their own needs. Raiders from the Frozen Shore or the more savage clans of the ice-river feed on the flesh of other humans. Their are even cave dwellers that dye their faces blue, purple and green.{{Ref|aSoS|15}}

There is very little in the way of law or property rights in the lands of the Free Folk. They take what they can and keep what they can defend and have little interest in marriage.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} The Free Folk keep to ways of the [[First Men]], and though there are many languages beyond the Wall the [[Old Tongue]] of the [[First Men]] is the most common one.{{Ref|aSoS|64}} The Free Folks place importance in a man keeping his word. <ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1154/ SSM:WILDLINGS IN THE NORTH] (April 23, 2001)</ref>

The Free Folk do not hate [[Northmen]] as much as they hate the "crows" of the [[Night's Watch]], who represent the gate keepers holding them beyond the Wall. The Free Folk do not spare brothers of the Night's Watch, unless they break their oaths and prove it.{{Ref|aCoK|68}} However, the two groups are not beyond some form of cooperation, as lost brothers have been aided by Free Folk and the Watch is not beyond taking Free Folk children and raising them to be members of the Watch.

==Customs==
In keeping with the spirit of Free Folk independence, women are welcome to take up arms and fight alongside men. Such women are called spearwives, and are known to be every bit as skilled and ferocious as their male counterparts.{{Ref|aCoK|51}}

In marriage, the men are expected to be quite forceful with women, going so far as stealing them from their home or clan. The women, in turn, are expected to put up a fight every step of the way.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} It's believed that a true man will steal a woman from afar to strengthen the clan. Men must steal daughters, but not wives of other men. Women who wed brothers, fathers, or clan kin offend the gods, and are cursed with weak and sickly children. When the Red Wanderer is within the Moonmaid, it's considered a propitious time for a man to steal a woman.{{Ref|aSoS|26}} While it may seem very different from the idealized courtly love of Westeros, at its core it establishes a male strength and determination, as well as a woman’s independence and ability to defend herself.

It is believed bad luck to name a child before two years of age, because of the propensity of children to die in the harsh environment beyond the Wall.{{Ref|aSoS|46}}

==Raiding==
Raiding beyond the Wall is a large part of Free Folk culture. Raiders start at a young age, as little as twelve years.{{Ref|aSoS|26}} Raiders either climb the Wall or use little boats to cross the [[Bay of Seals]] around it. Climbing the height of the [[Wall]] is an exercise that can take most of a day and rangers often find the broken bodies of those who have fallen.{{Ref|aSoS|30}}

To climb the Wall the Free Folk use the aid of huge ladders of woven hemp, queer boots of supple doeskin spiked with iron, bronze, or more usually jagged bone, small stone-headed hammers, stakes of iron and bone and horn, and antlers with sharpened tines bound to wooden hafts with strips of hide serving as ice axes.{{Ref|aSoS|30}}

Over the decades, as the Watch has grown weaker, the Free Folk have gotten more bold. Some have tried to raid [[House Umber]] lands or even the lands of [[Bear Island]], instead of the usual villages and holdfasts in the [[Gift]].

Raiders do not cross the Wall to steal fish and apples. They take swords and axes, spices, silks, furs, every coin, ring, and jeweled cup they can find, casks of wine in summer and casks of beef in winter, and they take women in any season to carry them off beyond the Wall.{{Ref|aSoS|41}}

==Armament==
{{See also|Armament}}

Most Free Folk warriors still wield weaponry forged of stone, wood, and bronze, such as stone axes and flails, fire-hardened spears and lances, and bows of wood and horn. Their bows are outranged by the yew longbows of the south, but can seemingly shoot an arrow as high as seven hundred feet.{{Ref|aSoS|55}}{{Ref|aSoS|64}}

The Freek Folk do not mine nor smelt and there are few smiths and fewer forges north of the Wall, the only metal armor that they wear are bits and pieces looted from dead rangers. Most will wear boiled leather or sewn sheepskins and use crude round shields of skin stretched over wicker, painting them with figures such as skulls and bones, serpents, bear claws, twisted demonic faces, and severed heads.{{Ref|aCoK|68}}{{Ref|aSoS|55}}{{Ref|aSoS|73}}

The [[Thenn]]s are more well-armed and armored than most Free Folk, with bronze helms, axes, short stabbing spears with leaf-shaped heads, shirts sewn with bronze discs, and plain unadorned shields of black boiled leather with bronze rims and bosses.

Free Folk [[horse]]s are surefooted, but scarce.

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
The Free Folk tribes have been unified under [[Mance Rayder]], the [[King-Beyond-The-Wall]], a former member of the Night's Watch who fled the Wall, betraying his sworn brothers. Mance gathered all the Free Folk around him and set them all on the move south to the [[Wall]], fleeing from the [[Others]].

Upon reaching the Wall the Free Folk attempt to breach the gates at Castle Black and are defeated, in what is later known as [[Battle of Castle Black]], by the [[Night's Watch]] and the surprise appearance of [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s army. Though many fighting men were lost, a large part of the host regathered around [[Tormund Giantsbane]].

===''A Dance of Dragons''===
The Free Folk were allowed to pass through the Wall and settle in the Gift by Lord Commander of the Night's Watch [[Jon Snow]].

==Notable Free Folk==
===Famous warlords styled [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]]===
* '''[[Raymun|Raymun Redbeard]]'''
* '''[[Bael|Bael the Bard]]'''
* the '''[[Horned King]]'''
* the brothers '''[[Gendel]]''' and '''[[Gorne]]'''
* the legendary '''[[Joramun]]'''
*'''[[Mance Rayder]]''', captured after the Battle of Castle Black and allegedly burned at the stake by Stannis Baratheon.

===Others===
*'''[[Craster]]''', held a [[Craster's Keep|keep]] near the Wall and gave begrudging aid to rangers. Murdered along with Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont]] by rangers after the [[Battle of the Fist of the First Men]].
*'''[[Dalla]]''', wife of Mance Rayder. Died in childbirth during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''[[Harma]]''', called "Dogshead", an infamous female raider and cynophobe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''The Lord of Bones''', mocked by rangers (and some Free Folk) as "[[Rattleshirt]]", a sadistic raider who wears armor made of bone. Captured after the [[Battle of Castle Black]].
*'''[[Orell]]''', a raider and [[skinchanger]]. He was killed by [[Jon Snow]] while his mind inhabited an eagle. A part of his consciousness became permanently trapped in the eagle, causing it to hate Jon Snow.
*'''[[Osha]]''', Free Folk woman taken captive by forces of [[House Stark]] south of the Wall. Spared execution in exchange for service, she became a guardian and companion to [[Rickon Stark]].
*'''[[Styr]]''', the Magnar of Thenn, chieftain of the Thenns, a warlike Free Folk tribe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''[[Tormund]]''', known as "Giantsbane", among many other things, a raider prone to tall tales.
*'''[[Val]]''', sister of Dalla. Imprisoned after the Battle of Castle Black. Became known as the "Wildling Princess" due to her beauty.
*'''[[Varamyr|Varamyr "Sixskins"]]''', a diminutive skinchanger who is accompanied by three wolves, a snowbear and a shadowcat. After Orell's death, Varamyr took control of his eagle and used it to scout during the battle of Castle Black. [[Melisandre]] killed the eagle while Varamyr inhabited it, causing him to go mad.
*'''[[Ygritte]]''', red-haired lover to Jon Snow. Killed in the Battle of Castle Black.

==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}
{{EnWP|Night's Watch|small=yes}}

[[Category:Wildlings| ]]
[[Category:Cultures]]
[[fr:Sauvageons]][[ru:Одичалые]]

Free folk

2012-02-16T16:41:49Z

Stormlander: /* Others */

The '''Free Folk''' are a race of people who live [[beyond the Wall|beyond]] the [[Wall]]. They are more commonly referred to as '''"wildlings"''' everywhere south of the Wall.

There are tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Free Folk split into hundreds of cultures, tribes, clans, villages and raiding parties, some reasonably cultured, others savage and hostile. The Free Folk refer to themselves in that way to difference themselves from the "kneelers," the people south of the Wall, subject to lords and kings. The Free Folk view the "kneelers" as lacking freedom, whereas the people of the Seven Kingdoms view the "wildlings" as lawless and primitive killers, rapists and thieves.

==Culture==
The wall which separates the Free Folk from the rest of the Westeros in many ways defines them. Due to their isolation from the rest of Westeros, they remain a free people, free of states, free of nobles, kings, and laws but those of their own choosing, following whatever leader they please.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} They believe that the gods made the earth for all men to share and when the kings came with their crowns and their steel swords, they stole it, claiming it was all theirs and theirs alone.{{Ref|aSoS|41}} Their society is made of many tribes and clans, spread across hundreds of small villages, each with their own peculiarities and customs; some recognize chieftains, and others exist in a perpetual state of conflict, warring against each other and themselves.

Most Free Folk have never made any considerable technological advancements. They are harsh people who live in harsh lands, although some are reasonably cultured, such as the [[Thenn]] people who live in tightly knit communities in the far north, or the people of [[Hardhome]], which is the closest place the Free Folk have to a city. Some are semi-nomadic loners, held down only by their own needs. Raiders from the Frozen Shore or the more savage clans of the ice-river feed on the flesh of other humans. Their are even cave dwellers that dye their faces blue, purple and green.{{Ref|aSoS|15}}

There is very little in the way of law or property rights in the lands of the Free Folk. They take what they can and keep what they can defend and have little interest in marriage.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} The Free Folk keep to ways of the [[First Men]], and though there are many languages beyond the Wall the [[Old Tongue]] of the [[First Men]] is the most common one.{{Ref|aSoS|64}} The Free Folks place importance in a man keeping his word. <ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1154/ SSM:WILDLINGS IN THE NORTH] (April 23, 2001)</ref>

The Free Folk do not hate [[Northmen]] as much as they hate the "crows" of the [[Night's Watch]], who represent the gate keepers holding them beyond the Wall. The Free Folk do not spare brothers of the Night's Watch, unless they break their oaths and prove it.{{Ref|aCoK|68}} However, the two groups are not beyond some form of cooperation, as lost brothers have been aided by Free Folk and the Watch is not beyond taking Free Folk children and raising them to be members of the Watch.

==Customs==
In keeping with the spirit of Free Folk independence, women are welcome to take up arms and fight alongside men. Such women are called spearwives, and are known to be every bit as skilled and ferocious as their male counterparts.{{Ref|aCoK|51}}

In marriage, the men are expected to be quite forceful with women, going so far as stealing them from their home or clan. The women, in turn, are expected to put up a fight every step of the way.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} It's believed that a true man will steal a woman from afar to strengthen the clan. Men must steal daughters, but not wives of other men. Women who wed brothers, fathers, or clan kin offend the gods, and are cursed with weak and sickly children. When the Red Wanderer is within the Moonmaid, it's considered a propitious time for a man to steal a woman.{{Ref|aSoS|26}} While it may seem very different from the idealized courtly love of Westeros, at its core it establishes a male strength and determination, as well as a woman’s independence and ability to defend herself.

It is believed bad luck to name a child before two years of age, because of the propensity of children to die in the harsh environment beyond the Wall.{{Ref|aSoS|46}}

==Raiding==
Raiding beyond the Wall is a large part of Free Folk culture. Raiders start at a young age, as little as twelve years.{{Ref|aSoS|26}} Raiders either climb the Wall or use little boats to cross the [[Bay of Seals]] around it. Climbing the height of the [[Wall]] is an exercise that can take most of a day and rangers often find the broken bodies of those who have fallen.{{Ref|aSoS|30}}

To climb the Wall the Free Folk use the aid of huge ladders of woven hemp, queer boots of supple doeskin spiked with iron, bronze, or more usually jagged bone, small stone-headed hammers, stakes of iron and bone and horn, and antlers with sharpened tines bound to wooden hafts with strips of hide serving as ice axes.{{Ref|aSoS|30}}

Over the decades, as the Watch has grown weaker, the Free Folk have gotten more bold. Some have tried to raid [[House Umber]] lands or even the lands of [[Bear Island]], instead of the usual villages and holdfasts in the [[Gift]].

Raiders do not cross the Wall to steal fish and apples. They take swords and axes, spices, silks, furs, every coin, ring, and jeweled cup they can find, casks of wine in summer and casks of beef in winter, and they take women in any season to carry them off beyond the Wall.{{Ref|aSoS|41}}

==Armament==
{{See also|Armament}}

Most Free Folk warriors still wield weaponry forged of stone, wood, and bronze, such as stone axes and flails, fire-hardened spears and lances, and bows of wood and horn. Their bows are outranged by the yew longbows of the south, but can seemingly shoot an arrow as high as seven hundred feet.{{Ref|aSoS|55}}{{Ref|aSoS|64}}

The Freek Folk do not mine nor smelt and there are few smiths and fewer forges north of the Wall, the only metal armor that they wear are bits and pieces looted from dead rangers. Most will wear boiled leather or sewn sheepskins and use crude round shields of skin stretched over wicker, painting them with figures such as skulls and bones, serpents, bear claws, twisted demonic faces, and severed heads.{{Ref|aCoK|68}}{{Ref|aSoS|55}}{{Ref|aSoS|73}}

The [[Thenn]]s are more well-armed and armored than most Free Folk, with bronze helms, axes, short stabbing spears with leaf-shaped heads, shirts sewn with bronze discs, and plain unadorned shields of black boiled leather with bronze rims and bosses.

Free Folk [[horse]]s are surefooted, but scarce.

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
The Free Folk tribes have been unified under [[Mance Rayder]], the [[King-Beyond-The-Wall]], a former member of the Night's Watch who fled the Wall, betraying his sworn brothers. Mance gathered all the Free Folk around him and set them all on the move south to the [[Wall]], fleeing from the [[Others]].

Upon reaching the Wall the Free Folk attempt to breach the gates at Castle Black and are defeated, in what is later known as [[Battle of Castle Black]], by the [[Night's Watch]] and the surprise appearance of [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s army. Though many fighting men were lost, a large part of the host regathered around [[Tormund Giantsbane]].

===''A Dance of Dragons''===
The Free Folk were allowed to pass through the Wall and settle in the Gift by Lord Commander of the Night's Watch [[Jon Snow]].

==Notable Free Folk==
===Famous warlords styled [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]]===
* '''[[Raymun|Raymun Redbeard]]'''
* '''[[Bael|Bael the Bard]]'''
* the '''[[Horned King]]'''
* the brothers '''[[Gendel]]''' and '''[[Gorne]]'''
* the legendary '''[[Joramun]]'''
*'''[[Mance Rayder]]''', captured after the [[Battle of Castle Black]] and allegedly burned at the stake by [[Stannis Baratheon]].

===Others===
*'''[[Craster]]''', held a [[Craster's Keep|keep]] near the Wall and gave begrudging aid to rangers. Murdered along with Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont]] by rangers after the [[Battle of the Fist of the First Men]].
*'''[[Dalla]]''', wife of Mance Rayder. Died in childbirth during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''[[Harma]]''', called "Dogshead", an infamous female raider and cynophobe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''The Lord of Bones''', mocked by rangers (and some Free Folk) as "[[Rattleshirt]]", a sadistic raider who wears armor made of bone. Captured after the [[Battle of Castle Black]].
*'''[[Orell]]''', a raider and [[skinchanger]]. He was killed by [[Jon Snow]] while his mind inhabited an eagle. A part of his consciousness became permanently trapped in the eagle, causing it to hate Jon Snow.
*'''[[Osha]]''', Free Folk woman taken captive by forces of [[House Stark]] south of the Wall. Spared execution in exchange for service, she became a guardian and companion to [[Rickon Stark]].
*'''[[Styr]]''', the Magnar of Thenn, chieftain of the Thenns, a warlike Free Folk tribe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''[[Tormund]]''', known as "Giantsbane", among many other things, a raider prone to tall tales.
*'''[[Val]]''', sister of Dalla. Imprisoned after the Battle of Castle Black. Became known as the "Wildling Princess" due to her beauty.
*'''[[Varamyr|Varamyr "Sixskins"]]''', a diminutive skinchanger who is accompanied by three wolves, a snowbear and a shadowcat. After Orell's death, Varamyr took control of his eagle and used it to scout during the battle of Castle Black. [[Melisandre]] killed the eagle while Varamyr inhabited it, causing him to go mad.
*'''[[Ygritte]]''', red-haired lover to Jon Snow. Killed in the Battle of Castle Black.

==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}
{{EnWP|Night's Watch|small=yes}}

[[Category:Wildlings| ]]
[[Category:Cultures]]
[[fr:Sauvageons]][[ru:Одичалые]]

Free folk

2012-02-16T16:39:28Z

Stormlander: /* Others */

The '''Free Folk''' are a race of people who live [[beyond the Wall|beyond]] the [[Wall]]. They are more commonly referred to as '''"wildlings"''' everywhere south of the Wall.

There are tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Free Folk split into hundreds of cultures, tribes, clans, villages and raiding parties, some reasonably cultured, others savage and hostile. The Free Folk refer to themselves in that way to difference themselves from the "kneelers," the people south of the Wall, subject to lords and kings. The Free Folk view the "kneelers" as lacking freedom, whereas the people of the Seven Kingdoms view the "wildlings" as lawless and primitive killers, rapists and thieves.

==Culture==
The wall which separates the Free Folk from the rest of the Westeros in many ways defines them. Due to their isolation from the rest of Westeros, they remain a free people, free of states, free of nobles, kings, and laws but those of their own choosing, following whatever leader they please.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} They believe that the gods made the earth for all men to share and when the kings came with their crowns and their steel swords, they stole it, claiming it was all theirs and theirs alone.{{Ref|aSoS|41}} Their society is made of many tribes and clans, spread across hundreds of small villages, each with their own peculiarities and customs; some recognize chieftains, and others exist in a perpetual state of conflict, warring against each other and themselves.

Most Free Folk have never made any considerable technological advancements. They are harsh people who live in harsh lands, although some are reasonably cultured, such as the [[Thenn]] people who live in tightly knit communities in the far north, or the people of [[Hardhome]], which is the closest place the Free Folk have to a city. Some are semi-nomadic loners, held down only by their own needs. Raiders from the Frozen Shore or the more savage clans of the ice-river feed on the flesh of other humans. Their are even cave dwellers that dye their faces blue, purple and green.{{Ref|aSoS|15}}

There is very little in the way of law or property rights in the lands of the Free Folk. They take what they can and keep what they can defend and have little interest in marriage.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} The Free Folk keep to ways of the [[First Men]], and though there are many languages beyond the Wall the [[Old Tongue]] of the [[First Men]] is the most common one.{{Ref|aSoS|64}} The Free Folks place importance in a man keeping his word. <ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1154/ SSM:WILDLINGS IN THE NORTH] (April 23, 2001)</ref>

The Free Folk do not hate [[Northmen]] as much as they hate the "crows" of the [[Night's Watch]], who represent the gate keepers holding them beyond the Wall. The Free Folk do not spare brothers of the Night's Watch, unless they break their oaths and prove it.{{Ref|aCoK|68}} However, the two groups are not beyond some form of cooperation, as lost brothers have been aided by Free Folk and the Watch is not beyond taking Free Folk children and raising them to be members of the Watch.

==Customs==
In keeping with the spirit of Free Folk independence, women are welcome to take up arms and fight alongside men. Such women are called spearwives, and are known to be every bit as skilled and ferocious as their male counterparts.{{Ref|aCoK|51}}

In marriage, the men are expected to be quite forceful with women, going so far as stealing them from their home or clan. The women, in turn, are expected to put up a fight every step of the way.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} It's believed that a true man will steal a woman from afar to strengthen the clan. Men must steal daughters, but not wives of other men. Women who wed brothers, fathers, or clan kin offend the gods, and are cursed with weak and sickly children. When the Red Wanderer is within the Moonmaid, it's considered a propitious time for a man to steal a woman.{{Ref|aSoS|26}} While it may seem very different from the idealized courtly love of Westeros, at its core it establishes a male strength and determination, as well as a woman’s independence and ability to defend herself.

It is believed bad luck to name a child before two years of age, because of the propensity of children to die in the harsh environment beyond the Wall.{{Ref|aSoS|46}}

==Raiding==
Raiding beyond the Wall is a large part of Free Folk culture. Raiders start at a young age, as little as twelve years.{{Ref|aSoS|26}} Raiders either climb the Wall or use little boats to cross the [[Bay of Seals]] around it. Climbing the height of the [[Wall]] is an exercise that can take most of a day and rangers often find the broken bodies of those who have fallen.{{Ref|aSoS|30}}

To climb the Wall the Free Folk use the aid of huge ladders of woven hemp, queer boots of supple doeskin spiked with iron, bronze, or more usually jagged bone, small stone-headed hammers, stakes of iron and bone and horn, and antlers with sharpened tines bound to wooden hafts with strips of hide serving as ice axes.{{Ref|aSoS|30}}

Over the decades, as the Watch has grown weaker, the Free Folk have gotten more bold. Some have tried to raid [[House Umber]] lands or even the lands of [[Bear Island]], instead of the usual villages and holdfasts in the [[Gift]].

Raiders do not cross the Wall to steal fish and apples. They take swords and axes, spices, silks, furs, every coin, ring, and jeweled cup they can find, casks of wine in summer and casks of beef in winter, and they take women in any season to carry them off beyond the Wall.{{Ref|aSoS|41}}

==Armament==
{{See also|Armament}}

Most Free Folk warriors still wield weaponry forged of stone, wood, and bronze, such as stone axes and flails, fire-hardened spears and lances, and bows of wood and horn. Their bows are outranged by the yew longbows of the south, but can seemingly shoot an arrow as high as seven hundred feet.{{Ref|aSoS|55}}{{Ref|aSoS|64}}

The Freek Folk do not mine nor smelt and there are few smiths and fewer forges north of the Wall, the only metal armor that they wear are bits and pieces looted from dead rangers. Most will wear boiled leather or sewn sheepskins and use crude round shields of skin stretched over wicker, painting them with figures such as skulls and bones, serpents, bear claws, twisted demonic faces, and severed heads.{{Ref|aCoK|68}}{{Ref|aSoS|55}}{{Ref|aSoS|73}}

The [[Thenn]]s are more well-armed and armored than most Free Folk, with bronze helms, axes, short stabbing spears with leaf-shaped heads, shirts sewn with bronze discs, and plain unadorned shields of black boiled leather with bronze rims and bosses.

Free Folk [[horse]]s are surefooted, but scarce.

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
The Free Folk tribes have been unified under [[Mance Rayder]], the [[King-Beyond-The-Wall]], a former member of the Night's Watch who fled the Wall, betraying his sworn brothers. Mance gathered all the Free Folk around him and set them all on the move south to the [[Wall]], fleeing from the [[Others]].

Upon reaching the Wall the Free Folk attempt to breach the gates at Castle Black and are defeated, in what is later known as [[Battle of Castle Black]], by the [[Night's Watch]] and the surprise appearance of [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s army. Though many fighting men were lost, a large part of the host regathered around [[Tormund Giantsbane]].

===''A Dance of Dragons''===
The Free Folk were allowed to pass through the Wall and settle in the Gift by Lord Commander of the Night's Watch [[Jon Snow]].

==Notable Free Folk==
===Famous warlords styled [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]]===
* '''[[Raymun|Raymun Redbeard]]'''
* '''[[Bael|Bael the Bard]]'''
* the '''[[Horned King]]'''
* the brothers '''[[Gendel]]''' and '''[[Gorne]]'''
* the legendary '''[[Joramun]]'''
*'''[[Mance Rayder]]''', captured after the [[Battle of Castle Black]] and allegedly burned at the stake by [[Stannis Baratheon]].

===Others===
*'''[[Craster]]''', held a [[Craster's Keep|keep]] near the Wall and gave begrudging aid to rangers. Murdered along with Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont]] by rangers after the [[Battle of the Fist of the First Men]].
*'''[[Dalla]]''', wife of Mance Rayder. Died in childbirth during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''[[Harma]]''', called "[[Dogshead]]", an infamous female raider and cynophobe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''The Lord of Bones''', mocked by rangers (and some Free Folk) as "[[Rattleshirt]]", a sadistic raider who wears armor made of bone. Captured after the [[Battle of Castle Black]].
*'''[[Orell]]''', a raider and [[skinchanger]]. He was killed by [[Jon Snow]] while his mind inhabited an eagle. A part of his consciousness became permanently trapped in the eagle, causing it to hate Jon Snow.
*'''[[Osha]]''', Free Folk woman taken captive by forces of [[House Stark]] south of the Wall. Spared execution in exchange for service, she became a guardian and companion to [[Rickon Stark]].
*'''[[Styr]]''', the Magnar of Thenn, chieftain of the Thenns, a warlike Free Folk tribe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''[[Tormund]]''', known as "Giantsbane", among many other things, a raider prone to tall tales.
*'''[[Val]]''', sister of Dalla. Imprisoned after the Battle of Castle Black. Became known as the "Wildling Princess" due to her beauty.
*'''[[Varamyr|Varamyr "Sixskins"]]''', a diminutive skinchanger who is accompanied by three wolves, a snowbear and a shadowcat. After Orell's death, Varamyr took control of his eagle and used it to scout during the battle of Castle Black. [[Melisandre]] killed the eagle while Varamyr inhabited it, causing him to go mad.
*'''[[Ygritte]]''', red-haired lover to Jon Snow. Killed in the Battle of Castle Black.

==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}
{{EnWP|Night's Watch|small=yes}}

[[Category:Wildlings| ]]
[[Category:Cultures]]
[[fr:Sauvageons]][[ru:Одичалые]]

Free folk

2012-02-16T16:38:39Z

Stormlander: /* Famous warlords styled King-Beyond-the-Wall */

The '''Free Folk''' are a race of people who live [[beyond the Wall|beyond]] the [[Wall]]. They are more commonly referred to as '''"wildlings"''' everywhere south of the Wall.

There are tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Free Folk split into hundreds of cultures, tribes, clans, villages and raiding parties, some reasonably cultured, others savage and hostile. The Free Folk refer to themselves in that way to difference themselves from the "kneelers," the people south of the Wall, subject to lords and kings. The Free Folk view the "kneelers" as lacking freedom, whereas the people of the Seven Kingdoms view the "wildlings" as lawless and primitive killers, rapists and thieves.

==Culture==
The wall which separates the Free Folk from the rest of the Westeros in many ways defines them. Due to their isolation from the rest of Westeros, they remain a free people, free of states, free of nobles, kings, and laws but those of their own choosing, following whatever leader they please.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} They believe that the gods made the earth for all men to share and when the kings came with their crowns and their steel swords, they stole it, claiming it was all theirs and theirs alone.{{Ref|aSoS|41}} Their society is made of many tribes and clans, spread across hundreds of small villages, each with their own peculiarities and customs; some recognize chieftains, and others exist in a perpetual state of conflict, warring against each other and themselves.

Most Free Folk have never made any considerable technological advancements. They are harsh people who live in harsh lands, although some are reasonably cultured, such as the [[Thenn]] people who live in tightly knit communities in the far north, or the people of [[Hardhome]], which is the closest place the Free Folk have to a city. Some are semi-nomadic loners, held down only by their own needs. Raiders from the Frozen Shore or the more savage clans of the ice-river feed on the flesh of other humans. Their are even cave dwellers that dye their faces blue, purple and green.{{Ref|aSoS|15}}

There is very little in the way of law or property rights in the lands of the Free Folk. They take what they can and keep what they can defend and have little interest in marriage.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} The Free Folk keep to ways of the [[First Men]], and though there are many languages beyond the Wall the [[Old Tongue]] of the [[First Men]] is the most common one.{{Ref|aSoS|64}} The Free Folks place importance in a man keeping his word. <ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1154/ SSM:WILDLINGS IN THE NORTH] (April 23, 2001)</ref>

The Free Folk do not hate [[Northmen]] as much as they hate the "crows" of the [[Night's Watch]], who represent the gate keepers holding them beyond the Wall. The Free Folk do not spare brothers of the Night's Watch, unless they break their oaths and prove it.{{Ref|aCoK|68}} However, the two groups are not beyond some form of cooperation, as lost brothers have been aided by Free Folk and the Watch is not beyond taking Free Folk children and raising them to be members of the Watch.

==Customs==
In keeping with the spirit of Free Folk independence, women are welcome to take up arms and fight alongside men. Such women are called spearwives, and are known to be every bit as skilled and ferocious as their male counterparts.{{Ref|aCoK|51}}

In marriage, the men are expected to be quite forceful with women, going so far as stealing them from their home or clan. The women, in turn, are expected to put up a fight every step of the way.{{Ref|aSoS|15}} It's believed that a true man will steal a woman from afar to strengthen the clan. Men must steal daughters, but not wives of other men. Women who wed brothers, fathers, or clan kin offend the gods, and are cursed with weak and sickly children. When the Red Wanderer is within the Moonmaid, it's considered a propitious time for a man to steal a woman.{{Ref|aSoS|26}} While it may seem very different from the idealized courtly love of Westeros, at its core it establishes a male strength and determination, as well as a woman’s independence and ability to defend herself.

It is believed bad luck to name a child before two years of age, because of the propensity of children to die in the harsh environment beyond the Wall.{{Ref|aSoS|46}}

==Raiding==
Raiding beyond the Wall is a large part of Free Folk culture. Raiders start at a young age, as little as twelve years.{{Ref|aSoS|26}} Raiders either climb the Wall or use little boats to cross the [[Bay of Seals]] around it. Climbing the height of the [[Wall]] is an exercise that can take most of a day and rangers often find the broken bodies of those who have fallen.{{Ref|aSoS|30}}

To climb the Wall the Free Folk use the aid of huge ladders of woven hemp, queer boots of supple doeskin spiked with iron, bronze, or more usually jagged bone, small stone-headed hammers, stakes of iron and bone and horn, and antlers with sharpened tines bound to wooden hafts with strips of hide serving as ice axes.{{Ref|aSoS|30}}

Over the decades, as the Watch has grown weaker, the Free Folk have gotten more bold. Some have tried to raid [[House Umber]] lands or even the lands of [[Bear Island]], instead of the usual villages and holdfasts in the [[Gift]].

Raiders do not cross the Wall to steal fish and apples. They take swords and axes, spices, silks, furs, every coin, ring, and jeweled cup they can find, casks of wine in summer and casks of beef in winter, and they take women in any season to carry them off beyond the Wall.{{Ref|aSoS|41}}

==Armament==
{{See also|Armament}}

Most Free Folk warriors still wield weaponry forged of stone, wood, and bronze, such as stone axes and flails, fire-hardened spears and lances, and bows of wood and horn. Their bows are outranged by the yew longbows of the south, but can seemingly shoot an arrow as high as seven hundred feet.{{Ref|aSoS|55}}{{Ref|aSoS|64}}

The Freek Folk do not mine nor smelt and there are few smiths and fewer forges north of the Wall, the only metal armor that they wear are bits and pieces looted from dead rangers. Most will wear boiled leather or sewn sheepskins and use crude round shields of skin stretched over wicker, painting them with figures such as skulls and bones, serpents, bear claws, twisted demonic faces, and severed heads.{{Ref|aCoK|68}}{{Ref|aSoS|55}}{{Ref|aSoS|73}}

The [[Thenn]]s are more well-armed and armored than most Free Folk, with bronze helms, axes, short stabbing spears with leaf-shaped heads, shirts sewn with bronze discs, and plain unadorned shields of black boiled leather with bronze rims and bosses.

Free Folk [[horse]]s are surefooted, but scarce.

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
The Free Folk tribes have been unified under [[Mance Rayder]], the [[King-Beyond-The-Wall]], a former member of the Night's Watch who fled the Wall, betraying his sworn brothers. Mance gathered all the Free Folk around him and set them all on the move south to the [[Wall]], fleeing from the [[Others]].

Upon reaching the Wall the Free Folk attempt to breach the gates at Castle Black and are defeated, in what is later known as [[Battle of Castle Black]], by the [[Night's Watch]] and the surprise appearance of [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s army. Though many fighting men were lost, a large part of the host regathered around [[Tormund Giantsbane]].

===''A Dance of Dragons''===
The Free Folk were allowed to pass through the Wall and settle in the Gift by Lord Commander of the Night's Watch [[Jon Snow]].

==Notable Free Folk==
===Famous warlords styled [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]]===
* '''[[Raymun|Raymun Redbeard]]'''
* '''[[Bael|Bael the Bard]]'''
* the '''[[Horned King]]'''
* the brothers '''[[Gendel]]''' and '''[[Gorne]]'''
* the legendary '''[[Joramun]]'''
*'''[[Mance Rayder]]''', captured after the [[Battle of Castle Black]] and allegedly burned at the stake by [[Stannis Baratheon]].

===Others===
*'''[[Craster]]''', held a [[Craster's Keep|keep]] near the Wall and gave begrudging aid to rangers. Murdered along with Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont]] by rangers after the [[Battle of the Fist of the First Men]].
*'''[[Dalla]]''', wife of Mance Rayder. Died in childbirth during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''[[Harma]]''', called "Dogshead", an infamous female raider and cynophobe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''The Lord of Bones''', mocked by rangers (and some Free Folk) as "[[Rattleshirt]]", a sadistic raider who wears armor made of bone. Captured after the [[Battle of Castle Black]].
*'''[[Orell]]''', a raider and [[skinchanger]]. He was killed by [[Jon Snow]] while his mind inhabited an eagle. A part of his consciousness became permanently trapped in the eagle, causing it to hate Jon Snow.
*'''[[Osha]]''', Free Folk woman taken captive by forces of [[House Stark]] south of the Wall. Spared execution in exchange for service, she became a guardian and companion to [[Rickon Stark]].
*'''[[Styr]]''', the Magnar of Thenn, chieftain of the Thenns, a warlike Free Folk tribe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
*'''[[Tormund]]''', known as "Giantsbane", among many other things, a raider prone to tall tales.
*'''[[Val]]''', sister of Dalla. Imprisoned after the Battle of Castle Black. Became known as the "Wildling Princess" due to her beauty.
*'''[[Varamyr|Varamyr "Sixskins"]]''', a diminutive skinchanger who is accompanied by three wolves, a snowbear and a shadowcat. After Orell's death, Varamyr took control of his eagle and used it to scout during the battle of Castle Black. [[Melisandre]] killed the eagle while Varamyr inhabited it, causing him to go mad.
*'''[[Ygritte]]''', red-haired lover to Jon Snow. Killed in the Battle of Castle Black.

==References and Notes==
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{{EnWP|Night's Watch|small=yes}}

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[[Category:Cultures]]
[[fr:Sauvageons]][[ru:Одичалые]]

Game of Thrones (2012 video game)

2012-02-11T19:24:50Z

Stormlander: /* Main Characters background */

{{Infobox Game
| title = Game of Thrones <br>The Roleplaying Game
| image=
| caption=
| developer= Cyanide Studio
| publisher=
| platform= PC, PS3 and XBOX 360
| release_date= TBP
| language= English
| genre= RPG
| rating=
| players= Single player.
}}

'''Game of Thrones:The Roleplaying Game''' is a video game. The game is being developed by Cyanide Studio, for PC, PS3 and XBOX 360 at the same time.

==GAMEPLAY==
===Character===
The Game puts players in control of two original characters, Mors Westfold and Alester Sarwyck. They do not appear in the [[A Song of Ice and Fire|novels]], although [[George R. R. Martin|GRRM]] has indicated to the studio that he might choose to make mentions of them, their families, or details from the game’s story in later novels. The story is divided into point of view-based “chapters”, with cliffhangers and twists ending each chapter, much like in the novels where one chapter from the perspective of one character is followed by a chapter from a completely different character. Both of them have special abiltiies and three fighting modes. Mors is a [[skinchanger]] and can slip into his dog to find secret paths or to listen in on conversations, and he can even follow a character’s tracks through scent. Alester is a [[R'hllor|red priest]] who can set fire on his sword using wildfire, he can look into the flames to find secrets, at higher levels, can use certain fire-based magic.

The characters are fixed in terms of background and appearances, but you can customize them greatly in terms of their abilities. First, you can choose different fighting styles. Mors can be set as a “Ragnar”(allowing dual-wielding), [[Knight|Hedge Knight]] (one two-handed weapon) or [[Knight|Landed Knight]] (a weapon in the hand, a shield on the other). Alester, on the other hand, can be set up as a [[Water Dancer]] (light and agile, with a slender blade), a [[Sellsword]] (daggers and poisons), or Ranger (Bow and arrows).

For each class you’ll have an initial skill tree. When you level up, your character could go ahead in his tree, and that way he can have new abilities in combat. At level 7, characters will have a choice to make, selecting specializations that will open up new skill trees. For example, having started Mors as a Landed Knight, you’ll be able to select a new skill tree opening up more defensive capabilities, building the character into a true “tank”. The other option is to instead switch into one of the two initial skill trees that you did not select at the beginning. In the cast of Mors as a Landed Knight, this means you can select Ragna or Hedge Knight, essentially taking a “dual-class” approach with the character being more versatile but having less powerful options. Finally, there’s a third skill tree related to “magic”: R’hllorian magic for Alester, skinchanging for Mors.

In the course of the campaign, each character can bring with him one or several non-player characters who can’t be directly controlled but who can provide help in fights, and an additional companion who can be directly controlled. There are several potential companions in the game, but you can only have one of these at a time.

===Combat===
Cyanide’s goal is something dynamic and strategic. The strategic side was something they wanted since the beginning of the development but they did not want a turn-based system as they felt that that would make combat too slow. Instead, there’s a menu wheel of actions which opens during the fight and the action moves in slow-motion behind this menu (like you can see in The Witcher or the Assassin’s Creed series). In concrete terms, you can push a key, time slows, and a menu opens providing you options while you’re engaging the enemy in slow-motion. In that wheel you can choose the next three actions of the characters you control. For example: hitting the key to slow the action down, the menu opens so that you can choose a normal hit followed by a block and finally a knock-out attack in you menu, hit the key again, and you’ll see your characters carry these actions out in real-time. On screen, this system seemed to work really well, neither hindering the action nor losing you among menus.

Another very important thing in this game is narration. You’ll speak many times during the game, and to many people. You’ll choose your answers during conversations (as in Dragon Age or Mass Effect). A part of your answers will influence only the end of the dialog, but many choices you’ll make with your partners or with Westerosi people will have an effect, sometimes very serious ones, on your next adventures. The example the developers showed to the media involved the reunion between Alester and his cousin. He insults Alester and you have to choose how you want to answer (insults in return, putting him in his place, or being quiet). This will affect how he’ll respond to your commands when he’s your companion, potentially choosing not to obey them. Conversing with other characters and investigating things through dialog will be another way of gaining experience and advantages in the course of play.

==The Story==
The game will cover the period of the [[A Game of Thrones|first book]] of the saga (or the first season of HBO show). It begins before [[Jon Arryn]]’s death and ends…with the first book end. The script was reviewed by [[George R. R. Martin|George R R Martin]], and it went through multiple drafts before he and everyone else on the team was happy with it. It was necessary in part because the developers wanted it to have as much fidelity as possible to Martin’s [[A Song of Ice and Fire|universe]] and wanted to avoid inconsistencies not just with the currently published books, but with future books in the series.One of the essential points that Martin and the developers wanted for this game was not simply to be a game where the book itself was the script. They didn’t want you to play [[Eddard Stark]], they wanted to show you something exclusive, original, but fitting in within the gaps that exist in the story.

One of the other areas the creators wanted to avoid is the clichés of traditional fantasy role-playing games. For example, instead of having your characters be inexperienced novices choosing to save the world, the two main characters are already experienced men, with strongly defined personalities and who have their rough spots, rather than being “Care Bears”.

===Main Characters background===
The two main characters of the game are Mors Westford, brother of the Night's Watch and Alester Sarywck, a Red Priest. Mors Westford is an old lord from the [[Westerlands]]. Fifteen years ago, during [[Robert's Rebellion]], Mors refused to carry out one of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]’s commands to his bannermen, and was given the choice of a traitor’s death or [[the Wall]]. He took the black and became a member of the [[Night's Watch]]. He’s now an officer and a ranger. He’s called “The Butcher” and his chief task is finding and executing deserters from the Night’s Watch. To help him, he has a big dog which helps him to track recent runaways. Because he is a [[skinchanger]], and because of his particular duties, it’s said on the Wall that the dog is his only friend.

Alester Sarwyck is the elder son of Lord Sarwyck from a place in the Westerland. For some unknown reason, Alester get away and went to [[Essos]] after Robert’s rebellion. He became a R’hllor follower and a red priest. He comes back when he heard of his father dying. There he finds a devastated land where some people tell of a peasant revolt. His sister try to manage the territory (the bad way), his brother is missing and he’s accused to poison his father, and at last, his bastard half-brother is ready to do everything to inherit.

The fate of this two characters will cross and they will interact with some characters from the books like Lord [[Varys]], Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], or the Old Bear, all of whom are voiced by and are designed to look like the actors from the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]]. The design of the [[Iron Throne]] is also influenced by the design on the show, but otherwise most locations and character designs are original to the game, dating from before the time Cynaide and HBO came to an agreement on licensing.

The game’s central story revolves around royal [[bastard]]s (readers of the series will know there are many of these), and there are several possible endings to the game. The principal storyline is estimated to offer 30-35 hours of gameplay, and there will be a number of side-missions which are bundled up with the principal story. These will all be immersive, richly detailed stories —nothing of the “Find my lost child in the forest and I’ll give you this artifact” grinding mission variety—that attempt to emulate the way the story of the novels branches out and contains many interwoven plot threads. These side-missions will become options in the course of playing the “chapters” of the game, and if you choose not to take one, it won’t crop up later in some slightly-changed form.

== External links ==
* [http://www.gameofthrones-rpg.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.focus-home.com/index.php?rub=games&gid=73 Publisher Game Page]
* [http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/agot/ Developer Game Page]

== References ==
* Review written by [[User:ran]], [http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/New_Details_on_Atlus_USAs_Game_of_Thrones_RPG/ source]

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Talk:Kinslaying

2012-02-11T19:19:26Z

Stormlander:

What's the problem about putting Jaime in the list?

--[[User:Stormlander|Storm]] 19:18, 11 February 2012 (UTC)Stormlander

User:Stormlander

2012-02-11T19:18:42Z

Stormlander:

Hi everyone im quite new here might i very much like the entire ASOIAF series and i hope ill help as much as i can in editing and other stuff here. Ive edited at some other wikis at wikia community so i think i can help. Really this wiki is great :).
sory for my poor english

Yours faithful

--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 08:16, 12 November 2011 (UTC)stormlander

It's good to have you with us, sorry for the spoiler thing, it's just that we already had it on the main page, moved it, consider(ed?) spoiler templates for character pages. that I rather we dont change the main pages until we can get some kind of consensus on the issue. Also, dont worry about your English, my English is poor as well, but we all find ways to contribute to the best of our ability ;) --11:04, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Ours is the Fury

Talk:Kinslaying

2012-02-11T19:18:10Z

Stormlander: Created page with "What's the problem about putting Jaime in the list? --~~~~Stormlander"

What's the problem about putting Jaime in the list?

--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 19:18, 11 February 2012 (UTC)Stormlander

Kinslaying

2012-02-10T15:31:15Z

Stormlander: /* People accused or suspected of kinslaying */

'''Kinslaying''' is a great taboo in [[Westeros]]. When a member of family kills a relation he/she is dubbed a '''Kinslayer'''. Any individual who slays a member of there own family is believed to be cursed by the gods. Many Lords and smallfolk believe this and thus those who slay there own blood are usually looked down upon or shunned. There is a saying...

{{Quote|''"Old Gods or New, it makes no matter, No man is so accursed as the Kinslayer"''{{Ref|aSoS|20}}. }}

Sometimes in extreme circumstances Kinslayers are even executed as punishment for their deeds.

==People accused or suspected of kinslaying==

* '''[[Tyrion Lannister]]''': accused of the murder of his nephew, King [[Joffrey I]], of which he's actually innocent. Although he is guilty of killing his own father [[Tywin Lannister]].
* '''[[Gregor Clegane]]''': is rumored to have murdered his own father and sister.
* '''[[Ramsay Bolton]]''': his own father, [[Roose Bolton]], suspects he murdered his half-brother [[Domeric Bolton|Domeric]], Roose's trueborn son.
* '''[[Robb Stark]]''': when preparing to execute [[Rickard Karstark]], Karstark calls Robb a kingslayer due to the blood ties between [[House Stark|Starks]] and [[House Karstark|Karstarks]].
* '''[[Harlan Hunter]]''': According to [[Petyr Baelish]] Harlan murdered his own father [[Eon Hunter]] and is also planning on murdering his elder brother [[Gilwood Hunter]].
* '''[[Jaime Lannister]]''': accused for killing Egon Targaryen king of [[Westeros]].

==See also==
[[Customs]] for additional information on customs and traditions of Westeros.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

[[Category:Terms]]

Kinslaying

2012-02-10T15:30:37Z

Stormlander: /* People accused or suspected of kinslaying */

'''Kinslaying''' is a great taboo in [[Westeros]]. When a member of family kills a relation he/she is dubbed a '''Kinslayer'''. Any individual who slays a member of there own family is believed to be cursed by the gods. Many Lords and smallfolk believe this and thus those who slay there own blood are usually looked down upon or shunned. There is a saying...

{{Quote|''"Old Gods or New, it makes no matter, No man is so accursed as the Kinslayer"''{{Ref|aSoS|20}}. }}

Sometimes in extreme circumstances Kinslayers are even executed as punishment for their deeds.

==People accused or suspected of kinslaying==

* '''[[Tyrion Lannister]]''': accused of the murder of his nephew, King [[Joffrey I]], of which he's actually innocent. Although he is guilty of killing his own father [[Tywin Lannister]].
* '''[[Gregor Clegane]]''': is rumored to have murdered his own father and sister.
* '''[[Ramsay Bolton]]''': his own father, [[Roose Bolton]], suspects he murdered his half-brother [[Domeric Bolton|Domeric]], Roose's trueborn son.
* '''[[Robb Stark]]''': when preparing to execute [[Rickard Karstark]], Karstark calls Robb a kingslayer due to the blood ties between [[House Stark|Starks]] and [[House Karstark|Karstarks]].
* '''[[Harlan Hunter]]''': According to [[Petyr Baelish]] Harlan murdered his own father [[Eon Hunter]] and is also planning on murdering his elder brother [[Gilwood Hunter]].
* '''[[Jaime Lannister]]''': accused for killing Egon Targaryen king of [[Westeros]]

==See also==
[[Customs]] for additional information on customs and traditions of Westeros.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

[[Category:Terms]]

Game of Thrones (2012 video game)

2012-02-10T15:23:29Z

Stormlander: /* Main Characters background */

{{Infobox Game
| title = Game of Thrones <br>The Roleplaying Game
| image=
| caption=
| developer= Cyanide Studio
| publisher=
| platform= PC, PS3 and XBOX 360
| release_date= TBP
| language= English
| genre= RPG
| rating=
| players= Single player.
}}

'''Game of Thrones:The Roleplaying Game''' is a video game. The game is being developed by Cyanide Studio, for PC, PS3 and XBOX 360 at the same time.

==GAMEPLAY==
===Character===
The Game puts players in control of two original characters, Mors Westfold and Alester Sarwyck. They do not appear in the [[A Song of Ice and Fire|novels]], although [[George R. R. Martin|GRRM]] has indicated to the studio that he might choose to make mentions of them, their families, or details from the game’s story in later novels. The story is divided into point of view-based “chapters”, with cliffhangers and twists ending each chapter, much like in the novels where one chapter from the perspective of one character is followed by a chapter from a completely different character. Both of them have special abiltiies and three fighting modes. Mors is a [[skinchanger]] and can slip into his dog to find secret paths or to listen in on conversations, and he can even follow a character’s tracks through scent. Alester is a [[R'hllor|red priest]] who can set fire on his sword using wildfire, he can look into the flames to find secrets, at higher levels, can use certain fire-based magic.

The characters are fixed in terms of background and appearances, but you can customize them greatly in terms of their abilities. First, you can choose different fighting styles. Mors can be set as a “Ragnar”(allowing dual-wielding), [[Knight|Hedge Knight]] (one two-handed weapon) or [[Knight|Landed Knight]] (a weapon in the hand, a shield on the other). Alester, on the other hand, can be set up as a [[Water Dancer]] (light and agile, with a slender blade), a [[Sellsword]] (daggers and poisons), or Ranger (Bow and arrows).

For each class you’ll have an initial skill tree. When you level up, your character could go ahead in his tree, and that way he can have new abilities in combat. At level 7, characters will have a choice to make, selecting specializations that will open up new skill trees. For example, having started Mors as a Landed Knight, you’ll be able to select a new skill tree opening up more defensive capabilities, building the character into a true “tank”. The other option is to instead switch into one of the two initial skill trees that you did not select at the beginning. In the cast of Mors as a Landed Knight, this means you can select Ragna or Hedge Knight, essentially taking a “dual-class” approach with the character being more versatile but having less powerful options. Finally, there’s a third skill tree related to “magic”: R’hllorian magic for Alester, skinchanging for Mors.

In the course of the campaign, each character can bring with him one or several non-player characters who can’t be directly controlled but who can provide help in fights, and an additional companion who can be directly controlled. There are several potential companions in the game, but you can only have one of these at a time.

===Combat===
Cyanide’s goal is something dynamic and strategic. The strategic side was something they wanted since the beginning of the development but they did not want a turn-based system as they felt that that would make combat too slow. Instead, there’s a menu wheel of actions which opens during the fight and the action moves in slow-motion behind this menu (like you can see in The Witcher or the Assassin’s Creed series). In concrete terms, you can push a key, time slows, and a menu opens providing you options while you’re engaging the enemy in slow-motion. In that wheel you can choose the next three actions of the characters you control. For example: hitting the key to slow the action down, the menu opens so that you can choose a normal hit followed by a block and finally a knock-out attack in you menu, hit the key again, and you’ll see your characters carry these actions out in real-time. On screen, this system seemed to work really well, neither hindering the action nor losing you among menus.

Another very important thing in this game is narration. You’ll speak many times during the game, and to many people. You’ll choose your answers during conversations (as in Dragon Age or Mass Effect). A part of your answers will influence only the end of the dialog, but many choices you’ll make with your partners or with Westerosi people will have an effect, sometimes very serious ones, on your next adventures. The example the developers showed to the media involved the reunion between Alester and his cousin. He insults Alester and you have to choose how you want to answer (insults in return, putting him in his place, or being quiet). This will affect how he’ll respond to your commands when he’s your companion, potentially choosing not to obey them. Conversing with other characters and investigating things through dialog will be another way of gaining experience and advantages in the course of play.

==The Story==
The game will cover the period of the [[A Game of Thrones|first book]] of the saga (or the first season of HBO show). It begins before [[Jon Arryn]]’s death and ends…with the first book end. The script was reviewed by [[George R. R. Martin|George R R Martin]], and it went through multiple drafts before he and everyone else on the team was happy with it. It was necessary in part because the developers wanted it to have as much fidelity as possible to Martin’s [[A Song of Ice and Fire|universe]] and wanted to avoid inconsistencies not just with the currently published books, but with future books in the series.One of the essential points that Martin and the developers wanted for this game was not simply to be a game where the book itself was the script. They didn’t want you to play [[Eddard Stark]], they wanted to show you something exclusive, original, but fitting in within the gaps that exist in the story.

One of the other areas the creators wanted to avoid is the clichés of traditional fantasy role-playing games. For example, instead of having your characters be inexperienced novices choosing to save the world, the two main characters are already experienced men, with strongly defined personalities and who have their rough spots, rather than being “Care Bears”.

===Main Characters background===
The two main characters of the game are Mors Westford, brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and Alester Sarywck, a Red Priest. Mors Westford is an old lord from the [[Westerlands]]. Fifteen years ago, during [[Robert's Rebellion]], Mors refused to carry out one of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]’s commands to his bannermen, and was given the choice of a traitor’s death or [[the Wall]]. He took the black and became a member of the [[Night's Watch]]. He’s now an officer and a ranger. He’s called “The Butcher” and his chief task is finding and executing deserters from the Night’s Watch. To help him, he has a big dog which helps him to track recent runaways. Because he is a [[skinchanger]], and because of his particular duties, it’s said on the Wall that the dog is his only friend.

Alester Sarwyck is the elder son of Lord Sarwyck from a place in the Westerland. For some unknown reason, Alester get away and went to [[Essos]] after Robert’s rebellion. He became a R’hllor follower and a red priest. He comes back when he heard of his father dying. There he finds a devastated land where some people tell of a peasant revolt. His sister try to manage the territory (the bad way), his brother is missing and he’s accused to poison his father, and at last, his bastard half-brother is ready to do everything to inherit.

The fate of this two characters will cross and they will interact with some characters from the books like Lord [[Varys]], Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], or the Old Bear, all of whom are voiced by and are)) designed to look like the actors from the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]]. The design of the [[Iron Throne]] is also influenced by the design on the show, but otherwise most locations and character designs are original to the game, dating from before the time Cynaide and HBO came to an agreement on licensing.

The game’s central story revolves around royal [[bastard]]s (readers of the series will know there are many of these), and there are several possible endings to the game. The principal storyline is estimated to offer 30-35 hours of gameplay, and there will be a number of side-missions which are bundled up with the principal story. These will all be immersive, richly detailed stories —nothing of the “Find my lost child in the forest and I’ll give you this artifact” grinding mission variety—that attempt to emulate the way the story of the novels branches out and contains many interwoven plot threads. These side-missions will become options in the course of playing the “chapters” of the game, and if you choose not to take one, it won’t crop up later in some slightly-changed form.

== External links ==
* [http://www.gameofthrones-rpg.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.focus-home.com/index.php?rub=games&gid=73 Publisher Game Page]
* [http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/agot/ Developer Game Page]

== References ==
* Review written by [[User:ran]], [http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/New_Details_on_Atlus_USAs_Game_of_Thrones_RPG/ source]

{{references|2}}

{{Template:ASOIAF}}

[[Category:Products]]
[[fr:Game of Thrones: The Role Playing Game]]

Game of Thrones (2012 video game)

2012-02-10T15:18:30Z

Stormlander: /* Main Characters background */

{{Infobox Game
| title = Game of Thrones <br>The Roleplaying Game
| image=
| caption=
| developer= Cyanide Studio
| publisher=
| platform= PC, PS3 and XBOX 360
| release_date= TBP
| language= English
| genre= RPG
| rating=
| players= Single player.
}}

'''Game of Thrones:The Roleplaying Game''' is a video game. The game is being developed by Cyanide Studio, for PC, PS3 and XBOX 360 at the same time.

==GAMEPLAY==
===Character===
The Game puts players in control of two original characters, Mors Westfold and Alester Sarwyck. They do not appear in the [[A Song of Ice and Fire|novels]], although [[George R. R. Martin|GRRM]] has indicated to the studio that he might choose to make mentions of them, their families, or details from the game’s story in later novels. The story is divided into point of view-based “chapters”, with cliffhangers and twists ending each chapter, much like in the novels where one chapter from the perspective of one character is followed by a chapter from a completely different character. Both of them have special abiltiies and three fighting modes. Mors is a [[skinchanger]] and can slip into his dog to find secret paths or to listen in on conversations, and he can even follow a character’s tracks through scent. Alester is a [[R'hllor|red priest]] who can set fire on his sword using wildfire, he can look into the flames to find secrets, at higher levels, can use certain fire-based magic.

The characters are fixed in terms of background and appearances, but you can customize them greatly in terms of their abilities. First, you can choose different fighting styles. Mors can be set as a “Ragnar”(allowing dual-wielding), [[Knight|Hedge Knight]] (one two-handed weapon) or [[Knight|Landed Knight]] (a weapon in the hand, a shield on the other). Alester, on the other hand, can be set up as a [[Water Dancer]] (light and agile, with a slender blade), a [[Sellsword]] (daggers and poisons), or Ranger (Bow and arrows).

For each class you’ll have an initial skill tree. When you level up, your character could go ahead in his tree, and that way he can have new abilities in combat. At level 7, characters will have a choice to make, selecting specializations that will open up new skill trees. For example, having started Mors as a Landed Knight, you’ll be able to select a new skill tree opening up more defensive capabilities, building the character into a true “tank”. The other option is to instead switch into one of the two initial skill trees that you did not select at the beginning. In the cast of Mors as a Landed Knight, this means you can select Ragna or Hedge Knight, essentially taking a “dual-class” approach with the character being more versatile but having less powerful options. Finally, there’s a third skill tree related to “magic”: R’hllorian magic for Alester, skinchanging for Mors.

In the course of the campaign, each character can bring with him one or several non-player characters who can’t be directly controlled but who can provide help in fights, and an additional companion who can be directly controlled. There are several potential companions in the game, but you can only have one of these at a time.

===Combat===
Cyanide’s goal is something dynamic and strategic. The strategic side was something they wanted since the beginning of the development but they did not want a turn-based system as they felt that that would make combat too slow. Instead, there’s a menu wheel of actions which opens during the fight and the action moves in slow-motion behind this menu (like you can see in The Witcher or the Assassin’s Creed series). In concrete terms, you can push a key, time slows, and a menu opens providing you options while you’re engaging the enemy in slow-motion. In that wheel you can choose the next three actions of the characters you control. For example: hitting the key to slow the action down, the menu opens so that you can choose a normal hit followed by a block and finally a knock-out attack in you menu, hit the key again, and you’ll see your characters carry these actions out in real-time. On screen, this system seemed to work really well, neither hindering the action nor losing you among menus.

Another very important thing in this game is narration. You’ll speak many times during the game, and to many people. You’ll choose your answers during conversations (as in Dragon Age or Mass Effect). A part of your answers will influence only the end of the dialog, but many choices you’ll make with your partners or with Westerosi people will have an effect, sometimes very serious ones, on your next adventures. The example the developers showed to the media involved the reunion between Alester and his cousin. He insults Alester and you have to choose how you want to answer (insults in return, putting him in his place, or being quiet). This will affect how he’ll respond to your commands when he’s your companion, potentially choosing not to obey them. Conversing with other characters and investigating things through dialog will be another way of gaining experience and advantages in the course of play.

==The Story==
The game will cover the period of the [[A Game of Thrones|first book]] of the saga (or the first season of HBO show). It begins before [[Jon Arryn]]’s death and ends…with the first book end. The script was reviewed by [[George R. R. Martin|George R R Martin]], and it went through multiple drafts before he and everyone else on the team was happy with it. It was necessary in part because the developers wanted it to have as much fidelity as possible to Martin’s [[A Song of Ice and Fire|universe]] and wanted to avoid inconsistencies not just with the currently published books, but with future books in the series.One of the essential points that Martin and the developers wanted for this game was not simply to be a game where the book itself was the script. They didn’t want you to play [[Eddard Stark]], they wanted to show you something exclusive, original, but fitting in within the gaps that exist in the story.

One of the other areas the creators wanted to avoid is the clichés of traditional fantasy role-playing games. For example, instead of having your characters be inexperienced novices choosing to save the world, the two main characters are already experienced men, with strongly defined personalities and who have their rough spots, rather than being “Care Bears”.

===Main Characters background===
The two main characters of the game are Mors Westford, brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and Alester Sarywck, a [[Red Priest]]. Mors Westford is an old lord from the [[Westerlands]]. Fifteen years ago, during [[Robert's Rebellion]], Mors refused to carry out one of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]’s commands to his bannermen, and was given the choice of a traitor’s death or [[the Wall]]. He took the black and became a member of the [[Night's Watch]]. He’s now an officer and a ranger. He’s called “The Butcher” and his chief task is finding and executing deserters from the Night’s Watch. To help him, he has a big dog which helps him to track recent runaways. Because he is a [[skinchanger]], and because of his particular duties, it’s said on the Wall that the dog is his only friend.

Alester Sarwyck is the elder son of Lord Sarwyck from a place in the Westerland. For some unknown reason, Alester get away and went to [[Essos]] after Robert’s rebellion. He became a R’hllor follower and a red priest. He comes back when he heard of his father dying. There he finds a devastated land where some people tell of a peasant revolt. His sister try to manage the territory (the bad way), his brother is missing and he’s accused to poison his father, and at last, his bastard half-brother is ready to do everything to inherit.

The fate of this two characters will cross and they will interact with some characters from the books like Lord [[Varys]], Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], or the Old Bear, all of whom are voiced by and are)) designed to look like the actors from the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]]. The design of the [[Iron Throne]] is also influenced by the design on the show, but otherwise most locations and character designs are original to the game, dating from before the time Cynaide and HBO came to an agreement on licensing.

The game’s central story revolves around royal [[bastard]]s (readers of the series will know there are many of these), and there are several possible endings to the game. The principal storyline is estimated to offer 30-35 hours of gameplay, and there will be a number of side-missions which are bundled up with the principal story. These will all be immersive, richly detailed stories —nothing of the “Find my lost child in the forest and I’ll give you this artifact” grinding mission variety—that attempt to emulate the way the story of the novels branches out and contains many interwoven plot threads. These side-missions will become options in the course of playing the “chapters” of the game, and if you choose not to take one, it won’t crop up later in some slightly-changed form.

== External links ==
* [http://www.gameofthrones-rpg.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.focus-home.com/index.php?rub=games&gid=73 Publisher Game Page]
* [http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/agot/ Developer Game Page]

== References ==
* Review written by [[User:ran]], [http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/New_Details_on_Atlus_USAs_Game_of_Thrones_RPG/ source]

{{references|2}}

{{Template:ASOIAF}}

[[Category:Products]]
[[fr:Game of Thrones: The Role Playing Game]]

Game of Thrones (2012 video game)

2012-02-10T15:17:58Z

Stormlander: /* Main Characters background */

{{Infobox Game
| title = Game of Thrones <br>The Roleplaying Game
| image=
| caption=
| developer= Cyanide Studio
| publisher=
| platform= PC, PS3 and XBOX 360
| release_date= TBP
| language= English
| genre= RPG
| rating=
| players= Single player.
}}

'''Game of Thrones:The Roleplaying Game''' is a video game. The game is being developed by Cyanide Studio, for PC, PS3 and XBOX 360 at the same time.

==GAMEPLAY==
===Character===
The Game puts players in control of two original characters, Mors Westfold and Alester Sarwyck. They do not appear in the [[A Song of Ice and Fire|novels]], although [[George R. R. Martin|GRRM]] has indicated to the studio that he might choose to make mentions of them, their families, or details from the game’s story in later novels. The story is divided into point of view-based “chapters”, with cliffhangers and twists ending each chapter, much like in the novels where one chapter from the perspective of one character is followed by a chapter from a completely different character. Both of them have special abiltiies and three fighting modes. Mors is a [[skinchanger]] and can slip into his dog to find secret paths or to listen in on conversations, and he can even follow a character’s tracks through scent. Alester is a [[R'hllor|red priest]] who can set fire on his sword using wildfire, he can look into the flames to find secrets, at higher levels, can use certain fire-based magic.

The characters are fixed in terms of background and appearances, but you can customize them greatly in terms of their abilities. First, you can choose different fighting styles. Mors can be set as a “Ragnar”(allowing dual-wielding), [[Knight|Hedge Knight]] (one two-handed weapon) or [[Knight|Landed Knight]] (a weapon in the hand, a shield on the other). Alester, on the other hand, can be set up as a [[Water Dancer]] (light and agile, with a slender blade), a [[Sellsword]] (daggers and poisons), or Ranger (Bow and arrows).

For each class you’ll have an initial skill tree. When you level up, your character could go ahead in his tree, and that way he can have new abilities in combat. At level 7, characters will have a choice to make, selecting specializations that will open up new skill trees. For example, having started Mors as a Landed Knight, you’ll be able to select a new skill tree opening up more defensive capabilities, building the character into a true “tank”. The other option is to instead switch into one of the two initial skill trees that you did not select at the beginning. In the cast of Mors as a Landed Knight, this means you can select Ragna or Hedge Knight, essentially taking a “dual-class” approach with the character being more versatile but having less powerful options. Finally, there’s a third skill tree related to “magic”: R’hllorian magic for Alester, skinchanging for Mors.

In the course of the campaign, each character can bring with him one or several non-player characters who can’t be directly controlled but who can provide help in fights, and an additional companion who can be directly controlled. There are several potential companions in the game, but you can only have one of these at a time.

===Combat===
Cyanide’s goal is something dynamic and strategic. The strategic side was something they wanted since the beginning of the development but they did not want a turn-based system as they felt that that would make combat too slow. Instead, there’s a menu wheel of actions which opens during the fight and the action moves in slow-motion behind this menu (like you can see in The Witcher or the Assassin’s Creed series). In concrete terms, you can push a key, time slows, and a menu opens providing you options while you’re engaging the enemy in slow-motion. In that wheel you can choose the next three actions of the characters you control. For example: hitting the key to slow the action down, the menu opens so that you can choose a normal hit followed by a block and finally a knock-out attack in you menu, hit the key again, and you’ll see your characters carry these actions out in real-time. On screen, this system seemed to work really well, neither hindering the action nor losing you among menus.

Another very important thing in this game is narration. You’ll speak many times during the game, and to many people. You’ll choose your answers during conversations (as in Dragon Age or Mass Effect). A part of your answers will influence only the end of the dialog, but many choices you’ll make with your partners or with Westerosi people will have an effect, sometimes very serious ones, on your next adventures. The example the developers showed to the media involved the reunion between Alester and his cousin. He insults Alester and you have to choose how you want to answer (insults in return, putting him in his place, or being quiet). This will affect how he’ll respond to your commands when he’s your companion, potentially choosing not to obey them. Conversing with other characters and investigating things through dialog will be another way of gaining experience and advantages in the course of play.

==The Story==
The game will cover the period of the [[A Game of Thrones|first book]] of the saga (or the first season of HBO show). It begins before [[Jon Arryn]]’s death and ends…with the first book end. The script was reviewed by [[George R. R. Martin|George R R Martin]], and it went through multiple drafts before he and everyone else on the team was happy with it. It was necessary in part because the developers wanted it to have as much fidelity as possible to Martin’s [[A Song of Ice and Fire|universe]] and wanted to avoid inconsistencies not just with the currently published books, but with future books in the series.One of the essential points that Martin and the developers wanted for this game was not simply to be a game where the book itself was the script. They didn’t want you to play [[Eddard Stark]], they wanted to show you something exclusive, original, but fitting in within the gaps that exist in the story.

One of the other areas the creators wanted to avoid is the clichés of traditional fantasy role-playing games. For example, instead of having your characters be inexperienced novices choosing to save the world, the two main characters are already experienced men, with strongly defined personalities and who have their rough spots, rather than being “Care Bears”.

===Main Characters background===
The two main characters of th game are Mors Westford, brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and Alester Sarywck, a [[Red Priest]]. Mors Westford is an old lord from the [[Westerlands]]. Fifteen years ago, during [[Robert's Rebellion]], Mors refused to carry out one of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]’s commands to his bannermen, and was given the choice of a traitor’s death or [[the Wall]]. He took the black and became a member of the [[Night's Watch]]. He’s now an officer and a ranger. He’s called “The Butcher” and his chief task is finding and executing deserters from the Night’s Watch. To help him, he has a big dog which helps him to track recent runaways. Because he is a [[skinchanger]], and because of his particular duties, it’s said on the Wall that the dog is his only friend.

Alester Sarwyck is the elder son of Lord Sarwyck from a place in the Westerland. For some unknown reason, Alester get away and went to [[Essos]] after Robert’s rebellion. He became a R’hllor follower and a red priest. He comes back when he heard of his father dying. There he finds a devastated land where some people tell of a peasant revolt. His sister try to manage the territory (the bad way), his brother is missing and he’s accused to poison his father, and at last, his bastard half-brother is ready to do everything to inherit.

The fate of this two characters will cross and they will interact with some characters from the books like Lord [[Varys]], Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], or the Old Bear, all of whom are voiced by and are)) designed to look like the actors from the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]]. The design of the [[Iron Throne]] is also influenced by the design on the show, but otherwise most locations and character designs are original to the game, dating from before the time Cynaide and HBO came to an agreement on licensing.

The game’s central story revolves around royal [[bastard]]s (readers of the series will know there are many of these), and there are several possible endings to the game. The principal storyline is estimated to offer 30-35 hours of gameplay, and there will be a number of side-missions which are bundled up with the principal story. These will all be immersive, richly detailed stories —nothing of the “Find my lost child in the forest and I’ll give you this artifact” grinding mission variety—that attempt to emulate the way the story of the novels branches out and contains many interwoven plot threads. These side-missions will become options in the course of playing the “chapters” of the game, and if you choose not to take one, it won’t crop up later in some slightly-changed form.

== External links ==
* [http://www.gameofthrones-rpg.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.focus-home.com/index.php?rub=games&gid=73 Publisher Game Page]
* [http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/agot/ Developer Game Page]

== References ==
* Review written by [[User:ran]], [http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/New_Details_on_Atlus_USAs_Game_of_Thrones_RPG/ source]

{{references|2}}

{{Template:ASOIAF}}

[[Category:Products]]
[[fr:Game of Thrones: The Role Playing Game]]

Game of Thrones (2012 video game)

2012-02-10T15:17:19Z

Stormlander: /* The Story */

{{Infobox Game
| title = Game of Thrones <br>The Roleplaying Game
| image=
| caption=
| developer= Cyanide Studio
| publisher=
| platform= PC, PS3 and XBOX 360
| release_date= TBP
| language= English
| genre= RPG
| rating=
| players= Single player.
}}

'''Game of Thrones:The Roleplaying Game''' is a video game. The game is being developed by Cyanide Studio, for PC, PS3 and XBOX 360 at the same time.

==GAMEPLAY==
===Character===
The Game puts players in control of two original characters, Mors Westfold and Alester Sarwyck. They do not appear in the [[A Song of Ice and Fire|novels]], although [[George R. R. Martin|GRRM]] has indicated to the studio that he might choose to make mentions of them, their families, or details from the game’s story in later novels. The story is divided into point of view-based “chapters”, with cliffhangers and twists ending each chapter, much like in the novels where one chapter from the perspective of one character is followed by a chapter from a completely different character. Both of them have special abiltiies and three fighting modes. Mors is a [[skinchanger]] and can slip into his dog to find secret paths or to listen in on conversations, and he can even follow a character’s tracks through scent. Alester is a [[R'hllor|red priest]] who can set fire on his sword using wildfire, he can look into the flames to find secrets, at higher levels, can use certain fire-based magic.

The characters are fixed in terms of background and appearances, but you can customize them greatly in terms of their abilities. First, you can choose different fighting styles. Mors can be set as a “Ragnar”(allowing dual-wielding), [[Knight|Hedge Knight]] (one two-handed weapon) or [[Knight|Landed Knight]] (a weapon in the hand, a shield on the other). Alester, on the other hand, can be set up as a [[Water Dancer]] (light and agile, with a slender blade), a [[Sellsword]] (daggers and poisons), or Ranger (Bow and arrows).

For each class you’ll have an initial skill tree. When you level up, your character could go ahead in his tree, and that way he can have new abilities in combat. At level 7, characters will have a choice to make, selecting specializations that will open up new skill trees. For example, having started Mors as a Landed Knight, you’ll be able to select a new skill tree opening up more defensive capabilities, building the character into a true “tank”. The other option is to instead switch into one of the two initial skill trees that you did not select at the beginning. In the cast of Mors as a Landed Knight, this means you can select Ragna or Hedge Knight, essentially taking a “dual-class” approach with the character being more versatile but having less powerful options. Finally, there’s a third skill tree related to “magic”: R’hllorian magic for Alester, skinchanging for Mors.

In the course of the campaign, each character can bring with him one or several non-player characters who can’t be directly controlled but who can provide help in fights, and an additional companion who can be directly controlled. There are several potential companions in the game, but you can only have one of these at a time.

===Combat===
Cyanide’s goal is something dynamic and strategic. The strategic side was something they wanted since the beginning of the development but they did not want a turn-based system as they felt that that would make combat too slow. Instead, there’s a menu wheel of actions which opens during the fight and the action moves in slow-motion behind this menu (like you can see in The Witcher or the Assassin’s Creed series). In concrete terms, you can push a key, time slows, and a menu opens providing you options while you’re engaging the enemy in slow-motion. In that wheel you can choose the next three actions of the characters you control. For example: hitting the key to slow the action down, the menu opens so that you can choose a normal hit followed by a block and finally a knock-out attack in you menu, hit the key again, and you’ll see your characters carry these actions out in real-time. On screen, this system seemed to work really well, neither hindering the action nor losing you among menus.

Another very important thing in this game is narration. You’ll speak many times during the game, and to many people. You’ll choose your answers during conversations (as in Dragon Age or Mass Effect). A part of your answers will influence only the end of the dialog, but many choices you’ll make with your partners or with Westerosi people will have an effect, sometimes very serious ones, on your next adventures. The example the developers showed to the media involved the reunion between Alester and his cousin. He insults Alester and you have to choose how you want to answer (insults in return, putting him in his place, or being quiet). This will affect how he’ll respond to your commands when he’s your companion, potentially choosing not to obey them. Conversing with other characters and investigating things through dialog will be another way of gaining experience and advantages in the course of play.

==The Story==
The game will cover the period of the [[A Game of Thrones|first book]] of the saga (or the first season of HBO show). It begins before [[Jon Arryn]]’s death and ends…with the first book end. The script was reviewed by [[George R. R. Martin|George R R Martin]], and it went through multiple drafts before he and everyone else on the team was happy with it. It was necessary in part because the developers wanted it to have as much fidelity as possible to Martin’s [[A Song of Ice and Fire|universe]] and wanted to avoid inconsistencies not just with the currently published books, but with future books in the series.One of the essential points that Martin and the developers wanted for this game was not simply to be a game where the book itself was the script. They didn’t want you to play [[Eddard Stark]], they wanted to show you something exclusive, original, but fitting in within the gaps that exist in the story.

One of the other areas the creators wanted to avoid is the clichés of traditional fantasy role-playing games. For example, instead of having your characters be inexperienced novices choosing to save the world, the two main characters are already experienced men, with strongly defined personalities and who have their rough spots, rather than being “Care Bears”.

===Main Characters background===
The two main characters of th game are Mors Westford, brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and Alester Sarywck, a [[Red Priest]]. Mors Westford is an old lord from the [[Westerlands]]. Fifteen years ago, during [[Robert's Rebellion]], Mors refused to carry out one of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]’s commands to his bannermen, and was given the choice of a traitor’s death or [[the Wall]]. He took the black and became a member of the [[Night's Watch]]. He’s now an officer and a ranger. He’s called “The Butcher” and his chief task is finding and executing deserters from the Night’s Watch. To help him, he has a big dog which helps him to track recent runaways. Because he is a [[skinchanger]], and because of his particular duties, it’s said on the Wall that the dog is his only friend.

Alester Sarwyck is the elder son of Lord Sarwyck from a place in the [[Westerland]]. For some unknown reason, Alester get away and went to [[Essos]] after [[Robert’s rebellion]]. He became a R’hllor follower and a red priest. He comes back when he heard of his father dying. There he finds a devastated land where some people tell of a peasant revolt. His sister try to manage the territory (the bad way), his brother is missing and he’s accused to poison his father, and at last, his bastard half-brother is ready to do everything to inherit.

The fate of this two characters will cross and they will interact with some characters from the books like Lord [[Varys]], Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], or the Old Bear, all of whom are voiced by and are)) designed to look like the actors from the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]]. The design of the [[Iron Throne]] is also influenced by the design on the show, but otherwise most locations and character designs are original to the game, dating from before the time Cynaide and HBO came to an agreement on licensing.

The game’s central story revolves around royal [[bastard]]s (readers of the series will know there are many of these), and there are several possible endings to the game. The principal storyline is estimated to offer 30-35 hours of gameplay, and there will be a number of side-missions which are bundled up with the principal story. These will all be immersive, richly detailed stories —nothing of the “Find my lost child in the forest and I’ll give you this artifact” grinding mission variety—that attempt to emulate the way the story of the novels branches out and contains many interwoven plot threads. These side-missions will become options in the course of playing the “chapters” of the game, and if you choose not to take one, it won’t crop up later in some slightly-changed form.

== External links ==
* [http://www.gameofthrones-rpg.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.focus-home.com/index.php?rub=games&gid=73 Publisher Game Page]
* [http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/agot/ Developer Game Page]

== References ==
* Review written by [[User:ran]], [http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/New_Details_on_Atlus_USAs_Game_of_Thrones_RPG/ source]

{{references|2}}

{{Template:ASOIAF}}

[[Category:Products]]
[[fr:Game of Thrones: The Role Playing Game]]

A Game of Thrones: Genesis

2012-02-10T15:10:41Z

Stormlander:

{{Infobox Game
| title = Game of Thrones: Genesis
| image = [[File:A Game of Thrones - Genesis box.jpg]]
| caption = Game cover
| developer = [[w:Cyanide (studio)|Cyanide]]
| publisher = [[w:Focus Home Interactive|Focus Home Interactive]]
| platform = [[w:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]]
| release_date = September 29, 2011
| language = English, french, german
| genre = [[w:Strategy video game|Strategy]]
| rating =
| players = Single player.
}}

'''A Game of Thrones: Genesis''' is a strategy video game under development by [[w:Cyanide (studio)|Cyanide]]. The game is an adaptation of the [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] book series by [[George R.R. Martin]] and will be the first such video game adaptation. ''A Game of Thrones: Genesis'' will be published by [[w:Focus Home Interactive|Focus Home Interactive]] on [[w:Personal computer|PC]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29482/Cyanide_Creating_A_Video_Game_Of_Thrones_RTS_RPG_Based_On_Fantasy_Series.php |title=Cyanide Creating A Video Game Of Thrones RTS, RPG Based On Fantasy Series |publisher=[[w:Gamasutra|Gamasutra]] |date=2010-07-16 |accessdate=2011-02-15 |first=Chris |last=Remo}}</ref> The game is was released on September 29, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/68512/The_Next_Big_Thing_Introduces_Liz_Allaire_with_New_Video_andScreens.php |title=The Next Big Thing Introduces Liz Allaire with New Video and Screens! |date=2011-02-09 |accessdate=2011-02-15 |publisher=Gamasutra}}</ref>

The game takes place over 1,000 years of the fictional history of Westeros, beginning with the arrival of the Rhoynar led by the warrior-queen Nymeria and ending with the defence of the Wall from the Wildling assault.<ref name="PCMag-July">{{cite web|last=Poeter|first=Damon|title=Game of Thrones the Video Game Hits This Summer|url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388482,00.asp|publisher=PC Magazine|accessdate=17 July 2011}}</ref>

== Gameplay ==
The game begins with the beginning of A Game of Thrones book and ends up when someone wins the [[Iron Throne]]. The goal of the game is to win the Iron Throne and doing so can be done by amassing enough 'prestige' within the game.<ref name="PCMag-July" /> Prestige is accumulated through various means. There are a number of titles that earn an ongoing prestige boost; most allies, highest income, most enemies killed and control of a Sept. Further, there are a number of unique challenges, for example "Assassinate an enemy Heir", issued to each player which when achieved reward prestige points. During the game, the only building a player controls is the Feudal Home. Through alliances other towns and castles can be won over, but they are at constant risk of being stolen, whether by diplomacy or secret alliances.<ref name=GameManual-September>{{cite web|last=Steam|first=|title=A Game of Thrones: Genesis Manual|url=http://cdn.steampowered.com/Manuals/58550/AGOT_MANUAL_EN.pdf?t=1318539282/|publisher=Cyanide Studios|accessdate=29 September 2011}}</ref>

Each house has special units and abilities.

The Playable Houses included in the game are:
* '''House Targaryen''' Special Unit: Raven
* '''House Stark''' Special Unit: [[Direwolf]]
* '''House Tully''' Special Unit: Singer
* '''House Arryn''' Special Unit: Thief
* '''House Tyrell''' Special Unit: [[Maester]]
* '''House Baratheon''' Special Unit: Captain of the Guards
* '''House Martell''' Special Unit: Dornishman
* '''House Lannister''' Special Unit: Mole

The game has two modes of play: House vs House (Versus) and Campaign. The game features four main facets: diplomacy, military, economic, and underhand.<ref name=PCGamer-May>{{cite web|last=McCormick|first=Rich|title=A Game of Thrones: Genesis preview|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/05/22/a-game-of-thrones-genesis-preview/|publisher=PC Gamer|accessdate=17 July 2011}}</ref>

== External links ==
* [http://www.agot-genesis.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.focus-home.com/index.php?rub=games&gid=47 Publisher Game Page]
* [http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/agot/ Developer Game Page]

== References ==
{{references|2}}

{{Template:ASOIAF}}

[[Category:Products]]
[[fr:A Game of Thrones: Genesis]]

Kinslaying

2012-02-04T21:09:59Z

Stormlander: /* See also */

'''Kinslaying''' is a great taboo in [[Westeros]]. When a member of family kills another he/she is dubbed a '''Kinslayer'''. Any individual who slays a member of there own family is believed to be cursed by the gods. Many Lords and smallfolk believe this and thus those who slay there own blood are usually looked down upon or shunned. There is a saying...

{{Quote|''"Old Gods or New, it makes no matter, No man is so accursed as the Kinslayer"''{{Ref|aSoS|20}}. }}

Sometimes in extreme circumstances Kinslayers are even executed as punishment for their deeds.

==People accused or suspected of kinslaying==

* '''[[Tyrion Lannister]]''': accused of the murder of his nephew, [[King]] [[Joffrey I]], of which he's actually innocent. Actually murdered his own father [[Tywin Lannister]].
* '''[[Gregor Clegane]]''': is rumored to have murdered his own father and sister.
* '''[[Ramsay Bolton]]''': his own father, [[Roose Bolton]], suspects he murdered his half-brother [[Domeric Bolton|Domeric]], Roose's trueborn son.
* '''[[Robb Stark]]''': when preparing to execute [[Rickard Karstark]], Karstark calls Robb a kingslayer due to the blood ties between [[House Stark|Starks]] and [[House Karstark|Karstarks]].

==See also==
[[Customs]] for additional information on customs and traditions of Westeros.

[[Fatherslaying]]

[[Brotherslaying]]

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

[[Category:Terms]]

Kinslaying

2012-02-04T21:09:43Z

Stormlander: /* See also */

'''Kinslaying''' is a great taboo in [[Westeros]]. When a member of family kills another he/she is dubbed a '''Kinslayer'''. Any individual who slays a member of there own family is believed to be cursed by the gods. Many Lords and smallfolk believe this and thus those who slay there own blood are usually looked down upon or shunned. There is a saying...

{{Quote|''"Old Gods or New, it makes no matter, No man is so accursed as the Kinslayer"''{{Ref|aSoS|20}}. }}

Sometimes in extreme circumstances Kinslayers are even executed as punishment for their deeds.

==People accused or suspected of kinslaying==

* '''[[Tyrion Lannister]]''': accused of the murder of his nephew, [[King]] [[Joffrey I]], of which he's actually innocent. Actually murdered his own father [[Tywin Lannister]].
* '''[[Gregor Clegane]]''': is rumored to have murdered his own father and sister.
* '''[[Ramsay Bolton]]''': his own father, [[Roose Bolton]], suspects he murdered his half-brother [[Domeric Bolton|Domeric]], Roose's trueborn son.
* '''[[Robb Stark]]''': when preparing to execute [[Rickard Karstark]], Karstark calls Robb a kingslayer due to the blood ties between [[House Stark|Starks]] and [[House Karstark|Karstarks]].

==See also==
[[Customs]] for additional information on customs and traditions of Westeros.

[[Fatherslaying]]
[[Brotherslaying]]

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

[[Category:Terms]]

Game of Thrones (2012 video game)

2012-01-18T21:06:54Z

Stormlander: /* THE STORY */

{{Stub| reference's [http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/European_Publisher_New_Screenshots_for_Game_of_Thrones_RPG/ news1][http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/New_Game_of_Thrones_RPG_Trailer/ news2] }}

{{Infobox Game
| title = Game of Thrones <br>The Roleplaying Game
| image=
| caption=
| developer= Cyanide Studio
| publisher=
| platform= PC, PS3 and XBOX 360
| release_date= TBP
| language= English
| genre= RPG
| rating=
| players= Single player.
}}

'''Game of Thrones:The Roleplaying Game''' is a video game. The game is being developed by Cyanide Studio, for PC, PS3 and XBOX 360 at the same time.

==GAMEPLAY==
===Character===
The Game puts players in control of two original characters, Mors Westfold and Alester Sarwyck. They do not appear in the [[A Song of Ice and Fire|novels]], although [[George R. R. Martin|GRRM]] has indicated to the studio that he might choose to make mentions of them, their families, or details from the game’s story in later novels. The story is divided into point of view-based “chapters”, with cliffhangers and twists ending each chapter, much like in the novels where one chapter from the perspective of one character is followed by a chapter from a completely different character. Both of them have special abiltiies and three fighting modes. Mors is a [[skinchanger]] and can slip into his dog to find secret paths or to listen in on conversations, and he can even follow a character’s tracks through scent. Alester is a [[R'hllor|red priest]] who can set fire on his sword using wildfire, he can look into the flames to find secrets, at higher levels, can use certain fire-based magic.

The characters are fixed in terms of background and appearances, but you can customize them greatly in terms of their abilities. First, you can choose different fighting styles. Mors can be set as a “Ragnar”(allowing dual-wielding), [[Knight|Hedge Knight]] (one two-handed weapon) or [[Knight|Landed Knight]] (a weapon in the hand, a shield on the other). Alester, on the other hand, can be set up as a [[Water Dancer]] (light and agile, with a slender blade), a [[Sellsword]] (daggers and poisons), or Ranger (Bow and arrows).

For each class you’ll have an initial skill tree. When you level up, your character could go ahead in his tree, and that way he can have new abilities in combat. At level 7, characters will have a choice to make, selecting specializations that will open up new skill trees. For example, having started Mors as a Landed Knight, you’ll be able to select a new skill tree opening up more defensive capabilities, building the character into a true “tank”. The other option is to instead switch into one of the two initial skill trees that you did not select at the beginning. In the cast of Mors as a Landed Knight, this means you can select Ragna or Hedge Knight, essentially taking a “dual-class” approach with the character being more versatile but having less powerful options. Finally, there’s a third skill tree related to “magic”: R’hllorian magic for Alester, skinchanging for Mors.

In the course of the campaign, each character can bring with him one or several non-player characters who can’t be directly controlled but who can provide help in fights, and an additional companion who can be directly controlled. There are several potential companions in the game, but you can only have one of these at a time.

===Combat===
Cyanide’s goal is something dynamic and strategic. The strategic side was something they wanted since the beginning of the development but they did not want a turn-based system as they felt that that would make combat too slow. Instead, there’s a menu wheel of actions which opens during the fight and the action moves in slow-motion behind this menu (like you can see in The Witcher or the Assassin’s Creed series). In concrete terms, you can push a key, time slows, and a menu opens providing you options while you’re engaging the enemy in slow-motion. In that wheel you can choose the next three actions of the characters you control. For example: hitting the key to slow the action down, the menu opens so that you can choose a normal hit followed by a block and finally a knock-out attack in you menu, hit the key again, and you’ll see your characters carry these actions out in real-time. On screen, this system seemed to work really well, neither hindering the action nor losing you among menus.

Another very important thing in this game is narration. You’ll speak many times during the game, and to many people. You’ll choose your answers during conversations (as in Dragon Age or Mass Effect). A part of your answers will influence only the end of the dialog, but many choices you’ll make with your partners or with Westerosi people will have an effect, sometimes very serious ones, on your next adventures. The example the developers showed to the media involved the reunion between Alester and his cousin. He insults Alester and you have to choose how you want to answer (insults in return, putting him in his place, or being quiet). This will affect how he’ll respond to your commands when he’s your companion, potentially choosing not to obey them. Conversing with other characters and investigating things through dialog will be another way of gaining experience and advantages in the course of play.

==The Story==
The game will cover the period of the [[A Game of Thrones|first book]] of the saga (or the first season of HBO show). It begins before [[Jon Arryn]]’s death and ends…with the first book end. The script was reviewed by [[George R. R. Martin|George R R Martin]], and it went through multiple drafts before he and everyone else on the team was happy with it. It was necessary in part because the developers wanted it to have as much fidelity as possible to Martin’s [[A Song of Ice and Fire|universe]] and wanted to avoid inconsistencies not just with the currently published books, but with future books in the series.One of the essential points that Martin and the developers wanted for this game was not simply to be a game where the book itself was the script. They didn’t want you to play [[Eddard Stark]], they wanted to show you something exclusive, original, but fitting in within the gaps that exist in the story.

One of the other areas the creators wanted to avoid is the clichés of traditional fantasy role-playing games. For example, instead of having your characters be inexperienced novices choosing to save the world, the two main characters are already experienced men, with strongly defined personalities and who have their rough spots, rather than being “Care Bears”.

===Main Characters background===
Mors Westford is an old lord from the [[Westerlands]]. Fifteen years ago, during [[Robert's Rebellion]], Mors refused to carry out one of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]’s commands to his bannermen, and was given the choice of a traitor’s death or [[the Wall]]. He took the black and became a member of the [[Night's Watch]]. He’s now an officer and a ranger. He’s called “The Butcher” and his chief task is finding and executing deserters from the Night’s Watch. To help him, he has a big dog which helps him to track recent runaways. Because he is a [[skinchanger]], and because of his particular duties, it’s said on the Wall that the dog is his only friend.

Alester Sarwyck is the elder son of Lord Sarwyck from a place in the Westerland. For some unknown reason, Alester get away and went to Essos after Robert’s rebellion. He became a R’hllor follower and a red priest. He comes back when he heard of his father dying. There he finds a devastated land where some people tell of a peasant revolt. His sister try to manage the territory (the bad way), his brother is missing and he’s accused to poison his father, and at last, his bastard half-brother is ready to do everything to inherit.

The fate of this two characters will cross and they will interact with some characters from the books like Lord [[Varys]], Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], or the Old Bear, all of whom are voiced by and are)) designed to look like the actors from the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]]. The design of the [[Iron Throne]] is also influenced by the design on the show, but otherwise most locations and character designs are original to the game, dating from before the time Cynaide and HBO came to an agreement on licensing.

The game’s central story revolves around royal [[bastard]]s (readers of the series will know there are many of these), and there are several possible endings to the game. The principal storyline is estimated to offer 30-35 hours of gameplay, and there will be a number of side-missions which are bundled up with the principal story. These will all be immersive, richly detailed stories —nothing of the “Find my lost child in the forest and I’ll give you this artifact” grinding mission variety—that attempt to emulate the way the story of the novels branches out and contains many interwoven plot threads. These side-missions will become options in the course of playing the “chapters” of the game, and if you choose not to take one, it won’t crop up later in some slightly-changed form.

== External links ==
* [http://www.gameofthrones-rpg.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.focus-home.com/index.php?rub=games&gid=73 Publisher Game Page]
* [http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/agot/ Developer Game Page]

== References ==
* Review written by [[User:ran]], [http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/New_Details_on_Atlus_USAs_Game_of_Thrones_RPG/ source]

{{references|2}}

{{Template:ASOIAF}}

[[Category:Products]]

User:Stormlander

2012-01-18T21:03:28Z

Stormlander:

Hi everyone im quite new here might i very much like the entire ASOIAF series and i hope ill help as much as i can in editing and other stuff here. Ive edited at some other wikis at wikia community so i think i can help. Really this wiki is great :).
sory 4 my poor english

Yours faithful

--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 08:16, 12 November 2011 (UTC)stormlander

It's good to have you with us, sorry for the spoiler thing, it's just that we already had it on the main page, moved it, consider(ed?) spoiler templates for character pages. that I rather we dont change the main pages until we can get some kind of consensus on the issue. Also, dont worry about your English, my English is poor as well, but we all find ways to contribute to the best of our ability ;) --11:04, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Ours is the Fury

A Game of Thrones: Genesis

2012-01-18T13:34:59Z

Stormlander: /* Gameplay */

{{Infobox Game
| title = Game of Thrones: Genesis
| image = [[File:A Game of Thrones - Genesis box.jpg]]
| caption = Game cover
| developer = [[w:Cyanide (studio)|Cyanide]]
| publisher = [[w:Focus Home Interactive|Focus Home Interactive]]
| platform = [[w:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]]
| release_date = September 29, 2011
| language = English, french, german
| genre = [[w:Strategy video game|Strategy]]
| rating =
| players = Single player.
}}

'''A Game of Thrones: Genesis''' is an upcoming strategy video game under development by [[w:Cyanide (studio)|Cyanide]]. The game is an adaptation of the [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] book series by [[George R.R. Martin]] and will be the first such video game adaptation. ''A Game of Thrones: Genesis'' will be published by [[w:Focus Home Interactive|Focus Home Interactive]] on [[w:Personal computer|PC]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29482/Cyanide_Creating_A_Video_Game_Of_Thrones_RTS_RPG_Based_On_Fantasy_Series.php |title=Cyanide Creating A Video Game Of Thrones RTS, RPG Based On Fantasy Series |publisher=[[w:Gamasutra|Gamasutra]] |date=2010-07-16 |accessdate=2011-02-15 |first=Chris |last=Remo}}</ref> The game is was released on September 29, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/68512/The_Next_Big_Thing_Introduces_Liz_Allaire_with_New_Video_andScreens.php |title=The Next Big Thing Introduces Liz Allaire with New Video and Screens! |date=2011-02-09 |accessdate=2011-02-15 |publisher=Gamasutra}}</ref>

The game takes place over 1,000 years of the fictional history of Westeros, beginning with the arrival of the Rhoynar led by the warrior-queen Nymeria and ending with the defence of the Wall from the Wildling assault.<ref name="PCMag-July">{{cite web|last=Poeter|first=Damon|title=Game of Thrones the Video Game Hits This Summer|url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388482,00.asp|publisher=PC Magazine|accessdate=17 July 2011}}</ref>

== Gameplay ==
The goal of the game is to win the Iron Throne and doing so can be done by amassing enough 'prestige' within the game.<ref name="PCMag-July" /> Prestige is accumulated through various means. There are a number of titles that earn an ongoing prestige boost; most allies, highest income, most enemies killed and control of a Sept. Further, there are a number of unique challenges, for example "Assassinate an enemy Heir", issued to each player which when achieved reward prestige points. During the game, the only building a player controls is the Feudal Home. Through alliances other towns and castles can be won over, but they are at constant risk of being stolen, whether by diplomacy or secret alliances.<ref name=GameManual-September>{{cite web|last=Steam|first=|title=A Game of Thrones: Genesis Manual|url=http://cdn.steampowered.com/Manuals/58550/AGOT_MANUAL_EN.pdf?t=1318539282/|publisher=Cyanide Studios|accessdate=29 September 2011}}</ref>

Each house has special units and abilities.

The Playable Houses included in the game are:
* '''House Targaryen''' Special Unit: Raven
* '''House Stark''' Special Unit: [[Direwolf]]
* '''House Tully''' Special Unit: Singer
* '''House Arryn''' Special Unit: Thief
* '''House Tyrell''' Special Unit: [[Maester]]
* '''House Baratheon''' Special Unit: Captain of the Guards
* '''House Martell''' Special Unit: Dornishman
* '''House Lannister''' Special Unit: Mole

The game has two modes of play: House vs House (Versus) and Campaign. The game features four main facets: diplomacy, military, economic, and underhand.<ref name=PCGamer-May>{{cite web|last=McCormick|first=Rich|title=A Game of Thrones: Genesis preview|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/05/22/a-game-of-thrones-genesis-preview/|publisher=PC Gamer|accessdate=17 July 2011}}</ref>

== External links ==
* [http://www.agot-genesis.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.focus-home.com/index.php?rub=games&gid=47 Publisher Game Page]
* [http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/agot/ Developer Game Page]

== References ==
{{references|2}}

{{Template:ASOIAF}}

[[Category:Products]]
[[fr:A Game of Thrones: Genesis]]

A Game of Thrones: Genesis

2012-01-18T13:34:34Z

Stormlander: /* Gameplay */

{{Infobox Game
| title = Game of Thrones: Genesis
| image = [[File:A Game of Thrones - Genesis box.jpg]]
| caption = Game cover
| developer = [[w:Cyanide (studio)|Cyanide]]
| publisher = [[w:Focus Home Interactive|Focus Home Interactive]]
| platform = [[w:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]]
| release_date = September 29, 2011
| language = English, french, german
| genre = [[w:Strategy video game|Strategy]]
| rating =
| players = Single player.
}}

'''A Game of Thrones: Genesis''' is an upcoming strategy video game under development by [[w:Cyanide (studio)|Cyanide]]. The game is an adaptation of the [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] book series by [[George R.R. Martin]] and will be the first such video game adaptation. ''A Game of Thrones: Genesis'' will be published by [[w:Focus Home Interactive|Focus Home Interactive]] on [[w:Personal computer|PC]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29482/Cyanide_Creating_A_Video_Game_Of_Thrones_RTS_RPG_Based_On_Fantasy_Series.php |title=Cyanide Creating A Video Game Of Thrones RTS, RPG Based On Fantasy Series |publisher=[[w:Gamasutra|Gamasutra]] |date=2010-07-16 |accessdate=2011-02-15 |first=Chris |last=Remo}}</ref> The game is was released on September 29, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/68512/The_Next_Big_Thing_Introduces_Liz_Allaire_with_New_Video_andScreens.php |title=The Next Big Thing Introduces Liz Allaire with New Video and Screens! |date=2011-02-09 |accessdate=2011-02-15 |publisher=Gamasutra}}</ref>

The game takes place over 1,000 years of the fictional history of Westeros, beginning with the arrival of the Rhoynar led by the warrior-queen Nymeria and ending with the defence of the Wall from the Wildling assault.<ref name="PCMag-July">{{cite web|last=Poeter|first=Damon|title=Game of Thrones the Video Game Hits This Summer|url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388482,00.asp|publisher=PC Magazine|accessdate=17 July 2011}}</ref>

== Gameplay ==
The goal of the game is to win the Iron Throne and doing so can be done by amassing enough 'prestige' within the game.<ref name="PCMag-July" /> Prestige is accumulated through various means. There are a number of titles that earn an ongoing prestige boost; most allies, highest income, most enemies killed and control of a Sept. Further, there are a number of unique challenges, for example "Assassinate an enemy Heir", issued to each player which when achieved reward prestige points. During the game, the only building a player controls is the Feudal Home. Through alliances other towns and castles can be won over, but they are at constant risk of being stolen, whether by diplomacy or secret alliances.<ref name=GameManual-September>{{cite web|last=Steam|first=|title=A Game of Thrones: Genesis Manual|url=http://cdn.steampowered.com/Manuals/58550/AGOT_MANUAL_EN.pdf?t=1318539282/|publisher=Cyanide Studios|accessdate=29 September 2011}}</ref>

Each house has special units and abilities.

The Playable Houses included in the game are:
* '''House Targaryen''' Special Unit: Raven
* '''House Stark''' Special Unit: [[Direwolf]]
* '''House Tully''' Special Unit: Singer
* '''House Arryn''' Special Unit: Thief
* '''House Tyrell''' Special Unit: [[Maester]]
* '''House Baratheon''' Special Unit: Captain of the Guards
* '''House Martell''' Special Unit: [[Dornishman]]
* '''House Lannister''' Special Unit: Mole

The game has two modes of play: House vs House (Versus) and Campaign. The game features four main facets: diplomacy, military, economic, and underhand.<ref name=PCGamer-May>{{cite web|last=McCormick|first=Rich|title=A Game of Thrones: Genesis preview|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/05/22/a-game-of-thrones-genesis-preview/|publisher=PC Gamer|accessdate=17 July 2011}}</ref>

== External links ==
* [http://www.agot-genesis.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.focus-home.com/index.php?rub=games&gid=47 Publisher Game Page]
* [http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/agot/ Developer Game Page]

== References ==
{{references|2}}

{{Template:ASOIAF}}

[[Category:Products]]
[[fr:A Game of Thrones: Genesis]]

User talk:Scafloc

2012-01-16T18:21:53Z

Stormlander: /* Games */

== Notice ==

This is a generic sent to all users: Before adding new articles today, please review all articles you have contributed to (and any other articles you care to check, but your own articles first and foremost) and verify that they are either: a) wholly original or b) copied from [[w:Main%20Page|RTENOTITLE]]. If (b) applies, please verify that [[w:Copyrights|RTENOTITLE]] is fulfilled by making sure that somewhere on the document is a notice of this kind:

::<nowiki>This article derives from the Wikipedia article "[[w:<Article name>|<Article Name>]]"</nowiki>. --[[User:Ran|Ran]] 02:32, 26 April 2007 (CDT)

== Houses without info ==

Hi Scafloc!

You're right that we should think about what to do with the minor houses/the hiosues whe know little of. For Jasts or Hetherspoon's we'd even could include info for the minor characters of their house, but for others all we have is a name, and an uncannon heraldry from westeros.org.

I'd say the best thing would be your second suggestion. Create pages such as "[[Houses from the Stormlands]], and include there all the minor houses with the few bits of info we may have. Not much sure how those pages should be structured exactly. --[[User:The hairy bear|The hairy bear]] ([[User talk:The hairy bear|Send me a raven]]) 05:31, 28 June 2007 (CDT)

== Wiki ==

Is it completly dead and abandoned? You seem to be the last one to regularly contribute, that's why I'm asking here. [[User talk:Stalker25|Stalker]] 04:20, 21 February 2009 (CST)

== Husband as a parameter in Template:Character ==

Ok thanks for the info!

== Rhaena ==

Thanks, I only noticed after I had saved the page that I had not checked that I had the full name in the link. I was wondering how I was going to solve the Rhaena/Rhaena Targaryen problem.

The Pale Griffin

== Sorry about the banners, help needed ==

I got the images from the RPG book that I purchased some days ago.

I'm not sure what are the copyrights for those pictures and to be honest, I didn't even know they had them for such images.

Anyway, I don't really know how to add the copyrights or anything or how to check them, could you help me out on this? I would gladly do it, but I lack the knowledge (and skills).

By the way, I was going to add a detailed map of Westeros, also gotten from the RPG book, but now I'm not sure if I can and I don't really even know how to since I am a wiki-newbie.

Cheers!

== COA ==
Really like your new coat of arms ! [[User:Evrach|Evrach]] 09:38, 30 August 2010 (CDT)

===Category:Houses without COA===
Sorry, I didnt understand the query thing. what I did is change the Image field for the [[Template:Noble_House]] to:

<code><nowiki>{{#if:{{{image|}}}|{{{image}}}|[[Image:No_image.jpg|200px]][[Category:Houses without COA]]}}</nowiki></code>

It checks if image was assigned, if so it shows it otherwise it auto adds it to the [[:Category:Houses without COA]]. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 08:28, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

I think I get it now. Do you want to add to that list only houses that has no Image AND have coat of arms description? if so it's an easy fix. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 08:49, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

=== Updating COA ===
I tried to update the [[:File:Kingsguard.PNG|Kingsguard COA]], with a simple gradient to make it less blend, but for some reason it doesnt work. the file was uploaded successfully it's the correct size but it doesnt show as it [[http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=i2m61d&s=7 should]], I thought that it might be some kind of cache thing, so I waited but it still show nothing, any idea why not? [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 17:13, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

: well I recently uploaded another file but I still have the same issue, clearing cache diffident browsers and few other tricks didnt solve it... so if you happened to have a chance to update an image, specifically by selecting it and then clicking upload a new version of it, please drop me a message. I want to make sure it's not some kind of server side upload issue before I schedule a format of my laptop, thanks --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 00:29, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

== Wiki ==

Hey Scafloc! Thanks for the message. I see that you seem to be one of the main guys here. I've just finished compiling all of the Martin sources concerning Languages I could (in one read through) from the books on another wiki, at http://wiki.dothraki.org Perhaps you could look through it, or we could replicate the pages I made here? Particularly Other Languages and Corpus...

== RE: Selyse Florent ==

You're totally right... obviously I was not well enough caffeinated when I changed that. Thanks for catching it! -[[User:Managerpants|Managerpants]] 12:25, 23 May 2011 (CDT)

== Talkback ==

Replied at [[User talk:Anguy the Archer#Templates]]. [[User:Anguy the Archer|Anguy the Archer]] 15:26, 19 June 2011 (CDT)

<br>

== New Main Page ==

Great new main page! It's a nice approach. Two suggestions: it may just be me, but the top section seems to have much too large a font, with the main category links spilling off to the right of the page. Also, some more reference to the TV series by name would be good, just to help search engines find us, as we provide relevant content. Unless the idea is to go this way as we set up a specific portal for the show, of course. Thanks for your hard work! --[[User:Ran|Ran]] 12:46, 2 July 2011 (CDT)

::Okay, I think I fixed the size issue, and also worked in a more explicit reference to the show on the project section. But just an attempt at it, please feel free to adjust it further in whatever way you think best! --[[User:Ran|Ran]]12:57, 2 July 2011 (CDT)

== Punks ==
Thanks Scafloc. I just dread when that guy gets access. I can only imagine his "better than you" attitude and if we don't like what he has to offer, we "don't get it". [[User:The Pale Griffin|The Pale Griffin]] 18:49, 16 August 2011 (CDT)

== Hi ==
Just dropped by to say thank for the welcome. Btw, I didnt know it's possible to link to templates from wikipida(like you did with the userbars) and that Feature quote is awesome, if there is no template for it yet, there will be ;) [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 06:23, 18 August 2011 (CDT)

== CSS ==
I like your idea of working with custom css, here is few thought I had going over it:
* Topbar transparency, If still want it, I think you should check mw-page-base and mw-head-base on top of mw-head.
* Backround Image, I like the idea of the map. I think that it will look better if we make it little smaller, blurred and place it bellow the navigation links (or change nav links color, because it's kind of hard to read it blue on blue).
* Hiding the logo, I dont like the logo as well, but I like the Idea of a logo or nice background image for the topbar. we have so many amazing artist around maybe we can ask if someone can make something?
* Fonts, I love hand written fonts but I think they fit better on art pieces or at best you should limit it to h1 h2 h3 titles because the rest look funny in the articles.

Also, how do you feel about changing the over all white background and font color to something darker, lets say: ''background:#F9F7F1; color:#414141; '' <br />
and maybe hiding the caption on the main page as well ''body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display:none; }'' <br /> [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 18:29, 22 August 2011 (CDT)
==Thanks==
for the welcome! [[User:Jdray|Jdray]] 18:32, 5 September 2011 (CDT)

== spoilers ==

Damn, those spoilers sections looks bad, not the way I thought they would :/
* What if we add a width 100% to avoid the dance of the spoilers? something like that:
====A Game of Thrones====
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! WARNING! This section contains spoilers! Press show to see them.
|-
|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
|}

* maybe we can combine the header with the warning, something like that:
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! <div style="float:left">
====A Game of Thrones====
</div><div style="float:right">WARNING! This section contains spoilers! To see them Press  </div>
|-
|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
|}

* And try for a more minimalistic approach:

{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%; border:0px #000000 solid;background:none;"
|-
! style="border:0px #000000 solid;background:none;"| <div style="float:left">
====A Game of Thrones====
</div><div style="float:right">WARNING! This section contains spoilers! To see them Press  </div>
|-
| style="border:0px #000000 solid;background:none;"|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
|}

* it's probably will not work well with other elements and still doesnt look that well, but this the best I can think of right now, here is a quick template that will utilize the above:
<pre>
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%; border:0px; background:none;"
! style="border:0px; solid;background:none;"|<div style="float:left">
{{{1}}}
</div> <div style="float:right">Spoiler warning  </div>
|-
| style="border:0px;background:none;"|{{{2|}}}
|}
</pre>

* which would be used like that:
<pre>
{{Spoiler|====A Game of Thrones====|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
}}
</pre>

[[User_talk:Mordin999#Collapsible_tables|Replay]] - Maybe we should start by creating a new template , so we can discuss it there(so I dont have to spam your talk page with the above crap ;) ) and see how it goes. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 10:06, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

:: I Have removed the spoiler tags from the Jaime Lannister entry, until we finalize it I dont think we should be experimenting on our featured article. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 05:58, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

==Thanks==

Thanks for the welcome! [[User:Monkeytypist|Monkeytypist]] 22:55, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

== Page/chapter table ==

Your Page/chapter table at the sandbox looks pretty decent to me, any ideas where and how we can include it in the wiki?
: --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 00:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

:Hi, Scafloc. On that note, you will notice that I have included some information there, including Kindle positions. It seems to me that for that table purposes "paperbacks" are in fact ''mass market paperbacks'', since so far all the regular-sized paperbacks that I have found follow the same numbering as the hardcovers. Do you know if that is correct? Also, I have a wish to include some specific information for the two halves of ASOS that exist in the UK paperbacks. I would probably have included some if I had any. You're more experienced and better at this than me, so I want your counsel, if it pleases you. I'm of half a mind to put the specific ISBN information and the like in the articles of the books themselves. I probably will when I feel like it. [[User:LuisDantas|LuisDantas]] 16:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

== thanks ==
thanks for the welcome and all other stuff and for help in creating greyjoys rebellion page (actually you created it i only gave an idea). sorry 4 my horrible english

yours faithiful

--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 14:53, 12 November 2011 (UTC)stormlander

== Welcome Template ==

Nice spot on the Welcome template, iirc I was trying to place a default action in-case someone forget to place the variable. unfortunately I found no magic word to do it and for some reason(that at the moment escapes me) used the code:<code>[[User:Mordin999|Mor]]</code> which had no reason to do anything other than that :/ anyway if you stumble on way to use the <code>[[User:Mordin999|Mor]]</code> in template to auto sign, it would be great, cheers --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 23:52, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

== Wellcome ==

:Thanks! Looking forward to it. I'm in awe of the GRRM's accomplishment. Definitely need a wiki to ven understand what's going on. [[User:Ronnotel|Ronnotel]] 02:30, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

== Games ==
Hi again Scafolc, i was thinking maybe we should make pages about A Game of Thrones Genesis and meanwhile when RPG comes out do the same with it.
Think about it :)

Yours fathifull,
--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 18:21, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Stormlander

P.S. Dont have any of these games but i hope (acttualy im sure) that we could find out a lot about them.
P.S. on P.S. Sorry 4 little absence going back soon :)

User talk:Scafloc

2012-01-16T18:21:04Z

Stormlander:

== Notice ==

This is a generic sent to all users: Before adding new articles today, please review all articles you have contributed to (and any other articles you care to check, but your own articles first and foremost) and verify that they are either: a) wholly original or b) copied from [[w:Main%20Page|RTENOTITLE]]. If (b) applies, please verify that [[w:Copyrights|RTENOTITLE]] is fulfilled by making sure that somewhere on the document is a notice of this kind:

::<nowiki>This article derives from the Wikipedia article "[[w:<Article name>|<Article Name>]]"</nowiki>. --[[User:Ran|Ran]] 02:32, 26 April 2007 (CDT)

== Houses without info ==

Hi Scafloc!

You're right that we should think about what to do with the minor houses/the hiosues whe know little of. For Jasts or Hetherspoon's we'd even could include info for the minor characters of their house, but for others all we have is a name, and an uncannon heraldry from westeros.org.

I'd say the best thing would be your second suggestion. Create pages such as "[[Houses from the Stormlands]], and include there all the minor houses with the few bits of info we may have. Not much sure how those pages should be structured exactly. --[[User:The hairy bear|The hairy bear]] ([[User talk:The hairy bear|Send me a raven]]) 05:31, 28 June 2007 (CDT)

== Wiki ==

Is it completly dead and abandoned? You seem to be the last one to regularly contribute, that's why I'm asking here. [[User talk:Stalker25|Stalker]] 04:20, 21 February 2009 (CST)

== Husband as a parameter in Template:Character ==

Ok thanks for the info!

== Rhaena ==

Thanks, I only noticed after I had saved the page that I had not checked that I had the full name in the link. I was wondering how I was going to solve the Rhaena/Rhaena Targaryen problem.

The Pale Griffin

== Sorry about the banners, help needed ==

I got the images from the RPG book that I purchased some days ago.

I'm not sure what are the copyrights for those pictures and to be honest, I didn't even know they had them for such images.

Anyway, I don't really know how to add the copyrights or anything or how to check them, could you help me out on this? I would gladly do it, but I lack the knowledge (and skills).

By the way, I was going to add a detailed map of Westeros, also gotten from the RPG book, but now I'm not sure if I can and I don't really even know how to since I am a wiki-newbie.

Cheers!

== COA ==
Really like your new coat of arms ! [[User:Evrach|Evrach]] 09:38, 30 August 2010 (CDT)

===Category:Houses without COA===
Sorry, I didnt understand the query thing. what I did is change the Image field for the [[Template:Noble_House]] to:

<code><nowiki>{{#if:{{{image|}}}|{{{image}}}|[[Image:No_image.jpg|200px]][[Category:Houses without COA]]}}</nowiki></code>

It checks if image was assigned, if so it shows it otherwise it auto adds it to the [[:Category:Houses without COA]]. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 08:28, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

I think I get it now. Do you want to add to that list only houses that has no Image AND have coat of arms description? if so it's an easy fix. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 08:49, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

=== Updating COA ===
I tried to update the [[:File:Kingsguard.PNG|Kingsguard COA]], with a simple gradient to make it less blend, but for some reason it doesnt work. the file was uploaded successfully it's the correct size but it doesnt show as it [[http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=i2m61d&s=7 should]], I thought that it might be some kind of cache thing, so I waited but it still show nothing, any idea why not? [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 17:13, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

: well I recently uploaded another file but I still have the same issue, clearing cache diffident browsers and few other tricks didnt solve it... so if you happened to have a chance to update an image, specifically by selecting it and then clicking upload a new version of it, please drop me a message. I want to make sure it's not some kind of server side upload issue before I schedule a format of my laptop, thanks --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 00:29, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

== Wiki ==

Hey Scafloc! Thanks for the message. I see that you seem to be one of the main guys here. I've just finished compiling all of the Martin sources concerning Languages I could (in one read through) from the books on another wiki, at http://wiki.dothraki.org Perhaps you could look through it, or we could replicate the pages I made here? Particularly Other Languages and Corpus...

== RE: Selyse Florent ==

You're totally right... obviously I was not well enough caffeinated when I changed that. Thanks for catching it! -[[User:Managerpants|Managerpants]] 12:25, 23 May 2011 (CDT)

== Talkback ==

Replied at [[User talk:Anguy the Archer#Templates]]. [[User:Anguy the Archer|Anguy the Archer]] 15:26, 19 June 2011 (CDT)

<br>

== New Main Page ==

Great new main page! It's a nice approach. Two suggestions: it may just be me, but the top section seems to have much too large a font, with the main category links spilling off to the right of the page. Also, some more reference to the TV series by name would be good, just to help search engines find us, as we provide relevant content. Unless the idea is to go this way as we set up a specific portal for the show, of course. Thanks for your hard work! --[[User:Ran|Ran]] 12:46, 2 July 2011 (CDT)

::Okay, I think I fixed the size issue, and also worked in a more explicit reference to the show on the project section. But just an attempt at it, please feel free to adjust it further in whatever way you think best! --[[User:Ran|Ran]]12:57, 2 July 2011 (CDT)

== Punks ==
Thanks Scafloc. I just dread when that guy gets access. I can only imagine his "better than you" attitude and if we don't like what he has to offer, we "don't get it". [[User:The Pale Griffin|The Pale Griffin]] 18:49, 16 August 2011 (CDT)

== Hi ==
Just dropped by to say thank for the welcome. Btw, I didnt know it's possible to link to templates from wikipida(like you did with the userbars) and that Feature quote is awesome, if there is no template for it yet, there will be ;) [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 06:23, 18 August 2011 (CDT)

== CSS ==
I like your idea of working with custom css, here is few thought I had going over it:
* Topbar transparency, If still want it, I think you should check mw-page-base and mw-head-base on top of mw-head.
* Backround Image, I like the idea of the map. I think that it will look better if we make it little smaller, blurred and place it bellow the navigation links (or change nav links color, because it's kind of hard to read it blue on blue).
* Hiding the logo, I dont like the logo as well, but I like the Idea of a logo or nice background image for the topbar. we have so many amazing artist around maybe we can ask if someone can make something?
* Fonts, I love hand written fonts but I think they fit better on art pieces or at best you should limit it to h1 h2 h3 titles because the rest look funny in the articles.

Also, how do you feel about changing the over all white background and font color to something darker, lets say: ''background:#F9F7F1; color:#414141; '' <br />
and maybe hiding the caption on the main page as well ''body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display:none; }'' <br /> [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 18:29, 22 August 2011 (CDT)
==Thanks==
for the welcome! [[User:Jdray|Jdray]] 18:32, 5 September 2011 (CDT)

== spoilers ==

Damn, those spoilers sections looks bad, not the way I thought they would :/
* What if we add a width 100% to avoid the dance of the spoilers? something like that:
====A Game of Thrones====
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! WARNING! This section contains spoilers! Press show to see them.
|-
|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
|}

* maybe we can combine the header with the warning, something like that:
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! <div style="float:left">
====A Game of Thrones====
</div><div style="float:right">WARNING! This section contains spoilers! To see them Press  </div>
|-
|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
|}

* And try for a more minimalistic approach:

{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%; border:0px #000000 solid;background:none;"
|-
! style="border:0px #000000 solid;background:none;"| <div style="float:left">
====A Game of Thrones====
</div><div style="float:right">WARNING! This section contains spoilers! To see them Press  </div>
|-
| style="border:0px #000000 solid;background:none;"|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
|}

* it's probably will not work well with other elements and still doesnt look that well, but this the best I can think of right now, here is a quick template that will utilize the above:
<pre>
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%; border:0px; background:none;"
! style="border:0px; solid;background:none;"|<div style="float:left">
{{{1}}}
</div> <div style="float:right">Spoiler warning  </div>
|-
| style="border:0px;background:none;"|{{{2|}}}
|}
</pre>

* which would be used like that:
<pre>
{{Spoiler|====A Game of Thrones====|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
}}
</pre>

[[User_talk:Mordin999#Collapsible_tables|Replay]] - Maybe we should start by creating a new template , so we can discuss it there(so I dont have to spam your talk page with the above crap ;) ) and see how it goes. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 10:06, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

:: I Have removed the spoiler tags from the Jaime Lannister entry, until we finalize it I dont think we should be experimenting on our featured article. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 05:58, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

==Thanks==

Thanks for the welcome! [[User:Monkeytypist|Monkeytypist]] 22:55, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

== Page/chapter table ==

Your Page/chapter table at the sandbox looks pretty decent to me, any ideas where and how we can include it in the wiki?
: --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 00:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

:Hi, Scafloc. On that note, you will notice that I have included some information there, including Kindle positions. It seems to me that for that table purposes "paperbacks" are in fact ''mass market paperbacks'', since so far all the regular-sized paperbacks that I have found follow the same numbering as the hardcovers. Do you know if that is correct? Also, I have a wish to include some specific information for the two halves of ASOS that exist in the UK paperbacks. I would probably have included some if I had any. You're more experienced and better at this than me, so I want your counsel, if it pleases you. I'm of half a mind to put the specific ISBN information and the like in the articles of the books themselves. I probably will when I feel like it. [[User:LuisDantas|LuisDantas]] 16:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

== thanks ==
thanks for the welcome and all other stuff and for help in creating greyjoys rebellion page (actually you created it i only gave an idea). sorry 4 my horrible english

yours faithiful

--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 14:53, 12 November 2011 (UTC)stormlander

== Welcome Template ==

Nice spot on the Welcome template, iirc I was trying to place a default action in-case someone forget to place the variable. unfortunately I found no magic word to do it and for some reason(that at the moment escapes me) used the code:<code>[[User:Mordin999|Mor]]</code> which had no reason to do anything other than that :/ anyway if you stumble on way to use the <code>[[User:Mordin999|Mor]]</code> in template to auto sign, it would be great, cheers --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 23:52, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

== Wellcome ==

:Thanks! Looking forward to it. I'm in awe of the GRRM's accomplishment. Definitely need a wiki to ven understand what's going on. [[User:Ronnotel|Ronnotel]] 02:30, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

== Games ==
Hi again Scafolc, i was thinking maybe we should make pages about A Game of Thrones Genesis and meanwhile when RPG comes out do the same with it.
Think about it :)

Yours fathifull,
--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 18:21, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Stormlander
P.S. Dont have any of these games but i hope (acttualy im sure) that we could find out a lot about them.
P.S. on P.S. Sorry 4 little absence going back soon :)

User:Stormlander

2012-01-10T18:04:35Z

Stormlander:

Hi everyone im quite new here might i very much like the entire ASOIAF series and i hope ill help as much as i can in editing and other stuff here. Ive edited at some other wikis at wikia community so i think i can help. Really this wiki is great :) despite the older version we should live-it up.
sory 4 my poor english

Yours faithful

--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 08:16, 12 November 2011 (UTC)stormlander

It's good to have you with us, sorry for the spoiler thing, it's just that we already had it on the main page, moved it, consider(ed?) spoiler templates for character pages. that I rather we dont change the main pages until we can get some kind of consensus on the issue. Also, dont worry about your English, my English is poor as well, but we all find ways to contribute to the best of our ability ;) --11:04, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Ours is the Fury

Dornishmen

2011-12-25T08:35:19Z

Stormlander: /* Culture */

The '''Dornishmen''', are the natives of [[Dorne]] off the southern part of [[Westeros]]. They have a reputation for hot-bloodedness and sexual licentiousness. They are viewed with some mistrust and rivalry by the people of the [[Dornish Marches]]. Dornish [[bastardy|bastards]] are given the surname Sand.

==Culture==
Dornishmen culture has [[Andal]] origins but mostly influenced by the mass immigration of the [[Rhoynar|Rhoynish]] people who settled in Dorne, following the [[Rhoynar Invasion]], their influence can be observed in many Dornish [[customs]], like rights of women,in terms of inheritance law which disregard gender.{{Ref|aGoT|62}}<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1411/ SSM Doremen]</ref> status of mistresses/[[Paramour]] and their general sexual licentiousness compared to the rest of the seven kingdoms.

Dornish lords wear silk and satin robes with jeweled belts and flowing sleeves and favor armor that is heavily enameled and inlaid with burning copper, shining silver, and/or soft red gold {{Ref|aSoS|38}}

==Ethnicity==
The Rhoynar were a slender people with smooth olive skin, black hair and dark eyes. Their impact on the Dornish gene pool is strongest along the coast of Dorne, and grows faint farther inland. Dornishmen with Andal blood are larger and fairer than those with Rhoynish.

According to King [[Daeron I]], observations during his wars in Dorne, there are three group of Dornishmen:
* salty Dornishmen, who live along the coasts, lithe and dark with smooth olive skin and long black hair.
* sandy Dornishmen who live in the deserts and the long river valleys, who are even darker, faces burned brown by the hot Dornish sun.
* stony Dornishmen who live in the passes and heights of the [[Red Mountains]], the biggest and fairest, sons of the [[Andals]] and the [[First Men]], brown-haired or blond with faces that freckled or burned in the sun.

Additionally, another group exist the [[Greenblood#Orphans_of_the_Greenblood|Greenblood orphans]], who ply the [[Greenblood]] in poleboats.

[[File:Dornish spearmen.png|right]]
==Military==
Dornishmen prefer round metal shields, spears, short throwing spears or the double-curved bows. The Dornishmen, are famous for their light cavalry and use their Dornish double-curved skillfully from horseback. Because of the heat, they wear lighter armor than in the rest of the Seven Kingdoms made of metal disks, sometimes decorated with copper, sewn in the manner of scales on the leather, traditionally turbaned helmets{{Citation needed}}. To allow themselves to fight in the burning sun of Dorne, they wear brightly colored flowing robes covering the metal parts of their armor.{{Ref|aFfC|3}}

Dorne is the least populous of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], as such it seem to favor different tactics than the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, generally avoiding pitched battles and depending on the speed of their lightly armored men and their swift horses. which are more suited to their smaller numbers and allow them to take advantage of the harsh conditions of Dorne. Indeed, the heat and scarcity of water points make little obvious movement and supply of a very large army. These techniques have proven effective in war against the dragons of the house Targaryen, and latter against king Doren during the [[Conquest of Dorne]] and though their wars against the [[Reach]] and [[Storm's End]] for a thousand years.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}

[[Category:Cultures]]
[[fr:Dorniens]]

Aegon's Conquest

2011-12-25T08:17:19Z

Stormlander: /* Aftermath */

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The '''War of Conquest''' was the campaign in which [[Aegon I]] conquered [[Westeros]]. Support by his two sisters, their dragons and a small army of soldiers the Targaryens submitted six of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Not all the continent had to be taken by violence. Some houses actively supported [[House Targaryen]] and others submitted voluntarily.

==Precursor==
The war began in {{Date|1}} when [[Aegon I|Aegon Targaryen]] and his two sister-wives [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]] and [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] landed with fewer than 1,600 men{{ref|aSoS|54}} on the east coast of [[Westeros]], at the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]]. The Targaryens had held the island-fortress of [[Dragonstone]] as the westernmost outpost of the [[Valyrian Freehold]] for a century before the [[Doom of Valyria|Doom]] destroyed Valyria.

In the century after the Doom, the "Bleeding Years", they tried to expand their holdings. However, Aegon had been torn between unifying the continent of Westeros and conquering the [[Free Cities]], which had been experiencing bloody strife in the aftermath of Valyria's fall. He rejected a call from several of the Free Cities to help unite them as a new Freehold and chose the far more ambitious course of invading Westeros. With very limited manpower, the Targaryens knew that their full-grown [[dragon]]s would be their ultimate weapon.

Before launching his invasion, Aegon ordered the construction of the Painted Table, a table cut into an accurate geographical map of Westeros. He apparently considered all of Westeros as one land, despite the fact that the continent was long split into Seven Kingdoms, and was determined to unify it under his rule.

==The Conquest==
The sequence of events in the War of Conquest is unclear. The following events took place, though not necessarily in this order:

===Conquest of the Riverlands and Iron Islands===
Aegon first struck northwest against the [[King of the Iron Islands]], [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]]. King Harren ruled both the [[Iron Islands]] and the [[Riverlands]] from his newly-completed monstrous fortress of [[Harrenhal]], the greatest castle in Westeros, considered impregnable against siege or storm.

When King Harren refused to surrender, Aegon uses his dragons to overcome Harrenhal's defenses and burns Harren and his sons alive in what is later called Kingspyre Tower. The remaining ironborn flee back to the [[Iron Islands]], Aegon hounded them all the way back, where he demanded their fealty. The ironborn elected Lord [[Vickon Greyjoy]] of Pyke to lead them, and [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]] and [[House Tully|Tully]] were among the first to swear their fealty to Aegon. For Tully's service, Aegon made them overlords of the [[Riverlands]], making all other lords to swear fealty to them.{{Ref|aGoT|62}}

===The Submission of Crackclaw Point===
Following the death of [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]] at [[Harrenhal]], Aegon sent his sister Queen Visenya, to demand the submission of the lords of [[Crackclaw Point]]. The lords understood that they had no chance, so they laid their swords at her feet. Visenya took them as her own men and they would owe no fealty but to the [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|aFfC|20}}
They bent the knee to her without qualm, and in return she promised them that they would be direct vassals of the Targaryens.

===Conquest of the Stormlands===
In the east, [[Orys Baratheon]], Aegon's alleged bastard half-brother, led an army against Storm's End. King [[Argilac]] the Arrogant, soon proved the truth of his name. Rather than take shelter behind the walls of his fortress, he took the field, confident of victory. A pitched battle was fought and [[Orys Baratheon]] slew Argilac in single combat. It is unclear whether Orys commanded a separate host or was merely commanding a contingent of Aegon's own army. After the battle, Aegon I, gave to Orys Argilac's sigil, castle, lands and daughter as rewards for his victory.{{Ref|aGoT|62}}

===Conquest of the Westerlands===
: {{See also|Field of Fire}}
Alarmed at the Targaryens sweeping success, King [[Loren Lannister]] of the Rock and King [[Mern Gardener|Mern IX]] of the [[Reach]] made an alliance and assembled their armies to face the invader. Their army, dubbed by historians 'The Host of the Two Kings', numbered 55,000, five thousand of them mounted knights, while the Targaryens had only 10,000 men, many of uncertain loyalty and reliability. The battle went badly for the Targaryens, with their smaller force severely weakened and in danger of routing. Aegon and his sisters deployed all three dragons at once, the only time this happened in the war. Their combined fires scoured the battlefield, immolating more than four thousand men (including King Mern himself) and giving the battle its name: The [[Field of Fire]].

King Loren bent the knee and was allowed to remain Lord of Casterly Rock, With Mern dead, Aegon accepted the surrender of [[Harlen Tyrell]], Mern's steward, and appointed him overlord of the Reach. Aegon accepted their oaths of fealty, naming Loren as Lord of Casterly Rock and the [[Westerlands]] and Harlen as Lord of [[Highgarden]] and the Reach. This infuriated [[House Florent]], who had a superior blood-claim to the Gardener line, but Aegon dismissed this.{{Ref|aGoT|62}}

===Conquest of Oldtown===
When news arrived in [[Oldtown]] of the landing of Aegon and his sisters, the [[High Septon]] fasted and prayed for seven days and nights under the dome of the Starry Sept in Oldtown. He then announced that the [[Faith of the Seven|Faith]] would take not oppose the Targaryens, because the Crone had shown him that to do so would mean the destruction of Oldtown in dragonflame. Lord [[House Hightower|Hightower]], a pious man, kept his forces at Oldtown and when Aegon's marched south towards Oldtown, he freely open his gates submitting to Aegon's authority. The High Septon then anointed Aegon and acknowledged his place as King of Westeros, destroying much of the remaining opposition among the Westerosi people.{{Ref|aFfC|28}}

===Battle with Dorne===
Aegon led an invasion of [[Dorne]] in an attempt to secure that southern land as well. He took his army through the [[Red Mountains]], but the Dornish, having learned of the Field of Fire and Harren mistakes, they refused to give open battle nor did they hide in their castles, instead striking supply lines and engaging in guerilla warfare and melting away before the dragons could be brought to bear. A thousand pinpricks did what a single pitched battle could not, and Aegon chose to withdraw and leave Dorne an independent nation. <ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1428/ SSM:Event hirizion chat] (March 18, 1999)</ref>

===Conquest of the North===
A host of northmen under the leadership of the [[King In The North]], [[Torrhen Stark]], marched south towards the Riverlands and Aegon mustered his troops and dragons to meet him on the banks of the Red Fork of the [[Trident]], east of Riverrun. Torrhen intended to engage Aegon in battle, but viewing Aegon's vast host and his dragons made Torrhen realise his folly and instead he bent the knee in submission. Aegon named him Lord of the North and of [[Winterfell]]. In later years, an inn was built on the site of this event, known as the [[Inn of the Kneeling Man]].

===Conquest of the Vale===
[[House Arryn]], Kings of the [[Vale]], also acknowledged King Aegon's supremacy, but the details of how this was accomplished are unclear.

==Aftermath==
Now in control of six of the Seven Kingdons, Aegon I Targaryen, now known as Aegon the Conqueror, announced the founding of a new castle, the Red Keep, and a new capital city, King's Landing, on the site where he landed on the shores of Westeros, Aegon had melted the swords of those who had opposed him into a throne, the [[Iron Throne]], as a reminder of their submission to the Targaryens.
Dorne remained unconquered and was acknowledged as a sovereign state under the rule of the [[House Martell|Martells]] of Sunspear and Aegon devoted the remainder of his life to consolidation of his realm.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
{{EnWP|Wars in A Song of Ice and Fire#War of Conquest|small=yes}}

[[Category:Wars|War of Conquest]]
[[fr:Histoire_des_Sept_Couronnes#La_Conqu.C3.AAte_d.27Aegon_.28An_1.29]]

Field of Fire

2011-12-25T08:12:09Z

Stormlander: /* The Battle */

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The '''Field of Fire''' was a major battle during [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon]]'s [[War of Conquest]]. According to semi-canon sources it is located in the northern part of the [[Reach]].<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref>

==The Prelude==
[[Aegon I]] landed at what would become [[King's Landing]] and began subjugating the [[Seven Kingdoms]].

==The Battle==
King [[Loren Lannister|Loren]] of the Rock had joined forces with King [[Mern Gardener|Mern]] of the Reach in an attempt to throw the invader back. Between the two kings they had roughly 55, 000 men, of which 5 000 were mounted knights. Aegon had a fifth of that number, most conscripts from previous conquests. The two armies met on a field in the Reach. The Targaryen force broke and ran on the first charge of the combined forces of Mern and Loren.

It was the only time in history that all three of the fabled Targaryen dragons took to the sky at the same time. Between [[Vhaghar]], [[Meraxes]] and [[Balerion]], they killed four thousand men, burning them alive. King Mern died, with him [[House Gardener]]. The army was broken and Aegon I was victorious.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 13|Chapter 13]], Tyrion</ref>

==Aftermath==
King Loren gave up his claim to kingship and became Warden of the West under the rule of Aegon I.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 13|Chapter 13]], Tyrion</ref> [[Harlen Tyrell]], castellan of [[Highgarden]], surrendered the forces of the Reach to Aegon. Aegon rewarded him by giving [[House Tyrell]] dominion over the Reach and raising him to Lord of [[Highgarden]] and Warden of the South.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Appendix|Appendix]]</ref>

==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}

[[Category:Battles|Field of Fire]]
[[fr:Bataille du Champ de Feu]]

Portal:Culture

2011-12-25T08:04:00Z

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:* [[Dornishmen]]

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:* [[Wildlings]]
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* [[Lhazareen]]

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* [[Iron Bank of Braavos]]
* [[Ancient Guild of Spicers|Guild of Spicers]]
* [[Thirteen]]
* [[Tourmaline Brotherhood]]

Military:
* [[Kingsguard]]
* [[Queensguard]]
* [[Rainbow Guard]]

* [[Night's Watch]]

Religious Orders:
* [[Poor Fellows]]
* [[Warrior Son's]]

Outlaws:
* [[Brotherhood Without Banners]]
* [[Kingswood Brotherhood]]
* [[Antler Men]]

Assassins :
* [[Faceless Men]]
* [[Sorrowful Men]]

Misc:
* [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* [[Maesters]]
* [[Pureborn]]
* [[Warlocks]]

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* King, [[Hand of the King]], [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard|Lord Commander]] of the Kingsguard.
* Council: [[Master of Coin]], [[Master of Ships]], [[Master of Whisperers]], [[Master of Laws]]

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* [[Customs]]

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* [[Knight]]
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* [[Khal]]
* [[Khaleesi]]

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A Game of Thrones

2011-12-21T18:42:59Z

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{{infobox Book | 
| name = A Game of Thrones
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| translator =
| image = [[Image:AGameOfThrones.jpg|200px]] 
| image_caption = US Hardcover (2002 Bantam Reissue)
| author = [[George R. R. Martin]]
| cover_artist = [[w:Steve Youll|Steve Youll]]
| country = [[w:United States|United States]]
| language = [[w:English language|English]]
| series = [[A Song of Ice and Fire]]
| genre = [[w:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
| publisher = [[w:Bantam Books|Bantam Books]] (US) & [[w:Voyager Books|Voyager Books]] (UK)
| release_date = [[w:6 August|6 August]] [[w:1996|1996]]
| media_type = Print ([[w:Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[w:Paperback|Paperback]])<br> audiobook<br>e-book
| pages = 694 pp (US Hardback), 672 pp (UK Hardcover), 835 pp (US Paperback)
| isbn = ISBN 0-553-10354-7 (US Hardback), ISBN 0-00-224584-1 (UK Hardback), ISBN 0-553-57340-3 (US Paperback)
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'''''A Game of Thrones''''' is the first of seven planned novels in '''''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''''', an [[w:epic fantasy|epic fantasy]] series by American author [[George R. R. Martin]]. It was first published on [[w:6 August|6 August]] [[w:1996|1996]]. The novel was nominated for the [[w:1998|1998]] [[w:Nebula Award|Nebula Award]] and the [[w:1997|1997]] [[w:World Fantasy Award|World Fantasy Award]], and won the 1997 [[w:Locus Award|Locus Award]]. The novella ''Blood of the Dragon'', comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 [[w:Hugo Award|Hugo Award]] for Best Novella.

The novel lends its name to several spin-off items based on the novels, including a [[A Game of Thrones collectible card game|trading card game]], [[A Game of Thrones (board game)|board game]] a [[A Game of Thrones (game)|roleplaying game]]

==Plot introduction==

''A Game of Thrones'' is set in the [[Seven Kingdoms]] of [[Westeros]], a land reminiscent of [[w:Medieval|Medieval]] [[w:Europe|Europe]]. In Westeros the seasons last for years, sometimes decades, at a time.

Fifteen years prior to the novel, the Seven Kingdoms were torn apart by a [[War of the Usurper|civil war]], known alternately as "Robert's Rebellion" and the "War of the Usurper." Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] kidnapped [[Lyanna Stark]], arousing the ire of her family and of her betrothed, Lord [[Robert Baratheon]] (the war's titular rebel). The Mad King, [[Aerys II Targaryen]], had Lyanna's father and [[Brandon Stark|eldest brother]] executed when they demanded her safe return. Her second brother, [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]], joined his boyhood friend Robert Baratheon and [[Jon Arryn]], with whom they had been fostered as children, in declaring war against the ruling [[House Targaryen|Targaryen dynasty]], securing the allegiances of [[House Tully]] and [[House Arryn]] through a network of dynastic marriages (Lord Eddard to [[Catelyn Tully]] and Lord [[Jon Arryn]] to [[Lysa Tully]]). The powerful [[House Tyrell]] continued to support the King, but [[House Lannister]] and [[House Martell]] both stalled due to insults against their houses by the King. The civil war climaxed with the [[Battle of the Trident]], when Prince Rhaegar was killed in battle by Robert Baratheon. The Lannisters finally agreed to support King Aerys, but then brutally turned against him, [[Sack of King's Landing|sacking the capital at King's Landing]]. [[Jaime Lannister]] of the Kingsguard executed King Aerys and House Lannister swore loyalty to Robert Baratheon. The Tyrells and remaining royalists surrendered and Robert Baratheon was declared King of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately, during the war, Lyanna Stark had died, apparently of illness; Robert Baratheon instead married [[Cersei Lannister]] to cement the alliance. Despite Robert's victory, the Mad King's youngest son [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] and youngest daughter [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] were taken to safety across the sea by loyal retainers. After the war House Martell chose a path of isolation, since [[Doran Martell|Prince Doran]]'s sister [[Elia Martell]] (Prince Rhaegar's wife) and her young children had been killed by Lannister armsmen during the storming of the capital.

Six years later King Robert proved his resolve by [[Greyjoy Rebellion|defeating a rebellion]] by Lord [[Balon Greyjoy]] of the Iron Islands. Balon's two eldest sons were killed and his youngest son, [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]], was given to the care of Eddard Stark as a ward.

==Plot summary==
{{Main|Chapters#A Game of Thrones{{!}}Chapter Summaries}}

''A Game of Thrones'' follows three principal storylines as they develop in tandem with one another. The novel begins in the year 298 AL (After Landing) and continues for many months, probably into the early months of 299 AL.

===In the Seven Kingdoms===
[[Eddard Stark]], Lord of Winterfell and the North, attends the execution of a man of the [[Night's Watch]] who has betrayed his vows and fled from the Wall. His sons [[Robb Stark|Robb]] and [[Bran Stark|Bran]], his bastard son [[Jon Snow]], and his ward [[Theon Greyjoy]] all attend. After the beheading, Robb finds a dead [[direwolf]] (the symbol of [[House Stark]]), killed by the antlers of a stag (the symbol of [[House Baratheon]]), which had given birth to five pups before it died. Robb and his brothers ask to keep them and Eddard consents, on the condition that the children themselves take care of them, rather than leaving the matter to the servants of House Stark. There are five pups, one for each of Eddard's trueborn children: Robb names his [[Grey Wind]] and Bran names his [[Summer_(direwolf)|Summer]], whilst Eddard's daughters [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark|Arya]] name theirs [[Lady_(direwolf)|Lady]] and [[Nymeria_(direwolf)|Nymeria]] respectively. Eddard's youngest, three-year-old [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], names his [[Shaggydog]]. Unexpectedly, Jon finds a sixth pup lying separately nearby: an [[w:albino|albino]] runt with white fur and red eyes. Jon claims this one, [[Ghost]], for himself.

King [[Robert Baratheon]] arrives at Winterfell with his court and many retainers, including his wife, [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]] of [[House Lannister]], and his children: [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]]. The queen's twin brother, Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] of the Kingsguard, and their younger brother [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], the Imp (so named for his dwarfism), also accompany the group. Robert asks Eddard to become the new [[Hand of the King]] after the death of the previous office holder, Lord [[Jon Arryn]]. Eddard agrees and travels south with his daughters Sansa and Arya, leaving Catelyn, Robb, Bran (now in a [[w:coma|coma]] after a grievous fall from a window) and Rickon at home. Jon Snow elects to travel north to [[Wall|the Wall]] to join the [[Night's Watch]] and is joined by Tyrion, who is eager to see the fabled construction for himself.

Catelyn Stark, learns from her sister [[Lysa Arryn]] (widow of the late Lord Jon Arryn) that the Lannisters had Jon Arryn murdered. After Eddard leaves for the south, an attempt is made on Bran's life, thwarted only by the direwolf Summer. Catelyn realizes that Bran must have seen something and been pushed from the window deliberately, and that the would-be murderers are trying to cover their tracks. She travels by sea to King's Landing and learns from her childhood friend [[Petyr Baelish|Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish]] that the dagger used in the assassination attempt was last seen in the hands of Tyrion Lannister. Travelling north again, Catelyn and her retainers encounter Tyrion by chance in an inn (as he returns south from the Wall) and take him captive to the [[Eyrie]], where Lady Lysa places him on trial. Unfortunately, Tyrion chooses trial by battle and his champion, a [[w:mercenary|sellsword]] named [[Bronn]], wins freedom for him.

In the capital at [[King's Landing]], Eddard investigates Jon's death and learns that Jon Arryn and King Robert's brother, Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]], had discovered that King Robert's three children were actually the products of an incestuous liaison between Queen Cersei and her twin brother Jaime. Spurning the advice of Robert's other brother [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]] to take Cersei into custody, Eddard instead tries mercy by offering Cersei the chance to flee. King Robert dies of a mishap whilst hunting and Cersei's eldest son Joffrey is proclaimed King before Eddard can pass the crown to Stannis, Robert's true heir. When Eddard moves against him, he is betrayed by Littlefinger. Eddard reluctantly agrees to sign a false confession of treason in return for Sansa and Arya's lives and the chance to go into exile on the Wall. Instead, Joffrey has Eddard brutally executed. Whilst Sansa is retained in custody, Arya manages to escape with the help of [[Yoren]], a recruiting agent for the [[Night's Watch]].

A civil war, later dubbed the [[War of the Five Kings]], erupts. Robb Stark leads an army of northmen into the [[Riverlands]] to support Lord [[Hoster Tully]], whose forces came under attack by [[Tywin Lannister|Lord Tywin Lannister]] after Catelyn took Tyrion prisoner. [[Riverrun]], the Tully stronghold, is besieged by an army under Jaime Lannister, whilst Lord Tywin holds a large army south of the [[Trident|River Trident]] to prevent Robb's advance. Unexpectedly, Robb wins the support of [[House Frey]] by agreeing to a dynastic marriage. This allows him to detach his cavalry and cross the Green Fork whilst his infantry carries on to the Trident under Lord [[Roose Bolton]], one of Robb's bannermen. Tywin, joined by the liberated Tyrion (who has won the support of the [[mountain clans]] of [[Vale|the Vale]]) defeats the Stark footmen before learning that Robb has outmaneuvered him. Shortly afterwards Robb's forces surprise and capture Jaime Lannister before smashing the Lannister army at the [[Battle of the Whispering Wood|Whispering Wood]] outside Riverrun. Tywin falls back on the strong castle of [[Harrenhal]] and orders Tyrion to go to King's Landing and counsel King Joffrey.

Lord Renly Baratheon flees south from King's Landing to [[Highgarden]], stronghold of the powerful [[House Tyrell]], and there is declared King of Westeros by acclamation, becoming the second of the war's five kings. Robb Stark becomes the third, when he is proclaimed the King in the North and by all the Stark and Tully bannermen present.

===On the Wall===
In the lands beyond [[Wall|the Wall]], three men of the [[Night's Watch]] stumble across the massacred bodies of [[wildlings]]. [[Waymar Royce|Ser Waymar Royce]] is confronted by several creatures of ice, the fabled '[[Others]]' of legend. He fights one, but is killed. The second man, [[Will]], investigates Royce's corpse only for it to come to life and strangle him. The third, [[Gared]], is so terrified of what he sees that he flees south to the Wall and then beyond. He is the deserter executed by [[Eddard Stark]] in the first chapter of the book.

[[Jon Snow]] chooses to join the Night's Watch after his father departs for [[King's Landing]] and travels north with his uncle [[Benjen Stark]], the First Ranger of the Watch. At the Wall Jon finds that the Watch is beset with problems. A new [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]] has arisen in the northern lands to rally the wildlings to his banner. This man, [[Mance Rayder]], was once a brother of the Watch before fleeing to join the wildlings. Jon also learns that the Watch is grievously under strength, mustering barely a thousand men to cover the three hundred miles of the Wall, and its manpower is now made up of murderers and criminals who chose the Wall over execution or imprisonment. Some time after Jon's arrival, Benjen vanishes whilst on a ranging beyond the Wall.

Jon and many of the other younger men are remorselessly bullied by the master-at-arms, [[Alliser Thorne]], but Jon concocts a plan for them to stand up to him. Jon wins the friendship of [[Samwell Tarly]], a [[w:coward|craven]] but intelligent boy from [[the Reach]], and also that of [[Maester Aemon]]. Jon is startled to learn that Aemon is a member of House Targaryen, the grand-uncle of the now-deposed Mad King Aerys II, and the oldest man alive in Westeros.

The Lord Commander of the Watch, [[Jeor Mormont]], is attacked by a corpse which suddenly comes back to life. Jon burns the [[Wight#Wights|wight]], saving Mormont's life. Shaken, Mormont resolves to lead the Watch beyond the Wall in strength to test Mance Rayder's strength. Although news of his father's death causes Jon to doubt his calling, he decides his place is with the Watch.

===In the East===
In the [[Pentos|Free City of Pentos]], [[Illyrio Mopatis|Magister Illyrio Mopatis]] and the exiled [[Viserys Targaryen|Prince Viserys Targaryen]] conspire to marry Viserys' thirteen-year-old sister [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] to [[Khal Drogo]] of the [[Dothraki]]. Drogo commands an clan of forty thousand mounted warriors whom Viserys plans to use to reclaim his homeland from the usurper [[Robert Baratheon]]. Among the wedding gifts are three stone dragon eggs from Ilyrio. Unexpectedly, Daenerys and Drogo find love as they journey east into the vast grasslands of the Dothraki sea, and Daenerys becomes pregnant with a son, to be named [[Rhaego]] after her dead brother. [[Jorah Mormont|Ser Jorah Mormont]], son of the [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]] and a [[knight]] exiled from [[Westeros]] for dealing in slaves, joins Viserys' entourage as an advisor on the current state of the [[Seven Kingdoms]].

Viserys becomes angry about how long he must wait before Drogo decides to invade Westeros and, in a drunken rage, insults Drogo grievously. Drogo decides to crown him right there — with molten gold. Daenerys picks up her brother's quest to reclaim the [[Iron Throne]], but Drogo is just as obstinate with the moon of his life as he was with the [[Viserys Targaryen|Beggar King]]. The tables turn when a Westerosi assassin, in the pay of King Robert, nearly kills her and their unborn child; a furious Drogo agrees to invade Westeros. However, during a warm-up raid on the peaceful [[Lhazareen]], Drogo takes a wound which festers. Daenerys loses both Drogo and her unborn son to the machinations of a [[Mirri Maz Duur|Lhazareen witch]], and has the witch burned in Drogo's funeral pyre. Daenerys had previously felt the eggs and found them warm to her touch, but not to others'. Before she had placed them in a small fire and thought that the flames made something in the eggs alive. While the witch was being burned she placed the eggs in the blazing fire. Incredibly, the eggs hatch, and Daenerys Targaryen, the Stormborn, becomes mother to the first three [[dragon|dragons]] seen in the world for one hundred and sixty years.

==Viewpoint Characters==
All of the novels in the series use a system for the books where by each chapter concentrates on one character in a [[w:point of view (literature)|third person limited point of view]]. Thus, the chapter list for each book would read something like: "Bran", "Eddard", "Catelyn", "Eddard", "Tyrion", "Catelyn" etc, with the story flipping back and forth between the main characters.

The tale of ''A Game of Thrones'' is told through the eyes of 8 POV characters and a one-off prologue POV.

*Prologue: [[Will]], a man of the [[Night's Watch]].
*Lord [[Eddard Stark]], Warden of the North and Lord of [[Winterfell]], Hand of the King.
*Lady [[Catelyn Stark]], of [[House Tully]], wife of Eddard Stark.
*[[Sansa Stark]], eldest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark.
*[[Arya Stark]], youngest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark.
*[[Bran Stark]], middle of three sons of Eddard and Catelyn Stark.
*[[Jon Snow]], bastard son of Eddard Stark.
*[[Tyrion Lannister]], a dwarf, son of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] and [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]]'s brother.
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]], Stormborn, the Princess of Dragonstone and heiress to the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] throne through her older brother [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]].

==Allusions/references to other works==
One of Martin's earliest attempts at writing a fantasy story was 'Dark Gods of Kor-Yuban', which was never published. The two heroes of the short story are the exiled 'Prince R'hllor of Raugg' and his boisterous, swaggering companion 'Argilac the Arrogant'. In an abandoned sequel Argilac teams up with Barron, the Bloody Blade of the Dothrak Empire, to slay the winged demons who killed Barron's grandfather Barristan the Bold. Most of these names reoccur in ''A Game of Thrones'': R'hllor is the red god worshiped in the east (although not specifically named until ''A Clash of Kings''); Argilac the Arrogant was the last Storm King thrown down by the Targaryens; the Dothrak Empire became the Dothraki horse-riders of the eastern plains; and Barristan the Bold was recast as Ser Barristan Selmy of the Kingsguard. Martin covers the origin of these characters and names in his essay 'The Heirs of Turtle Castle' in ''[[w:Dreamsongs:A Retrospective|Dreamsongs: A Retrospective]]''.

==Editions==
<gallery caption="Released editions>
File:AGameOfThrones.jpg |US Hardcover 1996
File:AGameOfThrones2.jpg|Bantam Hardcover 2002 (US)
File:AGameOfThrones3.jpg|Voyager Paperback 1998 (UK)
File:AGameOfThrones4.jpg|Bantam Paperback 2011 (US)
</gallery>


===Foreign language editions===
* [[:fr:A_Game_of_Thrones|French]]: two volumes (hardcover: Pygmalion (1998, 1999); paperback: J'ai Lu (2001)) "Le trône de fer", "Le donjon rouge".
* [[:ru:Игра_Престолов|Russian]]: single volume, AST (2001, 2004, 2007): "Игра престолов". Two volumes, AST (1999): "Игра престолов. Книга 1", "Игра престолов. Книга 2".

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! Additional versions
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* Bulgarian: "Игра на тронове"
* Catalan: "La mà del rei" (Devir Contenidos, 2006)
* Chinese: "权力的游戏"; pinyin: "Quánlì de Yóuxì"; literally "game of power" (Chongqing Publishing, 2005)
* Croatian: "Igra prijestolja"
* Czech: "Hra o trůny"
* Dutch: Luitingh-Sijthoff (1997): "Het spel der tronen"
* Estonian: two volumes, Varrak (2006): "Troonide mäng"
* Finnish: "Valtaistuinpeli" (2003)
* German: single volume, Fantasy Productions (2004): "Eisenthron". Two volumes, Goldmann (1997, 1998): "Die Herren von Winterfell", "Das Erbe von Winterfell"
* Greek: two volumes, Anubis (2004): "Παιχνίδι του στέμματος"
* Hebrew: משחקי הכס
* Hungarian: single volume, Alexandra: "Trónok harca"
* Italian: two volumes, Mondadori (hardcover: 1999, 2000; paperback: 2001): "Il trono di spade" (The Throne of Swords), "Il grande inverno" (The Great Winter); as a single volume titled "Il gioco del trono" in the collection Urania Fantasy — Le grandi saghe (July 2007)
* Japanese: "七王国の玉座" (The Seven Kingdoms's Throne) Hayakawa Publishing 2002 hardcover, 2 volumes; 2006 softcover, 5 volumes.
* Korean: "왕좌의 게임"
* Macedonian: "Игра на тронови"
* Norwegian: "I vargens tid" (2011)
* Polish: Zysk i S-ka (1998): "Gra o tron"
* Portuguese: two volumes: Saída de Emergência (2007): "A Guerra dos Tronos", "A Muralha de Gelo". Partial and pirate edition: Entre Letras Editora (2002): "A Muralha" (1st part only). In Brazil, Editora Leya (2010): "A Guerra dos Tronos: As Crônicas de Gelo e Fogo, Livro Um".
* Romanian: two volumes: "Urzeala tronurilor" (2007)
* Serbian: Laguna (2003): "Igra Prestola"
* Slovak: "Hra o tróny"
* Slovene: "Igra prestolov" (2007)
* Spanish: Gigamesh (2002): "Juego de tronos"
* Swedish: two volumes, Forum: "I vargens tid", "Kampen om järntronen". Single volume, Forum (2005): "Kampen om järntronen"
* Turkish: Buz ve Ateşin Şarkısı Serisi: "Taht Oyunları" (2005)
* Turkish: Buz ve Ateşin Şarkısı I: "Taht Oyunları" (Epsilon Publishing, 2011) (New edition)
* Hungarian: Trónok harca (Clash of Thrones)
|}

==Literary significance & criticism==
*{{cite web | title=SF Reviews.Net | author=Wagner, T. M. | url=http://www.sfreviews.net/gameofthrones.html }}
*{{cite web | title=SF Site | author=Seidman, James | url=http://www.sfsite.com/09a/game16.htm }}
*{{cite web | title=SFF World | author=Silver, Steven H. | url=http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/martin.html }}

==Awards and nominations==
*[[w:Locus Award|Locus Award]] – Best Novel (Fantasy) (Won) – (1997)
*[[w:World Fantasy Award|World Fantasy Award]] – Best Novel (Nominated) – (1997)
*[[w:Hugo Award|Hugo Award]] – Best Novella for ''Blood of the Dragon'' (Won) – (1997)
*[[w:Nebula Award|Nebula Award]] – Best Novel (Nominated) – (1997)
*Ignotus Award – Best Novel (Foreign) (Won) – (2003)

==References and Notes==
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{{infobox Book | 
| name = A Game of Thrones
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = [[Image:AGameOfThrones.jpg|200px]] 
| image_caption = US Hardcover (2002 Bantam Reissue)
| author = [[George R. R. Martin]]
| cover_artist = [[w:Steve Youll|Steve Youll]]
| country = [[w:United States|United States]]
| language = [[w:English language|English]]
| series = [[A Song of Ice and Fire]]
| genre = [[w:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
| publisher = [[w:Bantam Books|Bantam Books]] (US) & [[w:Voyager Books|Voyager Books]] (UK)
| release_date = [[w:6 August|6 August]] [[w:1996|1996]]
| media_type = Print ([[w:Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[w:Paperback|Paperback]])<br> audiobook<br>e-book
| pages = 694 pp (US Hardback), 672 pp (UK Hardcover), 835 pp (US Paperback)
| isbn = ISBN 0-553-10354-7 (US Hardback), ISBN 0-00-224584-1 (UK Hardback), ISBN 0-553-57340-3 (US Paperback)
| preceded_by =
| followed_by = [[A Clash of Kings]]
}}

'''''A Game of Thrones''''' is the first of seven planned novels in '''''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''''', an [[w:epic fantasy|epic fantasy]] series by American author [[George R. R. Martin]]. It was first published on [[w:6 August|6 August]] [[w:1996|1996]]. The novel was nominated for the [[w:1998|1998]] [[w:Nebula Award|Nebula Award]] and the [[w:1997|1997]] [[w:World Fantasy Award|World Fantasy Award]], and won the 1997 [[w:Locus Award|Locus Award]]. The novella ''Blood of the Dragon'', comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 [[w:Hugo Award|Hugo Award]] for Best Novella.

The novel lends its name to several spin-off items based on the novels, including a [[A Game of Thrones collectible card game|trading card game]], [[A Game of Thrones (board game)|board game]] a [[A Game of Thrones (game)|roleplaying game]] and [[A Game of Thrones Series|A Game of Thrones]]

==Plot introduction==

''A Game of Thrones'' is set in the [[Seven Kingdoms]] of [[Westeros]], a land reminiscent of [[w:Medieval|Medieval]] [[w:Europe|Europe]]. In Westeros the seasons last for years, sometimes decades, at a time.

Fifteen years prior to the novel, the Seven Kingdoms were torn apart by a [[War of the Usurper|civil war]], known alternately as "Robert's Rebellion" and the "War of the Usurper." Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] kidnapped [[Lyanna Stark]], arousing the ire of her family and of her betrothed, Lord [[Robert Baratheon]] (the war's titular rebel). The Mad King, [[Aerys II Targaryen]], had Lyanna's father and [[Brandon Stark|eldest brother]] executed when they demanded her safe return. Her second brother, [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]], joined his boyhood friend Robert Baratheon and [[Jon Arryn]], with whom they had been fostered as children, in declaring war against the ruling [[House Targaryen|Targaryen dynasty]], securing the allegiances of [[House Tully]] and [[House Arryn]] through a network of dynastic marriages (Lord Eddard to [[Catelyn Tully]] and Lord [[Jon Arryn]] to [[Lysa Tully]]). The powerful [[House Tyrell]] continued to support the King, but [[House Lannister]] and [[House Martell]] both stalled due to insults against their houses by the King. The civil war climaxed with the [[Battle of the Trident]], when Prince Rhaegar was killed in battle by Robert Baratheon. The Lannisters finally agreed to support King Aerys, but then brutally turned against him, [[Sack of King's Landing|sacking the capital at King's Landing]]. [[Jaime Lannister]] of the Kingsguard executed King Aerys and House Lannister swore loyalty to Robert Baratheon. The Tyrells and remaining royalists surrendered and Robert Baratheon was declared King of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately, during the war, Lyanna Stark had died, apparently of illness; Robert Baratheon instead married [[Cersei Lannister]] to cement the alliance. Despite Robert's victory, the Mad King's youngest son [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] and youngest daughter [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] were taken to safety across the sea by loyal retainers. After the war House Martell chose a path of isolation, since [[Doran Martell|Prince Doran]]'s sister [[Elia Martell]] (Prince Rhaegar's wife) and her young children had been killed by Lannister armsmen during the storming of the capital.

Six years later King Robert proved his resolve by [[Greyjoy Rebellion|defeating a rebellion]] by Lord [[Balon Greyjoy]] of the Iron Islands. Balon's two eldest sons were killed and his youngest son, [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]], was given to the care of Eddard Stark as a ward.

==Plot summary==
{{Main|Chapters#A Game of Thrones{{!}}Chapter Summaries}}

''A Game of Thrones'' follows three principal storylines as they develop in tandem with one another. The novel begins in the year 298 AL (After Landing) and continues for many months, probably into the early months of 299 AL.

===In the Seven Kingdoms===
[[Eddard Stark]], Lord of Winterfell and the North, attends the execution of a man of the [[Night's Watch]] who has betrayed his vows and fled from the Wall. His sons [[Robb Stark|Robb]] and [[Bran Stark|Bran]], his bastard son [[Jon Snow]], and his ward [[Theon Greyjoy]] all attend. After the beheading, Robb finds a dead [[direwolf]] (the symbol of [[House Stark]]), killed by the antlers of a stag (the symbol of [[House Baratheon]]), which had given birth to five pups before it died. Robb and his brothers ask to keep them and Eddard consents, on the condition that the children themselves take care of them, rather than leaving the matter to the servants of House Stark. There are five pups, one for each of Eddard's trueborn children: Robb names his [[Grey Wind]] and Bran names his [[Summer_(direwolf)|Summer]], whilst Eddard's daughters [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark|Arya]] name theirs [[Lady_(direwolf)|Lady]] and [[Nymeria_(direwolf)|Nymeria]] respectively. Eddard's youngest, three-year-old [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], names his [[Shaggydog]]. Unexpectedly, Jon finds a sixth pup lying separately nearby: an [[w:albino|albino]] runt with white fur and red eyes. Jon claims this one, [[Ghost]], for himself.

King [[Robert Baratheon]] arrives at Winterfell with his court and many retainers, including his wife, [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]] of [[House Lannister]], and his children: [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]]. The queen's twin brother, Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] of the Kingsguard, and their younger brother [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], the Imp (so named for his dwarfism), also accompany the group. Robert asks Eddard to become the new [[Hand of the King]] after the death of the previous office holder, Lord [[Jon Arryn]]. Eddard agrees and travels south with his daughters Sansa and Arya, leaving Catelyn, Robb, Bran (now in a [[w:coma|coma]] after a grievous fall from a window) and Rickon at home. Jon Snow elects to travel north to [[Wall|the Wall]] to join the [[Night's Watch]] and is joined by Tyrion, who is eager to see the fabled construction for himself.

Catelyn Stark, learns from her sister [[Lysa Arryn]] (widow of the late Lord Jon Arryn) that the Lannisters had Jon Arryn murdered. After Eddard leaves for the south, an attempt is made on Bran's life, thwarted only by the direwolf Summer. Catelyn realizes that Bran must have seen something and been pushed from the window deliberately, and that the would-be murderers are trying to cover their tracks. She travels by sea to King's Landing and learns from her childhood friend [[Petyr Baelish|Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish]] that the dagger used in the assassination attempt was last seen in the hands of Tyrion Lannister. Travelling north again, Catelyn and her retainers encounter Tyrion by chance in an inn (as he returns south from the Wall) and take him captive to the [[Eyrie]], where Lady Lysa places him on trial. Unfortunately, Tyrion chooses trial by battle and his champion, a [[w:mercenary|sellsword]] named [[Bronn]], wins freedom for him.

In the capital at [[King's Landing]], Eddard investigates Jon's death and learns that Jon Arryn and King Robert's brother, Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]], had discovered that King Robert's three children were actually the products of an incestuous liaison between Queen Cersei and her twin brother Jaime. Spurning the advice of Robert's other brother [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]] to take Cersei into custody, Eddard instead tries mercy by offering Cersei the chance to flee. King Robert dies of a mishap whilst hunting and Cersei's eldest son Joffrey is proclaimed King before Eddard can pass the crown to Stannis, Robert's true heir. When Eddard moves against him, he is betrayed by Littlefinger. Eddard reluctantly agrees to sign a false confession of treason in return for Sansa and Arya's lives and the chance to go into exile on the Wall. Instead, Joffrey has Eddard brutally executed. Whilst Sansa is retained in custody, Arya manages to escape with the help of [[Yoren]], a recruiting agent for the [[Night's Watch]].

A civil war, later dubbed the [[War of the Five Kings]], erupts. Robb Stark leads an army of northmen into the [[Riverlands]] to support Lord [[Hoster Tully]], whose forces came under attack by [[Tywin Lannister|Lord Tywin Lannister]] after Catelyn took Tyrion prisoner. [[Riverrun]], the Tully stronghold, is besieged by an army under Jaime Lannister, whilst Lord Tywin holds a large army south of the [[Trident|River Trident]] to prevent Robb's advance. Unexpectedly, Robb wins the support of [[House Frey]] by agreeing to a dynastic marriage. This allows him to detach his cavalry and cross the Green Fork whilst his infantry carries on to the Trident under Lord [[Roose Bolton]], one of Robb's bannermen. Tywin, joined by the liberated Tyrion (who has won the support of the [[mountain clans]] of [[Vale|the Vale]]) defeats the Stark footmen before learning that Robb has outmaneuvered him. Shortly afterwards Robb's forces surprise and capture Jaime Lannister before smashing the Lannister army at the [[Battle of the Whispering Wood|Whispering Wood]] outside Riverrun. Tywin falls back on the strong castle of [[Harrenhal]] and orders Tyrion to go to King's Landing and counsel King Joffrey.

Lord Renly Baratheon flees south from King's Landing to [[Highgarden]], stronghold of the powerful [[House Tyrell]], and there is declared King of Westeros by acclamation, becoming the second of the war's five kings. Robb Stark becomes the third, when he is proclaimed the King in the North and by all the Stark and Tully bannermen present.

===On the Wall===
In the lands beyond [[Wall|the Wall]], three men of the [[Night's Watch]] stumble across the massacred bodies of [[wildlings]]. [[Waymar Royce|Ser Waymar Royce]] is confronted by several creatures of ice, the fabled '[[Others]]' of legend. He fights one, but is killed. The second man, [[Will]], investigates Royce's corpse only for it to come to life and strangle him. The third, [[Gared]], is so terrified of what he sees that he flees south to the Wall and then beyond. He is the deserter executed by [[Eddard Stark]] in the first chapter of the book.

[[Jon Snow]] chooses to join the Night's Watch after his father departs for [[King's Landing]] and travels north with his uncle [[Benjen Stark]], the First Ranger of the Watch. At the Wall Jon finds that the Watch is beset with problems. A new [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]] has arisen in the northern lands to rally the wildlings to his banner. This man, [[Mance Rayder]], was once a brother of the Watch before fleeing to join the wildlings. Jon also learns that the Watch is grievously under strength, mustering barely a thousand men to cover the three hundred miles of the Wall, and its manpower is now made up of murderers and criminals who chose the Wall over execution or imprisonment. Some time after Jon's arrival, Benjen vanishes whilst on a ranging beyond the Wall.

Jon and many of the other younger men are remorselessly bullied by the master-at-arms, [[Alliser Thorne]], but Jon concocts a plan for them to stand up to him. Jon wins the friendship of [[Samwell Tarly]], a [[w:coward|craven]] but intelligent boy from [[the Reach]], and also that of [[Maester Aemon]]. Jon is startled to learn that Aemon is a member of House Targaryen, the grand-uncle of the now-deposed Mad King Aerys II, and the oldest man alive in Westeros.

The Lord Commander of the Watch, [[Jeor Mormont]], is attacked by a corpse which suddenly comes back to life. Jon burns the [[Wight#Wights|wight]], saving Mormont's life. Shaken, Mormont resolves to lead the Watch beyond the Wall in strength to test Mance Rayder's strength. Although news of his father's death causes Jon to doubt his calling, he decides his place is with the Watch.

===In the East===
In the [[Pentos|Free City of Pentos]], [[Illyrio Mopatis|Magister Illyrio Mopatis]] and the exiled [[Viserys Targaryen|Prince Viserys Targaryen]] conspire to marry Viserys' thirteen-year-old sister [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] to [[Khal Drogo]] of the [[Dothraki]]. Drogo commands an clan of forty thousand mounted warriors whom Viserys plans to use to reclaim his homeland from the usurper [[Robert Baratheon]]. Among the wedding gifts are three stone dragon eggs from Ilyrio. Unexpectedly, Daenerys and Drogo find love as they journey east into the vast grasslands of the Dothraki sea, and Daenerys becomes pregnant with a son, to be named [[Rhaego]] after her dead brother. [[Jorah Mormont|Ser Jorah Mormont]], son of the [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]] and a [[knight]] exiled from [[Westeros]] for dealing in slaves, joins Viserys' entourage as an advisor on the current state of the [[Seven Kingdoms]].

Viserys becomes angry about how long he must wait before Drogo decides to invade Westeros and, in a drunken rage, insults Drogo grievously. Drogo decides to crown him right there — with molten gold. Daenerys picks up her brother's quest to reclaim the [[Iron Throne]], but Drogo is just as obstinate with the moon of his life as he was with the [[Viserys Targaryen|Beggar King]]. The tables turn when a Westerosi assassin, in the pay of King Robert, nearly kills her and their unborn child; a furious Drogo agrees to invade Westeros. However, during a warm-up raid on the peaceful [[Lhazareen]], Drogo takes a wound which festers. Daenerys loses both Drogo and her unborn son to the machinations of a [[Mirri Maz Duur|Lhazareen witch]], and has the witch burned in Drogo's funeral pyre. Daenerys had previously felt the eggs and found them warm to her touch, but not to others'. Before she had placed them in a small fire and thought that the flames made something in the eggs alive. While the witch was being burned she placed the eggs in the blazing fire. Incredibly, the eggs hatch, and Daenerys Targaryen, the Stormborn, becomes mother to the first three [[dragon|dragons]] seen in the world for one hundred and sixty years.

==Viewpoint Characters==
All of the novels in the series use a system for the books where by each chapter concentrates on one character in a [[w:point of view (literature)|third person limited point of view]]. Thus, the chapter list for each book would read something like: "Bran", "Eddard", "Catelyn", "Eddard", "Tyrion", "Catelyn" etc, with the story flipping back and forth between the main characters.

The tale of ''A Game of Thrones'' is told through the eyes of 8 POV characters and a one-off prologue POV.

*Prologue: [[Will]], a man of the [[Night's Watch]].
*Lord [[Eddard Stark]], Warden of the North and Lord of [[Winterfell]], Hand of the King.
*Lady [[Catelyn Stark]], of [[House Tully]], wife of Eddard Stark.
*[[Sansa Stark]], eldest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark.
*[[Arya Stark]], youngest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark.
*[[Bran Stark]], middle of three sons of Eddard and Catelyn Stark.
*[[Jon Snow]], bastard son of Eddard Stark.
*[[Tyrion Lannister]], a dwarf, son of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] and [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]]'s brother.
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]], Stormborn, the Princess of Dragonstone and heiress to the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] throne through her older brother [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]].

==Allusions/references to other works==
One of Martin's earliest attempts at writing a fantasy story was 'Dark Gods of Kor-Yuban', which was never published. The two heroes of the short story are the exiled 'Prince R'hllor of Raugg' and his boisterous, swaggering companion 'Argilac the Arrogant'. In an abandoned sequel Argilac teams up with Barron, the Bloody Blade of the Dothrak Empire, to slay the winged demons who killed Barron's grandfather Barristan the Bold. Most of these names reoccur in ''A Game of Thrones'': R'hllor is the red god worshiped in the east (although not specifically named until ''A Clash of Kings''); Argilac the Arrogant was the last Storm King thrown down by the Targaryens; the Dothrak Empire became the Dothraki horse-riders of the eastern plains; and Barristan the Bold was recast as Ser Barristan Selmy of the Kingsguard. Martin covers the origin of these characters and names in his essay 'The Heirs of Turtle Castle' in ''[[w:Dreamsongs:A Retrospective|Dreamsongs: A Retrospective]]''.

==Editions==
<gallery caption="Released editions>
File:AGameOfThrones.jpg |US Hardcover 1996
File:AGameOfThrones2.jpg|Bantam Hardcover 2002 (US)
File:AGameOfThrones3.jpg|Voyager Paperback 1998 (UK)
File:AGameOfThrones4.jpg|Bantam Paperback 2011 (US)
</gallery>


===Foreign language editions===
* [[:fr:A_Game_of_Thrones|French]]: two volumes (hardcover: Pygmalion (1998, 1999); paperback: J'ai Lu (2001)) "Le trône de fer", "Le donjon rouge".
* [[:ru:Игра_Престолов|Russian]]: single volume, AST (2001, 2004, 2007): "Игра престолов". Two volumes, AST (1999): "Игра престолов. Книга 1", "Игра престолов. Книга 2".

{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! Additional versions
|-
|
* Bulgarian: "Игра на тронове"
* Catalan: "La mà del rei" (Devir Contenidos, 2006)
* Chinese: "权力的游戏"; pinyin: "Quánlì de Yóuxì"; literally "game of power" (Chongqing Publishing, 2005)
* Croatian: "Igra prijestolja"
* Czech: "Hra o trůny"
* Dutch: Luitingh-Sijthoff (1997): "Het spel der tronen"
* Estonian: two volumes, Varrak (2006): "Troonide mäng"
* Finnish: "Valtaistuinpeli" (2003)
* German: single volume, Fantasy Productions (2004): "Eisenthron". Two volumes, Goldmann (1997, 1998): "Die Herren von Winterfell", "Das Erbe von Winterfell"
* Greek: two volumes, Anubis (2004): "Παιχνίδι του στέμματος"
* Hebrew: משחקי הכס
* Hungarian: single volume, Alexandra: "Trónok harca"
* Italian: two volumes, Mondadori (hardcover: 1999, 2000; paperback: 2001): "Il trono di spade" (The Throne of Swords), "Il grande inverno" (The Great Winter); as a single volume titled "Il gioco del trono" in the collection Urania Fantasy — Le grandi saghe (July 2007)
* Japanese: "七王国の玉座" (The Seven Kingdoms's Throne) Hayakawa Publishing 2002 hardcover, 2 volumes; 2006 softcover, 5 volumes.
* Korean: "왕좌의 게임"
* Macedonian: "Игра на тронови"
* Norwegian: "I vargens tid" (2011)
* Polish: Zysk i S-ka (1998): "Gra o tron"
* Portuguese: two volumes: Saída de Emergência (2007): "A Guerra dos Tronos", "A Muralha de Gelo". Partial and pirate edition: Entre Letras Editora (2002): "A Muralha" (1st part only). In Brazil, Editora Leya (2010): "A Guerra dos Tronos: As Crônicas de Gelo e Fogo, Livro Um".
* Romanian: two volumes: "Urzeala tronurilor" (2007)
* Serbian: Laguna (2003): "Igra Prestola"
* Slovak: "Hra o tróny"
* Slovene: "Igra prestolov" (2007)
* Spanish: Gigamesh (2002): "Juego de tronos"
* Swedish: two volumes, Forum: "I vargens tid", "Kampen om järntronen". Single volume, Forum (2005): "Kampen om järntronen"
* Turkish: Buz ve Ateşin Şarkısı Serisi: "Taht Oyunları" (2005)
* Turkish: Buz ve Ateşin Şarkısı I: "Taht Oyunları" (Epsilon Publishing, 2011) (New edition)
* Hungarian: Trónok harca (Clash of Thrones)
|}

==Literary significance & criticism==
*{{cite web | title=SF Reviews.Net | author=Wagner, T. M. | url=http://www.sfreviews.net/gameofthrones.html }}
*{{cite web | title=SF Site | author=Seidman, James | url=http://www.sfsite.com/09a/game16.htm }}
*{{cite web | title=SFF World | author=Silver, Steven H. | url=http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/martin.html }}

==Awards and nominations==
*[[w:Locus Award|Locus Award]] – Best Novel (Fantasy) (Won) – (1997)
*[[w:World Fantasy Award|World Fantasy Award]] – Best Novel (Nominated) – (1997)
*[[w:Hugo Award|Hugo Award]] – Best Novella for ''Blood of the Dragon'' (Won) – (1997)
*[[w:Nebula Award|Nebula Award]] – Best Novel (Nominated) – (1997)
*Ignotus Award – Best Novel (Foreign) (Won) – (2003)

==References and Notes==
{{EnWP|A Game of Thrones|small=yes}}

{{GRRM works|state = uncollapsed}}
[[Category:Books]]
[[fr:A Game of Thrones]][[ru:Игра Престолов]]

Talk:Eleanor Mooton

2011-12-08T18:21:54Z

Stormlander: Created page with "Shouldn't she be married to Dickon Tarly? Regards, storm --~~~~Stormlander"

Shouldn't she be married to Dickon Tarly?
Regards,
storm

--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 18:21, 8 December 2011 (UTC)Stormlander

House Hunt

2011-12-03T09:19:31Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Hunt
| image = [[File:Hunt.png]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = a brown deer, bound and slung on a pole, on white
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[Reach]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Tarly]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
| Founder =
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}}

'''House Hunt''' is a noble house from the [[Reach]]. It blazons its arms with A brown deer, bound and slung on a pole, on white.<ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 14|Chapter 14]], Brienne</ref><ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/7/ Houses in the Reach]</ref> Their words are not known.

==The Hunt House at the end of the third century==
The known Hunts during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* Ser [[Alyn Hunt]]
* Ser [[Hyle Hunt]], his cousin.

==References in the books==
===A Song of Ice and Fire===
* Ser Hyle encounters [[Brienne of Tarth]] at the gates of [[Maidenpool]].
* Alyn is off hunting outlaws around Maidenpool.
* Ser Hyle follows Brienne throughout the Riverlands, stopping at the [[Quiet Isle]], [[Saltpans]] and eventually the [[Crossroads Inn]]. He proposes marriage to Brienne there but is rejected.
* Ser Hyle has at least one bastard that he knows of, a girl.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesReach}}

[[Category:Noble houses|Hunt]]
[[Category:Houses from the Reach|Hunt]]

House Woolfield

2011-12-02T14:34:11Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Woolfield
| image = [[File:Woolfield.png]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = Three woolsacks, white on purple, a white border
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[The North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
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}}

'''House Woolfield''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with three woolsacks, white on purple, a white border.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Woolfield House at the end of the third century==
The known Woolfields during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* [[Leona Woolfield]], the wife of Ser [[Wylis Manderly]].

==References in the books==
===A Song of Ice and Fire===
* Leona is married to Ser [[Wylis Manderly]]. They have two children.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Woolfield]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Woolfield]]

House Whitehill

2011-12-02T14:33:28Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Whitehill
| image = [[File:Whitehill.png]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A white pile inverted on indigo, an arch of 4-pointed stars above
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
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}}

'''House Whitehill''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a white pile inverted on indigo, an arch of 4-pointed stars above.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Whitehill House at the end of the third century==

The known Whitehills during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* no member has appeared yet.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Whitehill]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Whitehill]]

House Wells (north)

2011-12-02T14:33:11Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Wells
| image = [[File:wells.png|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = Per fess: five black roundels on grey over green and white lozengy
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
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}}

'''House Wells''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with per fess: five black roundels on grey over green and white lozengy.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref> There is another [[House Wells of Dorne|House Wells]] in [[Dorne]].

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Wells]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Wells]]

House Waterman

2011-12-02T14:32:55Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Waterman
| image = [[File:House Waterman.PNG|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = Brown crossed oars on white, between a pair of blue flaunches
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
| Founder =
| Died_out =
}}

'''House Waterman''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with brown crossed oars on white, between a pair of blue flaunches.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Waterman House at the end of the third century==

The known Watermans during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* no member has appeared yet.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Waterman]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Waterman]]

House Slate

2011-12-02T14:31:44Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Slate
| image = [[File:House Slate.PNG|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = Pale grey, a double tressure white
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
| Founder =
| Died_out =
}}

'''House Slate''' is a noble house in the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with pale grey, a double tressure white.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Slate House at the end of the third century==

The known Slates during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* no member has appeared yet.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Slate]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Slate]]
[[fr:Maison Slate]]

House Poole

2011-12-02T14:31:24Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Poole
| image = [[File:498px-House_Poole.png|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = a blue plate on white, with a grey tressure
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[the North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
| Founder =
| Died_out =
}}

'''House Poole''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. It is sworn to [[House Stark]]. They blazon their arms as a blue plate on white, with a grey tressure.<ref>[[The Prince of Winterfell (A Dance with Dragons)|A Dance With Dragons]]. The Prince of Winterfell</ref>

==The Poole House at the end of the third century==

The known Pooles during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* {[[Vayon Poole]]}, the steward of [[Winterfell]]. He was slain in [[King's Landing]].
** [[Jeyne Poole]], his daughter.

==References in the books==
===A Song of Ice and Fire===
* [[Sansa Stark]]'s best friend is Jeyne Poole.
* Vayon Poole is the steward of [[Winterfell]].
* Jeyne and Vayon Poole travel south with [[Eddard Stark]] to [[King's Landing]].
* Vayon Poole is killed when Lord Eddard is arrested.
* Jeyne Poole was taken away in King's Landing and not heard from again.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Poole]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Poole]]

[[fr:Maison Poole]]

House Overton

2011-12-02T14:30:59Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Overton
| image = [[File:House Overton.PNG|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A checked silver and gold fess on black
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
| Founder =
| Died_out =
}}

'''House Overton''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a checked silver and gold fess on black.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Overton House at the end of the third century==

The known Overtons during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* no member has appeared yet.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Overton]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Overton]]
[[fr:Maison Overton]]

House Moss

2011-12-02T14:30:38Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Moss
| image = [[File:House Moss.PNG|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A bend orange on vairy grey and green
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
| Founder =
| Died_out =
}}

'''House Moss''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a bend orange on vairy grey and green.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Moss House at the end of the third century==

The known Mosses during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* no member has appeared yet.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Moss]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Moss]]

House Mollen

2011-12-02T14:30:20Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Mollen
| image = [[File:Mollen.png|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = a pine tree covered with snow in a pale green pile, on white
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[the North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
| Founder =
| Died_out =
}}

'''House Mollen''' is a noble house of the [[North]]. It is sworn to [[House Stark]]. According to semi-canon sources, they blazon their arms with a pine tree covered with snow in a pale green pile, on white.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses//2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Mollen House at the end of the third century==

The known Mollens during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

*[[Hallis Mollen]], captain of the guard at [[Winterfell]]

==References in the books==
===A Song of Ice and Fire===
* Hallis Mollen is made the new captain of the guards at Winterfell after the departure of [[Jory Cassel]].
* Hallis Mollen guards [[Catelyn Tully]] during the [[Battle of the Whispering Wood]].
* Hallis Mollen travels south with Catelyn Tully to meet [[Renly Baratheon]].
* Catelyn Tully sends Hallis Mollen north with the bones of her dead husband, Lord [[Eddard Stark]].

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Mollen]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Mollen]]

[[fr:Maison Mollen]]

House Marsh

2011-12-02T14:29:55Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Marsh
| image = [[File:Marsh.png|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = Or, nine frogs vert
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[The North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
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}}

'''House Marsh''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. Neither their arms nor their words have appeared in the text. According to a semi-canon source they blazon their banners as or, nine frogs vert.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Marsh House at the end of the third century==

The known Marshes during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* [[Bowen Marsh]], Lord Steward of the [[Night's Watch]].

==References in the books==
===A Song of Ice and Fire===
* Bowen Marsh is the Lord Steward of the [[Night's Watch]].
* Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont]] named Bowen as castellan of [[Castle Black]] when he lead the ranging in search of [[Benjen Stark]] and [[Mance Rayder]].
* Bowen named Ser [[Wynton Stout]] as castellan when he went off to investigate [[wildling]] incursions.
* After the death of Lord Commander Mormont, Bowen was the temporary Lord Commander of the Night's Watch until they could have a choosing.
* Bowen Marsh won the [[Battle of the Bridge of Skulls]] at heavy cost of life to the [[Night's Watch]]. He was severely injured in the battle.
* During the choosing of the new [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], Bowen Marsh put his name forth.
* Bowen withdrew his name from the choosing and threw his support behind Lord [[Janos Slynt]].

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}

[[Category:Noble houses|Marsh]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Marsh]]
[[Category:House Marsh|*]]
[[fr:Maison Marsh]]

House Lightfoot

2011-12-02T14:29:35Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Lightfoot
| image = [[File:Lightfoot.png]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A line of white footprints in bend sinister, on dark brown
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
| Founder =
| Died_out =
}}

'''House Lightfoot''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a line of white footprints in bend sinister, on dark brown.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Lightfoot House at the end of the third century==

The known Lightfoots during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* no member has appeared yet.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Lightfoot]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Lightfoot]]

House Lake (north)

2011-12-02T14:29:13Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Lake
| image = [[File:Lake.png | 250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = 7 pommes, 2-2-2-1, green on brown
| Words =
| Seat =
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
| Cadet_branch =
| Founded_in =
| Founder =
| Died_out =
}}

'''House Lake''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with 7 pommes, 2-2-2-1, green on brown.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Lake House at the end of the third century==

The known Lakes during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* no member has appeared yet.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Lake]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Lake]]

House Ironsmith

2011-12-02T14:28:50Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Ironsmith
| image = [[File:Ironsmith1.png|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A black sword upright between four black horseshoes on gold, a grey-green border
| Words =
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| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
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'''House Ironsmith''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a black sword upright between four black horseshoes on gold, a grey-green border.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Ironsmith House at the end of the third century==

The known Ironsmiths during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* no member has appeared yet.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Ironsmith]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Ironsmith]]

House Flint of Flint's Finger

2011-12-02T14:28:23Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Flint of Flint's Finger
| image = [[File:House Flint of Flint's Finger.PNG|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A grey stone hand upon a white inverted pall on paly black and grey
| Words =
| Seat = [[Flint's Finger]]
| Current_Lord =
| Region = [[The North]]
| Title =
| Heir =
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
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'''House Flint of Flint's Finger''' is a noble house from [[the North]], probably less powerful than the [[House Flint of Widow's Watch|Flints of Widow's Watch]].

Flint's Finger is located at the southwestern coast of the North.

Neither their arms or their words appear in the text. According to a semi-canon source they blazon their banner as a grey stone hand upon a white inverted pall on paly black and grey.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==House Flint of Flints Finger at the end of the third century==

No member of this branch of the house has been directly mentioned on the text.

==References in the books==
===A Song of Ice and Fire===
* After [[Robb Stark]] calls his banners, Maester [[Luwin]] explains that while some (such as the [[House Karstark|Karstarks]], [[House Bolton|Boltons]], [[House Hornwood|Hornwoods]] or [[House Umber|Umbers]]) gather at the winter town, others such as the Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and Flint are waiting to join him along the kingsroad. Since House Flint of Widow's Watch is ruled by a lady, the passage probably refers to the Lord of Flint Fingers.
* The Flints are reported to have ties to House Hornwood through the female line, though the text does not specify which branch.
* When [[Theon Greyjoy]] studied the banners from the northern lords preparing to attack [[Winterfell]] through Maester Luwin's [[Myr]]ish lens tube, he saw some of House Flint, though not as many as from other houses.
* Lord Commander [[Rodrik Flint]] is regarded as one of the worst commanders of the [[Night's Watch]], for trying to make himself [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]].
* One of the dark legends surrounding the [[Nightfort]] is the rape and murder of brave young [[Danny Flint]].
* When only ten years old, [[Balon Greyjoy]] scaled the Flint Cliff's to the Blind Lord's haunted tower.
* It is suggested that the [[Night's King]] was a Flint, among the many possibilities.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

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[[Category:Noble houses|Flint of Flint's Finger]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Flint of Flint's Finger]]
[[fr:maison Flint de Pouce-Flint]]

House Fenn

2011-12-02T14:28:04Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Fenn
| image = [[File:Fenn.png | 250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = 3 black water lilies, on pale violet
| Words =
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| Title =
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'''House Fenn''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with three black water lilies, on pale violet.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Fenn House at the end of the third century==
The known Fenns during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* no member has appeared yet.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Fenn]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Fenn]]
[[fr:Maison Fenn]]

House Condon

2011-12-02T14:27:39Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Condon
| image = [[File:House Condon.PNG|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = An eagle's head between crossed tridents, red on white
| Words =
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| Region = [[North]]
| Title =
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| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
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'''House Condon''' is a noble house from the [[North]]. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with an eagle's head between crossed tridents, red on white.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref>

==The Condon House at the end of the third century==

The known Condons during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* Ser [[Kyle Condon]], a knight in service to Lord [[Medger Cerwyn]].

==References in the books==
===A Song of Ice and Fire===
* Ser Kyle was considered the right hand man of Lord [[Medger Cerwyn]].
* Lord [[Roose Bolton]] left Ser Kyle Condon and [[Ronnel Stout]] in charge of a strong force with orders to defend the [[Trident]] against a [[House Lannister|Lannister]] incursion.

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Noble houses|Condon]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Condon]]
[[fr:Maison Cardon]]

House Tallhart

2011-12-02T14:27:03Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Tallhart of Torrhen's Square
| image = [[File:House_Tallhart.PNG|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = Three green [[sentinel]] trees, over a brown field
| Words = ''Proud and Free''
| Seat = [[Torrhen's Square]]
| Current_Lord = [[Eddara Tallhart]]
| Region = [[the North]]
| Title = Master of Torrhen's Square
| Heir = [[Brandon Tallhart]]
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
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}}

'''House Tallhart of Torrhen's Square''' is a noble house from the [[North]].

Their arms show three green [[sentinel]] trees, over a brown field.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 53|Chapter 53]], Bran</ref><ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref> The words of the house do not appear in the books, but according to a semi-canon source they are «Proud and Free».<ref>The Citadel. [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Mottoes/ House Mottoes]</ref>

==The Tallhart House at the end of the third century==

The known Tallharts during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:
* Ser {[[Helman Tallhart]]}, Master of Torrhen's Square.
** [[Benfred Tallhart|{Benfred Tallhart}]], his son. He was slain by the ironmen on the [[Stony Shore]].
** [[Eddara Tallhart]], his daugther, a young maid. The new Lady of Torrhen's Square
* [[Leobald Tallhart|{Leobald Tallhart}]], his brother. Castellan of Torrhen's Square. Slain at [[Winterfell]].
** [[Brandon Tallhart]], Leobold's eldest son.
** [[Beren Tallhart]], Leobold's second son.

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It is unknown how Ser Helman Tallhart became a knight. Either he was a follower of the Faith (which is uncommon in the North save for House Manderly), or he was knighted for a great act of bravery.

==References in the books==
===A Song of Ice and Fire===
* After getting indications involving the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] in the murder attempt on [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Eddard Stark]] tells [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] to send word to Helman Tallhart and [[Galbart Glover]] to raise a hundred bowmen and fortify [[Moat Cailin]].
* The banners of House Tallhart were seen by Bran at [[Winterfell]] when [[Robb Stark]] called his banners.
* Ser Helman Tallhart was the first to pay his respects to Catelyn when she joined [[Robb Stark]]'s army.
* Ser Helman Tallhart was chosen by Robb Stark to captain a guard of bowmen left at [[the Twins]] to reinforce its defenses and control [[Lord Walder Frey|Lord Walder]]
* Leobald Tallhart was one of the contenders for the Hornwood inheritance, being married to a sister of the late Lord [[Halys Hornwood]].
* Benfred Tallhart, who remained with his father in the North during the war, raised a company of young men who call themselves the Wild Hares and rode through the country with rabbit skins trying to emulate the [[Robb Stark|Young Wolf]].
* Leobald sent his nephew Benfred to deal with the raiders pillaging the [[Stony Shore]], who turned out to be the Ironborn.
* Benfred was captured by the Ironmen lead by [[Theon Greyjoy]], and was drowned at sea under the supervision of [[Aeron Damphair]].
* [[Edmure Tully]] ordered Ser Helman Tallhart to leave the Twins and join the army of Lord [[Roose Bolton|Bolton]] at [[Harrenhal]].
* After defeating the Ironborn besieging Torrhen's Square, Leobald joined Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] to take back [[Winterfell]].
* Lord Bolton received notice from Ser Helman that he had captured [[House Darry|Darry]]'s castle after the Lannister garrison surrendered. Bolton replied him that by order of King Robb the prisoners were to be executed and the castle burned. Then, he was instructed to join [[Robett Glover]] and attack [[Duskendale]].
* Leobald Tallhart was slain by the Boltons after the betrayal at the battle of Winterfell, his body presented to Theon as a gift by [[Ramsay Bolton|Ramsay Snow]].
* During the [[Battle of Duskendale]] Ser Helman Tallhart was slain.
* [[Maester Aemon]] sent a raven to Torrhen's Square in a plea for help to defend [[Castle Black]] from [[wildlings]].

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

{{HousesNorth}}
[[Category:Knightly houses|Tallhart]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Tallhart]]
[[fr:maison Tallhart]]

House Glover

2011-12-02T14:26:37Z

Stormlander:

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Glover of Deepwood Motte
| image = [[File:House_Glover.PNG|250px]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A silver mailed fist on scarlet
| Words =
| Seat = [[Deepwood Motte]]
| Current_Lord = [[Galbart Glover]]
| Region = [[The North]]
| Title = Master of Deepwood Motte
| Heir = [[Robett Glover]]
| Overlord = [[House Bolton]]
| Ancestral_weapon =
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'''House Glover of Deepwood Motte''' is a noble house from the [[North]].

Their blazon is silver mailed fist on scarlet.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 53|Chapter 53]], Bran</ref><ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref> Their words are not mentioned in the books.

==The Glover House at the end of the third century==
The known Glovers during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:

* [[Galbart Glover]], Master of Deepwood Motte.
* [[Robett Glover]], his brother and heir.
*** [[Gawen Glover]], Robett's son. A young boy.
*** [[Erena Glover]], Robett's newborn daughter.

During the time of Robert's Rebellion, there was:

* {[[Ethan Glover]]}, a young man, who had been [[Brandon Stark]]'s squire. He died at the end of the war fighting with [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]] at the [[Tower of Joy]].

{{Glover tree}}

[[Larence Snow]], the bastard of [[House Hornwood|Hornwood]], is fostered at Deepwood Motte.

==References in the books==
===A Song of Ice and Fire===
* After getting indications involving the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] in the murder attempt on [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Eddard Stark]] tells [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] to send word to [[Helman Tallhart]] and Galbart Glover to raise a hundred bowmen and fortify [[Moat Cailin]].
* Bran recognizes the mailed fist of the Glovers, silver on scarlet, among the northern banners that answers Robb's call.
* At [[Winterfell]], Robett Glover demanded the honor of battle command with a smile and a jest.
* Galbart and Robett Glover greeted Catelyn when she joined Robb's army at Moat Cailin.
* When Robb split his forces at the Twins, Galbart stayed with him while Robett was assigned to the army commanded by Roose Bolton.
* [[Tyrion Lannister]] saw the mailed fist of the Glovers on the northern army he faced at the Green Fork.
* Catelyn notices Galbart Glover praying with Robb at the godswood of [[Riverrun]] after the victory at [[Battle of the Camps|the Camps]].
* [[Jorah Mormont]]'s first wife, chosen by his father [[Jeor Mormont|Jeor]], was a Glover of Deepwood Motte. They were married ten years, and she died after the third miscarriage.
* The Glovers play a part of the succession of the [[House Hornwood|Hornwood]] lands, as they were fostering the bastard of Lord [[Halys Hornwood]].
* The steward of Deepwood Motte came to Winterfell for the harvest party. Bran realized that it was the steward, not Lady Glover, who was making the decisions at Deepwood Motte.
* When Robett and Galbart left to go south with [[Robb Stark]], they left Robett's wife in charge of Deepwood Motte.
* Galbart Glover and Lord Rickard Karstark raided along the coast during Robb's campaign in the [[Westerlands]].
* Robett Glover is brought prisoner at [[Harrenhal]], reportedly having been made prisoner of the [[Brave Companions]]. In fact, they were conspiring to take the castle.
* Ethan Glover, who was Brandon's squire and went to [[King's Landing]] with him to challenge [[Rhaegar Targaryen]], was the only one of the group to survive.
* [[Asha Greyjoy]] takes Deepwood Motte with her forces, and takes Sybelle and her children as hostages.
* Robett Glover was one of the northern commanders told to strike [[Duskendale]] by [[Roose Bolton]], reporting supposed orders from Robb.
* [[Theon Greyjoy]] noticed that no Glovers were part of the army commanded by [[Rodrik Cassel]] that gathered at Winterfell to expel the Ironborn, due to the fact that their castle was occupied by his sister Asha.
* Robett Glover survived the battle at Duskendale and lead the survivors in retreat, only to meet Ser Gregor Clegane, who was waiting for them on the [[Kingsroad]]. He was taken prisoner.
* Robb arranges an agreement with Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] to exchange young [[Martyn Lannister]] for Robett Glover, who is put on a ship at Duskendale.
* During Robb's trip to the Twins for [[Edmure Tully]]'s marriage, Galbart Glover takes the Blackfish's place as the commander of scouts and outriders. He is regarded by Catelyn as a good man, loyal and steady, but without her uncle's brilliance.
* Asha treats Lady Glover well while she is held at Deepwood Motte. She promises that Galbart would talk with her, and believes that the northmen would agree to exchange Deepwood Motte, [[Torrhen's Square]] and Moat Cailin for the [[Sea Dragon Point]] and the [[Stony Shore]].
* Asha takes Lady Glover and her children with her to [[Harlaw]]. During the voyage, Lady Glover's milk dries up and they have to feed little Erena with milk from a goat found ashore. Erena is sick when they arrive at Harlaw.
* [[Brienne of Tarth]] spots the badge of House Glover among those that had been collected from the dead around [[Duskendale]].

==References and Notes==
{{references}}

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[[Category:Noble houses|Glover]]
[[Category:Knightly houses|Glover]]
[[Category:Houses from the North|Glover]]
[[fr:maison Glover]]