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Post by Daemon Waters on Nov 1, 2014 10:24:28 GMT -5
I got mine yesterday, but I haven't cracked it open (Kids, halloween and all). I only got a chance to hold it, but tonight I'm grabbing a glass of wine and sitting down to read it with nobody under the the age of 13 around or any canine marauders.
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Post by Vhagar on Nov 1, 2014 10:30:30 GMT -5
My cats are not allowed near mine! Fortunately there are no kids permanently in my house.
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Post by Horas on Nov 1, 2014 18:03:05 GMT -5
I had the chance to start really digging into this today. It's really good. I loved the account of the Conquest (I assume the handing off to another maester meant that GRRM wrote that personally?). And I might have to make a Rhoynishman after reading that section, they seem awesome.
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Post by Vhagar on Nov 1, 2014 18:07:06 GMT -5
George is Maester Gyldan and I think Elio and Linda are meant to be Yandel.
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Post by Horas on Nov 2, 2014 16:04:27 GMT -5
Also after reading the Shivering Sea stuff, it looks like Varryn might have been on the right track with his ice dragon hunt after all.
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Post by Varryn Targaryen on Nov 2, 2014 22:23:45 GMT -5
Also after reading the Shivering Sea stuff, it looks like Varryn might have been on the right track with his ice dragon hunt after all. *bows, exits stage left*
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Post by Morys Martell on Nov 5, 2014 16:00:56 GMT -5
So for anyone whose read the book, cause I don't got a copy. Is there anything about the Kingdom of Sarnor beyond the small blurbs found on wikis and such? Like things beyond "it was a city state and then the dothraki killed everyone in it the end"?
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Post by Horas on Nov 5, 2014 16:24:13 GMT -5
It was more than a city state -- at its height it comprised of many different cities and kings, nominally under the rule of one high king but in practice often at war with each other. The inhabitants called themselves the Tall Men, and they were brown skinned, black haired, and tall. They are said to be "amongst the known world's great civilizations for more than two thousand years." During this time period they would still be a mighty civilization -- they withstood Valyria itself -- but over the course of the Century of Blood (the 100 years after the Doom of Valyria) they would fall to the Dothraki and their own infighting.
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Post by Lord Lyonel Harroway on Nov 5, 2014 16:36:30 GMT -5
I haven't even heard of that place?
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Post by Horas on Nov 5, 2014 16:39:44 GMT -5
It's one of the new (I think) places talked about in the world book. It was in the north-west-ish parts of what is now the Dothraki Sea.
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Post by Lord Lyonel Harroway on Nov 5, 2014 16:48:18 GMT -5
One of you future admins should write that. Sounds a cool place to explore
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Post by Morys Martell on Nov 5, 2014 16:56:01 GMT -5
That is more then every wiki entry I've read on Sarnor combined. Even a description of how they look.
...I gotta get this book.
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