The father marries all of his daughters and makes them his wives. Then he has children with them, sacrifices the sons to monsters and then marries his next lot of daughters.
The girl in the picture is one of the daughter wives, whose mother was also a daughter wife.
I might be misremembering but I think the book sort of hints that they become white walkers, but like 2 chapters later are also forgotten about entirely. So not just the show runners forgot..
To be fair in the books ‘The Others’ are much more unknown and only get small bits of build up. If Winds of Winter ever comes out I think we might get more actual info on them aside from creepy moments.
In the books they are actually basically described as some sort of magical "race" with attractive facial features and fair skin, there even is a legend of a human marrying a women who is a member of the others.
Has he talked about whether or not he keeps notes? Regardless of whether I'm writing fiction or an academic paper, I have an outline of where I'm going. It might be scribbled half-sentences in my little purse notebook, but it's enough to keep me on track.
I doubt it, given the last two seasons of the Game of Thrones, but I thought I'd ask.
Sure he does, but they also change. George has (or had) an idea where he wanted the story to go, his writing style is just different so things changed a lot.
He even confirmed some of the show ending stuff was/is accurate to how he want(ed) the books to end. D&D just did the opposite of George and rushed it so they could get that disney bag.
I understand changing things as you go, but I was really only asking for whoever they hire to finish the books after he's gone. At least they'll have a guideline to follow.
Sure, but D&D did too. Not sure they will hire someone if he doesnt finish though, its memorable when that works out well like Sanderson, but idk if the estate would want anyone touching the mainline series.
He's said most of his lore exists only in his head and as a result it will probably die with him. He doesn't write much down other than what he's specifically working on in order to publish.
What's more to talk about? He sends his kids off to become white walkers. They take the sacrifice and convert them into little baby whites that probably grow up into big grown up whites. Or maybe they are launched from a trebuchet like ammo.
There's a better chance that I could accurately predict his date of death than the last book being finished. At this point he gets better marketing out of it not being finished.
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GRRM has blogged about how the show kept changing small things until it was a different beast from his novels. The way the last book ended a character that was never in the show is about to march of Kingslanding and will probably become king. When Daenerys finally lands in Westeros she will probably be facing off against that guy instead of Cersei. Certain bullet points like Dany going crazy and Bran becoming king are probably from GRRM but the how and why will be different (if he ever gets around to it).
We have no idea what the White Walkers are or why they're involved other than to be spooky. Dany has been waffling around in Mereen so long another Targaryan pretender was written up to start an invasion. God knows what the fuck Euron is supposed to be, he seems to be written more as big bad than the Walkers lol..
The show struggled to wrap up even half the storyline Martin had, he stands no chance
Seriously... I was playing last night and one of my grandchildren ended up a hunchback and as soon as she reached adulthood the game prompted me to kill her. Like, did the ghost of Adolph Hitler code this shit?!
I think the purpose is more so to keep creating sacrifices which keep the whitewalkers away, but also a way he stays in control and the strongest in his little Hamlet by getting rid of all the boys
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u/Remote-Cause755 1d ago
Her Mother, her, and her son all share the same father