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The castle home to the Reeds, Greywater Watch, has no knights, no master-at-arms, no maester and no ravens. The main contributing reason to this is that the castle moves from time to time with the swamp and can be hard to locate
The Five Forts are massive 1000 foot tall structures of fused black stones which separate the Empire of Yi-Ti and the Land of the Shrykes. Although their design and origin appears to be of Valyrian descent, the forts predate the Valyrian Freehold and even the Yi-Ti Empire
Renowned explorer, Lomas Longstrider wrote a book listing nine man-made creations he saw throughout his travels titled ’Wonders Made by Man.’ Among the nine he listed were:
•The Wall
•The Titan of Braavos
•Triple Walls of Qarth
•The Palace With a Thousand Rooms in Sarnath
Queen Rhaenys’ dragon, Meraxes, died from a scorpion’s bolt shot through her eye socket while besieging Hellholt. It is unknown whether Rhaenys fell to her death, was crushed by Meraxes, or was captured by the Dornishmen to be tortured in their dungeons
In the ’A Song of Ice and Fire’ universe, Manticores have a scorpion-like body with a human face. This closely resembles forms of the Sandking creatures from G.R.R.M.’s 1979 short story ’Sandkings’ and may be a nod to these classic beasts
When Argilac Durrandon offered his daughter to Aegon I for all lands East of the God’s Eye from the Trident, Aegon refused, saying he had no need of a third wife. When Aegon offered up his best friend Orys Baratheon instead, Argilac took insult and cut off his envoy’s hands
Aegon ’The Conqueror’ had three dragons just as Daenerys does, Balerion, Meraxes, and Vhagar. Both Aegon and Daenerys were born on Dragonstone, however, Aegon also died on Dragonstone
When the Targaryens left Valyria and settled on Dragonstone, another Valyrian family, the Velaryons, settled on Driftmark. Both resided in Blackwater Bay and both families came together to create the Targaryen dynasty with Valaena Velaryon and Aerion Targaryen birthing Aegon I
Although Tywin seemed disgusted at the thought of incest and openly scolded Cersei upon learning of her relationship with Jaime, Tywin’s own wife, Joanna Lannister, was also his cousin
Concept art from Unseen Westeros, a compilation of unseen places put together by 40 #GameofThrones’ artists inspired by George R.R. Martin’s ‘The World of Ice and Fire’