Tag: red wedding

Though not an ancient House, the Freys are powerful and prominent in plotlines of all kinds, usually for all the red reasons. Wrong reasons, rather. But not only are they a big part of ASOIAF, they appear in some surprising...

From our "The Real Life Red Wedding: The Black Dinner of Scotland" episode!

Scotland’s late medieval period was a Game of Thrones-like environment with powerful families fighting and scheming for power. A particularly notorious event - The Black Dinner - inspired GRRM to write the Red Wedding. We’ll examine all the gory details,...

A Ghost in Winterfell - Winter Falls on Winterfell aka a Song of Snow & Murder Tyrion X - The Gang Gets Sold Into Slavery aka In the Belly of the Yellow Whale Jaime I - The North of the...

Jon VI - Jon Warns the Gang aka the One with Stabbening Vibes (5:23) Catelyn VI - The One with a Piece of Theon aka the Red Wedding Reception Party (22:19) Arya X - Red Wedding Crashers aka the One...

A special episode! This is a collaboration with Daniele Bolelli of the History on Fire podcast. We chat about a wide variety of real world historical influences on A Game of Thrones/ASOIAF. “The Wall comes from Hadrian's Wall, which I...