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House Manderly: Part 2 – Winter is Coming… To White Harbor

This one starts with recent Manderly history and ends with thoughts on starvation, human sacrifice, cannibalism, fear and prophecy. You can find part 1 in this series here. Special thank you, as always, to Michael Klarfeld for the maps and video intro.

Manderly Table of Contents

Manderly Images

  • Manderly Sigil by Eagle of Seagard
    Manderly Sigil by Eagle of Seagard
  • Family Tree 1
  • Family Tree 2
  • Family Tree 3
  • Family Tree 4
  • Wyman, Wynafryd, and Wylla by Hong-Ara
    Wyman, Wynafryd, and Wylla by Hong-Ara
  • Wyman, Wendel, Wylis, and Donella by Sir-Heartsalot
    Wendel, Wyman, Wylis, and Donella by Sir-Heartsalot
  • Big Walder and Wyman by GibiLynx
    Big Walder and Wyman by GibiLynx
  • Wyman, Wylis, Wendel, and Wylla by hubsher
    Wyman, Wylis, Wendel, and Wylla by hubsher
  • Wynafryd and Wylla by eluascinnamon
    Wynafryd and Wylla by eluas-cinnamon
  • Wylla Manderly by thethreehares and eliyadoodles
    Wylla Manderly by thethreehares and eliyadoodles
  • Wyman Manderly by Jenny Slife (FacelessFrey)
    Wyman Manderly by Jenny Slife (FacelessFrey)
  • Wynafyrd and Wylla by furiousstarfishnerd
    Wynafyrd and Wylla by furiousstarfishnerd

While tearing apart a bird with fat fingers, Lord Wyman made polite inquiry after Lady Hornwood, who was a cousin of his. “She was born a Manderly, you know. Perhaps, when her grief has run its course, she would like to be a Manderly again, eh?” He took a bite from a wing, and smiled broadly. “As it happens, I am a widower these past eight years. Past time I took another wife, don’t you agree, my lords? A man does get lonely.”

Tossing the bones aside, he reached for a leg. “Or if the lady fancies a younger lad, well, my son Wendel is unwed as well. He is off south guarding Lady Catelyn, but no doubt he will wish to take a bride on his return. A valiant boy, and jolly. Just the man to teach her to laugh again, eh?” He wiped a bit of grease off his chin with the sleeve of his tunic.” – Bran II, ACOK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2LsZUmDuds

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House Manderly: Part 1 – Blood of the Merling

…a thousand years ago… We explore the double backstory of House Manderly, the ancient realm in the south where they came to be, and the ancient realm in the north where they reside and prosper now. Find our second episode on House Manderly here.

Manderly Outline

Manderly Images

  • The Mander
    The Mander (Klaradox)
  • King's Landing
    King’s Landing
  • White Knife
    White Knife
  • Rhoyne
    Rhoyne
  • Asshai
    Asshai
  • Greenblood
    Greenblood
  • Oldtown
    Oldtown
  • Shield Islands
    Shield Islands
  • The Bite
    The Bite
  • Braavos
    Braavos
  • Northeast
    Northeast
  • Manderly Sigil (Eagle of Seagard)
  • Iron Islands
    Iron Islands
  • Merling King
    Merling King (Klaradox)

The Manderlys are no northmen, not down deep. ‘Twas no more than nine hundred years ago when they came north, laden down with all their gold and gods. They’d been great lords on the Mander until they overreached themselves and the green hands slapped them down. The wolf king took their gold, but he gave them land and let them keep their gods. – ADWD, Davos I

House Manderly Remembers

“I know about the promise,” insisted the girl. “Maester Theomore, tell them! A thousand years before the Conquest, a promise was made, and oaths were sworn in the Wolf’s Den before the old gods and the new. When we were sore beset and friendless, hounded from our homes and in peril of our lives, the wolves took us in and nourished us and protected us against our enemies. The city is built upon the land they gave us. In return we swore that we should always be their men. Stark men!” – Davos III, ADWD

https://youtu.be/OAWzfLEzDuI

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Plots: Religion & Magic Part 3 – Weirwood Tour (spoilers)

Weirwood Tour

This episode gives detail on every weirwood in Westeros while adding new theories and background. Apart from the Heart Trees, there’s a lot on Ravens, the Others, the magic of genetics and the weather, the Children of the Forest and the Nightfort. Throughout the tour, Ashaya and Aziz make several predictions and point out some eerie parallels. Be sure to watch our first episode on weirwoods.

The episode features themes of blood and ancestry, as weirwoods tend to be inextricably tied to the surrounding area, both physically and culturally. Given the broad scope of this topic, quite a variety of related subjects come up. Heart tree-murdering Melisandre makes an appearance or two, the Wall is discussed as well as several members of House Stark and some very out of the way places you’ve barely heard of.

We go from Beyond the Wall to the far south, considering not just where the weirwoods are, but where they might have been in the past. Given that there are so many places left unseen in the story, we make educated guesses where other trees might be. This isn’t just about where the trees are, though…the absence of weirwoods can be as conspicuous as the most grotesque Heart Tree face.

Quotes

When they died, they went into the wood, into leaf and limb and root, and the trees remembered. All their songs and spells, their histories and prayers, everything they knew about this world.


Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. Certain moths live their whole lives in a day, yet to them that little span of time must seem as long as years and decades do to us. An oak may live three hundred years, a redwood tree three thousand. A weirwood will live forever if left undisturbed. To them seasons pass in the flutter of a moth’s wing, and past, present, and future are one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzc0Qy229Kk

There were nine, all roughly of the same age and size. Each one had a face carved into it, and no two faces were alike. Some were smiling, some were screaming, some were shouting at him. In the deepening glow their eyes looked black, but in daylight they would be blood-red, Jon knew. Eyes like Ghost’s.

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