Category: Episodes
The High Magic of Moat Cailin
At least two major geological events are attributed to the Hammer of the Waters - the breaking of the arm of Dorne and the flooding of the Neck. One or both of those were unleashed from Moat Cailin. Why there,...
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Game of Thrones at the End of Ancient Greece II
The tale of three city states continues as Sparta maintains their seizure of Thebes while Athens looks to reclaim their maritime dominance. Persia has war on many fronts and ever-worsening palace intrigue, making their interference or lack thereof uncertain. While...
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Lord Edric Dayne: Squire to the Undead
Sent to be a page for Lord Beric Dondarrion at the age of 7, Edric Dayne was eventually raised to squire. Edric clearly took to the Lightning Lord, perhaps even looked up to him. Even after his father died, Edric...
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House Farwynd: The Sunset Skinchanger Raiders
No known people live further west than House Farwynd of Lonely Light, and few houses if any are considered as strange. Even other Ironborn regard them as mad and tell stories that sound like a Northern house. There’s talk of...
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Game of Thrones at the End of Ancient Greece
Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and their neighbors fought a seemingly endless series of civil wars worthy of Westeros. But just like the War of Five Kings, Greece should have been more concerned with uniting against a greater threat massing to the...
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First Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Trailer & NYCC 2025
We went to our first NYCC this year, and were front row for the Spotlight on George RR Martin, and attended the live premiere of the first Dunk and Egg trailer and the follow-up panel which included Peter Claffey (Dunk),...
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The Prophecies of Patchface
Patchface drowned on his way to Westeros but somehow rose again on the beach near Storm’s End. The tragic and creepy fool sings of shadows, things under the sea, and undoubtedly at times, of the future. Here’s our attempt to...
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War of the Ninepenny Kings (5th Blackfyre Rebellion)
Steven Attewell of Race for the Iron Throne joined us to discuss the fascinating and terrifying Maelys the Monstrous, the Band of Nine, the Stepstones, Tyrosh, the Golden Company, Blackfyre lineage, Summerhall and all the events that led up to...
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Q&A, HBO Updates, and DragonCon 2025
You have questions, we have answers. You have theories, we have opinions. There’s news about the upcoming shows. We also have pictures and anecdotes from DragonCon 2025 including Ashaya as Oscar Tully (with the rest of the Muppet Tully crew)...
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Who Knows the Song of Ice and Fire?
Prince Rhaegar believed his son was the Prince that Was Promised, that his was the song of ice and fire. But he was not the first to hear those ancient tones, not even the first in his family. In this...
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