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I've been reading Game of Thrones and Philosophy, and early on in the book the author highligts Dany's core beliefs about magic and how closely she keeps it in her thoughts. She takes the maegi's prophecy close, and [ADwD](/b "and the Green Graces") amongst others related to her family lineage; they're close and held tight. When [ASoS](/b "Jorah is punted"), it's a fulfilment of a prophecy but when the incident happened, I wasn't surprised she recalled the maegi almost like it guided her decision in the first place. When she ate the heart for Drogo, she recognized the political and social advantage to it, but also believed in the spiritual aspect. Failure to finish it meant the prophecy would be false for her, and her entire reason d'etre would have been a lie. For this she wears the belief in foresight and magic like armor, as duty and honor did for Eddard.

A place like the House of the Undying prays on people who divination inclined like Dany. When a man or women holds just a small place in their heart for the higher mysteries, the Warlocks can achieve power and gain respect (although wide spread loathing). For this reason, I feel that is why they are not as powerful globally as the Lord of Fire; they can achieve their aims in Qarth because of their roots.

Dany escaped partly by Drogon and her realizing the limits of the warlocks hold on her --in the book, at least, the show credits the dragons entirely. The warlocks found and exploited her belief in magic early on, put her to the test, and lost gravely. It seems no noble born leader gets to the age of 25 without defeating some savage opponents, and at 16 we get to see first hand her path to greater glory. History's own Alexander didn't conquer nations without a good Prophecy or two.

>Jerusalem instead opened its gates in surrender, and according to Josephus, Alexander was shown the book of Daniel's prophecy, presumably chapter 8, which described a mighty Greek king who would conquer the Persian Empire. He spared Jerusalem and pushed south into Egypt.[82]

My attention span when it comes to reading sucks as well. I started the audiobooks, but I didn't feel like any of it was going in so I swapped to reading. What worked for me was setting a page target (usually 50, sometimes 100) each day and working up to that. But to answer your question, yeah all the books are on audio now. You can buy them already on CD from amazon here. Roy Dotrice reads them, and he does some pretty cool voices too. Good luck.

If you mean a vRPG, we already have one and it HEAVILY apes Dragon Age Origins. It doesn't have the polish or graphics and the UI is heavily unintuitive, but if you figure that out and turn the graphics to max you will find a pretty good story buried under there. http://www.gameofthrones-rpg.com/

if you mean a tabletop RPG, we have that too although it's out of print. Made by Guardians of Order, the guys who did Big Eyes, Small Mouth, it's every bit as political and unforgiving as the books it's based on. Definitely not a hack and slash RPG unless you want to go through characters like toilet paper. http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-D20-Based-Open-Gaming/dp/1588469425

I have it! I have not tried any of the recipes yet, but I'd say there is a good variation of easy and difficult recipes. I also like that they include modern versions of each recipe in the book, you know, in case you can't find any fresh snake for dinner. A few really tasty looking bread recipes as well. The Unofficial Cookbook also has a lot of Mead and Beer recipes, so I might have to pick that one up as well.

Was about to post the following, then I decided to see if anyone had already mentioned them. Posting for the links in case they help out:

I'm going through my second read now, and after this I plan to gather all miscellaneous stories. First, the Dunk and Egg stories in Legends I Volume 2, Legends II, and Warriors. Then the Princess and the Queen from Dangerous Women, and Everybody Loves a Rogue from Rogues. I'm hoping this will last me until World of Ice and Fire in October (I'll read the entire anthologies, not just the ASOIAF material). I also have other things to read in the meantime, Peter Watts has a new one coming out, and I want to check out some of the other stuff mentioned here, like the Abercrombie books, Rothfuss, and Sanderson.

There is the pen and paper A Song of Ice and Fire RPG made by Green Ronin Publishing, which is a fantastic game with great supplements. I too would love a video game RPG in the style of Elder Scrolls or Witcher.

This is 2 wolves short of being an Amazon best seller.

For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about please read the hilarious Amazon comments.

(I couldn't resist the joke OP. Sorry!)

I don't know if this was the answer you're looking for but it was from a Song of Ice and Fire art book released many years back. Believe a second one is in the process of coming out as well. I use to look through it at Barnes and Noble. Lots of good stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-George-Martins-Song-Fire/dp/1589942183/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1303200140&sr=8-2-spell

I believe they both liked them (they are quite good!). We got that particular recipe from the unofficial Game of Thrones cookbook.

link for anyone who might want to buy it. Lot's of fun recipe's in there.

Except the Wall isn't meant to keep wildling out, it's meant to keep the White Walkers out. So it compares even more poorly. It'd be like if Hadrian's Wall was meant for the purpose described for it in the graphic novel The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, which was to protect against a wave of zombies, not it's likely real world purposes of customs control and protection from barbarian raiders and invaders.

They are such short novellas (I think the Rogue Prince is like 30 pages?) that I just took them from my school's inter-library loan system. You probably know this already, but for anyone else, The Rogue Prince is printed in Rogues and the Princess and the Queen is published in Dangerous Women.

Both are good, but only if you're a die-hard asoiaf fan. The P&Q especially gets confusing despite its very short length.

Prequel might not be entirely accurate.

Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks is a graphic novel that has multiple stories about zombie encounters throughout history. I love it but it's a graphic novel not an actual novel so saying it is a prequel isn't entirely accurate but is kind of accurate.

What are these? Referral links? ಠ_ಠ

Edit: Sorry for the accusation. So, when I view this in Chrome, I see this:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Y5HWMW/ref=nosim/?tag=kerrlong-20

When viewed in a different browser with no extensions, I see this:

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Complete-Season-Blu-ray/dp/B003Y5HWMW/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1323111696&sr=1-2


After doing some searching I found this.

I know I don't have that extension installed so it's either one of my other reddit extensions. Reddit Enhancement Suite perhaps?

EditEdit: So it turns out I did have that extension installed and forgot about it. ಠ_ಠ Thanks to your post I have spent 30 minutes of my time to do some sleuthing and had a TIL moment. This is why I love reddit.

You can purchase a copy already. I got mine a few weeks back and all of the art is beautiful.

Amazon

Do you want the short story, or the graphic novel that was made of it? The story was in Legends II, which you can find here on Amazon. Buy used and you shouldn't have to pay more than 20.

I was inspired by /u/joefxd's post a couple months ago (sweet lighter) and used this dremel engraver

I can do you one better, I can give you 3 wolves

It's just the audiobook version of one of GRRM's supplemental novellas, titled The Princess and the Queen. The Rogue Prince is the companion novella which should be read first of the two. There's another trio of novellas, collectively called Tales of Dunk and Egg. There are audiobook recordings available on youtube, but with a not-so-great narrator. There's another audiobook version, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, narrated by Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen) which is awesome, but not available as a freebie on youtube, unfortunately.

It's from the A Song of Ice and Fire 2012 Calendar.

I've got one of my own and it is awesome.

Amazon links, DVD and Blu-ray.

A copy of the book as a stand alone volume will run you about $50 on Amazon for what sounds like a pretty beat up used copy. The story is also available in an anthology called Legends, which can be found at a somewhat cheaper price, though it should be noted that Tor decided to republish the original anthology in three volumes; "The Hedge Knight" is in "Legends, Vol. 2", which is not the same as Legends II. There seems to be a Kindle version of the anthology, but I've got no idea whether The Hedge Knight's a part of that.

There are hardcover versions on amazon with the covers the same

Compare with aDwD

I used this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0000302YN/ref=mp_s_a_1_1/185-1179116-5271711?qid=1459028333&sr=8-1&pi=SX200_QL40&keywords=dremel+engraver&dpPl=1&dpID=41ehTWQOncL&ref=plSrch

I'm on mobile so that link is going to look super ugly

Link for the lazy: http://www.amazon.com/Song-Ice-Fire-2013-Calendar/dp/034553154X

Probably also available at your local bookstore. Support independent bookstores! (if you have them in your area)

AGOT

ACOK

ASOS

AFFC

ADWD


Only A Dance With Dragons? Huh?

That already exists dude, buy it on Amazon

Amazon

Game of Thrones: A Pop-Up Guide to Westeros https://www.amazon.com/dp/1608873145/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_WHEUCbYBV2W74

$50

It already exists.

You can get the game from Green Man Gaming for ~$30 with the voucher SUMME-RBLOW-OUT25 or you can get it from Amazon for $31. It's a steamworks title so GMG/Amazon will give you a cd-key that you then enter into Steam.

It is $10 on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005LIV3ES/ref=nosim/cheapassgam08-20

the world of ice and fire

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Is this the right one?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118161998/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

Because none of the others include it, either?

You can buy the collections they're in. Not separately, unfortunately.

EDIT: Links for the lazy.

"Legends" has "The Hedge Knight." $8 on Kindle.

"Legends II" has "The Sworn Sword." $6 on Kindle.

"Warriors" has "The Mystery Knight." $9 on Kindle.

The Dunk & Egg novellas aren't available for sale anywhere individually or as a collection (yet). They are available only in anthologies combined with the work of other authors, as they were originally published. These anthologies are available for kindle:

• Legends - Contains The Hedge Knight
  
  
• Legends II - Contains The Sworn Sword
  
  
• Warriors - Contains The Mystery Knight
  
  GRRM plans on publishing a collection of all the Dunk & Egg stories eventually (after he has published the 4th story IIRC), but no word on when that will be.

Make up your own story with these mechanics.

A Game of Thrones: D20-Based Open Gaming RPG

A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE ROLEPLAYING
The Game of Thrones RPG

Amazon.com, iTunes, your local bookstore? Anywhere you'd normally buy books and/or audio media. If you're looking for illegal links, they are not allowed here.

I bought the hardback, but I'll still get the paper back the moment it comes out. Can't have my one true book collection looking uneven on the shelf.
And, assuming TWOW and ADOS are released in the same design, I'm seriously considering getting these when they come down in price. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007441428/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
Because they look fantastic.

(also, hell, if I ever get a Kindle, I'm buying the suckers all over again...... I think I have a problem)

I have the two book volumes of asoiaf art. It's sad I can't share it with people around me since no one reads.. sigh.

this and this