George RR Martinism

(A Song of Ice and Fire tropes)

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1,3 swaggering mercenary lords who act like Spinal Tap 1,8 scheming bastard daughters 1,700′ structure made of ice, its head buried in clouds 1,A bald spymaster with a fear of chaos and a vendetta 1,A bastard in a harbor strewn with wreckage 1,A blonde prophet who suffers seizures 1,A cake frosted in a pale and inauspicious green 1,A camp full of drunken soldiers 1,A cart laden with supplies, bound for a feast, accosted by a merciless killer 1,A castle immune to magic 1,A castle with a secret entrance, known only to a steward 1,A city full of men with dyed, forked beards 1,A city that provides a refuge for escaped slaves 1,A city where a bloodthirsty tribe are forbidden to shed blood 1,A civil ceremony used as a trap 1,A cleric with a permanent Neutralize Poison cast on her tongue 1,A colonnaded balcony overlooking both a great hall and a spreading blue sea 1,A compass rose whose spiked teeth spin 1,A crippled and fugitive heir 1,A dark-eyed lenscrafter 1,A deformed mercenary on a black horse, eating apples 1,A demon-haunted city destroyed by a mysterious doom 1,A fortress that is a statue 1,A generation of northern men, all raised beneath the same roof, all with identical facial hair 1,A gift of both a bride and her weight in silver 1,A god sends an utterly convincing supernatural event 1,A great ditch which can be flooded during sieges 1,A great round window with a star in bar tracery 1,A hall with a hole in the middle 1,A jealous and moustached lunatic 1,A learned man tending to a gruesome stump 1,A letter to a mother, or a letter to a spy-handler disguised as one 1,A lone wight, portended by a plague of shrieking birds 1,A lord who fears an endless night 1,A maimed swordsman, held for ransom 1,A name that is the default name for illegitimate children 1,A noble raiding party – of no more than 20 1,A pair of teasing girls in the house of a sadist 1,A plaza reserved for punishment 1,A prince playing St Sebastian with a concubine 1,A prisoner reading a genealogical history 1,A queen attended by a pair of Charlton Heston-like generals 1,A rolling green moor by a fork in a calm red river 1,A row of spurned daughters, their heads downcast 1,A royal bastard, skilled in cunnilingus 1,A sad idiot on a sun-drenched veranda, regretting past naïvetés to a shrewd friend 1,A season that lasts 100 years 1,A song sung about a cruel father 1,A spell powered by the blood leeches suck 1,A steel artifact with a lying legend attached. 1,A stone windmill, much discussed 1,A straw effigy used for target practice 1,A throne room filled with columns and flames 1,A vicious eagle 1,A wall rumored to have been built by giants 1,A walled city, threatened by an army of eunuchs 1,A war map with chunky and symbolic wooden pieces 1,A woman beloved by young monsters 1,A woman in a dress fighting a creature in a pit with a wooden sword 1,A ziggurat city, crowned by a dominating and heraldic statue 1,Ambitious priestess of the flame goddess 1,An awkward wedding feast made yet more awkward by an angry dad 1,An efficient and heartless mercenary who dispenses sound advice 1,An immensely powerful snotrag 1,An obscene old man in fingerless gloves 1,An outlaw with a flaming sword 1,Arrowhead of black glass (of disruption) 1,Blue-lipped warlocks 1,Coward and inbred woman sitting by a fire 1,Drunk halfling vomiting 1,Faithless moron, scion of a sailing house, being tortured 1,Fur-clad barbarians assaying an icy peak 1,Guardsmen who marry their axes 1,Halfling scheming with his sister 1,Horsemen escorting a prisoner down a slope 1,Lord arranging for a vassal to marry blindly 1,Lovers boring everyone 1,Minstrel assassins 1,Non-lovers about to be wed, discussing their wedding by a pre-Raphaelite pond 1,One old man with 8 good horses, protected by rangers 1,Ranger/Barbarian, female, level 7, red-haired, jealous 1,Rivals join in civil war against a mad king 1,Robin hood rip-offs served by a drunken monotheist 1,Scarred and one-eyed warrior, unable to die 1,Six young travelers trapped in a tower with a giant and a level 1 wizard 1,Snow that falls in reverse 1,Solid gold chains given as a gift to a scorned woman 1,Steel climbing claws 1,Sword’s hilt emblazoned with a rampant stag 1,The greatest whistler in the land 1,The least pleasant man you’ve ever met, and boss of a bridge 1,Three 12th-level fighters set upon by 20 first-level ones 1,Towers linked by arches and rope bridges 1,Two servants who distrust a third 1,Two wolves: one white, one black 1,Two women arguing about how to skin a rabbit 1,Unattractive women, eager to undress 1,Venison stew with onions 1,Vermeer-ish light falling on a blue-scarfed matron 1,You’re never safe in a room with that many candles
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