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Ned Stark  The first father I met in a Song of Ice and Fire was Eddard Stark, head of House Stark of Winterfell and Lord Protector of the North. He comes from a long a line of Kings in the North, until Torhen Stark went down the neck to meet the armies under Targaryen banners, seeking to unite Westeros under one House, and he saw three massive dragons flying above those armies. The creatures had already wreaked havoc down south, on the Stormland, on the Riverlands, on the Reach, their riders were three foreigners from Essos, for no matter that the Targaryens have settled on Dragonstone for some time already, these three youths were still Valyrian to their bones, in appearance, spirit and costumes.  Torhen saw the following centuries on the wings of Balerion, Meraxes and Vhagar, and thus he knelt to Aegon I. The violet, almost purple eyes, that gave the concqueror an almost otherwordly gaze met his and their pact was supposed to stand forever. And so it was that Dragons and Wol...

Episode 8 of HotD gave a twist to the books written by Martin and co-authors Linda Antonsson and her husband Elio García Jr. Laenor Velaryon did not die, he had rather faked his death, aided by Daemon and Rhaenyra, so that all three of them could finally have a chance to live the life they wanted. HBO and the showrunners are still standing by that awfull choice of lighting, that let us see little of the action in the night sceenes, but the story is worth us setting TV to max brightness. I think Ryan Condal is doing a great work with the show so far, much better than D&D did with GoT. Yes, he meddled with the careful worldbuilding, but not to such an extent that it can´t be retconned, or that it shakes the core of the action, or of the characters themselves. Linda and Elio came into Ice and Fire first as dedicated fans who built a detailed lore site, and they are talented writers themselves. They managed a wiki site, wrote a lot, and refused to do something that George RR Martin abs...