Mountain clans game of thrones full#

Sorry I couldnвЂ™tВ articulate this as well as I would have liked,В but does anyone else understand what IвЂ™m trying to say? Like I said, I chalk it up to it being the first book. When you compare them with the вЂњfree folkвЂќ we meet later in the series, it just seems odder to me that the Clans were included at all. ItвЂ™s just that it seems very вЂњout of placeвЂќ that in the middle of Westeros, there is a small nation of people who do not fallunder any sort of subjugation of the Crown or any great/lesser lord ( and as far as I know never have).

Mountain clans game of thrones full#

I honestly think if GRRM knew the full scope of what the series would eventuallyВ become, he wouldвЂ™veВ altered or omitted the Mountain clans.В ItвЂ™s not that I donвЂ™t enjoy their contributions to the story. Of course, the Mountains of the Moon are an ideal place for these tribes to survive. We should be able to find similar cultures in the Rainwood, in the Dornish Marches, in the Dorne sands, in the Western mountains and other relatively isolated places. That the Kingwood had bands of outlaws indicate also that the people who live there are also more likely to go their own way. It is also weird that some more violent-prone people would abandon the Gift to bands of few underarmed wildings. There should be similar tribes in the Wolfwood. In both cases the rule of Winterfell is only nominal as barely anyone dare to go there and they have probably a different social structure. In the North, we have both the crannogmen and the Skagosi. It is very very weird that such a huge continent is so culturally homogeneous. So, what is weird is that we do not seem to find more people like that in huge Westeros. Integrating them using both, violent or pacific means is still difficult. Even in our modern world, practically each country has some tribal societies in the fringes which still follow old customs.

TheyвЂ™re much closer to the Isle of Faces than the North-of-the-Wall wildlings, so maybe this will be part of it. So IвЂ™m guessing their role in the series will be that they somehow know something or at least have access to information which others in Westeros have forgotten. The mountain clans are the most unchanged peoples south of the Wall. Old ways are forgotten but not as forgotten as they appear.

The NW has forgotten its original purpose. The Royces have bronze armor covered in runes which are supposed to protect but it just doesnвЂ™t work which seems to indicate that they donвЂ™t have the runes right anymore. The Others, giants, etc were myths until they werenвЂ™t. So have the Targs as they canвЂ™t seem to bring about dragons anymore. We have fake histories, dubious legends, singers change facts in their songs for dramatic effect, the victor tells his side while the vanquished has their stories disappear. The idea of facts and history lost to time is a oft-used thing in this series.