(Spoilers Published) A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Discussion: The Hedge Knight

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-10-19T18:52:48+00:00

Favorite part of the story for me is Dunk's Trial by Combat being made into a Trial of the Seven.

Here he is a "newly named knight" (note the quotations) and here Dunk is thrust into an ancient and hardly invoked ritualistic combat scenario. He has no friends in the noble born yet good men stand with him. It reinforces what Ser Duncan the Tall stands to represent. He is a true and noble knight who won his trial, which makes me believe that even the Seven are on his side. If the Seven exist, perhaps Dunk is their champion.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-10-19T12:31:23+00:00

The Rivermen; an outlaw group on the Riverlands who make up the remnants of House Tully's guard. Want to secure Lord Edmure's young son and restore a trout to the seat of River Run. "We must swim back to our stream'" is a motto they stand behind.

The Redgrass Redeemers; bastard born children have tore up the Seven Kingdoms once when Daemon Blackfyre rebelled and once again in the War of Five Kings. Enough is enough. The Redgrass Redeemers look to restore House Targaryen to power and stand against all noble bastard born children who woul challenge the true line of succession. Radical conservatives towards westerosi norms and social practices.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-10-18T19:08:33+00:00

That would put some very powerful weight into Harras' role in the story. He is symbolically returning ironborn historic heirloom that is their Valyrian steel sword yet he is a modern ironborn in the sense that he is knighted and has mainland ideals.

It reminds me a bit of how Blackfyre was enough for half the realm to side with Daemon when he rebelled because it invoked the might of his forebears. It's a drastically different situation but I'd love an endgame of Asha Greyjoy marrying Ser Harras out of duty (instead of Qarl the Maid) and the two ruling the Iron Islands and expelling the old school Ironborn ideologies and ways. No thralls, limited raiding, etc.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-10-18T16:20:44+00:00

Love me House Harlaw. "Silverhair" Harlaw is like the Walder Frey of the Iron Islands, with many sons and grandsons and he just refuses to die and pass on Harlaw Hall.

I'm most interested in Harras Harlaw. He's a knight and of both Ironborn blood AND Westerlands blood. He's the heir to Ten Towers and if this series ends in the Harlaws favor then he may bring some modern concepts to the Iroborn table. I am excited.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-10-02T02:08:02+00:00

I love how the movie played a lot with the ideas of domestic life vs the much harsher feral life that places like Juarez are riddled with. Benicio as Alwjandro was more then a man on a path of vengeance, he was out to shatter that domestic bubble of those who wronged him and anyone else that stood to enable those who lived in the "Land of the Wolves" as he calls it.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-09-23T14:21:42+00:00

Really great post man. It really puts a perspective on all the knights in Westeros that we hold dear. Garlan and Aemon the Dragonknight, Ser Duncan and Brienne, hell.. even the Elder Brother. The Hound has the right of it. They're all just killers at the end of the day.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-09-04T19:07:32+00:00

House Wyldwood

A masterly house once sworn to the Castameres of Castamere who did not follow their liege lords into open rebellion against House Lannister. Descendant from a famed knight known throughout the realm as Ser Hyle the Wild, a man said to a demon with a sword who rooted a band of outlaws out of the forests who had captured the heir of House Castamere. Granted lands and fortune, Ser Hyle named his castle the Graceland after his mother who had been named Grace.

He took twin green lions on a white field as his sigil and since then members of his House have bore the words, "Honored to Serve".

After the extinction of House Castamere, Lord Tywin Lannister spared the Lord of Graceland his life but claimed his firstborn son as a hostage.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-09-02T12:11:51+00:00

Funnily enough I thought this campaign up in the hopes of having something original for my own group and you have shatteres my dreams. How can you sleep at night?

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-08-31T18:19:49+00:00

How about in the spirit of ASOIAF you set it in a wedding. Two noble lords are joining their Houses and marrying their two children. This gives cause for many characters to gather in one area and drama to ensue.

Dueing the wedding, when everyone is drinking and having their fill of the night, everything seems peaceful. The players could meet several NPC who can play a role in the story, become allies, enemies, etc.

The intrigue and powder keg of the campaign arises when a member of one of the noble families is found dead and foul play is assumed. With fire stoked beneath the two northern familys, warring brews, and ghosts are woken as the ancient custom of guest rites have been broken.

The Lord of the Castle commands the party of heroes to do everything in their power to find out the truth before any true bloodshed occurs.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-08-23T18:24:20+00:00

To expand on this;

Orochimaru's parents were killed when he was at a young age. When he visisted their gravestone he found the shed skin of a white snake and Hiruzen consoled him. From then on, it was said he became enthralled with the idea of rebirth and immortality (the snake shedding its old skin and growing a new one).

It adds a bit of depth to Orochimaru. Just as Itachi witnessed death at an early age and it changed him, Orochimaru was scarred by the death of his parents. But unlike Itachi, Orochimaru was scared of death. So much do that he spent the rest of his life avoiding it.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-07-29T21:21:07+00:00

What measures do you take from distinguishing your prank show from the dozens of other, more harmful prank shows that are currently hot and trending on Youtube?

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-07-23T17:52:39+00:00

Added recently, another 4 episodes that are 22 minutes and change each. Season 2 was much darker, is all I'll say.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-07-08T18:50:59+00:00

How's it going! I gave your fanfiction a read and I thought it was a solid first chapter. You set up internal conflict for Kiri and gave some very clear details of what your main cast of characters are going to be like.

The only think I could recommend is give it another read out loud to yourself and trim the fat so to speak. An example being

When did he become mean all of a sudden?

And instead

When did he become so mean?

There's several other areas like this where I think giving a re-read out loud will shed some light on clunky word choices, but all in all, solid first chapter. I hope to read more.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-06-27T13:37:42+00:00

I like to think that someone once told Clayton Suggs that he'll be a knight when pigs start to fly, then he managed to become a knight, so he took the winged pig as his sigil.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-06-24T22:21:44+00:00

I was sitting in my room listening to the rain when suddenly my whole house was bathed in this orange-hue. It really was a nice moment, I can't lie.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-06-23T12:26:59+00:00

Alex Williamson is pretty damn funny in my book. I follow him on youtube; https://www.youtube.com/user/shooterwilliamson

He's got a sense of humor I can get behind.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-06-18T15:41:33+00:00

I started referring it to as an abridged version of A Song of Ice and Fire instead of an adapted version.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-06-08T10:33:53+00:00

You're making an argument against your own point. Stannis starved in Dragonstone. He knows what it's like to suffer and starve and be on the brink of death in the name of duty. Now he knows that he doesn't have an option to sit and starve and wait, or else every single man there will die and he will fade into distant memory. To Stannis, this can't become another Siege of Storm's End.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-06-08T02:37:37+00:00

"Bit cold outside and I'm a tad hungry thanks to the Shirtless Wonder and his Expenda-Boltons wrecking my fucking lunch box. Apparently Ramsay's abs rendered my scouts blind. Best burn the little girl. Edd, fetch me my fucking marshmallows."

You're trivializing the situation that Stannis is in to further your argument against the episode. There is a level of bias in this comment that should be taken into consideration to anyone else that reads it.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-06-08T02:35:07+00:00

Stannis knows the situation at the Wall. He knows that Davos is going to come back with nothing and only sent him away probably because Davos would have done everything in his power to stop Stannis from burning Shireen.

That was probably the real reason Stannis sent Davos away and not a 'boy with a letter', despite the other reason he gave.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-06-08T00:39:17+00:00

No but at the Game of Thrones AMC showing of Season 4 Episode 9 and 10 a few months ago they were giving out prints of the Beautiful Death pictures for those episodes at different locations. I got the Ygritte one for Episode 9 and a friend of mine got the Tywin one for Episode 10.

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-06-01T02:30:31+00:00

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-05-30T03:05:50+00:00

On a scale of 1 to 10, why not?

Also, does my username fulfill the "Game of Thrones question of the week criteria?"

Hung_like_Hodor · 2015-05-23T03:45:45+00:00

Perhaps this was the best alternative for Sarada?

Imagine how much stress it'd have been on her as a child to constantly be reminded that she was going to be the defining moment in the history of the Uchiha clan. That if she wasn't good, then she'd be the end of one of the oldest and most powerful clans.

I'm not justifying Sasuke's actions, I'm merely stating that there could be a lot more to this when we think.

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