Post by whitewolfstark on Apr 8, 2016 5:19:47 GMT
markg171,
Agreed, and looking for instance at another novel series that GRRM has stated has "influenced" him, I look to The Accursed Kings (aka Les Rois Maudits), and in it all the important characters in the first book, King Philip IV, Jacques De Molay, Guillame de Nogaret, Enguerrand de Marigny, and Queen Isabella of England are all very important characters in the first book, The Iron King, but of them, three of them are dead at the end of it, another dead at the end of the second book, The Strangled Queen, and the last doesn't show up again until book five: The She-Wolf of France.
They all get out of the way for the true "major" characters (Robert of Artois & his aunt Mahaut) that come and go as history's wheel continues to turn. Eventually the original series ends when the "major" characters that drove all the actions of the other books each die (separately). Druon eventually returned to the series and added a seventh and final book to the series which mostly dealt with what had happened to the characters at the end of the last novel many years later, finally ending with the utter defeat of France, completing the story telling of the book series to be about France's downfall from grace due to its lords inability to come together about anything, ruining the country that had been so great under Philip IV, until only 20 years later, completely in shambles.
Likewise the narrative of Westeros, especially when you look at the "Fight for the Iron Throne" story, seems to be following a similar trajectory of how Seven Kingdoms ruined themselves.
Agreed, and looking for instance at another novel series that GRRM has stated has "influenced" him, I look to The Accursed Kings (aka Les Rois Maudits), and in it all the important characters in the first book, King Philip IV, Jacques De Molay, Guillame de Nogaret, Enguerrand de Marigny, and Queen Isabella of England are all very important characters in the first book, The Iron King, but of them, three of them are dead at the end of it, another dead at the end of the second book, The Strangled Queen, and the last doesn't show up again until book five: The She-Wolf of France.
They all get out of the way for the true "major" characters (Robert of Artois & his aunt Mahaut) that come and go as history's wheel continues to turn. Eventually the original series ends when the "major" characters that drove all the actions of the other books each die (separately). Druon eventually returned to the series and added a seventh and final book to the series which mostly dealt with what had happened to the characters at the end of the last novel many years later, finally ending with the utter defeat of France, completing the story telling of the book series to be about France's downfall from grace due to its lords inability to come together about anything, ruining the country that had been so great under Philip IV, until only 20 years later, completely in shambles.
Likewise the narrative of Westeros, especially when you look at the "Fight for the Iron Throne" story, seems to be following a similar trajectory of how Seven Kingdoms ruined themselves.
