Game of Thrones TV Thread **HBO-Purists ONLY**

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wuf, I'm not sure I agree with how you would write the story... I think involving the gods directly in this story would probably be a mistake. Mystery is good. However I do like how you've explored the different magics and what this all could possibly mean. In that same line of thought, notice that The Hound's face got the way it is by fire, and he pretty much froze up and all he could say was that the black water was on fire. Then later he tells his little dove that he plans to go north.

Also, keen eye on Cersei putting a hit on Tyrion. But I wonder if again, like many suspect the assassination attempt on Bran was orchestrated by Joffrey, he may have also green lighted Tyrion. Cersei already got his whore. Also, note that the only person we have seen The Hound and Meryn taking orders from is Joffrey.

There's a ton more stuff I want to discuss, but I need sleep now.

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wuf, I'm not sure I agree with how you would write the story... I think involving the gods directly in this story would probably be a mistake.

I generally agree. I am going with where I think they're going based on what they've already shown. A lot of how well it would go would be based in how well they could mesh. Things like a prophet or a priestess of a god is some level of meshing the god with the world because some of the god-powers and desires are manifested through the pseudo-avatar. I think we may already be seeing this in the story, but it is a stark contrast to an idea of gods where they "come down" and take their preferred form and do their own shit. That's a really tough story to sell

I don't really know how to play it, but I would give it some thought at least. Things like the White Walkers were humans who endeavored to be like their god, they got too close, then were stricken, and now they're some demi-god form of half-human half-monster. That's a really FantasyLand meets The Bible though. A lot of the lore in the Bible that some xtians believe is thought to involve shit like giants that were fallen angels who rebelled along with Lucifer against God long before Eve ever got close to the apple, and they roamed the Earth before the Flood, and the real reason for the Flood was to get rid of all the fallen angels that were fucking shit up. I'm not joking, some xtians do believe that.

I also remember really liking how the Rose of the Prophet trilogy did the gods. It's been so long since I read those, but they had a pretty great system that involved the gods being real and play some roles in some things.

You're right though, it would be terribly hard to do. I think we're going to learn more about the gods in GoT, not sure how much more though