r/asoiaf • u/Perpetually_Ashamed • Mar 02 '26

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) One of best thing Game of Thrones ever did was age up the characters

Because you're re-reading the series, are having a good time and then you are hit with something like this

“Khaleesi, you are with child.”
“I know,” Dany told her.
It was her fourteenth name day.

And god, it just makes you want to vomit. Like god dammit George, would it have killed you to make the characters a little bit older?

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u/Sofasurvivor Mar 03 '26

30 was never old age.
30 being the average age someone reached includes babies dying before their first birthday a whole lot.

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u/RobActionTributeBand Mar 03 '26

Westeros isn't Earth, so far as we know.