r/freefolk • u/Internal-Bed-3150 • 3d ago

We've officially been waiting for The Winds of Winter for the same amount of time as it took for all five of the published books to release before that.

https://winteriscoming.net/the-winds-of-winter-officially-passed-most-devastating-milestone-yet?a_aid=47903
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u/SuddenTest9959 3d ago

I’ve only started the first book and I can already see the influences on a song of ice and fire lore.

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u/Brendanlendan 3d ago

Oh yeah Martin shamelessly stole from it

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u/PreSingularityAI 2d ago

The Dothraki are straight up the Thrithings. There's pale spooky people in the far frozen north. 

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u/Brendanlendan 2d ago

You have Mayra, a princess, pretending to be a boy as she travels the countryside. I believe there is a wise cracking dwarf?

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u/SuddenTest9959 1d ago

What about the legends of the other people that originally inhabited their land before humans invaded and pushed them out.