Hello Kind Fellas and Good Ladies,

Sorry for the delay. A Girl had to take a break to take care of home a bit. But never from A Song of Ice and Fire. As my partner and good friend, Bran the Builder has stated in his posts, there needs to be a discussion around the events of these best-selling novels. With so many realistic stories and characters in this elaborate series, its best to start where we all did… In the beginning.

Here Begins our Steemit chapter re-read where we highlight important events, key and minor characters and locations within the imaginary world of Planetos. The great @branthebuilder will lay out these details on his page, while foreshading, highlights and correlations will be laid out here. His layout of the series starts in his post, A Game of Thrones Prolouge Review.

We start our Watch in The Prologue of Chapter 1 of a Game of Thrones: the book and chapter.

A Brief Summary

Experienced Rangers Will and Gared are lead by their new ranging commander Ser Waymar Royce. Waymar has spent a year and a half at the Wall, this is his first time leading a ranging party. Gared is a man with forty years of ranging experience. While Will has four years of experience and over 100 rangings. The Men are sworn members of the NIght’s Watch, an order that overees the Wall, protecting the realm from Wildlings and enemies of legend that lived 8000 years ago. While the men are searching for a band of Wildlings, A mysterious species of seemingly-dead-Ice-Humanoids make quite the re-entry into present Westerosi reality in this introductory chapter.

In exploring the Prolouge, Quotes will be highlighted, commentary and foreshadowing will be listed below it.

..In George, We Qoute..

“woods began to grow dark”
-In the very first sentence of the series...we are greeted with woods performing actions. Easily dismissed as good imagery. The woods are later given the tasks of “staring” in Catelyn I, then
in a later chapter, the woods “hide” the Lady Arya after her encounter with Joffrey at the Ruby Ford. The woods are very busy in the upper half of the realm.

The second phrase we’ll highlight is “Do the dead frighten you?”
-A Question which would be ordinary in any other series. But immediately we are given a prominent antagonist in the series. An Undead Fright, assuredly. Though the question is asked mockingly, it is indeed a serious cause for pause. Any man with life, should fear the oncoming ‘un’dead.

Continuing…”Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go.”
-This is foreshadowing that the high lord Waymar would soon meet his fall. He does, indeed, rise at the end of this chapter

Gared: “Dead is dead,” he said. “We have no business with the dead.”
-As we soon see, they do indeed have business with the dead or undead

Will: “My mother told me that dead men sing no songs,”
-Is this foreshadowing for Patchface? Every word Patches utters is in song and he may be undead. He was trapped under the waves for two days, after the Windproud crashed into Shipbreaker Bay. Everyone else onboard was pronounced dead. He was rescued. Spewed out ample water but never another comprehensible thought. A theory we will address in another post

Will: “My wet nurse said the same thing, Will,” Royce replied. “Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit. There are things to be learned even from the dead.”
-Since Will never had the heartbreak of losing the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, is he referring to the gods?? What tale should men not believe that they learned at a teet?
-There are things we do NEED to learn from the dead. Why they’ve returned? How? How are they performing Necromancy?

“Are you unmanned by the dark, Gared?”
-Another intentional arrangement of words… the dark is indeed ‘Unmanning’ rangers and wildlings in the cold of night. Changing warm blooded men into new recruits of the undead army. Ranging parties have been going missing of late.

@HBO