I may kill you yet, but I think I’d feel sad about it. MARTIN MATURE PART II A CLASH OF KINGS BASED GEORGE ON. “Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. GAME OF THRONES BASED ON THE HIT HBO SERIES 11 LINNAO GEORGE R.R. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.” “A shadow on the wall,” Varys murmured, “yet shadows can kill. Power resides where men believe it resides.

“Did you mean to answer your damned riddle, or only to make my head ache worse?” Who truly killed Eddard Stark, do you think? Joffrey, who gave the command? Ser Ilyn Payne, who swung the sword? Or… another?” Yet that day on the steps of Baelor’s Sept, our godly High Septon and the lawful Queen Regent and your ever-so-knowledgeable servant were as powerless as any cobbler or cooper in the crowd. Some tell us that all power comes from the gods. “Then these other swordsmen have the true power. “Because these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords.” “Just so… yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold the power? Why should a strong man with a sword ever obey a child king like Joffrey, or a wine-sodden oaf like his father?” A sequel, A Clash of Kings, was announced in March 2017, based on the book of the same name. Martin 's fantasy novel A Game of Thrones, the first in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. “That piece of steel is the power of life and death.” A Game of Thrones is the comic book adaptation of George R. “He has neither crown nor gold nor favor of the gods, only a piece of pointed steel.”

“The king, the priest, the rich man-who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It’s a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers. “It has crossed my mind a time or two,” Tyrion admitted. Perchance you have considered the riddle I posed you that day in the inn?” On Archive of Our Own (AO3), users can make profiles, create works and other Content, post comments, give Kudos, create Collections and Bookmarks, participate. Publication date 2011 Topics Imaginary wars and battles - Fiction, Kings and rulers - Fiction, Alchemy - Fiction. “Oh, I think not,” Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup.

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