Do you think the Drowned God is a real entity? I see a lot of people subscribe to the idea (especially discussing matters regarding Patchface) and yet I don’t think I buy it. In a world where human/earthly powers and types of magic that seem to be natural in Planetos are mistaken for signs of the divine (the Old Gods actually being the conscience of generations of greenseers and fire/blood magic being perceived as R’hllor’s ‘miracles’) I wouldn’t like The Drowned God to turn out to be (c)

© any closer to The Real Thing, especially since Grrm has made it clear that there will be no materialized deities featuring in the novels. But then again, it could be my distaste for anything Lovecraftian speaking.

Well if you don’t like Lovecraftian, I hate to tell you, but there are these things called the Deep Ones…

That being said, I think there’s some philosophical nits to be picked here – given historical traditions of ancestor-worship and animism, what exactly is the difference between the Old Gods and the collective spirits of the greenseers? What makes a god a god, in other words?