I would have Miles show up as a supporting character in the next couple of Parker Spiderman movies – introduce him through Aaron Davis (b/c Donald Glover is awesome), maybe he visits Midtown Science as part of a middle school trip, have him hang out with Ned et al.
That’s the important part, more so than the villain: making him a known, sympathetic figure who the audience will accept taking up the mantle.
Spiderman: Homecoming established that Aaron Davis’ nephew, Miles Morales, lives in Peter’s neighborhood…which would allow for Miles Morales to be in the MCU, which would be amazing.
Very. No street lights, no lit-up advertisements, no gas or electric interior lights, no cars with headlights – the premodern city was a very dark and dangerous place at night.
Sucession by seniority has some advantages – it’s another simple metric for sucession.
However, it has some disadvantages – it tends to lead to gerentocracies, it complicates marriage alliances, but most of all it leads to conflict between rival branches as now the brothers and cousins and uncles are now vying for power as well as the sons.
Because the problem is that when your religion lionizes violence and theft, it’s hard to argue against violence and theft turned against the priesthood. Clearly the Drowned God favored the strong…
Given that the Others’s motivation is “extinguish everything we would call life,”” and that they “hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every creature with hot blood in its veins,” I’m going to guess they killed them like they do all warm-blooded creatures.
This has been another PSA that no, the White Walkers are not good guys, the Night’s King is not evidence of a peace treaty that ended the War for the Dawn, stop it already.
If GRRM wanted us to think that the rise of Night’s King was a positive development, he wouldn’t have made the Nightfort one of the most haunted-ass places on a planet full to bursting with haunted-ass places. Honestly, if you don’t recognize the Others as evil fairies out to steal your children and kill your livestock like evil fairies tend to do, ya need to read more fairytales.
The Nitght’s Watch will be in real trouble when the White Walkers’ army of zombie sheep shows up.
Given that the Others’s motivation is “extinguish everything we would call life,”” and that they “hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every creature with hot blood in its veins,” I’m going to guess they killed them like they do all warm-blooded creatures.
This has been another PSA that no, the White Walkers are not good guys, the Night’s King is not evidence of a peace treaty that ended the War for the Dawn, stop it already.
For Ygritte’s tribe, and we don’t know which one it is, it’s custom that “women who bed brothers or fathers or clan kin offend the gods, and are cursed with weak and sickly children.” But it’s custom for the ice river clans to practice cannibalism, and as much as Ygritte argues that Craster is more Night’s Watch than wildling, that smacks more than a little of No True Scotsman.
If my theory is right, I would imagine that much of the memory of the original sacrifices has been lost to time, and indeed may have been deliberately erased from oral histories in the same way that the Night’s King was erased from the written records of the Night’s Watch. (Wouldn’t you if your people had done something so heinous that the rest of humanity exiled you behind the Wall?)
If it’s done at all today, it probably follows the model at Craster’s Keep: a largely unspoken and uncertain practice (Craster’s understanding of what makes the cold gods go away is pretty ramshackle – hence the missing sheep) carried out in isolated communities that have always done things this way, out of a vague sense that somehow it wards off ill fortune.
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