Quote from: Spinachcat;1039357WHY???

There were already magazines named Heavy Metal and Epic Illustrated.

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1039165Sounds like Krynn.

Aside from a few early goofs that got swept under the rug. Krynn has been fairly consistent when written by the original authors.

Its when you get to the stories penned by others that things can, and do, fall apart a little, or sometimes alot.

Quote from: Omega;1039360Aside from a few early goofs that got swept under the rug. Krynn has been fairly consistent when written by the original authors.

Its when you get to the stories penned by others that things can, and do, fall apart a little, or sometimes alot.

I was referring more to ' the world as backdrop for one story.' And I'm an old veteran of DL continuity debates; I've had my ideas canonized and then de-canonized by Tracy Hickman himself.

In a general sense the Dothraki exist because of Drogo as a character. They don't fit into the rest of the "War of the Roses" analogy that is Game of Thrones, because they were added to allow for a character like Drogo.
And that didn't happen because of wanting to replicate history, it happened because Martin wanted to create three traditional hero characters in the first book, in fact, three characters that are blatant copies (twisted copies, mind you) of the three most iconic fantasy heroes: Aragorn, Elric and Conan. Which he does with Ned Stark, Viserys and Drogo.

And the reason he created them was to have all three killed off in the first part of his story. It was his little touch of Deconstructionism, both to suggest that his book would be "different" from the standard fantasy epic, and possibly to suggest in typical lefty fashion that there was something fundamentally "problematic" about those standard fantasy heroes.