Zetetic Elench

Judging by all the Oxfam gumf, you'd think everyone who works for them is the gold cloak in GOT who keeps asking for a younger girl and gets his kicks by beating up the youngest whore in the Bravossi brothel. People who say coppers aren't all bastards really should shut the fuck up about Oxfam...'course, might have something to do with said organisation's critique of global capitalism/inequality

The Children and the Wall The Giants of Westeros and the Small People war. At some point the Small People raise a wall of ice to stop the Giants entering the south of westeros. Many centuries later the First Men arrive in Westeros. They war with the last giants south of the Wall and the Small People over what little land there is. A thousand years later the Children of the Forest, as the First Men call the Small People, agree to raise land from the sea to provide farming land for the First Men. The Children then retreat to the forests allotted to them by the  pact . The First Men begin manning the Wall from this time, both to prevent the last giants from invading the south and to prevent migration to the north by men.   The Raising of the Land creates an imbalance in nature and the result is the Long Night  and the first appearance of the Others . A Rough Chronology Note PC=Pre-Conquest AC=After Conquest ...

Wolf 359 Despite having thousands of starships, losing "only " thirty-nine at the Battle of Wolf 359 seems to have been a big loss to Starfleet. I can only think of two reasons why this is the case. The first Starfleet is referring to a "medieval" thirty-nine ships, where "one ship" refers to twenty (as in one knight refers to twenty mounted warriors). In this case Starfleet would have lost 780 ships, out of a possible total of 3400 to 7000. The second Starfleet only has around forty to fifty state-of-the-art  frontline starships. Therefore, losing thirty-nine to the Borg is a great loss of lives, materiel and morale. The whole fleet is as large as estimated but mostly consists of much older, relatively outdated vessels. The fleet as a whole consists of: Science vessels Courier ships Freighters Cargo vessels Survey ships and  Transports

Westeros was artificially (or magically) created by raising land from the ocean. I t could even be alive in some fashion, hence the God's Eye is an actual eye . This explains why Westeros wasn't colonised by humans much earlier (or conquered by the Valyrians) as it just didn't exist apart from a few islands. If this is the case, the raising of Westeros dates after the building of Dragonstone. Cersei and Jamie are Targaryns. There is a theory that Tyrion's father was Aerys, but what if Aerys was actually Cersei's father? This makes sense if she knows this and also if Aerys and Tywin suspected this. It also explains her irrational hatred for Robert (and Tyrion to a lesser extent) and why Jamie was named to the Kingsguard. Cersei and Jamie are still Lannisters because their mother was Tywin's cousin. Interestingly, Joffrey also refers to himself as a dragon.