The miniature is one I put together myself, the giant pose looked perfect for dangling a knight and having just ripped his arm off. And finally, you learn that it’s all an elaborate American football joke and you try to work out if GRRM is some sort of mad genius. Then you get to the really esoteric - when I first heard the connection between blood staining Patrek’s star heraldry as fulfillment of the “reborn beneath a bleeding star” prophecy, I got chills. Then you look back through the book and see all the hints leading to this - Godry the “Giantslayer” making giant slaying look a) achievable and b) glorious, despite only doing so in a cavalry charge against a fleeing giant Jon trying to teach Southrons about Free Folk custom and them only superficially picking anything up - you can practically see the cogs turning in Patreks head as he hears about ‘stealing’ wildling women. The dead man’s sword arm was yards away, the snow beneath it turning red.”Īnother diorama of the Wall at the end of ADWD - what can I say, it’s certainly the happening place to be! This scene captures a lot of what I love about ASOIAF - on the surface, it’s already viscerally exciting - who doesn’t love to see a knight get swung around by a giant. Arya never tore her dolls to pieces, though. “The giant was dangling a bloody corpse by one leg, the same way Arya used to dangle her doll when she was small, swinging it like a morningstar when menaced by vegetables. asoiaf asoiaf fanart miniatures minis cmon a song of ice and fire valyrian scrolls mance rayder balon greyjoy robb stark joffrey baratheon stannis baratheon renly baratheon daenerys targaryen war of the five kings diorama Talking of maesters, I adore the detail that there are nitpickers at the citadel going “well, actually, it was technically only ever 4 kings at a time”. I’ve also always loved the idea that Dany and Mance are in many ways the most legitimately heroic rulers, and as such don’t get counted as proper rulers by the maesters. Having them lined up made me notice some parallels I’ve never quite noticed before - the two bitter men sitting on their windswept islands obsessing over past slights, the two young charismatic leaders who could never lose a battle but get assassinated. I’ve been wanting to do a little group shot like this since the miniatures first started coming out, and with Balon finally out I could get the gang together. Now all I see are crows, squabbling over the corpse of Westeros.” asoiaf asoiaf fanart miniatures minis cmon a song of ice and fire valyrian scrolls balon greyjoy house greyjoy ironborn iron islands I went for a similar trick I used on Asha where Balon’s belts are yellow and gold against an iron background to give the impression of the sigil.įinally I’m almost really happy with his base, I used a clear resin to add a water effect, there’s seaweed and fish in there but I scratched up the edges a bit so they’re not as visible as I’d like. My eternal struggle with the greyjoys is that I love their sigil and colours, but they all give Theon such shit for wearing them that I assume they must wear more generic clothing. The miniature captures the character nicely, with the heroic pose offset by the ragged edges. I do enjoy the way the series often has characters who are paragons of their societal values while also being absolute shits, to make you evaluate values systems, and whether paragons are truly virtuous. Balon’s such a perfect mix of awfulness, not as cartoonishly brutal as Gregor or Ramsay, not as pathetic as Joffrey or Littlefinger, just a twisted hateful old revanchist and abuser. I want to open 90% of my character descriptions with “And then there’s this asshole”, but I save it for the ones that really deserve it… like this asshole. I will take my crown, as Urron Redhand did five thousand years ago.” “I am the Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke, King of Salt and Rock, Son of the Sea Wind, and no man gives me a crown.
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