Ancat Dubher Ancat Dubher 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. Shouldn't this be three separate questions?
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Usually they say that 'the longer the summer, the longer the winter' 2. Winter starts at the Epilogue of the fifth book, A Dance with Dragons. Improve this answer. Shevliaskovic Shevliaskovic The white raven was "launched" by the citadel in order to announce winter — Vinz Do the Starks change their motto during winter? Is it "We told you so!
LordSnow No. Winter is always coming. In this case, the way I interpret it is that winter is not the physical season which they are alluding to, it is more like the coming of the Others. Mooz: So what happens when the Others do manage to break through the wall, and turn half the northerners into something worse than dead? Do the Starks then change their motto to "They're heeerrreeee I think it's more of a figurative thing where winter can be interpreted as "hardship".
Whereas summer is a time of prosperity in both the books and in our own history , winter is a time of darkness and struggle. Therefore, the Stark words always server as a reminder to the other families - things might be good now, but there will always be hardship on the horizon.
In a way it's a lot like a brag in its own right. Saying that you need to be tough to survive the winter. A bit like the Starks saying the rest of the families need to tough it up a bit. Show 2 more comments. None of the theories out there can explain it: A second sun would work, but none has been mentioned. Possibly the sun orbits a dark dwarf. A wobble in the axis could work, but people would notice when the stars move.
The concentration of continents in one hemisphere would allow Milankovitch cycles to induce glacial cycles in Westeros-world. Of course, the pattern of season lengths would eventually repeat itself, with a period equal to the least common multiple of the three Milankovitch cycle periods.
But this least common multiple could be so large — centuries or even millennia — that the seasons would appear random on a human timescale. Of course, within each glacial cycle there would be multiple smaller seasons as the planet revolved around the Sun — the way that regular seasons work on Earth. However, if the axial tilt of Westeros-world was sufficiently small, these regular seasons could be overwhelmed by the glacial cycles to the point where nobody would notice them.
There could be other hypotheses involving fluctuations in solar intensity, frequent volcanoes shooting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere, or rapid carbon cycle feedbacks. Can you find any holes? Please go nuts in the comments. The superposition of a lot of small climatic cycles could easily have the described effect, although the effects would need to be quite profound to have the described impact.
A small axial tilt would definitely be concealed by other effects. Both Jupiter ant the Moon display this effect. I look at the Doom of Valyria and see there the seeds of the unstable climate: The planet containing Westeros still has basaltic flow lava on a scale of with the Deccan and Siberian traps.
Instead of expelling massive amounts of CO2 like those basaltic flows, though, they could have SO2 dominate, with the accompanying volcanic winter with every pulse of eruptions.
That would explain the erratic non-cyclic nature of winter without requiring long term deviation from the climatary norm. The Earth has a large moon that exerts a stabilising effect on our planet, regularising our seasons.
One extra factor that might torpedo this theory is day length. This implies that the axial tilt of the world is also random. One idea that might help. All of the regions mentioned might not just be located in the norther hemisphere, but they might be all relatively close to the pole. The south could become unbearably hot and is uninhabitable. Being located close to the pole would greatly amplify the effects that you mention. Since asteroids leave a lot of dust in the atmosphere when they fall to Earth, the dust leads to a cooling effect that lasts for multiple years.
Douglas also proposed that the tilting of Westeros' planet's axis is more extreme than that of Earth's, which causes the seasons to be more extreme. Whether the seasons in Game of Thrones are scientific or fantastical, they are important thematically to the story. Summer usually signifies a time of peace, but once the series' many wars and conflicts begin to take shape, the threat of winter begins to loom. This is only made worse by the encroaching threat of the White Walkers.
By the time Winter does come, the story is at its darkest point and the era of peace has long passed. He has written about books, movies, tv shows, video games and just about everything in between. Winter is coming means something bad is going to happen. It is a popular GOT saying used by fans of the show to warn that bad things are coming.
Originally Answered: How old is Daenerys supposed to be? Daenerys is 13 years old at the beginning of A Game of Thrones book one , but the show aged her up, along with most of the other primary characters, including Ned, Catelyn, Arya, Jon Snow, and Robb Stark. Why is vetinari a woman? How does SCP kill? The story of the series is absolutely amazing and it will make you binge watch the series. The first season starts slow, but it will catch up very nicely and it will be worth your time.
Although various scenes were shot on studio sets in Belfast, Northern Ireland, many major moments from the HBO hit drama feature real landscapes and medieval fortresses in the backdrop.
In the pilot episode, for example, scenes at Winterfell, the Stark family home, were shot at Doune Castle in Scotland. The animal symbolizing winter is the salamander and the zodiacal signs are Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. Winter completes the yearly cycle of the seasons and ushers in the coldest and darkest time of the year.
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