Maester Luwin

Welcome back to Second Breakfast and our ongoing coverage of A Clash of Kings, bringing you the best thoughts, theories, and literary analysis this side of Maester Luwin's study.

In this episode of A Close Reading of Ice and Fire, we're discussing Bran Chapter 4 and Tyrion Chapter 7.

Let's get into it.

better character.

Well, it's true.

So Hodor chases off the not dogs and Bran travels to Maester Luwin and he just wants to get a read, no pun intended, on everything that's going on here.

So he asks Mr. Lewin, what is all this bullshit about the greensight? Do we believe in any of this? What about the Children of the Forest? How are these things connected? And Lewin gives him another lore drop, and he says, the Children of the Forest, we don't know if it was real or if it was metaphor or legend or myth, but the idea was that they could see through the faces carved into the weirwood trees.

so there's there's all of these ancestral gods are tied up with the children of the forest and possibly tied up with house reed we don't know where they came from we don't know how old they are remember we found out they might be swamp people we don't really know

Dragon glass.

Ned examines each one and recalls the material from Maester Luwin's records, but its significance escapes him now.

The horn is equally enigmatic.

He leaves the daggers in the care of Sam and keeps the horn.

You'll have to work hard and find some great service to do for King Robert to earn such recognition.

You should probably get to your lesson with Maester Luwin.

Aemond smiles and gives her a hug, then runs off to find the maester.

Catelyn smiles at the sweet little boy with delusional dreams.