# List of "Game of Thrones" Characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-game-of-thrones-characters/548981 "2010-08-03T05:11:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-game-of-thrones-characters/548981/21 "2010-08-08T00:47:46Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > > [@Simplicio](#): > > > > By the third book, there wasn’t really much of a central plot left to resolve, so the fact that he’s going to die before he finishes the series doesn’t really bother me. Read the books like they’re a bunch of loosely related vignettes that take place in an interesting fantasy world. > > Eh, wrong. The central plot is the Others and Daenerys invasion, neither of which has really even gotten started. The books so far have dealt with the quick collapse of the seven kingdoms. Yes, he’s told us repeatedly that “winter is coming” and it’s still coming…I figured that the ultimate point would be that the various people claiming the throne would eventually need to put differences aside to fight the Others, but I’m 1/6th into book four and there’s not even the slightest hint yet that it will ever happen. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-game-of-thrones-characters/548981/22 "2010-08-08T02:17:09Z")
At this point we’re not even sure what the Others are. Some sort of vague undead is the best I can come up with. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-game-of-thrones-characters/548981/23 "2010-08-08T02:22:25Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Yeah, for some reason when I uploaded it to Photobucket, it shrank the damn thing and won’t let you blow it up. Let me see if I can get it up somewhere else. Do you read the ASOIAF thread on the Something Awful forums (aka “the bad thread”)? If not, that image was created by one of the posters there and I’m pretty sure they have the full-sized image up in one of their recent posts. I lurk there. It is…an entertaining place. (I’d add an emoticon to temper that sentence, but there is no emoticon to express what one could feel about that thread. It is large; it contains multitudes.) Anyone who hasn’t finished the series should stay the hell away from it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-game-of-thrones-characters/548981/24 "2010-08-08T02:32:42Z")
The winter that is coming is spending the next 40 years slowly dying while yearning to finish the best fantasy series ever, but you can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-game-of-thrones-characters/548981/25 "2010-08-08T02:34:30Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > > [@Simplicio](#): > > > > By the third book, there wasn’t really much of a central plot left to resolve, so the fact that he’s going to die before he finishes the series doesn’t really bother me. Read the books like they’re a bunch of loosely related vignettes that take place in an interesting fantasy world. > > Eh, wrong. The central plot is the Others and Daenerys invasion, neither of which has really even gotten started. The books so far have dealt with the quick collapse of the seven kingdoms. Having a central plot that hasn’t really even gotten started by the fifth book in a (putative) seven book series is a lot like not having a central plot at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-game-of-thrones-characters/548981.md?page=1)