Ligo nodded to the lanky Firon Halcha as he dismounted his toboggan sled, earmarked to haul the hunting bounty back to Castle Fieg. Ligo acknowledged the royal hunt master, who returned the prince’s nod. Firon squinted at Ligo. “Something bothering you, my lord?” Ligo shrugged and...
Here is Casterly Rock, as painted by Ted Nasmith for the Ice & Fire calendar for 2011, the “castle” calendar. The same images were also used in the worldbook/ concordance THE WORLD OF ICE & FIRE. Nobody does castles better than Nasmith. He and I consulted frequently when he was doi...
It’s truly the Saturday of foods, it’s switching the channel to find The Castle is on TV for the hundredth time and stopping to watch it for the hundredth time, it’s the culinary equivalent of the Grease megamix or Come On Eileen at the wedding dance floor, the food about which ...
Yet should I not take this opportunity, I would have wasted my entire life on that island for no purpose and far worse, I would be spitting on the memory of my father who bore that exile with me. --- Iwato Castle, Chikuzen Province, March 1294 Asahara Tametsugu w...
Ligo nodded to the lanky Firon Halcha as he dismounted his toboggan sled, earmarked to haul the hunting bounty back to Castle Fieg. Ligo acknowledged the royal hunt master, who returned the prince’s nod. Firon squinted at Ligo. “Something bothering you, my lord?” Ligo shrugged and...