If legend and critics are to be believed, this king of short rule (two years) and even slighter stature should be remembered a hideous monster by all measurements. To recount everything that those wars were about, and how Martin borrowed from them, is an article unto itself ( which you can click on here!), but in the case of Tyrion’s influence, it comes near the very end of the long struggle about who is the rightful heir to the House Plantagenet Dynasty, the House of Lancaster or House of York (sound familiar yet?). And this all the more ironic since he is based on an English king who has traditonally been cast, even by Shakespeare, in the role of tragic villain.Īye, like so much else in Game of Thrones, Tyrion finds his roots in the War of the Roses, a 30-year series of small and bloody English civil wars during the mid-15th century that serves as the greatest basis of influence on ASOIAF. Even in the case of Tyrion Lannister, who might feature the yarn’s biggest heart despite his smaller size. Oh sure, they can have dragons and White Walkers, and whatever it is Bran’s supposed to be, but in the end, Martin’s stories about Westeros often serve as a crash course in the worst of humanity.
Martin, be they on the page with “A Song of Ice and Fire” or on a television screen in Game of T hrones, is that they’re hardly fantasies at all. The not-so-hidden secret about the fantasies of George R.R.
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