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* BadassAdorable: One of the wildlings who volunteers to serve under Jon is a brave young girl of 12 (who might not even be that old) willing to fight like a Night's Watch soldier if that's what it takes to survive.
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* Various cities and areas in Essos are documented through the respective perspectives of fugitive Tyrion Lannister, Frog the Sellsword, and Griff, as they travel through the continent making their way to Meereen.

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* Various cities and areas in Essos are documented through the respective perspectives of fugitive Tyrion Lannister, Frog the Sellsword, Quentyn Martell and Griff, Jon Connington, as they travel through the continent making their way to Meereen.



* In southern Westeros (the area covered by ''A Feast for Crows''), Areo Hotah provides a look at Doran Martell's court.

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* In southern Westeros (the area covered by ''A Feast for Crows''), Dorne, Areo Hotah provides a look at Doran Martell's court.
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* AmputativeSentencing: The practice of displaying the severed hands of thieves is common in Volantis, something Tyrion notices when he visits the city.
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* AerithAndBob: While "Penny" would be a perfectly normal name in the real world, Tyrion can't help but feel that it's a completely ridiculous name ({{who names their kid|Dude}} after a worthless piece of currency?) and can hardly manage to make himself say it.

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* AerithAndBob: While "Penny" would be a perfectly normal name in the real world, where it's generally short for Penelope, Tyrion can't help but feel that it's a completely ridiculous name ({{who names their kid|Dude}} after a worthless piece of currency?) and can hardly manage to make himself say it.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When "Abel" the bard plays The Dornishman's Wife for a room full of rowdy northerners, he swaps out the eponymous lyrics with "northman's daughter". This being the north under Bolton rule, he could end up flayed for the insolence, but Ramsay bursts out laughing and even Roose has a small smile.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When "Abel" the bard plays The the infamous song "The Dornishman's Wife Wife" for a room full of rowdy northerners, Northerners, he swaps out the eponymous lyrics with "northman's daughter". This being the north North under Bolton rule, he could end up flayed for the insolence, but Ramsay bursts out laughing and even Roose has a small smile.

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* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: It's implied that what is ''really'' in Wyman Manderly's three huge meat pies are the [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian bodies of the three Freys]] who were murdered by Wyman.]] Before Wyman himself eats his fill, he first serves slices of these pies to Ramsay and [[spoiler:''three living Freys'' -- Roose Bolton's wife and two of Walder Frey's sons.]]
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:After saving Tyrion from the Stone Men, Jon Connington contracts severe greyscale and knows he's dying, but hides this from everyone.]]



* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: It's implied that what is ''really'' in Wyman Manderly's three huge meat pies are the [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian bodies of the three Freys]] who were murdered by Wyman.]] Before Wyman himself eats his fill, he first serves slices of these pies to Ramsay and [[spoiler:''three living Freys'' -- Roose Bolton's wife and two of Walder Frey's sons.]]
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:After saving Tyrion from the Stone Men, Jon Connington contracts severe greyscale and knows he's dying, but hides this from everyone.]]
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Wyman Manderly is accused of ordering the murder of a young Frey. He replies, "I confess... that I do not know the boy."

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Wyman Manderly is accused of ordering the murder of a young Frey. He replies, "I confess... ''<wipes his mouth>'' I confess that I do not know the little of this poor boy."
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* BloodstainedDefloration: Barbrey Ryswell Dustin tells a wildly out of pocket story about how she had an affair with Brandon Stark in her youth, including way TooMuchInformation.
-->'''Barbrey:''' "A bloody sword is a beautiful thing," he told me once. I am old now, a dried up thing, too long a widow but I still remember the look of my maiden's blood on his cock the night he claimed me. I think Brandon liked the sight as well. A bloody sword is a beautiful thing, yes. It hurt but it was a sweet pain.
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* WickedWastefulness: Just in case the wickedness of Ramsay was not evident from his hobby of flaying others, he enjoys throwing feasts at the expense of his bannermen. At a point when most people are worrying about having enough food to last through a years-long winter, he ends up forcing a lord to slaughter the cattle set aside as breeding stock, which were the only animals left.
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* HoldYourHippogriffs: When Jon meets with Bowen Marsh, Othell Yarwyck and a blatantly hungover Septon Cellador, he thinks that Cellador is "in dire need of [[HairOfTheDog some scales from the dragon that had flamed him"]].
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* WinterOfStarvation: During the march from Deepwood Motte to Winterfell in the middle of a blizzard, Stannis' army quickly starts to run short of food and other provisions. Wagons start breaking down, men start wandering off and dying in the snow, and any horse that breaks a leg is butchered on the spot for meat. Four soldiers are burned alive as sacrifices to R'hllor for cannibalizing another man, despite their pleas that he was already dead and they were starving.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: When Bowen Marsh objects to Jon intending to train young wildling boys as squires, especially since Jon is just about done with Marsh's never-ending CommanderContrarian bullshit:
-->'''Bowen Marsh:''' You say these boys will serve as squires. Surely the lord commander does not mean they will be trained at arms?\\
'''Jon:''' [[SarcasmMode No, my lord, I mean to set them to sewing lacy smallclothes.]]

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* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:It's strongly implied Wyman Manderly cooked the three Freys formerly staying at his court into pies, which he fed to the Boltons and a few Freys at Winterfell. He even eats some himself and enjoys it.]]

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** When Stannis' army starts to starve on their march to Winterfell, some of them resort to eating their dead.dead. However this remains taboo regardless of their desperation, and the men are burned alive as punishment.


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* LikeGoesWithLike: Dicussed by Tyrion and Jorah about Tyrion and Penny; Tyrion is patronised by the idea.
-->'''Tyrion:''' By any name, she needs a friend.\\
'''Jorah:''' Befriend her, then. Marry her, for all I care.\\
'''Tyrion:''' Like with like, is that your notion? Do you mean to find a she-bear for yourself, ser?
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: The Widow of the Waterfront sarcastically uses this to chastise Jorah Mormont for his inadequacies as a knight.
-->'''The Widow:''' Knights defend the weak and protect the innocent, they say. And I am the fairest maid in all Volantis.
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* TastesLikeDisdain: The sisters Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand hold a deep grudge against House Lannister for its crimes against their family, including the boy king, Tommen. When House Martell is holding a feast and a toast is proposed to Tommen, Nymeria and Tyene turn down wine, but Obara allows a serving man to fill her cup and makes a show of pouring it onto the floor before leaving.

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** Some of the soldiers in Stannis' army resort to eating the dead during the march to Winterfell during the winter. Stannis has them burnt in punishment though there are some who note that it was probably a lot more common and it is likely that these soldiers only had the misfortune to be caught.

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** Some of the soldiers in Stannis' army resort to eating the dead during the march to Winterfell during the winter. Stannis has them burnt in punishment though there are some who note that it was probably a lot more common and it is likely that these soldiers only had the misfortune to be caught.their dead.


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** Some of the soldiers in Stannis' army resort to eating the dead during the march to Winterfell during the winter. Stannis has them burnt in punishment though there are some who note that it was probably a lot more common and it is likely that these soldiers only had the misfortune to be caught.
** In his letter from Hardome, Cotter Pyke reports that the wildlings have resorted to eating their dead.
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* SoupOfPoverty: When House Bolton's forces and allies are snowed in at Winterfell by a massive blizzard, the common men and soldiers are served watery grey porridge and plain bread while the lords and knights eat the good food like ham, bacon, and butter, which causes some grumbles of discontent among the former.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Jon spars against Rattleshirt in the training yard, he notices the man looks a lot larger and stronger once he removes his iconic [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset bone garments]] to wear proper mail. [[spoiler:Later he finds out that "Rattleshirt" is actually Mance Rayder, disguised under Melisandre's glamour, and the spell is more effective when he's wearing Rattleshirt's outfit.]]

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** When Davos arrives in White Harbor he initially goes to a seedy tavern to collect rumours from other sailors. The topic turns to the subject of dragons, which one man dismisses as impossible because Viserys has been dead for years, but another man suggests that [[FakingTheDead he faked his death]] to avoid Robert's wrath- "If a king wanted me dead, might be I'd oblige him and pretend to be a corpse." [[spoiler:After his meeting with Wyman Manderly, the Lord of White Harbor orders Davos executed to appease the Freys and Cersei, but in truth [[DeathFakedForYou hides him in prison while executing another man in his place]].]]
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When Jon spars against Rattleshirt in the training yard, he notices the man looks a lot larger and stronger once he removes his iconic [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset bone garments]] to wear proper mail. [[spoiler:Later he finds out that "Rattleshirt" is actually Mance Rayder, disguised under Melisandre's glamour, and the spell is more effective when he's wearing Rattleshirt's outfit.]]
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* Various cities and areas in Essos are documented through the respective perspectives of fugitive Tyrion Lannister, Frog the Sellsword, as well as Griff, as they travel through the continent making their way to Meereen.

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* Various cities and areas in Essos are documented through the respective perspectives of fugitive Tyrion Lannister, Frog the Sellsword, as well as and Griff, as they travel through the continent making their way to Meereen. Meereen.
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* Various cities and areas in Essos are documented through the respective perspectives of fugitive Tyrion Lannister, Frog the Sellsword, as well as Griff and his son Young Griff, as they travel through the continent making their way to Meereen.

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* Various cities and areas in Essos are documented through the respective perspectives of fugitive Tyrion Lannister, Frog the Sellsword, as well as Griff and his son Young Griff, as they travel through the continent making their way to Meereen.
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** Quentyn Martell, prince of Dorne, pretends to be a merchant while journeying to Meereen to court Daenerys.
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** Gilly's infant son and Mance's infant son are switched in order to save the latter from being burned by Melisandre for the power of his king's blood.

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** Gilly's infant son and To save Mance's infant son are switched in order to save the latter from being burned by Melisandre for the power of his king's blood.blood, he is switched with Gilly's infant son and sent south to the Citadel with her, Sam, Dareon and Maester Aemon.
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** Daenerys has to assimilate into Meereenese culture in order to please the nobles she is ruling over.

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** Daenerys has to assimilate into Meereenese culture in order to please the nobles she is ruling over.over, wearing the traditional garment called the ''tokar'', re-opening the fighting pits, and marrying the Meereenese nobleman Hizdahr zo Loraq.

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