• StraySojourner@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    There’s no way the Ice castle of the necrolord and the mountains of muscle aren’t a Fire &Ice reference

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      5 months ago

      Probably, although Martin was definitely not the first fantasy author to put a villainous faction/entity in the inhospitable frozen north, nor was he the first to have a villain with a zombie army.

      Although I think the Mountains of Muscles are more likely just a border feature slapped in between the Necrolord and the ambiguous barbarians of the northern steppes, which are again a common trope but probably directly drawn from the barbarian tribes of Icewind Dale (Wulfgar’s people in Forgotten Realms).