#Dire wolf grateful dead update

Her killings are motivated by self-defense, passion, desperation, or revenge.

When Arya kills a Night’s Watch deserter in Braavos in the novels-or Kingsguard Meryn Trant in the show-she does so with passion and without authority.

When Ned beheads a Night’s Watch deserter, he does it as a duty. (2022 note: she killed a lot more after that.) Unlike the other Stark killings, justified by execution or war, Arya’s killings blur the line. Listening to the song “Dire Wolf” while contemplating the Stark family, the lyrics initially don’t seem very relevant to Ned Stark and his offspring. While the setting seems Winterfell-esque- the winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet neath the ground-it’s hard to view the Starks as resembling the wolves of the song, as the song consists of the narrator repeatedly pleading “don’t murder me” to the dire wolf.Īrya Stark, as portrayed by Maisie Williams in HBO’s Game of Thrones.īy the end of the fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, and the fifth season of the television show, Arya has killed at least seven people, maybe more, in addition to the three she ordered Jaqen H’ghar to kill. But is this where the connection ends? Or is there something more linking the Grateful Dead song and the Starks of Winterfell? My Original Speculation: “Please Don’t Murder Me”įrom here until my next fourth-wall-breaking interruption, the content in here is what I included in my 2016 blog post predicting the fates of Cersei Lannister, Arya Stark, and what “Dire Wolf” might have to do with it. Yes, the Grateful Dead has a song called “Dire Wolf,” the same beast that serves as the Stark sigil. It’s not hard to believe this guy is a Grateful Dead fan.Īnd of course, the wolf. He first sorta acknowledged it during a 2014 interview with 927 Plus, including indirectly admitting that the spiritual Weirwoods in the world of Westeros are named after Bobby Weir.Ī number of listicles, various reddit threads, and blog posts have been written about connections between Martin’s books and the Dead’s songs, including the Weirwoods, The Mountains of the Moon, and Gerold “Darkstar” Dayne. It has been a long-speculated concept the Grateful Dead’s music has influenced George R. Martin might’ve taken inspiration in crafting A Song of Ice and Fire.

Because that is no longer so relevant (that show ended has been off the year for a while), I’ve updated it to include that original theory, how accurate it was, and also a deeper exploration around Game of Thrones, the Grateful Dead, and where George R.

#Dire wolf grateful dead update

Update 2022: parts of this article were originally written as a prediction (but, no, not a fan theory) about the television show Game of Thrones. Everything I know About the connections between the Grateful Dead, Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire