The hidden message in Game of Thrones — part 1: the hero’s journey

Trying to answer the question of “Who am I?” is like solving a quantum mechanics problem. In quantum mechanics (QM) the electron is simultaneously “up” and “down”. We don’t learn which one it is until we perform an experiment. Likewise, we aren’t any more “up” or “down”; “good” or “bad”; “right” or “wrong” until we are faced with an experiment —a life event. Game of Thrones (GoT) is all about this.

The world of Westeros. Purchase this on Etsy. No affiliation. Just liked the map.

GoT is a story that starts in Winterfell, the North, where we meet the bastard of the honorable Eddard “Ned” Stark. A man so honorable that it was and still is tough to believe that he could father a child outside of marriage. That child is Jon Snow. He doesn’t have the Stark name because he is a bastard of the North, land of snow, hence the name. The same naming logic for bastards applies all over the world:

• Flowers: The Reach
• Hill: The Westerlands
• Pyke: Iron Islands
• Rivers: The Riverlands
• Sand: Dorne
• Snow: The North
• Stone: The Vale of Arryn
• Storm: The Stormlands
• Waters: The Crownlands

Through 5 Books (with 2 more allegedly still being written by George R.R. Martin) and 8 seasons of…