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The series is located on the far end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, with moral ambiguity very prevalent and few clear-cut heroes or villains. The Switching POV allows for a wide variety of rounded characters, and there is arguably no central protagonist to be found. The series has been received with great acclaim, with TIME Magazine even going so far as to brand Martin "the American Tolkien"-which is a bit of an irony, considering how different the two series are. Naturally, at the time these novels are set, Winter is Coming, and it could not come at a worse time for a land which is soon to be engulfed in tyranny and civil war, and threatened by invaders across the sea. The Others are prophesied to return in The Longest Night, a Winter colder than any other, which will last forever if the Others should conquer Westeros. The Others have been unseen for so long that most living people think them a myth, and the once-honourable Watch has been reduced to an Army of Thieves and Whores a fraction of the size it once was. Meanwhile, the vengeance-mad children of King Aerys live in exile in the east and plot their return to the Seven Kingdoms across the sea.Įddard's bastard son Jon Snow is sent north to The Wall, an ancient structure erected to keep out a mysterious race of ice demons known as The Others, and manned and protected by the order of warriors known as the Night's Watch. The honourable Eddard must leave his home to join the corrupt court in King's Landing and find the truth about Jon's death, unwittingly setting in motion a civil war. When Jon Arryn unexpectedly dies, King Robert ventures north to name his friend Eddard as the new Hand of the King, the most powerful man in the Seven Kingdoms after the king himself. Now, Eddard rules his northern homeland and raises his own family in peace.

They appointed Robert to the throne and drove Aerys' children into exile, breaking the 300-year dynasty of inbred kings.

Fifteen years ago, lords Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon and their foster father, Jon Arryn, rose up in rebellion and overthrew the Mad King Aerys Targaryen. The series is primarily set on the continent of Westeros, in a world where the seasons can last for years.