The House of Worms

The House of Worms

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The grouns are clearly human and there genetic engineering is more than implied.

The theta was something that existed before the histories we got and may have dictated a lot of the evolutionary paths that people went down. I am one who believes that the Long Night ended in a pact. The histories of the LN are all inherently not trustworthy as there was no writing then and what we got is more or less passed down through oral traditions that the Maesters put to paper thousands of years later.

The only old history from that period I trust is from old nan. Yet here and there in the fastness of the woods, the children still lived in their wooden cities and hollow hills, and the faces in the trees kept watch. So as cold and death filled the earth, the last hero determined to seek out the children, in the hopes that their ancient magics could win back what the armies of men had lost.

He set out into the dead lands with a sword, a horse, a dog, and a dozen companions. For years he searched until he despaired of ever finding the children of the forest in their secret cities. One by one his friends died, and his horse, and finally even his dog, and his sword froze so hard the blade snapped when he tried to use it.

And the Others smelled the hot blood in him and came silent on his trail, stalking him with packs of pale white spiders big as hounds.. Old Nan is then interrupted by Maester Luwin. I believe that was purposeful. We are told the cotf save the last hero, they build a wall and everyone is happy. I don't believe that. We are told that these WW who ravaged the realms, had mothers suffocating their children to avoid the cold and WW.

The realm is in bad shape. We are to believe that Others who smelled the LH's blood and trailed him silently while mounted on creatures just got their ass handed to them by the cotf is a quick sweep and it was over. Then they built a wall of ice to keep out ice monsters. I think a pact makes more sense. We know the Others are capable of reaching agreements, i.

Sacrifice your children and we won't bother you. Well I believe the last hero was the NK.

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I think he took the moniker of 13th LC because of his 12 friends that died in their search of the cotf. I believe part of their pact was a marriage pact between the NK and the female other.

As marriage pacts are ingrained in the asoiaf society, first men, andals, rhoynar. The Night's Fort was the alter for sacrifice to the Others for continued peace, whether they give the children of the NK and the female other or just other Northern bastards.

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Back when Queen Alasayne closed the Night's Fort as the center of the Watch, ended the Lord's right of the first night, and gave the lands just south of the Wall to the NW was an effort to end the realms relationship with the Others or to stop the sacrificing. I know not a lot to support this at all. The Pact with the Others was violated, no more sacrifices, no children being given to them from the watch, unlike Craster. The humans also violated the Pact with the cotf, which was more or less the cotf will get out of their way, humans have to worship the old gods and maintain the Weirwood net so they can keep an eye on us.

This was wiped out by the Andals, so the cotf and the Others were left with nothing as an aside. To tie in with hotw, I think the Others are humans that went down a different evolutionary path to suit themselves to harsh climates. I think they are human because the NK mated with an Other. I think the endgame is make love to the others, not war, but the feudal society too concerned with bloodlines and realm politics are too stupid to realize it.

What a creepy story! One thing that's interesting is that the character who sees the solution is disregarded as being a fool - I see something like that happening in ASoIaF - it would be typical GRRM writing to have a character realize that a peace could be made with the Others, only to be disregarded, probably bringing on mankind's extinction. I also like the connection between the Meatbringer and the Night's King, especially if the theories that the Watch used to sacrifice human infants to the Others.

Yea it's a pretty nasty story, the yaga-la-li are clearly a misguided society. GRRM is one of the most gifted authors currently occasionally writing. He is gifted as Heinlein was gifted; capable of conceiving a brilliant concept Many writers and scribblers come up with brilliant concepts and then ruin it with pedantic writing.

GRRM is not one of these. On the other hand how long have we had to wait between books for the Game of Thrones series, eh!? Anyone considering getting into writing and world building should read this tale. In only a few pages Martin builds a depth and breadth of intrigue and mystery as you delve deep into the house of the worm. As long as you understand the pacing of short stories you should enjoy this, though it's a bit odd and not your usual Martin. All of his writing I've read has been very realistic fantasy, whereas this one is a bit off-the-wall.

Otherwise it's a good read and I feel like if you know to expect an unusual adventure short story you'll enjoy it. A Lovecraftian tale in Martin's narrative style. Still vivid in my mind more than a year after I read it.

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Volume I Kindle Edition. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Just how attractive it had quickly become is impressively demonstrated by the names and places of origin of the scholars working here.

We know that Rashi studied under, among others, the prominent rabbis Jakob ben Jakar from Mainz, who also taught in Worms, and under Isaak ben Eleasar ha-Levi, the dean rosh yeshiva of the Talmudic school in Worms, who died in The fact that the latter had received his academic training in Mainz is evidence of the very close personal links between the two communities and their scholars without which a proper understanding of the fact that Rashi spent time in both cities would not be possible. Not much is known about his stay in Mainz either, but we can presume that Rashi was in Mainz before coming to Worms, even though, surprisingly, the time he spent in Mainz did not influence the traditions there as much as in the case of Worms.

One important factor here is certainly the unbroken tradition of Jewish community life in Worms in contrast to the violent end of medieval Jewish Mainz in the 15th century. Thus, Rashi acquired in the Jewish schools yeshivas on the Rhine the training that formed the basis for his groundbreaking interpretation of the Talmud and the Bible, which were to prove so remarkably influential.

These decisions concern matters such as moneylending, pawnbroking, property deals, dietary laws, slaves and servants, enforced baptisms etc.

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There is evidence that Rashi continued to communicate in writing with his teachers and with other scholars after he had left Worms and returned to Troyes, and thus he was certainly informed about important event in the development of the communities and their Talmudic schools. This certainly also applies to the disastrous consequences of the pogroms in The career of this scholar, who later became so important, documents the close links between the Ashkenazic communities in the Rhineland and Champagne, a network of interrelationships that spread out from the field of learning to influence trade and communication and be connected with these fields.

Since Rashi had some knowledge of Christian Bible exegesis and of Latin, it seems likely that there were contacts and ties with the Cathedral School, which was still flourishing at least during the generation after Bishop Burchard, who died in There was certainly contact between growing Jewish school and the centre for Christian learning associated with the cathedral. The explanatory additions to Bible and Talmud texts which Rashi wrote down later are, furthermore, the earliest records of Ashkenazic language use, i.

One factor that became particularly important for the Jewish community in Worms from the middle of the 11th century was its relationship to the monarchy.

The numerous regulations in this document that applied to the Jews in Worms as his subjects included the right to change money, possession assurance plots of land, vineyards, gardens and rights over servants are named , confirmation of their ownership of houses by the city wall, a ban on enforced baptisms and an assurance on regulations that reflect the influence of Jewish law.

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