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>Sounds like a gigantic convoluted mess to me.

LOL, pretty much, yes.

Thing is, that very fact -- that it's a "convoluted mess" -- is one of the things that makes the book series more "realistic." (When you REALLY dig into it -- that is beyond the nice/clean "whitewashed" school-textbook stuff -- actual "history" of most countries is generally fairly "messy" and "convoluted.")

- IIRC, the author has noted* (and/or others have surmised) that he's based a HUGE amount of it on the British Isles, and specifically the history of England/Scotland ("War of the Roses", Norman Invasion, even before that Roman Britain with Hadrian's WALL, Scots/Picts, other Celts, Druids, etc)... just also adding "dragons" and "grumpkins" and "wights" and assorted other mythical/magical/fantasy elements.

- EDIT: Yup... "GRRM admitted that the war in Westeros was based on historic War of the Roses in England middle-ages between House of Yorks and of Lancasters."

>Any religious text would be easier to get into.

I probably would have agreed with you on that... but then -- well not sure HOW exactly (I think it was a "muti-book" paperback set on super-cheap "clearance sale" somewhere) -- I picked up the books and eventually got around to cracking them open... they're not the "greatest" things ever written; but they're far above the average dreck published these days.

>The bible is simply better lore than what GRRM could conjure up.

Well, presumably you're familiar with Tolkien's mythology (not just The Hobbit and LOTR, but all of the rest of his "faux-history" {The Silmarillion etc} -- chronicles of various ages/eras, kings & kingdoms, etc -- much of which have a very "old testament" feel)...

Arguably that's what GRRM was going for -- a "world-building" faux-history; but without being as "derivative" as most other Tolkien-wannabes -- ergo he tried to make it "grittier" and "dirtier" (sans the more "heroic" or "high language" poetic-prose aspects of Tolkien).

>Seriously, you can't beat an earth with a protective water shell and a mist near the ground at all times with fucking giants? Forget about the dragons, when is jesus coming? Our world will return to its original state when this happens.

Well, here's some "fun" things for you then:

- Also... have you been here -- https://arkencounter.com/ -- yet? (Photos really don't do it justice... it's quite a different thing to actually walk around, under, through it.)