Additionally, tonight a new trailer for HBO's adaptation of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE (they're calling it Game of Thrones) came out. It encapsulates the general feel of the series, particularly the first book on which this first season is based, quite well. Eddard (Sean Bean) and his family are House Stark of the vast north; the Baratheons are the royal family, and the Lannisters (the blonde twins, boy and girl, and Peter Dinklage as their dwarf brother) are married into this royalty as the female twin, Cersei, is the queen. The exotic far-eastern-looking stuff is the home of the Dothraki, the nomadic tribe with which the last surviving members of the old royal family (the Targaryens, the extremely pale-haired siblings seen here, whose parents were overthrown about 15 years before the start of the series by a Baratheon-Stark alliance) have taken refuge and are scheming for their return, the reclaim of their throne.
Welcome to Westeros, to the Seven Kingdoms. Welcome to the threatening long winter, maybe the longest ever known. Welcome, most of all, to the start of an epic game of thrones.
"When winter does come, gods help us all if we're not ready."
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