• StraySojourner@lemmy.world
    71·
    5 个月前

    There’s no way the Ice castle of the necrolord and the mountains of muscle aren’t a Fire &Ice reference

    • Flushmaster@ttrpg.network
      9·
      5 个月前

      Probably, although Martin was definitely not the first fantasy author to put a villainous faction/entity in the inhospitable frozen north, nor was he the first to have a villain with a zombie army.

      Although I think the Mountains of Muscles are more likely just a border feature slapped in between the Necrolord and the ambiguous barbarians of the northern steppes, which are again a common trope but probably directly drawn from the barbarian tribes of Icewind Dale (Wulfgar’s people in Forgotten Realms).