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I chat the end of Game of Thrones with Adam Calhoun, a neuroscientist, and erstwhile provider of early leaked episodes to yours’ truly.
This is the first of two episodes on this topic. A follow-up with a geneticist and a historian to come.
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Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.
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You said that the Ironborn aren’t First Men, but they were on the Iron Islands before the Andals arrived (and attempted to convert them to the Seven). They don’t worship the Old Gods like the northmen (and Blackwoods) do, so presumably their religion may be closer to what the First Men believed prior to encountering the Children of the Forest.
their religion is all about the sea. seems pretty clearly a local adaptation. but yeah, the old gods are not the ur-religion of the first men.