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For this new episode, All About The Others.

Following our recent episode on Dragons,

today we'll be analyzing their mysterious icy counterparts.

So today we'll cast our gaze up to the lands of always winter in the far north as we consider who the others are and what they want.

We'll begin with a discussion about how and why George has designed them to be

such formidable antagonists in this series including a look at their appearance, their powers and

behavior. Then we'll move on to consider their possible origins, taking a close

look at what was going on in Westeros over 8,000 years ago.

From the few snippets of information we have on that long forgotten era, which details could

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