#The thousand little ways the show demonstreas its love for the books

[asha-mage]

OKAY BUT SOMETHING I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYONE MENTION YET RE: MAT

Mat's primary mythological inspiration in the books Odin, and one of Odin's mythological roles is as a leader of the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession of warriors and hunters that races through the sky and the mist.

AND SO THE IMAGE OF MAT STANDING IN FRONT OF THE BILLOWING MIST HOLDING HIS MAKESHIFT SPEAR OF DOOM WHILE WARRIORS OF LEGEND, HEROES OF THE AGES, LITERAL EINHERJAR ANSWER HIS CALL IS SO FUCKING GOOD.