Meanings
- slanglifestyleThe fictional universe which serves as the setting for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Words from the Martinverse start creeping into your normal conversations, like “smallclothes,” “jape,” and “mummer’s farce.”
2015 November 25, Dana Ryals, Kelley Minica, “Winter is Here: A Game of Thrones Reading Group”, in The Clarion, Madison Area Technical College, page 22 more examples
Wargs in the Martinverse uniquely involve the act of “warging,” in which a human links to a particular animal, sees through its eyes and sometimes controls its body.
2015, T. A. Leederman, "A Thousand Westerosi Plateaus: Wargs, Wolves and Ways of Being", in Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (eds. Jes Battis & Susan Johnston), page 190One of the few truly honourable warriors in the Martinverse, Brienne of Tarth, the lady knight, concludes resignedly that “the good lords are dead and the rest of them are monsters” (GoT 5.1).
2018, Stefanie Lethbridge, “Entangled Agency: Heroic Dragons and Direwolves in Game of Thrones”, in helden. heroes. héros., number 3, page 8
Origin
From Martin + -verse, from the surname of author George R. R. Martin.
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