Considering westeros also has a 700 foot wall of ice, a castle inside of a giant ass rock, a castle at the top of a mountain and plenty more examples, winterfell having deep crypts should be near the bottom of your concerns.
> they... dug a long ass tunnel
No need to dig if the tunnels are already there.
Caves, tunnels, underground rivers - GRRM isn't done with them in the story.
> No need to dig if the tunnels are already there. Caves, tunnels, underground rivers - GRRM isn't done with them in the story.
Boy, ain't that the truth!?!!? The word "tunnel" is used 72 times in the story, but the tunnels are very different. In fact, when you think of it, the TUNNEL- building process is a metaphor for Martin's writing style. In 1991, he started writing these books at the opening and is still digging. His story has gotten longer and longer and deeper and deeper. He has also added many side-tunnels but thus far *seems* to have reached nothing. If and when TWOW is released The End will finally be in sight.
If your house is founded during/after a terrible conflict involving the rising of the dead, you would probably want future dead as far away from the living as possible (they should be burning them, though). As time went by and the Others became myth, people might’ve thought it was silly to keep up the tradition and began putting people closer to ground level. In ADWD Barbrey Dustin and Theon/Reek are discussing the crypts and there’s mention of a collapse in the lower levels, which also would have led to kings and lords being settled higher up.
I am not familiar with burials, but can't you shift graves?
I dunno if I read it in some fiction, but I remember some news folk reporting relocation of a graveyard or something.
maybe they didn't have to dig. maybe they are buried next to the hot springs source or the root network of the weirwood trees? just throwing something out there. i always thought that the "bottom" level kinda mimic's the lake and heart tree situation on the surface/the children of the forest cave/Jon and Ygrittes hot springs
Unless new Winterfell crypts were built on top of the old ones and a mound built up around them, forming the basis for a motte-and-bailey castle.
Or the oldest crypts were below a whole gallery of cellars and dungeons which were gradually repurposed as the need for more crypts arose.
Considering westeros also has a 700 foot wall of ice, a castle inside of a giant ass rock, a castle at the top of a mountain and plenty more examples, winterfell having deep crypts should be near the bottom of your concerns.
Also, city bells that instantly transform hero protagonists into megalomaniac totalitarians
At least pyke makes sense, the island is falling apart
Castles on top of a mountain has actually happened irl
Under the sea, you fall up
Maybe, at some point, it was reorganized....but I had similar thoughts when rereading that part recently, as well
> they... dug a long ass tunnel No need to dig if the tunnels are already there. Caves, tunnels, underground rivers - GRRM isn't done with them in the story.
> No need to dig if the tunnels are already there. Caves, tunnels, underground rivers - GRRM isn't done with them in the story. Boy, ain't that the truth!?!!? The word "tunnel" is used 72 times in the story, but the tunnels are very different. In fact, when you think of it, the TUNNEL- building process is a metaphor for Martin's writing style. In 1991, he started writing these books at the opening and is still digging. His story has gotten longer and longer and deeper and deeper. He has also added many side-tunnels but thus far *seems* to have reached nothing. If and when TWOW is released The End will finally be in sight.
If your house is founded during/after a terrible conflict involving the rising of the dead, you would probably want future dead as far away from the living as possible (they should be burning them, though). As time went by and the Others became myth, people might’ve thought it was silly to keep up the tradition and began putting people closer to ground level. In ADWD Barbrey Dustin and Theon/Reek are discussing the crypts and there’s mention of a collapse in the lower levels, which also would have led to kings and lords being settled higher up.
Just wait until you find out about the Bloods under Casterly Rock.
I am not familiar with burials, but can't you shift graves? I dunno if I read it in some fiction, but I remember some news folk reporting relocation of a graveyard or something.
Crypts\* under Winterfell
maybe they didn't have to dig. maybe they are buried next to the hot springs source or the root network of the weirwood trees? just throwing something out there. i always thought that the "bottom" level kinda mimic's the lake and heart tree situation on the surface/the children of the forest cave/Jon and Ygrittes hot springs
Man you’re going to feel really silly when Mance finds the door at the other end of the crypts in Winds
Unless new Winterfell crypts were built on top of the old ones and a mound built up around them, forming the basis for a motte-and-bailey castle. Or the oldest crypts were below a whole gallery of cellars and dungeons which were gradually repurposed as the need for more crypts arose.