A Song of Ice and Fire/Characters/Deities And Religions: Difference between revisions

* [[Maiden Mother and Crone]]: [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|The Maid, The Mother, and The Crone]]

* [[Speak of the Devil]]: It is considered bad luck to speak of the Stranger, well-illustrated by the fact that an in-universe religious nursery rhyme called "The Seven" [[Non-Indicative Name|is about the other six gods and doesn't mention The Stranger]].

 

== '''Rh'llor''' ==

* [[Out With a Bang]]: When propositioning Davos to help her make some shadow babies, Melisandre implies that it would be the best sex ever, but it's also made clear that sex with Melisandre draws the life out of the other participant (it's heavily implied that this is why Stannis looks so haggard and prematurely aged after having created two shadows with her, to the point that she dares not try to make a third).

* [[Pet the Dog]]: In ''A Dance with Dragons'', {{spoiler|she has Devan Seaworth remain at the Wall so Davos won't lose another son.}} And while she mistrusts Davos himself because he refuses to worship R'hllor, she realizes that his loyalty to Stannis cannot be doubted and lets it go at that.

* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: In addition to being beautiful, she is also taller than most men. However, when this height is noted it is not as a positive trait, and is one of the reasons she is considered an...

* [[Uncanny Valley Girl]]: Comes across this way in universe. While descriptions of her by other characters note her beauty, they invariably also note that something is "off" and unsettling about her. While this is possibly just the effect of her red eyes and very pale skin, it is also possible that people have an instinctive aversion to something else about her, and just don't know what it is.

* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: The whole idea that all deities are his various "faces". However, the text suggests (and Martin has supported) that he's specifically a different take on the Stranger of The Seven- note how the Stranger's salient traits (e.g. cloak wearing and with something odd about his face) are reflected in the priests of the Many-Faced God

* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]

 

== '''The Drowned God'''. ==

* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: As has been noted by some Rh'llor worshipers, The Drowned God and his opposition to the Storm God mirrors the enmity between Rh'llor and The Great Other.

* [[Good Old Ways]]: "Pay the Iron Price" is this for the religion/culture (naturally, not really viewed as good by non-Ironborn)

** Even more so by Dagon.

* [[War God]]: Creating the Ironborn to 'reave and slay' and being generally pleased when they kill their enemies and wage war on other races makes him look like one of these.