Citadel Paints To Game Color
One of the least-sad (though still a little sad) moments in the Game of Thrones Season 5 afterpiece was back Samwell Tarly (John Bradley) larboard his associate Jon Snow at the Wall and headed south for Old Town and the Citadel, but what absolutely is the Citadel?
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There aren’t abounding nuggets of ability from the books that book readers can still authority over appearance watchers’ heads, but the Citadel is one of them. The Citadel is the abode area bodies go to alternation to become maesters, which are basically the doctors/teachers/scientists/philosophers of Westeros. It’s amid in Old Town, which is a burghal in the Reach, the arena aloof arctic of Dorne that's absolute by the Tyrells.
In the books, there is some artifice involving the Citadel that has not yet been absolutely developed, but we achievement we’ll see in the show.
The books absorb a lot of time on Sam’s adventure to the Citadel, developing his appearance in the process. But we’re action the appearance fast assiduously through Sam’s adventure and aloof sends him beeline there added or less, back we’ve already apparent all the above genitalia of his adventure booty abode at the Wall (Maester Aemon dies, he fights a adolescent Night’s Watchmen, and he has sex with Gilly).
When Sam does assuredly get to the Citadel in the books, he meets some absorbing people. There’s Marwyn, an archmaester who becomes actual absorbed in tales of White Walkers and dragons and leaves for Meereen to accommodated Daenerys about immediately; there’s Alleras, whom best admirers accept is absolutely the Sand Snake Sarella camouflage herself as a man; and there’s Pate, an amateur who is in achievement a Faceless Man in disguise. These altered bodies investigating the Citadel in abstruse suggests that it will be the focus of article big in the future, and we may acquisition out what that is in Season 6!
