Valyrian Steel
A Valyrian steel sword, its blade so dark as to be nearly black as is true of most Valyrian steel weapons, but among many of the folds was a red as deep as the grey. The two colors lap together, like waves of night and blood (III: 358, 359)

June, 2011

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Production Updates

We’ve been posting updates in a variety of places such as Facebook, or in comments to older posts here as people ask questions, but it has been awhile since we’ve done an actual update post. So, here it is.
Ice will start shipping by the end of July, barring tsunamis, earthquakes, and union strikes in the […]

An Emmy for Mark Addy

Tonight is the final episode of season 1 of Game of Thrones on HBO, then we’ll have to wait a year. In looking forward to the episode tonight (and on the side wondering if GRRM will even be able to watch it, in Poland, or will he have to wait until he gets back?), I […]

Robert’s Warhammer Prototype Pictures

These have already been posted to GRRM’s blog, and to Facebook, but here they are here. The first look at the hammer prototype.
This is not final. There are some finishes that need to be applied to the head, and to the gold rings on the grip. But it is pretty close. Big. It weighs just […]

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