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Originally Posted by DaFace
With the Stark family getting the party back together, has it occurred to anyone else that this ended up being a brilliantly-cloaked, pretty standard trope fantasy?
A bunch of young kids lose their parents. They go out into the world, get split up by the bad guys, gain a bunch of crazy new skills, and end up saving the world.
Not complaining. It's actually kind of impressive.
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The Red Wedding helps cloak this as well.
Robb Stark is set up to be the heir apparent after Ned's tragic death.
It doesn't work out, in fact, it gives the appearance that GRRM is flipping the standard tropes of fantasy.
What sets Martin apart is that his universe was so massive that the other children instead take up the mantle we all assumed Robb was holding. Hell, he even threw in his Aragorn (Jon Snow), who literally served as a ranger, but who has the bloodlines to be King of Westeros (with a sword that can kill Sauron, to boot).