Current Events > A song of Ice and Fire is pretty overwhelming to read. *Moderate spoilers?*

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pikachupwnage
05/05/17 12:12:45 AM
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The hundreds of pages per book and the obscene amounts of characters, agendas and history to track is.. daunting. If you get distracted from them by life for a bit it very easy to be like "I don't even know what the fuck is happening anymore"

Seriously the amount of viewpoint characters is crazy and there are a lot of named plot important characters outside of them. Plus various other major-minor characters.

Arya
Jon
Ned
Catelyn
Robb
Brandon
Sansa
Rickon
John
Tyrion
Cersi
Jaime
Tywin
Littlefinger
Varys
Sam
Joffrey
Robert
Margarey
Melisandre
Sandor
Theon
Jeor
Walder
Gregor
Ramsay
Jorah
Daenarys
Etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

And that's pretty much just the viewpoint characters and biggest plot pushers. And I probably left shitload of those out.

Is there any other series that has as many notable characters in one single continuity? Seriously pretty sure there are well in excess of 2000 named characters, with at least a couple dozen that could be considered main characters, and a couple hundred+ who could be considered major or notable recurring characters.
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sellerdore
05/05/17 12:14:56 AM
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The Targaryen family tree is confusing as hell (although pretty fascinating once you actually get familiar with each character). Aerys, Danaerys, Jaehaerys, Aegon, Aemon, Aemond, Aegor, Baelor, Rhaeneyra, etc etc...
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pegusus123456
05/07/17 4:15:48 AM
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I found it mostly okay because there's a lot of overlap. My only issues were Daenarys' chapters in later books where they introduce so many characters that aren't even mentioned in other PoVs who all have much more bizarre names.
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UnholyMudcrab
05/07/17 4:16:49 AM
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Get comfy with the character index in the back of the book. You're going to be best friends.
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FF_Redux
05/07/17 4:24:07 AM
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I like that GRRM wanted to be kinda authentic to the naming system of old where many people share names or have very similar ones and so on. But it's quite hard to keep up sometimes.
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Gravityfare
05/07/17 4:24:23 AM
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Is that really many names for you to remember?

Watching the 3 Star Wars old trilogy films you get:

Captain Needa
Commander Piett
Boba Fett
Lando Calrisian
Jabba the Hutt
Han Solo
Ewok Priest Leader
C3P0
R2-D2
Jabba's Barge Hostess 1
Jabba's Barge Hostess 3
(Hostess 2 died in a tragic accident during filming)
Chewbacca
Luke Skywalker
Leia Skywalker
Owen Skywalker
Beru Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Yoda
Darth Vader
Emperor Palpatine
General Veers
Commander Ozzel
The fat shirtless Rancor warden
Tatooine Rancor
Tatooine Sarlacc
Grand Moff Tarkin
Biggs
Wedge
Porkins
The small cleaner droid that Chewie scares in the Death Star prison
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toptopmax
05/07/17 4:32:27 AM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
Get comfy with the character index in the back of the book. You're going to be best friends.

They honestly should put that shit in the beginning, but yeah.

Now try Wheel of Time, that is 100 times more infuriating.
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Freddie_Mercury
05/07/17 4:32:37 AM
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wait until you get to Essos
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soulunison2
05/07/17 4:33:39 AM
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lmfao nah that shit is mad simple for simpletons

dickens is harder to keep up with
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toptopmax
05/07/17 4:33:42 AM
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Gravityfare posted...

Captain Needa
Commander Piett
Boba Fett
Lando Calrisian
Jabba the Hutt
Han Solo
Ewok Priest Leader
C3P0
R2-D2
Jabba's Barge Hostess 1
Jabba's Barge Hostess 3
(Hostess 2 died in a tragic accident during filming)
Chewbacca
Luke Skywalker
Leia Skywalker
Owen Skywalker
Beru Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Yoda
Darth Vader
Emperor Palpatine
General Veers
Commander Ozzel
The fat shirtless Rancor warden
Tatooine Rancor
Tatooine Sarlacc
Grand Moff Tarkin
Biggs
Wedge
Porkins
The small cleaner droid that Chewie scares in the Death Star prison



http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Category:Noble_houses

This is just a list of noble houses. There are on average several per house.
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