The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones is approaching, one of the star fictions of the last ten years, which has accumulated a whopping 47 Emmy Awards and which holds the great honor of being the most awarded series in history. The medieval fantasy extracted from the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire by the writer George RR Martin, has conquered half the world with its plots of power struggle, lust, violence and supernatural events . These ingredients together with an exquisite cast, impressive locations and great technical display make Game of Thrones the perfect series.
The great characters of Game of Thrones are well known: Queen Cersei, the bastard Jon Snow, the mother of dragons Daenerys Targaryen, the dwarf Tyrion Lannister, the knight Jaime Lannister, the assassin Arya Stark, his sister Sansa Stark … and so on. we could go on for a while citing them all. But what about those wolves, emblem of House Stark and loyal companions of family members? We are talking about Lady, Gray Wind, Hairy, Summer, Ghost and Nymeria , some luxury secondary that deserve a place among the characters of flesh and blood.
The story with the direwolves begins already in the first chapter of Game of Thrones when Ned Stark and his children come across a dead wolf and her cubs. Jon Snow convinces Ned not to kill them and gives each of his children a puppy. Unexpectedly, another wolf totally different from the rest appears, white as snow, it will be Ghost, the direwolf of the bastard Jon Snow.
Wolves will faithfully follow their humans and will even be able to lay down their lives for them. In addition, each wolf bears a certain psychological resemblance to its Stark . These giant wolves, referred to in the series as wargs, are the product of fiction and are inspired by a giant wolf, the canis dirus, which lived in the Pleistocene . In the series, what does appear are dogs of the Northern Inuit breed (until they grow up they are created by computer) with a similar appearance to wolves, large and powerful.
Next, we tell you more about the wolves of Game of Thrones , in real life and in the series, available in full on HBO Spain.
