{"id":3430,"date":"2016-04-19T05:51:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T05:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.averral.com\/blog\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2016-04-19T05:51:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T05:51:22","slug":"game-of-thrones-analysis-eunuch-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.averral.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/game-of-thrones-analysis-eunuch-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones Analysis – Eunuch Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the past week I had been fascinated by the world of Game of Thrones. I did some cross referencing with historical events that happened, and the fictional events that mirrored those.<\/p>\n

The Unsullied<\/a> are basically inspired by the soldiers of Sparta, but in a more extreme way – they are eunuch warriors. In ancient China, eunuchs traditionally served the imperial court but they do not fight as warriors. Similarly to the unsullied, boys were sold to the imperial court and castrated at age six.<\/p>\n

Instead of burning their organs, they are kept in a box and they can buy it back when they had made it in the court as a prominent influential eunuch, so that they can be buried together with their box upon their death. It’s a superstition that one has to be buried as a whole to be reborn as a whole.<\/p>\n

The author did use references from Sparta and Ancient China to merge the details and invent a new race of warrior eunuchs who served a master till their death, with the inability to feel pain (Sparta warriors), and being immune to worldly desires (eunuchs).<\/p>\n

I personally like Varys.<\/a> He is a slave turned eunuch turned advisor to the King. He is the key to the events that unfold in the world of Game of Thrones. I have been following him very closely, and it seems that his plans are well executed and he is on his A game while the rest are stumbling around him.<\/p>\n

His desire is to serve the realm, which is the best for everyone including himself. He hates magic as it lead to his castration. I believe as long Varys is in the storyline, and not killed, he will be able to influence the events in the world of Game of Thrones and eventually make Daenerys Targaryen sit on the Iron Thorne.<\/p>\n

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In the past week I had been fascinated by the world of Game of Thrones. I did some cross referencing with historical events that happened, and the fictional events that mirrored those. The Unsullied are basically inspired by the soldiers of Sparta, but in a more extreme way – they are eunuch warriors. In ancient […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n