User blog comment:Draevan13/Why is the 2012 RPG not considered canon on this site?/@comment-26308-20131215171252

A single franchise can consist of many different canons and continuities: the Marvel Universe is an excellent example (with the prime comic universe, the Ultimates one, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, each universe for a Marvel movie not part of the official MCU like Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, the cartoon series universe etc). The ASoIaF/GoT franchise has now reached that status where it consists of two primary continuities:

1) The Books. 2) The TV show.

[i]Nothing[/i] that happens in the TV series is canon for the books or vice versa; if the TV series overtakes the books, we should not expect the later books to be based on what happens in the TV series. GRRM may change his mind. Much more noticeably, the books are not canon to the TV series (although the TV series is based on the books), as there have been huge numbers of changes: Jaehaerys II Targaryen is a character in the book canon, but does not exist in the TV canon. People like Alayaya and Chataya are canon to the books but do not exist (so far) in the TV universe and so on.

The computer RPG is thus its own, third separate canon: it mixes elements of both the TV series and the books together, but is not canon to either of them as it also contradicts them. It is possible that the forthcoming Telltale adventure game will also be set in its own continuity or canon.

Also a few corrections: nothing from the novels from a point ahead in time of where the TV series is automatically assumed to be canon for the TV show, or will happen in the TV show. GRRM also did not help write the storyline of the game. He was sent an outline of the story for his approval, which he gave, but that does not make the storyline canonical to either the books or TV show (Martin is also not in charge of canon for the TV show, which is the remit of Dan Weiss and David Benioff). He also did not cameo in the game: his visual image was used for 'Maester Martin', but he did not provide the character's voice.