Talk:The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms

Things we know about this prop book, which has been a great source of information for the TV canon:

1 - Writer Bryan Cogman did indeed write it, making it more "official" than if it was only written by the props guys.

2 - There were only ever eight pages of unique content, covering four Houses: Umber, Royce, Targaryen, and Baratheon - two pages of content for each House.

3 - Cogman did thoroughly research it...as much as possible. But no information exists for some random Umbers...so he made up some names. Like "Monica Velaryon". I don't know if he consulted GRRM about some of these. So we should take those non-canon names with a grain of salt (then again...Willem Lannister and Viola Redwyne aren't exactly book canon either).

4 - I've rewatched the scenes, and near as I can tell, no pages from House Royce are ever visible. For each of the remaining three, two distinct pages are seen...though sometimes only in closeup (particularly the Baratheon one, which only focuses on a section of a page). So six unique pages are visible on screen at one point or another...though they're not always in focus and sometimes the camera has zoomed in to show only half of the page. The two pages for each House can easily be told apart: one will have a sigil, the other will not (There' one with the Umber sigil, then one with just the word "Umber" in bold at the time..same for the Baratheons and Targaryens).

--The Dragon Demands (talk) 00:56, July 20, 2014 (UTC)