Bastards hold a significant place in the pages of A Song of Ice and Fire. Many plotlines revolve around their actions and status, and they’re significant enough in Westeros that George R. R. Martin identifies them by special surnames based on the region of their birth: Snow (The North), Storm (The Stormlands), Rivers (The Riverlands), Hill (Westerlands), Pyke (Iron Islands), Stone (The Vale), Flowers (The Reach), Waters (The Crownlands), and Sand (Dorne).
While recovering from “Battle of the Bastards” FireandLunch started debating the finer points of Bastardry in ASOIAF. Who is the worst bastard? The most honorable? Who should be legitimized? George R. R. Martin really loves writing about these compelling bastards and it turns out we love reading about them and watching them on HBO. So grab a chair above the salt and learn about our favorite bastards in ASOIAF. We’re rating them on a scale of Jon Snow (probably not a bastard) to Ramsay Snow* (not even his dogs like him).
*Let’s all agree to never call him Ramsay Bolton. He hates it.
Spoilers from the wrong side of the sheets ahead.
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