Wednesday, April 22, 2015



Loopholes. There is always one to every spell.

(Game of Thrones' got nothing on this.)




  1. So much for magic rings! Darn! It really had a hole in the middle.
    Really tough for the women of the family. What kind of woman would you have to be to make it? Utterly ruthless and beyond clever?
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  2. And we thought GRRM was over doing it - clearly he was looking at Medieval history as his inspiration. Strangling seems popular.
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  3. I had no idea that Erzsébet was such a popular name! At first I thought this post was about Elizabeth of Bathory :)

    1. Nah, I already talked about her a couple days ago for M :)

  4. Strangulation is a scary way to go. So the magic ring didn't protect against rope, huh?

  5. I was hoping they were just going to say "screw it" and strangle him with their bare hands. Now THAT would be metal...

    But yeah, totally see echoes of AGOT through all of these. Martin did his research...

  6. We get bonus deaths this day. It seems strangling is rather popular.

  7. What disasters power could bring to a person.

  8. I like how they didn't even try to see if their weapons would kill Endre. It's like, "he's got a magic ring, what can we do?" Love it. :)

  9. Oh, wow... Indeed, Game of Thrones is mellow and fairy-tale-ish compared to reality (in Hungary, at least ;) ). Love how you tell these stories, Csenge!
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  10. And I thought the current U.S. Congress was dysfunctional.

  11. Wow! what a tough life, the royal one.

  12. It doesn't look like it was a bed of roses for any of the Royals. Not even a magic ring could save poor old Endre.

  13. I think he should have gotten a divorce. Maybe then he wouldn't have been strangled. o.o

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  14. I'm looking forward to how the winner of the thrown was killed tomorrow (unless he died earlier in the challenge)

  15. First, that picture of the crown was beautiful! Second, strangulation could be such a personal way to kill someone, depending how you did it, by hands or by a rope or something from behind. Great post, and thanks for stopping by my S Post earlier!

  16. I think Elizabeth was a Polish queen not a princess. And, yes, the ring did not work, Andrew was assassinated. If I remember correctly she is the one who introduced perfume to Hungary. Poles did not like her (did not like to pay taxes), she run to Hungary and was killed there.

  17. Facinating. And the war of the roses now looks like kid's play in comparison.

  18. Oh my... Death by straggling is such a brutal way to go. Sheesh.

  19. I love that they didn't even try weapons because "well, he's got that ring..." Indeed, good thing for loopholes, except for that poor Duke! :P

  20. Female rulers in history always have the most interesting power struggles. With the men it's always a slap fight between brothers or nephews and uncles, but the women seem to jump onto the throne and dig their nails in while kicking the eyes out of their opponents with stiletto heels.

    And goddamn, I want a magic ring that makes me impervious to all weapons. Not that I'm finding myself fighting off swords and pitchforks and what have you, but that's a pretty awesome thing to have bragging rights to.