12 Northern Stereotypes Game Of Thrones Gets Completely Right
10. It's Absolutely Massive
"Ride 700 miles that way, you're still in the North. 400 miles that way. 30 miles that way. The North is larger than the other six kingdoms combined. And I am the Warden of the North. The North is mine" - Roose Bolton. Living in the North East of England, I, like many others, can be guilty of regarding The North as starting at Northumberland and ending at Middlesbrough. Its easy to forget Cumbria and as far down as Sheffield and Liverpool and, certainly up here, we feel like weve got the Scots with us as well (despite The Wall, but more on that later). The North may not cover as astronomical amount of ground in the UK as it does in Westeros, but its certainly densely populated and, as a result, is fantastically varied. Each town and city has its own unique personality, where somewhere like Manchester, with its renound 80s and 90s history, its investment in arts and culture and its vast, modern landscape is so startlingly different to somewhere like Alnwick, with its stunning castle and gardens, its busy-but-quiet centre and its wonderfully old fashioned train station-cum-bookshop, Barter Books that its almost unfair to dub us The North, as if were all alike. Of course, there are people who would argue that The North means anything north of London and certainly in Westeros, The North starts not too far north of Kings Landing.
