Their seasons act diffrent than ours they have years of summer and years of winter. And they are never 100% sure when winter starts or when it will end. But they all know winter is the worse years. Crops have trouble growing babies die from the cold and certain parts of the world become completely unlivable.
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Winter came the day Eddard Stark lost his head. Winter is a metaphor for bad things to come and winter hit the stark family brutally.
Winter came the day Eddard Stark lost his head. Winter is a metaphor for bad things to come and winter hit the stark family brutally.