The Ice & Fire Direwolves seem to have been extinct south of the Wall for quite some time now, to the point they have achieved a near-mythical status, enough to be considered “freaks” by some. Climate change is one of the many hypotheses, though it wasn’t winter what came for them, but a rise in temperature instead. The real-life dire wolves disappeared along with many other megafaunal species, though the reasons behind the extinction event are still being debated. In the world that men have made, there is no room for them, or us.ĭirewolves are named after an actual prehistoric wolf species. The direwolves will outlast us all, but their time will come as well. The great lions of the western hills have been slain, the unicorns are all but gone, the mammoths down to a few hundred. The giants are almost gone as well, they who were our bane and our brothers. Now it sinks, and this is our long dwindling. That was in the dawn of days, when our sun was rising. Before the First Men came all this land that you call Westeros was home to us, yet even in those days we were few. The gods gave us long lives but not great numbers, lest we overrun the world as deer will overrun a wood where there are no wolves to hunt them. Leaf : Gone down into the earth…Into the stones, into the trees. The article contains spoilers from ASOIAF.
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