Martinverse
English
Etymology
Martin + -verse, from the surname of author George R. R. Martin.
Proper noun
Martinverse
- (fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
- 2015, T. A. Leederman, "A Thousand Westerosi Plateaus: Wargs, Wolves and Ways of Being", in Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (eds. Jes Battis & Susan Johnston), page 190:
- Wargs in the Martinverse uniquely involve the act of “warging,” in which a human links to a particular animal, sees through its eyes and sometimes controls its body.
- 2015, Dana Ryals & Kelley Minica, "Winter is Here: A Game of Thrones Reading Group", The Clarion (Madison Area Technical College), 25 November 2015, page 2:
- Words from the Martinverse start creeping into your normal conversations, like “smallclothes,” “jape,” and “mummer’s farce.”
- 2018, Stefanie Lethbridge, "Entangled Agency: Heroic Dragons and Direwolves in Game of Thrones", helden. heroes. héros., Issue 3 (2018), page 8:
- One of the few truly honourable warriors in the Martinverse, Brienne of Tarth, the lady knight, concludes resignedly that “the good lords are dead and the rest of them are monsters” (GoT 5.1).
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Martinverse.
- 2015, T. A. Leederman, "A Thousand Westerosi Plateaus: Wargs, Wolves and Ways of Being", in Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (eds. Jes Battis & Susan Johnston), page 190:
Hyponyms
- Thronesiverse, Thronesverse, Throneverse (show-only)