Rare.movie.clips on Instagram: "When George R. R. Martin pitched A Song of Ice and Fire (the book series behind Game of Thrones), he described it not as traditional fantasy, but as “The War of the Roses with dragons.” The War of the Roses was a real medieval conflict in England between the houses of Lancaster and York. Martin loosely based the rivalries of Stark vs. Lannister on that conflict. By fusing gritty medieval politics, betrayal, shifting alliances, and raw human ambition with fantasy e