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Biggest problem with this game for fans of GOT
Alester is a red priest, he is NOT a mage.

I realize they wanted to have a mage character in the game but it doesn't fit the setting. Red priests have powers but they aren't combat mages... they don't throw fireballs around... they are priests with limited divine power. Have you ever seen Melisandre throw fireballs around?

The world is a low magic world... magic is meant to be mysterious and rare, not to be used as a utility in combat...
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How is this a problem for fans? A fan would not expect a fireball-hurling mage.
Valchrist Feb 21, 2015 @ 8:08pm 
Melisandre makes streaks of flame, and many red priests talk to fiery faces accross continents. She also does blood magic, has visions of the future, summons a shadow which can kill for hours if not days, and lights an eagle on fire in the air. She also casts an illusion over Mance Rayder that fools hundreds in to believing that he's Rattleshirt and vice-versa.

Many red priests are shown to produce balls of flame in their hands.
Beric Dondarrion is said to use real magic to light his blade whilst Thoros uses quickfire.

Other characters change appearance at wll (literally). Then there's the necromancer people that steal the dragons. There's also three-eyed ravens and people who become trees. Skin-changers galore.

I'm also pretty damn sure Varys has some sort of magical abilities (not even related to his spying).

Then there's the Children of the Forest who literally do throw flaming exploding balls of magic.
Sam Feb 22, 2015 @ 8:29pm 
Melisandre has a POV chapter in Dance with Dragons, that is very interesting. However red priests are implied to be mages, and many of them have actual powers. There's the red priest that Victarion meets, which is creepy as ♥♥♥♥.
So no, Alester is accurate, I'd say. Generally the game fits quite well into GoT's universe, unlike the tv show
[HdF] Almut Grete Mar 17, 2015 @ 2:24pm 
Actually Red Priests are mages but the magic has just weakend so much they can not do more then parlor tricks. It is kind of strange what power is offered here, but then again the magic is already flowing back into these lands...
Also aside from the effect-grabbing-tv-adaption we only know 3 Red Priests so far and one is just a converted drunk.
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