Well, you’d hardly expect to survive in Westeros now, would you?
As the man responsible for some of the most gruesome and spectacular deaths in the history of fiction, then surely there’s no better man to plot the end of a fictional character based on yourself than Game of Thrones author George R R Martin.
Fans of both the Game of Thrones books and the TV series have watched any amount of their favourite characters meet their maker in incredibly grisly (yet often incredibly creative) fashion and if they so wished, they could have followed in the footsteps of the likes of *SPOILER ALERT* Ned and Robb Stark, Prince Joffrey and Prince Oberyn Martell as part of an auction in aid of a wolf sanctuary in New Mexico supported by Martin himself.
There were a number of prizes up for grabs in the auction, but the top prize, worth $20,000, was the chance to have a character written into the next book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, who would subsequently be killed off in a ‘grisly’ manner that nobody does better than Martin himself.
The winners were also able to choose what type of character they wanted to be from a list of options including a lordling, a knight, a peasant, a whore, a lady, a maester, a septon or the catch all category ‘anything’.
The prize, available on prizeo.com, was on offer to one male and one female character and both slots were snapped up within a day of the auction going live, while other prizes on offer, such as breakfast with Martin for $15,000 and one of his hats for $7,500 (seven and a half grand for a hat?!!), were also snaffled pretty quickly.
While one might suspect that it was only wealthy Game of Thrones fans who stood to benefit from the auction, anyone who made any sort of donation to the wolf sanctuary was entered into a draw to win a helicopter ride and a tour of the sanctuary with Martin himself.
We’re sure George will resist the opportunity to push whoever wins that prize out of the chopper halfway through the tour in an effort to create another ‘grisly’ death, but we can’t guarantee anything, of course.
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