I've really gotten into the ASOIAF book series lately because I'm a huge nerd ((after being disappointed with the show)), and of course my favourite thing about it is all the animal symbolism/motifs. So in my head I was imagining the characters in the style of Redwall or Disney's Robin Hood or Narnia and there's a few obvious ones like Lannisters=Lions and Starks=Wolves, but then I was like "Wait...what would everyone ELSE be?" And thus this needlessly long and in-depth list was born. Feel free to make additions/suggestions (I'm not past the second book but I don't care about spoilers so) Arryns: Peregrine Falcons Baratheons: Red Deer Boltons: Chimpanzees Cleganes: Great Danes Dothraki: Wild Horses (or zebras?) Florents: Red Foxes Freys: Brown Rats Giants: Wooly Mammoths Greyjoys: Steller Sea Lions (as opposed to anthropomorphic squid-men) Lannisters: African Lions Martells: Red Spitting Cobras Mormonts: American Black Bears Reeds: American Alligator Starks: Dire Wolves Targaryens: Unicorns (Magical, white-haired, I didn't make them dragons because the dragons are still in the story) Tarlys: Tamworth Pigs Tullys: Eurasian Otters Tyrells: Cheviot Sheep Umbers: Mountain Gorilla Unsullied: Wildebeest Alliser Thorne: Wolverine Amory Lorch: Red River Hog Barristan Selmy: Eurasian Badger Beric Dondarrion: Banded Mongoose Brienne of Tarth: Indian Rhinoceros Bronn: Spotted Hyena Craster: Gelada Baboon Daario Naharis: Nilgai Davos Seaworth: Sea Otter Eddison Tollet: Donkey Gendry: Heck Cattle Bull Gilly: Gelada Baboon Harry Strickland: Dwarf Elephant High Sparrow: House Sparrow Hodor: Asiatic Elephant Hot Pie: Cockapoo Jaqen H'ghar: Jaguar Maester Luwin: Eurasian Eagle-Owl Mance Rayder: Mountain Lion Melisandre: Secretary Bird Missandei: Thomson's Gazelle Petyr Baelish (Littlefinger): Mockingbird (or least weasel?) Podrick Payne: Aardwolf(?) Maester Pycelle: Snowy Owl Osha: Caribou(?) Qyburn: Lappet-faced Vulture Shae: Cheetah Thoros of Myr: Warthog Tormund: Grizzly Bear (Siberian Tiger?) Varys: Spider Monkey Ygritte: Coyote
