The Game As It's Always Been Played

Quoting from Return to Westeros: "The Wars to Come" Review

Cersei lives in a world of cruelty, as violence and treachery dominate over myths of the Age of Chivalry. But Dany, who promises to burn that world to the ground, offers a glimpse of a future which may be equally terrible.

As I'm writing Zelgan, I see Zelda as Cersei and Ganondorf as Dany.

I was a big fan of A Song of Ice and Fire and European history in high school because I had no friends, but I fell out of love with both in college after I realized what "masculinist grand narratives" are and why they suck. I've tried in a lot of ways - teaching, political action, research, editorials - to overturn that sort of nonsense, but it's hard, and I'm starting to get that the only way to reshape a narrative is to extirpate it and rewrite it completely from the roots on up.

And that's fun, and stuff, but there's no denying the raw appeal of the original; violence is crazy sexy.