![]() ![]() Nymeria has been traveling the Riverlands ever since where she leads a pack of gray wolves. After Nymeria attacks Prince Joffrey, Arya drives her away to escape execution for attacking Joffrey in her place, Lady is killed by Eddard at Robert's command. These are the first direwolves to be seen so far south in hundreds of years. When Eddard travels south to King's Landing to serve as Hand of the King, he brings his daughters Sansa and Arya along with their pet direwolves, Lady and Nymeria. Theon mockingly points out that this one belongs to Jon. Just as the party leaves, Jon finds a sixth pup, an albino runt of the litter. Eddard agrees that his children can have the pups, but only if they raise them themselves with no help from the servants. ![]() Eddard advocates killing the pups out of mercy, but Jon convinces his "father" that this is an omen: the direwolf is the symbol of House Stark, and Eddard has five trueborn children. By the reign of King Robert Baratheon, no direwolf had been sighted south of the Wall - even in the Stark lands of the North - in over 200 years.Įddard Stark and his sons Robb and Bran, his "bastard" son Jon Snow and his ward Theon Greyjoy find a dead female direwolf it died after giving birth, and her five pups huddle by the corpse for warmth. The wildlings who live beyond the Wall claim that direwolves can be found in greater numbers in the Haunted Forest to the north of the Wall. There have been confirmed sightings north of the Wall by the Night's Watch who guard it. There may have been larger direwolf populations in the North in past millennia, but centuries of human encroachment on their territory have pushed their range back to the furthest north. There are some rumors of them living in the Wolfswood near Winterfell, but these are unconfirmed. Inhabitants of the North acknowledge that they are a real animal, but they are very rarely encountered there. Though Seattle does offer a non-res card for $85, but only for those living within the state.īTW, Seattle and King County are 2 of the 6 libraries I belong to.Direwolves are held to be near-mythical in most of the south of Westeros. I really appreciate itĪs to Seattle and King County, we're primarily looking at reciprocal borrowing. Thanks for the detail on these libraries. There are probably several libraries that offer access to non-resident members, I only looked at a couple till I found one, there may be others at lower prices. There is also the Oregon Digital Library Consortium that MANY Oregon libraries are part of. I don't see a general out-of-area option for them though. You can get cards for either of these if you live within the state (with a few exceptions). I also checked Seattle, WA and King County, WA. They have an option for $140 to get access to the e-library and physical books. It looks like you can add the Washington County (Oregon) Cooperative Library Services system to this list. Hennepin - must register in-person - digital checkouts NOT allowed.OverDrive Library - Fee - epub - kindle - mp3 Five of these libraries offer non-resident cards, but three of them have severe restrictions. This is a listing of the largest OverDrive libraries they have collections of at least 150,000 ePub books. American Library Assoc - Library Journal - Public Library Assoc.Hoopla - OverDrive - TumbleBook Library.axis360 - cloudLibrary - EBSCO - Freading.I'll then add them to the lists below and flesh out pertinent links and other key details. If you run across libraries that aren't listed here, please post them. While the emphasis of this thread is to discuss out-of-state/country non-resident library cards, feel free to discuss anything related to libraries in general, such as borrowing strategies and downloading issues. Essentially, these libraries function as a subscription service similar to Kindle Unlimited, Audible, Scribd, etc. Libraries that offer non-resident access to their collections (for a fee) are a valuable resource for those who belong to smaller libraries or libraries with insufficient books in their favorite genres. ![]()
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