- House Lannister ~ House Lancaster
- House Stark ~ House York
- Red Wedding ~ St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, Black Dinner
- The Wall ~ Hadrian's Wall
- Seven Kingdoms ~ Heptarchy (Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Wessex)
- Aerys II Targaryen ~ Henry VI Lancaster, Nero
- Free Folk ~ Picts
- Viserys' golden crown ~ Marcus Licinius Crassus' death (Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth)
- R’hllor ~ Zoroastrianism
- Robert Baratheon ~ Edward IV York
- Ser Criston Cole (Criston the Kingmaker) ~ Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
- Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish ~ Thomas Cromwell
- Free Cities ~ Renaissance Italy
- Lady Lothston ~ Elizabeth Báthory
- Blue Bard ~ Mark Smeaton
jul 6 2013 ∞
aug 8 2013 +