asoiaf - a simple question to which i cannot find an answer

[messy]

i've only read the first three books, so no spoilers, please.

how many named characters are in "a song of ice and fire" so far (after five books)?

i don't need to know the exact number. in fact, an answer like "about 400" or "over a thousand" is sufficient.

 

[Hand of Evil]

More than I care to recall!

But as you ask...less than 200

Major houses in A Song of Ice and Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Characters in A Song of Ice and Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[jonesy]

I haven't seen any complete lists. Not even George himself knows:
George RR Martin interview – Books – Culture – New Zealand Listener

I do know that Roy Dotrice, who does the audio books, made it into the Guinness World Records for the number of distinctive voices he does. They credit him with something like 242. And Roy, when he told me about this, was laughing, saying they didn’t count nearly all of them … he thinks there are twice that many

 

[Cor Azer]

Named? Jeez... Two hundred odd seems low, but a lot of those are just names, with little expansion or even dialogue.

Also complicated by avoiding "The One Steve Limit"

 

[messy]

less than 200

so all those references to "a cast of thousands" were exaggerating?

 

[Hand of Evil]

so all those references to "a cast of thousands" were exaggerating?

Maybe not...the 200 are those he keeps around to the next book...800 die off!

 

[El Mahdi]

...800 die off!

But sometimes, they come back...

 

[Janx]

More than I care to recall!

But as you ask...less than 200

Major houses in A Song of Ice and Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Characters in A Song of Ice and Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

those 2 links don't even list all the Frey's. Walder Frey gets his own mention, but that geezer's got like 80 descendants, half of which get mentioned in the books

None of the Unsullied are mentioned, nor the various mercenaries or Meereeneese.

I'd say the lists aren't quite complete.

I just finished the latest book. Now I must wait an eternity for GRRM to get off his arse and finish the series.

 

[NewJeffCT]

Named? Jeez... Two hundred odd seems low, but a lot of those are just names, with little expansion or even dialogue.

Also complicated by avoiding "The One Steve Limit"

224 characters have speaking parts (even if it's just one line) in A Game of Thrones, the first book in the series. I would imagine the actual number of mentioned characters would be quite a bit larger (Stannis has no speaking role in book 1, but is mentioned... and Aerys Targaryen is also mentioned, but has no speaking roles - because he's dead, etc ,etc.).

Roy Dotrice set a Guinness record for most voices in an audiobook for his work on A Game of Thrones. I believe he broke that record with his recording of A Dance with Dragons, though.

Not A Blog - Roy Sets a Record

 

[jonesy]

I swear it's like everyone in this thread has me on ignore or something.