A cidadela é o único edifício em Westeros dedicado às estrelas?

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A astronomia é muito importante em Westeros:

  • Na Cidadela, os maestros que estudam astronomia e observação de estrelas recebem o elo de metal de bronze. Também é importante para o tempo de medição .

  • As estrelas, constelações e planetas são conhecidas pelos livres e, na Fé dos Sete, cada um dos errantes está ligado a um aspecto diferente. Jon Snow, que não é do freefolk e AFAIK não acredita nos sete, não sabe nada

    da astronomia.

So many stars, he thought as he trudged up the slope through pines and firs and ash. Maester Luwin had taught him his stars as a boy in Winterfell; he had learned the names of the twelve houses of heaven and the rulers of each; he could find the seven wanderers sacred to the Faith; he was old friends with the Ice Dragon, the Shadowcat, the Moonmaid, and the Sword of the Morning. All those he shared with Ygritte, but not some of the others. We look up at the same stars, and see such different things. The King's Crown was the Cradle, to hear her tell it; the Stallion was the Horned Lord; the red wanderer that septons preached was sacred to their Smith up here was called the Thief. And when the Thief was in the Moonmaid, that was a propitious time for a man to steal a woman, Ygritte insisted. "Like the night you stole me. The Thief was bright that night."
A Storm of Swords, Jon III

Então, como a astronomia é muito importante, existem outros edifícios além da Cidadela que sejam dedicados à observação de estrelas?

    
por Kepotx 24.01.2018 / 13:56

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Meistre Luwin parece ter um observatório em Winterfell e até menciona ter recebido uma nova lente para ele.

"There was no rider, my lord. Only a carved wooden box, left on a table in my observatory while I napped. My servants saw no one, but it must have been brought by someone in the king's party. We have had no other visitors from the south."
"A wooden box, you say?" Catelyn said.
"Inside was a fine new lens for the observatory, from Myr by the look of it. The lenscrafters of Myr are without equal."
A Game of Thrones, Catelyn II

Estes lenscrafters provavelmente também fazem as lentes para os olhos de Far-eyes / Myrish, daí o nome. Estes são basicamente telescópios e usados por marinheiros, bem como os mestres. Os olhos Myrish do Meistre Luwin e Maestro Aemon também estão ambos em tripés, então provavelmente são características mais permanentes da sala / prédio.

Maester Luwin's turret was so cluttered that it seemed to Bran a wonder that he ever found anything. Tottering piles of books covered tables and chairs, rows of stoppered jars lined the shelves, candle stubs and puddles of dried wax dotted the furniture, the bronze Myrish lens tube sat on a tripod by the terrace door, star charts hung from the walls, shadow maps lay scattered among the rushes, papers, quills, and pots of inks were everywhere, and all of it was spotted with droppings from the ravens in the rafters.
A Game of Thrones, Bran VII

On the edge of the Wall an ornate brass Myrish eye stood on three spindly legs. Maester Aemon had once used it to peer at the stars, before his own eyes had failed him.
A Storm of Swords, Jon IX

Em uma nota lateral astronomia em Westeros só é realmente importante para os Maesters como eles usam isto para contar o tempo / passando dos meses. Muitas outras pessoas usam olhos distantes como as usaríamos para ver mais adiante, olhar para frente e ficar de olho. Note que olhos distantes aqui se referem às pessoas que usam os olhos de Myrish.

"Fallen," Will insisted. "There's one woman up an ironwood, half-hid in the branches. A far-eyes." He smiled thinly. "I took care she never saw me. When I got closer, I saw that she wasn't moving neither." Despite himself, he shivered.
A Game of Thrones, Prologue

High overhead, the far-eyes sang out from the rigging. Captain Moreo came scrambling across the deck, giving orders, and all around them the Storm Dancer burst into frenetic activity as King's Landing slid into view atop its three high hills.
A Game of Thrones, Catelyn IV

They were still a half day's ride from Renly's camp when they were taken. Robin Flint had ranged ahead to scout, and he came galloping back with word of a far-eyes watching from the roof of a distant windmill. By the time Catelyn's party reached the mill, the man was long gone. They pressed on, covering not quite a mile before Renly's outriders came swooping down on them, twenty men mailed and mounted, led by a grizzled greybeard of a knight with bluejays on his surcoat.
A Clash of Kings, Catelyn II

    
24.01.2018 / 14:19