What was the point of the direwolves? What did they symbolize or represent? What role did they play in the story...

What was the point of the direwolves? What did they symbolize or represent? What role did they play in the story, thematically speaking?

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foreshadowing

lol good question

we'll never know, they became irrelevant halfway into season 1 lol

literally nothing
they meant nothing but to make brain dead audience go awww ;;;((( when they died

Foreshadowing of what? Lady is the first to die, but Sansa outlives them all. Nymeria is the only one which you might say foreshadowed anything, since she was forced to leave the pack and live alone. But that's pretty frustrating considering Nymeria only appears again for 5 seconds and does nothing of note.

Direwolves that matter
>Nymeria
Reaffirms to Arya how things have changed and that she must go her own way
>Summer
Introduces Bran to warging
>Ghost
Does fuck all in the show. In the books its believed that Jon will perserve his spirit in Ghost while they figure out how to revive him from the dead.

The wolves represented characteristics of the Starks and when the wolf dies, the Stark dies or changes.

Summer - Summer ended.
Nimeria - Arya digging all of these lady warrior stories but she eventually leaves Stark identity behind and wants to explore and be an assassin.
Lady - Beginning of the end of her innocence while she ends up more like Petyr.
Shaggydog - A "shaggydog" story is a story with no point. Rickon's story had some interesting components but then he just dies.
Ghost - Jon leaves his Stark identity behind.

In the books (going off on the wiki at the moment), the Stark kids can warg into their direwolf. Not just Bran.

What Ghost represents is quite obvious
>different from the rest of the pack but grows up to be bigger thane everyone else
In the books, him and Jon actually have an endearing relationship. Some think he’s a gift to him from the old gods

Just red herrings and ideas that went nowhere,

Also though Sansa lost Lady, she got her Hound in replacement, a tougher one to remind her to be tough before leaving her a second time

>they became irrelevant halfway into season 1
if they were irrelevant why do the BASED fans in Burlington Bar cheer for Ghost??????

Sansa outlives them all, but she's not a Stark anymore. She's a Baelish or a Lannister.

their purpose was to make the audience sad without having to actually kill a major character

They have larger roles in the books because all the starks are wargs.
The show didn't go this way though.

In the books, probably something in the long run.

In the series, D&D don't know, therefore they don't care, therefore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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>but muh direwolfs

The wolves are bonded with the owner. And represent their closeness to the North. Its not mentioned in the show but all the Stark kids are Wargs and can have wolf dreams, where they see through the dreams. Jon had the closest relationship with his wolf and it makes sense with him being the most north of all the starks. The further south Robb goes the further he distances himself to Grey Wind and to what makes him strong. Sansa never got a chance to form a deep connection with her wolf and is trapped alone in the south for most of the story.
The wolves represent the starks kids bond with the North

The wolves were there to protect the starks

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Dogs are man's best friend and direwolves are man's bestest friend

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