No. Non è il titolo di un film western.
Rileggendo TWOIAF si trovano questi tre, prima causano la morte per suicidio di Aelora Targaryen (nipote di Daeron II) abusando di lei a un ballo in maschera, poi la morte del principe Daeron (quello che doveva sposare lady Olenna la regina di spine) sceso in battaglia per sedare la loro ribellione.
Chi sono?
Ho pensato si possa trattare di nobili per due motivi: stuprano Aelora a un ballo in maschera (lei è una Targaryen gli invitati
al ballo erano selezionatissimi immagino) e poi hanno i mezzi per dar vita a una rivolta che costringe Daeron a muoversi.
Ho pensato anche che i loro soprannomi derivino dallo stemma delle loro casate di origine, ho guardato ma di topi e maiali non ne ho trovati (potrebbero essere stemmi personali però, tipo il pesce nero) di falchi ne ho trovati due: Arryn e Fowler.
The second interesting interlude I want to consider are the actions of the outlaws the Rat, the Hawk, and the Pig. I've already mentioned that I think they're involved in the Blackfyre Rebellions. However, it's also telling that they're involved with an attack on Princess Aelora, who eventually "took her own life after being attacked at a masked ball by three men known to history as the Rat, the Hawk, and the Pig," and who had earlier in 217 AC been involved with the suspicious death of her twin and husband Aelor, Prince of Dragonstone. (WOIAF, 3001) It's a bit strange that a group of criminals would be focused on the wife of the heir to the Iron Throne, but not if they were working for the Blackfyres as their agents and had conspired to kill the heir and were making sure that his wife could not produce a posthumous heir. Likewise, it's noticeable that around this time, Daemon II, a healthy man in his late 20s, suddenly dies in prison, allowing Bittersteel to crown Haegon and launch the Third Rebellion.
It's also unusual that these same bandits would remain active for another thirty-four years, this time leading a rebellion in 251 (only a few years before the Band of Nine was founded) that led to the death of yet another Targaryen royal, Prince Daeron: "Daeron brought to his father Aegon an altogether deeper sort of grief when he was killed in battle in 251 AC, leading an army against the Rat, the Hawk, and the Pig. Ser Jeremy died at his side, but the rebellion was squashed and the rebels slain or hanged." (WOIAF, loc. 3140)
The reason why I think the Rat, Hawk, and Pig were working for the Blackfyres is that, historically, it wasn't unusual for bandits, highwaymen, and other ne'er-do-wells to be associated with rebellions.
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The larger point in all of this is that I don't think we should see the Blackfyre Rebellions as a case of either vile traitors unnecessarily prolonging conflict over pointless grudges against good and worthy kings or heroic rebels waging the good fight against murderous tyrants - rather, the entrenched conflict encouraged the relaxation of the rules of war (as we've seen in the War of Five Kings), as historic grievances built up year after year on both sides.
Recentemente ho letto quella che mi sembra la migliore analisi sulle Ribellioni Blackfyre (partendo da Daeron I e la sua guerra contro Dorne fino al coinvolgimento della Compagnia Dorata in ADWD nella Guerra dei 5 Re, senza dimenticare eventi collegati "minori" come the Peake Uprising):
https://racefortheironthrone.wordpress.com/archive/the-blacks-and-reds/
il passaggio qui sopra viene da http://towerofthehand.com/blog/2015/03/08-blacks-and-reds-part-iii/index.html
"It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself".
Federalist No. 51, The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments, in The Federalist Papers, a collection of essays written in favour of the new Constitution as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Concordo col fatto che i tre assalitori dovessero essere di origini nobili, dato che poi avevano degli eserciti da contrapporre a quelli reali.
concordo anche che i nomignoli dovessero derivare da storpiature del loro simbolo, direi in maniera dispregiativa, pertanto il topo potrebbe essere un qualsiasi animale "roditore" tipo i furetti ecc... e che il maiale potesse essere un cinghiale; per il falco, l'unico rapace che vedrebbe come dispregiativo il falco, è l'aquila e di quelle ce ne sono molte...
Inoltre i tre dovrebbero venire dalla stessa regione o da regioni di poco adiacenti.
nelle westerlands: Crackehall (cinghiale); Estren (aquila bicipite); Ferren (furetto); Lydden (tasso); Vycary (teste di cinghiale).
Nel Reach: Vythers (scoiattolo); Varner (donnola)
Aggiungerei la casata Hogg delle terre della corona, che non ha stemma, ma il cui nome suona come hog (suino), ed il cui castello si chiama Sow's horn (corno della scrofa)
