I couldn’t convince any member of the Free Folk to even attempt to sing to me the music they have heard the Giants make, for as they say it is impossible for humans to produce sounds so low and to hit wood as hard as they do. Unfortunately, the descriptions of the Free Folk and the vague anecdotes from the Night’s Watch’s rangers are all I have to reconstruct this music. They say their voices are deep and slow, sometimes too low to pick up clearly by our ears, and that when they growl their words (in the Old Tongue) at a close range it makes one’s body shake like the head of a drum. According to some of them Giants never existed while others claim to know some of them. Most of the information I obtained was through the Free Folk, always willing to tell a story if there is coin to be had.
Truly human-like in appearance but much heavier, denser and of course, bigger. During my visit to The North I didn’t see any living Giants but I had the chance to see and touch bones that could only have been those of a giant. Finally, in perhaps the biggest divergence from the novels, the resurrected Lady Stoneheart (Catelyn Stark) never appears on the show to take over the leadership of the Brotherhood without Banners.The Giants is the mythological creature we can be most sure of its existence, way above the Children and The Others and yet, always relegated to a footnote in Westerosi tales.
The relationship between Davos and Shireen is also inflated significantly for the show. Stannis and his wife never had any stillborn children, and neither of them are affectionate (or even speak directly) to Shireen in the books. The Hound and Arya never encounter Brienne Brienne and Pod are actually tracking a rumor about Sansa, not her younger sister. Tyrion and Sansa don't have a friendly relationship after their wedding, and Shae never loved Tyrion as the show implies. Additionally, Robb's wife is neither pregnant nor present at the Red Wedding. In the books, Robb legitimizes Jon Snow and names him his heir before the Red Wedding.
Gendry is merged with the book character of Edric Storm and taken to Dragonstone in his place. Theon's imprisonment is introduced much earlier on the show than in the books.
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