I've really gotten into the ASOIAF book series lately because I'm a huge nerd ((after being disappointed with the show)), and of course my favourite thing about it is all the animal symbolism/motifs. So in my head I was imagining the characters in the style of Redwall or Disney's Robin Hood or Narnia and there's a few obvious ones like Lannisters=Lions and Starks=Wolves, but then I was like "Wait...what would everyone ELSE be?"
And thus this needlessly long and in-depth list was born. Feel free to make additions/suggestions (I'm not past the second book but I don't care about spoilers so)
Arryns: Peregrine Falcons
Baratheons: Red Deer
Boltons: Chimpanzees
Cleganes: Great Danes
Dothraki: Wild Horses (or zebras?)
Florents: Red Foxes
Freys: Brown Rats
Giants: Wooly Mammoths
Greyjoys: Steller Sea Lions (as opposed to anthropomorphic squid-men)
Lannisters: African Lions
Martells: Red Spitting Cobras
Mormonts: American Black Bears
Reeds: American Alligator
Starks: Dire Wolves
Targaryens: Unicorns (Magical, white-haired, I didn't make them dragons because the dragons are still in the story)
Tarlys: Tamworth Pigs
Tullys: Eurasian Otters
Tyrells: Cheviot Sheep
Umbers: Mountain Gorilla
Unsullied: Wildebeest
Alliser Thorne: Wolverine
Amory Lorch: Red River Hog
Barristan Selmy: Eurasian Badger
Beric Dondarrion: Banded Mongoose
Brienne of Tarth: Indian Rhinoceros
Bronn: Spotted Hyena
Craster: Gelada Baboon
Daario Naharis: Nilgai
Davos Seaworth: Sea Otter
Eddison Tollet: Donkey
Gendry: Heck Cattle Bull
Gilly: Gelada Baboon
Harry Strickland: Dwarf Elephant
High Sparrow: House Sparrow
Hodor: Asiatic Elephant
Hot Pie: Cockapoo
Jaqen H'ghar: Jaguar
Maester Luwin: Eurasian Eagle-Owl
Mance Rayder: Mountain Lion
Melisandre: Secretary Bird
Missandei: Thomson's Gazelle
Petyr Baelish (Littlefinger): Mockingbird (or least weasel?)
Podrick Payne: Aardwolf(?)
Maester Pycelle: Snowy Owl
Osha: Caribou(?)
Qyburn: Lappet-faced Vulture
Shae: Cheetah
Thoros of Myr: Warthog
Tormund: Grizzly Bear (Siberian Tiger?)
Varys: Spider Monkey
Ygritte: Coyote
And thus this needlessly long and in-depth list was born. Feel free to make additions/suggestions (I'm not past the second book but I don't care about spoilers so)
Arryns: Peregrine Falcons
Baratheons: Red Deer
Boltons: Chimpanzees
Cleganes: Great Danes
Dothraki: Wild Horses (or zebras?)
Florents: Red Foxes
Freys: Brown Rats
Giants: Wooly Mammoths
Greyjoys: Steller Sea Lions (as opposed to anthropomorphic squid-men)
Lannisters: African Lions
Martells: Red Spitting Cobras
Mormonts: American Black Bears
Reeds: American Alligator
Starks: Dire Wolves
Targaryens: Unicorns (Magical, white-haired, I didn't make them dragons because the dragons are still in the story)
Tarlys: Tamworth Pigs
Tullys: Eurasian Otters
Tyrells: Cheviot Sheep
Umbers: Mountain Gorilla
Unsullied: Wildebeest
Alliser Thorne: Wolverine
Amory Lorch: Red River Hog
Barristan Selmy: Eurasian Badger
Beric Dondarrion: Banded Mongoose
Brienne of Tarth: Indian Rhinoceros
Bronn: Spotted Hyena
Craster: Gelada Baboon
Daario Naharis: Nilgai
Davos Seaworth: Sea Otter
Eddison Tollet: Donkey
Gendry: Heck Cattle Bull
Gilly: Gelada Baboon
Harry Strickland: Dwarf Elephant
High Sparrow: House Sparrow
Hodor: Asiatic Elephant
Hot Pie: Cockapoo
Jaqen H'ghar: Jaguar
Maester Luwin: Eurasian Eagle-Owl
Mance Rayder: Mountain Lion
Melisandre: Secretary Bird
Missandei: Thomson's Gazelle
Petyr Baelish (Littlefinger): Mockingbird (or least weasel?)
Podrick Payne: Aardwolf(?)
Maester Pycelle: Snowy Owl
Osha: Caribou(?)
Qyburn: Lappet-faced Vulture
Shae: Cheetah
Thoros of Myr: Warthog
Tormund: Grizzly Bear (Siberian Tiger?)
Varys: Spider Monkey
Ygritte: Coyote