“Winter is coming! Now that’s memorable,” the Lady Olenna told one of her ladies in waiting in one episode during the fourth season of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones. She thought “growing strong” was one of the dullest house mottoes.
Game of Thrones fans who felt similarly deprived of impressive words and bold sigils should weep no more. The fifty states have been replaced by fifty feuding fiefs thanks to the creativity of Reddit user Boo-yay, who used Join the Realm, HBO’s sigil generation tool, to create sigils and slogans for each U.S. state and territory. How does your state’s motto hold up?
Originally posted to a reddit forum for fans of the series, the designs draw from an amalgamation of inspirations including everything from actual state mottoes to American history and Wayne’s World references.
Here are a few of our favorites:
To see the rest, click here.
