Poll: According to the chart in the original post, which Game of Thrones character are you?

The books were heavily inspired by the 15th century so they had a lot of good material to look at, and really recreated a good number of - mostly fitting together - armor, weapons, clothing, architecture, and really used the art style from the ~15th century for all of them as well. Of course adding some fantasy but not over the top.

 

With that old picture in mind (Knights using cranes to get onto their horses and such stuff) it is really shocking to see that people can almost do somersaults in plate armor.
I remember seeing it the first time on a medieval fair, it was a show fight, and they really did crazy stuff in full plate!

This video is not a joke:

 

And armor are also useful!
too often full plates don't offer an apparent protection, while in GoT armors have an impact on combats

 

That was precisely one of the scenes i've had in mind

 

Buahahaha holy crap I just mixed up with the Star Wars posts and thought everyone had snapped back to discussing Star Wars again, assuming "George" meant George Lucas.

Ok, GRRM then.... hmmmm I would say comparable to him (and sometimes better) are Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Marion Zimmer Bradley, maybe also Terry Brooks and Raymond Feist.


EDIT: Great videos @Hyperborean !
I especially liked the disarming technique using Half-Swording! Many people think it is not possible with a sharp blade but it actually works.

 

Fun fact:
I once read an article about a real life medieval source that talked about that topic. People who are not used to fighting soldiers wearing heavy armor develop other techniques in fighting.
Certain techniques (like long-drawn slashes with swords) are extremely effective against unarmored enemies, the sword really slicing into the clothes, flesh and so on, creating huge gashes that make the enemy lose blood extremely quickly. Against someone wearing armor (even if it is only chainmail) those suck, and certain weapons specialized for that kind of fighting style become really bad.
The Arakh (which is a two-handed Kopesh basically) the Dothraki use wouldn't be too bad against armor if used properly, but in the choreaography of that fight we see the Dothraki making those long slashing cuts, and those obviously don't do anything agaisnt Jorah's plate armor.
I don't know if it is intended by the choreographer, but I really get the impression that this particular Dothraki has rarely fought anyone wearing heavy armor (mostly other Dothraki or sheep-people probably) and just does it wrong.

EDIT: Also nice to see how Jorah smashes shoulder-first into his opponent. That's absolutely something you can do with plate armor when you get close.
He still was lucky with that last cut. It had potential to really do something (and IIRC it does in the book and perhaps in the show as well. I am not 100% sure but I think I remember that in the book Jorah was injured quite a bit after that fight, his armor basically making the difference between being dead and alive).