

The common response is valar dohaeris, which means all men must serve One interesting note about that phrase as it occurs in the series, is that unlike the Roman phrase memento mori, there is a response to valar morghulis. Misha R Jun 12 '15 at 1:1 What does valar morghulis mean? In the world of literary- and television-series Game of Thrones, valar morghulis means all men must die in the fictional language High Valyrian. Without the response, the greeting is just a obvious fact without the greeting, the response is meaningless. Valar Morghulis describes reality, and Valar Dohaeris qualifies it. But even so, I don't think it's redundant in this case. And the standard response to How do you do is How do you do.
