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Would anyone want a novel about the history of ironborns?


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From the Grey King to the present would be an epoch, not a novel



But I would like a novel about one of the "transitional" times on the Iron Islands. The end of the Kingsmoots by Urron Redhand for example, or one of the Hoare Kings who encouraged trade and peace with the Greenlanders.

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Ii wouldn't be my first option but I would still read it. I would read anything he cares to write about the history of the realm. Not just in Westeros either. I'm particularly interested in Valyria and it's history. The other houses there besides the Targs. Asshai by the shadow. The rest of the planet, the whole other continents we don't know anything about.

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Eww no :s

I don't want to read about rape and murder and other terrible things they have done.

Though I'm interested in the Drowned God.

Well if GRRM writes one then I would read it... But no. Ew.

That's their culture.

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But it gets boring if that's all we see. Which is why I'd want a story about new influences on Ironborn society, or their interaction with outsiders

I'm a simple man. Bloodshed, steel clashing, battle drunk fighters, reaving songs, longships, Drowned god, hard bred man... that's what makes me love them.

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I would.

I found the Ironborn section the most interesting (and the Stormlands the least) because it actually showed a society in motion. There were succession wars, changes in traditions, struggles between tradition and reform. If GRRM wrote a more comprehensive history (such as one that for example discussed the reigns of Hoare kings Horgan Priest-Killer, Wulfgar the Widow-Maker, Fergon the Fierce, Craghorn of the Red Smile, and, most of all, the two Othgars, known as the Demonlover and the Souless (which probably means they were the most progressive (hence their sobriquets) and the most badass (how they didn't meet a grisly end like Harmund III and his brother Hagon))I would buy it.

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I would. I found the Ironborn section the most interesting (and the Stormlands the least) because it actually showed a society in motion. There were succession wars, changes in traditions, struggles between tradition and reform. If GRRM wrote a more comprehensive history (such as one that for example discussed the reigns of Hoare kings Horgan Priest-Killer, Wulfgar the Widow-Maker, Fergon the Fierce, Craghorn of the Red Smile, and, most of all, the two Othgars, known as the Demonlover and the Souless (which probably means they were the most progressive (hence their sobriquets) and the most badass (how they didn't meet a grisly end like Harmund III and his brother Hagon))I would buy it.

I agree with above, though most people (including me) don't seem to care too much about the Ironborn, at least there was happening a lot in their chapter.

A full history that also explains the origins of their religion more would be interesting.

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I would. I found the Ironborn section the most interesting (and the Stormlands the least) because it actually showed a society in motion. There were succession wars, changes in traditions, struggles between tradition and reform. If GRRM wrote a more comprehensive history (such as one that for example discussed the reigns of Hoare kings Horgan Priest-Killer, Wulfgar the Widow-Maker, Fergon the Fierce, Craghorn of the Red Smile, and, most of all, the two Othgars, known as the Demonlover and the Souless (which probably means they were the most progressive (hence their sobriquets) and the most badass (how they didn't meet a grisly end like Harmund III and his brother Hagon))I would buy it.

:agree:

The Iron Islands and Dorne were by far the most dynamic and interesting chapters, because actual change occurred. Most of the other regions had basically zero progress or evolution. Even the arrival of the Andals didn't change that much

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I would. I found the Ironborn section the most interesting (and the Stormlands the least) because it actually showed a society in motion. There were succession wars, changes in traditions, struggles between tradition and reform. If GRRM wrote a more comprehensive history (such as one that for example discussed the reigns of Hoare kings Horgan Priest-Killer, Wulfgar the Widow-Maker, Fergon the Fierce, Craghorn of the Red Smile, and, most of all, the two Othgars, known as the Demonlover and the Souless (which probably means they were the most progressive (hence their sobriquets) and the most badass (how they didn't meet a grisly end like Harmund III and his brother Hagon))I would buy it.

That's an interesting point of view, actually. It certainly was a period of change during AFFC. That said, I didn't really like that book at all. It just, for me at least, wasn't interesting.

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