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First POV in Winds?


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After the prologue which character gets the first POV? Do you think the book opens straight with the battles?

I feel there is maybe one or two chapters before the first battle, then couple more and then the another battle. Of course it is possible that the battles are first. But while these battles were cut from Dance I feel it is not not quite GRRMs style to start a book with a battle.

But if he does I would say Theon is first. If he does not I think Daenerys migh be first since she has to have many chapters to make to Westeros in the book.
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I think it's gonna be Melisandre-we'll see an absolute bloodbath as the wildlings and Jon loyalists annihilate Jon's murderers and their supporters. During the carnage, Mel will attempt, but fail to resurrect Jon. Later they will have a funeral for Jon north of the wall in front of the heart tree, but before Mel is able to light the pyre they are attacked by white walkers, Mel survives but Jon is taken to the LOAW and that is the last we hear from the Wall for about 4-500 pages.
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Davos i think. Him arriving in Skagos. Then his second chapter is between the battle of Meereen and WF and the last with him landing on the coast of the lands of the North and then marching for WF, being to late to offer support for the battle for WF. 

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I think it will be the Alayne chapter.Several facts seem to be unknown in the Vale(Cersei's and Margaery's arrest,Cersei's walk of shame,Kevan becoming king regent,the golden company arriving in the stormlands).

 

I agree - there are some locations behind the events of others, and the chapters cut from ADWD to get through before we move on.  And I think that the reveal at the Wall will be heightened if it is a third or so of the way into the book, with rumors of what has happened coming from other characters beforehand - as much as I would like it be the first POV chapter.   

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I like the thought of Bran starting it off. He's probably going to give us our first view of the Others/Land of Always Winter. Why start the book on one of the preview chapters that have been analyzed to death for a few years. Start off with some epic revelations and layout the situations in the North and of things to come

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Probably someone in Stannis' (Theon or Asha) or Barristan's camp. (Barristan himself, Tyrion or Victarion.) 

Weren't the two battles cut from Dance? It would make sense for the stuff cut from the last book to open the next one right? 

I wonder how it would be going from one battle to the other. 

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In past books the first POV continues the story of something shocking that happened near the end of the previous book. It cannot be somebody at the wall because the battle for Winterfell allegedly happens days before the ides of Marsh. That leaves a PoV in Meeren, the river lands, The Dothraki sea or Kingslanding as an option.

 

Arya (Mercy) cannot be the first PoV as it happends after Cersei's trial. Sansa's and Arienne's chapters are a posibility but it doesn't fit the pattern as their stories do not follow something shocking. I wouldn't bet for Samwell either as sleeping next to a faceless man is not particularly shocking.

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I think it will be the Alayne chapter.Several facts seem to be unknown in the Vale(Cersei's and Margaery's arrest,Cersei's walk of shame,Kevan becoming king regent,the golden company arriving in the stormlands).

But LF can all hold that a secret, for his own plans. Since i think when message about Cerseis fall will make it to the Vale, the Lords will make there move on LF, since he is no longer protected by the crown. I think its unlikely for LF not to know, with Kettleblacks at KL and the Old Kettleblack at LF side. Off course daddy Kettleblack is informed by the eldest sons about the arrest of the youngest.  

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I think it's gonna be Melisandre-we'll see an absolute bloodbath as the wildlings and Jon loyalists annihilate Jon's murderers and their supporters. During the carnage, Mel will attempt, but fail to resurrect Jon. Later they will have a funeral for Jon north of the wall in front of the heart tree, but before Mel is able to light the pyre they are attacked by white walkers, Mel survives but Jon is taken to the LOAW and that is the last we hear from the Wall for about 4-500 pages.

 

This, or a Bowen Marsh prologue :P

 

I like the idea of having someone we haven't seen in a long while for the first POV. Like in ADWD when Tyrion had the opener.

So, Alayne or Samwise

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Gotta go with Barristan, Vic, or Tyrion. Get Meereen sorted out right off the bat and move on.

Thats just wishful thinking.

Even if Dany leaves Meeren, she's gonna spend entire Winds capturing and ruling Pentos like she did with Meeren :P

Davos i think. Him arriving in Skagos. Then his second chapter is between the battle of Meereen and WF and the last with him landing on the coast of the lands of the North and then marching for WF, being to late to offer support for the battle for WF.

:agree:

 We haven't heard anything from Davos since the 2-3 chapters at the start of Dance.

And he is going to a new place. So, given Martin's past record he will spend 1-2 chapters introducing us to Skagos.

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But LF can all hold that a secret, for his own plans. Since i think when message about Cerseis fall will make it to the Vale, the Lords will make there move on LF, since he is no longer protected by the crown. I think its unlikely for LF not to know, with Kettleblacks at KL and the Old Kettleblack at LF side. Off course daddy Kettleblack is informed by the eldest sons about the arrest of the youngest.

Ok Littlefinger is keeping the news as a secret.Other castles can receive messages from King's Landing and ships from King's Landing can reach Galtown and spread the news.

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Thats just wishful thinking.

Even if Dany leaves Meeren, she's gonna spend entire Winds capturing and ruling Pentos like she did with Meeren :P

:agree:

 We haven't heard anything from Davos since the 2-3 chapters at the start of Dance.

And he is going to a new place. So, given Martin's past record he will spend 1-2 chapters introducing us to Skagos.

We didn't leave Davos that early in ADWD, did we?

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