The Wondering Wolf

And you have really no idea what region it is from? Lions could indicate westerlands.

I think the point is that the Mercy chapter (as it was published on the internet) and the Kevan epilogue chapter (as it appeared in ADWD) can not reasonably exist in the same book, because Swyft was still in King's Landing at the end of the epilogue. But since GRRM had plans to include the Mercy chapter in ADWD, either the epilogue was (re)written after GRRM decided to move the Mercy chapter or that Mercy chapter we know is not what GRRM intended to include in ADWD.

Isn't Swyft still around when Kevan is killed?

Don't remember where I read this (could have been speculation or fanfiction), but it described how Daeron was killed, and he and the sword were burried under his horse, so the Dornishmen could not take it to begin with. Maybe the group that was responsible for the killing did not controll the area and had to retreat quickly.

@Thomaerys Velaryon The app is in error with regard to Ambrose Butterwell's place of birth. When he was born, Whitewalls hadn't been built yet.

Ok, thanks. But do you think it is possible she got the pleasure house only after 101 AC?

@Ran The Worldbook says Saera ended her days as the proprietor of a famous pleasure house in Volantis. Now this information is not given in F&B, so I assume it came from GRRM's notes or something. The wiki implies she already had the pleasure house in 101 AC, but it could also be possible it was at a (much) later point (similar to Johanna Swann's case who might have become de facto ruler of Lys after 136 AC). Do you have any hint on the timeline?

Meanwhile in Germany, the first major journalist has been linked to payments from Putin's circle. Hubert Seipel, who did several interviews with Putin and wrote books about him and Russia which were considered surprisingly favourable to the regime, has received 600k (€) for one of the books, and it seems he got money for another book, as well. He is one of the guys who heavily biased people's opinion on Putin and Russia. But I guess he is just one out of many more. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/14/german-journalist-putin-hubert-seipel

GRRM said that the story wasn't finished, but the anthology it was meant for had to be published in time, so he contributed the abridged version of the Dance.

While that's a possibility, it's not the only way you can read it. So I would propose to present the second option on the wiki, as well.

The text makes it very clear that Aenys had a difficult start, improved when he bonded with his dragon and had some regression after his mother's death. We don't know how he overcame that regression, we only know he did and we can assume the already existing bond with his dragon helped him. Since this topic has come up a dozen times so far and is also disputed on the wiki, @Ran, could you state your opinion on the Quicksilver matter?

I'm afraid there are a lot of theories out there which actually contradict the text. This is what F&B says: Aenys came first. Born in 7 AC to Aegon’s younger wife, Rhaenys, the boy was small at birth and sickly. He cried all the time, and it was said that his limbs were spindly, his eyes small and watery, and that the king’s maesters feared for his survival. He would spit out the nipples of his wet nurse, and give suck only at his mother’s breasts, and rumors claimed that he screamed for a fortnight when he was weaned. [...] And the prince was slow to grow as well. Not until he was given the young dragon Quicksilver, a hatchling born that same year on Dragonstone, did Aenys Targaryen begin to thrive. Prince Aenys was three when his mother, Queen Rhaenys, and her dragon, Meraxes, were slain in Dorne. Her death left the boy prince inconsolable. He stopped eating, and even began to crawl as he had when he was one, as if he had forgotten how to walk. So it's clear the sequence of events was Aenys being born, having a difficult time, getting a dragon and improving, having some regression after his mother's death. Question remains whether 'born that same year' refers to the year Aenys was born or to the year Aenys bonded with Quicksilver, which could have been in 8 or 9 AC, as well.

Well, the text heavily implies Aenys bonded with the dragon before his mother died, I'm just not sure about the exact date.

I'm not sure about that, but maybe Somnium Draconis (not sure about their username here) can weigh in and explain why 8 or 9 AC isn't a possibility in their opinion.

There has been an edit recently which changed the date of birth to 7 AC, although I still think it is ambiguous and could have been at a later point, as well.

I've speculated that Darke could be a bastard name for Duskendale.

I have seen this claim a few times now, but it is not really true. The Two Toms tell the people on Dragonstone that Marston and Aegon II are their cousins who lost their home when Spicetown was destroyed. We know for sure that this is a lie concerning Aegon and that Marston's mother was the sister of the older Tom, who was from Dragonstone. So it is more likely neither Aegon nor Marston were born on Driftmark. The wiki presents this cover-up as a fact which it should not do in my opinion. It even indicates Marston got his place in Aegon's retinue after the destruction of Driftmark, which is almost impossible. There were only a few weeks between the battle and the fall of King's Landing. Even if he had managed to get to the city somehow (definitely not by sea), Aegon would have never trusted someone whose home the greens had just destroyed.

I think The Sons of the Dragon described her as fiery, but that's it, and the line was removed in F&B anyway.

It's never stated outright, but looking at the timeline and the fact Artos got a statue despite not being a lord indicates it.

@Ran The summery on the file page of the Alyssa Royce depiction calls her Oatricia Redwyne. And the page for Clarice Osgrey says that we can't be sure whether she was an Osgrey by birth or marriage, but wouldn't she have been called by her husband's family name if she had been an Osgrey by birth?

Don't fly too close to the sun... Good news and bad news from Germany: It doesn't look like we are going to start another war anytime soon. But it seems we aren't going to help a country to end a war anytime soon neither. Chancellor Scholz (I forget he exists most of the time) refuses to do the thing he has been elected for, which is leading the country. This results in polls which indicate that a majority of the German people doesn't want to send more weapons. Which in turn makes Scholz even more hesitant. A perpetuum mobile of fear and inaction.

I've read that Putin first wanted to make sure that the Wagner mercenaries wouldn't be in a position to strike back.

I have always considered the possibility that Bryndon Hightower was a son of Otto, although I admit it should have been mentioned, so it is probably not the case.

Well, we have danced this dance before, but I think it makes sense that Aerys waited for the outcome of the battle to determine the further road. If the rebellion had been crushed at the Trident, he would not have had to persue his plans of destroying the city after all.