Euron III Greyjoy

Wine, women, weapons, and armor.

I imagine there will be a "Scouring of the Shire" type scenario at the end. Probably something similar to the show, but instead of Cersei, Daenerys will fight against the "rightful King" Aegon VI Targaryen, painting herself as the villain usurping her brother's son with foreigners and beasts. ASOIAF isn't ASOIAF without political intrigue.

Well, I said "Had House Targaryen kept ruling indefinitely" . . . . so no, I wasn't implying there would be more Targaryens.

I fully understand that is how it should work, but it doesn't. This isn't modern day. This is medieval times, were people where superstitious as fuck.

Over the course of their 283 years of ruling, House Targaryen has had its fair share of "bad eggs", so to speak. These include Maegor the Cruel, Aerion Brightflame, Mad King Aerys, Daemon Blackfyre, etc. Do you think these names are considered "cursed" forever, or do you think after a while it would be considered acceptable to use these names again? Had House Targaryen kept ruling indefinitely, surely eventually every single Targaryen name would be considered cursed, right? Eventually there would be a bad Jaehaerys, Daeron, Alysanne, Aemon, etc.

I always liked them, but I also had the added benefit of firstly, being able to binge read them, and secondly, I knew that my favourite characters, such as Jon and Tyrion, would be appearing again in ADwD. Had I read the books when they where coming out, and waited 5 years for AFfC only to find out that we where pretty much getting a completely new set of POV characters that we've never seen or heard from before, I might've disliked the book alot more during my first read. ADwD is my second favourite, and its a very close second. I loved getting to see Jon ruling at the Wall, and Tyrion at rock bottom only to slowly build himself back up again.

I think people just didn't really care. Robert's Rebellion had just finished, and a new House was in charge of the 7 Kingdoms. Not to mention thousands upon thousands of people where dead. Who's going to look twice at some Lord's bastard? Especially with all that shit going on in the background.

I'd be cool if it was an announcement for a new Dunk and Egg prequel, or Fire & Blood Volume 2. The only thing I don't really have any interest in is the new TV Show prequel, so knowing my luck it will probably be about that.

Knowing GRRM, I could easily see him writing it in a way that we will never truly know for sure.

Bloodraven

I'm not sure that I'd pick up something that is so cold that it shatters steel either.

Sure, you're right. Jon being a Targaryen set up the events of the story. I guess I was just hoping it would've meant something more in the present. I'm sure it will be more developed in the books.

Maybe its a way to find out about R+L=J. If Darkstar escapes to Starfall, then Areo Hotah will follow him there. We could then meet some other Daynes through his POV, and find out what happened with Arthur, Ashara, and Ned Stark.

For me its the whole Targaryen thing that confuses me. Jon Snow being a Targaryen served literally no purpose other then turning Daenerys mad overnight. According to D&D, it was them correctly guessing Jon Snow's mother that convinced GRRM to let them make the show in the first place. With that being the case you would think they would've come up with a good story involving R+L=J, instead of it appearing to have zero relevance to the story. Jon's mother might as well have been Wylla in the show.

I think so, but unlike most castles it will need to be taken by trickery, like Lann the Clever did. It would be cool if in TWoW or ADoS, Tyrion takes Casterly Rock using some kind of trickery, proving himself as Lann the Clever's heir.