Euron III Greyjoy

Well? Does it still seem likely? xD

At one point it seemed more likely then ever that it was going to be out in 2016, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if it didn't come out in 2020.

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.

He's probably after the 'Blood and Fire' book in the Citadel vaults.

Lackluster

I do think Daenerys will burn King's Landing, but I really just cant see any of the cheesy shit that happened in this episode happen in the books.

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I see where you're coming from, but I feel like if something like that was to happen, it would be a child of Jon and Daenerys that would finally stop the Long Night. The series is called 'A Song of Ice and Fire', so I feel like Jon must have some sort of relevance, whether it be Jon is the ice and Daenerys is the fire, or Jon is both the fire and the ice. If Jon or one of this future children doesn't play a part in finally beating the Others, I feel like his character is kind of pointless.

What's Rhaego going to do to help in the Long Night, drool on the Others? Are you suggesting that there is going to be some sort of massive time jump or perhaps that the last book will end on a cliffhanger where the Others still haven't been defeated?

And then after that when they try and persuade you that Jon is the son of Ned and Ashara with a pubic hairs worth of clues, despite the many clues pointing to him being the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna. xD I don't get why people seem so desperate for R+L=J not to be true. I don't want any of that "its too simple" bullshit either. Its simple because people have been theorizing it for over 20 years at this point.

I don't think there's a single thing I'm not looking forward to, and if there was, 8 years of waiting for the next book has certainly changed that. xD The things I'm most looking forward to though are: Anything Euron related. The man is seriously my favourite non POV character. Jon's resurrection. I'm curious to see in what ways he will be changed. The Battle for Winterfell. Both Stannis and the Stark loyalists really need a win. The Battle for Meereen. Not counting Daenerys, since she probably won't turn up until the end, or just not at all, we are going to have three POVs for the battle, each from a different faction. Out of the four main battles its definitely the one I'm looking forward to the most. The Others. I just want to see more of them, since we've only seen them twice before. Finally finding out Jon's parentage once and for all.

If Joffrey was Robert's son then the whole story would be changed. Jon Arryn would still be alive, so there would be no need for Eddard to go South to become Hand of the King. Stannis wouldn't try to usurp Robert's legitimate heir. Just those two plot points alone changes everything. Might Joffrey still turn out to be a little shit? sure, but in that case I see far in the future, another Robert's Rebellion happening. That isn't even taking into account the invasion of the Others, or the return of the Targaryens.

That's why I said "if they don't have the gift", if they do then Jon could then presumably skinchange into someone else again. Hell, maybe that's what Bloodraven wants Bran for, his body is so old it is probably shutting down, so he might need a new body that also has the greenseer ability, if that thing in the tree is even Bloodraven at all, there might've been a previous greenseer that lured Bloodraven to the cave and then took over his body.

It depends, there are so many things we don't know when it comes to skinchanging. We do know that the gift of skinchanging isn't transferable, so if Gilly's baby didn't have the gift, then Jon would be stuck in his body forever.

Even if he did die, I don't think he will come back as a Wight. The Wall seems to be some kind of barrier for magic North of the Wall. The only time we've seen a Wight South of the Wall was when a body was brought back across the Wall by a member of the Nights Watch. Since Jon died South of the Wall I don't think the Others magic will work on him.