Phileonidas

On 8/23/2023 at 2:41 AM, BlackLightning said:

The Dothraki and the Unsullied and the freedmen companies and whoever else sworn to her are not going to just accept the fact that their beloved Mhysa had been murdered...much less by someone who was supposed to protect her.

Dany is also in a unique position as she will be both khal and a member of the dosh khaleen. The Dothraki (who already have an established custom of avenging fallen khals with fire, blood and steel) will go apeshit and the Unsullied will co-sign the madness. In fact, murdering Dany could make her allies and supporters back in Essos want to invade Westeros.

That's true, but I'm still wondering, how many of the Dothraki and Unsullied will survive Dany's (re)conquest of Westeros. Since, at least in our real world, there are examples of large armies attempting an invasion at the beginning of winter and failing miserably (Napoleonic Wars and WWII). However, none of them had dragons

On 1/28/2023 at 5:12 AM, Rubicante said:

500 pages is an eternity.  I will be shocked, absolutely shocked, if we ever get TWOW.    And even if by some miracle we do, ADOS is not happening.   So really, what is the point?

I’ve mentioned this before, but I really wish George would just admit that he doesn’t have it in him to finish the series.  And that’s okay.  Every time he mentions TWOW, he sounds miserable and stressed.  I’d rather have him be happy in his life, instead of him having the dark cloud of TWOW looming over his head.  We as fans will survive the series not being finished.  There are plenty of other great fantasy series out there.

Well, looking only at the A Song of Ice and Fire series, George does look a bit unproductive. But taking all his works into account, he doesn't look that bad, since he did write and publish Fire & Blood, The World of Ice and Fire and that new Targaryen book. So I could imagine (and hope) that it won't take him that long to complete Winds when there's "only" up to 500 pages or 25% left to write.