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Rum is made with sugar. The Summer Islanders seem to export it. So, I'm guessing they are a primary source of sugar.

Only the Old Blood can be triarchs. The triarchs may be either tigers or elephants. Just look at Vogarro: He had extensive mercantile interests while still accounted one of the noblemen of the Old Blood.

I'm not seeing the contradiction. Not least because the first quote is discussing the situation at the Doom, when the Old Blood were likely pretty exclusively tigers and so led Volantis into conquest and war. You have to pair this up with the rest of the talk of the ruinous cost of the wars, its ultimate failure, and the rise of the elephants, who would have made inroads among the Old Blood in the wake of the setback.

Kind of you to offer, but no need for my part. As to the Old Blood and the elephants, I would assume that while the initial faction lines might be seen as broadly landholders vs. merchants, I think it probable that there are Old Blood who are _primarily_ landholders with little mercantile interests, and Old Blood who have substantial mercantile interests, and these likely divided up between the Tigers and the Elephants. So I expect there are members of the Old Blood in both parties.

Huh. Penguin Random House. That name is familiar somehow...

Seriously? Through the U.S. or U.K. publisher?

We actually did do the bread thing, though I can't recall when. Probably around the same time we had Baelor divert a bunch of funding to kickstarting the building of the Great Sept.

It seems probable enough that such styles are hereditary that I would include them, until we learn otherwise. Certainly, some of those styles, at least, are simply given by the Manderlys to themselves. Only the Warden of the White Knife might be something that is granted by someone else (the Starks) and it seems pretty obvious why the Manderlys would hold such a position.

Thank you. Will report it in.

I don't think an entry for an unnamed Lady Stark of House Mormont is necessary. Note that his wife was a Mormont in his entry, note that Lord Alaric's wife was a Mormont in the House Mormont section, and that should be enough (obviously if the sons get names their entries should mention their mother being of House Mormont).

The rule is to prevent the wiki cannibalizing sales in any way of texts, and to keep people from being spoiled by plot details before they have a chance to read a book. As the excerpt is online and free, the rule does not apply.

It may be that if you clear the Chrome cache, it will fix the issue as well.

Do try Chrome, but I've made one quick tweak, let me know if that has helped at all.

Is Chrome any different or does it cause the same issue? My one thought is to clear your Safari cache and see if that helps.

Thanks for the report. What browser and device is this happening on? I've tried it with two Android devices, an iPad, and various browsers on PC and haven't seen it.

I've never seen anything like that on Chrome with Android, or any other browser. Has anyone else seen it? Could you try an alternative browser, like Firefox for Android?

Unseen Westeros are artists just doing their thing. George has okayed the project, us as well, but the art is being done with the only input being TWoIaF and the imagination of the artists. So, non-canon. Prequel pitches are not really canon until we know what GRRMs actual contributions are, and George is the only person who's going to be able to reliably say what he did or did not contribute. So I wouldn't consider the prequels -- especially as they haven't even aired -- even semi-canon. Do not include information gleaned from comments or leaks regarding prequels into the wiki.

Sounds great! Thank you! I still haven't tested out your responsive design fix for the front page. Will try and do it this week. Trying to hammer out the previously reported issue with emails not getting out.

Presumably the situation with Alienor is meant? Very much intended by Kay to be part of the thematics of the text. As to Catriana, I can't help but think that there are women throughout history who've given up their virginity for what they saw as a cause, necessity, or duty rather than out of desire.

The comments on the review are much more edifying than the review itself, I have to say, but I've never been a fan of using memes in critiques, and this isn't even a critique as such, just outright mockery of something she feels beneath her time to critique. Two other reviews touching on whether the text is in some fashion supportive of fascism can be found at this English-language Polish review site. Ola G. here and piotrek's response here. I find these quite thoughtful and interesting. It is true that Tigana _is_ melodramatic and full of pathos, and that Kay takes what he's writing quite seriously in the novel. It's clear that the themes he was exploring moved him and had some special resonance for him.

It has been accused of presenting some fascist ideas, but I think that's wrong. I love the novel, myself, and think it's a feature, not a bug, that the protagonists do some very unpleasant things in the course of attempting to achieve their goals, goals which are on the one hand extremely understandable (Brandin's magical damnatio memoriae of Tigana itself is horrific in a society where every province has its strong national character and pride) and on the other hand has a decided ambiguity (after all, after freeing Tigana's name, the goal is... to re-establish the traditional Tiganan aristocratic ruler instead of the foreign aristrocratic ruler, which to the hoi polloi probably doesn't actually make that much day-to-day difference otherwise).

Tigana is Renaissance Italy inspired, but much more fantastical than his historical fantasies have generally been. I'm guessing this is in the same milieu as the previous novel. Excited as that's when it comes to GGK. With the timing, I hope there's a chance he'll do some touring next year.

Quite randomly decided to add ourselves to the list -- realized that we never did get around to looking for the #9 of ASoS. Don't have the MM editions of AGoT and ACoK either, but less concerned about that ... but if anyone has them, or knows where they are, might be interested in seeing what they're going for. But mainly just want the Charles Vess-illustrated ASoS.

I suspect someone accidentally set an invisible character of some sort in one of those entries and that's what caused the error.

I'm inclined to think that the lack of evidence for them, other than the AFfC appendix which seems to have been corrected in ADwD, means no. And it makes sense, in that the Faith is fairly misogynistic, and allowing women to be at the step just below High Septon may be a step too far. That said, that is just my take on it, and I've no direct knowledge on the subject from George as we've never really discussed it. The only thing that made it seem plausible was George indicating that septas were female priests rather than just using the term nun for them.