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Greetings from Sweden!

I've read the asoiaf-series quite recently, though I had thought about it for a long time and being pushed towards it by a pig-headed friend. I saw a trailer for the TV-show. That was it for me. I forsake my vow to not bury myself in another (seemingly) neverending series of fantasybooks again and read the hole damn stack of books in a row, just in time for ADWD to come out. And here I am, fallen into the abyss of restless waiting for any little thing to be revealed of what's to come.

I guess a re-read is inevitable, maybe more than one.

I'm really grateful for Westeros.org, you are like an igloo in a blizzard to us lost in the wilderness of "GRRM's between books" :-)

As I'm from a really cold place, I can't wait to see what winter will do to the Seven Kingdoms.

First rule of winter:

Don't eat yellow snow

Hi everyone!

My first post here, I've been lurking too long I fear. I hope I'll be able to keep on topic, shame me if I don't.

On that it seems strange for cautious Doran to send his heir to see this dragon I say he must.

- If YG is indeed the real stuff, Doran would seem disloyal not to come running to his aid, blood band and all.

And if it's anything Doran wants it's to keep Dornes privileges, and the protection of the throne. He probably sees the risks with the Tyrells coming into power even with Tommen as king, and the probability that they will ally with this dragon as a very probable scenario.

- If YG is not the real deal, he might do well to befriend him in any case, depending on what the rest of the realm believes. If the Tyrells accept him and join him before Doran has decided him true/false as a Targ, is there a military power in the kingdom that could stand against the force of Highgarden+GC? And what if he's so much like a Targ that even Dany believes him to be? In any case she might eventually come with her dragons. What she'll think of YG when she meets him is hard to know, it's a risky venture either way for Doran.

In the case that the Lannister/Tyrell power stay allies and survive the rebellion, they will surely not leave Dorne unharmed if it does not ally with them in this war, and Dorne would never fight with them, especially against a eventual dragon. Who could Doran turn to if not YG? The Vale?

If Doran could remain passive in this situation I'm sure he would, in fear of what Dany will do when she comes. But at this point he's probably heard rumors of her assumed death, so this Aegon might be the only Targ left. He's bound to seek his protection.

What we know is that it's very very unlikely that the southern houses of the kingdoms will come together against this dragon usurper. In any case there will be continued war in the south too, it's only a matter of WHO will join YG and GC, and who will go first.