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Agreed. There are a lot of characters that survived far worse than Jon's condition. Mance and the shadowcat for example. Or Aegon II. Or Sandor. Even Bran should not have survived if not for his direwolf.

Once all the stones are set in place at the end of TWoW, 3-5 years of time jump is perfectly doable. GRRM has all the tools he needs. Winter might bring everything to a halt. On top of that, a plague that comes in several waves assure that nothing important can take place during this time jump. ADoS might start just as winter giving some break (perhaps another false spring) and the plague finally running its course. This is how things can start happening again. BTW, A Dream of Spring starting with a false spring sounds like a cool idea.

When Viserys died in AGOT, the Golden Company did not exist yet. What plan?

This can only work if a full feature movie about the 1st Blackfyre Rebellion is made as a prologue and then the rest of them is absorbed into this D&E series. But still, yet another series about GRRM's unfinished material. With 2 years of wait between seasons, only to see a handful of episodes, I am not looking forward to it. In fact, since these long waits became the norm, I don't start watching any new series.

A time jump between TWoW and ADoS is a must. To do that, GRRM should end TWoW in a concluding manner, just like ASoS. To do that, GRRM should decide where the story is going. To do that, GRRM should write a hard outline and stick to it. To do that, GRRM should stop being stubborn.

Hopefully it is not Bran from the future

I think this chapter was originally written from another POV (probably Tyrion) in one of the many iterations of the Meereenese Knot. Therefore, it was this other POV observing everything from the deck. When GRRM retold this chapter from Victarion's POV, he needed to hide the details of the magic.

Depends on what GRRM wants to do with it. And I don't think he knows what he wants. At one point, he wanted the RLJ reveal for a Jon-Arya romance.

If this was always in the plans, then it is bad writing because GRRM failed to build that up in the books so far. If this is a retcon (which it is btw), then it is a bad retcon. Not all retcons should necesarily be bad but this particular one is even worse than Maggy's Prophecy. GRRM needs to see that he has a third alternative. Instead of choosing his poison as bad writing or bad retcon, he could well do nothing. If GRRM proceeds with this idea, it will be worse than the catspaw failure.

Their current perception is like how it was when they were released, i.e. disappointment. Something along the lines of "We've waited 5-6 years for this?"

This can only mean that GRRM is serious about that awful prophecy retcon. It seems there is no person in his circle telling him why it is such a bad idea.

And they were right lol.

F&B is written like a wiki. D&E is a proper story. The choice is obvious.

Absolutely not. Doctrine of Exceptionalism was for incest, blood magic, eating unborn children on a stick and other atrocities of similar proportion. Polygamy is taking it too far. No one in Westeros would stomach that. One has to draw the line somewhere.

Accidental marriages can happen, just like accidental pregnancies

GRRM's answer to the presence of the 3 KG at ToJ is simply "I won't confirm Jon's legitimacy anywhere other than the books, even if it takes half a century for me to write it."

I tried everything but ChatGPT doesn't make any predictions for TWoW. However, it considers RLJ as canon

Me: Who are the actual parents of Jon Snow from "A Song of Ice and Fire" series? ChatGPT: In the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, Jon Snow is believed to be the illegitimate son of Eddard Stark, but it is later revealed that his true parents are Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen. According to the story, Lyanna was promised to Robert Baratheon, but Rhaegar, who was already married to Elia Martell, fell in love with Lyanna and they secretly married. Lyanna died soon after giving birth to Jon, and fearing that Robert Baratheon would kill the child as he was a Targaryen, Ned Stark claimed him as his own illegitimate son and raised him at Winterfell. This revelation has significant implications for the story and its various plotlines, especially regarding Jon's claim to the Iron Throne and his relationship with Daenerys Targaryen.

At least he knows that he is a bastard. Dany is in for a big surprise. #Lemongate

These big hugs definitively prove that this person has a drop of lion's blood in his ancestry. Might be a Lannister or even a Casterly of the Rock.

Someone visited the Cushing Library and checked the early drafts of AFfC before it was split, which naturally included all the POVs. In this version of Jon's story dating to early 2000s, while Stannis was still at Castle Black, Jon was secretly making plans to lead a ranging party to the Craster's in order to deal with the remaining mutineers there. Below is the page where Jon learns that Stannis knew his plans: https://imgur.com/SbMUHD5 I laughed so hard to this one. If Jon's men are informing on him to Stannis, it would be their duty. After all, a leal subject has no secrets from his rightful king. What was the thing that Gandalf told Saruman? Stannis should have been the king's jester.

In TWoW, she will

Now we have a proof for this. Someone went to the Cushing Library and checked the 93 November and 94 November AGoT manuscripts. It is most curious that Ned's dreams about Lyanna first appeared in 94 November and back then it was Jon Arryn, not Howland Reed, who found Ned holding Lyanna's dead body at the Tower of Joy.

Hmm, I see the confusion. The vision was just a single scene. It didn't say they were going from A to B. It is possible that the vision was from an instance where they did the ranging and were on the way back to Castle Black, which means they encountered the red lady during the mission. Or they did not return directly to Castle Black but continue ranging to Hardhome, after learning where the free folk were from the red lady. This was one of Jon's primary objectives. The vision might be from an instance on the way to Hardhome.