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  1. On 1/31/2024 at 10:30 PM, Craving Peaches said:

    Even if they all start young, give or take a few decades and the King will be relying on Ormund the Old, Florian the Feeble, Waymar the Weary, Dareon the Demented, Arthur the Arthritic, Cerrick Cataract and Harrold of the Hanging Haemorrhoids as his primary line of defense.

    Arthur the Arthritic will be using Dawn, though. Which is always a plus.

  2. 3 hours ago, sifth said:

    Come to think of it, Bran and Theon also have "fake out" deaths in the second book.

    That actually worked very well in Theon’s case, because we don’t see him at all for a really long time. And when we meet him as Reek in ADWD, it’s a huge reveal.

  3. 11 hours ago, Aldarion said:

    As sifth notes, if that is what he really meant, then he failed as well. POV characters at least are basically never in any danger.

    I don’t necessarily see that as a problem. If everyone’s story ended midway through, that would be poor storytelling.

  4. 6 minutes ago, Craving Peaches said:

    Why do we need another one of these ridiculous threads? This same 'point' could have been made in:

    • 'Tully Madness'
    • 'Hope for the Frey Family'
    • Et Al

    Are you suggesting that meritocracy in the Frey family is determined by AI?

  5. On 1/24/2024 at 5:06 AM, kewl0210 said:

    I think generally speaking, if that project is moving at all, he probably wouldn't be able to say without the publisher announcing it first. Especially since it would likely come out close to the release of TWoW. If it were right before it would probably become dated pretty fast, so maybe at the same time or a little after.

    Are we talking about F&B part II?

  6. 14 hours ago, sifth said:

    That magical letter from the world book, that convinced Aegon not to invade Dorne. It might literally be the worst thing GRRM has ever written in my book. I felt it was like George couldn't think of a logical reason for Aegon to give up his conquest of Dorne, so he just invented this whole magical letter thing, that we the readers will never get an answer to, "but isn't it so interesting, that it convinced Aegon to give up on Dorne", lol

    Well, we know from F&B that Aegon himself was tired of fighting Dorne and only continued doing it because Visenya and others pushed him on. It's very possible that whatever was In that letter gave him the off ramp towards peace that he wanted. 
     

  7. 1 hour ago, Mithras said:

    Think of it like this. If GRRM included the Mercy chapter in ADwD, then he would have to write and include the next Cersei chapter(s) featuring the trials.

    Not necessarily. It's mentioned in the ADWD epilogue that the trials are supposed to take place a few days after it, so they can easily be featured in Winds.

  8. On 12/9/2023 at 8:57 PM, sifth said:

    Yea, the KL info we get from that chapter doesn't makes sense. Plus Cersei was against paying loans to the Iron Bank. She wouldn't send Harrys Swyft to ask for a new loan, when she was the one who thought it was a smart move to not pay them in the first place.

    I just realised that if it was supposed to appear in Dance, then it can’t take place after the trials, since the trials don’t occur in Dance.

  9. 1 hour ago, Aejohn the Conqueroo said:

    Really no contest. Vic makes dumb an art form. Who's more lovable, though? 

    We should remember that Dunk is very young when we meet him and probably got smarter with age. Victarion doesn't have that excuse.

  10. 15 hours ago, Lord Varys said:

    It was never supposed to appear as it was in ADwD

    “Then it was going to be the concluding Arya chapter in A Dance with Dragons. But it seemed more like an opening chapter than a closing one, so shortly before ADWD was published my editor and I agreed to remove it from Dance and shift it over into Winds”.

    https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2014/03/27/i-broke-the-internet/

  11. On 12/7/2023 at 5:23 AM, The Bard of Banefort said:

    I find it interesting that George mentions TWOW and ASOIAF separately when talking about when he met with his publisher. It’s not enough to give me hope, but it could suggest that he’s working on some more supplementary material too.

    https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2023/12/06/a-visit-to-old-blighty/

    It seems to be a routine meeting with his UK publishers, whom he hadn’t seen in a while. From what I understand, he would've had an urgent meeting with his American publishers first if there was any light at the end of the Winds tunnel.

  12. 1 hour ago, Lord Varys said:

    It is an unfinished chapter and likely reflects a status quo prior to Cersei and Margaery's arrest.

    It's a chapter that GRRM has been working on for a long time, but I wouldn't say that it's unfinished. At the time when he released it as a sample it was supposed to appear, as it is, in Winds, and before that in Dance. So it was very much finished at the time it was made public.

  13. 33 minutes ago, Hippocras said:

    Even if she were to magically seize power somehow, she would still lack the authority to actually do much as chance are zero that the Reach troops would follow her in the wake of the Margaery situation.

    Doesn't the Mercy chapter take place after the trials? It's implied there that Cersei is back in power.

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