Moondancer Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 I love how after "Robert's Rebellion" we have "The End" :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Lepus Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Here. You may want to check this out, too: http://edelweiss-assets.abovethetreeline.com/RH/supplemental/GRRM_WOIF_SellPacket_spreads-lowres.pdf So the guy got his first link when he was thirteen, and got his maester chain when he was twenty years old...either he's a f*cking genious, or the studies of a maester are way easier than any modern college career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veltigar Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 So the guy got his first link when he was thirteen, and got his maester chain when he was twenty years old...either he's a f*cking genious, or the studies of a maester are way easier than any modern college career. Probably both ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Medieval universities admitted students as young as 13 and deemed them masters of scholarship capable of educating others at university in about 6 years, in a number of different subjects. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twenty of House Goodmen Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Pleasantly suprised by the amount of Ironborn content. A little dissapointed about the Vale section being short and the lack of House Mudd of the Riverlands. Looking foward to reading about the reign of Maekar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost's Shadow Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Thank you!!!!! :D :D And how awesome that GRRMs statement about "Who was Ned Starks Mother?" "Lady Stark." could not have been more correct :D That's what I immediately thought as well. And here we all thought we were having our leg pulled. :P Looking great, that book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kienn Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Jeyne Westerling changed her name to Jayne? And Tyrion is Tryion? Did Artos Stark marry and have kids with his own mother? WHAT'S GOING ON? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardstone Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Awesome!Ran, in the final version will there be dates added to Family Trees for birth and death? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonardo Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I doubt it KC Also Rhaenys, no this isn't the one Ran will be giving us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondancer Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 Medieval universities admitted students as young as 13 and deemed them masters of scholarship capable of educating others at university in about 6 years, in a number of different subjects. :)THE laziness of XXI century is unbelievable, really. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arataniello Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Jeyne Westerling changed her name to Jayne? And Tyrion is Tryion? Did Artos Stark marry and have kids with his own mother? WHAT'S GOING ON? In another thread, Ran has stated that this excerpt is not final. The spelling will no doubt be cleared up, and I suspect the two successive wives named Lorra Royce will be changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaenys_Targaryen Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 In another thread, Ran has stated that this excerpt is not final. The spelling will no doubt be cleared up, and I suspect the two successive wives named Lorra Royce will be changed. Or at least it will be explained in text how these two Lorra Royces are related, if it's not an error :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Lepus Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Medieval universities admitted students as young as 13 and deemed them masters of scholarship capable of educating others at university in about 6 years, in a number of different subjects. :) A thirteen years old could become a Bachelor of Arts after 4-7 yars and a Magister of Arts after at least another 3 years, which allowed him to teach Latin grammar and literature, rhetoric and law, and logic, arithmetic, geometry (including geography and natural history), music and astronomy, and sometimes Hebrew, history, Greek and Greek philosophy. However, to become a Doctor in Medicine, Teology or Civil Law required another few years more, sometimes a decade(s). Either this guy didn't get his medicine silver link, or was a genius or westerosi medicine is way easy to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Nope, some universities in the Middle Ages issued magistrums -- Masters -- after 6 years, more or less. It's not like everything was absolutely uniform. Further, if you look at actual practice in Europe, you'll find many men went into actual practice of medicine after their Masters (or even Bachelors) and did just fine. Doctors of Medicine were rare, demand was high for men with any knowledge at all, etc. Martin has noted that earning a link is not the same as having complete mastery of the topic, and that there can be further examinations (and, presumably, further education). Links represent a minimum competence, not mastery, in other words. We know some maesters are better known for some things than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaenys_Targaryen Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Isn't it so that you can earn multiple links on one subject, as a maester? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Indeed. Archmaesters are more like the medieval Doctors than maesters are, in some ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victarion Chainbreaker Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 How spoilerific will this book be? Will theories about the main series be confirmed? Will there be hints and foreshadowing that will allow us to make fresh theories about TWOW and ADOS? The boards have really run dry lately, and I'm hoping The World can fix that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 There are things that touch on theories relevant to the novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maia Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Ran, will people who joined NW or became lords be noted as such on the final version of the Stark family tree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Lepus Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Did Artos Stark marry and have kids with his own mother? WHAT'S GOING ON? This last one probably isn't a mistake. There are probably a lot of Royce cousins with the same name, the same way there are a lot of Benjens, Brandons and Rickards among the Starks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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