Link to the previous collection of text-based observations: Wow, I never noticed that Vol. 17.
The abomination will be done before this thread is closed. Book-lovers will be relieved and show-watchers will be disappointed.
TWoW probably won't be available before this thread is finished. But maybe GRRM will re-release the already-released chapters. Or The She-Wolves of Winterfell?
At a comic con somewhere this summer, I predict (hope) he will drop some juicy gossip on us in keeping
So there's a parallel of sorts going on here between Jaehaerys I and Aegon (Young Griff).
We find out in the Griffin Reborn chapter that Jon Connington means to take Storm's End and Aegon intends on leading the assault.
Then we get this in the Epilogue, ADwD , from Varys;
"[snip] Doubt, division, and mistrust will eat the very ground beneath your boy king, whilst Aegon raises his banner above Storm's End and the lords of the realm gather round him." (98-Epilogue, ADwD 72, p. 958-9