Time and Causality
I think we've had a pretty big reveal, in an interview with George Martin, in a newly published book Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon", by James Hibberd. I guess it's more or less in the public domain at this point.
This is especially interesting to me because I've been banging on about the events at the Skirling Pass for a while; as an example of Martin manipulating time. I don't call it time travel. Martin's explanation that events in the future an affect the past, seems better to me. I wo
Oh my! You are so right! The complete replay of the Harrenhal tourney is set to unfold starting with Alayne chapter one!
Some of the characters appear to be serving double duty. For example Sweetrobin/Lord Robert is a combo of King Aerys and Rhaegar while Harry the Heir is the stand-in for Robert Baratheon. Sweetrobin's frail health and paranoia is an exaggeration of King Aerys, and his line about Harry the Heir pretending to love him, but wanting his "father's castle" is so ironic and a