Ask Me Anything About ASOIAF
 

I've read, studied, and discussed these books since 1996. This series is probably the best thing ever written by a human being. Ask me anything about it and I will explain the underlying motivations and plot devices that are occurring behind the scenes. Who, what, where, when, why, how!

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Why does Martin look like a fat Klingon?

It is because he is jolly and wise. He carouses, he attends every fan event he can, he drinks and eats like King Robert. He may just die and leave us with the same kind of mess that Robert Jordan did (though Wheel of Time declined in quality very early on), but I heard he has outlined some major plot points for his possible successor.

Why are books 1-3 so amazing but books 4 and 5 a bunch of rambling nonsense about people named gakkkaz and sakkahz who I cannot bring myself to give a shit about?

I thought the same about ADwD until I read it for the second time. I was amazed at all I had missed; the novel covers a ton of ground and does it excellently. I believe it to be as superior a novel in its own right as Storm of Swords. It may even be my favorite of the series, though I think I've read the others 4 to 5 times each.

Skahaz the Shavepate is a very cool character, in my opinion. Daario is hilarious in his own way. And Barristan acquits himself awesomely. Daenerys was a young girl, after all, and she needed a real foundation in the experience of being a ruler. Now she can be even further transformed into the flawless sort of Queen that the Seven Kingdoms really needs. But Martin has a predilection for the kind of misdirection that delights and sickens. Is she really Azor Ahai? There is evidence for others to fulfill that role, including but not limited to Davos Seaworth (the Battle of the Blackwater) and Bran Stark (emerging from the catacombs after the Ironborn attack on Winterfell). Both are (re)born amidst salt and smoke. And is AA and The Prince Who Was Promised one and the same person in the prophecies?

Quentyn Martell is of Dorne, whose arms are the sun-and-spear. "When the sun rises in the West and sets in the East" is almost certainly speaking of him. Daenerys has a miscarriage, which can be seen as fulfilling another part of that prophecy. (Maegi Mirri Maz Duur). "When your womb quickens again." Conclusion: She will bear a living child...

why doesn't ASOIAF have HARD CODED TEAMS!?!?!?!




























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I honestly believe that is what the Red God's server was missing and if only we'd had them to begin with, the population of worshippers there would still be active.

What is ASOIAF and where do i download it?

Did Eds sis get kidnapped or did she just fall in love. Indication seems to show both. Would change perceptions a bit if he did hunt down and kill his sisters lover instead of killing her attacker.