Also, reading your series on the Tower of the Hand, I’m coming out of this with a healthy respect for Bittersteel. Fandom likes to portray Bloodraven as this all-knowing grey eminence, but MAN. It takes serious political, diplomatic, and martial skill not only to foment a rebellion like he did for Daemon, but to CONTINUE IT for years — with the support of various Essosi cities — despite rather Daemon’s lackluster heirs and the gradual wearing away of Daemon’s memory in the Westerosi populace.