Maester Steven, do you ever wonder if Maester Yandel gets much the same criticisms submitted to him that those who wrote THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE have to put up with in Our World? (It amuses me to imagine that he takes observations about the inconsistent Ironborn chronology in Good Heart but just buried his head in his hands to keep from howling in frustration when he realised that his nicely illuminated King List had put Baelor the Blessed BEFORE his predecessor King Daeron).

If they’re anything like medieval academics, I imagine there’s pretty much constant critique and backbiting. And if they’re anything like medieval academics in historical mystery novels, they’re constantly murdering one another. 

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